the goa constrictor

Like, not to be a broken record, but Ticon and Ace Ventura should never be spoken of in the same sentence. They're entirely different music. One has created hours of depth ranging in sounds and textures leading the listener on a journey through multiple states of trance; created by a mixture of analog, organic, and digital sounds. The other is Ace Ventura. One of the most overhyped, overpriced, overrated artists. Fuck, even Infected Mushroom are more interesting than he is.

From the Facebook page: "Acid Black is a psytrance alter ego of Alex Tolstey ( Boshke Beats Records)"

Woke up to my download link!!! Woooohoooo!!!!! :D :D :D

The Doof shirt is going to be DAT Records "Chinese Democracy" moment...

that looks kind of awesome

We talking fully shitty or just somewhat disappointing?

You think a track like ChickenShaker sounds housey? Rip It Up is the fucking JAM! You Make Me Wanna Drink More is great as well. All of it. That album is awesome.

=) Ticon have gone through a couple of different "styles" over the year If you're new to Ticon, I'd encourage you to check out ZeroSixAfter and Aero first. Their debut, Rewind, while good, is a bit too minimal tuba-trance style 2am is great, but starts getting more electro-house fringe (kind of like X-Dream "We Interface" album strayed) Their last album, I Love You, Who Are You is okay, but it's a little too bland and generic progressive house sounding. It has a couple of really choice cuts on it, and the album has grown on me over time, but it's nothing I would encourage anyone to get introduced to Ticon with But Aero and ZeroSixAfter, holy shit. Those are just top-to-bottom brilliant albums. Mirage sounds like it is more inline with those albums than their other more recent ones. I'm super duper fantastically excited!!

omg... Ace Ventura is such shit Please do not compare Ticon with Ace Ventura

They basically played the album at Symbiosis last week and it was fantastic! Soooooo stoked on it. That set was killer =) <3 <3 <3

It's some Explosive Diorama! (note: I actually think the Secret Society cover is funny and approve of its silliness. It just fit within the context of the sequence of posts)

I dunno. The mastering on Antic's new comp is a bit tinny and has distorted bass. You should toss that out and hire a real engineer lololol

I made my first Discogs purchase a couple of weeks ago. One of my favorite trance labels of the mid 90s was all 12" only, which for someone playing all digital now, is a pain in the ass. Turns out they licensed one comp. It's a double CD https://www.discogs.com/Various-Club-Adventure-Vol-1/release/1067422 So stoked. The label was very weird. I super dug most of their tracks but then the other chunk was the lamest weird house music. The label made no sense, and that's kind of why I love them. So the comp isn't exactly 160 minutes of pure awesomeness, but I love having some of this stuff on a proper digital master and some of the tracks I haven't heard yet are actually good too. Love it! =)

Oh man, so many good comps Orange Comp (TIP) First Flight (Flying Rhino) Air Born (Flying Rhino) Boyd in the Void (Flying Rhino) FDCD02 (Freakdance Records) Resonance Mood (Matsuri) Abstract Phase (Matsuri) Iconic (Psy-Harmonics) A Taste Of Nephilim (Nephilim) A Taste Of Nephilim Vol 2 (Nephilim) Oozie Goodness (Demon Tea) Not my Cup of Tea (Demon Tea) No Tone Unstirred (Faerie Dragon) Custom File (Exogenic) Fusion vs Confusion (Exogenic) Beats and Beyond (Surreal Audio) Open (Surreal Audio) Trancentral Four - A Trip To Goa (Trancentral) Wizardry of Oz (Transient) Platipus Records Vol 1 (Platipus) Platipus Records Vol 2 (Platipus) Platipus Records Vol 3 (Platipus)

Process - 10,000 Thrill Seekers https://youtu.be/c1VtCgE3nME?t=51m13s Delirious Noon - Brainbow Electric Univers - Spectral Blue

Amanite FX & Prana - Black Rain (Blue Planet Corporation Remix) Man With No Name - Sugar Rush Delirious Noon - Brainbow Hallucinogen - Solstice / Spiritual Antiseptic Texas Faggott - Lone Star / Early Cry

I'm still trying to track down the killer old Blue Room Released vinyl bag backpack

I believe my mate had Transient ones. Not sure if anyone else I knew had any others though

Well in 1775, we were still a hodgepodge mix of dislocated British. We weren't defending our country, we were beginning to commit genocide against the indigenous people of North America. After that though, I suppose we'll have to define the terms "defending their country." I would posit that "defending their country" would include some sort of protecting or defending of one's landmass and the people who live within. If that's the case, a person could argue that the Civil War would fit. World War I was entered into because Germany was trying to use Mexico as an entrance to fight/take over the USA. Then World War II had an attack on the USA base of Pearl Harbor. Then we have 9/11. Now, 9/11 is an interesting one because the country invaded and attacked a country that was not involved with the attacks. Even if 9/11 was an inside job, it's not like the thousands of soldiers who went off to war were part of the inside job. They were just doing what they thought was correct to protect their country. If that turns out to be a false premise, it does nothing to weaken the argument that they did it to defend their country. In no way do I suggest that the USA has been vindicated in the majority of it's violence and warmongering, but there are a lot of innocent people on both sides of the fighting lines and many of those people did so because they thought they were defending the country. Sweeping generalizations are rarely useful...

I really enjoyed the chunk of time when Purple Sunray wasn't posting on here.... This is just deeply incorrect. In no way am I defending our militaristic actions. In no way am I defending the militarization of our community police. In no way am I saying our economic policies and worldview are correct. But, the USA has defended itself more recently than 1775.

If you pay more than asking price on Bandcamp, Bandcamp will still take their 10% of the higher amount. If you want the artist (or label) to get a specific amount of extra money, definitely do that directly outside of the Bandcamp website.

I was a firm goa@party.net mailing list user until it died. After that is when I slowly started experimenting with the various forums. Anyone here from the old listserv days?

That's hilarious and brilliant

Yeah, I'll agree with this one. I think that's one of the reasons Timo keeps his tracks short. He gets bored and doesn't care about fluffing the tracks with dj-friendly minute long intros and outros.

The problem with long tracks is that, as a DJ, there is too much time between doing things so I often end up drinking too much and getting far too wasted by the end of my set. The short to-the-point four-minute tracks of Texas Faggott really keep you on your toes and make you stay focused. A nice mixture of the different lengths is great for constructing a journey but too many long tracks can feel a bit meandering