Procyon

Man, I can't believe you take seriously some of my black humour jokes. Do you really believe that I am such a cretin to ask a person to not tell my friends that he knows me?? Or that my friends and I really are so narrow minded that our friendship is based on iPhone or Androids?? All this was supposed to be teenager-style drama/joke comments, a la Family Guy or SNL, whatever. Tell you what: just like everybody else I am ridiculous at several points of my day, I call myself names for things I say or write wrongly. I laugh at myself and I laugh at others too. You could use that, it would make you less "so serious" to the point of - me - not seeing the line between you being perhaps healthly sarcastic or you being perhaps insulted (and insulting as we debated in PM some months ago). Relax a little when confrontated, make fun of other comments. Tell the person to go to hell, or to even deeper. But do not take them so seriously. I have met other Germans (very well endowed, by the way) that were witful and nice to be with, and when you guys joke you can be devastating. Try that. If we meet someday at a party, I am going to be first to go and shake your hands, give you a hug and lead you to my tent. Or yours, if you wish so . (It's a joke ok? I don't want you believing that I made an pass on you and calling the police on me for harassment, right???) As for the other pieces you picked from my comments, you win. Relax, man.

No I don't think we'll learn that. It's sad to think that in 1000 years time we'll have colonized Mars, Moon, and probably all the other terraneous planets as well.

There's another video of Brazilian psy dances that caused a great debate so that some orgs felt relieved when the "dancers" didn't show up. But better not posting it here yet, some readers need to improve their interpretation skills to understand the subtleties of what they're seeing, the deeper meaning of it. No sarcasm intended at all.

Man, I dismiss your opinion because 1) you preach pretentious "peace" in a post full of offenses which don't really reach me. 2) I really saw this video and took part in its discussions at the time, but I nevet mentioned then and now that it was the old-schoolers that sneered at her, as you three inferred. Actually it was some of her mates that did it by publishing the vídeo with some ugly comments. 3) you're not in the local scene to understand completely the variations that affect the said scene. The same way I am not empty-head to analyse, say, the Russian scene because I don't know what exactly goes on there. 4) Ouch! Another one who could use a dance lesson You too, don't wave that hand at me in front of my friends. It's embarrassing me.

Is this right? Syb Netwerk live? Are they back? One of my favorites acts ever. So many times I drove my car listening to their surreal atmospheres

No there's not. What really happened in 2007 is that this girl became the symbol of everything that made psychedelic trance ugly: the bad music, the "pay attention to me, please!" attitude, the party this was shot (Butterfly in the last edition left foreign artists without pay and air tickets). So the Psy Jackson dance was only the most visible part of a scene that some time was referred as "the new Goa" but ended up as the land of modern psy (which send us to the first post) Edit: it was Sam of the original psy mailing list fame who once wrote that Brazil was about to become the "new Goa" in a review of Ypy Poty Festival - which I went.

Excuse my lack of knowledge, but what exactly does sclab... release? Goa?

Honestly I hope this project dies on birth. We humans need to learn to preserve Earth first before thinking of populating another planet. The way it is, it looks like someone who is deep debt due to bad accountings asking a loan from a bank to cover his mess.

I had the Blueroom one, exactly like yours! I liked one from TIP with the Indian female stare, very entrancing.

I guess you dance like her. Please don't tell my friends you know me, ok?

@paradox: for those arriving at the scene at that time (2006-2007) this is the only psychedelic trance they know. For those curious this piece of crap was written by GMS and Wrecked Machines, two big pieces of s**t, no doubt.

LOL. I really laughed MAO. It summarizes what psytrance has become today, unfortunately. Also regrettable is that the hot hunk in yellow swimming short (and the party itself) is Brazilian. This video even made to the national TV in a program about drugs. Another video that caused real furor, but this time inside the psy trance crowd was this one below. It was kind of a benchmark for many - mainly old schooler like myself - because it sort of officialized the "new" psy sound (the same featured in the Future Ducks of London) and the new crowd, the new generation that was arriving at the dancefloors and were doing ridiculous dances, like this girl. Oh, I forgot to tell you: she was nicknamed "Psy Jackson" and was the target of jokes for years.

I recently discovered that there are "synth purists" in the psy/Goa scene that agree or disagree on almost every aspect of a track. I really can't understand that , but I accept that if you have a certain level of knowledge then it's natural you fine-tune your ears and starting seeing minimal details in a track. But mostly, I think this a sterile debate. Astral Projection, for instance, I think that they are superb in arpeggios and sequences, and I don't really mind if they're using analog or digital. They can use an empty sardine can to write a track, IMO, if the result is a great track.

Blueroom, definetely. Classy. From their artists choices to art-cover.

I voted for the second option. I have some reasons: one is that I have a kind of allergy to the hot sun. There's a name in English for that condition, but I can't remember. It's not severe, it only causes itches and as soon as I am in a colder environment it goes away. Also my teens were during the Gothic era (The Cure and gang), so it was really rich and entertaining to be a night creature. But I like to wake early every now and then, at 6 or 7 am, happily!, have a good breakfast and enjoy the day.

As I said before, he's active in some scenes, namely the Japanese one. He recently mixed one of the tracks of Vesica Pisces (from the Japanese legendary rocker Sugizo, of Luna Sea and X-Japan fame. And more recently a member of Juno Reactor). IMO, this album is unique in its refinement, and Youth has his hands on that. Also, Youth has been a constant guest in Fuji Rock Festival, perhaps the best multi-genre festival in the world. http://wakyo.jp/sugizo-vesica_pisces.php

I wish there could be teletransportation. Only for the lucky ones in Tokyo. http://wakyo.jp/special/fft_juno2013/index.html

Huh? Blondie and TH were not New Wave, but Synth Rock and The Cars were Synth Pop.

I have some curiosities about these languages: 1) a German speaker will understand naturally what languages? (As in a Portuguese speaker will understand Spanish naturally) 2) and a Russian speaker? 3) and a person who speaks one of the Slavic languages will understand what? 4) German, Russian and Slavic languages are mutually understood by their native speakers?

In the 1990s one could feel part of a Goa community, sharing a sense of belonging to a bigger system even if people had different backgrounds and perspectives. This, in Goa related subjects, as organizing parties, was in practice doing your part - decorating, e.g.- for free, for friendship, to help keep this sense of community alive. And the spirituality in Goa sound had a major role in this. But as the sound changed, the spirituality was gone, and community was replaced by organizations. From a quasi-religion, Goa became a business. Like any other. My 2 cents.

O don't think Youth is underrated. He just plays a kind of Goa trance that takes a very mature ear to be properly appreciated, in the same league as System 7, Juno Reactor. He is very active in the Japanese scene, which, to me, is the most sophisticated one.

Said Shrek himself. Well, Master Bu Lu, just don't over-white your teeth, like Matt Damon did. It got so white papers said he was using dentures. Then he had to "yellow" them a little bit

Me too. I don't associate new school Goa to oriental sounds. Curiously, when I hear a new track I unconsciously look for that.

When I first knew Goa trance, the patters that stuck to my mind is the one found in Sheyba's "Tribute", which I forever will associate with India, and a religious side of Goa that indeed existed in the early days. So Goa trance to me is the Southeastern Asia sounds incorporated in the electronic music, and also the early acid elements found in so many old school tracks. When I heard the first non-Southern Asia melodies in some tracks (like in Mystica, as mentioned properly by Agneton), I liked it, but could not associate it with Goa trance as I knew it. So, IMO, arabic melodies fits in the Goa scene. But they're not Goa to purists. Good thing is that there are fewer and fewer Goa purists these days

I guess you haven't been following international news, or you would be aware of the imbroglio caused by recent racist comments by the powerful mayor of Osaka (in short he said that the Phillipine, Chinese, Korean and other women from the countries they invaded and raped during WWII were "comforts" necessary for the well being of Japanese soldiers). MInd you this is an official statement. So the example comes from above. Tokyo's even more powerful mayor Ishihara is another one who keeps saying that third world citizens are "sub-human". Of course, a great part of the Japanese population is not racist, but a foreigner is more than probable to meet one in awful occasions. I didn't have bad luck, as you suggest. Quite the contrary. Given that I have good lookings and dress sharply, I was not the subject of prejudice as I know some other people were. On the other hand I also know lots of the so-called "japanophiles", people who deny vehemently that this sort of racism exists in Japan, and more often than not, it's the so called "victim" who is over-sensitive to "normal racist situations"...if you can believe that. Fresh news: http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/hashimoto-offers-to-meet-comfort-women-to-apologize Edit: I forgot to mention Debito (an American living in Japan who has been fighting racism and prejudices, in Japanese!). A brave man. http://www.debito.org/roguesgallery.html