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Yes, the German pioneers. I sorta mixed them with The Drum Club, one of my fav trance acts.

...more drolls here... If you have a flashy dayglo outfit you have no occasion to wear, this party is the place where you can do that and it surely will be outshined. Japanese crowd is the most stylish club goers in the world. Have a great time! PS. I am sure you can understand Japanese. So, I am just reminding you to not forget your Gaijin Toroku-sho or your passport in case you still haven't got the first yet. You will discover soon that club staff at the entrance of most clubs are more strict than Immigration officials.

Yes, I saw some threads talking about KLF's WTL? and TS tracks as "early goa", but I have also read that Goa elements can be traced back to Tangerine Drum, Janis Joplin, Brian Eno, Psychedelic Furs - go figure. It's very subjective. To me, Goa is associated with Phuture Trax and a little bit earlier. What really caught my attention is the "official" stamp the KLF track got. It is completely in disaccordance with my library, talks, parties and festivals I went.

Just out of curiosity: where did you see that it officially was the first goa track? AFAIK, there's no agreement - even among the really old trancers like Gil, Mondo, Raja, just to mention a few - on when the first goa track really came out. In IT there's a huge thread with some tracks dating back to 1984. Sorry for my being picky, but I have been in the electronic scene since acid house and in my books, KLF never was mentioned before as a "goa related band". But, living and learning, I would like to learn from you.

All great tracks!! Not really Goa or psy, but this track is so spiritualized, so beautiful, it still makes me go goosebumps evertime I listen to it, with my eyes closed.

Well, I think you're looking for the whole old Reactivate Records catalog. Here's one of them I love (btw, it's on React 10 album which also features the Blue Alphabet track you posted): Komakino - Can't Stop

It's debatable, but I don't think WTL? is a goa track at all. I have at least 3 old CDs with the original track, and in all of them it's more related to then booming "Belgian techno" scene. PS. Great intro.

Of what you wrote, I would say that most is in accordance to the doctrine I follow: Spiritualism. I have never heard of Martinus, but his view on spiritual evolution is almost similar to what we read in Allan Kardec's The Book of the Spirits. And I can't agree more on the subject of drugs, I also once wrote about the deep damages caused by drugs one carries afterlife.

Unfortunately, as you can see above, OOOD is here to prove you're right.

Why don't you make your tracks available to listening before one decides to download them? I surely won't download unknown, unheard tracks.

Uhh, I just happened to find the go-to-page stuff in the bottom of the first page. Funny, I didn't see it yesterday. I apologize.

I think it's too bright. It's beautiful, but I am one of those whose eyes can't get much brigthness, not even at home. But that's ok. One thing that I think you should bring back is the option to go to pages (1, 2, 3...) in the bottom of the first page. Now after you finish reading all the posts at such page, you have to go all the way to the top to move to the next page. It doesn't make much sense.

Only in Japan, as the saying goes. I am sure you have heard about the "herbivore men" problem that is affecting Japanese society, lol. Also, I learned there that Japanese women tend to love a man macho enough to wear skirts, high-heels, discrete (?) male make-up and carrying a hairdo much more sophisticated than most women in magazines do. http://www.google.com.br/imgres?q=feminine+japanese+men+street+wear&hl=en&client=safari&sa=X&rls=en&biw=1214&bih=706&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=jGt5TZbNSCAqyM:&imgrefurl=http://highheelspassion.blogspot.com/2011/07/asian-man-in-high-heels-and-skirt.html&docid=i5QyfuRuR3sb_M&w=460&h=693&ei=9uCQToz2F4WhtweoyOmpDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=263&vpy=318&dur=3745&hovh=276&hovw=183&tx=122&ty=181&page=11&tbnh=133&tbnw=88&start=188&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:188

I didn't say you copied Astral Projection If you had done so, you would have released tracks very similar to their known tracks and would be subject to lawsuits. Which is not the case. All your tracks are original, very good and danceable. But it's undeniable that they sound like as if AP had written them. But do not worry, saying that your album sound like AP is a praise, IMO

It was on CNN's comments under the headline announcing Jobs death, but CNN mods deleted them. In minutes it was overflooded with RIPs and the same ammount of irrational comments like he had it coming, why didn't he gave his billions to donations, that he died one day before 4S introduction but Apple hid his death till one day after the fact, all sort of paranoia.

Well, I see a lot of people praising him, but I see, probably, the same amount of people and with more intensity writing bad things about him. Take a look at the CNN headline saying he had passed away. People said he deserved to die, really angry people. So you see, if we're talking about unreasonable behavior, then the "bad side" wins, because I don't anything wrong praising a person who has passed away (actually we have to do that, out of respect, even to people we didn't like when he/she was alive. It's called politeness). But I do see "overdoings" when people write that he had it coming. Of course, someone would someday create the same innovations. But to say that he is being overpraised because someone would do it someday, then we have to stop The Nobel Prizes, for instance, following the same example. What the Nobel laureate did yesterday is of no importance, because someone who knows, in year 3056, would do it anyway. Follwing this thought, all science would come to a stall.

@Veracohr: IMO, Steve Jobs is not becoming a deity as you put it. I read an interesting article saying why people feel like they're "friends" with Steve Jobs and why they mourn his death as if he was a close, good neighboor: 1. Apple products are perceived as "elegant and sophisticated", most people may be dressed like beggars but they feel "chic" if they're carrying an iPad, iPhone or a iPod. Or typing in a MacBook in a cafe. And they feel they owe this "elegance" to the work of Jobs. This affects people personally, in their ego. 2. Jobs and Apple are seen as examples of honest success, fruit of hard work and intelligence. Something people really miss these days in USA, due to the bad current status of US economy. And he made Apple a #1 company without any official help. This also is something that people could feel related to him too, the perfect American dream came true. 3. Jobs was a master of promoting Apple products. He naturally became the "face of Apple" with his shows to introduce new Apple devices. Nothing wrong with that also: he never lied, never promised functions that were not there later. His success and honesty was "shared" with Apple customers, when they bought an iPhone, for instance. 4. Jobs was the pioneer of introducing technologies to the masses available to the geeks only, such as the touchscreen. All of a sudden people realized they could save precious minutes with only one device (iPhone and iPad), they could carry all their "musical identity" in an economic and pretty device (iPod and iTouch), and they could have a computer that really worked well - the Macs. Moreover, people felt "good" to have devices that worked well at home and at their offices too. I agree with all that I read. Of course Jobs was a human being, full of faults at home and at work too. But to diminish his role in the technology field because he didn't create some of the technologies he used in Apple devices is the same that to diminish the role of Henry Ford in the creation of the automobile because he didn't create the wheel and wasn't the first to discover petroleum. Last, some may argue that he didn't create Apple, so what? The important thing is that he was the brain of the company. He was the one who fought to make touchscreen available at a reasonable price when other companies, like RIM of CEO Balsillie, said that touchscreen was s**t because people could not understand it and the screen got smeare, and people would never swap a Blackberry for an iPhone, this in 2007. Guess what is happening now? RIM is sinking like a Titanic, because Jobs idea was so good it just smashed Blackberry old keyboard technology. This is only an example of how his ideas were so ahead of their time. iPad is another example of a creation that was ridiculed when it was launched and now, only 2 years later, is seen as the natural substitute for desktops. He may not have been the perfect inventor, creator or businessman. But he was what every company in the world wished as a CEO.

You are about to experience the best club scene in the world, IMO. Open air parties too, are on their own league, they have an ambience you don't see anywhere else in the world. Here's something you MUST not miss: The Nagisa Festival (don't miss the Time & Space stage, FullMoon Mondo is a DJ you won't forget) http://beatculture.music.jp.msn.com/event/110927_nagisa_osaka2011/default.htm Try to visit the PsychedelicGarden shop: you will find tens of flyers in English and Japanese (or only Japanese sometimes) of small parties that happen in clubs smaller than your kitchen, but that are magical. IMO, this must be the best psychedelic shop in the world, it's amazing the clothing and acessories collection they have there. http://www.psychedelicgarden.com/ Last, the best source for infos is in Japanese: the Miki social network, which is impossible to understand if you have not mastered the skill of reading Chinese and Japanese "kanji". Some parties are organized inside Miki, flyers and info only to be found there. My advice: avoid the "para para" scene, which is giant and growing. Do you remember Aqua, of "Barbie Girl" fame in the late 1990s, that's what it sounds like. But do go to the "cyber trance" parties, you may be surprised to listen - and like - to Ferry Corsten & gang in the Japanese atmosphere.

RIP Steve. Being an all-Apple user, I only can tell you how my life got easier, funnier because of his intelligence. Thanks for the iPod, iPhone, my MacBook.

Acho que vous quer receber uma opinion, eis a minha aqui entao: eu gostei, vous conseguiste imprimir uma personalite 'a sua musica.

I like reading science books, last ones were: *The Mystery of Prime Numbers, on prime numbers obviously. *Catching The Light, on quantum physics and its links to history, arts and religion. A MUST, imo. But it's not easy to "read" math or understand Eistein and Bohr, it gives one wonder and headaches, So, I read light romances or crime books to relax my poor brain: * All Michael Connely's books, the best crime writer. * I read all Patricia Cornwell books until she made the mistake of changing the narration from the 1st person singular, past tense, to the 3rd person singular, present tense. It's unnatural, no wonder she lost millions of readers in the last five years. *The Skull Mantra, a wonderful book about China, Tibet, and a crime.

I liked what I heard, though it's a pity that Emanuel (such a beautiful name, IMO ) makes great effort to sound like Astral Projection. That's OK with me, but I had hope he would be brave enough to walk his own path.

Yes, it's about debt. But talk to any American these days about economics and see if he/she won't mention the most feared word: "eviction". Just last week a Denver girl, friend of ours came to visit us, and when we asked how her parents were, she mentioned how their neighboors are really terrified of losing their house, their medical expenses are sky-rocketing, they don't travel or go to restaurants that often anymore. She blames the Afeghanistan and Iraq wars for that, the huge amount of billions of dollars spend on military instead of health, welfare and education. My train of thought is that US debt reached the ceiling due to the wars, which is affecting the sense of prosperity and safety that Americans are used to. My last point is that even if US are not doing that good, it's still the best democracy in the world to live.

I am pragmatic: US and Europe aren't doing well, but they're far from being hell as you guys are describing it. If you think US are that bad, then move to crap countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Etiopia, Bangladesh, then you will learn you how good is the life in an organized, civilized country. The life you're living now. You guys living in the North really don't know what political corruption, bribery, injustice really is. What we see now is US moving her feet a little to make room for China and other countries, but America will not stumble.

Now, when I hear my old albums, I wish I would have paid more attention (and bought) more tech-trance stuff. I am now totally immersed in the magnificent "Fast Forward" track by Spirallianz, I keep listening to it again and again when I am working out or just walking around. But the CDs that I really think that aged well are the psy-ambient ones, especially the Blue Room Release ones. The ones that aged not that good? IM and GMS.