Procyon

Let me say my 2 cents. It's an OK track, perhaps this guy dreams of creating a Goa track. Goal achieved. But asking it to be released, I think he should have made an effort to create something that would make it outstanding, very good. I agree with Elysium that it is just "normal" and if it is released - the way it is - is just to fill in an empty space, not for its own merit. Yes, Tatsu I think that new bassline and melody patterns can be created. I remember that when house was at its peak, people in the house scene believed that S'Express's bassline in "Them From S'Express" was the outmost boundary that could be reached. And just some years later, Goa made a revolution, and just some couple of years after that X-Dream made another revolution. I think artists should keep trying to create, to be innovative, instead of only get "inspiration" from works already done 10 years earlier. And why should an artist limit himself inside Goa boundaries? He might create a danceable, wonderful bassline pattern and be the benchmark for a subgenre that could be million times better than Goa. EDIT: it's Theme from S'Express.

Well, I didn't understand you review: did you like it, or not? I liked it 50%. It doesn't match Tokyo club scene vibe, IMO. Papason did a good job showing what you can expect to hear in some mainstream gigs, which are a mirror of mainstream gigs you see anywhere in the world. Tokyo at 5 a.m. could be better described thru a Japanese artist - it would match all the pictures you posted: strange, exotic, rich and "only in Japan".

I am really sorry, I hope it's for a good reason. A merge or a revamp, for instance.

I am against scores. You see, IM albums get high scores to this day. What I really like is the "X people recommend" and "X people don't like it". So, instead of having a 8.9 points album (is 8.9 good or bad? this is confusing), we could have a general number of recommendations or "don't buy it" .

Here's a link to an article featured in Japantoday.com about Hideki Matsutake, of Logic System and YMO fame. Truly the godfather of electronic music. http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment-arts/view/the-synthesizer-godfather-is-feted-by-a-new-generation

I have only a Top 1: System 7 - UP (A-Wave Records)

Where are these AP releases?

I try to keep following KURO, for to me, his work is always superb, elegant, his tracks have a mastering that is so perfect. But this is something hard to do. As Trance2Move pointed, it's hard to follow him thru the web, as his name can be written in 4 different alphabets, and the mix of the of them. The result is that he is always under the radar for us westerners/ Also, he is very discrete, he barely plays outside Japan, and even there sometimes you discover he is in the line-up AFTER the party - this happened to me while I lived there. I once managed to buy a ticket in advance, he was to play in a party organized by Planet BEN Records in the wonderful mountains of Gifu and Nagano. But that day it rained dogs and cats, taxis or trains couldn't reach the location. I consider KURO as a techno producer (Modulation album) who sometimes crosses the boundaries to the psychedelic land (Satisfaction album). His tracks always have that element that you hear in other Japanese techno wizards. I just love Satisfaction. Charm also is one of the best tech-trance work to this day. OMG, I am just listening to Black Zombie - wow!!! what's that?????? I hope this EP is the first of a series that lead to a new album. @Trance2Move: I visited Psyristor.com, it's a mix of Roman alphabet, katakana, hiragana and kanjis. This is what I see here. The kanjis and kanas are not translated into roman letters, unless you have a program installed. Anyway, the flyer is easy to understand.

Crop Circles Cosmosis Surya (the dark side of the sun, especially. Love that album) The Infinity Project Witchcraft out: Sandman

Now that Union Jack is out, I have a question: I consider UJ as a "platipus trance act", not a psychedelic one. Though they - thankfully - cross the border and play in psy gigs. What I mean is: I was thinking of suggesting "Friends, Lovers & Family" to the list. They were featured in the same Platipus CDs UJ were. Is that ok, to add peripheral acts to the psychedelic scene to this game?

I found this Podcast channel after some digging. It's the paradise for any trip-hop lover: http://tripnotic.fm/?parentID=3&pageID=3

@ IronSun: thanks for sharing. I was curious, I wanted to know if the same "sound tsunami" that swept me on dance floors in the 1990s was what got you. There's one thing though: you won't get tired of it, as you said. Almost everything I do, it's while listening to Goa, psy and ambient - tracks that I have heard, what, 100 times ? I never get tired. Thanks again!

Twice, really. But that's my opinion, of course. If you liked it, then good for you. Also, we're not having a Old x New battle here, as you believe. It is more in the line of you last sentence: some acid would be good. Three years in the scene? Out of curiosity, how did you discover psychedelic trance, how does it feel? Can you share your experience with us? I am asking because I am a veteran, I would like to know how it was with you.

Ok, DJ MXF. Kardec didn't write anything on drugs, to be precise. He just compiled Le Livre des Esprits and other 4 livres. These books are the foundation of what we call Espiritism. The books I mentioned that have messages from the invisible dimensions are post-Kardec. There are some written specifically about the post-morten experiences drug addicts feel - and they're not nice (we learn that a person that made constant use of drugs will return in the next life with severe congenital problems, as a way of learning to respect his/her body/soul). As for your last questions, I have to elaborate about Espiritism a little further: we believe man is an spirit in constant progress. We progress here and in the spiritual dimension, some of us will have to have more earthly lives than others. But we are still not elevated, far from that. That's why we still make use of violence, for instance, instead of reasoning. As for drugs, it's quite interesting: we believe that all of us here on Earth want to experience the invisible dimension, we miss it while we're here. Some are aware of that, some are not. So, when a person uses drugs what he/she wants basically is to experience a higher state of elevation. Why God created drugs? Well, we believe that God didn't create LSD, for instance, but he allowed it to be developed for good use - medicinal use, for example. But man was given what we call "Free Will", and he is free to make good or bad use of what we have here. A knife, for example, can be a tool for a dedicated worker. But it also can be a deadly weapon. It's the beholder that makes the difference. As for your question on pleasure and pain, yes, we believe there could be pleasure without pain. But we are far from appreciating that. As Tatsu wrote, each to his own. That' so true. What we know is that the ones who made more mistakes will take a longer path to elevation, but everyone is entitled to a better life someday. I don't say that if my friend is a heavy drinker he is wrong, if that's what makes him happy. Free Will rules our lives.

Ka-Sol Etnica Syb Unity Network Blue Planet Corporation Union Jack out: Sandman, I like his tracks, but they are a little bit, just a little bit really, cheesy.

May I make another suggestion: it would be interesting to learn why a person knocked off this or that artist. And no reply to his explanation would be allowed, to avoid sub-threads. Me, for instance, I decided for Hallucinogen (despite I am his devotee), for I thought of the five names I had to choose, his tracks were the less danceable. So, I would explain like this: PS. You may delete this post, if you wish.

I listened to Erta Ale twice, but my opinion is not that positive. If a direction could be pointed, I think that what E-mantra and Alienapia are doing are the best options. Alienapia has the right dose of darkness, necessary to goa, as many have pointes. E-mantra deep space effects are unique - despite he uses it a little too loud, too long. I bet their next albums are going to be must-haves.

As with any other aspect invisible to us - religions, for instance - it's a matter of individual belief. I may cite some cases of severe "lapses of memory" a friend of mine - graduating in Chemistry has. He says it's because of E's. I believe him, you might say it's because of other causes, like a genetic problem. There's no way of proving that. We can do nothing, but believe.

Ok, TimeTrap. Here's what I have read in Kardecists books: any drug, be it alcohol, tobacco, lsd, create a momentary feel good state. But as it is artificially created thru violence (see, the smoke of a cigarette is seen as it is: nocive pollution inside the body), this "pleasure" soon turns into pain. Well, I have never taken drugs of any kind, but I have friends who have episodes of depression after the effect of the drug is gone. I drink sometimes, I am aware how horrible I feel the other day (that's why I wrote I am an uneducated medium). What I mean is: all artificially state of happines turns into some loss, someday. The drugs you mentioned, we believe they let the 'spirit' in a semi-letargic state after life. Problem is that all these "feel good" drugs have a natural alternative for them: yoga and meditation, for instance.

Here's my personal experience on spiritualism and psytrance. Just want to share this with you, so some can see the scene from a new - and for some, unacceptable - angle. My family is half Catholic, half Kardecist (google Allan Kardec, for further info). Kardecism is not actually a religion, but more exactly a doctrine, as it tries hard to join religion and science (think of quantum mechanics here). For those who want it brief: Kardecists believe in life after death, that death is just a passage of energy (your soul) from this world (a world of 4 dimensions) to a different one (with more dimensions). These worlds are entangled, that's why we - some of us, to be more exact - feel more than the eyes can see. Here I am talking about spirits, and practices like seances and mediums - which I am, despite being a very uneducated one. Your death is an event that had a time, a place and a how-to, all planned by God (yes, God is God for us), and you are supposed to have accomplished your "karma" (yes, your mission) - whatever it was. After you die, your body is just what it is: a vehicle your soul used to interact materially with the world. So, after death your body (a blessing we should thank for every day, we believe) return to its source, Nature. Your soul, your true you, then goes to wherever your heart is: those who lived as a human being should live, according to what Christ taught us, will go to higher planes where life is steps better than what we experience here. Those who made many mistakes intentionally - say, man who killed for money - will go to lower planes, where life is much worse than what we live here. These two different planes, higher and lower, are what mediums describe when they see, hear or interact with spirits. For, the ones living in a better place, feel they accomplished their mission here, they're happy. The ones living in the lower planes are in a constant state of despair, sadness, shame. As God is infinitely good, those living in "hell" (using a Catholic word, which we don't use. And the notions are different too: for Catholics, one who fell to hell, will be there forever repenting from the sins. For us, Kardecists, everyone - even the most unrepentant ones - will someday give up their mistakes and become an enlightned spirit), He gives another chance, a new start. The elevated spirits also may reincarnate if they want so, for instance, to help his/her family - that's why we sometimes see our long gone grandfather in our newborn son. So here enters our notion of "reincanation". Everybody, some more, some less, have lived different lives on Earth (and in other planets too). (Personally, I have this strong feeling I lived my past two lives in Denmark and in Tibet. Have your ever felt an inate attraction for another land, culture, people? It is this). Well, in the end, Kardecism says, man is bound for a better life, a better place. It's a positive doctrine, for it says that ALL mankind will be transformed - thru individual efforts - to a better mankind. Ok, enough. As Kardecism deals a lot with energies and vibrations, we know the everything has a good, a neutral, or a bad vibration, with in-between variants among them. Music is one form of energy that affects the soul deeply, as we all feel that. Every genre is a form of energy. Psychedelic is not special at this. Some of my medium friends are affected by rock'n roll, Bach, and so on. I am affected by almost everything melodic. Psytrance works as a portal, a gate, to me: after some minutes, when I concentrate, I start feeling cascades of energies envolving my body. My perceptions are augmented, and I feel like I am submersed in a thank of good energies. You may ask: what is the use of psytrance then, to a kardecist point of view? The answer is: it is only a gate, a portal, that connects this world to a different dimension - but nothing goes or comes thru this gate. It is only a personal learning. Evolution as a human being takes more than listening and understanding the energies of music. It takes daily efforts. That's how I see it. For the sake of debating energies, this "feel good" experience I wrote above does not not work with every single psy track. To be more exact, these good energies are not felt anymore. They peaked, guess when. during the Goa Trance years. Please, it's not a matter of personal taste. I studied psytrance writing for a while and elements like the "Arab musical scale" helped create the cascade of energies, its non-worldy, unnatural, sequence instantly triggers the opening of portals. As we know, the scale is not used anymore, or the deep space sounds, or other sort of melodies. Full on is sort of a partially open portal, it works weakly. Progressive psy works partially too, it lacks the frequency needed. For the scientifically interested one, these energies, gates and portals, etc...are almost the same that quantum mechanics experiments describe. For instance, the two slit experiment, for us, is the interaction of our dimensions with other hidden dimensions, for the photon or electron is not part - exclusively - of our dimensions, as many believe they are. They're more "windows" from other dimensions opened to us. Not the contrary. So, from the Kardecist point of view, our world is only part of a bigger reality - which we understand only partially, poorly. Our world is not the Main Reality as we take it is. As for drugs: they work as, well, drugs, that open the portals of energies. But, our body is made of fragile materials we still don't know about. When drugs open these portals, they also open 'scars' in the perispiritual body - and these scars are an opening to bad energies that eventually destroy the spiritual body, the same way drugs also destroy neurons. Well, I didn't judge other people's beliefs. I hope mine is also respected. I just wanted to share with you how psytrance is taken seriously - spiritually speaking - by some of us.

You looked like Peter Criss, of Kiss! By the way, they're better than a circus.

Chakra & Edi Mis Etnica Chi-A.D. Cosmosis K.U.R.O. out: Hallucinogen ps. May I suggest that the one kicked out to be named? It makes it a little easier, imo. If that's not ok, MODS please edit this post of mine.

@Veracohr: I use exactly what you describel Safari 505 on OS 1058, and Richpa's tags appear OK to me. Must be something with you configurations, IMO.

I liked the more organic stuff like RTTS, and ambient to play in chill-out. Currently I play the these old stuff plus Ibiza and some trip-hop, a la Massive Attack. Pure psy/goa chill-out gets tiresome soon, if you play for 2 hours in a row.

Ok, you're right. I have PMed you.