Procyon

I have just youtubed it. I am impressed! A refined, uplifiting track with a wonderful melody. Unique. Somehow reminded me of "Dancing Galaxy" tracks. Come on AP!

Despite the bad quality of the vid, it sounds wonderful. I loved the hark kicks and the melodies too. IMO, not prog at all. A sort of full-goa. We will see when they release it, or a better file surfaces. Man! how I hate strobe lights "on-your-face".

"I call you a gossip guy but I wan to hear this gossip too" nice poem

Elysium: Like yours here, for instance? And it's not my fault that you've become a desinformed person - if you are calling others' information gossip about this, then you are out of the top of the pyramid of the scene...as everyone can see. Anyway, I wish Orion a nice return. He was my fav for a long time, and I do hope he is booked for some nice parties and festivals.

Have you thought that perhaps for other people it indeed is? In ways unknown to you? So stop behaving with superiority. When I mention oblivion, it's Imba career - remember that Jean Borelli, of Orion fame, destroyed his good reputation, and bookings, with rude remarks some years ago. As for GG being a disaster when mixing, it's quite funny: he can't beatmatch and his transitions are quite a wreck. ANYWAY, there are a lot of people - like me - who loves his style. He is one of the last that gives a human touch to mixing. Perfection sometimes is boring, and honestly I think that GG doesn't want to improve his skills. AND there's the fact the he is one of the most booked artists in the psy scene, a clear signal that he means a good party. However, I think that GG style of dark is getting tiresome. He's been playing dark for almost 10 years now, and his 150+ bpm selection is not so attractive anymore. IMO, he will change soon. My bet is that he will return to Goa. Or to techno - which, currently, is more psychedelic than trance itself.

Imba, if you said that IM or Israeli full-on is shit, everybody would be supporting you now. Why? Because no one needs somebody else's opinion to realise that. But saying that GG is shit is controversial - the guy DJed Goa to the world, then fullon (when it was good) and now dark. He is a nice man, he's respected by al these vertents and who said he can't return to playing Goa again? IMO he's just waiting this neogoa stuff to mature a little more to start DJing it again. And he's free to do so - to "abandon" dark and return to Goa. Opinioning like you did, rudely, and at the same time releasing compilations like Goatronika (with a lot of tracks with titles suggesting peace and love) is half way into oblivion...

Amithaba, again, goood! I listened to it more carefully, and IMO this is something quite fresh in the psy scene today. However, techno fans would enjoy this track also.The 303 acid sounds are still used by a lot of techno and house writters. But the psychedelic twist you gave is the first I heard in ages. Aciiid!

Oh, and Goasia side project, Opsy, is just the kind of tech-trance I really love. Cold and cool

May I suggest Japanese act Jikooha?

Like with everything else in life, there's darkpsy and darkpsy. At first I really didn't like it, but it matured after sometime and now there are some real fantastic tracks around. I learnt to love Elecrypnose, Ocelot, Mubali. To be honest if you ask me: where's psychedelia nowadays? I would say 100% sure, it's on dark. But again, there's this 170 bpms lunatic stuff people call dark. And there's Mubali real hypnotic 147 bpms that are a lesson on hypnose. So, please speak for yourself, not for the rest of us.

Amithaba, fantastic track. Its acid lines reminds me a lot of Adrenalin Drum old tracks, a master of acid-goa. IMO, this is your best track (I have been following you on youtube), you could take the claps effect out of the track (that's what makes it sound old-goa), add a melody and release it as neo acid-goa, it would be the first.

This is crap! Guys, don't wast your time, it's worse than Aqua!

I was wondering what kind of sound we would have if we had Electrypnose and neogoa sounds entwined. Neogoa artists should learn something from his pure psychedelia. IMO, the best producer nowadays, he can cross the dark and goa boundaries pleasing both sides.

Great tracks Elysium. And if you don't mind my opinioning, I think you went under for a long time. Most bookings for 2010 parties/festivals are based on what was released from 2007 on - that's business now, not passion as it used to be. I remember you used to release 2 or more tracks every 6 months back in 1990s. But then you just disappeared, and I must confess I was quite surprised to see you here when I first signed in. Anyway, I hope to hear you live soon.

Stop trying to make reasons they could be making a GOA album, I don't want to be disappointed again.. Penzoline, you're right to some extent. But then under what vertent could they release an album which is not goa and it's Astral Projection at the same time? Or better, perhaps they release something unexpected, fresh, different from what we hear today!

The five things I don't like in New School Goa: 1. No stand out melodies. Back then tracks could have one-two melodies, but they stuck in your head. Today tracks have 5-6 melodies that are easily forgettable. 2. Too much floatness. Where is the intensity? The crazy climaxes? The twists? I don't wannna guess a whole track just by listening the first 30 seconds. I don't wanna fall asleep, I want energy. 3. No dark Goa, no twisted Goa. It seems that everything today is about the sunshine or the positive energy. Back then was also about the obscure, the dreams, the night. 4. Too many oriental melodies. Goa doesn't necessarily means oriental melodies. Remember MWNN, Cydonia, Psychaos etc. 5. No evolution. When Pleiadians released FOL back in 1999 I thought that Goa made the big step into something new. The 'death' of the Goa scene obviously didn't help that evolution. New School Goa seems to start from day one (1995), when it could start from FOL and forth. I couldn't agree more. That said, IMO, producers and labels are sort of helium gas balloons, they're beautiful, going up...and without direction. And that's a bad thing, because soon it all will be under an umbrella on which is written "boring". I was ultra-anxious about Chi-ad's release, I had hopes he was the guy who'd give neogoa a shock it needs so much. Unfortunately, his last tracks are as bland as the rest of the tracks we hear today. E-mantra was surprising, indeed, and I have DJed 4 or five of his tracks regularly - but it's coming to a point I can't hear them anymore...too much "sugar in space". I loved Alienapia's last release too, but I wish it was a little darker and not so atmospheric. I bought the first 3 Suntrip CDs, but I gave when I realized all artists sound as if they feel trapped in 1995 - old goa trance in 2010! However Suntrip's last compilation is good, but I couldn't bring myself to buy it. In short, everything is very predictable, too sweet, too simplistic. I wish it changes soon before it fades away.

A good release, but nothing special.

I was mesmerized the first time I heard VOX, and I must confess I had to sweat hard to get two of his tracks out that lenghty mix he released on Ektoplasm. But it was worth: his tracks are brilliant, energetic, hard-driving. Vox! Come on man! more more more ;)

Ok, here's the playlist: 1. Matrox - KURO 2. Precision - KURO 3. Dynamo Theory - CHARM 4. Dracula 2000 - KURO 5. Lifeforce - KURO 6. Frozen Bug - KURO 7. Atomic Fission - KURO 8. Keep It - CHARM & JIN 9. Retrospective - CHARM 10. Blast - KURO.

IMO, the duo is sort of lost in the middle of this new scene. I mean, they're trying to find their place in the 2010's scene. They know they can't sound like they did in 1995 - which is their trademark. But how to sound the same and be different at the same time? It must be very hard. I imagine they question themselves: "should we accelerate a little more, to 145 bpms? Or should we keep the same pace as in Dancing Galaxy?" So, at the same time I understand them I somehow pity them. I think they thought that Amen would be a benchmark back in 2003, and when they saw the album was not welcomed, they lost their guidelines. As for this next album, I think they are paying attention to this new wave of Goa - I am sure they want to surf on it and at the same time to get a "Oh my Gad! It's AP's new track, wonderful!!" reaction. Not an easy task. As I wrote before, I wish this new album doesn't sound progressive as Prophecy and other tracks sound. I want them to make banging, hypnotic Goa. Let's wait and see. (that's what I call waiting, lololo)

Takeichiro Kurosaki, or simply K.U.R.O., along with Tsutoshi Suzuki (Prana) and Ree.K (Hypnodisk)- were the refined talented minds behind the revolutionary Japanese Goa, Psy and Techno scenes. KURO is an artist of rare quality, his tracks are an irritant perfection of ambient, psychedelic, goa and techno textures. His talent made him the first international artist who crossed freely the boundaries of the techno and psychedelic scenes. No wonder his tracks were featured in all major labels: Spirit Zone, Tokyo Tekno Tribe, Krembo, Flying Rhino, Shiva Space and lately Psyristor. Here are ten of his tracks, ranging gradually from melodic psychedelic to banging chic tech-trance, mixed by DJ Procyon - his #1 fan!! He also released tracks under the moniker Charm and worked with DJ Jin as well. KURO! To listen & dwld: http://www.4shared.com/file/258653101/fbd551b7/a_tribute_to_KURO.html Send your feedback!

@ Twisted: don't get me wrong. I LOVE Depeche Mode and the likes. New Order, all those wonderful tracks of the mystical 1980's. What I meant is that JOY is surprisingly 1980's - and if we want to hear tracks from the 80's, then we have so many real good songs. We don't need AP doing that. What they do really well is Goa Trance. Oh my! Strangelove just came to my mind, I youtubed it and now I feel nostalgic

Gaah! it seems they thought "hey, let's sound like Depeche Mode, back in 84?". that's what JOY is all about: ultra-retro

WOW! A big, giant wow! Suntrip finally made a release with tracks that mirrors this new goa stuff - instead of tracks that sound like they were made back in 1995. Suntrip's best release so far. This is I want to dance to. #2 (Khetzal by E-Mantra) made me laugh, my God!, what a beautiful song! Also Astrancer's tracks are amazing (I am surprised to discover that Neo Goa has reached Brazil, the full-on paradise). Antares

Tranks from me, Goan. I hope you enjoyed it. I am honored to have this set played at DI.FM, the best psychedelic trance radio online station. A million thanks DJ Shoom, DI.FM rocks our world! Check your local time for this broadcasting: http://www.di.fm/calendar/event.php?event=19708 Again, your feedback is welcome.