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I say MONEY! Hah, just joking. My thoughts stay the same on this, maybe influenced a little bit by sheep behavior? I mean, someone had to start the full on/progressive bandwagon, others saw that it was successful and just hopped on. Even though the psy community holds countering the societies' sheep behavior in high regards, the counterculture sheep behavior is just as much a reality. People do the same things, whoever you are, wherever you are. So a possible stream of thought could maybe go like this: "Hey I'm bored with this old sound, I want to do something new. Let's look around what the others are doing. Oh, they're making full on (or progressive), let's give that a shot!" Most of the time I think, producers are a lot less picky when it comes to music than the fans of the appropriate genre, since they're just trying out new things, making new music. If this sounds like total bullshit to you, you can just ignore what I said

So psy artist that become less "psy" over time is not an evolution?

And all generalizations are false! Anyhow, music production is never a linear process. There are soooo many factors involved, especially in artist's evolution that there is no 1 answer to the topic question. It is a case by case study, and differs from person to person. There have been mentioned a lot of theories in this thread and I am sure that each of these theories hold true to some extent, but never can explain the entirety of the question why psy artists become less "psy" over time. One of the most plausible I think, and probably one of the most recurring reason is, like mentioned before, that artists get bored with what they do if it's the same thing over and over. No-one ever said that it was forbidden to explore the realms of music as one sees fit, and I find it horrible that artists get judged by that, whatever reasons they might have. Laissez faire!

Awesome news! Curious about his new stuff and the unreleaseds for sure

I must say I'm not that big a fan of nitzho either although I do enjoy some from time to time. This album is great in what it does, and I really like it for that, especially the melodies and the positive energy are the shining stars here. Very nice party music! Favourite tracks 'till now are Psychedelic Dilemma and Aggressor, though I haven't really listened to the album that much yet, so I'll probably have some more favourites soon. 8/10!

I only just discovered this album, and I'm blown away. Such pure melodic trance and ambient, very beautiful sound! Favourites are Red Herring, Two Full Moons and a Trout and Fromage Frais. Incredible.

Then it is a good thing I ordered it by bank transfer ^^

Ordered!

I love your work Richpa! Great coverdesign, especially the last one! I think it's my favourite of you up 'till now

Like Anoebis said, probably some time this week. So looking forward to it!

Looks fantastic actually I think it really captures the track! The gigantic plus for the positive vibe and the spacey hightech construction for the sounds, with lightning here and there for the electrifying lead, a job well done, I'm impressed btw, overload is one of my favourite goa tracks of all time

hahaha, the troubles of a collector

Artist: Solar Fields Title: Altered: Second Movements Label: Ultimae Released: 26 July 2010 Style: Ambient, Downbeat Tracklist 1 Insolate (9:15) 2 eMotion Of Circles (7:23) 3 Rediscover (9:45) 4 Closing The Sky (6:34) 5 Our Blue Stones (6:23) 6 Universal Dust (6:25) 7 Bngl.w (7:20) 8 Feel (8:42) 9 Changing Patterns (4:10) 10 Staring Into The Nothingness (7:30) 11 A Breeze Through Life (5:42) A bit slow to catch up, as always, I have only received this album in my mail last week. However, it has been in my cd player almost non-stop until then. Anyhow, on to the review: Altered: second movements is the remix of one of my favourite albums of all time, Movements also by ambient and downtempo grandmaster Solar Fields. I only discovered Solar Fields' music in the end of 2009. Like many, my first contact with psychedelic music was Infected Mushroom, and from there I steadily discovered this vast electronic universe of psychedelic trance and it's offspring. So it happened one day, that I began to look to psybient horizons, and the first name that popped up on my search was, yes you guessed it, Solar Fields. After hearing Leaving Home, I was immediately sold. The one lead to another and here I am, reviewing this album. Remix Albums always are a very risky undertaking. The chance of screwing up beloved tracks is a great pitfall and has been proven to be so by many artists over and over again. So as I loved movements to death, I had no expectations whatsoever from this album, call it a safety measure. But after reading Abasio's review here and some other reviews on different sites, I decided to buy it and hear for my own ears how Magnus had fared. Needless to say, as others have pointed out before me, it is a real masterpiece. To take an album, remix it and come up with something so different but so alike at the same time while expanding on the listening experience is an astonishing feat. While Movements was a masterpiece in it's own right, it is as if Magnus saw even further and created this. It is deep, immersive, very story-telling, the sounds are all in perfect order and place, he creates atmospheres so vivid yet so minimalistic that I truly can not comprehend this man's vision, but it must be vast. It's gentleness, classiness and genius really stand in a category of their own. This is epic psybient of the likes I have heard too few times in my life. While I also loved Extended, I feel this just goes even further, showcasing Magnus evolution in music writing and sound-engineering. While Sol was a monsteropener for Movements, I feel Insolate is more of an introduction, slowly paving the way for an amazing listening experience. The first real earopener in my opinion is Rediscover. The atmosphere makes me think of a wide open plain, where strange beasts are grazing on a surreal sunny afternoon, shepherds playing strange instruments I have never seen before yet sound so familiar. Everything I envision is painted on a canvas but with sounds, not brushes. I will spare you the rest of the story, as it always looks better in my head then I could possibly convey with words. Yet, there is never only one story to be told by this album, every time I listen to it something else forms in my mind, and I just delight in the soundscapes. Before I know it, I arrive at Our Blue Stones, and this track is just so beautiful and fits the flow of the past tracks perfectly only to come across Universal Dust, which darkens the atmosphere for a short time before flowing over in to the vast and wonderful Bngl.w! Happiness, joy, positive emotions, this is what this track conveys. It's almost as if I'm engulfed and overflooded by these emotions, and it feels so good. After this we slowly build up to the absolute pinnacle of this album (rather fitting, because the road to nothingness was the best track on the previous album as well) to Staring into the Nothingness. I can but agree with what Abasio said, this is an epic track, unbelievably good. The album ends with A Breeze Through Life, a fitting name to summarize and conclude this gem, it gently lets you down on your feet again. Countless of times I have closely listened to this album and time and time again I think "This is Fantastic!!". Another quality is that this is also incredible study music, because it's gentle and soft and one can read into it as much as one wants or not at all, and just let the sounds reach your ears. Even then it creates a soothing atmosphere. Conclusion: Highly recommended!!

Definitly Antares -Exodus VA- Erta Ale

Looks like treebeard loves himself some forest, doesn't it?

Holy damn, this hit my sweet spot. What a brilliant brilliant album from CBL yet again. If i get around to do it I will write a more detailed review the coming days. I got this in the same package as solar fields' altered and asura's 360, and I have to say that this is my favourite out of those 3 until now, although all 3 releases do not stand far apart in regards to quality. God I love Ultimae.

Hits the spot every.single.time.

+1 X Mash Hard from Savage Scream is pretty sick too. I also agree in Derango, and Psykovsky has some pretty twisted tracks as well!

Golden Oldie

Just a nice way to start a new day ^^

Such a great winter album.

Ofcourse, I really like a lot of different styles

Exactly my thoughts. I don't think anybody here said that the choice of tracks is bad, or the tracks in themselves. You chose great tracks for your comp, and I love the comp, bad mastering or not, because of the quality of the tracks. But you CAN do something about mastering, even though it's a big problem for other labels as well, and I understand that it's not easy to get good mastering for a few cents. However, I really do think it could've been done better. Awesome track choice though, and I stand by that.

Just ordered:

From what I've already heard of him, Eye am the I, without a doubt.