BraneFreeze

This is a very solid album, albeit not as twisted or trippy as his Glowing Flame material. Excluding Sea Foam (which I wasn't wild about), the other nine songs are good, but might benefit from a little more complexity and variety. 8.5/10

Just discovered this EP. Colours and Lunar Landing are both good. The first two tracks seemed kind of generic, and Guardian Spirits is definitely too long.

First of all, let me say that I enjoyed the promotional video and the samples. It sounds like a great album. However, having said that, I still don’t understand why an album like this is only available in a CD format. I’m not trying to single out PA. This is a common approach for many producers, and PA’s album is only one of many possible examples. I just don’t understand the refusal to make a new album simultaneously available as a digital download via Bandcamp or whatever, especially when CD sales are most likely a breakeven proposition at best. Personally, I have no interest in plastic (or shipping delays), and if I can’t easily obtain a legal download for a new release (when my interest level is high) I’m willing to consider other alternatives. Wouldn’t PA or other producers be better served by capturing some of this potential revenue? I just don’t get it. However, I do extend best wishes to PA on the success of his new album.

Speaking of alive, I guess we can remove "Dancing With Kadafi" from our playlists.

Excellent album. More please.

Glowing Flame Records put out a number of good compilations, which can now be previewed / purchased at Bandcamp: http://beatspace-glowingflame.bandcamp.com/

Very good compilation. Just noticed that the album was mastered by Paul McCosh (Fractal Glider).

FYI, just noticed today that most of the Zubzub catalog is now available for digital download at Bandcamp (http://zubzub.bandcamp.com/).

Has anybody else noticed that Ektoplazm has been pretty inactive for the last month or so? It appeared that Basilisk was having some computer problems for a while, but that seems to be fixed now. I miss all the new music. Hope everything is OK.

Felix G has also put out some interesting music as Terrafractyl, such as the Chrysalis album.

Templar -- I'd like to hear more tracks from Stellar Magnitude (and Magnatec)

Send me your e-mail address via the Psynews forum members e-mail function (faster) or messaging (slower) and I'll send you the PDF file directly.

The PDF playlist has 300+ tracks. A stricter definition of Psy Dub would probably reduce the list to maybe 150-200 tracks, but I don't have the time to do this.

I'm not a producer, but if you want some listening suggestions start with Mauxuam (Wiggly Bytes, Anti-Singles, Viceversa) or maybe Bird Of Prey (Atrium EP, Dreamcatcher EP). If you're interested, I could also send you a PDF file with my iTunes playlist for Psy Dub (broadly defined).

+1 for Yggdrasil - Prose Edda

Definitely shows promise. Since I prefer mostly instrumental tracks I liked Psychedelic Experience and Euphoriant the best.

This was one of my first psy trance albums and I was immediately hooked. Too bad he's never done anything else this good since Parasite.

The music is very good, but the samples are intrusive and way too long.

Pretty good album. Best tracks for me were Desert Nomad, Night Sorceress, Synchromystic, and Higher Circuit Experience. Night Sorceress and HCE (second half) do sound like Shpongle, but so what? They're still good tracks. I wanted to like Dub Gardens, since I'm always on the lookout for psy dub and enjoyed Dub Crickets and Dub Crystals from prior releases. However, the singing is really annoying and goes on forever. Maybe I'll just cut off the first 5 minutes and save the rest. 7/10 mostly based on the best 4 tracks

It seems to me that there are somewhat contradictory goals here. On the one hand, we expect song composition to conform to certain criteria to be considered goa trance. On the other hand, we complain that the songs sound the same. "Goa" has become a straitjacket. It's time to move on. We need to kill the genre to save it.

Any chance we can also get some of the earlier material, specifically the Malicious Code album?

Wasn't able to play the track previews at the Zubzub website

Just released. You can preview the entire album at Bandcamp: http://phutureprimit...m/album/kinetik Nine solid instrumental tracks. Downtempo, electronica, glitch, dub step, etc. The final track is sung by Rain (aka Phutureprimitive). I wasn't wild about the Luminous EP last year, but this one is very strong.

Another factor to consider. How many psy / goa producers have formal musical training or actual performance experience (other than DJ)? I would think this has a major influence on career paths as well.

Two other possibilities: (1) There has been tremendous evolution in musical production and recording technology over the last 20 years. Maybe some of the psy/goa pioneers just got bored with these toys after the initial period of experimentation. (2) A lot of psy/goa music is burdened by the incredible monotony of the standard rhythmic structure. Maybe some producers just get tired of this straitjacket.