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More Solar Quest: This isn't Goaish really but it's melodic hard acid trance, you still may be interested:

To get those acid lines I think you do have to move out of Goa and into Acid Trance, hard acid techno does the best acid ever though. Few suggestions for really twisted growling and screaming acid: I'd be shocked if you hadn't already heard this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiJTbiYpaj4 Acrid Abeyance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTR5e2kkdg&feature=related

Adjusting to being back in England again after a week in Nice (France) with my mate. Had a really good time, one long drinking session

What style is it, and is it any good?

Yeah i've been hearing this night time full-on you seem to be talking about, the djs call it "slick", because it's rapid with very high production quality and little to no melody, and yes the acid makes itself known every couple of tracks, really good to dance to. I still find it quite predictable and not particularly psychedelic, just your average cliche bubble/fart sounds laced on top of a powerful and pleasing bassline. Not for home listening personally, but quality on the right night. V/A Temple Of One represents the style i've been hearing a lot on the trance floor.

Check out the artist Yahel, his album - Waves of Sound is highly melodic, with geuninely emotional melodies, some have said it's a bit cheesy but I think it's an album crafted with skill that works and avoids cringe worthy fluffiness.

Got to be Filteria, the albums Sky Input, Heliopolis & Daze of Our Lives all progress and mature as he refines his style, which is sheer melodic power.

Thanks very much I'll definetly ask him about it, been wondering since I heard it.

Does anyone know who the mad Aussie fella is talking to Billy at the end of The Big Bang Boogie on Synergy, I wana hear some tunes by him!

I only really like the first album, maybe a few tracks off the second, it's all a bit twiddly. I much prefer Shulman actually, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bL01v4ff_k

God I love Etnica . . . Head and shoulders above all else that claims to be Goa in light of their talent.

This one does it to me <3

Leary very famously said, "you must turn on, tune in, drop out," and by this he meant that all people should take psychedelics. This is an ignorant and dangerous as well as damaging view, I hate it when people believe that psychedelics are the answer to all faults with society etc, its just idiocy. I know so many damaged people that became that way from taking acid believeing it was some sort of key that they could never get to the end of. Few things Mckenna said were quite agreeable but he also spent a lot of his time deciding when the world is going to end, thinking about the fact that mushrooms are alien lifeforms sent from space purely because they can exist in a vacuum, despite evidence towards evolution, but overall they were authority figures themselves, and it's just so ironic that they're going on about the right way to live and denouncing all others while preaching open-mindedness. Mckenna said it was our job to take philosophical concepts from psychedelic experiences so that we can advance, for me this dehumanises the experience, it makes people think that all acid is is a key to the algorithms of space and time etc, when really it's an emotional, personal experience, there is no obligation to trip in a certain way, because that's impossible. Overall I dislike they're obvious love of being adored, their egotism. I find it ironic that they (much more with Mckenna) use the destruction of ego in certain experiences to compound their pride and egotism when not high. There are far more profound people out there, Neem Karori Baba, Alan Watts, Krishnamurti. This is all my opinion though, and that's all it is.

I agree with your description of the scene, but really agree with you about Leary and Mckenna, I can't stand they're delluded forced attitude to drugs and egotistical ideas about enlightenment. Mckenna was just insane, and personally I think he missed the whole point of psychedelics as I see them (IMO of course). Sorry for being off-topic.

Great recomendations! MFG are incredible at creating atmospheres, but it took me a long time to appreciate them. Sandman is sick, one of the best in twisted Goa. BPC do create nice atmospheres but they aren't as dramatic as some, like Chi-A.D's huge epic ballads. Sorry guys but I can't get those feelings from newschool, i'm not trying to make a point or anything but they just don't give me those emotions and deep entranced calm, I was dissapointed with Erta Ale after all the raving reviews tbh, it was a bit bland. I found this gem that does the trick as well:

It's definetly novel! I can never get over the whistles haha, but high bpm? Fullon Psytrance was my first introduction to electronic music so I immediately developed a love of the fast, 4-4 banging beat, one of the problems i've always had with House in general is that i've always found it too slow for my tastes, then again I love ambient but that's a different kettle of fish.

I've been listening to Future Sound of London an awful lot lately and am time and again blown away by the atmospheres they create, so rich and vivid, and think this quality of music displays an intense psychedelic effect that you rarely get with more danceable music, however, I have faith in old school Goa and would like some suggestions of the most atmospheric tunes you can think of. My own example is Darshan, the tunes immediately set a strong mood and aura that continues and develops (hence why Darshan's one of my favourite artists). Sooo, go for it!

I can only listen to Acid House when i'm in a really specific mood, the first time I heard it I was really dissapointed because i'd been listening to Solar Quest - Acid Air Raid and searched for more acidic stuff, Phuture - Acid Tracks came up and I was just baffled, I know they're different genres but still. It's nice and groovy but never for home listening for me.

Does anyone know if Artha is working on anything?

So many evil things happen on a day to day basis that i'd say it's certain there will be coincidences like that, I don't read into it too much.

Very nice tune! I think there's an awful lot of good Psychill out there! Carbon Based Lifeforms of course, as well as Androcell, Cell, my current favourite Aes Dana, Abakus, Asura, Hypnagog (similarities to the tune you posted), Solar Fields, Distant System, Psyfactor did a nice ambient album, Entheogenic & Shpongle (my least prefered) and finally the masters of the genre: Future Sound of London.

I bought a knitted jumper displaying various cakes, i liked it immediately, and besides, who doesn't like cakes?

Psykovsky - Tanetsveta

I'm watching the development of Skyrim very, very closely, this game will eat up six months of my life! E3 is on at the moment, releasing lots of tasty previews of new games.