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have a recorded private conversation between him and me on Facebook that I will show if things go too far. I don't know what he has with Filteria. Maybe the problem is one is talented and charismatic and plays everywhere and the other is a stoned dork grumbling in his dirty living room. Right and right. I am stuck in a hospital room for one month now. Leukemia. Know that I had the force to make the artwork of our next compilation from the hospital. Don't worry I'll survive Indeed! Short version: Back in 2006 Suntrip wanted to release Filipe's album, but the tracks would never come. He complained we didn't consider his talent enough and I replied "then where are the tracks?". And he slammed the Suntrip door. He created Metapsychic with a couple of friends and it started very good, then in June 2007 he started dissing Filteria and Suntrip very bad and made his partners believe there was some kind of plot between Psynews/Suntrip to ruin Metapsychic or something. We had loads of critics from his partners and were forced to justify ourselves. Just plain crazy. Finally in November 2007 he sabbotaged Metapsychic for really no reason (I have kept the page with all the statements and logs and conversations with everyone). What had happened? Drugs. Since then, the other ex-Metapsychic guys have apologized and I'm a good friend with one of them. After that Filipe also ruined another label: Shivlinks and caused trouble more or less everywhere he passed. You know what? Writing these lines I just realize nothing has changed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years pass...one year ago I met Filipe in a backstage. He kind of apologized for all the bad words (read: he was licking my ass so he might have a chance to release something on Suntrip again) and I told him "no sour grapes, just send the music", which he did. I thought he could have made more efforts. It was good but not as good as before and too frenetic for our current "line" anyway. Though I thought the bad days were really behind us. However a couple of monhs ago I realized I was wrong: overnight he creaed "Moontrip Records". Come on, seriously... I understood one of the goals was to annoy us so I strictly told everyone at Suntrip NOT to react in any way, just ignore that. We have no copyright on "moon" after all. And then, 4 weeks ago, he started shitting on my Facebook wall, on me on Filteria, this made no sense at all. I was on chemo just at that moment and I wasn't feeling like laughing. We had a quite strong conversation, and as he knew he'd bullshitted far too much he deleted the thread in the end....but I had the time to save it, so in case he comes and denies, I'll show it. To me the bottomline is simple: Filipe is on drugs, crazy, and downfalls will keep on going in this bipolar manner for the next years, until he's too destroyed to even remember about Goatrance, Psynews, Suntrip, Filteria, etc. The only way to deal with him is to ignore him, blacklist him, NOT book him and let him join the horde of forgotten uneliable artists out there. Don't misread me: he's extremely talented, but also too toxic to work with. As far as I'm concerned, next time I see him, I'll kick his ass. Physically. I mean it.

Rastaliens haven't been active for the last 3 years but I see their website is still up. A good idea, indeed, would be to re-release it with proper mastering, on Ektoplazm for example. Or even Beatport through the artists themselves. You'll need the agreement of the artists obviously. You'll need the unmastered files from the artists. No mastering studio will work from the CD. Count 350€ for a decent mastering (I can give you a couple good addresses).

Nerso - Exploration of infinity : an absolute must in progressive. Crossing Mind - The Inner Shift : clearly not day to day goatrance. Etnica - Live in Athens 96: superb one You may check also Lyctum, Killerwatts, Mindsphere, 3.14, and the Ultimae catalogue.

Optokoppler - Halftime (album here). Big fullon classic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eou9-T-Cx5M But I'm not sure this is the right place for track identifications...

Lyctum - Tales... Chritiana Selection Vol.2 And also less striking but worth having a look: Holographic Remixes Infinity - Wasted Years Time In Motion - Energy Lupin EP's Solar Fields - Random Fridays

Right be he mentions accounts being hacked whereas what he refers to actually happened on Discogs. Just aiming at correctness here. Yes in 2005 or 2007, that's called "ages ago" in Internet terms. Precisely, they are triggered from the inside, that's why they are called like that. Maybe we're talking about something else. Anyway.

@Cosmogenesis: this board contains no malicious code. Even if it did, it's not posssible to target someone specifically. Spam filters by Microsoft (I see you're using hotmail) do work well. Of I were you I would take a step back and try to analyze this with a cold blood. If you want some help...

Yes party scenes are shot in UP. I read another topic about that. Very very shitty movie. As usual focus on drugs, sex and not psytrance...

A few here http://abasioforum.myfreeforum.org http://djnetz.com/forum/ http://elastiktribe.org/ http://forums.di.fm/ http://forum.goa.hu/ http://forum.isratrance.com/ http://forum.psytrance.org/ http://psy.com.mk/forum/ http://trancemoon.forumotion.com/ http://www.danceforum.ru http://www.discogs.com http://www.electrobeat.dk/v3/forum.php http://www.goabase.net/forum.php http://www.goagemeinde.de http://www.goatrance.net http://www.hipforums.com http://www.mysticalforum.ch http://www.partyvibe.com/forums/ http://www.psychedelic.be/forum/ http://www.psymusic.co.uk/forum/ http://www.psynews.org/forums/ http://www.psysurfeur.com/forum/ http://www.psytechforum.com http://www.psytrance.pl/forum2/ http://www.psytrance.ru/forum/ http://www.psytrance-forum.com/ http://www.studionu.com/uadforums/ http://www.trancegoa.org http://www.triplag.com/4room http://forum.psyshine.org.ua

I agree with that!!!

No Federico, I've never heard about these guys.

There are some. the first one that comes to mind is Check Barby - Infiltrator because it's just released.

We don't know much about Cygnetic Records indeed. Saint Gallen in Switzerland is at the crossroads of Germany, Liechtenstein and Austria, close to Constance lake (so, Germanic part of CH). End of 2004, the site was already active as shown in the web archive But early 2005 is was gone and never returned, then was cyber squatted after the domain expiration. There's very few infos on discogs on the artists themselves: We have a name for Overmind Projection for instance: Roman Bossart. Alien Spacecraft/Artificial Identity: K.Skye. The Infinity Float: Ken Da Luyd. Hmm why would they stop making music like that ? Lack of equipment? Lack of motivation? Worse? Anyway I'm sure some of these guys still exist. In any case the guys had two studios with a crazy equipment list. Like they ran studios or something... and they probably met other crazy synth collectors as can be shown on their link list like here or there. If they cannot be reached directly, I bet they can in an indirect way (like they must have conacted other people through these forums/links).

Mindsphere - Patience for Heaven

Oh that was a joke? I hadn't understood it was funny, sorry.

@Goa Travellers: why? Does he need it? Did he state it anywhere? I'm not even sure he uses analogic equipment anymore. From my experience, topics like "let's do something" lead to nowhere. The writer thinks "someone" will do the dirty job and the readers think the writer will do the dirty job. The dirty job being: - opening a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo or kickstarter, etc - opening a similar topic on twistedmusic.com forums and advertising on social media like facebook, etc - keeping the artist in touch with the topic (as well as obtaining his agreement to the "let's so something" in the first place) - making the topic live until the end of the campaign ...in other words, dedicating time and energy to it ! ciao

It depends mainly on 3 factors: the gear, the mixing, the mastering As of today more artists use a virtual gear and that makes it easier to chop those overlapping/competing frequencies that destroy parts of the sound. No matter if they use analog or virtual gerat, some artists are better at mixing than others. Either because they had the education or they naturally have an ear for that. Also some search the right frequency ranges to put the maximum power in a track witrhout making frequencies to compete (look at the bass/kick rockets they pour into fullon tracks now!!!) And the same goes with the mastering guys who use a more or less advanced gear and know more or less well how/where to enhance/cut the frequencies. I'm not mentioning each substyle which uses different features: prog vs fullon vs dark vs goa. Alltogether, that is an infinite range of possibilities and it would be hard to describe perfection from there. I think now we're in an era where people pay attention to the production, especially as you can well hear defects on a high end sound system or in a party/festival. So there has been a strong motives to improve the psytrance production in the last 15 years, and I think we can now talk about something that's close to perfection and might slightly evolve again but less than what happend in the last 15 years thanks to the above factors.

My very very first try at Psytrancde was Prana (didn't like it at first). And then Hallucinogen, which did the snap! Basically I listened to "Twisted" constantly in the first half of 1996. After that, Total Eclipse, MFG, Astral Projection, Transwave, Etnica, Shakta were playing in my stereo every day.

We're still making more physically. It's mostly a gut feeling, I don't have figures to show.

first and foremost, believe me, it's VERY hard to assess how many CDs of a given release should be printed. In the Goa genre, 1000+ was still doable in 2010. Now it's doable only if you release a blockbuster (Filteria, RA) and only after 3 years or so. I have the Suntrip figures at your disposal if you want. Since november 2008, the only releases that went out of stock were Filteria's Daze of Our Lives and E-Mantra - Arcana (very last copies are on the suntrip shop). After 3.5 years we still have 250 Merr0w and Radical Distortion, we have 250-300 of all we released in 2010, 300-400 of what we released in 2011 and 500+ of what we released in 2012. I have 3000+ CDs in stock right now. See what I mean? Soon there will be no point in stating "limited edition" on covers because everyone will press sub-1000 batches. 300 used to be a promo batch, in the past !!! 700 copies would be the best for us at this moment but presses charge them almost as much as a 1000 CD batch. On top of it, 500, or worse, 300 copies are much more expensive to press, per CD, so the profitability further drops. In other words, the CD is dying and all we press now is for those who still like the pleasure of holding the physical thing in their hands. MindRewind is a compil made in 604 copies (not 300, but it's arguable) by collectors, for collectors(!). Personnally I'd have wished a bigger batch. Not sure what's going to happen with MR2. And this (of course, inevitably) triggered discontent, I agree with you. What we did with InnerSpace and what Altar records is doing for example is also something dedicated to "afficionados" of the genre. You like the music, you are a collector, then buy it. Else get it on iTunes. As far as we're concerned, we don't want to speculate on these releases and prevent people from buying several copies for example. And if some start speculating (like it happend with Khetzal) we repress 500 copies and kill speculation. Now, I almost regret we put "limited 2010 edition" on our SUNCD02-03-04-06-07-08-10 represses. It should have been "2010 edition".

Nerso - Synapse

Answer: yes.

It's good! I never liked the original, the mastering on this one, at least, is much better.

Khetzal ?

Warmth