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AFAIK, I never liked the "neogoa" term. We release Goatrance. I agree there's some stereotyping due imo to the use of always the same software and quick-win recipes. But nothing prevents you as a label manager to filter what you consider to be overheard. Overheard is relative: Back in 2003, when you had 1 or 2 Goa albums a year, Goa addicts were starving so much that none complained. Now there are 5/6 Goa labels and around 20 releases a year, sure some have the feeling to hear 10 times more Goa than before, and sure there's some similar ideas. But we're still lightyears away from what's happening in the hiphop scene. I don't now about the others, but we started Suntrip because we wanted to revive Goa. Yet if we wanted the same as before, we would just have kept listening to our old records. Now, do you realize how hard this is to find some music that's labelled Goa, and yet sounds original? I can't but laugh a those people pointing at labels. Do the labels produce the music themselves? No. They select some based on what the artists have to offer. And I'm afraid to say there's not a Khetzal, RA or Koxbox album ready every year. If you keep digging that idea you might end up releasing nothing at all. At Suntrip we've never received so many promos and we've never focussed so much on quality (non-stereotyped sound, original ideas). You cannot imagine how much very decent music I turn down just because of that. But sometimes there's somethign that's nearly perfect, and even though it's made with known sounds, you KNOW people will raise their hands in the air when they listen to it. So why not give it a chance, who are we to deprive people from it? All is a matter of balance. And that's also a matter of personal tastes, sometimes even religion. I work in the IT sector and often people start complaining because they've heard about some technology too much. It's not a bad technology but they've identified its flaws and find an opportunity to claim that another technology will solve all the problem...it's a neverending story, it's human nature and I can understand it. To finish, my opinion is very basic about all this: I LOVE GOATRANCE. I will keep listening to it till I don't love it anymore. I will buy or download other Goa labels' releases. I'll simply enjoy the music there is. But I will NOT wait 10 more years for an improbable Hallucinogen or Etnica album!

Hallucinogen - Twisted Simply the best to travel physically or mentally.

At the time the word dark was never used. they were said to be "minimal" (like the minimal wave that was just between the goa wave and the full on wave).

With artists? With the same drugs? Are you sure?

Xenomorph is supermelodic if you compare it to...Cosmo for example IMO Parasense were the first ones 10 years ago. Few melodies, syncopated rhythmic, bizarre production (they didn't know how to work with hi-hats actually)... More generally Darkpsy is an excuse for lame music creation and drug abuse (usually both). A few exceptions do exist: Ocelot or Electrypnose for example know how to make music.

Yes. And in the meantime I <cough>downloaded</cough> the torent. It's the MCM show (MCM logo in the corner) that was probably frst recorded on VHS (distortions, bleeding colors, etc) znd then someone made a DVD out of it. So eventually I assme there's no commercial DVD of it but padprod should be able to help to get a clean DVD dump of their old betacam (or whatever) cassette.

Hmmm I see there are torrends for it (directly VOBs). But I don't know whether this is the dump of a real DVD or if it's the dump of a DVD made out of the documentaty on MCM. I will check <cough>. In any case this documentary vaguely rings a bell, I must have seen a part back in the days. But I've never heard of a DVD. I doubt there's a real commercial DVD out there because if this had been released, it would have been in VHS in the first place, and I don't think anyone would have taken the risk to reissue it a few years after on DVD whereas techno-related stuff usually doesn't sell in masses, especially in France (techno-drug link). What happens though is that such documentaries are produced by independant companies (like this one) and are first proposed to TV channels, then sold to the individuals or organizations who will make a demand. So even if it was only "made available" in the past through the MCM channel, there must be rights owners who could sell it to you. So I googled a bit and I see there a guy caled Malek Touzani who did VJing, set and report cameraman. You also learn the documentary was produced by Padprod and MCM. Interesting. So I went to Padprod website and I couldn't find the documentary there. But obviously, if you ask, they must have it on a shelf.

Never liked the "new school" phrase. "Goa Trance" sounds cool.

Yeah busy big time. And yes until now. It's still on my backlog, so I guess that's not relevant to make it anymore on the bestof application you've known???

So everyone has a serious problem here. But IMO it would be much more valuable to dupesell (just invented a new term) artists like Justin Bieber or even Mozart. But Psytrance ??? Come on ahah. OK these guys know niche markets aren't full of lawyers either.

Kinda right, BUT they ask digital distributors to justify a lot from the labels they distribute, which gives a kind of guarantee. Example, our digital distrib Record Union published this for those willing to get their releases on Beatport.

Weird, Beatport is pretty cautious about these things. Anyway they don't get and distribute these releases on their own, they pass via some digital distributor first. So that (one/two) other party(ies) is(are) rotten and are selling music they don't own. First thing is to ask Beatport to stop selling the releases (you'll have to prove you own them), and ask where they come from, so you can chase the offenders behind.

The new E-Mantra album "Visions from the Past" is what you're looking for these days: http://www.altar-records.com/emantra.html

I'm definitely waiting for Artifact303 album

Those and a lot of others http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sAHDasHLmA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8I7neMUsRI

Lack of inspiration over time. Plus substances. Plus faster money if they're well known.

Well, just write him and ask for more to khetzal at avigmatic dot com

OK sorry but I have to say there won't be a 2010 best of. At some point I had it all prepared, I was just waiting for the list of Ektoplazm reeases, which I didn't get, then days passed as I had absolutely no free time, and now it's too late. Sorry for that.

Definitely Discogs.

Audiogalaxy is a great app, been out for a while. You need a data connection (3G/Edge or Wifi). I mean an affordable one with some bandwidth Then basially it makes it possible for your PC at home to be a music server for your music player (sorry, your phone)

Nothing new. Kagdila has had a bad reputation for years and it's partly justified. The whole scene knows that. On the one hand we always made good deals with Shuki, so I won't be too hard. On the other hand, Afgin never got anything out of his participation from Pure Planet 3. Reason was Arabesque held the stocks, so Kagdila coudln't even give cds to the artists. Further reason was Kagdila had debts with Arabesque and they sold PP3 on their own to pay themselves back. Yet another dirty psytrance affair behind the scenes. Nothing new I'm telling you. You just need to take some precautions with some people in the scene. Kagdila and IT Records shop are amongst them... I told Chakras right in the eye during Heron festival 2009, that he needed to take some precautions, that all the responsibilities from Kagdila were shifting to him besides the money. I also told him he had to pay closer attention to his budgets (parties and releases)...but he wouldn't listen. He was in another world. He put himself in a crazy bad personal financial situation because he wouldn't listen to anyone. And he wouldn't stop even when he'd seen what was going on. There are reasons for that too... Nothing new in a world of parasitic and irresponsible people. Whether the Dimensional CDs are legit or not, well it depends who signed what and who got the signed copies. If the agreements are with "Kagdila" and Shuki has a signed copy of them, Dimensional may be in trouble (assuming Kagdila Belgium never legally existed and Kagdila US does). If Timo Chakras kept the copies, he can agree with the artists whatever he wants behind Kagdila's back. If the contracts were between the artists and Chakras, then Kagdila may be in trouble. Chakras may be anywhere now, between being potentially able to sue Shuki and make distributors cease Kagdila's latest records...or being in a totally illegal situation despite what he believes. Nothing new in the dirty affairs of psytrance: not enough money for suing to happen, enough for crazy stories, bad words, and a sticky bad image. Now he's understood after everyone else, Chakras started his own label, and I respect that, but I hope he won't just jumpstart on a dispute and believe he can refund himself by selling reissues of cds all Goa fans already have. Now he needs to start over a new leaf and put something new out! Anything new? Or just the same old "Money, Drugs and Psytrance" ?

RIght I should ba taking care of that...lots of sorting and sql statements ahead...

Merry Christmas. I searched to add a video, but I found out that neither Skazi nor Eskimo nor GMS nor any full on star dared to remix jingle bells....yet.

Psykovski, Freaks United, Cycle of Secrets, definitely.

Hello The vote is over Insejn: 35 Sunstation: 1 RTP: 12 The next Psynews.org admin will be Insejn. Let's wish him good luck. I'll spend some time with him in the next days to explain him the basics and attempt to have a smooth transition