mars

I'm staying very classical with Hallucinogen - LSD. One of the first and one of the best Goa tracks ever. LSD without LSD !

We have the cds at home right now and we accept preorders !!! http://www.suntriprecords.com/blog/news.php

I'm here !

THAT sample from the 6th sense used in all the Alien Project / Safi Connection DNA tracks: "You shouldn't look at people, it makes them feel bad. Stop looking at me...Stottering Stanley, stottering Stanley..." THAT one made me sick for 1 year. Never again. That other one from the 51st state: "my product is 51 times more hallucinogenic than acid....it's like having a visit from Gooood"...overheard And in general all the samples where people are shouting (japanese movie samples for example made me deter from some Talamsca tracks) On the other hand, the Fear & Loathing / Dune samples are no problem to me. Matrix is ok too as long as it's not the usual blue pill one

How can you get out clear enough from such a party to be able to play in another just after ?

Here are mine. I'm voting for our releases but I love them (or we wouldn't have released them) 1) Goasia - From Other spaces 2) Sound Field - Audio Surfin 3) VA - Twist Dreams 4) Pitch Hikers - Sting 5) Trold - Time of Illusion ------- 1) Flooting Grooves - Upsyde Downe 2) Younger Brother - Last Days of Gravity 3) Asura - Life squared 4) Shulman - Endless Rythms of Beatless Heart 5) Organika - The Peaking Godddess Collective

Misted Muppet yeah, good choice. Else this subject has been discussed these last days: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50281 http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50779

Google does it for you. http://www.google.be/search?hl=en&clie...earch&meta=

Ok I'm going. If you see a guy with either a psynews tshirt or a suntrip tshirt, well, this is me. Come and let's have a beer

Ace Ventura - Cardiac Arrest ?

I can only advise yoou this one, you won't be disappointed : http://www.suntriprecords.com/pages/releases/SUNCD10/

for me it's total Eclipse stuff in general. The music grew old not so nicely. I was a huge fan, I lived in the same city as them, and attended to all their parties back in 96-97-98, but now I never play their cds anymore.

IM were the best group in 99, maybe....EVER, I don't think so.

I have frequent contacts with Vince, and he said he's working at some album right now. And he has a lot of music. Have you seen he played in every room at the eve party in Swizterland ?

I wish I could go. Maybe I can, I need an eurostar ticket

I heard it today. From the first track, you know youre into something. This is superb, delicate, you fell like wandering in flower gardens or floating above your body during that too short hour. I havent heard such a good ambient album for a very long time. If you're listening to it, reserve 2 hours. For you're gonna relisten to it right away. I don't say that often, this is so good it hurts. Prepare to switch your references, prepare to remember that album.

Announced on Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sut/sut2cd010.html

Q: So what is this site all about ? A: There are 2 main objectives here: - Reviewing psytrance cds - Talking about Psytrance (parties, music projects, dj mixes, etc) There is one forum for each year for cd/lp/eps reviews. There are dedicated forums for specific promotion, but the main forum is "the General". You needn't register to read the topics. You need to register to write and participate. Q: When ? What ? Where ? How ? A: Early 2000 / because the creator loved the music / in Paris, France. The history of Psynews is HERE. Q: Are you a company or what ? What will you do with my personal data after I register ? A: We are just a group of passionate people. Call it an association. We are structured as follows: - 7 girls and boys from various countries are the moderators with more or less rights. They discuss moderation issues in some specific forum only them can see called "the moderatorium". Moderators are usually members for a long time and have a wise attitude and a good knowledge of the music. - Mars is the admin & webmaster but has no powers because he's also a label owner, so it's delicate for him to intervene. He may answer some questions on the moderatorium, or share new ideas, no more. We are non-profit. The ad you can see on the top of your screen was added in september 2007 to pay the dedicated server we're hosted on, and the psynews.org/.net domain names. The forum system itself is an Invision Board http://www.invisionboard.com and we have a perpertual licence for it. This is all legal. We are NOT gonna use your personal data in any way. Period. Q: I just registered but I didnt receive my activation email. How come ? A: We have a problem with that feature and some admin has to manually validate all new accounts. Just be patient, someone is gonna activate it, or if you can't wait, please write to mars [at] psynews [dot] org. Q: Ok, SO, what is Psytrance ? A: Ouch, many people wanna discuss about the exact definition of it. Let's say this is a form of techno music that puts the emphasis on psychedelic sounds. Although there are electronic tracks with Psy incluence since the early nineties, many consider it really started in 1995. There must be some topic in this forum about it Q: What are the most psytrance-active countries ? A: Israel has always been a very hot spot; The UK, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Russia, Switzerland, South Africa, Portugal, Spain have quite a lot of producers, labels, and parties. Ibiza hosts a lot of non-native artists too. Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, the USA, Japan, south-east Asia, Australia have a lot of parties too. Anyway, except most of Africa, Groenland, Antartica, and dictatorships/unstable lands, other countries in the world have a scene. Please check the editions of the booklet "The Trancer's Guide to the Galaxy" to have detailed and complete infos about that. Q: I see people talking about Goa too. I thought it's a city in India. A: Right, it is, and it's also considered as one of the places it all started. Many hippies lived there. And this "Goa Trance" music or its early forms were sort of a continuation of the hippy sounds of the seventies and eighties. Until 1998, anyone would name this music "Goa" music, then other forms arrived, called "Minimal" (98-2001), "Full on" (since 2001), "Progressive" (since 2003), "Dark" (since 2006), weird stuff that doesn't even have a name, etc... There is a graph decribing most of the substyles on this same forum. That said, I heard Goa in India is no longer what it used to be... Q: What artists/cds would you recommend me as a beginner ? A: Also a very hard subject. Every style of Psytrance has its famous names. Maybe have a look on the General forum or the reviews forums. You can also check the Twisted label website http://www.twisted.co.uk for example. Not that we own Twisted shares, but their first cd was released in 1996, so they have quite a range of music and their quality is renowned. There are many many many other famous labels like Dragonfly, Hommega, Digital Structures, 3D Vision, Global Trance Network, Phonokol, etc, etc.... Q: Where can I find Psytrance CDs ? A: Better ask on the General forum for shops in your city, since Psytrance isn't much distributed, like many techno musics. Else, many online stores sell it: http://www.psyshop.com, http://www.saikosounds.com, http://www.beatspace.com to name a few. Q: How can I review some CD ? A: There are rules in the pinned topic of every year. Just look at other reviews, but my advice is you put write you really felt, with all your feelings ! By the way, we are an independant organization, we have no pressure of any "lobby" of any sort. Good or bad, your opinion is interesting. Just stay polite with the artists who spent some time making that music (most of them I mean). Q: Where can I find Psytrance parties ? A: Every country has some website with some forum or planning or calendar. For example: Israel: http://forum.isratrance.com UK: http://www.accessallareas.org/cgi-bin/whatson.pl France: http://skyforum.ayzo.net/trancegoa.html Belgium: http://www.psychedelic.be Usually entrance fees range from 10 euros to 30 euros. Festivals entrances range between 40 and 120 euros. Festvals happen in the summer, or for special events like solar eclipses. The Burning Man festival in California, USA is also partly related to the Psychedelic movement (it's much more than only that movement and only music actually). Q: Isn't that techno/hippy stuff related to drug abuse ? A: There's no denying there are drugs in Psytrance parties. Fortunately the majority remains clean. I'm afraid to inform you there are also drugs in any other party. From LSD to Speed, passing by Cocain, Psytrance parties are hit by this shit as much as the other styles of music and parties. Even Bjork concerts ! Oh yes, while I'm thinking about it, if you happen to see on some TV show people high on drugs dancing in some open field they took by force, to the sound of very hard boom boom music, if you see these guys with big dogs selling drugs just aside, this is NOT a Psytrance party. This is obvisouly another form of much more radical techno, but not Psytrance, and if I were you I wouldn't try to attend one of these. Fact is since 1995, the media have kept on destroying all the techno music based on a few assumptions, like the drug use, the sound volume that may damage the audience audition, security concerns related to party locations... Our movement has a big problem of recognition. We still wonder why it's much harder to organize a Psytrance party rather than a Reggae party where the level or professionalism in the organisation and drug use is more or less the same. Well, anyway Psynews.org strongly condamns the use of drugs and doesn't allow drug topics on its forums ! This is clearly written in the forum rules you can find on the top of each forum and you may face immediate and permanent ban if you tresspass against this rule (There are other rules too, check them). Q: Would you let my child attend to some Psytrance party ? A: If your child is below 18, no, because the organizer may get into trouble if there is a control. The sound volume is also quite high. Else, regarding security, there is no risk. Depends in which country you are of course, but basically, our movement is peaceful. If your question was more related to drugs, well, it all depends whether your child's friends he/she's going with are reliable and if your child knows how to say 'no'. I don't mean some dealers are gonna rush on him, no way, I mean your child will obviously be introduced to thse parties by some relative, that may have the habit of taking some drugs and that may also want to introduce him/her to them. the first parties are very important because they will determine how you kid will behave in the next ones. Personnally my mom told me drugs were a bad thing when I was a kid, and I knew what to answer to some "proposals". I've attended to hundreds of parties since 1996 and my best memories were with 100% good music and 0% drugs. If a party is shitty anyway, taking drugs will make it even shittier. Better go to sleep instead. Q: I would like to contribute to the inner workings of this site, can I ? A: Well, these inner workings summarize to moderation and trouble sorting. We'd better appreciate if you reviewed some music. This is much more valuable. Else, you can be a nice and proactive memebr for some time, show you're really wise, and next time some moderator seat is free, just apply, you may get it. This is not a gift though... IF you are skilled with Java EE technologies, please contact mars, Psynews3 needs you ! Q: How can I change my username or login? A: Ask one admin, like mars. Q: How can I change my email? A: There's a facility in "My Settings". Access it via the drop-down menu next to your name in the top-right corner. It will trigger email validation. If this doesn't work, ask one admin, like mars. Q: How can I cancel my account ? A: Sorry to hear that... You can ask mars or one of the moderators. Q: How can I ask for more questions like these to be answered ? A: Reply to this topic with your new question, and it it's valuable enough for the community, we'll put it here.

Latest update November 6th 2008 OriginsPsynews started as a small site hosted by French provider Free.fr. Its original URL was http://goatrance.free.fr, which still exists and redirects to http://www.psynews.org. Although the exact date is not known for certain, logs seem to indicate it was put online for the first time on January 11th 2000 by a 23-year old Parisian named Christophe Harry a.k.a "Children". Children on the right The site first aimed at replacing a failing UK website called "TRiP" which was focused on reviewing Goa Trance music releases, on CD and vinyl. Like its predecessor, goatrance.free.fr's look and feel was of fluoroescent text over a starfield. A group of enthusiasts from all over the world quickly joined Children and brought their own tributes by reviewing their own albums. The very first reviewers were: Nickname Real name Join date Age at join City Country What they became Children Christophe Harry 11/01/2000 23 Paris France Disappeared to found a family on sept 23rd 2003 Stathis Greece Infected Max Maxence Mortier 24 Bordeaux France Has maintainted the famous band Infected Mushroom website for a couple of years Mindbender Finland Anoebis Joske Vranken 20/01/2000 17 Antwerpen Belgium Famous DJ, party organizer, manager of Suntrip Records, and moderator of Psynews Gav Scotland Deceased now Tequila Stanislas 17 Paris France Pit-UFO Mexico DQ Sweden Ubik Vincent Houzé 17 Paris France Mars Fabien Marsaud 05/03/2000 23 Paris / Bordeaux France Admin and webmaster of Psynews now, and manager of Suntrip Records Dreamer Israel Ben Benoît Ory 21 Rennes France Still very much involved in the French scene Chaitu India Ktaadn Scott Kanov USA Globalsteez Scotland Mascok Israel Psytrancer England Gizmo Poland Jannis Jannis Tzikas 17 Stockholm Sweden Known as the artist "Filteria" now Freak51 Canada Implant Yugoslavia Gustav Gustav Sindler Sweden Smg Mikko Itkonen Finland Baboon Sweden Deathposture Martin Moller 17/06/2000 Aalborg Denmark Still a moderator of Psynews Psylent Buddhi Denmark Acidhive Netherlands Tristan Israel Jeto Jeto India Mahoney Sweden Stormbringer Sweden Insejn Andreas Hulte Sweden Was a moderator on Psynews, and even co-admin for a couple of years Rx7style Canada Genetix Macedonian Some of them are still active in the Psy scene The site also contained various sections such as a long definition of "what is Goa Trance", detailed information about the main groups on the Goa scene, a list of forthcoming releases, the members' favourites tracks and albums, artist interviews, external links about Goa and psytrance, addresses of psy-shops around the world and upcoming parties. Since the site was built in pure HTML, Children had to update it on a daily basis with all the reviews and information he would receive every day, and soon 500 very detailed reviews were online. The site went through a period of rapid growth and became a reference of internet resources regarding Psychedelic Trance music. The determinant meetingOn April 22nd 2000, a big party involving Infected Mushroom, Talamasca and DJ Dédé took place in Paris. Several goatrance.free.fr members decided to meet up at Place d'Italie, Paris before going to the party. Those present were: Children, Ubik, Tequila, Mars from Paris, Anoebis from Belgium, Guy and Daniele from the UK, Infected Max and some other friends from Bordeaux. They had never met in real life before except for Mars who knew Infected Max as they were both from Bordeaux. Everyone enjoyed the party and that night some very strong connections were made between them. Most of these people are still in touch with each other or have since met up again. Daniele died a few months later but Anoebis and Mars met Guy again in London in 2003. Children Daniele & Guy Coulson + Infected Max Left: Children / Middle: Mars / Right: Anoebis Since then, the largest meeting of Psynews members was during the Twisted Records 10th birthday party in London in October 2006. Subsequently, Mars (who was taking computer science courses) asked Children if he could help him in programming some parts of the site. The site was a reworked a little and became more dynamic. On May 20th 2000, Anoebis and Mars met again in Belgium for another party, and in the following months Children, Ubik, Tequila, and Mars partied together regularly. goatrance.free.fr members attending some foggy festival From a hobby to the establishment of a communityBy September 2000, Children and Mars were aware the site was gaining more and more users and wanted to make it look less amateurish and enable people to communicate more easily. They also wanted to broaden its audience since "Goatrance" sounded too restrictive, and Psychedelic musicc in general were the real focus of the site. At the same time Children wanted to stay as independent as possible so as not to influence thecontent of some reviews, and didn't like the idea of putting advertisements on the site to finance better hosting, as he was still a student and couldn't afford it. However solutions were found and the domain psynews.org was bought by Mars on the September 22nd, and the site moved to a homemade server running on Mars' DSL line, in his wardrobe at the 5 rue Michal, Paris XIII. It stayed there until March 18th 2003. To the site was added a decent forum, which boosted its growth and concentrated more information than ever. It passed 500 hits/day after 1 year of existence, which was quite high for the small Goa Trance scene. The first year of forum activity was deleted by Children one day when he tried to save some disk space, so the forum archives only go back to November 23rd 2001. In August 2001, Psytrance music had completely switched from melodic to minimal and motivated by some members, Children started a "contest", giving 3 months for unknown music artists to submit their tracks before a jury would vote and establish a compilation tracklist, the idea being to release the music as a free online compilation. The results were way beyond his expectations as 185 tracks were submitted and so many were so good that a double-CD tracklist was established: CD 1 1. 05'51" Neurotoxin : For Red (Russia) 2. 08'26" Psychopat : Spiral Landing (France) 3. 07'29" De-Fect : Bouncing Shrooms And Giggleing Gnomes (Sweden) 4. 11'53" Andromeda : Amiga (Poland) 5. 07'42" Synsun : TNC 2001 (Ukraine) 6. 08'42" Asura : System Babel (Code Eternity Rmx) (France) 7. 09'14" Artha : Controlled (Poland) 8. 10'54" Epsilon : Cosmic Vortex (Creepy Mix) (Finland) CD 2 1. 08'25" Promon : Throbbing Hobbits (Sweden) 2. 08'02" The Bastard : Crispy Crunchy Buffet Beast (USA) 3. 09'26" De-Fect : Germs, Germs, Psychedelic Germs (Sweden) 4. 07'16" Amygdala : Synaptic Misfire (Denmark) 5. 08'15" Synsun : Replycant (Ukraine) 6. 07'45" Vax : Protoplasma (Ukraine) 7. 08'20" Agalactia : Awkward Lightrate (Israel) 8. 07'16" Torakka : Greasy Fingers (Finland) 9. 04'42" Solstice : Ricochet (England) It was then that a new Italian label called "Inpsyde Media" became interested in starting their releases with this compilation and Valerio, its owner, convinced Children to release a selection of 10 of these tracks under the name "Psychedelic Sparks" in late 2001. The inlay described the idea behind Psynews and the contest. The remaining tracks of the initial selection were offered for free. Artists such as Asura, Synsun/Vax and Promon were later to release full length albums, and many of these artists are still active. In mid-2001, Children found maintaining the site to be too much work and joined with Ubik and Mars to specify a new system that would be more automated. Development was started in PHP but was never completed. Even after Children left Psynews, Mars tried several times to restart the development of what might become the new Psynews using Java Enterprise technologies, and still hopes to release it one day. Between February and May 2002, a second contest was held. A CD called "Another Demention" was scheduled to be released, but Inpsyde Media finally cancelled it. The tracklist was : CD 1 1. 08'23" Kinich Ahau : The 3rd Spiral (Luxembourg/Israel/Mexico) 2. 08'11" Agalactia And 5Meo-Geo : Ficus (Israel) 3. 06'41" Sienis : Rubbabong (Sweden) 4. 09'50" Moai : Chimera (France/Sweden) 5. 10'17" Sneila : Flying Objects Always Reach The Ground (Romania) 6. 10'28" Artha : Mahabharta (Poland) 7. 10'15" Ethereal Phaze : Liquid Blue Vision (Sweden) 8. 14'40" Prosect : Invasion (Israel) CD 2 1. 10'59" Spiralgeist : Mean And Mean (Germany) 2. 06'58" Masada : Bhongo Bhonged (Sweden) 3. 08'14" Amygdala : Proprioception Malfunction (Denmark) 4. 06'41" Spiralix : Spirit Guide (???) 5. 08'22" Alien Noise : 604 Maniacs (Romania/Germany) 6. 09'07" Chiron : Ice Age (???) 7. 10'17" Ethereal : Fireflies (Sweden) 8. 08'47" Khetzal : Narayana (???) 9. 10'15" Vax : Tataria (Ukraine) Again, several of these artists made their way onto the Psy scene: Ethereal, Prosect and Khetzal released full length albums; Sienis and Sneila performned many times, and Moaï is still active under another name. In mid 2002, the site had an extraordinary base of daily visitors, up to 2800/day. Children and Mars were interviewed by a Canadian newspaper and Psynews sponsored the Samothraki psytrance festival. This period is considered as the most prolific for the site, and gained it the most recognition. Several investors tried to buy the site but Children always insisted on his independence and declined their offers. Psynews was actually one of the very first collaborative online spaces. The PartyPsynews still had one more thing to achieve: A party. On december 2001, Anoebis (who had by then started DJing and had already organized parties in Belgium) met Mars again, and they thought seriously about throwing a "Psynews party". They met again several times during spring 2002, searched for a good party place, and the date was finally set for June 29th 2002. Although both organizers were very inexperienced, they did their best and put all their savings into the event, to the extent that the "Psynews Summer Launch" became a huge project with a €10000 budget involving live sets from ToiDoi (FR), PsySide (FR), and Indidginus (UK), and DJ performances from Roopak (Procyon Recs, India), Colin from OOOD (UK), Bor (NL), Las 22 (FR), Janua + Psyonic (BE), Tohm (BE), Psilo (BE), and Anoebis (BE). It took place in Hangar 29 of the port of Antwerp after its original location, Azelhof, was closed down by the police just one week before the event. Children, who had not really participated in the organization, was there, and he met the Inpsyde Media crew and other Psytrance related people who had come especially for the party. The event was a huge success and is still regarded as one of the best Goa parties ever to take place in Belgium. Bor, ?, Las22, Lizzy, Children, Anoebis Indidginus and Colin OOOD Psyside Party people having a good time Mars and Anoebis holding the bar It's 1 PM, people are still there ! From a passion to a priesthoodDuring the autumn of 2002, it became more and more difficult for Children to update the site on a regular basis, so he started doing it on a weekly basis. The forum kept on growing and its members brought their own psy-news anyway. Members such as Basilisk, Otto Matta, Anoebis, Deathposture, Shaft, Overdose, Matt Strumpling, SlidingTrancer, Moondancer, and many others added their regular more-or-less-serious tribute to the Psy movement, and set the path to what Psynews has now become. On March 2003, the server moved with Mars to its new apartment, in the basement of 37 rue Perrot, Malakoff, south of Paris. This place was also the HQ of Suntrip Records from mid-2004 to mid-2007. On September 23rd 2003, Children and Mars met for the last time. They had decided to improve Psynews, which ha become harder and harder to maintain and keep online. They decide on a list of actions which were never accomplished as Children simply vanished a few days later. He would answer neither his phone nor email. No-one knows what happened. Some say Psynews drained him of too much of his time and energy and he had to leave, others say he founded a family and felt guilty to leaving, whilst yet others say he died. However In mid-2005, Mars called his cellphone and heard on the voicemail message a woman's voice saying "Christophe can't answer you at the moment but you may leave a message", to which he never replied, but which gave a few clues about Children's whereabouts. The forum EraMars was therefore left alone with the server. However his work was too stressful to leave enough time to update the site, all the more as he had by then started releasing music as "Suntrip Records" in association with Anoebis, so he retained the original menu on the Psynews homepage (which lead to the existing content) and replaced the rest of the homepage with the forum. And the site kept on growing by itself, thanks to its forum members. (Here some gossip is missing about all the dramas and moderation stuff that happened) On November 24th 2005, Psynews was attacked and much of its database destroyed, its old code being too vulnerable. All former content was then removed, a backup of the forum restored, and the forum became the one and only source of information on the site. New rules were written to bring back peace to the site which had become quite anarchic, and 7 permanent moderators set watching over the site from a private forum called "The Moderatorium". A new startIn 2006 the forum was locked for a short time whilst Insejn, Deathposture and Mars spent several days moving all the original content ; mainly reviews and interviews - to specific subforums, after which people were allowed to post new reviews and interviews again. Because he didn't want to have too many interactions between Psynews and Suntrip, and because he had no time for daily moderation, Mars also resigned from his moderator seat and is now only taking care of the server maintenance, and trying to develop a newer version of the site on his free time. In April 2007, Mars moved to Belgium. DSL lines being capped there, Skytrancer agreed to host the server at his place in Paris XIII, 300 meters from where it all started. Mars would take care of it remotely. However the machine became unstable and the site had to move again in September 2007. It's now hosted on the same dedicated server as http://www.psysurfeur.com, another site dealing with Psychedelic Trance which delivers party and festival videos from throughout the world. In September and October 2008, the server went through two hacks, one requiring the complete OS & filesystem reinstall. The "Off-Topic" forum, known to be a source of great fun, turmoil...and tensions, was suspected to be at the root cause of this grudge against Psynews and was definitely closed. In October 2008, Children reappeared as well [and I hope he will post here to tell more]. Psynews now has a collection of approximately 40 forums and subforums, more than 3000 album reviews, 100 interviews and 10000 subscribed members. As of November 2007 it was read by 3000 visitors on a daily basis.

Hello After seeing pinned topics here and there were growing, we put them in this dedicated forum. Basically: what is Psyrance, its whereabouts, some interesting articles, the forum rules, etc. For example, some very interesting topic in the General forum can "escalate" here. Members can only reply to topics and should ask the moderators to open new topics. It may change in the near future. We'll reorder and clean up the different forums in a short while to fill up this one.

Dragontales, definitely

Why not be positive and tell yourself: "OK with Psytrance downfall, Progressive artists have already moved to House music. Too bad. Also, Eskimo, Skazi and all the fullon bodybuilders and dark pornstars are gonna move to more lucrative businesses...and hopefully leave the movement -the ruins of it, but still- to the original psychedelic melodic lovers". I'd love that idea. But I'm not sure it will happen that way. I watched some Japanese festival DVD from 2006 the other day, with Void, Dali, Melicia's sister, Skazi, Eskimo, etc, singing and pretending to play. It was so sad, I thought, this was not the movement I used to know, it had become an overrated corner of dance-pop music. I suddenly had the feeling Psytrance had been squeezed to the bone during 5 years, to the extent thousands of japanese would believe that this buffoonery of a festival was actually about Psytrance. And in retrospect of the year 2007 with all the dark music that was released, I had the feeling that the fullon dobybuilders had indeed (!) at last (!) definitely left the scene...but left it to a horde or dark dorks, disfiguring Psytrance even harder. I'm serious here, having received all kinds of promos for years, the Dark stuff has been here for long time, but everyone would consider it like the toxic residue of Psytrance, the sum of all artists that didn't even know how to make proper full on, and now the remainder of the division of the movement. I'm not even talking about the drug abuse I've seen in the last parties I've been. From a LSD generation, to a XTC generation to a Speed generation, I sympathize with nowadays DJs that make colorless kids on cheap drugs, dance on cheap music. I'm not even talking about the number of fucked up festivals there were last year. How serious is that ? Dull, sticky and dirty. That's how Psytrance is now. I guess my point of view is close to Psyreviews and PsyDB owners'. Like me they wonder "what can possibly come after the dark wave ?". The next step is Trancecore but it died a long time ago already ! If the dark wave dies (and there's already a lot less releases than last year), the audience will not know where to look at, they will be too young to know Goatrance and will think it's more their parents' music, outdated and by definitition not interesting. And there's nothing left. Now if you guys want Psytrance to live, you better stand up and fight. You have maximum 2 years to change the movement's face. Make websites, make original great music, give a cleaner view of the movement. Stand up for it ! Or it will be too late.

Nevertheless another psytrance actor/promoter bites the dust. And from PsyDB stats projections, you can guess that other actor feelings too... Sad, sad, sad.

good answer StraydoG, also Talamasca is a good idea. Speaking for myself, if you ask for some melodic stuff, have a look on http://www.suntriprecords.com

Next time I see such shit in the General, one of the fighters will leave without further explanation.