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Hello everyone ! Twist Dreams will be released on January 26th in your usual shop. So we have received our stock of it, and it's sweet !!! No misprint this time, braincandy music...aaah We'll be taking orders for it from january 22nd, get prepared, dear Goafans ! Check http://www.suntriprecords.com/pages/releases/SUNCD06/ for some extracts !

I'll buy it, no doubt

I like this album a lot, although I think the begining is nicer than the end. Some tracks are really twisted and/or banging. On headphones or personal stereo it may sound too boom-boom-esque but on a big sound system it kicks major ass ! 7/10

http://blueorb.wordpress.com/2006/08/08/13/ by courtesy of the author

How can you say Filterias music does not identify itself ? After 1 minute you can hear its a Filteria, whetever you like it or not. Compare it to typical boring FullOn : overused overrepeating breaks & tweaks. THIS definitely does not identify itself. If you knew how much effort Jannis puts in the tracks and how many hours he sits with the music recording the same track over and over till he gets the perfect melody, mixing, arrangement, if you knew that, you wouldn't be calling it soulless. Ok, you don't like it, fine, but to say soulless is not true... Who other artist can say he live-remixes evey track 20 times for the audience, for every live act ?? He lives for the audience !! Etnica wannabe ? Oh my, if you'd heard him play since mid-2005, you'd know he's going his own directions totally freely. If you'd seen the answer of the crowd lately, you'd say this guy truly is a soul-connector. Let me propose you something: listen to the music.

A very interesting interview of the King of modern GoaTrance. Check it out : http://www.fullonline.net/archives/2006/12/filteria.html by courtesy of the author

After 2 years, i agree it still kicks major ass. He just got an interview here : http://www.fullonline.net/archives/2006/12/filteria.html

Ok seraph, it was a test to see the space taken, but you're right imo. We'll have to do something about these 15 forums anyway, but i have plans. About the rest, YES there are obviously bugs, but apart from the on,es running the betas already, we were amongst the first to install Invision Board 2.2.0 in the world...the new captcha and admin section will prevent spam and provide better management, but we'll have to face with the unavoidable '"launch bugs".

The logo hasn't changed. I had to rebuild the whole skin set as it was destroyed with the upgrade. As for the black hole...errrr....can anyone tell me how it looked like before ? No, I can't remember

Hi Thanks for your patience during the 10-hour downtime today due to a massive forum upgrade. We jumped from v2.0.3 to v2.1.7 of IPB. For your information, we have now a LEGIT version of Invision Power Board, lifetime license, with all upgrades Please thank the mods who contributed to this purchase. The forums will be upgraded to the v2.2.0 when the version is available (tomorrow maybe) but this will be short this time (or so i hope). Meanwhile, if you notice any glitches, please report them here.

Some people have reported visual problems, i have them too, so i'd like to know how many of you are affected before i can try to fix it. Thx.

I can't tell the composition date, obviously 97 as Pleiadians weren't playing it live in 96. There is a live version that's different from the released one, but no many people have it, or even heard it.

This is actually a play on words : Sweet Dreams >> Twist Dreams....get it ? I found it during Transwave's live act in Paris a few weeks ago. I thought the play was obvious. Seems not. SO is it really too Engrish ? Could a real anglosaxon tell us about it ?

I share Cinos' point. Nowadays' Goa producers are really good, can renew, and share !

Thanks all of you for this ! I'm in Madrid now....adressing my "keynote" (huhu) tomorrow morning for some boring "project kick off", then scavenging begins (tatataaaaan)

Actually the travel section was created for hitch hikers and travellers of all sorts to find rides and friends

Hi I'm going to Madrid for my work next week and i'd like to see what psy shops or second hand shops i could visit Also directions for cool places are appreciated too Gracias thx

OD, this was a joke, right ?

The Psynews server has no backup power genrator, and the machine is quite old. Like Nemo described, little power variations can alter some components, and if the HD is writing at the moment it occurs, then the data may be corrupted. And what does the psynews server do 99% of the time ? Write on the HD all your posts !!!

We're definitely gonna support this one !!! September 16th 2006 After the Parade, Gaia Concept presents : Password is Love Live-Acts : Transwave :: Best of compilation, coming soon : "backFire" :: Ibiza Absolum :: 3d Vision :: Ibiza Triptych :: coming soon : "treturned" :: turbo trance Psychedelik Trance Dj's: Senix :: turbo trance :: France Dado :: Deedrah :: Spun rds :: Ibiza Ninja :: gaia concept :: France Deco: gansedoline - Germany Zerian show: compagnie Saoufet - France Location : Cabaret Sauvage, Paris at the door: 25 euros | presales: 20 euros | Techno import & Fnac www.spunrecords.org www.deedrah.com www.3dvisionrecords.com www.turbotrance.com www.gansoline.de www.codamag.com

Hello After this big storm yesterday evening, the server crashed and some database tables were corrupted. It took the whole night and this morning to check and fix everything. I just restarted all, seems everything is going fine. Enjoy !

I'm going there too ! See you on the dancefloor !!!

[sideeffect aked me to post this one here] KAIROO RECORDS Lani : The Reincarnation of Jhonny Looloo (CD) 1. The Reincarnation - A New Frontier 2. Silverbox 3. Ultraworld 4. Lost In Venice 5. The Seventh Sister 6. Lana's dream 7. Different Colour (Lani rmx) 8. The Waspdance 9. Destination sorry for the bit long review but it just came, couldn't help it, but I made an appointment with my doctor tomorrow so let's hope they have medecine against long reviews (to be honest I shorted him LOL, this the short version, shit, well if you don't like long reviews, just only read the general, most important info is written there...) GENERAL: This is it, the second release of our Belgian artist lani, their debut album was for me a blast, not because it was Belgian (I don’t like Belgian goa people so, kidding ), I just like happy melodies and that is like the main mark of lani… I always say releasing a debut album is one thing but creating a second one and still keep your fans or create new ones is also a big challenge, Well my imo is lani succeeded that with their second album, I think the debut fans will still find the same satisfaction they got with the debut album and new fans who maybe experienced lani as a bit to cheesy or overloaded will maybe change their opinions hearing this one, Well reviewing a second album is always nice cause you can compare how the artists are evolved, in which direction, what has changed ? those descriptions are often more objective minded… So what changed or did not ? Lani is still pure morning fullon, lots of artist are categorized as morning fullon but this is actually pure morning… lani provides you happy melodies, motivating baselines, this is 100% psychedelic trance when the sun is shining high at an open air festival… Comparing to their first album lani uses less layers this time, consequence is that the atmosphere is more subtle and advancement is more at front… at their first album you had sometimes full climaxes and waves at 2 minutes but now lani likes to keep it more under the surface, the advancement is more a bit surfing on the morning sounds, who speak more and level ups the psychedelic percentage… The typical spirals are a bit gone and more synths are used in this one… Off course lani is famous for their powerful guitar riffs and yes again in this album you will be satisfied, in the first album the guitar riffs reminded me more of skazi, talamasca, now they remind me of sun project, but not the new sun project, the old skool sun project we all went crazy on like ‘dances of the witches’, out of my brain, 380 volt haaaaaa , what remarkable changed is the power of the bass lines and the speed, the factor bass line has become more important but I must say they managed to create a good drive together with those morning sounds… And what is still present and I’m very glad, lani kept there detail for intro’s and outro’s, a basic element of goatrance that like suddenly disappeared and it’s super great to experience it again. Artist who like just directly use the baseline after the 10th second and end there climaxes in 2seconds give me the feeling it’s more routine trance and less thought trough, this is totally not the case here, each track has been thought through and smoothly and very friendly you enter each track, small, tiny and humble psychedelic sounds who introduce and subtle keep you floating after a climax has entered your speakers so you can still dream on a for a little bit… Well that main mark of old skool (which I like a lot) is one of the marks who made it possible that you had the feeling the trance songs were like telling a story and well this is a big imo but I like totally kick on that concept, that is what I like, if an artist reaches that certain level I believe they actually totally have control and idea what psychedelic trance is , goa, fullon name it what you want is about, ok that’s a very subjective expression influenced on the fact I kick on the telling trance concept so… but writing objective reviews is almost impossible and boring  so general lani keeps you busy all the time, using the baseline, then again just pure the atmosphere and off course the synths, guitar riffs and waves… Now some more detailed marks on each tracks, I won’t review every track in detail cause my general is like so detailed I would be repeating myself and reading this review would go direction boring… at each track I will just write a few lines what makes that track different from the others and the rest you just combine with the general… If you are unable do that just follow a goa lessons in India, goa gil is giving them for free and yés it’s allowed to touch him (before I get 100 pm’s) 1.lani – a new frontier well as first track the intro is amazing, pure subtle, not direct satisfaction and not revealing all their secrets but still giving an idea which direction this album is going to take off… 2.lani – silverbox this one provides us one hell of a motivating baseline, the drive is balanced and very good presented, the first guitar riffs are being used, again not as climax but subtle advancement style and then BAM full guitar climax , combination of two kind of sort of guitar riffs proves they actually are able to play guitar very good and not just some simple riffs like many morning fullon artist use but actual solo combinations… 3.lani – ultraworld to be lani the bass line enters very quickly, announced subtle off course, don’t forget the general !!! , for the rest this track is pure like I described in general, it’s lani style but hasn’t got any differences, just the general lani stuff, what is good for me imo, contrast has to be made in an album, if all tracks are super good the end conclusion is that it’s just good cause there’s nothing to compare with, this track is more a time to breath a bit 4.lani – lost in Venice hold on your buts cause to me this is like THE lani track ever, it’s already been released on EP so some will already know it… the drive is extremely motivating and has a funky touch comparing to their other drives… the women voice samples singing in the advancement makes you smile big time, well it make me smile, if it doesn’t make you smile, go see a shrink (kidding), the Latino guitars are perfectly subtle used together with guitar riffs, this is pure joy and a pleasure to predict, the full wave reminds me of old skool times and the crystal clearness of the sounds caresses my ears… this is very uplifting, extremely uplifting, how do you call that on isratrance, oh yeah I remember ‘ a dance floor killer’, lani keeps on playing with the sounds over and over and giving you the feeling they perfectly know what they are doing, what is nice, everything fits at the right place and each sound comes and goes when it has to be, the drive isn’t that straight anymore but goes up and down with the melodies and sounds what is typical for artist like audiotec, lamat ananda shake etc 5.lani – the seventh star this is a bit of a surprise, direct baseline but then again after 2 seconds a morning tune arrives and the atmosphere goes from 0% to 100%, pure proof goa hasn’t always to be complicated to be good, the main synths used in this track is less attractive comparing to the rest of the cd, but that pure goatrance sound following is absolutely welcome , they use that typical 1200 mics whiiiiiiiiii to announce there climaxes which is nice but not the entire cd, but they don’t so pretty good, the reformed voice speaking is well done, not the typical hallucinogen/infected women singing stuff we heard a thousand times before…. 6.lani – lana’s dream the intro is a guitar solo which reminds me of mystica (what is like a very good artist to referent too, mystica rules ), the bass lines is again more straight and full power… again guitar riffs but we have heard them before already but the solo is different what makes it nice…. I think this track has the hardest guitar climax until now, short but pure power…. 7.lani – different colour (lani rmx) the intro reminds me of infected mushroom, don’t have to describe that I think we all have an idea what that means, if you don’t, go sit in the corner for 30 minutes and write down ‘I will listen to classical mushroom ever day for a whole month !!!!, this baseline is tuff to be lani, a bit macho, not to fast but deep… the atmosphere is still morning but has some slight creepy morning touch cause they use violins, and violins always have that effect on me (so subjective 100 percent), I don’t know but this track is so different, hard to describe, it’s like created to reach a certain emotion, totally not focused on being fast or super melodic, but it sure does tell a story… 8.lani – the wascp dance this baseline is the most typical fullon baseline we all have heard a thousand times and has been copycat, but for one track I don’t mind, it’s THE typical morning fullon baseline used by many artist, the pattern is very simple and repeating, also the psy sounds are so it all does fit together, they know how to reform their sounds by putting another baseline… this track doesn’t speaks to me, the solo at the end is good but it’s a bit too late, I had to wait to long, but what the heck with all the fullon coming out these days as a home listener you get spoiled imo… 9.lani – destination no ambient track as last track, good, if I want to listen to ambient I’ll put an ambient cd in my player never got that concept… this track is a bit floating out, ending the release… but still motivating… I have the feeling this is the end but heeeeeel no at 4th minute a super smooth wave enters my world coming bigger, bigger, bigger, BIGGER and reminds me it’s middle of the night and my stereo is way to loud for this hour, what the heck is the last track, the end wave is a bit an end surprise and is very good, simple but unexpected what makes it so good… as usual lani doesn’t stop suddenly but smoothly surfs out the track enjoying the last sound… end conclusion: I have to admit the first time I heard it as a big fan of their debut album I was like noooo, they changed direction and after all this years I’m still that stupid to think an artist will release the same concept, off course not, like super boring for the artist creating the same patterns and loops over and over again, so I had to deal with the fact, high expectations on a certain level of satisfaction but not getting it, so I went back to zero and gave the album after a week a second change with no expectations anymore, and it’s good, I prefer subtle trance and this more subtle comparing to their debut album, the fact that they used sun project minded guitar riffs is nice if you were a big fan of them when they released their first tracks… End note: the same note I always say, if you don’t like the lani sound this cd won’t satisfy you, but that counts for like any goa cd ever released so, if you don’t like some cheesy morning sounds, this is not your style, but I like cheesy, my first artist were mfg, astral projection, one man game/mystica and etc and that’s cheesy, it’s nice if goa makes you smile and that I guarantee lani offers you 100%... So if you wanna smile this is the one, if you don’t want to smile, hahaha then you’ve got a problem (kidding) enough written, not rating, don’t do that anymore, this review is highly subjective cause I like the concept a lot, it could be more objective but pfffff why do that if words pup into my head and just float down my finger, keep up the good work lani, you have the technieque, just keep creative like you are being now and have a good time all the time

I heard the preview of a new track, and...OMG ! If Filteria was "the Force", then KoB is probably "the dark side of the Force" !

Artist: Cosmosis (Bill Halsey) Date: ??? By: Run Lola Q: Bill, you've been in the psychedelic trance scene for over a decade, how did you bump into psychedelic trance? A: In the mid to late 80's and early 90's I was working as a guitarist in different bands and though I was playing gigs two or three, sometimes four times a week I wasn't exposed to dance music culture (or Raves as they was called at the time) at all. I had become aware of Rave culture through the reactionary headlines of the Tabloid newspapers and I had earmarked it as something to check out at a later date. Something which caused that much moral outrage was bound to be fun ... I got my chance sometime in 1991 when a friend of mine suggested that I come to a club in London's Victoria that he had been going to lately called SE 1. I had many insights that night and my musical world has never been quite the same since. One thing in particular that I remember discovering and seeing clearly was that to date my approach to writing and creating music had been very conservative and hopelessly out of date and here was a completely new and powerful form of music which used new technology - at the time Atari computers, early digital synths (like the Korg M1) and samplers to open up totally soundscapes previously unheard. That was just listening the House and early Techno music they played in that club that night, Psy Trance ( Goa Trance ) did not yet exist. That was my introduction to dance music in general. From then on I switched to making dance music in my own studio - the next morning in fact and finished by evening because I was so inspired. My introduction to Goa Trance came a little later later when my brother played me an early Dragonfly Records compilation Jouneys Into Trance by Paul Oakenfold which contained some tracks which the early precursor to Goa Trance. Soon after a mutual (House) DJ friend introduced Jez Van Kampen and I to each other because he said we were both interested in making the same weird music. Jez, it later turned out had a small collection of early Dragonfly vinyls - which must have been about half of everything that Dragonly had released at that time, Jez also had a small collection of 2nd or 3rd generation, tape to tape hissy cassette mixtapes of Goa Trance, one of which was by a new Japanese DJ called Tsuyoshi. All in all his collection amounted to a goldmine of this new, fascinating underground music that was so deep underground that it was almost impossible to find. Q: 5 full albums, and over 30 tracks releases on compilations, what next? Do you consider staying in, or stopping for a while and maybe do something different? A: I believe the figure is tracks on over 90 different compilations from the last count, not including the tracks I have released as Mumbo Jumbo. Also it would be six artist albums including the one with Mitch as Mumbo Jumbo, which will total seven albums once I release the new Cosmosis album in a couple of months time. So yes, looking back I suppose I have released quite a bit of music over the last or eleven years. I don't consider doing anything else other than making music as it is my art and profession. It's also an important part of who I am as a being. I have a need to create. I wrote and recorded with Hip Hop, acid Jazz, Blues Rock and Funk Pop projects way before I got into making purely electronic music. I still enjoy all aspects, particularly composition too much to think about doing something else. Though at times I have been involved in making other styles of music for some (minor) DVD releases and done some paid studio work mixing in 5.1 surround, but still things that are obviously music related. I find creating music satisfiying like no other occupation that I have tried.. I take this to be an indicator of my path in life. Q: You are definitely one of the pioneers in psychedelic trance, but it's clear to everyone that the quality of current releases has changed (some call it evolution), do you feel today you are still producing the music that you like, or that you MUST produce. A: I guess from today's standpoint some see Cosmosis as a pioneer of Psy-Trance. From the point of view of Jez and I back in the days when we were making the first album Cosmology and the previous early releases, we were just trying to re-capture a similar vibe and feeling as some of this exciting new, alien sounding, otherworldly music that we had just discovered and that we were completely into. For sure I still produce the music that I like, because I find it impossible make music that I don't like. In the past, on occasion I have tried to make music to fit into a category for the sake of money. I was never able to make it work. I do think that it would be nice to break out of the Trance paradigm with it's narrow tempo range and restricted rhythmic structure and to create a whole journeyesque album exploring some non-rhythmic electronic soundscapes, which would offer a whole lot more creative freedom. But I always seem to need some nice new pumping tunes for my live sets, so to date, the idea of making an album of non-trance keeps getting put on the backburner. Maybe I will get around to that particular project after the next album is released. Also, having to produce music is not necessarily a bad thing. Given that I am pretty relaxed by nature and am my own boss, I regard anything that I can use as a spur to get off my arse and force myself to create and hone my art is valid. Whether it is a release deadline, a big upcoming gig that I want to get a track finished for, or a need to strike up some cash to pay the rent, it's all grist for my creative mill. Q: An artist needs a certain inspiration, what inspires you Bill? Artists, other genres of music, or maybe just a mood? A: For me, I draw inspiration from the fact that by making and playing my music, I make a big contribution to people. When I present my Cosmosis material in my live sets, my intention is to give people the opportunity to really let it all go on the dancefloor and completely trancend themselves, to let loose and really enjoy. I strive to help them create profound peak experiences for themselves even if just for a moment. Memories that they may look back on one day and say "I don't have words to describe how utterly fantastic certain parts of that night were." At it's best the whole trance-dance experience can be trancendental. That is to say that one can trancend one's ego personality and connect with the oneness. You touched on moods. For me making trance music is very much about using the sounds to capture a certain vibe and feeling. Not easy to describe in words, but I know it when I hear it. What I aim to do is combinine that special vibe with an irresistable groove that has the power to posseses your body and compels you to dance like a total lunatic - because that is the best damn music that you have ever heard in your life up to that point and it must be expressed physically. Q: Some people consider your first two albums "Cosmology" and "Synergy" to be your best releases, even though you have released 3 other albums, do you agree on that? A: I don't think it would be too much of an exaggeration to say the first two Cosmosis albums contributed to defining the genres of both Goa Trance and Psy-Trance. I think probably mainly by default as there were not that many artists producing artist albums in the early days. When Cosmology was released there were only around five other artist albums available. For sure there were compilations aplenty but artist albums, no. In fact I only remember four other artists that had released an album at that time that Cosmology was released: The Infinity Project, Total Eclipse, Astral Projection and of course Hallucinogen's Twisted. That first album Cosmology which I co-wrote with Jez Van Kampen during 1995, I would say helped to define the sound of Goa Trance, in fact many people cite it as an example of a classic Goa trance album. A little later Jez and I decided to focus on our individual projects; Jez as Laughing Buddha and me as Cosmosis. At that time, I had been on the road touring for a while. I had been playing at (and going ) to a lot of pretty crazy outdoor psychedelic parties in forests, on beaches all over the world. As a consequence I began to explore and focus more on harder edged and more trippy, psychedelic sounds. By the time I had got my studio set up at my new location I was bursting with ideas and itching to get some stuff down. I wrote Synergy during 1997. Judging by what I read about it on the net, many regard it as one of the first classic Psy-Trance albums, and again many use it as a reference point for when Goa trance first morphed into PsyTrance. Do I think that these were the best two Cosmosis albums? I think that they were both excellent albums and still are nice to listen to musically. Perhaps more importantly for me, they both captured the spirit of the time very nicely, like a snapshot of that age. However, times and production values have changed such that the grooves can sound a little polite when played side by side with today's production standard which tends to feature the kik drum much further up in the overall mix. Personally, at the moment, I reckon that Trancendance is my strongest album overall since Synergy. But it's difficult for me to say which is my best album because there seems to be little correlation between what I think is good and what people generally like. A classic example for me would be the track "Howling At The Moon." Many, many people love that track and I get repeated requests to either play it in my sets, or re-release it on cd (it came out on vinyl) But I listen to it today and think to myself "God, what kind of angry mood was I in when I produced that ?" Admittedly, I did set out to capture the spooky mood of primitive and ancient, ritual footstomping in the dead of night in a misty forest under a full moon (and perhaps with a subtext of bloodlust...) But personally I find it just too much to listen to. For the main lines I used aggressive, mettallic sounding FM sounds and combined it with an arrangement is totally full on and relentless. But still, many people love it so.... Q: You worked with artists like Jez Van Kampen, and then Dj Kuma on Mumbo Jumbo, do you enjoy working with other artists, or prefer a solo project? A: I like both approaches because they offer different advantages. When working in the studio with someone else, apart from the obvious advantage of someone else bringing fresh musical ideas to the session, it can be a lot more fun especially when slogging through long editing sessions. Working with another experienced producer (rather than a DJ) is particularly useful because you can take more breaks and swap the two major roles of: 1. driving the sequencer, editing and focussing in on the miniscule details and 2. being responsible for maintaining the overview of the track/keeping the session vibe light and moving forward / tea making responsibilities. On the other hand when working alone there is not the same restriction on time, so I can indulge myself in trying many different ideas before choosing between them. There are also no artistic compromises that need to be made between ideas, so I can express my personal artistic vision more completely. Your music was used in soundtracks and various animations, are you still working on such projects? Not right now. I am focussed on making a new Cosmosis album. Q: So what do you do when you're not busy touring and making music? A: Sit in my garden in a place in the sunshine with a view over the mountains and play the blues on my acoustic guitar. When I am not doing that I read. I also meditate. I wonder how you feel when you play in a party? is it like just a normal day of work for me? after all it is work for you too. Actually, performing onstage is never work for me, never has been. I still get a really big kick out of playing and watching people freaking out enjoying themselves (it can also a good laugh watching people from onstage sometimes : ) On the other hand, hanging around backstage in some dirty club for hours before the party starts, spending hours on crowded long haul flights, and stumbling through multiple airports with severe sleep deprivation can be less than pleasant. All things considered though I consider myself very fortunate to be following my vocation and doing something I love, which is both to make music and be able to travel and share it with an appreciative audience and contribute in some small way to other peoples lives.