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Wild Palms is a six-hour mini-series, which first aired in May 1993 on the ABC network in the United States. Written by Bruce Wagner, who (with Oliver Stone) was also the executive producer, Wild Palms was a sci-fi drama about the dangers of brainwashing through technology and drugs. It was based on a comic strip written by Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. The mini-series starred James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, and Angie Dickinson. The episodes were directed by four people known more for their feature films: Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon, Peter Hewitt, and Phil Joanou. Cyberpunk author William Gibson has a cameo appearance as himself. When the author of Neuromancer is introduced as the man who invented the term "Cyberspace", he remarks, "and they won't let me forget it." Oliver Stone also has a cameo, in which he appears as himself - being interviewed on television in 2007 - after the release of files pertinent to the assassination of John F. Kennedy reveal that Stone's film, JFK, was right. Stone also referred to "the late Jack Valenti" in the scene in the 1992 movie. Stone hired musician, body-modification pioneer, and occultist Genesis P-Orridge as a consultant for the series.

A couple of Cyberpunk titles have already been mentioned (Akira, Ghost In The Shell etc) but here's a couple more for those who want to dig a bit deeper. Live Action Cybertracker Death Powder Gunhed Johnny Mnemonic Nemesis Nirvana Runaway Trancers Animation AD Police Angelcop Battle Angel Bubblegum Crisis Cyber City Oedo Goku: The Midnight Eye Patlabor I & II Wicked City I film I'd really like to recommend everybody is Spår I Mörker (Trails In Dark). http://technoeroticism.blogspot.com/2010/12/beck-spar-i-morker-aka-trails-in-dark.html

Films 1984 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Alien Altered States Akira Spår I Mörker (Beck) Blade Runner Brazil Dune - Seriously Escape From New York Fantastic Planet (Laloux's other films are also worth checking out) Fantastic Voyage Flash Gordon Ghost In The Shell Hardware Mad Max & The Road Warrior Metroplis Naked Lunch On The Silver Globe Organ Robocop Rubber's Lover Solaris Stalker Tetsuo: The Iron Man Tetsuo II: Body Hammer The Element of Crime The Fly The Terminator The Thing They Live! Total Recall Videodrome World On A Wire Series Aeon Flux Max Headroom Wild Palms Not really #1 favorites, but the following Michael Crichton films are pretty good: The Andromeda Strain, Looker & Coma. Films I haven't seen yet A Boy and His Dog (vises i Videodromen d. 8 December) Alphaville Dark Star Demon Seed Fahrenheit 451 La Jetee Logan's Run Outland Seconds Silent Running Slaughterhouse-Five Soylent Green The Boys from Brazil The Man Who Fell to Earth The Omega Man THX 1138 Westworld Not to mention all the old USSR Science Fiction films Corman used sfx sequences from.

I haven't been signed in for months and you guys are still talking about this album? I wonder if the final product will deserve such dedication.

Has it always been this slow at Psynews?

I was in contact with Andrea (Florian?) not too long ago because I wanted to release an album with a certain danish artist. She told that Wirikuta's Japanese department was declared bankrupt and that they couldn't make any new deals right now. I'm still ordering CD's from them on the regular and they have great service. But I'm not sure how long they will be able to hold the ship above the water. We'll see... The Psy scene is going through an all-time low right now. Goa/Psy was selling like warm bread back in the late 90'es. Label's didn't have to care about stuff like branding (or quality for that matter). It's different now. Why can some underground Death Metal band move 10.000 copies when a Goa artist can't move 500? That's probably because Extreme Metal always was a hard-to-sell product. You really had to learn all the tricks of the trade to be able to sell it. Both the label's and the artists of the Metal scene have become experts at it. Maybe it's time for the Trance scene to grow the fuck up and realize that times have changed.

My old man took this photo today

Check Wirikuta. They have it for sale.

The most recent release I can remember is Minimal Criminal's album. Anyone who has heard it?

All original first pressings. Everything from Brutal Death Grind to old school Possessed-influenced Death/Thrash and SweDeath. It really sucks that you lost most of your CD's that way. Luckily most of the classics are available as re-releases these days (if you don't care about pressings).

Both albums are officially distributed through Wirikuta. So anyone interested should be able to buy both Sustentator and Psyring Test from them.

That would be super cool. You are totally welcome. I don't think I know anyone named Schwartz though.

They are rather different. I haven't been able to get into Sustentator yet. Psyring Test is a little more techno'ish and classically-inspired. With symphonic samples. It works pretty well actually.

Technologic got really hyped when it first came out. I recently bought it together with Sustentator and Psyring Test, but I don't know how to feel about it. Is it just me or is the production kinda muddy and flat? Ps. How do you people feel about Gilles Coia's later stuff?

Peep show over

Welcome! Awesome with another Metal fan. Here is a picture of a friend of mine looking at some of my Death Metal CD's:

Mine:

Discogs is obviously much smarter and easier to use.

More Beksinski Vania Zouravliov

Anyone using this site? http://www.pop.nu

Seems like the interest in trance on the net is hitting an all-time low these days or was it always like that? There must be a ton of inactive users.

Listening to Emmanuel Top. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZsoXhuEMc

Anyone into this guy and his music? 1.50 = EPIC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQJAAALhC78&feature=related

I recently fell in love with Planet BEN's deep & banging second album "Silver" and I wan't more. Atmos split with Echö Lab is of course mandatory. Could you people recommend me some CD's to get?

Anyone here into graf? http://saberone.com/ is my own personal all-time favorite.