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actually it is.. you can't go to a honda shop or to tower records... ok, ok let's make it even... hmm... economically speaking it's not viable to sell wav. files, mastered, and with all that weight for one dollar. It's just not. iTunes is not making any money, it's actually loosing money from 1 dollar mp3 downloads. They make that ching-ching back on the sale of iPods. FLAC helps reduce prices (or at least the bandwith bill, but is not much help). Beatport charging 2 dollars for an mp3 track is a bit ridiculous though. At the end, you DON'T need to have a pricing system based on 1 track = $1 so 10 tracks = 10 dollars.... you know this should be cheaper.... but if you want to get one track, it's difficult to sell cheaper, when you purchase something (anything) via credit card... visa is taking 30-45 cents ($) per transaction alone... so... - can you tell i'm involved in some venture to sell music here?, you'll soon find out muahahah

EvsY - Lords of the Liverdance !

Compilation: Abracadabra Label: Horns & Hoofs Entertainment Web: http://www.hornsandhoofs.com/ CAT: H&HCD006 Sonic-Energy.net: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/278/2/ 01. Mantik - Siu Nim Tao [136] 02. Alic - The Gentle Way Of Mind-Destruction [134] 03. Fuzzion - Black Magic (Live Remix) [135] 04. Metalogic Vs Michael Lawrence - Fabricated [130] 05. Midi Miliz - Model 1 (Epi Centrum Remix One) [134] 06. Fuzzion - Acid Flash (Original Mix) [137] 07. Metalogic Vs. Tao - Through Your Head [130] 08. The Rockitmen - Elephant's Boogie [130] 09. Kino Oko - Beat, Rhythm And Harmony [130] 10. Mass Turbo - Sin Sinati [125] Horns and Hoofs strikes back in direct collaboration with Boshke Beats to bring a roster wholly inspired in Alex Tolstey’s ammunition bank, swirling beats and ideas in a single serving of chocolate pudding they have aptly called Abracadabra. On first glance the roster seems to have skipped a number of notable artists from last year’s IdeaFX, focusing on the core proposals of the Boshke family, to add a few extra names & remixes. The general quality of their releases insist on delivering names that look forward to the techno/electro/psy scene, to explore material that generally stands above ground as benchmark quality. (1) “Siu Nim Tao ” starts things off with the characteristic THX surround sound system test, to get that cinematic feel before things peak in the heavens with this lead and the play of pads, shrieking between your run off-the mill epic moment, that gradually over the course of the whole thing spawns into a powerful, eerie, power-hungry monster. We move forward with some seriously heavy tones that will test the depths of your speakers or kill the tweeter on the try. I’ve been impressed with this one… pretty much since I heard it for the first time on my way from picking up the CD. Arne Liedtke dates back all the way to the first Zenon release something like three years ago. (2) “The gentle way of mind – Destruction ” much like the name indicates is about comfortably slipping into a numbed daze that literally massages its way through with a very slender, PAPS-type of beat. The rest is assorted arpeggios and background noises, eventually breaking in total… destruction -Would be a good word- before the final break takes it all away with melancholy. Intricate, busy chapter full of its own retro-beauty like only Horns & Hoofs delivers. Fuzzion has never been hotter since the release of (3) “Black Magic” earlier this year. What only the Japanese buyers of the album could enjoy, we now all get to hear it. A live remix I was just waiting to get my paws on. To get it out of the way, it’s an improvement from the original, which in retrospect it did feel slightly unadorned was it not for the lingering main theme. More exhaust pipes action & a little more groove. The second number by Vladimir, (6) “Acid Flash ” is all about showing the man has no problem increasing the BPM range a bit to throw down fluid, viscous lines with a more ‘in your face’ quality. There’s a difference from the previous works in the album, in this one he has stopped juggling a delicate – nearly sterile- balance for something ballsier, fitting well in my headphones & on the floor. By now it probably wouldn’t be a Boshke beats release if it didn’t contain something by Metalogic. Fred saw fit to deliver a number of tracks all with invited artists, exploring new sounds with high levels of psychedelia. (4) “Fabricated ” with Michael Lawrence is an all-out delay extravaganza, adding that little extra ‘dizzy-mind’ complex that was missing in the raw, mechanic output of Magnetic Influence. The kick drags itself like a syncopated elephant, mixing the trippy factor without compromising on the musicality. In the seventh chapter, a versus effort with Tao brings what is possibly the catchiest tune in the lot. (7) “Through Your Head ” Comes in from the right and stays inside with a gritty, neo-grunge style as the percussion dabbles with heavy drums to match the sizzle. The remaining hints of electro with the mandatory voice immersed in the vocoder are added just so you won’t get bored. I’ve woken up a couple of times humming this tune in my head. It has a primal quality that spells ‘I just drank two pitchers of lager and I’m ready for a good time’. (8) “Elephants Boogie” is the first released track from the Rockitmen, a collaboration between Fred from Metalogic & Alex Tolstey himself, with a debut album to follow at some point. This one dabs on the steps of the previous track with assertive grooves and deep slices of orotund thuds to shake the hips. On the second floor a really heart-aching play on notes takes place filling out mechanical samples to complement to the sound. Not bad for a first appearance at all. (5) “Model 1 ” continues on the roads of strange syncopations and really goes out there to accentuate wobbliness, aided by the motion effects plugging…Up until that point where it just disappears in mid track & the kicks really get going. As it could be expected the last half does a 180, bringing back more strange lines. The sheer bizarreness Epi Centrum imprints on the remix attracts me a lot more than the original work of Midi Milliz. It gives interesting twist to the concept of trance, imbued in complex mind-numbing structures. Jerzy also provides a track of his own to close the doors of Abracadabra with (10) “Sin Sinati” under the moniker Mass Turbo. My first encounter with this alias was not positive last year. It was probably one of the very few tracks that didn’t click with my taste. This time around the sound has grown sharp edges with lines I can only identify as reminiscent of Goa. Think fledging trombones, guided by the watchful eye of marching beats to mesh an interesting coction of sumptuous harmonics. They don’t really go out on tangents to change structure, but they close the book with flying colors in their own way. In between all these groovy monsters, the gentle touch Kino Oko with (9) “Beat, Rhythm and Harmony. ” does feel slightly misplaced, but the quality of his output remains equally high than in the album. It’s like a nursery rhyme with a beat heavily reliant on the shakers and floating sounds. It’s Grzegorz’ style and if it works, why change the sound? So while we didn’t get as much diversity as last year’s IdeaFX, Horns Hoofs conspired with the Boshke Beats crew to keep it amongst friends. Thankfully those people manage to be good musicians at the same time, so they stuck to their guns and continued doing what they know best. To present material that manages to keep me interested in something related to the tech-psy world one more year, with coats and layers of different influences attracting new crowds to scene with quality music and new formulas.

baba like i told you is very oneiric, paced, cool... but you know what i find missing ?a bit of onychophagistism... a small build up... something... to get that antelucan feeling going... you know? i mean eitherway... it's cool

interesting... to be honest the cuts are a bit too short... but the little that i heard sounds good man, i like it

honestly, what the hell is this obsession you people have with full on & nitz? the rest of us are too busy listening to the other world of psy, techno/electro stuff, minimal, prog, suomi, intelligent twisted, ambient, borderline IDM... there's so much good music out there and you see things so two-dimensionally. I suggest people get your head of the gutter and look around... there is more to 'psy' than full on and goa...

the question with you 'purists' is, will you be able to identify the so-called 'evolution' of the genre when you hear it? do you think it will just click in your head and all of a sudden 'make sense'. Is there list of paramaters you have imbued in your head which should trigger when you hear it? could it be possible, no matter what kind of music people put out in the future... it will just never be.. 'good enough' to be properly evolved goa. Most goa lovers today treasure that sound for the retro-elements it had and the roughness of the sound, including the inventiveness of new ideas... which today have been passed through a reclycing machine so many times, nobody knows anything anymore. There is so much music out there, i would dare say there are new strands of goa, evolving in different (hell in all sub genre's), but perhaps the expectations are so narrow and so high at the same time, than well... it just ends in frustration...

you missed it? it's not too late to go and buy is it? it was definately amongst the better ones last year...

quote of the day right there. Well said. No problem thinking there is a real 'goa' or 'psy' spirit and that it involves the music you hear. The problem is when you start to spread those doctrines as the holly creed and anyone else that thinks differently is wrong. the 'real goa ppl' should have it clear it's about living and letting people live with their own tastes. Nothing wrong with advise and guidance if you have been listening to this music for long, but what is the ultimate point of acting all condescending with other people? if you don't like full on (i'm taking the example of this thread), then don't hear it, and start your own thing like a lot of people here have done. but let's all live in *sigh* harmony (i think i threw up little in my mouth as said that word). anyway... yeah...

John Grisham!

i think that all of those that complain the scene is going to hell fail to realize a couple of things: 1) the only one slowly dying here is you... and me. 2) perhaps after 10 or 11 years of listening to goa/psy, perhaps... just perhaps you are growing tired of the same old sound and music has changed to styles you don't particularly enjoy. It happens in ever scene, Hip hop used to be grassroots - now it's bling, Rock used to be Elvis - now it's death metal, and punk used to be... well... punk and now its some mash between ska and shit pop. SO while i have still grown out of some of those scenes, certain things will always be gems. I will always enjoy say, NOFX - The Decline ( ), but i don't listen to punk anymore and if you ask, it died a long time ago, without realizing, it simply changed and it got popular and there's other people listening to it that don't share my taste for 'that' kind of punk and they are ones that are doing the buying, so the style changed. If you seriously dislike the way it's going here, i have no suggestion... perhaps it's time to ask yourself if you are simply jaded of the whole thing after all this time, and it's time to move on to another genre. But for the love of god, let's try to avoid opening threads every other day "psy trance is dead"... i want more hallucinogen. cheers...

what a bummer...

Compilation: Denial & Error Label: Last Possible Solution Web: http://www.lastpossiblesolution.com/ CAT: LPSCD005 Sonic-Energy.net: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/274/2/ 1. NRS - Mind Controlled People [126] 2. Serious Porn Collector - Suspected Device [130] 3. Icebreaker - Blue Ice [144] 4. Bolt vs. Alliance of Calgon - Dum Nation [145] 5. NRS vs. Tenzing - Blank Remix [144] 6. Ram - Ram Jam [142] 7. Registered User - Licensed Liars [146] 8. NRS - Dark Deeds [148] 9. NRS - Vengeance [148] If you add the time up it hasn’t been more than two years since Last Possible Solution started delivering material (not counting the Ambivalent years), all the way from the foggy island of fish & chips with squad parties as side-dish. These events are primarily found in the confines of large abandoned compounds decayed with dirt, blank stares and never-ending winters spawning a basic human need to find warmth. Or in the least, a valid retreat from the impending cold by sinking deeper under the brick and mortar walls, searching of something-like solace in the welcoming smiles of grinny strangers dancing under the technoid and insistent ‘thunk’ of straight-jacked music. Either that or home-made DnB, but we won’t get into that. Underneath, the Last Possible Solution has always been about acid house-ridden old school vibes, charged with endemic build ups and fat rhythms sunk in their own minimalism, armed with the pounding of sharp kicks and playful bass patterns. To the side there is always a funky aspect, but is so well played off it just mixes transparently as a dance-friendly additive. NRS uncorks the bottle with “Mind Controlled People.” relaxing the pace with voice samples that slide off the burdened beats with ominous pads hinting at the progressive circles more than anything else. On that note, he continues with Serious Porn Collector that had the debut album last year, User. The sound hasn’t changed much in “Suspect Device” from the familiar sound bank, but it’s a new tune altogether and a good one at that. The grooves build and the tension keeps on the high-rise. For the fans of harsher material this first couple of chapters might go a little sluggish, but it stands as an alternative road to explore new ideas without drifting too far from Paul’s sound. Icebreaker (Tenzing & some chap called Green Refah) returns once again like is tradition in the LPS compilations, setting the pace at cruising altitude with very positive results in “Blue Ice”. The kicks at this point are assaulting with samples that sprout bits of trombone action in a very energetic way, as it could be presumed by the playful bass and sweeping filters. This is pure dance-floor racket, I love it. If the number of times each track has been played in my system is anything guide us by “Dum Nation” (repeat thrice), is probably my favorite deviation of the lot. Bolt (Tenz) accompanied by Alliance of Calgon (J.Krotch) start off with a eerie surroundings before it takes off in static beats with the perfect drive for a 3am, packed-to-the-door venue that can’t stand still. Screams come in later with bubbly voices before the lines start pouring down. It gets sreetchy in ways I’m not particularly pleased with later on, but it’s still one hell of a track. Tenz joins Black in “Blank RMX” to continue from where our friends in the land of Tolkien left off with their alliance. This is pretty standard LPS fodder: fast rhythms, sudden bass changes breaking on 16th’s and those infamous grating lines, pitching some funky groove before the sweep builds it all to hell. This is exclusively out-and-about material and well coordinated it is. I mean that’s why we hear this kind of stuff anyway. As a side note I love those chants they use at the beginning and at end, wishing some more of that would have been used in the actual tune. Things heat up to near melting point with the only appearance of Yod Onsen (Scorb) and Lek’s input (NRS) in the RAM confabulation. “Ram Jam” Is the highlight of the night with a solid ramble of seven minutes, displaying a hypnotic brain job that phases out time in a humming mechanical vibe and robot speak before the voice announces “Let’s go”. It’s at that point the lines start dripping and building with fake teasers before they truly let it trash. If this doesn’t get them dancing, nothing will. Registered User (Guf Purstaad) was one of my stand outs from last year’s Symptom’s of Compliance leaving a lasting impression. Naturally, I was eagerly waiting for more of that minimal madness to shake a leg and “Licensed Liars” is exactly that. The improvement from “LAN” needs to be recognized, especially in the details, it doesn’t feel as bare. There’s a lot more sculpting and chiseling going into the music since we last heard, and as you might guess that’s always positive. It still needs something –I’m not sure what- but I like it. The saga closes with NRS in his last two strikes: “Dark Deeds” starts building quite early, arriving to a sudden plateau where the voice “It’s what she wants”, allows the catchy theme to slip in. Like in any good rollercoaster there is a sharp build up later while the rest is reserved for lengthy transitions. Very intense, without forgetting it’s supposed to be good for a laugh as well. “Vengeance” is currently the most appropriate way to get even with neighbors over a noise complaint. I’m speaking out of experience here. By far the most upfront offering of the compilation from Mr. Black, throwing in all those epic moments and good techno bits in between that should go well together with say… Electrypnose in one of his industrial-sized mechanical fits. In my view you can’t take this stuff too seriously unless the intention is doing some brainless dancing for a while, since it can get humdrum with the passing of tracks. Even if the order and general pace has been so well orchestrated. If you can’t stand big menacing rhythms with techno-based structures, it could go like nails on blackboard. At the end though, this whole situation is designed to keep you going even the magic has faded and all that remains is that basic drive to keep your legs moving, or in the least to stay awake. It is by then you secretly wait for that glorious moment when is finally time to retreat home, savouring those last specks of green you have been dutifully saving for an emergency dawn situation - much like this one. At some point before the slumber drags it all away, the recurring insight you are living in this never-ending cycle of Denial & Error strikes home. You can quit anytime, that’s certain. The real question is - are you having too much fun to make it stop altogether?

I just got this weekend and it's nothing short amazing. Very solid stuff... not gonna say much else at this point though i'm gonna save it for the review. But in the mean time, i'm loving it

The Israelis aren't the only ones composing 'uplifting trance' full on / whatever. if you ask me, that's certainly not a benchmark or an indicative of much you know...

from the good ol' days... Sirus - 'An Eye for An Eye' (Halo Varga Mix) Dave Kane - 'Clarkness' (Slacker Remix) POB - The Fly that's call i can recall from my head... i need my old stuff back... memory recall from those days is nonexistant...

i'm just gettting into suomi to be honest.... hand't heard much before that, but i what i've has passed through my ears so far i like. it's a far cry for something funky and different i was desperatelly needing after 2 two years of non-stop heavies... anyone checked out liquid quit yet btw ? i got it friday and it has a few jems (Tamlin, trold, LPC), but overall i was kind of dissapointed. Especially with neuron compost... anywho... always nice to run into new things... i'll give this Puoskari guy a go next time...

close enough yer right... and they were probably around the same year too... hmm... well i looked it up and foudn this look Thulsa Doom is the google images, and see what turns up. ok i'll make it easier > http://images.google.com/images?q=Thulsa%2...ie=UTF-8&tab=wi

hey thanks for sharing, looks interesting. i was checking the website and i noticed the logo: looks a lot like the one the bad guys used in Conan the barbarian. doesn't it? i think so anyway! again thanks for the tunes

I got so caught up on writting one long ass blagh i forgot to mention highlights. Higher Circuits did a number on my head the other night and the follow up with Glum Reaper is quite tasty as well. and of course mission control and plan A for the interested parties, you can download a free promo album from Quasar here > http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/component...d,27/Itemid,69/

it's still good

Compilation: Squeech Label: Faerie Dragon Web: http://www.sonic-dragon.com CAT: FDREC02 Sonic-Energy.net: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/269/2/ 1. LPC - Saiko Tooot [139] 2. Hooloovoo - Organic Mechanic [136] 3. Igor Swamp - Ytkytyytkyty [142] 4. 5meo Geo - Jumping Benlets [146] 5. Salakavala - Undercover Attack [147] 6. Spiders Silk - Xela Kaynam [144] 7. Squaremeat - Creak At The Joints [142] 8. Odd Harmonic - Intensive Hinderance [153] 9. Indepth - Disappear Here [145] Sonic Dragon continues to spread their tentacles into every aspect of the psychedelic scene with the newly established Faerie Dragon. This new sub label is centered on experimental vibes forging a different strand of psy. There’s an audience that has grown more experienced (read old), disconnecting completely from what the crazy kids call ‘music’ these days. Where do you turn when is time to look for a doofing good time, enjoying bizarre beats that don’t necessarily travel faster than the speed of light? Squeech might be the answer. You have breaks, Suomi, lounge, a bit of electro (for the texture) stirring it all real sloppy hoping something works. ( 1 ) LPC is a new Finish project consisting of Tommy from Salakavala (they had a couple of releases in 2001), Francoise from Squaremeat and Ville Ruoho that is from… somewhere. He’s supposed to be from Salakavala as well, but the names don’t seem to match. Saiko Tooot is an undeniably funky-loungy mission, armed with sluty bass and persistent voices bridging out the vibrant Suomi flair. To jumble things even further, they decided it was great idea to slap a riff in the middle. As a result, recurrent visions of a slimy rocker in leather doing his thing with an air guitar don’t stop – and that’s just not the image I’m looking for in this track. The rest is quite decent and experience does most of the talking. * ( 2 ) Hooloovoo presents an ooverdoose of groovy latin house / electro and experimental a-la Organic Mechanic, working better than it sounds. The dangly beat tied together with situational sample bits and random pans entwined in delays; creates an overwhelmingly accessible atmosphere that normally shouldn’t go together but it does here. * ( 3 ) Igor Swamp is the other face from Salakavala in his solo project. Ytkyytky…something is an ‘everyone on the floor’ jiggy dance slap, with recurrent vocodic voices ripped from some Daft Punk track, including the squeegee lines and the organic beats. It’s all a bit too funky for my taste, but its interesting Ytykytky. ( 4 ) 5Meo Geo is another new comer from Israel producing moodier vibes under the name ‘Serial Stalkers’. Jumping Benlets comes armed with blipping lines going back in time around ten Nintendo years in electro mode. The mid-break materializes in a verbal collision between some Indian cab driver and a renegade smoking in the back of the taxi. It sounds just as strange as you can imagine. Overall, is rather exasperating for my ears with all the high pitched chaos going off at the same time, but is it’s something different. ( 5 ) Salakavala –this time as whole- drops a few ideas of what to expect later this year with their upcoming debut album. Undercover Attack is another slash of Suomi with the funky percussive stabs in syncopation, switching the rhythmic ensemble to deliver viciously groovy bass changes. The anti-melodic approach to synth flutters and introverted themes spread wantonly, might just work with those Tamlin tracks you have stashed somewhere. * ( 6 ) Spiders Silk or Exuus is Ilja from Israel, with a rather unique approach to quirky psy. Suffice to know his debut album No Controlling is already out on 6 Dimension Sounds, giving you an idea of what type of sound to expect. Xela Kaynam has all the flair of 80’s trance with lazy beats, laser-shooting effects and dangly melodic pieces gating strange lines with a unique notion of coherence. * ( 7 ) Pepe from Squaremeat brings with him an experience record of four albums, turning this act into something of an institution for Finnish freeform since 1998. The credits don’t acknowledge Francoise this time around, but his presence passes rather unnoticed since Creak the Joints is one of the Squeechier tracks in this compilation. Using voice samples previously heard in Tetrameth’s album, the melodious arrangement mixes in well with a drip of chaos and funky bass work with positively smile-inducing aftereffects. * ( 8 ) The Australian Kevin Babbage makes a return after the ‘indie’ cult classic last year Mountain Lord, with his marked desert trance approach. Intensive Hinderance (hindrance?) plays a lot with distressing lines, spacing out through the bars to create a discordant build up with a darker edge… or at least that is what the sample intends to create. I didn’t find a lot of that jazzy edge his production shows at times, so I’m not entirely crazy about it, but if you liked the album last year it wouldn’t harm anyone to check this one out. ( 9 ) Shahar, another Israeli new comer (according to my records) closes the saga inviting everyone to Disappear Here. The content is gritty breaks that could well be taken out of some DnB / jungle score, including the sampled bits from an MC. It still sounds (faintly so) like a version of electro-psy and I’m just loving it. We can expect the album at some point later, so that’s something to look forward to.* This a strange ride Candy managed to compile. Due respect has to be acknowledged for releasing something no other established label would have dared touch. Very experimental stuff from artists that want to see psychedelic branch out to different sonicscapes. Likewise, is very interesting to draw the Israeli-Finnish connection building common grounds. Much like The Strokes take pride in being retro-analogue, the Squeech crew draws that same lineage from old video game music, adding new ideas and influences for all those who feel jaded of the same old sound… whichever that may be. At the end, this stuff might just be weird and funky enough to be eminently likeable in the eclectic circles. Then again it might not, it’s up to you. From my part, the more I hear it, the more I like it even when this sound is not exactly what passes through my speakers very often.

Artist: Quasar Album: One Day Web: http://www.mistressofevil.com & http://www.quasartrance.com CAT: MOE66604 SE.net: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/264/2/ I - Walk In 01. By The Seashore 02. Changing Channels 03. Tune In 04. Mission Control [149] 05. We Have A Problem 06. Plan A [145] 07. Plan B [147] 08. ...At Madame Zoe's... II - Tranceformation 09. Transmorphication 10. Higher Circuits [148] 11. The Glum Leaper [149] 12. The News III - Revival 13. Rediscovery [148] 14. Disc Recovery [148] 15. Area 1-50 16. Maximum Overdrive [153] 17. U.F.O.B.E.S.P [110] 18. Solid And Clear [149] 19. The Eschaton “Leave out the fiction, the fact is: this friction can only be worn by persistence. Weave out the missions: courageous convictions will drag the dream to existence.” –Neil Peart Jason Frazier has been previously featured in compilations left and right and then left again, alone or with Dylalien mostly in the Fractal Cowboys. Not counting those orgiastic collaborations with everyone else they could find in ensembles like The Replicants. One Day he decided it was a probably time to get a solo album out there and thus you are reading this, which is partly why I’m writing anything: To attempt explaining a complex and utterly confusing concept album based on One Day… Any random day you happen to get sucked by the TV for a little while, to meet the aliens later on and have a jolly good time. For the good, the bad, the funny, the corny, the clever and the overwhelmingly twisted put on your space helmet & try not stare directly at the source of energy. Book I – The Walk In ( 1 ) By the Seashore we start picking up a droplet of water in our hands. The sea isn’t really important though, since we are watching the telly anyway flipping through reruns of our childhood as we keep ( 2 ) Changing Channels and ( 3 ) tuning in. Including that time the adventured drifted into outer space with the astronaut suit, invoking thoughts to ( 4 ) Mission Control telepathically. Traveling in memes all way to some hidden “cluster of stars” beyond our confines. Reception is coming in well from that side of space, loud and clear by the good grace of some metaphysical anomaly, explaining why is it supposed to sound that way altogether. Like some detuned bastard melody, product of the unholy mating between synth’s, squeezing noises and some random ethnic concubine, dashing inside and out from the spectrum. The bad news? ( 5 ) “…We have a problem…” the signal from mission control is down. Contingency measures are up and running, including ( 6 )Plan A. The first build up is taking place with a vicious demeanor. Things star unwinding by mid track and levels of maddening intensity break the rigid beat for a while. Which works beautifully when is time to start switching cue points for long progressions. Scrap that it went wrong, ( 7 ) Plan B is in action and some dude with the nasal voice is going in. Meaning a few sharp riffs might filter through the speakers. The beatjob as usual is great, leading up to tribalism by the midsection explaining why Quasar has been playing drums since he was five. So what this all about then? “… Giving you some keys which have been given to me, to pass onto you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present progression. Doors opening on new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now”. Unavoidably leading to the encounter ( 8 ) …At Madame Zoe’s… where we learn “…the darkness is nothing but the shadow of the light.” Book II – The Tranceformation ( 9 ) Trancemorphication can be defined as neo-folk trance quite correctly, fighting to change the atmospheric energy from the source by switching directions. The fun part is obviously going deeper into this vision and the ( 10 ) Higher Circuits need to be attuned before they explode. Trailing down in dissolution marked by the banging of a drum set, slowly attenuating the theme away. ( 11 )The Glum Leaper is a scowl at darkness into ecstatic fusion of morning tunes, mitigating the light. We are back to the hotel (yes, we made it!) and ( 12 )The News are on. Oddly enough some political figures inform us, “Scientist discovered today that all matter is ideas condensed into physical form. Everything is an illusion and we are the shadow of our true selfs.” Making the whole news prediction affair redundant, just like this particular passage of the saga. Book III – The Revival In ( 13 ) Rediscovery we are back to the ritual-dancing with organic artifacts around the bonfire. The approach to trance is different here and the samples quiver blurting out slices I won’t mention but a few concepts linger. In midst of this rediscovery the aliens have decided to drop by for a stopover. It isn’t social visit though, their hard drive messed up and they need help with the ( 14 ) Disk Recovery. You don’t refuse to help your ancient mates, but the procedure isn’t exactly a walk in the park. Flashes of data stream through, seeking specific beat information and breaks abound. Short circuits of ancient elevator music pour out, and before we can finish the job the aliens must be going. The outer space folks are most grateful for your help, so they invite you to cruise around in their spaceship. ( 15 ) Area 1-50 is one of the tourism spots for alien beings, so they take you along and you gladly accept… who else is going to take the pictures right? In the area you overhear two scientists, a French fellow and some American, discussing yellow journalism with a robot... right. Finding the scene rather boring the aliens decide to show you what the ship can do and ( 16 ) Maximum Overdrive is invoked in the eternal propulsion engine. The aircraft is admittedly slow, leaving the toms to heat up the scene with snares and gated scrungy leads, changing gears in the midsection as the exhaust pipes gather enough heat to initiate cruising speed. You realize this hectic and abrupt shift-changing affair will not sit well with Mercedes, and as such only interplanetary beings would call the ride comfortable. New levels of discordia arise for twisted trance. You can’t help wondering what might possibly be feeding the engine. It sure as hell isn’t fossilized gasoline, it’s ( 17 ) U.F.O.B.E.S.P. a new variant Shell should be rolling out next year, made mostly of more breaks, bubbly lines and the whole repertoire available in a typical drum set. We are catching our breath here. The trip from outer space is drawing to and end, leaving you to witness from a window earth, materializing into ( 18 ) Solid and Clear blobs of green diffused continents screaming “Aloha!”. Neo-Goa has extended their welcome and has been rejected by the purists before they can even actually listen to anything. Declaring it unfit to share this musical space with their beloved genre, without realizing you can travel the stream of sounds just as well, in the intricacies of moody and very shy melodies spawning from these channels of energy. Well you can at least acknowledge the beat which more than being synthesized rhythms, it sounds like someone beating live drums. ( 19 ) The Eschaton draws near now. Begging the question, what happens when you pick a droplet of water in your hand if Buddha is nothing but a lake? Before there is time to answer anything we are back to the ocean where the adventure begun, coming to terms with the fact you can travel without actually moving. Finally... One Day is a step forward in the twisted part of our scene. Music that would under no pre-conceivable mindset fit as dark. This is beyond the concept of thematic horror. It’s an unadulterated mind-bender that includes those dark moments spawning subconsciously at times, but that’s just part of it. In Quasar’s terminology, One Day is “Realization, Transformation and Revival.” Does it achieve it? It could be the placebo effect, or the tribal parts, perhaps the barely rational home made samples weaving a plot together through loose threads. Yet, the moral of the story does feel present in the end. What is even better for those who like to stitch different vibes back and forth: You have 8 full tracks here with diverse sounds in its cacophony and overflow of incoherent intensity levels. Unless your third eye opens briefly to grasp the concept intended. Either way, you can tell fearless neurons have been sacrificed in the concept, the chiseling of sounds into ideas and the artwork itself, to render a final product worthy of undivided attention. 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to each their own baba. A lot of the heavy, heavy twisted stuff i wouln't go as far as calling music. Nobody is claiming anything else. The point is taste. I was the wierd kid in school that heard Einstürzende Neubauten along with squarepusher and skinny puppy, just cause nobody else would... then a Finnish mate introduced me to psy, intact instinct, early infected mushroom, AP... so on and so on. I enjoy listenign to wierd music... is just taste bruv i had an opportunity to hear samples from previous EvsY album's and i this stuff has potential on the prog circles, especially the first tracks.. that's why i pointed out... not trying to convince anybody to like the twisted stuff, you like it or you don't.. period... but going as far as calling it 'the decline of psy' is just... *sigh*... so apocalyptic...