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The new album from Shift certainly qualifies...

A large Toronto contingent will be travelling to this festival... it should be an amazing weekend!

If I need drugs to make the music sound good then it's not me who has the problem.

Hey, where's this from? I have the Llopis remix but... not sure if I know where this one is at. And I <3 the BLT. Tasty sandwich!

Fair enough. Better luck in your future trades. Peace.

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I still haven't heard anything from this label that I actually like, and this one is no exception. It just sounds messy and won't hold my attention for long.

Wah, get to know your beats. There's good stuff out there, but you do have to sift through a lot of crap. Big deal. This is nothing new. No doubt some of the releases are very lame and unoriginal and even amateur but remember - given the cost, CD albums have become a promotional vehicle for making gigs - where the real money is at. Read reviews from qualified people who have taste. They can help you get to the bottom of things. Personally, I can barely afford to support my music-buying habits... there's lots of great material out there... depends on how wide your taste is, you know? I enjoy Kruger & Coyle, as well as Neural Rectifier Syndrome... I don't know how common that is...

Excellent work, Joske The world needs more old school mixes!!

Gappeq and Sound Field 0wn this release... the rest, it's fairly good, but wouldn't have caused me to make the purchase without those two unusual gems.

Damage sucks except when he's campy with hip-hop samples and old school rave tune tributes. "If you really want to rock the funky beats..." (nostalgia moment) Artifakt, however, has gone from HMM (but different) straight up to WOW (and still different). Thinking of the UX topic, the South Africans should totally use the MIDI guitar

Look, Hollywood is boring and cliche. The dialogue is already dumbed-down for popcorn audiences, so why use this shit in your music? In most cases it is either terrible or tolerable. There are a few exceptions, but seldom is there much meaning behind it all. Flip this practise on its ear. Two songs come to mind that have particularly evocative sample work. I traced the origin of both and was delighted to find the source of the words... Space Safari - Sweet Little (sampled from Edgar Allan Poe's Ulalume) Matenda - Kravata (sampled from Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est) How about exploring this sort of territory, if one is to include spoken works in their art? Anyone know any others with nice evocative words like these?

Is there any other lead that SCREEEAMS like that? It's fucking intense.

I think they're doing very well in 2004/2005. Wasn't too crazy about it before, but now it's really nice... maximal psytrance, exactly. But for all the hard beats they can still add more layers and complexity to the sound! Is it the future though? No, I don't think so... these guys are just doing it right for the moment.

Quality summertime background beats, if I'm going to put the whole thing on at once. Dance around the loft and get a few things done while the nice air comes in through the windows, and FREq jumps out of my speaker, you know? Part of the fun challenge here is getting to the different sounds from him... it's not ALL the same after all. Cut through some of the singles, take the representative slices, and there's no question one can come up with 80 minutes of good listening. Great comps, profane, dp, & futher. Looks like I'll still need some time to get to mine

Darkness is relative. If you're able to look back through the years to the initial review of UX on TRiP you will see that most people considered it to be the hardest, darkest thing to have emerged at that time. Now that we all possess a wider understanding of the music of the day that is perhaps debatable, but really now... if you have a killer sound system and you crank up Life Support Technology, you simply can't deny the awe-inspiring power of this project. Have a listen to Slide's Unstable (the track) - not much happening at low volume, in fact it's kind of boring. Pump it up and you have another one of the most detailed maximal pieces of Goa trance ever made. Volume really makes a huuuuge different with the UX-related projects imho. Ultimate Experience sits in my binder right next to the Pleiadians and Pigs in Space. Mix it up with Tim Schuldt's Red Hair Hospital and some Cydonia. Great memories

You've got 80 minutes to fill... what FREq singles do you select from the artist's growing repretoire of solid psychedelic progressive sounds? It doesn't have to be best of - sometimes obscure is just as well with this sort of exercise. I'll post my list when I actually go to burn my version I'm putting this together because his tracks are found all over the place, but I find almost all of them work nicely with full-on... my binder is organized such that progressive compilations are at the other end from the more active stuff, therefore - burn a singles CD and put it near the full-on! Convenient

Only if it were a really appealing offer you made

Don't like it, its too spread out. For a forum, the one room was working well I thought - easy to search, no muss, rather informal. I say wait until you have a real review database kicking before doing much with the reviews.

Medicine Drum aren't as good but it's sort of the same idea. Vaguely. Well, closer than Astral Projection or something

Export Audio - Stay EP!! V/A - Wireless (esp. Ryan Halifax) ...or perhaps even something from Chronika Part 2.

My choice for album of the year, but you certainly require a particular taste in trance to find this as good as I do. It feels like the most polished gem to have emerged from the world in 2004. Purity embodied. Simply amazing.

*chuckle* any label that sends me promos eventually stops. "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!!"

I'll give you half a deli sandwich and a toothpick with shiny plastic stuff on the end for the Charasmatix .

Hmmm... love that stuff. I think only Koxbox/Psychopod is really close, Orion a distant relation by nationality... the Danes have always had a very excellent style going on.