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A lot of people are commenting on the last album from Total Eclipse: Update Files. From what I know this album was released without artist consent... it could have been a bunch of demo tracks that the Japanese label just happened to have lying around for all we know.

Whatever... it's just a senseless popularity contest.

I opened this thread wondering "was Magic Numbers released this year?"

Posford, no doubt. His career spans the entire breadth of psychedelic trance history. He pretty much is psychedelic trance. Infected Mushroom were hugely influenced by him (think about all the tribute tracks they wrote). Astral Projection was hugely popular in the late-nineties as the gateway artist to psychedelic trance, but their discography is limited in terms of style. Crop Circles/Pleiadians have massive appeal with old school fans but their golden age was brief, their output somewhat inconsistent. I don't feel as if their body of work stands up to any of the others to be perfectly honest. The best songs from Etnica/Pleiadians/Crop Circles are bloody awesome but they've got lots of dross in their discography (especially recently). Incidentally, I feel that X-Dream and Koxbox are worth discussing as well. Probably others, but those two come to mind when I think of active big-name psytrance artists that have been involved since the very beginning.

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"All we're sayin' is... give cheese a chance!"

People go to great lengths to preserve their old school credibility here... but the 2007 remix of Land Of Freedom isn't bad at all, if you ask me. The crowd noise is from the Twisted release (which is, after all, "live" from the party). You won't hear it on the 3D Vision release. I know people feel a need to complain at length about anyone touching the classics, but let's get realistic here. Transwave aren't comparable to Picasso, and the original line-up of the Pleiadians is not like Mozart distributed throughout four brains. They made great music in the mid-nineties but it was context-dependent. There's no sense in getting angry and spitting invective about former greats reduced to a hollow shell since they aren't necessarily doing anything different. Back then they were making music in the style of the times and the same holds true for the current day. Yes, the spirit isn't the same... but does the spirit reside within the music or is it a result of your own personal interaction with it? We formulate the memories attached to a song--they are not forcibly injected into our consciousness. What a song means to you is not the same as what it might mean to anyone else... what old school fanatics share is a depth of passion for the perceived spirit of the classics, but the exact dimension of that passion is defined by individual circumstance not universal law.

I've seen polls like this for some other producers... so here's one for the great Avi Algranati AKA Space Cat. Vote for your fave! :posford:

That's a funny thing to be known for.

Still sellin'! :posford:

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Sure--you're talking about downloading psytrance for free. I've got just the site for you! Try this URL out: http://www.ektoplazm.com

What's that, get DJ Lucas to do it for you?

Hell yeah, instant buy! Send one over for a review if you like, I know I'm going to dig this with a track list like that!

This is one of my very rare 10/10 albums. There isn't too much else like Double Dragon... older Koxbox, Hux Flux, and Logic Bomb sort of qualifies, but it isn't exactly the same. Steve Good had a way with soft rhythms and intelligent production that few others have tried to match. Perhaps Tristan might have a few tracks out there that might qualify?

Well, as soon as I can find the time... and the money to fix my decks I have been trying to polish off several works-in-progress for years now. There is one mix in particular that I call "Lonely Orbit" about a man lost in space sending radio waves back to Earth (inspired by Walt Dangerfield, a character in PKD's Dr. Bloodmoney)... this one has been in draft and pretty close to complete since 2003! That should give you an idea of the time-scale for some of these mixes... but yeah, right now my crossfader is shot to hell and the platter on one of my CDJ-200s is giving me trouble, so it might be a while before I get back to finishing anything. Any money I have is going toward mastering fees for the upcoming Ektoplazm netlabel releases, not fixing my gear unfortunately. Live sets are another matter--but I can't plan that--they either come out or they don't.

In case you missed it, Sibilant's work is absolutely essential...

It might be that the songs you are trying to mix don't have enough in common... personally, I look at it this way: trance music is meant to provide access into a hypnotic state of mind. Any sort of "trainwrecking" (poorly synchronized beatmatching) spoils that effect. Mixing the ambient parts of songs is acceptable, but if that's all you're doing then the effect is muffled. When the beats flow together and the songs merge into one another you can obtain much better results. Try any of my mixes if you would like to hear this in action Mystic Revelation in particular... As an aside, I have never found loops to be of any real use in mixing psytrance. It really depends on what you're working with, however.

The latest album from Pitch Black has a few tunes that qualify... it's a very nice album either way.

2004-2006 was the era of psytrance reviews going "pro"... with DP, RAH, and others out of the game, it simply hasn't been the same at all.

It sounds pretty nice! Upbeat and melodic...

Thanks Some news: the BitTorrent tracker is soon to be closed for good. In its place I offer the new download charts, available here: http://www.ektoplazm.com/downloads/ What you see is a ranked listing of all downloads available through Ektoplazm along with comments and ratings. This is to provide a high-level overview of all the free music on the site! A month ago many of the older releases were only available through BitTorrent, as many of the original providers have not kept stable hosting for their content. To allay this problem, I am now hosting the vast majority of the free music on my own web server. Direct downloads are now available for many older releases, and the links are sure to be stable for a long time to come. Enjoy!

I guess I thought radio was inclusive of netradio these days No, just to put that to rest. I share the opinion of many posting here when I say I'd rather choose my own music and make my own discoveries or go with the recommendations of a friend or someone else whom I trust. Radio seems outdated to me--and while it would be pretty cool for there to be a radio renaissance, I trust my own taste most of all. Some new applications of radio concepts like personalized stations (Pandora or last.fm) seem interesting on some level, but I still haven't bothered to tune in. I could think of something like Philosomatika with a user-based rating system that affects song choices being cool--but then we'd all be listening to Skazi and Dali, right no, I just opened this topic because I am genuinely curious, because I don't really "get" radio any more, and I wonder whether many people are into it, and lastly--if all those (net)radio shows are actually being heard (which I tend to doubt). I could be projecting personal bias though, which is why I ask!

All the questions apply to netradio as well... I mean, I read tons of adverts for one-time broadcasts, specials, podcasts, and other such things, especially on Isratrance. Still trying to find out if people are paying any attention to such things or whether it's all kind of a joke.