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Great, now I have Back To Mad stuck in my brain.

Reload was definatly the hit of 2001... Seems like Switch covered 2005 and I'd credit 2004 to The Witness (or was that 2003?)... might be interesting to consider each year solely through the most popular track, simply to chart the shift in trends through the years... then again, what is the biggest tune of this year? All speculative of course.And biggest definatly does not mean best, merely anthemic and popular

One aspect of the question is - what artist or whatever was receiving the most buzz in a given year? Infected may have had their debut in 1999 but I don't think we had "Mushroom fever" until 2000. Perhaps 2001 felt like Year of the Swedes, with Son Kite, Atmos, Ticon, S>Range, and Noma all receiving a lot of hype. Maybe 2006 is the Year of Darkpsy - it certainly is getting an insane amount of buzz. Doesn't mean its good music, but it certainly is going out in a big way.

Perhaps you are confused by the order of released on Twisted Records? They did a re-release after The Lone Deranger (1998) but the original Twisted was released on Dragonfly in 1995.

As a little exercise, I wonder if we can name one top act for every year of trance... to use a couple of examples, 2004 was the year of FREq - with a debut album out, countless singles, and massive amounts of hype, it was definatly all about Aran in 2004. Likewise, I'd call 1995 the year of Hallucinogen - with the debut release of Twisted, and all the rest. How about the rest of these years? Do you see the concept? It is no more than a fun diversion; a way of examining trance history through a particular filter... what's your say? Maybe not an artist at all - perhaps a label, or style would work just as well...

A bit obscure: V/A Amalgama... definatly with some great melodies in there.

You have tried the new Penta album? I might also suggest Lemurians - Secret Message (2004).

Thanks for the mention I also have a good list of reviewing sites in my links area: http://www.ektoplazm.com/links/

Order Odonata 1 is a great suggestion. I would also suggest Total Eclipse - Delta Aquarids and early work from Elysium such as Dance for the Celestial Beings.

Thanks for the comments... I'm a big Ryan Halifax fan, so yeah - Clouds are awesome deep drippy trippy progpsy, oh yeah!

Hacking the Reality Myth Psychoactive Scandosounds Symptoms of Compliance (and other LPS comps) You know, I only realized this after scouring a few directories in my archive at home, but good compilation titles are few and far between. Most are so generic.

Anyone know what Nick is up to these days anyhow?

I am also interested... some of their old school songs were very good. I am thinking of Space Sirens, Way to Light, and others I can't immediately recall. I tried to buy some of those CDs years ago but had no luck. Hopefully someone can dig them up!

No. Read again people had some problems accepting mere links to reviews, that is all... and I do not necessarily blame them for this; it is a reasonable position to take. No, this isn't it. It isn't so much that my perspective will change in wild and unexpected ways; it is that I am refining, fine-tuning, and generally improving my reviews from time to time by adding links, nesting content, fixing spelling errors, polishing and editing as I feel the need, correcting historical inaccuracies where noted, and so on. The twin options of either maintaining content in disparate locales or letting said content become antiquated does not suit my any more, hence the small announcement. I have been reviewing on Psynews ever since goatrance.free.fr and the tumultuous minimal/melodic wars. It is through no dislike of the site nor the community that I have chosen to withdraw to my own domain; it just seems like the natural thing to do, as far as reviewing goes. I've come a long way from "goa ruLLLeeezz!!!1 track 4,5,6(!!!!),9 aweomsetunes kthnx!" to doing real justice for Order Odonata 1. Anyway, I hope this is a bit easier to understand. It's not a big deal, but I felt as if it was worth mentioning once, considering that I know a few people around here appreciate my reviews every now and then

There is no drama. I am not quitting the forum. I will still be writing quality reviews. The only significant news is that I won't be posting them here, for the reasons I have outlined. Nothing complicated

Well, I'd rather you didn't for the reasons I mentioned. Not such a bad idea (and I hadn't thought of this) but I wouldn't be surprised if some people would consider this spam of some kind or another of course, this is the internet - someone is bound to get false notions in their head no matter what

Good reco with the Procs. Great tune. Cinos you should also check out Manibus... I am trying to remember the exact song - I think it is Signal to Noise perhaps? It has a long sample about turning into a werewolf

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Al Rune - Magic Fungy (Terminator Remix)... this is the one. I have used it for just such a theme at an outdoor event in the woods. Intensity is the word! Listen to the whole thing.

Not worth the effort imho. Used shops are for the real world, where you can check the disc condition before you buy. Except of course for White Trash Gangsta Trance which is welcome in any condition at all, being such a valuable rarity to rival the Lunar Civ EP and Transdimensional amongst others.

Fantastic! How can you say no to gems like this one? http://www.secondspin.com/music/product-detail.jsp?id=802453

This is all by design - you have received the extremely obscure TIP Green! The component colours must have seperated in transit.

There are plenty of unimaginative titles out there... but the terrible hackneyed puns involving "psy" tend to take the cake... case in point: PSYTISFACTION. Give me a break!

I also had a problem with a guy from Spain... he bought Order Odonata 3 (on vinyl) from me, had me ship by surface mail, and turned around and filed a claim with Paypal about a month before it was going to arrive, saying he never got it... since I had no tracking number (buyer paid for surface mail) Paypal awarded him a full refund from my account... so the guy got the vinyl, plus his money back, and I shipped it to him at my expense. Lovely, innit? Then there was this other time with a guy on Psynews... I remember something weird but can't for the life of me remember exactly how that went down... something to do with a trade where the guy waited on my CD to show up before shipping out his half, and then getting mega-pushy about the details of the trade, deciding he got a bad deal, and pestering me for ages to ship him something else, and I think I finally snapped at some point... but that story is getting vague, can't remember any of the saucy details Usually, everything is going extremely well...

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