Lemmiwinks

best: Dynamic - Dynamix MWNN - Intestate Highway Menog - Natural Behavior Flying Scorpions - Lipoptena Cervi CS - Sinking Sand Paransense - Avangaro worst: Bigwigs - Fraktalik Fraternity (WTF???) Bonky - Bonky 2 Liquid Green Dogs - Colors Psydrop - Phantasy Seeds Phony Orphants - Symphony ... and the other 9654 israeli full-on clones that have no creative value whatsoever... SMI²LE

yeah he's good, but he's putting out WAY too much material. I'm getting the feeling that he prefers releasing quanity over quality (just like his aussie friend Olli Wisdom). Sometimes it's very very good but other times it's very very bad... But I agree, his lives kick ass, to this day it's my all-time favorite live act!! SMI²LE

"hope they dont go commercial like a lot of ggud artists seem 2 be doin....." in other words, like they did with Chrome ;-) SMI²LE

"hope they dont go commercial like a lot of ggud artists seem 2 be doin....." in other words, like they did with Chrome ;-) SMI²LE

"the best french artists laurent garnier" the dude made like ONE good track in all of his career!!! Talamsca and Nomad made several... BTW client: Dado and Deedrah are the same artist... to add to the list, some classics: Total Eclipse, Transwave (yeah yeah I know it's Dado again...), Toires, Asia 2001,... SMI²LE

hehe whatever you do, STAY AWAY from the First Error Code Album!!! As for me, I find that Tim's best tracks were the ones he released before he was going by his own name: Talking Souls - Karma 209 and Mama Indica - Radioactive Rain :-)))) IMO he went downhill from there... SMI²LE

"if you want to buy a good sampler, and other will probably lay into me for this, but Raja Ram's stash bag vol.2 is a good dj mix and covers most full ons tyles... or for the darker side check out RitualDance on ACidance Records ;)" or you can chec out any of the Full-On comps (the title's Full On) on Hommega records ;-) I guess that the problem is always the same: people need categories to find the specific kind of music they like, but at the same time it's very hard for artists to fit into a pre-determined category... especially since the category that's "in" sells more... IMO most people refer today to full-on as the contrary of minimal... minimal = few layers, few melodies, "calm sounding"; full-on= lots of layers, lots of melodies, "hard-sounding"... but IMO there are a lot of artists today who simply make "noisy minimal" that the label "full-on" but it isn't full-on at all... like Alien Project... well, I'll stop there, or I'll confuse you even further ;-) SMI²LE

yeah but he didn't specifically say that he wasn't interested in the latter ;-) ok, I'll shut up now... SMI²LE

I found it got old really fast... I liked it at the beginning of the year as we were getting out of a minimal period so I has happy to hear finally SOMETHING that wasn't minimal... but then once 5243 other full-on releases in the same style came, I didn't find it so good... SMI²LE

well technically a discman and a portable CD-player which supports MP3 format are 2 different things ;-) SMI²LE

well, basically any portable CD player that supports MP3 displays an ID3 tag. SMI²LE

"the most stupid thing is that(i work on e-jay and fruty loops programs).....so many of YOU will laughin for that." why should we laugh at you? Personally I feel great respect for ANYONE who's willing to give up a steady 9 - 5 job oportunity to dedicate him/ herself to making art. I know because I've had the oportunity to do so myself many times in my life, but I chickened out... SMI²LE

nope, is it good? SMI²LE

The album isn't called CPU, it's called Central Processing Unit ;-) I only listened to the track called Big in Japan and I wasn't that impressed... but maybe that wasn't one of his better tracks? SMI²LE

"all i can say is that people are never prepared for evolution..." You're right, but something DIFFERENT and something BETTER are 2 completely different things!!! IMO, most of psytrance "evolution" is actually artists doing something different for the sake of being different (ie. psytrance isn't funky - why not try and make it funky?; psytrance has a lot of layers - why not try to make music with less layers?; psytrance has melodies - why not try to make psytrance without melodies? etc.) But it doesn't evolve in any way, it doesn't enhance the psychedellic experience. Or maybe I'll make myself more clear with an example: early 90s psytrance was an EVOLUTION of psychedellic electronic music of the 60s like Tangerine Dream. Yeas, when you put the 2 together, they're completely different (other sounds are used, other structures are used, the tempo's different) yet you can't deny that one is the continuation of the other, they both produce the same "feeling". For me, the exact contrary happens when you put early 90s goa next to today's psytrance: you have similar sounds, tempo, etc. but the feeling is different!! You listen to it and realise that the latter is NOT the continuation of the former. hope this makes sense :-) SMI²LE

err... you got it wrong there lunar dude, Talamasca never was part of Transwave, he's a fairly new artist on the scene (he came around 99-2000 contrary to Etnica who were already releasing stuff in 95, so that probably explains the discography thing...). Now to get it straight, Transwave's former members (Dado and Christophe) are now releasing stuff as Deedrah (Dado) and Absolum (Christophe). Christophe is the one behind the 3D Vision sound and label and probably helped a lot Talamasca with his first releases, but they're 2 completely different artists. SMI²LE

"there are some parts that sound VERY good (very musical, natural, and logical sounding), and then it's off-set by something that sounds stupid/hokey/cheesy like nasty club-trance'esque synths" well, I gather that the good parts are Raja Ram's contribution and that the stupid/hokey/cheesy sounds are GMS trying their overdone formula again... SMI²LE

"There's good stuff coming out, you just have to look a little harder (i.e., not in the same places you're used to). " where should we look then EA?? SMI²LE

yep, quantity over quality, Mike D said it right!! Actually that's the case in every industry, not just psytrance. You have the exact same phenomenon in the gaming industry, the movie industry and so on... Guess that we're all slaves of the mass-production - mass-consumption culture... SMI²LE

well it depends on the albums, of course... Etnica - Alien Protein is much more melodical than any Talamsca album or track because Talamasca only puts melodies in parts of his tracks whereas Etnica - Alien Protein had continously morphing melodies form start to finish. Now if you consider newer Etnica albums (especially Chrome...) then my vote goes to Talamasca... I don't think i need to explain why... SMI²LE

"the same as Toi Doi,it has some Goa elements too" I gather you haven't listened to a lot of Toi Doi and Parasense then... next you'll be telling me that GMS sounds the same as Battle of the Future Buddhas?? and what the hell do you mean by it has some Goa elements??? SMI²LE

Liquid Sun People Can Fly Kabbalah Searching for UFOs Nexus and many many more ;-) SMI²LE

I'd say it's dark minimal SMI²LE

well, I wouldn't say it's all crap, just that they seem to have seriously lowered their standards. But still, you can find such nice things as the Younger Brother album and the Backroom Beats series... SMI²LE

why bother burning a DVD with MP3s??? You already have 8-9 albums on one CD, meaning roughly 11-12 hours of non-stop music, IMO that's more than enough... SMI²LE