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OMG they finally released it! Yep, I remember hearing this one a year ago, and desperately trying to find, really happy it's finally out for eveyrone to hear many thanks Anoebis

hey all, with festival season ending I was wondering, what would you consider the track of the summer to be? You know, like THE track that was played time and time again at different places and made everyone go crazy? I'm sad to say that I haven't head any that were made recently at least Just the same Juno Reactor - Pistolero, 1200 Mics - Mescaline etc... Maybe you guys were luckier than me?

OMG that's EXACTLY how 99% of the tracks played at big festivals sound! lol

hmmm well ok, Armin is playing house music just to be in but hey, has anyone taken a look at the psy scene lately? I've been to 2 (rather) large festivals this summer and I couldn't get ONE track that really impressed me and that wasn't already released years ago... it's all turning to shit IMO.

So lately there was an interview on Armin Van Buuren asking him what he was currently listening to on his iPod and he replied... OTT, bet you didn't see this one coming (OTT himself didn't see it coming either lol). We might actually have an Armin in Dub album in the coming future! full interview here

So in my searchings I've stumbled on this, I couldn't stop laughing at the intro lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WScxCB3YL5M also this (the first track, Fractal Cowboys - Back Door Dinausaur) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jc23m8_tDc any other stuff like this out there?

Too many people apparently... although a lot of people I know actually chose NOT to go there this year because the prices were too high. Bummer

Fuuuuuuuck, this is the first time I've ever heard of a big psy festival being sold out in advance... Well, I guess I'll have to wait for another 2 years then

Ah, nice to see that I'm not the only one who fucking hates it. Worst part is the youtube inteview with Pharell on Oprah where he starts crying cause he realises that this song makes people all over the World happy... WHAT A FUCKING TWAT!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFKnXu623s Although after seeing that inteview I can't stop thinking of this when the song is on the radio hahaha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbFhOeqTzY PS it's not Bob Marley, it's Bobby McFerrin...

thanks for the infos guys, I guess I have a LOT of listening to do now

hi Mergi, hope you and your cat get well soon I know I'm a bit late for the contest but as a seasoned goatrance veteran I can't walk by without recommending you Alienapia - Goapocalipsis. IMO it is the most innovative album to hit the psy scene in the last 5 years, period http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvnJt4XI2LE

hmm well it's good acid, but certainly not acid trance (I don't think Hardfloor ever considered themselves to be a trance act?). Interesting stuff and nice to see the little silver box tinkerers back in business although I still miss the Acperience days

thanks mate, I knew I could count on good ol' Ormion for some good picks. I acutally listened quite extensively to Silent Horror a few years back and then for some reason completely forgot about it, thanks for reminding me. Especially liking the Akes album from your recomendations

well I can't really say I'm up to date in psytrance anymore, although I still have a certain knowledge of newschool releases, however I realize that my dark psy collection is SERIOUSLY lacking new material, I think the last dark psy album I really enjoyed was Orestis - Recursive Consciousness and that was like 3 years ago (my how time flies...). So anything new in the scene? Some artists that I should know about?

Good but not great... at the same time, Shpongle has put up SOOO many quality tracks over the years that I guess it's pretty hard to keep the standards. The most notable change from previous albums is that this time, instead of taking you through a World trip (with musical influences ranging from latin to indian) this time they're taking us through a movie trip, for example minute 7:15 from Aquatic Garden uses a sample from Twin Peaks (Laura Palmer's theme to be exact ). This also sound much more "contained" than older stuff, you don't have that "wild ride" feeling anymore, which kindof makes it boring after a while. 3/5 from me.

yep, Ben Watkins is making a comeback to his goa roots with this one (Invisible! OMG!!), although this isn't by any means a neo-goa release, it is much deeper than that. Definatley one of the most original psytrance releases of 2013. Faves: 2(!!), 3, 8(!!) 4/5 from me

I know there are a lot of Platipus fans out there who regret the times of acid trance, it really had something unique to it that no other style had IMO. Well, technically it never died cause Platipus has still been active ever since the Union Jack days, however the certain something-something was missing from their new stuff. BUT, for once I hear a new track that has ALL the ingredients that made acid trance great back in the days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnp31ZoDWY so, anything else like this around?

(taken from here) Ok, I'm not completely there, but some points on this list got me worried (especially no.3, 20 and 25 ). How about you?

very interesting topic! The main problem IMO is that the definition of what is goa is ever-more narrower as the years go by. Early day it was just trance, PERIOD, thus there was HUGE room for evolution since the definition of trance was extremely broad, just take a look on very old trance complilation's tracklist, various artists, some of which wouldn't even be considered trance at all were on there. Then came the initial split between "normal" trance and goa, then goa in its turn subdivided more and more until the dozen-or-so substyles that we have today. The problem is that, in order to have your music called "goa" these days, artists are forced to abide by some very strict and limiting rules compared to back in the days, obviously when an artist has to start thinking in terms of "oh wait, I need to have this and this and this in my track or it won't be a goa track", creativity is greatly impaired and you end up with a scene where everything seems to be a copy of everything else. I don't think there's room today for acts like Quirk, Sandman, Shaolin Wooden Men or... Yamabikaya(?) Something as revolutionary as Pleidaians - IFO was back in its time simply wouldn't get a record deal these days IMO. The last artist to take goatrance to new uncharted territories was Ka-Sol IMO, and we all know how hard it was for him to get a record deal. Of course, I am also aware that money is a very important factor here, the days when dread-wearing hippies released a few tracks on vinyl and made more money than a CEO are certainly long-gone, I can definately understand an artist would think twice before dedicating himself to a narrow scene which would mean that he'd also need a day-job just to put food on the table (thinking of Ketzhal here). So for me, although goatrance will always have a special place in my heart, the scene is pretty much dead in terms of evolution (it has been YEARS since I haven't heard a new release that would challenge my top 20 goa tracks ever list). Worst part is that I don't really think there's a remedy to this, it is simply that times have changed and one has to live with their time (not meaning that I won't enjoy dancing my ass off at a goa party every now and then )

as always, I'm always late on catching up with new stuff, anyway I've discovered lately a music style called raggatek (fusion between reggae and hardtek), it's pretty simple but I can't get enough of it So, anyone alse tried it? my 2 fave tracks of the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AgPzFX4gr0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAon987NXbI

Yes, I'm not talking about psytrance remixes of tracks cause there are shitloads of those, i'm talking about those ultra-rare occurences when OTHER music styles actually take psytrance samples. Here's a pretty surprising one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePADCvb-PZg

I'm noticing this more and more lately, you're waiting for the "good" part to start, and just when you think "yeah, FINALLY!!" and get ready to jump out of your seat to dance it's over, like someone edited out the last part or something. WTF is up with that??? soooo frustrating!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_UDQRJnoLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJqTuioLMQ

that's actually true!!! how many times have I had to turn the usb key 3 times before it would fit

ah yes indeed, I know Cybernetika's stuff, although it's more breakbeat than d&b... thanks for reminding me though, I haven't listened to him in a while [EDIT: oh, I didn't know he crossed into pure d&b realm with this album, thanks!! ]

just randomly stumbled on this, it is by far the best d&b track I've heard in YEARS!!! anyone know of more like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJBhPA_gwcs