Lemmiwinks

AMEN! Couldn't have said it better myself. It's like oldschool made you understand that there was so much more out there, it made you look beyond your everyday life, up to the stars, to a new spirituality... Today it's all about having a good time on some beats, like most electronic music. The main message today is "hey, let's all get high and have fun!". There's no "out there" dimension anymore IMO. I remeber back in the days I'd read about a lot of people going to Goa and completley changing their lifestyles afterwards because they just couldn't stand living their normal materialistic life after having such a mind-opening experience. I NEVER hear such stories anymore today... Now it's "so I snorted a line of coke and 2 lines of speed, then I popped some Es and maaan!!! The music was awesome!! This is the best DJ I've ever heard in my life!!! 10!!!!". Few seem to be aware that when you're so high you could listen to fukken Britney Spears and think it's the best music in the world... The shit is that some people in the psytrance scene cannot live without an idol to adore... and they all got tired of waiting for Hallucinogen or Pleiadians to release their 3rd album

probably cause what suits us best isn't made anymore...?

ah you did release progressive under the name Elysium? When and where? Anyway, I agree that ultimatley it is the artist who decides BUT I was just saying that it would be more "ethical" to change names when releasing stuff under a different style, that's all... Imagine going to your local grocery and discovering it has turned over night into a pharmacy but still has the same name in the window and noone informed you about the change. You wouldn't be too happy, would you?

first off, I'm amazed that YOU are defending oldschool artists that release tracks in a different style under the same name... why aren't you releasing progressive stuff under your old name Elysium then? second of all, like Seraph said, IMO musicians VERY rarely make the stuff that they want without trying to please the crowd, and eventually trying to make some $$$ while they're at it... It's not a question of pleasing the old "sour grapes", but more like which is the bigger crowd to please IMO. as for the upcomming Transwave album... it has been "in the works" for like 5 years now, I highly doubt it will one day actually be released, it's just one of those news that people talk about every now and then like the upcoming Hallucinogen or Pleiadians... just accept the fact that the past is the past... PS: the initial topic was about re-releasing OLD Transwave tracks...

but with electronic music it's not the same as with pop... The pop audience just looks at the name and doesn't care if it's pop-rock or pop-industrial or whatever. HOWEVER in the electronic music scene, people look first at the genre, then at the artist behind it so the people who bought oldschool by Transwave probably wouldn't want to buy full-on by Transwave...

I think people would've apreciated it more if you didn't mention Hallucinogen... or old style... I'd call it "suomi morning" style, not much to do with oldschool or Hallucinogen for that matter. Still, it's prety nice

yeah but surely there are MUCH more costs involved in producing and retailing a CD? How can a label make money off a CD with all the costs involved (glass master, printing, stocks, distribution, etc) and not be able to be in the black when your only costs are bandwith and Visa charge?

yep this was (and still is) one of the finest chill out CDs I own. And the track Life After Death... oh... my... God... it still brings shivers down my spine when I listen to it. 9/10

Man this is one oddball album... At first I just didn't get what all the fuss was about, it all sounded just too random for me so I set it aside. Then I put it back on a few months later and found some interesting parts, but still the other parts just seemed to wierd for me. So my apreciation climbed from "mediocre" to "pretty good". I set it aside again for a few months and just decided to give it yet another try... and lo and behoold this time around it sounded GREAT!!! So there you go ladies and gentelmen: a new album that grows on you... that's something that doesn't happen anymore these days. So in conclusion, it's not one of those "OMG this is KILLARGHHH" album that makes you want to listen to it constantly for weeks and weeks BUT in the longterm (in this case it took almost a year!) it does get more playvalue than like 99,9% of releases these days. So 9/10 from me And again, DO let it sink into you before giving this album a proper apreciation...

Hmm sorry but no... I definatley don't share people's enthusiasm with this one. There is one good thing about it: most of the tracks use 303s!!! So I guess the little silver box is coming back into fashion again. Yihaa!!! However the tracks here are pretty uninspired, they lack direction and "soul". NOT ONE track really stood out and made me want to get out of my chair and dance... I'd definatley pick up Raja Ram's Evolution of Expanded Consciousness over this one... 6,5/10 oh and special comment on the all-important Hallucinogen track: sure it brings in some nice oldschool melodies, but it's simply too little, too late (min 6:00 to 6:50... yes, that's 50 seconds out of a 9:25 minute track...). The rest of the track is just pure random stuff... I REALLY don't understand why oldschool artists just put in these little "teasers" inside some of their tracks instead of giving us a full-on (in the oldschool sense of the word) melodic bliss... Also a side note on the album "concept": this was supposed to be like a 30 year aniversary of the legendary Sex Pistols release God Save the Queen. So one would probably expect some anarchistic samples in the tracks, some destructive power, some open criticism on the British monarchy, hell ANYTHING that would remind you of the Sex Pistols... The concept had SOOO much potential behind it: reuniting old and new underground cultures, reafirming the 70s ideals, showing evolution in music all while keeping the same key values etc. But none of that actually happened here Just like TIP - Red, any resemblance with some former release remains simply in the comp title and cover image, which looks kindof like a scam to me... As usual, the guys behind TIP Records were too focused on making a quick buck out of a handfull of "killarrrghhh releases" rather than giving the concept the thought it deserved, and that's a real pitty IMO. PS (worthless comment but I just couldn't resist): heh that's easy to answer: brits are so fanatical about Simon P that he could seriously fuck up and STILL get massive critical acclaim simply because of his name... It's just how these people work, they can't live without their idols: the Beatles, the Sex Pistols, the Gallagher brothers, etc. etc. Every generation and music style had their respective "gods" lol

well imagine you buy and album and see that it's just a dude farting into a mic for 70 minutes... you'd be surprised too, but that wouldn't make you want to recomend it to others, no?

1. Human error 2. Madjik L25 3. Progresive 4. Think about it 5. Digital patty 6. Killer track 7. Dope junkiez 8. Nasty pasty 9. Xxx-perimental So this is the colaboration between rising dark trance artists Highko and Cosmo which is basically pretty conventional "screechy" russian dark psy, nothing that really grabs me by the balls or anything. And actually I find this album quite pale compared to Highko's solo project Noise Brothers on Poison also released this year. So if I were you, I'd definatley get that one instead... 5/10

ah yes I agree that BBQ With Mackies is the standout of this album (killer name too, I can just imagine in which situation the artists made the track )

well sorry but personally I find it too "mainstream"... once you've seen a few photoshop filters you've seen them all IMO...

1. Fight or Die (Highko RMX) 2. Travel In Reverse 3. Crossing the Dateline 4. Motzetz Kus 5. Escalation 6. Calm Down 7. Level 25 8. BBQ With Mackles 9. 2 Headed Man 10. Not a Puppet Here comes another release from the new dark trance label Noise Poison (created by Highko and Naked Tourist). Basically you have 2 artists: Highko and Cosmo. They made a collaboration album under the name Highcosmos, then Cosmo released his solo project and now Highko released his own. So try not to get lost in all the "highs" and "comsos" lol This album is for me the culminating point of russian dark metallic trance. It contains some tracks made just by Highko and others as collaborations between him and Kindzadza (Fight or Die and Motzetz Kus and 2 Headed Man), Fullmoon F (BBQ With Mackies) and Alien Metal (Not a Puppet). Which is odd cause although other artists are involved, all the tracks sound the same!! They basically use all the "typical" russian trance ingredients but they're used a bit too often for my taste, giving it a kindof of "over the top" feeling. So basically Highko throws the same bag of tricks in your face over and over again in EACH track!! BUT I can understand why these tracks have the potential of ripping the dancefloor apart. All those breaks will certainly make anyone dancing go mad. So not really any use in making a track by track review since they all sound the same, I'll just say that personally I have mixed feelings about this album. Each track taken individually is for sure a killer but having 10 tracks sounding the same just becomes boring. And I would've gone for more organic sounds and less "screechy" sounds... 7,5/10 for me

hmm sorry but no... IMO there are TONS of better dark trance releases out there. First off, although this has the trademark fast dark trance bassline, it's not really dark, it's more like just plain wierd. Second of all, there are just too many interludes to make listening to this album an enjoyable experience. Sometimes you hear a fast bassline and you think it's the start of a track, but then it just winds down to some very odd gibberish. Of course, I like some of the "speeches" and it shows that these guys have been playing around a lot with certain chemical substances but when you get to the point of having to fast-forward through 2-3 interludes just to get to a "normal" track it's just taking it too far IMO. And then some of the tracks (when you finally get to stumble an a track and not an interlude...) lack of direction, it's like the artists just randomly play around with their synths over a dark trance bassline most of the time. but, sometimes, it can get pretty good as well, my top picks being track 4, 11 and 16 (but I should also mention that NONE of the tracks here made me jump out of my chair and start dancing or anything...) 5/10 from me...

so basically you people are comparing an album released in 2005 with stuff from 2006? Don't you think it would be more apropriate to start new topics reviewing the mentioned 06 albums and compare them with previously released stuff like psykovsky?

BEAUTIFUL album!!! Now THOSE are melodies! No full-on kiddie nonsense, this is a pure spiritual bliss. OK, so it's less downtempo oriented than the 13 Skulls series but that's not necessarily a bad thing. 9,5/10 from me I'd definatley consider this an 2006 classic (and a million times better than the much over-hyped God Save the Machine)

agree 100%... how could S-Range abandon their dreamy minimal style for this boring full-on??? Only the title track (Another Theory) is worth listening to, it has some nice flute samples but they're a bit overused in the end so it gets kindof repetitive. The rest is just crap. If I were the artists I wouldn't even bother naming my tracks anymore, I'd just call them "random full-on track no. 3594"... actually I wouldn't even bother creating the stuff myself, I'd just make a computer program which would make it for me. 4/10

hmm... I found that one not to be very memorable... and not very melodic (in the "dreamy melodies" sense) either.

hehe I remember a time on psynews (actually goatrance.free.fr to be correct) when there was this dude flooding this site with posts like "Dude, you should listen to XV Killist!!! He's the best psy producer in the world!!!" I wonder what ever happened to them (the artist and the fan lol)

indeed one of the best albums of 2005! I haven't heard such beautiful melodies in YEARS! my only issue with the album is that it doesn't really innovate, Khetzal just makes good oldchool as if he was stuck in some timewarp where it's still 1996. Also, sometimes the eastern atmospheres can get a bit too stereotypical, and even quite stupid (ie. that female voice going "Ganeeeeeeshaaaa" at 4:55 of Ganesha Pramana). BUT these are only small complaints on what is otherwise an EXCELLENT album!! Also this is the ONLY newschool album I know of which is more on the dreamy side of things since Dimension 5, as opposed to the "rough crazy" side that most newschool producers made in the last years. More like this please!!! 9/10

I'd chose Scizoeffective because it was more varied... you had other tracks than just techtrance. With Send In... they just used the same formula for all the tracks (doesn't mean it's bad though )

YOU need to listen to Ghreg on Earth - Sigilweaver to see what proper dark psy is

lol you talk about dark albums but don't mention a SINGLE dark trance artist... Also some of the albums you mentioned in there are anything but dark (MOS - Drive, Chi AD - Anno Domini, Toi Doi - Technologic,...). Might as well put Skazi up there while you're at it... anyway, I voted for Xenomorph