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Haha I know

I recently purchased Full On Vol.3 and Future Navigators and both blew me away. So no nostalgia involved. Tracks like this don't exist anymore.

This.

I don't care about D5 either, I'm wtih you man.

For its time The Nommos-Primal Meltdown. Although it has been surpassed back in 2006 was audio orgasm. Today they're too many too count. Caveman-Event Horizon is a good candidate.

I have to say Gift Of The Gods. That melody is freaking amazing.

Fuck yeah!

Totally agree. 2 years ago I though newschool Goa was finally getting more interested, but it seems we're going back in 2007. I know I sound too negative and I still enjoy most of the newschool Goa out there, but it's very-very hard to hear a new goa track to make me say wow! Reasons IMO: -Too much obsession with the morning sound. Even they so called darker tracks are not really dark -Dimension 5 sound is still the biggest influence, especially the Second Phaze sound. That means too floaty, too "deep", too straight forward. -Almost zero twists. In the majority of newschool Goa the first minute is enough to know how the rest of the track will go. Climaxes, build ups, chord changes, drops and unexpected moments are extremelly rare. -No raw sound. Everything sound too ethereal. -Overabundance in story telling which is baffling since old school was just kickass melodies and powerful beats. Should I guess that most newschool artists prefer progressive over pure psytrance? However the three biggest flaws IMO are: -Quantity over quality in melodies. I love melodies more than anyone, but I prefer 2-3 memorable melodies over 10 which I would forget 10 seconds later. I don't even mean complex melodies. Some of the most famous Goa melodies are very simple ex. Mahadeva. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I can't remember any melodies in 90% of newschool. -Removal of psychedelic trance. Old school Goa had many psytrance elements as well, but newschool seems to have remove most of it leaving a pure Goa sound behind. Although this seems reasonable you essentially remove a lot of what made old school so awesome. Stuff like Koxbox, Ofer Dikovsky's projects, UX, Pleiadians especially the FOL sound, Tim Schuldt and numerous other projects were so awesome cause they didn't care if they made Goa or something different. -New Goa fans are easy to pleased. Almost any newschool Goa release is met with praise. Discogs rating is always 4+, ektoplazm rating the same etc. Sometimes I feel that it works like this: it's Goa? It's good. I know that many including me are happy that Goa is back and kicking, when 15 years ago we though is dead, but positive criticism is always welcome. Now I know I sound like an old grumpy fart who only likes the good old days, but I buy everything newschool release and enjoy most of them, but after 12 years I think it's time to make the big jump. Everything I wrote is with love and respect. Kisses.

Sky Input by far. Best Filteria album, best newschool Goa album, top 3 Goa albums ever. As for tracks? Every single one of them.

Xenomorph-Qlippoth A bit more minimalistic compared to SH but equally dark and atmopsheric. Narcosis-Exploding Madness Dark, atmopsheric and pretty close to SH IMO. Psychoz-2012 No Return Very dark and spooky. Baphomet Engine Second album Very deep with very little FX. Silent Enemy-Diabolic Dark and very harsh. More in your face than SH though. Orestis-Recursive Consciousness Classic darkpsy sound. Pretty close to SH. Yata-Garasu-Soul Resonance Another album pretty close to SH IMO. Holix And Friends Raw and dark.

It puzzles me that I might be the only one who thinks Quantime is the best. I mean the whole album is absolutely amazing, but Quantime is my favourite KDD track ever. The final melody is sooooooo badass. My fucking God! 10/10 album

I may have a different meaning of floaty. For example I consider E-Mantra or Celestial Consciousness floaty. For me a floaty track has many different melodies that all blend together and no climaxes or twists.

Check everything after 2004. 90% of the newschool stuff is floaty, sunny goa.

Now wait a minute. We may be old, but we're still cool granpas who can enjoy a silly thread. I used to make a lot of those.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjVyBWG8-vU

A couple more and everything by Psygone. He always used an acid segment in the middle of his tracks. I love this track

What's the second track? It's pretty cool. Oh and Paul Eye reminds me of the First World Metal Problems meme guy.

A Goa track An older psy track A modern psy track

Do people just list their favourite artists? I thought this thread was about artists you love every single track by them.

Honestly I never believed the theory that drugs can influence the music. For example a popular theory is that today's psytrance sounds so fast and fernetic because artists are on coke. If that was the case every rock star would make darkpsy.

I woildn't call Antiloop eurotrance. Either way they are the reason I became a trance fan and they have written possibly the best trance track of all time.

That cover is so 90's. I love it!