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Anything by X-Dream and side projects. Oh yes and everything by Twisted. The least psychedelic label from the old ones.

Silent Night Holy Night is beyond belief. I cry every time I listen to it.

Everything by the Trance master Vincent De Moore Check out this track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3yfhSlAYg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8L4_wqdTyw Classics!

I don't believe you gave Double Dragons a B+ and to Sunshrine a A- These tracks deserve A+++++ Anyway agree. This album is one of the best ever produced!

I have to add Shift too. Four personal albums. two Twisted System, two Pitch Hikers and dozens of compilation tracks. All awesome.

Why? All you need is a camera. Do you think the Twisted dvd has anything better? Just a guy with a camera asking and the artist answering.

I was watching the Twisted dvd again and I thought that a Suntrip dvd would be really cool. And I'm not talking that much about some videos from a party, but interviews, studio tours etc. Going behind the curtain and see where an artist is working or listening to a nice interview with him is something that I always like to watch. Plus there are not that much psy dvds of that kind. What do you think?

Sorry, but I have to add Sundrops in that list. I have never bitched before about the loudness war, but here is something different. Unlike most of modern psytrance releases today Sundrop's track are filled with highs. The release is sooooo loud that listening to it with my heaphones in high volume almost made me deaf! Agneton's album for example (which also has a lot of highs) sounds much better balanced. Please don't make the new Filteria like this. I prefer the old school, noisey sound of Sky Input much more that this.

Not like

Etnica/Pleiadians: The last Ernica albums weren't that good, the same for the third Pleiadians, but we're talking about a group that have released Alien Protein, IFO, Family Of Light and soon Tetrahedron! Astral Projection: Everything except Amen is a 10/10 from me. (Of course I don't count Ten as an album). MFG: Again everything except the last one (which as a full on album is more than good) is perfect. And many-many-many more artists that have released 2 or more great albums.

I agree with Jon and I like to change my rating for this album from 8/10 to 7/10. Maybe even 6.5/10. It's a good album, but nothing more, but Structural Failure is a 10/10 track for sure.

V/A - SHAMANISMA Dance cd: 1. Shiva3 - Angel Meditation 2. Alienapia - Secret Symbols 3. Fragletrollet - Shamanizer 4. Eraser vs Yojalka - Ugro Shamanistic Movez 5. Magimatic - Magic Orchestra 6. OmegaHertz - Deisis 7. Spirit Medicine - Back To Source 8. Shiva3 - Yello 9. Indica Project - Trees Of Psychedelia 10. The Muses Rapt - The Fool 11. Reality Pixie - Schnickschnick Ambient cd: 1. Paper Squad - Endless Mindput 2. Kukan Dub Lagan - Dovenation 3. Maiia - Rainforest Evterpa 4. Pantomiman - Special For You 5. Shangri-La - Om Mahalakshmi 6. Lethal Doze feat. Spayo Ventax - Tribe With Shamans 7. Yestegan ChaY - Twenty 8. Unknown Cause - The Shaman Within 9. Zymosis - Anterra 10. James Reipas - Talvitalvi The compilation's opener is a track by Shiva3, an artist unknown to me. This is an interesting track. It's like a combination of minimal darkpsy at 138-140 bpm filled with haunting melodic lines floating around and mysterious voices. It's obvious that the artist wanted to recreate a psychedelic shamanic trip. Listening to this track I had the feeling that I'm in a cave ready to drink the ayahuasca mix. Not a party blaster, but a track for listening and tripping. Great start! Next we get Alienapia's track, a pure Goa stormer. Old School-ish to the bone, with high synths and acidic mood. Some synths are maybe a bit too high and listening to maximum volume with headphones maybe hurt your ears a bit. But this track is awesome! Very dreamy stuff, yet energetic with a liquid bass that I miss a lot these days. Especially when the acidic wall raises from the depth this track is ace! Super! Fragletrollet takes the compilation in darker paths. Forest scandinavian darkpsy here. Very fast, but expect a lot of madness and some carnival style melodies. The kick sounds completelly wooden (in a good way). The last part is more spiritual and trippy. Nice track. Suomi masters EvsY return the compilation to light. Groovy as always with crazy melodies. The track is very intense and seems to combine the 3 styles of EvsY albums in a great way. Much more uplifting and less spiritual than the rest tracks here, but a winner track for sure. Again we shift to the darkness with Magimatic. I don't know how to describe that track. Try mixing Infected Mushroom with a suomi spice, add some minimal darkpsy and lot of madness. Very original track! I can't think of anything similar. I will keep an eye on Magimatic. Next are OmegaHertz bringing some melodies. Neo Goa track with some indian influences. I've heard that this group is a bit cheesy, but this track stays behind the cheesiness line. It's ethnic influenced, but not cheesy IMO. The track ie very catchy, although I believe it needed more layers. Still nice track. Another Goa effort by Spirit Medicine. Very acidic track, it will bring a smile to every 303 lover's face. The track is non stop, with almost no breaks at all. Some background melodies especially at the end sound very nice, I would like to see the group focus more on them. Very good. Shiva3 again. This track is definitely more energetic and morning styled than the first one. Some of you may not like the monotonous bass here, but the track works. There are many dreamy melodies flying around and the track builds greatly till the end. Good track again. Another old school track by Indica Project. This track sounds like it was made in 1995, filled with a lot of nostalgia. IMO it's a simple track, don't expect maximal attitude. The melody around minute 4 is very beautiful, I would love to see this as the main melody of the track, but unfortunately it doesn't return. In the last two minutes the track transforms into a dub downtempo, not exactly my style, but the whole track is nice. Huh! The Fool! Ok for one more time, this is one of the best tracks ever written. Imagine the ideal Muses Rapt track. A stormer fiiled with powerful hats, kicks, snares and non stop melodies so emotional and beautiful that will make you cry. Yet this track never stops moving your feet. Pure, real Trance! This track crushes the classic Spiritual Healing. Note that this is a remastered version although at the start there's some clipping, but who really cares? What a great way to end the first cd. Two great tracks in a row! Reality Pixie an artist that grabbed my attention the last years delivers his best track so far IMO. Psychedelic to the bone, happy and funny! A track that will make you smile for sure! Lovely psytrance! The ambient cd opens with Paper Squad. It starts like a normal dark dubby ambient, but soon speeds up to become an almost dance track. The synths are screaming and soon enough a praying guy sample enters. The last two minutes everything stops except the sample. To be honest I didn't enjoy that much listening to a guy singing/praying for two whole minutes. Next we get a pure dub track by Kukan Dub Lagan. This style was never my favorite, but I guess if you enjoy dub you're gonna find something good here. Now Maiia's track had the potential to become one of my best downtempo tracks of the last years. The melodies here are very happy and it's impossible not to think some exotic place while listening to them. The first two minutes are soooo beautiful! Happy music FTW! The rest of the track becomes much more dreamy. I love it, but I wish he continued the melodies of the first minutes more. Still great track!!! Pantomiman's track is a bit more experimental. Many synth bells here and acoustic percussion. The last part is very melodic and very interesting. Dreamy and dark! Ok time for time travel. Do you remember the old times when there was a downtempo track in almost every Goa album? Well Shangri-La sounds like that! The only thing I don't like in this track is the cliche female indian singing sample. Apart from that the track is very relaxing and beautiful. Lethal Doze feat. Spayo Ventax. I'm not familiar with the artists, but this track is interesting. It's very dark in a more ritual than scary way. It's like taking a Nommos track, remove most of the effects and low the tempo to 130 bpm. Try it on acid! Yestegan ChaY has some breakbeat influences almost IDM-ish. The track is very psychedelic and reminds of sunny beaches. Especially the pads are very emotional (I wanted more of them to be honest) and the ethnic melodies are very well made. Next we get a nice downtempo track by Ubnknown Cause. Nothing strange here, the track is pretty much the average downtempo psy stuff you would except, without that meaning is bad. Nice track. Zymosis track has some heavy IDM influeces. Actually it sounds more IDM than psy orientated. A bit too experimental for relaxing, but it has a nice atmopshere and IDM lovers will dig it. Ah, James Reipas. Such a simple song, yet so nice. This track has a very melancholic feeling in it. It got me everytime I listen to it. It's actually downtempo with 3-4 layers playing a sad, nostalgic tune. Perfect for rainy mornings. That was a pleasant surprise. A double cd compilation filled with neo goa, old school goa, dark psytrance and meditation psy, dub, downtempo, goambient and dark ambient. Space Baby surely gets in my watchout list. No bad tracks here, a bunch of great tunes and The Fool! Highly recommencded!

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Yeah my thoughts exactly. I was always considering psytrance as alien music. Not only it's weird and complicated, but also has this spacey feeling in it.

Well said.

His previous album Sacred Scars was very good! Robotic Tongue had some good tracks, a super track (Structural Failure), but as an album was average IMO.

Pan Electric & Ishq-Clox I've been listening to this track in repeat for 20 minutes now! I luvit, luvit, luvit!!!!1 :posford:

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/dps/dps2cd030.html Check this out! In three tracks he collaborates with MEEO! And the one is Dark Nebula vs MEEO vs Electrypnose! And of course the must buy reason for me Dark Nebula vs Twisted System And also: Including an interactive re-mixable CD, In full 16bit CD quality. With a competition to make your own dark nebula remix, and the possibility of getting your remix released on Psionic Tales Episode 3. :clapping:

I actually used the word subculture as in ''small culture'' meaning and not as a part of a main culture. My bad

This is kind of off topic. It's not just about music, but about the whole scene. If any mod thinks it's unrelated to General topic he can close it anytime. What do I mean as a subculture? Something like the Heavy Metal scene. It's a music genre, but it has its own symbols. From the way the people are dressed or their haircuts or the trademarks of the scene=darkness, demons, religious themes, gore, black etc. Rock music for example doesn't have a subculture. There are fanatical rock listeners, but with the popularity and the diversity of the scene today is very difficult to call it a subculture. It used to have back in the 60's (although I don't know if screaming Beatles groupies qualify as a subculture ) 70's or even 80's, but not any more IMO. Pop doesn't have a subculture for obvious reasons. Not even Jazz or classical music. Hip Hop used to have, but after the MTV-gansta impact it's lost it. (Although they're still a core of real hip hop lovers). In electronic & dance music I can't think of any genre with a subculture except the industrial scene (who belong in a larger group of a dark culture and IMO it didn't born from the music, if you know what I mean). Maybe noise, but the audience is too small to create a subculture, or hardcore, but they are chavs so... So we stick with Psytrance which IMO has a subculture. Parties with specific concepts, trademark symbols like Shiva, Ganesha and more Hindu stuff, Aliens, Fractals, Sci-Fi themes, Spiritual concepts, a PLUR attitude (which today maybe doesn't exist that much but it's still there IMO), etc. I hope you got what I mean. What do you think? It has? has not? used to have?

I just bought it and I'm in track 3 so far. Musical-wise I will comment later, but am I the only one who find the overall volume of the release waaayyyy too loud? It's so loud that it's kind of annoying. I'm listening to it with half the volume I'm usually listening to cds and it still botheres me. It wasn't so bad with the previous Suntrip releases.

I made an early comment about Shamanisma. On topic:

Amazing!!!

Nope. I have 1 mbps connection it was pretty fast.

Yes I agree. Great track!