PKS

Fuzzion - Black Magic (Boshke Beats) http://www.discogs.com/release/618932 =techno/electro/trance... NP: http://www.discogs.com/release/235706

I have seen those holes too... My guess is that they were "destroyed" because of the publishing company... As a label, I have to pay a certain amount for every CD pressed to the publishing company. If I don't sell all the cds, I can get some of the money back, if I destroy the unsold cds! To do so, I have to go to a classified "destroying company", and I can get some of the money back. I think they usually destroy them completly (burn them or something), but in the "hole case", they probably did it a bit differently... I don't think they are promos... With other words, this explains why CDs become so rare... They are burned! I am actually going to the "destroying company" soon to burn a few hundred Quality Relaxation (Chill Tribe Records) cds. The CD sales sucked. It will be a sad day for sure to see those great Cds melt... So grab it while you can... By the way, I love the Access Denied CD!

Last week: -Pete Namlook & Gaudi - Re:sonate (FAX) http://www.discogs.com/release/600300 -V/A Arcana (Interchill) http://www.discogs.com/release/610206 -James Bernard - Unreleased Works 1994-1999 (James Bernard Music) http://www.discogs.com/release/580692 -Elve - Infinite Garden (Virtual Musical Reality) (Not yet on Discogs) http://www.discogs.com/label/Virtual+Musical+Reality Next incoming: New Biosphere album: Biosphere - Dropsonde (Touch/Beatservice) http://www.discogs.com/release/586982 A lot of nice ambient these days...

Canadian Interchill Records opens 2006 with a real bomb here. A new compilation, this time compiled by Naasko, who obviously knows how to pick out those real masterpieces from some of the best ambient/dub producers we have out there. The track list we get served here is simply amazing, and together with the beautiful cover artwork we get here, this is for sure going to be one of the highlights on the chill out marked this year. Arcana (Interchill Records) 2006 (ICHILLCD023) 1. Tripswitch – Calabi Yau 2. Kaya Project – One God Dub (Dubsahara Rmx) 3. Zen Lemonade – Soriya 4. Don Peyote – In Havana 5. Eat Static – Ocean Of Fire 6. Hibernation – Embers 7. Noodreem – Cicada Wave (Acacia Tree Dub) 8. Dubsahara – Harmonic Density (Rubicon Mix) 9. Adham Shaikh – Satori 10. Jairamji – Stabilizing In Chaos Tripswitch – Calabi Yau British Nick Brennan is mostly known for his releases on Dragonfly chill label Liquid Sound Design, including his debut album Circuit Breaker released last year. An album which resulted in several beautiful live performances worldwide. He delivers a nice, dubby track, surrounded by atmospheric floating soundscapes. Nice, chilled start on the compilation. Kaya Project – One God Dub (Dubsahara Rmx) Seb Taylor aka Digitalis aka Shakta aka Somaton aka Angel Tears aka Kaya Project is allready well known in the Interchill family, with two albums released under this name. He has got great feedback, both in the ethnic world music scene, as well as in the lounge chill areas. Here we get a remix of one of his tracks done by a new project called Dubsahara. But, Dubsahara is not a new face to the scene. This is actually the new project by Greg Hunter, which is a talented producer most known for his Subsurfing project in the early 90’s. He has also produced music with several musicians within the world music genre, including the Alien Soap Opera and Fifth Sun projects. Here he gives us a lot of bass, dubby vibes and mystic soundscapes. Zen Lemonade – Soriya Zen Lemonade is a project by the couple, Super Cozi and Gus Till. Both long timers in the scene, with many different projects. The Zen Lemonade name is most known from their album LemonSoul released on Dragonfly Records in 2002. An album exploring experimental sides of psytrance. In the meantime, both of them has worked on different projects, which has resulted in several solo albums. Here they are back with a new chilled track, with ethnic vocals, organic instruments and floating vibes. Don Peyote – In Havana Don Peyote is less known for most people, but has actually released two albums on Peyote Recordings, and a few tracks on various compilations such as on Green Ant. I guess many will get a positive surprise with this track. Pretty experimental, but nice. Tribal drums, nature sounds, flute ingredients and a bit of jazzy vibes makes it to a pleasant little journey. Eat Static – Ocean Of Fire Eat Static shouldn’t be a stranger to anyone who has listened to electronic music for a while. Pioneer(s) in the psychedelic electronic music scene, who has explored most sides of our music, including drum n bass, psychedelic rock, psytrance, techno, ambient, big beat and more. They rarely go wrong with their music, and the track we get here is no exception. Chilled, dubby beats with their typical “alien vibes” added to it all, here with some nice arabic vocals. Hibernation – Embers Hibernation is a name you will for sure hear more in the near future. This is the new exciting project by Seb Taylor!! Album plans is on the way, and several tracks will probably show up on various compilations soon, so this is definatley something to look out for! The style he delivers with this project reminds me a lot of his Angel Tears and Kaya Project, but goes a little bit further away from the world music feel, and adds some more psychedelic vibes on it. Just the way I like it. Totally relaxing and beautiful organic chill. Noodreem – Cicada Wave (Acacia Tree Dub) Noodreem is another name you should watch out for. This is the chilled project by Darren Evans who has pereviously been involved with Dragonfly Records. The Noodreem project resulted in a beautuful track on the Mana Medicine compilation (Liquid Sound Design 2001), but other than that, this name is not very known yet. When I visited the Sonica festival in Italy summer 2005, I was lucky enough to pick up a promo album (One Love) he has released on his label Sangita Sounds (grab it if you can!). An album that for sure showed me that this guy has talent! The track we get here is really nice. Very organic, floating vibe with some ethnic voices and great melodies. I really hope to hear more from this artist in the future. Dubsahara – Harmonic Density (Rubicon Mix) Then it’s time for another beautiful piece of music from Greg Hunter and his new Dubsahara project. Again we receive a lot of bass and dubby soundscapes, mixed with arabic vibes and drums. I hope he will push himself into the studio and come up with a Dubsahara album one day… Adham Shaikh – Satori One of my favourite producers when it comes to ethnic ambient has for a long time been Adham Shaikh from Canada. This guy is a pioneer in the chill out scene, with releases from as realy as 1993! Starting exploring synthesizers allready in the 80’s, this guy has for sure gained some good knowledge when it comes to music production, which has resulted in four albums (as Adham Shaikh), on labels such as Instinct Ambient and Dakini Records. Adham Shaikh seems to be an artist who never goes wrong. The track we get here is simply amazingly beautiful! Totally floating, mystic ambient. Jairamji – Stabilizing In Chaos As a pretty big surprise, Naasko finsihes the compilation with a new track by Jairamji who rarley release music at all, but has gained great reputation after releasing a classic chill album (Kindred Spirits) on Japanese Dakini Records, plus a couple of tracks on compilations. They usually serve very long tracks, and the track we get here is no exception. It’s an ethnic chill journey lasting for over thirteen minutes, making us about as chilled as we can possibly get. Pure, floating ambient from beginning to end, almost without beats. Beautiful finish on the compilation. This compilation is without doubt the best compilation I have heard from Interchill Records so far. Here we get pure quality from beginning to end, done by many of the most talented ambient/chill producers out there. Very good work done by Naasko! I rarely get this excited about a compilation anymore, but this will for sure be one of the major highlights in the chill out areas this year. Recommended! PKS More reviews at: http://www.trance.net

Stocking maybe? I will get in jail for this... The inside of the van is covered with pictures... Just kidding...

Please don't give up! I really want that CD single... Do you know if this "Tom" guy has many left? PKS

Interesting discussion here, but I don't think the majority of collectors do it to "show off". Personally, I have collected for many years (12 years now I think), and it took like 8 years before anyone saw my collection. I do it because of love for music. I am simply a music addict who listen to music almost 24 hours a day! I just have a lot of fun collecting, completing a label etc. I can use a sunny freeday inside my apartment, sorting records all day, and I love it! Am I a music nerd? Yes. I admit it, and I don't care, because this is what I like to do... Hunting for a rare record, is like erey other collecting hobby, like stamps, coins etc. It gives me a good feelng to finally get a CD I have been hunting for, for many years.. Offcourse! It is in the human nature. Human beings was born hunters. In the old days, human beings were hunting for food. In 2006, I hunt for music... Some people still hunt. I guess they get the same rush when hunting down that big deer they have been dreaming of, like when I finally get that Crop Circles Cd I have been dreaming of... Is it bad? No. People can decide themselves what they will use their money on. Some people choose to use in on drugs, others buy new furniture every year, some people travel (and support poluting plane fuel...) and most people spend it on their local pub, peeing digested beer in the toilet every weekend... For me, it's totally rediculous to say collecting cds is any worse than spending it on other things... To Taika-Kim. Yes, arriving a new city and enter a record store is always a funny treasure hunt... For me, that gives much more good memories than visiting a boring museum. I also buy memories that I will have for the rest of my life... You shouldn't regret that you did that... Do what you like, and don't feel bad about it. Don't become a sheep and follow that crowded line into a museum or something, just because that is more "accepted" in the society... Discogs is my favourite site on the internet. Not because of showing off, but I use it as a tool for learning about music. There I find the information I need to collect and do my hobby, and it is as valuable HISTORY as any other museum on this planet. Discogs will for sure be the MAJOR music resource in the decades to come. This will be used as a history lesson for the generations to come...! Imagine the day "rock discogs" is complete...! Everybody interested in music will use it one day... Music writers, journalists, artists, concert organisers, music teachers etc etc. Believe me!

Ok, sorry... I'm obviously off topic here... By the way, you are still on my msn list Kristian, and I'm waiting a reply on my e-mail... see you!

Yes, that counts... 10 points for you... Who has the biggest score?

Offcourse he does! He played live here in Norway in 1996! At the Quart festival in Kristiansand...! Paul Oakenfold played the same evening (that was the time Oakenfold played goa trance...) Anyway, seen him many, many times. Played on the same stage as him (Italy) taken the same plane as him (Greece), danced besides him (Atmos in Greece) and seen him live several times (Sweden and Greece). This is really bragging groupie stuff isn't it...? LOL Ok, back to your "god pictures" topic....

I played there in 2004 and 2005, and had A LOT of fun... Very well organised festival. Not always the most interesting line up for me, but for sure fun... I'm not going there this year, simply because I will not use all my vacation on festivals this year, like I have done the last five years or so... Some pictures taken by a friend of mine...: http://www.snille.com/gallery/fullmoonfestival05?page=6

Yes... More info: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Digitalis About Autechre, I really hope they could go back to the style of Incunabula, Amber and Tri Repetae, which are absolutely some of my favourite albums of all times...

Solstice Music in Japan surprise us this time with a new concept, bringing some of the most respected artists from the techno scene and the psytrance scene into one compilation. The cover art we get with this is also pretty refreshing and different for a change. Solstice Black Compilation #01 (Solstice Music) 2006 (SOLMCD022) 1. Eat Static – Xeno-Phonic 2. Control F – Release-Rhythm-Circuits 3. X-dream – Insanity 4. Koxbox – Geomancer 2006 5. CJ Bolland – Mole Patrol 6. Thomas P. Heckman – Close Encounter 7. Kloq – Kloq Music 2 8. Prime Suspect – Synthetic Love 9. Synthetic – Evil Thing 10. Juno Reactor – Angel & Men (X-Dream Remix) With this compilation, Solstice Music has finally taken a new direction away from the mass produced full on they have been serving us the last few years. It is compiled by Xavier Morel, who has been playing around the world for many years, including touring with Juno Reactor. Xavier has always wanted the psytrance scene to explore a bit different sides of electronic music, which he has shown in his sets all the way, by putting more techno influenced trance in his sets. The compilation he serves us here is a refreshing add to the psytrance scene, here bringing in pretty big techno artists such as Control F, CJ Bolland, Kloq and Thomas P. Heckmann. And it definatly works for me. In my opinion, one of the most interesting trance compilations I have heard for a long time! Some of the techno stuff doesn’t get me 100%, such as the commercial sounding, almost hardhouse alike Control F track, but the usual suspects such as Eat Static, Synthetic and X-Dream doesn’t let us down… The 2006 version of the Geomancer track by Koxbox sounds a bit stripped down, but will for sure be used as a nice dj tool this year. We also get a new interesting collaboration here (Prime Suspect), which are Jan Müller (X-Dream) together with Xavier himself. Synthetic gives us something new and fresh, with a different sound than usual from him. A slow, groovy track with dark themes. My favourite track here is offcourse the Juno Reactor track Angel & Men, here in a X-Dream remix! A beautiful trance version, which I hope to hear a lot on various festivals this summer. All in all, this is a really strong compilation from Solstice. I really hope this is the beginning of something more to come from Solstice. Because I really think this is something we need in todays overload of melodic full on! PKS More reviews at: http://www.trance.net

The next compilation on Chill Tribe Records is in the progress... So far, confirmed artists are Saafi Brothers, Digitalis (Seb Taylor) and Adham Shaikh... More info coming in not too long...

Got a news letter... Copy & paste: A Big Hello to All... 7 Days Open Air Festival First of all we would like to wish you a Happy New Year full of abundance, dreams & passion. We would like to thank you all for taking an interest in the developments of Soulclipse by signing up to this newsletter. Due to the massive amount of artists performing, we have decided to add and extra trance stage setting the number of stages at 3. Main stage, additional psytrance stage and chillout area/stage. The second stage of presale, will soon terminate and tickets are going fast so get yours now for 115 Euro plus a booking fee of 5 Euro. Please notice there are a number of countries whose citizens are able to buy discounted tickets still for 95 Euro. Physical tickets have been placed worldwide to create easy purchasing alternatives for people who prefer to buy hard tickets. Contacts & addresses of the sales points/persons are now available on the website check the "Ticket" button under the worldwide sales points. More will be added. IndigoKids production team have setup base of operations in Antalya centre and soon will be moving on to the festival site. Decorations and performances are being created in many parts of the world. People are meeting, networking, energies and anticipation growing. Alignments forming... Make sure to check out the 21st of February Soulclipse special from 14:00-16:00 GMT on New Wave Radio on Ministry of Sound Radio www.ministryofsound.com WEBSITE INFO : The long awaited new updated website (new html & flash) is here with a fully confirmed line up guaranteed to be worth all your waiting & patience. The website has already been translated into a few languages and is currently being translated into numerous more languages to make it easy for readers all around the globe. In response to the questions we have been receiving about crossing. Check out the transportation and travel information and recommendations. Also please notice the new sections in the site such as the "Culture" page, to get an idea of the many activities that will be available to us during the festival. Dive into the "Forum" with it's many interesting threads, loads of information, posed and answered questions, beautiful images, informative and enlightening links. and connections being made. Want to know or, let know, who is coming and why?! Need a ride or driving directions?! A place to stay or party before or after the festival, travel tips of all sorts, cheap airfares, weather information, other useful local details and room for suggestions, ...all this and more can be found here! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanx again to all the beautiful people for helping us make this dream become a reality by braiding it together with their own. We will continue to put all our efforts into creating this exciting manifestation. Wishing you a mega good, happy & healthy New Year.. May we all dream our reality & live our dreams. Boom!! Enjoy & we'll see ya on the dance floor under the shadow of the moon... Luv & Smiles.. IndigoKids www.soulclipse.com a Total Solar Eclipse Gathering | March 27th – April 2nd 2006 7 Days Open Air Festival

Talking about Yeke Yeke... It was pretty funny. I saw the African group Mory Kante at the Roskilde festival in Denmark last summer, who made the original... It was pure ethnic music all the way, and no electronics... They played the Yeke Yeke song too, in a tribal way. Here is two pictures I took: It was a really fun concert, kicking off the festival season 2005 for me... By the way, you have a lot to look forward to! I would go for Dave Clarke (!), Adam Beyer, Jaïa and Hardfloor... I saw Hardfloor live in Sweden a couple of years ago, and it's fun...

Anyone knows what happened to Orichalcum?? Their album on TIP is highly psychedelic. The Live album on Creamcrop is pretty nice too...

About time... Welcome to the club... I buy mostly chill myself these days... Am I getting old?

One of my favourite IDM artists, The Black Dog is finally out with a new album! It's really nice music too. It can be bought from the Dust Science web site: The Black Dog - Silenced (Dust Science Recordings) DUSTSND003 Tracklisting: 1 Trojan Horus (Part 1) (4:25) 2 Trojan Horus (Part 2) (2:29) 3 Lam Vril (4:31) 4 Truth Benders D.I.E (3:22) 5 Bolt 23 Blue Screen Ov Death (0:37) 6 Alt/Return/Dash/Kill (3:54) 7 Bolt 777 Ordinary Boy (0:41) 8 Drexian City R.I.D.E (3:38) 9 Remote Viewing (4:34) 10 Gummi Void (4:55) 11 Machine Machina (1:35) 12 The Stele of Revealing (2:56) 13 Songs for Other People (2:07) 14 Break Down on Lake Shore Drive (1:10) 15 Bolt 33 Glitch & Chin (1:02) 16 Sudden Intake (5:11) 17 4 3s 555 (Part 1) (2:57) 18 4 3s 555 (Part 2) (8:13) http://www.dustscience.com

I read through most of the Dream Creation magazines a while back, which I borrowed from a friend... Pretty cool magazine, and I can't believe how much work they put into them! That guy (don't remeber his name) who was running it, did an amazing job back then... For me it shows that Goa trance was pretty commercial at that time... Also because the internet wasn't as informative as now, it was probably more need for magazines like that... Fun reading!

I think this can be Brainman: http://forum.isratrance.com/viewtopic.php/...c/76528/forum/8 Just kidding... Anyway, a mystery for sure... Someone should ask the TIP crew who he was/is... I'm not in contact with them, so, anyone..?? Another thing, the Brainman album was really hated by most Goa/psytrancers at the time it was released... It was a big mystery for many why a quality label (at that time) like TIP could release an album like this... But, I guess you are right Ukiro, that it was too weird for most people at that time... There was A LOT of discussion about it I remember... Oh, my gosh! It's allready ten years ago!!! Time goes too fast.... NP: Autechre - Incunabula (Warp)

Circular: http://www.discogs.com/release/235703 =great ambient....

These are not new, but I just can't get over how bad they were.... Have a laugh...

Exactly! They are psytrancers who went to house... Only thing I don't agree with is that they make something new and unique, because they don't... I agree that they make some good music, but nothing "new"... But, yes, it is probably new for them... And for those who says their style is something new and unique, I wonder how long you have been listening to house....?

Silver!!?? You have to scan that one...! I am curious... This brainman dude was always a mystery to me... He didn't release much (except for on TIP), and there were many different rumours about who he was... The strangest one was that he was a brain doctor in Switzerland or something... Does anyone have any info?