Mergi

LOL. This sounds like me trying for a duration of about 10 years to understand how or why I could or would socialize in the fraternity for natural sciences at the university of stockholm. I've simply ended up doing my own thing and that's playing records for them instead of talking to them, which works so much better! I have never enjoyed (or rather on very few occasions OK, then with very openminded people) or understood anything while sitting down at a table for socializing, I always end up sipping my beer every 5 seconds and reading the stickers on the bottle.

The Nano Ninja unfortunately didn't go well with me at all, maybe it'll grow so I'll keep it awhile. The rest of them are all either good or pretty damn good with Hedonix on the top mainly because that CD was so damn refreshing soundwise. Thanks to all of you none the less! Maybe I'll do this again sometime . I will certainly check the other stuff too that didn't make it into the first ten. Just. Need. More. Time... which doesn't seem to exist. I wonder if sidetrakkt is still around, I'll be sending him a PM and hope he'll pick up the 2 CDs I was offering.

Finally... early september. I thought I'd never get this done. Here is the final score. I) Hedonix - Guerrilla Ontology (sidetrakkt) 4.5/5.0 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/68920-hedonix-guerrilla-ontology/?p=1039787 II) Mindsphere - Patience For Heaven (Manuser) 4/5 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/64862-mindsphere-patience-for-heaven/?p=1041880 III) Procs - Touchdown In Hizzytown (juril) 4/5 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/65130-procs-touchdown-in-hizzytown-ltrcd004-lost-theory-records/?p=1040623 IV) PortaMento - The Portal (Veracohr) 4/5 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/62532-portamento-the-portal/?p=1039784 V) Logic Bomb - The Grid (Padmapani) 3.5/5.0 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/63070-logic-bomb-the-grid/?p=1042052 VI) Crossing Mind - The Inner Shift (Scandasia) 4/5 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/63918-crossing-mind-inner-shift-suncd25/?p=1041446 VII) Filteria - Lost In The Wind (Shpongled247) 3.5/5.0 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/67444-filteria-lost-in-the-wild/?p=1042049 VIII) Zirrex - Ritual Dance (Paul Eye) 3.5/5.0 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/69007-zirrex-ritual-dance/?p=1040573 IX) Artha - Influencing Dreams (Penzoline) 3.5/5.0 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/58883-artha-influencing-dreams/?p=1039779 X) Kindzadza - Nano Ninja (Rotwang) 3/5 Review: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/69081-kindzadza-nano-ninja/?p=1041254

Artist: Logic Bomb Release: The Grid Year: 2011 Label: TIP Records Cat-#: TIPR07 Rating: 3.5/5.0 Tracklisting: 1) Checksum 2) Kalibrator 3) Bitter Hitter 4) Sinister Science 5) Sonic Algebra (High Octane Remix) 6) The Grid 7) 4th Dimension 8) Knorrar 9) Frontline I was never wildly into the sound of LB. The first album was too weird I guess (of course Shadow Of The Beast is still one of the best of psychedelic tracks out there), Unlimited did catch my attention mainly because of its diversity and coherency. Never got around for the third album (maybe I should?). Usually what they do is mainly quality stuff, the tracks are generally very professionally executed and the music has purpose. I like how they don't shy away from the trance but rather lends it some space to be expressed and explored. The tracks builds nicely. Unfortunately the CD loses a bit of its momentum at the end.

Artist: Filteria Release: Lost In The Wild Year: 2013 Label: Suntrip Records Cat-#: SUNCD30 Rating: 3.5/5.0 Tracklisting: 1) Filteroid (Day @ 2 Om) 2) Dog Days Bliss (Album Edit) 3) Food Demons 4) Life Never Sleeps 5) Lost In The Wild 6) 36th February 7) The Lights Of Shibuya 8) Night @ 12 PM 9) Birds Lingva Franca (2013 Edit) I was actually expecting maximalistic goa trance. This steers into a psychedelic path with x-dream like basslines and psychedelic fluttering jittery effects. The energy here is most certainly set to critical and I have to comment that the noisy-ness gets to you after awhile and not in a good way that. I was sure the comment on discogs was wrong during the first two tracks but as we progress things start getting shurned out rather than being created with inner harmony. This would greatly improve with taking a few steps back and build upon the elements that actually are good. Focus on the melody layers that aren't loud high frequency notes randomly stabbed and drenched in noisy-ness, because there's good melody pads in there but they're being overshadowed by the noisy ones. I love the bassline mainly because of the rolling groovy property of it. This could've been really really good.

Artist: Mindsphere Release: Patience For Heaven (Inner Cyclone) Year: 2012 Label: Suntrip Records Cat-#: SUNCD26 Rating: 4/5 Tracklisting: Patience For Heaven 1.1) Shape Of Imagination 1.2) World Is Yours 1.3) Cosmos Evolution 1.4) All Alone 1.5) Ornamentation 1.6) In To Reality 1.7) Spirits Of Devotion 1.8) Patience For Heaven 1.9) Circled Inner Cyclone 2.1) Painful Stories 2.2) Mindrama 2.3) We Have A Dream 2.4) Wasted Years 2.5) Operation Side 2.6) To Infinity 2.7) Inner Cyclone 2.8) Fusion This one certainly does not hold back. We're propelled right back 15 years to the amalgamation of psychedelia and goa. It's very Ra-/Electron Wave-esque, the sound is fat, expansive and very "ethnic". It is done very very nicely. Had to laugh at the Ra/Chi-AD peak in In To Reality, sounds like a mashup of Paradox and Biocandy. I love both of those tracks so tracks like these puts a big smile on my face everytime. The bonus CD Inner Cyclone is faster and much more chaotic. While it's pretty good it doesn't hold up the same standard as Patience For Heaven. Still it has got the same kind of building-on-loaned-vibes. Ra most of all, but I thought I got a bit of Cydonia bass drilling in track 2.3. To good effect on both CDs none the less.

Artist: Crossing Mind Release: The Inner Shift Year: 2012 Label: Suntrip Records Cat-#: SUNCD25 Rating: 4/5 Tracklisting: 1) The Unenlightened Perspectives 2) Solarnium 3) Modulated Self Reminders 4) Magnetic Fields Of Life 5) Elastic Harmonies 6) No Way Wrong (2011 Remix) 7) Plutonia 8) Optronic Circles (Inner Shift Remix) The first real neogoa CD I'm putting my ears to. I understand why, takes me back to the nighties. Signature goa sounds like the screechingly high pitched synths, the stuttering bassline. If this is done correctly you'll get a very mesmerizing psychedelic journey ahead. This really sounds quite sunny even though the melody layers gives an erratic almost unbalanced vibe. It's not overly complex yet still retains neatness and a nice flow. Some of the screechy synths may be used a bit too much at times though. I like the way he actually lets the trance bit stick out just a little, reminds me a bit of Deedrahs album Reload. As I grew up with trance, stuff like that always gives me good nostalgic moments. This album is not knocking you senseless, but I'm pretty sure it would work well with a lot of people both on the floor as well as in the couch. I know it would for me at least.

Artist: Kindzadza Release: Nano Ninja Year: 2012 Label: OSOM Music Records Cat-#: OSOMCD006 Rating: 3/5 Tracklisting: 9) Quantime 8) Cella Fella 7) Way Of The Nano Warrior 6) Intergalactic Boom 5) Nova Sphere 4) SH-9 3) Afterburn Workout 2) Future True 1) Multidimensionel 0) Dzadzakin Ninjacore I was expecting a lot more from a guy with five albums, but this one just seem to be rather pointless in its endevour. The BPMs are usually the first thing that makes people raise their eyebrows but for some reason it works kind of good anyway. It's like the more quirky and nuts things get the BPM just seem to not matter all that much... because at first I thought that I'd get some psychedelic gabber and I really don't like gabber. When it comes to music I'm all in it for the soul and the deepness, and I'm not really getting it here. It's quirky and mental alright but there's no real point or meaning to it, also there's to much odd breakdowns that take the tracks in a complete reverse direction from where it was going. Developing and then finding a way to close a track seems to be problematic. To me this stuff was just a montage of swishy wishy noises, fast ass beats and mental full on quirkyness (not in a particular good way) that never really delivered any kind of feeling. Very very bland. I liked the last track though, but it was only four minutes and seemed rather unfinished. There is a discogs review and I have no idea where that guy got the dubstep from, Ninjacore is a fast breakbeat track with at least some components with purpose.

Artist: Procs Release: Touchdown In Hizzytown Year: 2012 Label: Lost Theory Records Cat-#: LTRCD004 Rating: 4/5 Tracklisting: 1) Quirky Douglas 2) Charlestoned In Dixieland 3) Experiment In Error 4) Totem Treck 5) Human Touchdown 6) Hizzy In The Dead 7) Bop The Bee 8) Twinkle The Vinkel 9) Cotton Candy Wipeout Procs got his own style of complete bonkers psychedelia. I tried The Lonely Land Of Tada but got completely run over, smashed and fragged. He has got so much shit going in that album that my head explodes, I should give it another few gos though because I never understood it the first times around. This one is a lot more restrained and ordered but don't despair because the funk is still there, the madness is very much there. Mr Stegman certainly has a complete mental sense of humour. This stuff is bouncy flimsy and would work perfectly in a dark forest. Solid freakin' psychedelic album this!

Artist: Zirrex Release: Ritual Dance Year: 2013 Label: Hado Records Cat-#: HDRCD002 Rating: 3.5/5.0 Tracklisting: 1) Ritual Dance 2) Electro Nation 3) Extremist 4) Nuclear Fusion 5) Magic Colors 6) Solar System Part 1 7) Solar System Part 2 8) Rock Box Nostalgia, polished... it certainly has flair and it's generally very upbeat and happy. The production standard is also set very high and most of the elements come together quite nicely. The best tracks are the goa/psy tracks, at least in my opinion they shine through with their energy. Some slight oddities here and there though like the dubstep breaks in Extremist which simply never really went well with the track as whole and also throwing in a chill laidback progressive piece just after the extatic opener track just kind of made me lose interest. The hard rock hommages are also slightly tedious.

First of all I'm grateful for your patience. I've recovered from the flu... unfortunately my cat on the other hand didn't make it at all, lost him to cancer 10 hours ago, so I'm certainly not back in the groove. I actually did not think it would hit me so hard (it's only a cat... hmmm...) but I guess that's what happens when you live with someone for an extended period of time. I'm going to try to. get. a. grip. as soon as possible... probably sometime next week it'll all start rolling again.

with the Hedonix recommendation sidetrakkt has taken the lead so far.

ugh! I have as of yet found the time only for 3 albums. Unfortunately one of my cats took a turn for the worse also I got some flu crap with fever (yeah! nice timing! everything bad at the same time) so all the attention is fixed on that detail. Hopefully I'll stop sweating and get back into the groove soon!

Artist: Hedonix Release: Guerrilla Ontology Year: 2013 Label: Electric Power Pole Records Cat-#: EPPR020 Rating: 4.5/5.0 Tracklisting: 1) Eating Lotus Flowers 2) The I In The Triangle 3) Sausage Faktry 4) No Thing 5) Dance Of Form 6) Sakura 7) Hasta Luego Amigo 8) Analytic Overdrive 9) Dalek Sec The sound is so different, whenever I hear australia in connection to psychedelic trance I know I have to listen closely otherwise something will simply just fly over my head. The opening track didn't do much for me but they seem to find their groove somewhere in the second track and after the third track it's rolling good. They have an interesting approach to the evolution of their tracks. At first it all sounds quite bland but as it progresses it takes the shape of ever morphing pieces of sonic ideas that they expertly weave into one. This one to me works wonders just listening to, but I sure could dance to it too. What a refreshing piece of plastic.

Artist: PortaMento Release: The Portal Year: 2011 Label: Cronomi Records Cat-#: cronomi005cd Rating: 4/5 Tracklisting: 1) White Dwarf 2) 48 Hours 3) The Portal 4) Monkshroom 5) Injected Spawn 6) Biosphere 7) Vitamin E 8) A Grain Of Sand 9) Controlled Experiment Now here is one really nifty CD indeed. It keeps up a good standard throughout and as mentioned before the bass and the kick is rumbling rolling and does not let up. Very nice to have this level of energy in a CD while the producer still is able to keep it restrained enough to not let it spiral out of control. I'm a sucker for the X-Dream late 90s sound and this certainly captures that sinister dark psychedelic atmosphere. Overall very nicely structured, the music comes together to create an intense dark psychedelic journey. Playing it safe again though a bit, keeping to one path... this CD does not contain any surprises at all. But at least I'm feeling that there is some sense of joy in these productions.

Artist: Artha Release: Influencing Dreams Year: 2010 Label: Cronomi Records Cat-#: cronomi003cd Rating: 3.5/5.0 Tracklisting: 1) Dubber Nubber 2) Controlled 3) Chaos 4) Saikol 5) Mystic Change 6) Vocal Distortion 7) Bali 8) Transfusion 9) Insidelamp This is really very nicely done, the flirts with Posfordianesque vibes isn't necessarily a bad thing. Though relying on it too heavily in your own productions highlights a certain problem. Which is that it is certainly good to be inspired to create but it's not optimal to have the inspiration create things for you. The track Controlled is genuinely very very good and the highlight of the CD. Ticking in at 10+ minutes it's a very epic outdoor festival kind of track with a curious breakdown somewhere in the latter half (or rather it felt more like he got a surprise visit from Grand Wizard Simon himself and lent him the controls for a minute and a half. Hey! hey! not bad at all). Dubber Nubber is very nicely done, and it punches through even though it has such a slow tempo. Also Bali punches through as a nicely flowing track. Of course, it's very nice to hear him utilize the acid layers in such an emphatic manner and it is this that particularly reigns me in. Unfortunately most tracks falls short, mainly due to me getting the impression that the tracks doesn't deliver all that they've got, the potential is very much there but isn't taken care of. Playing it on the safe side so to speak, lacking funk, flow, structure and, most importantly, a general sense of... well... FUN!

No... sounds like I should have! Listening to Artha now.

Actually the 10 CDs are not the top ten but the first ten to be recommended in the thread. Also these CDs have now arrived and will get a run through once I've gone to bed slept and awakened. 2 days off, so perfect timing.

Rotwang, it looks like this one http://www.discogs.com/Psyko-Disko-Overdose-Pho-Rue-Yang/release/214460 but didn't they all come in those sleeves?

Nooooo!

looks funky!

ahem!

"Welcome to the real world"

MFG has always been kickin'! Epic psychedelia...

I'm drunk! What more do you want?