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Do mind, first pressing was at 1000 copies. Clear vinyl was maybe 300? There _is_ a lot of them out there in comparison to the pressings nowadays. 1000 is "huge".

are you lookin' for connect.ohm? I'll give my copy another listen... remember not liking it all that much so might let it go.

I never really understood the crazy prices really. First album on vinyl is minus 2 tracks (also the edited and the day turned to night), of course you can argue about the inserts and artwork but in essence it's not really that collectible. Also Tales of the inexpressible has only white regular innersleeves leaving you with the cover as the real exclusive content of the record. Everything else is pretty much the same as on the CD, the sides are even mixed just like the CD. But OK... it's shpongle vinyl... and you probably don't see that too often.

I would probably also be somewhere in the '97 batch. My musical taste sort of took of in every direction later on in the 21st century and left me with little or no attention whatsoever to one particular scene. I think, though, if you look hard enough all years delivers, you simply need to look in the right places. But as with nature everything evolves and so does our perception of music. Nothing lasts but nothing is lost, right?

who gets the last slot?

Hutti Heita added, thought it was finnish at first

I've got Are You Shpongled & Tales on vinyl... never really thought they'd go haywire. Two of the most expensive vinyls in my collection, bought at the time when they were released. I could've bought remixed and nothing lasts, but never got around. I'm slightly regretting it on the Remixed album as there is really good remixes on there.

Yeah there is a bunch of stuff I'm missing out on this time around, but I'm thinking of doing something similar. I'm seriously thinking about doing something like this with the vast ektoplazm catalogue... and I'm so far behind in there I'm going to need help on that as well. But all in due time, as someone said "no stress" right .

Psysex it is!

Ra I have only the first To Sirius, so it is good to get some of the newer albums. Very good. hmm it's chill out ... I would feel bad not including this though. Pity 9th isn't in stock it would've been an easy choice. Celaripo, do you have anything that is not chill/ambient to recommend?

yeah! indeed a runner up mindsphere is. but as I pointed out in the original post I really need to _listen_ to them because right now I wouldn't be able to tell any of those CDs apart. Listen and play with them, get to know them, maybe I will understand Kindzadza in the end!

We have spun ourselves into a trap. To become a hippie is in text quite easy but in practice not especially easy. What is a hippie? In order to get clean water from my faucet I need to go to work and pay taxes (a nifty comfort at the expense of some of my freedom). I could stop working but then I'd need to go to the river instead boil the water and then apply it. Responsibility and freedom? I don't know, it's a very vast and intricate web of interactions we've built throughout time. The only freedom I'm really really fighting for is the freedom to be objective and impartial to every situation I get thrown at me, in this way I can learn and make a choice that is based on facts/logic instead of a social norm/social standard. What is normal? To me there is no such thing as normal... optimal yes normal no.

I've always felt that Watkins seems to go into his projects with an intense ferocity of being in search for some kind of meaning. The production is not one or two computers but an array of hardware and live musicians. Thusly it is a bit hard for me to be just saying this or that album is better than the other because they all have their purpose. The last ones has been a bit lacking though, it seems he is testing new grounds and trying to find new avenues of inspiration. But what he was really good at was to amalgamate the harder industrial elements with the more vast and expansive trance elements. I guess this is why he got to do a bit of soundtracks. Beyond The Infinite & Bible Of Dreams are probably the most well known and the most need to have albums. Transmission is a pretty damn good relic with music that still sounds damn good today. Unfortunately the rest of the albums has a wide dispersal of both tracks and influences and is generally a lot harder to follow. Labyrinth is good but I can't really say that it is a complete album because it is a compilation of Matrix tracks on top of new productions. Labyrinth would have been nice as a mini-lp with only the new productions excluding the already released matrix tracks. I have forgotten Shango, but I like it very much. Unfortunate choice on the LP though to put the Nitrogen tracks on the c-side (the CD is mixed which I don't really like all that much) instead of the Solaris track, otherwise it would have been a wonderful double vinyl. The rest of the albums I haven't heard all that much... I have the golden sun but can't remember how it sounded :/

psychedelic from the US, indeed interesting. I don't think we had anything from the US in the first loop...

Apollo ( http://www.discogs.com/label/683-Apollo ) Certificate 18 ( http://www.discogs.com/label/161-Certificate-18 ) F Communication ( http://www.discogs.com/label/14-F-Communications ) Losing Suki ( http://www.discogs.com/label/238403-Losing-Suki ) Romb Records ( http://www.discogs.com/label/396437-Romb-Records ) there is more of course

oh crap a three cd set! maybe there'll be more than twenty tracks in the planned mix. think I had a double cd in the first loop. added

and in you of course I mean you guys! not any particular user. sorry for the confusion. Penzoline be so sure, your recommendation is in the list . I'm not skipping anyone here no no.

A meant, in the first loop I mentioned you should choose your favorite CD from the 2010-now. And I know that I myself have very much trouble discerning what record is my favorite as I have many favorite records. So for this round I merely wanted more freedom, you choose a record at your leisure instead of having to delve through a number of records and coming up with your favorite one. Hopefully I'm making sense here.

That E7 looks particularly... eclectic . I like it when CDs have a varying theme on the tracks, feels like old nifty exogenic records.

lookin good so far . I skipped the part of "your favorite", maybe this garner a different result as you could simply chose what you at the moment like .

that's a good question... but I think you had more to chose from and some were even editing posts on the go. So it'll be a yes from me here, those who were in the first loop can also be in the second loop. But of course CDs that I already have wont be chosen.

Hello again! I've been thinking and came to the conclusion that the first round ( at https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/68872-out-of-the-loop-need-to-get-back-into-it/?p=1042053) wasn't really enough. Also I have a bit of an overflow of music to listen to so I rarely get the chance to really get to know my stuff. So, I was planning to force myself into a position in which I have no other choice than to really acquaint myself with the records from the previous loop and this one. Here goes. 1) Another 10 records is to be chosen (psy/goa/prog/tech but no hippy ambient), by you (I'm still far from into the loop) 2) Only one CD per user 3) Still only psyshop (lazy ass dude want them in one package) 4) Music released 2010 and forward (can include material which has been produced earlier but was released only recently, though has it been released before 2010 to the public it is a no go) 5) Same as before I'll listen review rate and in the end the user(s) (more than one user can get the final prize if I can't make up my mind) who chose the best CD(s) will get 2 CDs of her/his choice bought by me from psyshop. Now this isn't the end of it... All in all I'll be having 20 CDs in total from these two competitions and the plan is to chose 1 track from each CD and stream it as a live mix on interstatefm.com ( http://interstatefm.com/index.php?title=Category:Mergi). Hopefully in this way I'll get to know the stuff a bit better. Now fire away! yes yes, mee discogs http://www.discogs.com/user/Mergi

Didn't know the Lazy Spiral Mix was ever supposed to go on vinyl. The original is on the Pleiadians EP ( http://www.discogs.com/Pleiadians-Pleiadians-EP/release/93228 ). Alcyone promo vinyl is out there but expensive as mentioned above. I did get my copy for 4 Es , guess I got lucky.

I was on a roll once at fusion festival, I simply got drunk and decided to smile and clink bottles with random people. Suddenly things got a bit more responsive for some reason and all this smalltalk seemed to bubble up, I nearly got laid in the end but because of my own stupidity I declined(!?)... still reeeally kicking myself mentally for that move, damn it!