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Gus Till - electric oceans interesting story based chill album it's fucking cold here. It was 20 degrees last week and 1 degree today. Thats just cruel, I though spring was on it's way but it took one look at me and crawled back into it's hole.

Various Artists JP Noir BPF Records Released August 2004 Tracklist 1. Charm - Dynamo Theory 7:06 2. KURO - Dracula 2000 6:27 3. Clade - Inclusion 7:08 4. Yamabikaya - Bingo! 8:40 5. Yamabikaya & DJ Bin - Paradox 7:51 6. Clutch - Set 7:12 7. Aze & Clutch - Azeton 6:46 8. Sativa - Clean Machine 7:02 1. Charm - Dynamo Theory It's dark, it's got a pulsating rhythm that never lets up and layers upon layers of sounds. I can here so much going on in the background, lots of little noises that I can barely make out and feel like they are coming out of nowhere. Good opening track sets a good tone for the rest of the album. 2. KURO - Dracula 2000 I love this guy, his tracks on the old flying rhino comps were fantastic and he doesn't disappoint here. More floaty at the start than the opening track but just as driven. Nice ethereal sounds mixed in with more Hi Tec industrial noises. Really intelligent beats do wonders for a track and thats what this has. Nice. 3. Clade - Inclusion This one has a similar feel as the last track but in Sci Fi. The sounds sound like they are coming from inside a spaceship with loads of crazy acid munching aliens aboard. 4. Yamabikaya - Bingo! Bit faster now, this track seems to BOING!! I feel like I'm bouncing on a pogo stick at night. Electric guitar noises in the background early on but they're subtle, short and don't hang around long. Kind of like this track. It's the kind of track that sounds the same all the way through if you're not listening properly but give it a thorough listen and you'll hear that it progresses very nicely. 5. Yamabikaya & DJ Bin - Paradox Back to Sci Fi now. Very computery noises accompany by the sort of sounds you might here in Sci Fi horror like Alien. I'm sure something's scuttling around and when the computer that sounds like it's dying, dies and the lights go off, somethings going to rip my throat out. A computerised voice seems to be saying something like "what was that?" and shit love what is it? 6. Clutch - Set A bit harder here from the start. The beats heavier and it sounds more industrial. The sort of track that invokes images of something being processed in a big machine. A different process at every turn but they all follow on from one another really well. 7. Aze & Clutch - Azeton Lighter now and sounds like telecommunications. A ringing sound precedes a muffled phone conversation in Japanese and whooshing sounds like a high speed connection. Electric guitar sounds are a little over used in the middle of the track for my liking but they don't ruin the track. Lots of nice little background sounds (you hear more of them if you listen on headphones) keep it interesting. 8. Sativa - Clean Machine The funkiest track on the album, nice baseline and lots of techy sounds in it. Has a really nice synth all the way through it that sounds like the movie Lawnmower Man when the virtual reality machine is ripped off line. Sounds a lot different from the other tracks but it also fits in nicely to the comp as a whole. So to sum up I think this is a really good compilation album. It's quite dark and Futuristic. Feels like a party a strange alien spaceship and your all invited. It's one of those albums that really needs to be listened to, better if you have some good headphones. Mine only gripes would be that at under an hour long it's a bit too short. I highly recommend this release. Favourites 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7

I went to Camden Market in London a While back and they had a store that was pretty close to all psy trance. It was called psychedelic dream temple or something like that. All trance and ambient but maybe a bit of reggae too. But there were other place in camden with decent stuff but you did have to search through a lot of crap.

OTT - Blumenkraft

But will you buy the boxed set just to get said leaflet? I do enjoy more information with my purchase but for me its the music that counts not the packaging.

I loved both the pleiadian's albums, not actually listened to much crop circles (didn't know it was the same team) and a lot of etnica stuff is quite bad. so.... PLEIADIANS

Makyo - Clarity (Melting Snow Mix)

Anyone that would be interested in the boxset probably has all 3 albums and so this is just a rip off. A blatant attempt to make money without delivering a product. The bonus CD will probably be pretty weak and who really wants a leaflet? Don't think I'll be getting this.

TIP has definately gone downhill but they can still surprise you. The Melovskys album on TIP NEW WORLD is quite good. Not sure about this comp though, looks boring.

Green Nuns of the Revolution - Atomic Armadillo "They have no word for fluffy!"

The back streets of tokyo. If you are prepared to spend hours rooting through mounds of crappy records and CDs you'll often find some great rarities!

Classic is something that has lasted. If years on you still love something then YOU should consider it a classic. If its still widely popular years on then its undoubtedly classic. Your opinion doesn't come into it. Mozart, classic yes? Elvis, classic yes? But who the fuck do you know who still listens to the spice girls? They sold a lot of records but their fans soon forgot them. In psytrance I still listen to Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom, Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh, Jaia - Blue Energy a lot so in my opinion these are classic. People are always talking about Hallucinogen, pleiadians and Shpongle so I reckon if they're still popular they are the closest to classic we have. Time will tell. I think an album needs time to be classic, who knows how it'll age. There is loads of stuff I used to love but now think is ordinary. I here "Is this a classic in the making" or similiar phrases. Only time will tell

Slum - Sneak, Beneath My Notice

Went to a club years ago when the beat got upto 360 bpm. That was fucking nuts. No idea what the tune was called but I think the DJ was Loftgroover. Don't know how fast music will get in psy trance, but if it's still good I don't mind.

oh! and how could I forget Savage Scream

Japan KURO Charm Clutch Yamabikawa Clade Makyo Masa

Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh and soon everyone at work will have to listen to it too. hahahahaaa they don't like good music. some biatch brought in avril lavign, usher and other such horrors. It was banned though TF

Orbital - Diversions Quality through and through

Yeah, I used to like hip hop, some of the older stuff was really good, by talented people (hate the attitude of those guys but still have to respect the music) I enjoyed the comedy hip hop like gravediggers and the raw stuff like the Wu Tang Clan. But eminem made it too popular and now everything made nowadays is made for the masses (10 million people think its good now but noone truly loves it, it'll be forgotten in months) so obviously the quality has severley fallen. The same thing could happen in any genre, just get one superstar all the other artists want to cash in (money is a big motivator, many people would sell out given the chance). Just hope that our little scene doesn't get eminemed. BTW Best hip hop nowadays is Roots Manuva. He's funny, unpretentious and he doesn't rap about poppin' a cap in ya ass. More about cheese on toast and knobbly knees.

Indica ft. R.G.E Blue - 1960

Aye, me too. I 1st appreciated it when I fell asleep with my headphones on and when I woke up that track was playing. It was magical.

Total Eclipse - Nakano Ghost

http://www.khetzal.com/ Nice Job with all the stats Moni

Mystical Experiences was excellent, I find "The Answer" to be sooooooo trippy.

Slinky Nuns - Shitty Stick (Better Than a Poke in the Eye With a) Atmos - Random Landlord Son Kite - If Ashtrays Could Talk Shulman - Avant Garden Makyo - Skin as Soft as Starlight Healer - Speaking with a Deaf Man Solar Quest - Anchors in the Mist