SkeletonMan

Chi-ad - Infinitism. Got the album 2 days ago. Didn't know it. I LIKE

Yeah, I've heard a lot of people think it started going wrong here. I also think their earlier stuff is classic, but this album still has it all for me. From here it definitely went downhill though

These ARE the best albums of 2005 In this order 1. Wizzy Noise - Sabotage 2. Tegma - 002:Avant.Garde 3. Solar Fields - Leaving Home 4. Ticon - Zero Six After 5. Entheogenic - Dialogue Of The Speakers Anyone disagreeing has absolutely NO double no taste in music. Period.

Astral Projection - Nilaya

Label: Trust In Trance Records , Phonokol Catalog#: T.I.T. CD 019, 2133-2 Format: CD Country: Israel Released: 1999 Can't believe there isn't a review of this record here !!!!!!! Here's a copy of my review from Discogs. Hearing Another World 6-7 years after its release is a real gem and a beatiful trip down trance & music memory lane. This album holds all the essentials that made me fall in love with trance in the first place and oozes talent, ideas, and a profound love of music. The melodies, the force of sounds, the simplicity & the complexity. It's all here. The boys from Astral Projection really were walking on water back then and this album one of many milestones in their career. Need I pick one favourite it'd be Searching For U.F.O.'s, but it really isn't worthwhile doing. Everything is 7/5 here. An essential in any trance collection.

While we are still waiting for the release here's the cover art work. According to Suntrip Records home page it should have been released Januar 23rd or just January. Update guys ... We're waiting! ps: The artwork on Suntrip always makes on think of god old Matsuri, dodn'id?

Aero is one of my all time favourite progressive albums and my expectations for their follow up were huge. I certainly expected something extraordinary, and hearing that the swedish lads had decided to spend something like two years in the studio making ZSA it sounded as if they too wanted to live up to the hype. But would it be overproduced now ...? Would the expectations be too big a mouthful? In one word, NO! Goddamnit, Zero Six After is a nice album. Even better than Aero and sheer excellence nearly all the way. There certainly are no drop outs on this album and a couple of tracks that sends me directly into orbit. U Make Me Wanna Drink More and The Analogue H come to mind. These are mind blowing. Also the sample in Rit It Up is among the best samples I've ever heard in trance music. Amazing work guys! Fact is, the album is so brillant it's easier to nitpick a few things I am less happy with. The pettiness of these details should illustrate the quality of this album. Now this really is nitpicking, but personally I would have liked to see the album start of with a monster track. Instead it starts with the expectable mood setter. Prologue is nice, yeah yeah, 1:48 mins of nice build up sounds, but these guys really are about kick ass dancing and mind expanding music and I would have liked to see them set off as that directly from track 1. Still, Prologue isn't bad. It's just ... Well, I said I was nitpicking, right! Kids Of The 80's is a great track but the first couple of times I heard it, I couldn't help thinking I had heard the lead riff before. Well, check out Les Rythmes Digitales "From: Disco To: Disco" and tell me if there isn't a resemblance. It's still a great track. Just sounds very inspired. Track 8 "Chicking Shaker" contains a sample going "Why you wanna borrow my chicken shaker" with the ch in chicking pronounced as sh. Maybe the joke is too advanced for me, but I have no idea what chicken shaker means and don't get this sample at all. Is it a joke? Just a funny sample Ticon is using? Bad idea! I don't mind funny samples, but the fun needs to go somewhere. Otherwise, it's just stupid. A real shame because besides the sample it's a great track. But I can't hear past the sample. So, those are ALL the details I have a hard time with on this album. Other than that, this album is brilliance from start to finish. The sound is overwhelming and with so many details in all the tracks you hear instantly that it's hours and hours in front of the computer. I love it! Well, except for track 8 I have to down from a 4 star to a 2 star because of the idiotic sample. Though I am ready to stand corrected if it actually means something intelligent! In the end, however, that downing from 4 to 2 stars puts this album in as no. 2 on my "best progressive release of 2005" list just one inch behind my 2005 winner. Yeah, the best is yet to come ...

Last post in a 3 string "2005 progressive trance" review for me. First up was Jaia's Fiction, next Antix' Twin Coast Discovery, and now the time has come for Phony Orphants' It'cetra. Saving the best for last? Well, let's see. Phony surely sets their album off with a blast. Rise is a sweet opener with a killer bass line setting in after 2½ minute. These guys must be thinking: Why make it more complicated, when you can make something really nice with just a steady beat, killer bass and some nice FX? P.O. really sets the standard for 1st class progressive here. Yeah, baby, yeah! Sex, drugs .. is a sweet follow-up'er. Yeah, I love it just as much as the opening track with its nice "sex, drugs .." sample and one more let's-keep-it'simple-and-rock bass! Another dance floor filler. I want to feel introduces vox and I'm not to keen on those. Someone has compared them to Prodigy and I kinda agree with that and the view point that they don't fit in here. From the first two killer tracks this is also more down to earth. Without the vox it might've worked for me. Next tune Got what it takes brings us back on track. Sweet, sweet synth line going on for 5+ minutes (!) before opening this baby with the bass. All this is awesome, but there's a snake in Paradise! Just before the bass kicks in at 5:19 P.O. decided to use what I am pretty sure must be a left-over Scooter sample "got what it takes". First time I heard this sample I couldn't believe my ears. But they mean this sample! It's repeated. Unbefuckinglievable! It almost completely ruins the song for me and downs it from a 5-star to perhaps a 3-star. Schade! Well, maybe they knew cause they follow up with my favourite on the album, Mi Corazon. Oh, this is sweet. No killer bass. Just a steady going beat, it's impossible for me not to move to. And then just when I think I know this track, the most wicked bass enters in the break at 3:19. Man, to be taken aback by this on the festival dance floor ...!! Yeah, P.O. is on track now. I'll promise you is another dance floor bomb. An imploding one ) mind you, sucking everyone to the dance floor. Things are more complex now compared to the beginning but still everything is under control. Progressive with an extra layer? In any case, rocking! This is followed by my least favourite here, Going Down. More like Not Going Anywhere. What happened? Boring bass, a beat close to pointless, and with add-on's a weird blend of hard synths sounds not doing much good. Fortunately, they follow up with Party, another hit in my book. Yeah, now the FX works again. It's hard, but fun hard. The sample is head on, but fun. And the bass is dead on simple the way P.O. knows how to do it. Danceable & loveable. Progressive when it's best. And, finally, house for my spouse, to end this. Well, downbeat, housey, female choir going "yeah-yeah" (hm ...heard this 1.000.000 times before?), and the obligatory sax. Like a disco-house track on acid and missing a layer. Nothing special, but not bad, and could work for a no-trance crowd. So, the verdict. This is a great progressive album suitable for home listening as well as the dance floor. 7-8 great, decent or very decent tracks and in time for me possibly more than one total killer and only 1 real miss out. Compared to Jaia, I think P.O. is better. Compared to Antix ... Hm, probably gotta tie those two. Not my pick for best progressive release of 2005 but up there.

I think the vocals in "got what it takes" sounds like something coming out of Scooter. Hate it !!! Other than that, yeah, great album. Not really crazy about track 7 Going Down, but I hear 4 great tracks and at least one killer - I love Mi Corazon and it's out as a b-side (!) on a 12". Funny. Full review to follow.

Æternum - Highways of light (from Destination goa 10). A cd I had almost written off as mainstream. It's not.

X-dream - The 5th dimension (live in paris) from trip to trancesylvania

POTS - Creating social success. Yep, the whole album. Tussy just finished Now what to put on ...

Thanks! This was interesting. Two minds, one thought. Makes sense the part about not seing reactions IRL reflects on our actions. I guess sometimes I have had an urge myself to bash someone for something, but if I resisted the urge and reacted with a laugh instead completely ignoring what made me mad, typically a nice response comes back. Whatever set the flamer off is completely forgotten and the conversation constructive and nice again. Also for me the importance of whatever set me off is completely forgotten seing that the flamer is cool again. Stuff like that does give one a sense of being in control and certainly it is much nicer than the instant thrill of telling some one off. Now I just need to remember this

Got this album only a couple of days ago together with Jaia's Fiction and Phony Orphants' It'cetra after reading a number of reviews claiming these albums together with only a few others (Ticon and P.O.T.S. I presume) competed for "best progressive album of 2005". So, an excellent opportunity to add my 2 cents on some 2005 releases, unbiased and ready for a 1st class progressive ride )! Antix does not let me down. Wow! Other than sex, is there anything better than the comfortability of progressive trance when it's made the exact right way? With Twin Coast Discovery I instantly knew I was in safe hands. These guys know how to put a progressive track together! Let me give you an example, track 2 The Inkling. We start of with big drum and percussion, a wavy synth quickly kicks in providing the track a psychedelic spin, 1:00 hi-hat starts pumping, FX and break accord steps in, 2:00 the momemtum has now been built up, but still holding the horses, 2:27 bass starts adding a couple of notes and now we're on our feet, break, introduction of lead melody, 3:52 break ends and another build-up begins, and then 4:50 head on dancing. This description fits any number of trance tracks, most readers will know. The point here is therefore only the simple one, that the boys from Antix knows how to put this formula to use the right way! On all the tracks. There are no fillers here and a couple of quite outstanding tracks. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 8 comes to mind, but really all tracks have their own charm and characteristica. In comparison with Jaia's Fiction I must say I like Antix' TCD better, but then again TCD also harbors more safely in the trance genre with fewer leaps into house oriented land. And when this is done ...?! Well, just get the record and skip directly to track 4 Cold Night and find out what I mean. The bass here ... luv it, luv it! Another bull's eye from Iboga and a must-hear for the progressive follower.

This is an interesting release to comment for me. I bought it only because of reviews here on psynews saying this, Phony Orphants' It'cetra and Antix' Twin Coast Discovery were competing with only a handfull of other releases to be best progressive release of 2005. Well, not having heard any of these and just having received them what a splendid opportunity for me to unbiased compare some of the reportedly most outstanding progressive trance releases of 2005! I might be a little carefully categorizing Fiction as progressive trance, though. I find it more deep/electro house like. Still, here we go. Let me just say, that I am not to fond of the bridges/fillers between the main songs.I appreciate the idea trying to create a journey with down-tempo fillers and sounds between the main tracks, but this could have been done differently. In any case, this cd rocks and I would rather have had an extra track or a rmx. Like I said, Fiction has a very housey vibe to it and fits in the house/trance/club hybrid. But don't worry - no cheese alarm setting off here even if this album won't intimidate your average club people (aka trance no'ers)!! I wouldn't be surprised to hear any of the tracks here in a club, and I'm sure they would pack the dance floor. Like track 2 serial groover. Smooth, energetic, sexy. Or the single Orchestra with its Wagner inspiration. In a trance perspective, this music would be played on main stage on festivals, I presume. Personally, I'd rather hear it at the chill out stage, though, just around the time when it's getting dark. The tracks here have all the energy you want for recharging your batteries. Relaxing, chilling, chummying. Or make your body start twitching, even if involuntarily. And set you gently off if you feel for it. Cause it's smooth. It's controlled. And it's so damn freaking pleasant to listen too!! One of the best progressive releases of 2005 in my opinion. Gotta check out Phony Orphants and Antix now ...

Couldn't believe my luck either. I guess it makes up for some of the terrible albums I-don't-know-why-I-bought over the years ... I have a Ferry Corsten compilation for Christ sakes ... Been wanting to get rid of it for years. Putting it on ebay this Saturday ... But don't tell anyone I told you ...

Oh, yeah, I like it too. A lot. Got it this monday so haven't heard it many times yet, but for sure not a buy I will regret. I'm not really keen on the fillers/bridges between the tracks though. Would rather have had an extra track or a rmx and the. Or something Anyway, nice album.

From tantrance 5? By far best track on this compilation, if you ask me. Got it 2nd hand for 7 euro half a month ago ...

Jaia - Fiction. Housey ...

Was just reading another thread here on psynews that turned into a mildly heated debate (the sample debate). Actually, that thread may not be the best example to illustrate what I want to say as everybody was behaving themselves in that debate. At least on the first page (I didn't read it all). And I might add that I think that in general the tone is kept very nice and polite here. So I'm not bashing the debate milieu on psynews! Still, sometimes, yes, even here on psynews, tempers get heated and when they get heated they get very heated and very fast!! It's one mistake or a wrong word and it's FUCK YOU you fucking two times fucked fucker !!! I'm sure most of us´ve tried it at some point. I know I have. Well, this just made me wonder why internet debates seems so easy to turn into these frenzies where everybody's going at it post after post after post ...? I mean, I can understand why it happens more often than IRL. On the web, it's easy. But maybe also because it's fun. Perhaps we are used to being so darn nice to each other all the time IRL, that the chance to bash someone for a detail even if it is SO not important, at the end of the day is nothing but a chance just TO BASH SOMEONE If that's the case I need to review my feelings about heated debates. I mean, if it's just about emotions and testoteron it's part of life and psynews just a place where these emotions can be let out non-violently. Anyhow, in line with these 2 cents ... fuck you all !

Quite impressive BTW that a newbie starts with Derango Tumult, I think. I've been listening to psytrance since 96. Just got Tumult yesterday, and will definitely need some listenings before I am able to go with the sound here. Dark MFer.

MFG - The Prophecy. This is an amazing album. I've only heard the Phonokol version, but it blew my head off. Clean. Really. I'm still looking for it ...

Got this cd two months ago and really loved it the first many times I heard it. Then a week ago I re-heard IFO. I think the reason why I clearly like this better is that the trax tells more of a story - someone else also mentioned this here - and have some small islands of downs too. This enables me to enjoy the head on moments, whereas Filteria is head on from start to finish. Anyway, amazing debut. Can't wait to hear his next album presumably coming in a week

Derango - Tumult. Listening to it for the first time and expect to find out what the hype is about. First impression: evil ... If I like? Hm ... don't have a verdict yet.

Haha, good point and in line with that I won't add anymore Well, just one thing. My question was directed to Elysium, and not you. From my posts you will see I agree fully with what you've written. And I'm not brown nosing