Jon Cocco

Agree and I agree. So where is this remix sample from? A new album, comp, soundtrack, single, or what? The sample sounds like any artist could have made it. What's the big deal? Anyone starts any thread with words Simon P. / Hallucinogen / Shpongle, and everyone wets their panties. There is little reason why Postford would want to attach the classic image Hallucinogen name to such a forgettable, lackluster song. It's boring, uninspired, unimaginative, and we've all come to expect more from Simon because of his brilliant HALLUCINOGEN albums. Nonetheless, it's just a remix. A remix... Wasn't Hallucinogen on the Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack? That Hallucinogen song on that soundtrack compared to his albums sound nothing a like. It's just name recognition. No more, no less. People act like it's amazing to not hear such Godsend work from this artist. Fucking breath already. He's not Jesus. Alas, I sincerely hope this isn't the direction that Postford takes with the legendary Hallucinogen name. Peoples last impression is a artist who went out in glory; who made not only one, but two stunning, groundbreaking, goatrance masterpieces! I'd rather have it end there, then hear a third Hallucinogen album that's disappointing... I'm sure many people who found The MATRIX sequels disappointing and misguided can relate to what it would feel like if a third Hallucinogen album turned out to be disappointing. You'd probably wish in retrospect he ended when he did.. people assume any Hallucinogen album will be amazing.

Awesome album. Many here have written reviews in the old goatrance reviews section, currently unavailable. I doubt this will get even a decent amount of reviews. Worth me mentioning however, this is a superb goatrance classic! Update: Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 all the way!

I think he simply wanted to try something different, more slow/chill, less dark goa-esque. This is nothing like AWAKENING. I'd love to hear a follow-up to Awakening but who knows whatever happened to him. Now that goa's back with Suntrip, will this help bring some of the masters out of the old woodwork who stopped producing the great, more imaginative stuff? I don't know. I'd love to hear "modern and new" darker goatrance like MFG's Project Genesis and Darshan's Awakening. I never heard Spectra so it's unfair for me to bash it. I heard samples which I thought were pretty lackluster, sometimes boring. Some of it did sound interesting however. The styles completely different so initially I was disappointed because I like Awakening and was hoping for something in that dark, driving goatrance style. Samples http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=84

On first impressions, this seems to have a sound that's just not worth getting too excited about. Surely there will always be people to find an album far better than others, in this case, not many on these forums to date seem to find it charming. And please don't over analyze these impressions. I haven't heard the album in it's entirety, and here is my views based on samples. Track 1 - sounds regular full on. Not a good way to start an album off because a decent amount of people judge (and often mistake) an album by the first several tracks; the first one sets the impression. Track 2 - sounds psychedelic but too noisy. Track 3 - Not THAT good, it sounds better than other so far. The melody changes, distorts, and is altered multiple times. I like that. Another comes in and the track sounds more catchy. Hmmm.. more tracks like this would have been nice. One of the better sounding tracks on the album. In my opinion, none of them should be anything less than this one because this one isn't all that great to begin with, but far better than most others itt seems.9 Track 4 - boring. I found the previous song far more catchy. Track 5 - okay. Track 6 - Finally a stronger melody, unfotunately one melody, which is a sustained (as simple as holding a key down on several different) melody that seems isolated from the potential of having other melodies to compliment it. Track 7 - Suckubus seems more melodic, deep with warmth and sound. I like that. Track 8 - sounds, hmm... better also. The voice sample got my attention too and I liked the song before that happened. Track 9 - Sounds okay, but this has a melody I find annoying... until the "tennis" (?) and voice sample I find humorous, although it sounds like a "special" person trying to hit a tennis ball, no offense to the special people, that's just what the sample sounds like. ... After the sample the song gets a little better, until that screechy melody returns. It's irritating to my ears and I don't care for it. It's as if the album gets better after the first several songs, which probably aren't captivating as many listeners to continue to certain songs that seem to have more colorful character. This may be possible because the songs don't sound ALL THAT. There is far better melodic psytrance currently on the market from 2005. A good 2005 example, being Driodlock - Elefantronika, which makes this album sound forgettable to me in comparison. It's not the album doesn't have melodies, it's that it does -- and I don't find them captivating or imaginative or engaging. Other than some psysounds and frequency shifts/alterations in sound, (which is common in psytrance) I find the songs fairly uninteresting, not all, but enough to turn-me off from "wanting it" or currently writing something more positive. On a side note, I found the 2004 Bio Tonic - Divina album wonderful (not great, but overall good) and a real gem in having female voice samples compliment several tracks and no one seemed to agree with me on these forums. I felt like I owned a kickass album that everyone was missing, dissing, ignoring, and not realizing. Sometimes this happens and it can be quite frusterating when one feels an album deserves more credit than it's gotten. Who knows why things are the way they are... those are just some thoughts.

Edit: Update - I'm incorporating this (well what was this) short review into the full review on page two.

Mechanical Age is one of the biggest surprises of 2004. Tracks 1, 4, 7, and 8 are so far my favorites. I'd love to see a 4CN album with more tracks like the ones Seraph mentioned above.

VIOLENT VISION: UNFOLD BNE RECORDS 2003 I'm surprised there aren't more reviews here. It's so unique and inventive! There are some very catchy, beautiful songs, elements, and cleverly mixed parts on this album. This is the opposite of typical, general sounding. It sounds individual. The opening song "Your Voice" is such a great song! Wow! So beautiful, before breaking out into this great, catchy, groovey, electro, funk, tech-trancey gem. Mmmm.. delicious! I wish there were more similar, beautiful tracks like Your Voice on the Violent Vision follow-up, (Unfold) which is clearly for very open-minded listeners who are into or open to EXPERIMENTAL, electronic music. Sometimes the album seems so non-linear that it's wonderous, irritating, surprising, strange, refreshing, impressive, different... and with enough catchy elements and songs that interest me. This album seems to have been accidentally overlooked here. I've seen bad albums get far better attention. UNFOLD sounds very different from their first album called, "First Signs of Communication", which was more trance/psy oriented, downtempo, experimental, no vocals I remember, and an essential, underrated gem. I've noticed that Violent Visions - Unfold didn't appear on psyshop, maybe because it's not psytrance or just "trance" either, (but neither was their first) and yet psyshop carries the Your Voice EP album. (?) Oh well. This album is different from anything I've ever heard. The album consists of literally... Electro, tech-trance, trance, breakbeat, trip-hop, chill, rock, experimental, FUCKING JAZZ!!! and more (!) ...all creatively combined together, in multiple styles on one artistic, innovative, and original album. My only complaint is that occasionally the album (track 3, 4, 5) has several songs that journey very far into syth-pop or rock/tech-esque areas, which make the listener feel as if they're listening to a completely different artist and album. I really enjoyed track 3 and 4 before and around the male singing. Musically, it's great. Overall, the singing works extremely well with the female singer/voices. Tracks like "Your Voice" are very attractive and accessible. Also, the songs with male voices in track 5, 7, and 11 work very well. However, in songs 3, 6 they're not catchy, just irritating. Those parts really put a dent in an otherwise great album. There are many people out there looking for music like this. They don't know it exists. 1. Your Voice ... A- or 9/10 2. Steam ... B 3. Cellophane ... C+ 4. Plastic Wrap ... B- 5. Get You Closer ... B 6. I'm Inside ... C 7. Fresh Ground ... B 8. Gentle Anarchy ... B- 9. Melodious PrankstArs ... B 10. The Day Out ... B 11. Pale Void ... B SCORE/GRADE: B or 8/10. Samples below. http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=3591

Okay, here's one. When I go to the search box at the bottem below review threads (any year) and type in V/A for example, I'm brought to a page with a board message that says Sorry, an error occured.. Now V/A is exactly how hundreds of albums are written as thread titles, yet nothing comes up for this search. I'm unable to find Various Artists compilations to appear when I specify V/A just so I don't have to go through hundreds of threads to find what I'm looking for. Same thing goes for when I search for certain (not all) artist albums in general. It works occasionally, but when I went to forums, reviews, 2004... for example, and typed in Dark Soho or Light in Dark, the same annoying message came up, as if these threads or threads with these words in them don't exist, but they clearly do. This sounds like a flaw in the sites search engine. Am I doing something wrong or what? Can this be corrected, explored as to reason it's doing this? Lastly, (same topic) there are only 4 pages available to view in forum reviews 2004. Once I think I clicked on the last page and more page numbers appeared, like after 4, you'd see page 5, 6, 7, etc.. however the 2004 review forums go only as far back as 4 pages. Is this another site change/glitch, or is there any way around this block to view threads further back?

Thank you for clarifying that it's a key, not the bassline. I missed that, and that's why I had a (?) after mentioning bassline once or twice above. I wasn't 100%, and I wouldn't want to lose potential credibility as a writer, for unintentionally calling something what it's not. Good luck with your future works.

DARK SOHO - LIGHT IN THE DARK Wow, what happened?? And the lack of reviews. People avoided this thing and now I see why! Listen-- I'm all for positivity and higher consciousness. That said, Dark Soho is one-- well was anyway one of Psytrance's best DARK groups-- no more. This is NOT there style anymore. It's replaced with a lighter sound with far fewer interesting elements. Borderline TYPICAL Psytrance. Thanks to YouTube, you can hear the full album for free. Or save 70 minutes of your life. Some fans may be curious though.. like me, and oh man. I don't understand why the two remaining artists didn't create something more elaborate and memorable if they're inspired to do something less dark, more positive and wholesome (which I'm all for despite loyal Dark Soho enthusiasts. Just-- if you're going to do something different. Please, PLEASE make it good and worthy of the name!!!!! That said, I really like parts of this album, tracks even... but the album is inconsistent. Alien's Cream is darker than the others, like a track that didn't make the lats two albums, so they included it here. Track 5, Long Way Home is good. It's not dark, just surprisingly, different, catchy, shifting between agressive and somewhat beautiful. It's well done. If a track like this one is the new Dark Soho style, (and maybe some more downtempo tracks along with it) I can be content with that. However, on this album, it's a unique and interesting song surrounded by few others many people consider fairly good. Let's put it this way: With exception to the last one and Long Way Home, the "newer style" lighter-sounding songs sound typical, average, and boring. Dark Soho has always been talented in dark psytrance of course, so if they're going to make an album with some light, (or less dark songs) at least make them good songs. The first two, and last two tracks, BEFORE the final fairly good downtempo one, are just boring; bad. I don't know if someone told Dark Soho that they need to repent for all the dark music they've made, with light music... but many people enjoyed and had many positive (full of joy, light) experiences with their talented dark music. Also, many fans were obviously most disappointed with this album because they remember Dark Soho a certain fold way it's no longer not. If Dark Soho isn't going back to DARK psytrance like before, they should seriously consider creating more solid songs like Long Way Home and Peace of Mind as opposed to typical, average, forgettable, cheesy fullon/trance sound. From reading message boards, forums, and feedback on several sites including their own, I've learned that many people who enjoyed their dark style before are done with them. Some people hope this third album is a fluke and the great dark style will return, but I don't care anymore. The belief therefore is that Dark Soho will gain new fans as it loses old ones, from the direction they've recently taken. However they've taken several new directions on the third album, one being somewhat different but fresh, the other being lazy, repetitive, boring, and uninspired, which makes up about half of Light in the Dark. It's their choice. 1. Non stop to nowhere ... CHEESY choir, male sample notes hurt an already weak, lazy opening. C- 2. Light in the dark ... This just sounds like typical full on. It's lame how bearly average this sounds. C- 3. Aliens cream ... First darker song on album is refreshing, but grows repetitive after intriguing intro. C 4. The toy ... More involved than previous three songs, fairly catchy and danceable. It's OKAY! C+ / B- 5. Long way home ... The high point of the album. Solid song with memorable tunes and melodies! B / B+ 6. Away ... One of the better songs on the album but not as good as the last. C+ 7. Magic ... Cool Pitch Black movie samples, it's mostly fairly flat and repetitive however. C 8. All the brithness ... More Pitch Black samples? Sounds like flat, lazy full on. C 9. Peace of mind ... Different. They made a pretty good downtempo song. B- In conclusion, there exists several pretty good songs on this album, those being Long Way Home, Away, Peace of Mind. Alien Cream. Unlike previous Dark Soho albums, the DARK element is in only traces here. Gone are the gothic choir, intensity, and screaming guitar riffs that made their previous albums so sleek, stomping, and exciting. They seem to have put a good amount of time into several tracks, and got lazy or confused with others. Sigh. Why not just make a great album full of light and/or duality??! Some of these songs leave so much to be desired that you'd think this release was by a different artist/group entirely. Overall Grade/Score: ... C, maybe a C+ The album's on YouTube if you're curious..

MEGALOPSY: The ABSTRACT MACHINE 2004 FULL REVIEW This album is dark psytrance with a decent amount melodies, but not many or many layers of them. There are atmospheric intro and outro segments before and after each track. I enjoy and find all of them interesting. After the first two songs, the artists generally change their style up several times throughout the tracks. This was one of the better dark psytrance releases of 2005, a very weak year I might add. INTRO - I like the intro. It sets the mood nicely. Short, strange, omnious, and fairly mysterious. I suppose for an intro it's decent. However, the same cheap effect used to alter the so-called alien voice here... is used in Insane Clown Posse's six main Jokers Cards albums. The voice sounds similar to ICP's albums too. C+ OBSCURE WARLOCK - Starts out interesting, but I don't care for this song. It's TOO repetitive. It has a distorted melody that plays through-out which I don't find all that catchy. The psy-sounds compliment it, and the song never seems to really go anywhere. The ambient/atmospheric sounds toward the end are very well placed and set-up the opening to the third track nicely. To get to that cool bit is a bitch however IMHO. C Fractal Circus - Better than the previous track. It's more interesting, involving, and it changes more. Just slightly into the first two minutes the whole song seems to change. Things are starting to get better. The kickdrum just stops and some cool melodies commpliment a transition. At 5:00 minutes into the song, those melodies are catchy. This is one of my few fave songs on the album. B- GOBLIN GRINS - More aggresive than previous tracks. The distorted melody that comes in arond 2:00 I don't care for. I like when the beats stop and there are these interesting, dark transition moments in the track. There are several transition moments here. The chime-esque melodies are very catchy, like a filtered piano. When the track slows down, the whole song feels darker. I really like how this song develops after 5:00! The song becomes so much better all of a suden, and all they did was slow something down. That's one thing I very much like about this album: the songs move around; change; develops. As with previous tracks, an interesting outro transition is fused together into the following song. B- JUGGLING SPHERES - Like ringing a high pitched bell, there is a very catchy *ding* sound here that compliments the song. There also exists a sample from the film Pulp Fiction. Nice. I like how they didn't over-use it too. Unfortunatley, I don't feel several tracks on this album including this one, engage, or are nearly as arresting as some others are. The second half reminds me a bit of Infected Mushroom with the melodies. All in all, not one of my faves on the album. My favorite part is easily the transition at the end. Wow, great transition! Can they make a whole song as catchy as some of their track ending/transitions?, that could be great: dark, atmopsheric, downtempo trance. C+ PACHAMAMA - The structure starts similar to Goblin Grins, but with fewer beats or b.p.m. The baseline, beat, and overall song I find repetitive and tiresome for the first four minutes. The radio voices mixed in are catchy. Some squeeky and psy-sounds around the kickdrum make this track sound similar to much dark psytrance out there. The song becomes more attractive once the melodies come in around 4:00, but nothing great. The grainy, radio-esque voice sample helps, but by then it's too late for me. The song never seems to take off or really go anywhere interesting. C MONKEY SUPERNOVA - It's darker then the previous one, and certainly more developed. It doesn't really seem to go anywhere interesting until after a cool little sample appears in the middle, reminding the listener of maybe a monkey traveling through outer space. I suppose the monkey goes to Hell or into a blackhole because the song gets darker. One of the better or tracks on the album. The theme is at least original I think. A very catchy part is when the music slows slows down before speeding up in the second half, and when the track ends very DARK, with strong industrial ambience and atmosphere.. this curious segment cleverly fronts the next song. C+ SPACE CADET - This is arguably the best song on the album. I like how it starts...DARK and with those melodies... A fairly good amount of layers. It's spooky, aggressive, and rough. I WISH there were MORE involved DARK tracks like this one and GOBLIN GRINS on THIS album... songs with more emotion, personality, and character. This track is arguably the best song on the album. Seriously, I strongly feel that if you don't like this track, track 2, or track 3, this album is definitely NOT for you at all. The pretty flute sound seems almost ironic here.. as if almost to give "hope" to a rather draining abyss of lost souls. I'm being more poetic there, it's just the visual I get. This song is more psychedelic, with what appears to be a bit more layers and mixing. The liquid-ish sounds and sound skipping is a nice touch too. Details are nice, and this is one of the several songs on the album that seems to executes it's many VERY well. B DEVENIR-COSMOS - Is it me or did the album just start to really spice things up a bit toward the end? Not until these last three songs have I felt the album becoming bettter then initially thought. I think these several tracks go together very well. it's like less filler and morequality tracks back-to-back. Also, the style and tone seems to have gotten a shade darker, and veered close to dark/evil. *WoW* the first time I used the word EVIL the whole time on this album. Don't get too excited, it's never Xenomorph-evil, however the album seems to get, well darker towards the end. The actual song is pretty cool too. C+ OUTRO / COSMOS - Nice closing. Why can't it be longer?! The echoed clapping and psy-sounds at around 2:00 are fairly catchy. I think it would have been great if after it fades, it suddenly returns again and *WHAM* with more layers and energy to compliment it than before. It's feels so short at 4:14. Oh well. C+ In conclusion, this albums worth checking out if you're into dark psytrance. I don't find this album great, but it's definitely above average and one of the better darkpsy albums of 2005. I think some of the intros/outros around each track are imaginative and interesting. They're different and intriging, and occasionally more interesting than the track that follows. It would be nice to hear some dark psytrance tracks as interesting as their intro/outro segment bits. This album seems to have some fillers or songs they didn't really have that many interesting ideas to do with. I think if these artists focus on the more catchy elements of their debut, and capitalize on that.. (melodies, atmosphere, intro's/outro's, take more risks, get more intricate, darker, catchy, melodie, throw in some surprise moments, basically just *WoW* us) maybe they can release something that grabs far more people than they did with this. Track faves are 3, 4, 8. My overall Grade/Score: C+ or a 7.7 out of 10.

Pretty good, floating, sometimes spacey ambient music. Samples below: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/inr/inr1cd017.html

OMG did everyone miss this album? This is Ultra Melodic Goa-Trance the way most of us like it! Torakka - Far Out Express is one of the BEST GOA TRANCE albums of 2004. It's one of the best New School Goa albums and doesn't sound to samey or soft with the pads, etc. The melodies are juicy, vibrant, and tasty! Not just melodic (becoming cliche) generic sounding goa layers. Good development, innovative elements, and more. Here's a song from the album! https://youtu.be/TDLlWDVRv-8

Thanks DP. I just checked and saw 5-10 threads I started. I was wondering if the other 30+ threads I started are possible to view too, or if they could have somehow been deleted, moved, etc. Any ideas? I've been posting on threads here for several years and was interested to see several threads I started at the links above, curious as to what could have happened to the rest. Sometimes it's just fun to go back and check older threads. Thanks,

Searching today for older threads I've started... (such as my TOP most favorite albums of 2004 thread, and What makes an album 10/10 for you?, the latter written in 2004, etc.. is there any way I can find certain threads I've ever started? I thought maybe if I click on my name via Jon Cocco, I'd be able to find a box which lists all the threads I ever started, like a history (yahoo movies and several other sites do that) is this possible somehow because I don't remember the names of all the threads I posted. Also, will we ever be able to add to the old goatrance reviews section some day again? Was it a lot of work to maintain or something? It was just nice to see all the albums in one area, so organized and all. You know this of course... just wondering if there are any more likely than not.. ideas for the future. thanks!

Double Dragon Continuum? Just curious. What was so excellent/amazing about this album? Don't get me wrong, it had some serious badass-ness to it, but I never understood why so many people considered it so great. There was one track, -ONE TRACK!- that easily stood out amongst the others as being great (for more people than just myself, read the reviews on this in old goatrance reviews section, you'll see what I mean) ...that track being ENCRUSTED FIFTH The album showcased a great deal of mixing, toppling layers of little psy-sounds I think.. and then one day became unavailable everywhere I searched for it. Maybe I don't remember something, and the point of this is not to disagree. Maybe someone can explain why you strongly feel this is a classic. What exists in the album as a whole that makes it a classic for you? * Surprisingly, the Double Dragon album is unavailable on psyshop, saikosounds, amazon, etc.. You can't even SAMPLE it on saikosounds?!! Not even the samples are available to stream! Did Phantasm Records go out of business or something?

Nice Hall of Fame thread and list. I'm glad to see we agree with almost all of them. I'd personally add the following albums below (at least many of them) to improve the list. 2004 Talpa - The Art of Non ............... 05 and 04 are too soon to be classic. Since you have 04-05 albums up, I'd add these. Filteria - Sky Imput ................... too soon as well. 2005 Khetzal - Corolle ............................. too soon to be a classic, but this sounds probable to being one. Antix - Twin Coast Discovery ............. too early to call it classic. but I see the potential. ....... Definite Classic's and Cult classics from earlier days: Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation Miranda - Phenomena Cosmosis - Cosmology Shpongle - Tales from... RA - To Series Dimension 5 - Second Phaz CHI-A.D. - Anno Domini / Earth Crossing Doof - Lets Turn On Sandmsn - Witchcraft Battle of Future Buddhas - Twin Sharkfins Muses Rapt - Spiritual Healing MFG - Project Genesis Mystery of the Yeti and some others I can't think of right now.

Juno Reactor - Labyrinth was one of the very best albums of 2004. Dark, light, imaginative, different, unique, thrilling, innovative, daring. Hopefully we won't have to wait another 5-7 years for them to release another main album! And they deserve more marketing attention (regarding their main albums) then they seem to get! B+ 2004 was such a great year for this music!! It's been all downhill from there, to date.

This sounds too repetitive for me. Some songs sound too similar in comparison to others on the same album. Just listen to the bassline (?) in tracks 2 and 4. They sound almost the same, but slightly tweaked. Same thing with the bassline (?) in track 5. A bit seems removed (sentence shortened) to make it seem slightly different. I wouldn't be surprised if he used part of the exact same bassline structure from several previous tracks. Maybe this was done to make every track feel fairly similar (not in style, because obviously there are different songs in the same style) Maybe it was to cut corners. I don't know. I do like the melodies in track 1, and several minutes of the song that follows.. that is, before it gets repetitive. It hardly goes anywhere, and something once fairly catchy becomes less arresting. Track 6 is the first track I find that really seems to BREAK AWAY from the sound I find too similar and/or over-used in several previous tracks. Same thing with track 7, the song doesn't seems to have a different bassline, and while it sounds very simple, it's fine. Track 8, Sub Glob also sounds different.. better, more catchy. I like this track, and it's of the few tracks that stand out to me. Some very cool melodic bits begin before being drowned out in an ironic sound-altered (to the music) effect. Nice. Cut-up melodies, atmopshere, and lots of sounds mixed in all over the place. Overall, some nice atmosphere, and a dark tone present for the most part. It's not nearly as dark as Ghreg on Earth. But that's not a flaw, just an observation. Be either tranced... or irritated. I was just never in love with this one.

Very well done album! and GROOVEY too I might add. Easily one of the best albums of 2005. This can be heard at all times of the day - and I think night compliments the album best. I'm surprised it took until the end of 2005 for me to give this enough attention to want, bookmark, and get. However I must add...some tracks clearly stand-out above others. There are no bad, or even decent (average) songs on this album. Whether it is your style or type of music is another thing. I wouldn't compare Antix to psytrance because it's NOT. I also find it more influenced than simply "progressive," such a general term these days, especially with albums like these. The album will greatly appeal to club, house, prog, progressive trance, etc.. however many psytrance fans here seem to find it unattractive when an album is called "club" because I think they think full-on or general house music. That is clearly not the case here, because although certain songs sound more clubbish than others (something I'd here in a local club) they are not songs many listeners may think of as "those typical house/voices and singing" club music. These are not typical songs. They are far beyond that. If this is what house has evolved into, and several tracks on this album seem to be catagorized as such (HOUSE) more than others, than it's the best house music of the year.. with influences and songs that release it from those boundaries and let it breath into other genra's as well. But why is FREQ starting the album off with an Antix Rmx? Was this really necessary? Not to nitpick, the opening track's far from bad, it's actually pretty good. Regardless, this is an Antix album, and one that sounds great without another artist taking up and tinkering with 15% of it. It would have been nice to see a brilliant opening (new track) by Antix here, not an opening dependent on someone else to remix one of theirs.

Some of the songs sound cool. None sound great to me, a good amount seem decent and pretty good. I like the fat, animated basslines in track 6. They're catchy. The echoed FEMALE voices seem to work well in most parts of the album. The female drifting echo's give this album a more euphoric, new agey touch, which is cool. Unfortunately, track 4 by Drone – The Last Score... Was this not obvious? ... As if Candyflip Records could not have found a better track? Track 4 is clearly not a good nor appropriate song for this compilation. It sounds like an earlier Gravity Kills song... and not a good one either! It's sure this song will turn some potential buyers.. OFF! I'm surprised they let that track stay on the final release. Everything sounds so much better. I again agree with pr0fane that the male vocals get over-done in track 3. Not only do they get annoying, they sound too loud for some reason in compasison to female vocals. Maybe because it's irritating I notice them more, or not. Track 8 sounds OKAY. Not as "catchy" as most others. I'll wait for something better.

MY TOP 5 ALBUMS of 2005: Apsara - B+ Khetzal: Corolle - B+ Antix: Twin Coast Discovery - B Jaia: Fiction - B Ghreg on Earth: Sigilweaver - B If I were to make a TOP TEN, those above would be followed by... Nystagmus: The Immaculate Perception - B- Droidlock: Elefantronika - B- Shpongle: Nothing Last but Nothing is Lost - B- Entheogenic: Dialogue of the Speakers - B- Planum: Elaborate - B-

Just trying to bring myself up-to-date here. Psyfactor replies.. Wait, this whole "heated" thing started because one person spoke his feelings on a certain artist's music and/or style they didn't like? Ha! Wait, Britney Spears land? ... So because they don't like one dark psytrance artist or album they are generalized as one of the.. bimbo's? I believe you, Psyfactor was being sarcastic. He could NOT have been serious. I don't think he thought of the realistic replies people would return when he submited that comment. I've heard both albums (Darkpsy and Psyfactor - Evil Inside) and both are not my type of dark psytrance either. Other than the fairly catchy melody, (albeit too repetitive and simple, or lacking in other melodies and change in sound for my taste) in the Shitty Bastards song, every other track on the Evil Inside - Psyfactor album was not interesting, imaginative, or catchy enough for me. The same goes for many other artists' music, styles, and albums. Does that mean I don't know dark psytrance or lack good taste? Some dark psytrance albums up to my taste... OLD DARK PSYTRANCE: - Cydonia - In Fear of A Red Planet - Xdream - Radio - The Delta: Scizoeffective - Darshan - Awakening - Dark Soho (first two albums) - Xenomorph - Cassandra's Nightmare - Penta - Pentafiles NEW DARK PSYTRANCE: - Scatterbrain - Infernal Angel ... (2003) - There is No Tomorrow (comp) ... (2004) - Space Monkey - Psychotic Episode ... (2004) Regardless, when ANY artist releases something to the public, the public may comment, whether negative or positive. It's common and expected. Wait, any criticism made by others in this thread was toward your actual music, not you as an individual, rather the music by Psyfactor. Some people like it, others don't. That doesn't seem cool to judge and put down that person because they don't care for your music. That's just silly. If I released something and some people didn't seem to like it, I'd focus on the written reviews that may explain why they didn't like my music or album. I'd try to learn from both positive and negative feedback and see how I can maybe improve my work so that I develop and attract more listeners and fans.

OMG.. lol. No you don't have to. I just realized. I'm going to listen to it again now.

Part of me totally agrees with you, and part of me also realizes that just like a 4/4 star movie, one aspect may be slightly not as outstanding, but as a whole, looking at the whole picture, sometimes it's clear to see that it's a true and total masterpiece. Nothing is perfect, not in the eye's of everyone anyway. However, we can become more aware so to distinguish the best of the best. However, to reach total awareness goes beyong scoring and perfection. Thats total enlightenment which can't be fully achieved in body and mind (perception) anyway.We'd have to disregard all material, music (the idea of 10/10's) dissasociate the "mind," and return to The source for that, where all is One. But this is not the thread to discuss that. Even groundbreaking styles, albums like Pleiadians - I.F.O. have their not amazing song's (Celeano for starters) to end the album peacefully, however the album had songs at the time which were so beyond almost everything else ever made in digital music... Could I.F.O. had a better final song? Sure, (I rated the I.F.O. album 9/10 in 2000 because of this) however it's all a matter of perception. Some people have their 10/10 albums to listen/dance to, or the perfect ones to trip to, and you can imagine how different those 10/10 lists could be. When I was younger I had many more albums I considered 10/10's on my list. Then, the more music I heard, the more aware I became because I could compare. I lowered my ratings on almost everything else, except the ones which remained a 10 after being compared to all else! It's gotta be painful for a poor cd who hopes he's a 10, fearing the day he may lose his spot. What happens when an artist builds up an album from great to excellent on purpose to trance the listener?.. think some earlier AP albums. The track listing was so carefully organized because of this I feel, and I do agree with you that every track MUST be great/excellent at the very least to achieve a 10/10. A 10/10 means perfection! Sometimes people forget to compare the stuff they love to the best stuff they ever heard. Anyway, I think it's an interesting topic, (I made a thread last year or in 2004 about what people consider a 10/10 or perfect album) and I don't want to side-track the thread too much from the point, which are OUR 10/10 albums. My 10/10 list as follows... *HALLUCINOGEN: THE LONE DERANGER .......... A *INFECTED MUSHROOM: CLASSICAL MUSHROOM .......... A ................................................................................... The following may be 9.5+ out of 10 (or very close to what I consider 10/10) and regardless, these are several of the most TOP greatest albums of all time! PLEIADIANS - I.F.O. ASTRAL PROJECTION - DANCING GALAXY COSMOSIS - COSMOLOGY CHI-A.D. - EARTH CROSSING ... (one track on this album is good while the others are of such greatness and excellence... this is the highest scored album I EVER HEARD that was not released! I am certain. This album is awesome even if it was released. An underrated, beautiful, stunning, imaginative, marvelous goatrance gem!