Rotwang

Rhombus - New Wave Saturday Night Chickens lifts part of its melody straight from Blue Monday. The samples I heard of The Zap!'s album had quite an 80's feel to them.

Very nice! But shouldn't it be called "Beathoven's Fullmoonlight sonata"?

I didn't like the sound of this at all when I first heard the samples. But now I've heard the album a few times I'm really starting to like it. Talpa deserves a lot of credit for being brave enough to try something new, and he deserves even more for having actually pulled it off.

I've never tried turning on email notification for thread replies, but I think that the email notification for PM's is broken at the moment. So it wouldn't surprise me if they are all broken. I've already spoken to Nemo about the PM problem, so hopefully it will get fixed soon.

Actually, if by downtempo you mean psy-chill like Shpongle, Ultimae records etc., then plenty of topics about that get opened in the General section. Nice avatar, by the way.

NHJOHYENNRO cannot be explained.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

"This message can not be sent because the recipient has their personal messenger disabled or they are in a member group not allowed to use the personal messenger." e: It says your group is "Validating". How queer.

I give this album two thumbs up.

In case the mods didn't notice it, I'd like to draw their attention to Jon Cocco's suggestion, and my alternative suggestion.

OLD I reserved myself a copy of World of Sleepers earlier today.

Try watching 2001: A Space Odyssey on psychedelics. Then you'll understand.

I've thought for a long time that the psy scene has a lot in common with the metal scene. There aren't many genres that inspire the kind of devotion among its their listeners that means you can identify fans of that genre by looking at them (I'm not saying this applies to all or even the majority of psytrancers, but there are people who go about their everyday lives wearing space tribe shirts or fairy outfits with fluoro wool dreads). And another thing psytrance has in common with metal is that AFAIK it's one of the few genuinely international genres, with listeners showing no particular preference for artists from a small number of countries.

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Heh, good one.

+1. I'd also like to cite precedent, namely the "this week's stupid covers" thread, which featured a series of Raja Ram 'shops.

I think the version on the Osom website is nicer. Click

I don't know whether this was directed at me, but in case it was I'll say a few words in my defence: I haven't intentionally dissed stuff which isn't darkpsy, nor did I ever mean to suggest that it's "the only one that has carried on the true lineage from Goa trance"; I agree that they all have (in fact I like lots of stuff which isn't darkpsy, much like all the darkpsy listeners on this forum AFAIK). It's just that when somebody accuses the music I like of killing the scene, and calls people who share my taste "scum", I feel like I should defend it, especially when that person backs up their claim with statements that are demonstrably false. I don't entirely agree with this - when a genre evolves in different directions it's natural that some people will like some directions more than others, and I think it's good that there exist parties and festivals which cater just for those people who like dark or progressive or minimal or whatever best. "Division" needn't mean "hostility".

I can't decide whether this one's good or not:

I don't know about that. I think I'd rather hear that than the kind of thing Vegetal puts in his tracks.

+2. Either that or pin them at the top of the reviews subforum for each year.

I would agree, but it's not like he wasn't pushing his luck.