Rotwang

Oh, I should add that if you'd like to learn about the other relatively recent offshoots of psytrance you could do a lot worse than check out Ormion's Introduction to Psytrance video series. In particular I'd check out the videos for darkpsy, forest, psycore, twilight, SA, progressive, dark progressive and minimal.

Over the last decade psytrance has split into a bunch of significantly different (and themselves each very varied) subgenres. At two opposite extremes are new-school Goa (which took the melodic elements of early psytrance and turned them up to 11) and darkpsy (which stripped away almost all melody and instead built tracks mostly around atonal timbres and effects). If you don't like the former, which is what it sounds like from your post, perhaps you should give the latter a try. Here are a few videos, but these days darkpsy is much too diverse to be well represented in a single post and so the following represents my personal taste more than anything else: Kindzadza - Nature Grow (2004) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQCKJN9U1N0 Terminator - Bom Bole (2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXjKyNAQpvo Enichkin - Beyond the Shadow of Doubt (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3c4CJ-VePU Kindzadza - Shivaya Voda (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9tA14lSjpI Overdream - Fiji Island (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Qs_sLafuk Kraft - Syncopath (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z94QEGZ5ge8 The Nommos - The Forest Never Sleeps (2006) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTUKQk5-Hfw Psykovsky - Tanetsveta (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf2tUc3eegY Kindzadza - Cella Fella (2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW09zdslsfw

I like it.

I believe that if you preorder CDs from Bleep they offer a WAV download at no extra cost.

Didn't you already download it from Bleep?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXjKyNAQpvo

^ expln pls

Looks like he was last active in October.

Don't thank me, thank trancedigital. I just noticed earlier that I never got round to pinning the results to the top of the 2011 forum, hence my doing so.

Here are the results from the Psynews "Best of 2011" poll (thanks to trancedigital for counting votes): Link to results and discussion thread Automated voting system used (managed by mars) The best 10 of each category are copied below (for the complete ranking, check the link above): Best Psy/Uptempo Albums 1: Artifact303 - Back To Space (Suntrip) 2: E-Mantra - Pathfinder (Suntrip) 3: Portamento - The Portal (Cronomi) 4: Antares - Exodus (Suntrip) 5: Nerso - Exploration of Infinity (TesseracTstudio) 6: Talpa - The Path (SunDance) 7: Goalien - Psychedelic Dilemma (Sita) 8: Ianuaria - Beware Of The Fish (Blue Hour Sounds) 9=: Trinodia - Human History (Underground Alien Factory) 9=: Master Blasters - Life Changing Experiences (Nano) Best Psy/Uptempo Compilations 1: VA - Mind Rewind (DAT Mafia) 2: VA - Planet Riders (Dimensional) 3: VA - Erta Ale (Cronomi) 4: VA - Dimensional Gateway 2 (Neogoa.tk) 5: VA - Goa Overdose 2 (Underground Alien Factory) 6: VA - Future Architecture (Neogoa.tk) 7: VA - Panta Deus (Psytance.pl) 8: VA - Dance Computer (Iboga) 9=: VA - Forensic Science (Iono) 9=: VA - Spectral Circuitry (Ektoplazm) Best Psy/Uptempo EP's 1: Sky Technology - Next Visions (Neogoa.tk) 2: Toï Doï - Mother Pitch (Underground Alien Factory) 3: Crossing Mind - Ultimate Reality (Underground Alien Factory) 4: Nova Fractal - Main Sequence Star (Neogoa.tk) 5: Javi - The Aural Exciter (Neogoa.tk) 6: Eleusyn - Carbon EP (JOOF) 7: SETI Project - Wizards Night (Underground Alien Factory) 8: Gaudium & Ace Ventura - In Between (Iboga) 9: Artifakt2 Feat Broken Toy - Triad Pt.2 (Timecode) 10: Ace Ventura & Captain Hook - The Jolly Roger (Plusquam) Best Ambient/Downtempo Albums 1: Carbon Based Lifeforms - Twentythree (Ultimae) 2: Solar Fields - Until We Meet The Sky (Ultimae) 3: E-Mantra - Visions from the Past (Altar) 4: Aes Dana - Perimeters (Ultimae) 5: Ott - Mir (Ottsonic) 6: Koan - The Fables Of Belovodye (Blue Tunes) 7: Bluetech - Rainforest Reverberation (Native State) 8: Entheogenic - Gaia Sophia (Universal Symbiosis) 9: Asura - Oxygene (Altar) 10: Astral Waves - Magique (Altar) Best Ambient/Downtempo Compilations 1: VA - Ambrosia (Ultimae) 2: VA - Fahrenheit Project Part Seven (Ultimae) 3: VA - The Missing Elements (Altar) 4: VA - Chill Out Anthology (Brokers/Pmb Music) 5: VA - Dub Dimensions (Ajanavision) 6: VA - Ease Division 4 (Spiral Trax) 7: VA - Absence Of Gravity (Sentimony) 8: VA - Tom Novy Chillin At Ocean Drive Ibiza Hotel Vol 2 (Kontor) 9: VA - Elysian Vibes 5 (One World Music) 10: VA - Armada Lounge Vol. 4 (Armada Holland) Best Ambient/Downtempo EP's 1: Brujo's Bowl - Healing With Sound (Arkona Creation) 2: Side Liner - A Hand To Hold (Cosmicleaf) 3: Ambrosia - BMS010 (Bomb Shop) 4: Chronos - Space Sweets & Logical Beats (Soundmute) 5: Reef Project feat Erin Powers - Adrift (Remix EP) (System) 6: The Humble Bee - The Royal Game (Wist) 7: Objekt - Objekt 1 (Objekt) 8: Aidan Baker - Bach Eingeschaltet, Vierter Band (Reue Um Reue) 9: 36 - Cocoon & Saphron (3six) 10: 36 - Reunion & Deluge (3six)

Here are the results from the Psynews "Best of 2012" poll: Link to results and discussion thread Link to "voting thread" (closed) The best 10 of each category are copied below (for the complete ranking, check the link above): Best uptempo albums 1: Etnica - Live in Athens 1996 (DAT) 2: Mindsphere - Patience For Heaven (Suntrip) 3: Crossing Mind - The Inner Shift (Suntrip) 4: VA - Shaltu (Suntrip) 5: Kindzadza - Nano Ninja (Osom) 6: Solar Fields - Random Friday (Ultimae) 7: VA - Space of Power (Global Sect) 8: Agneton - Wizards from the Future (Sita) 9: Nova Fractal - Fractal Landscape (Ovnimoon) 10: VA - Flight 604 (Zion 604) Best downtempo albums 1: E-Mantra - Silence (Altar) 2: Connect.Ohm - 9980 (Ultimae) 3: RA - Unearthly (Altar) 4: Sync24 - Comfortable Void (Ultimae) 5: Globular - A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Omnitropic) 6: Aes Dana - Pollen (Ultimae) 7: VA - Conundrum Concoction (Dark Prisma) 8: Akshan - The Tree of Life (Altar) 9: Koan - Argonautica (Section) 10: Ishvara - Under a Hexagon Sky (Virtual)

Here are the results from the "Best of 2012" poll: Uptempo 1: Etnica - Live in Athens 1996 (DAT) 113 points from 13 votes 2: Mindsphere - Patience For Heaven (Suntrip) 99 points from 12 votes 3: Crossing Mind - The Inner Shift (Suntrip) 94 points from 14 votes 4: VA - Shaltu (Suntrip) 55 points from 9 votes 5: Kindzadza - Nano Ninja (Osom) 49 points from 6 votes 6: Solar Fields - Random Friday (Ultimae) 47 points from 7 votes 7: VA - Space of Power (Global Sect) 38 points from 6 votes 8: Agneton - Wizards from the Future (Sita) 37 points from 5 votes 9: Nova Fractal - Fractal Landscape (Ovnimoon) 35 points from 5 votes 10: VA - Flight 604 (Zion 604) 29 points from 6 votes 11: InnerSpace - InnerSpace (Suntrip) 28 points from 6 votes 12: Space Elves - Terrestrial Planet Finder (Dimensional) 27 points from 5 votes 13: M-Run - Some Run Just for Fun (Cronomi) 25 points from 3 votes 14: SynSUN - Sounds of Cosmic Lifeforms (Phototropic) 22 points from 4 votes 15: Trinodia - Stargazing (Ovnimoon) 21 points from 5 votes 16: Atmos - 604 (Iboga) 20 points from 3 votes 17=: Beat Bizarre - Muhkarv (Iboga) 18 points from 2 votes 17=: Perfect Stranger - Leap Of Faith (Iboga) 18 points from 2 votes 19=: Barby - Infiltrator (Ovnimoon) 15 points from 3 votes 19=: OOOD - You Think You Are (Vertigo) 15 points from 3 votes 21=: Hallucinogenic Horses - The Golden Years (Lost Theory) 14 points from 3 votes 21=: VA - Lubra Instincts (Osom) 14 points from 3 votes 21=: Amygdala - Modus Operandi (Ektoplazm) 14 points from 2 votes 24=: Protonica - Form Follows Function (Iono) 12 points from 3 votes 24=: Luomuhappo - Pallit Ja Sielu (Freakdance) 12 points from 2 votes 24=: VA - Creaking Rhythms Valley (Treetrolla) 12 points from 2 votes 27=: Procs - Touchdown in Hizzytown (Lost Theory) 11 points from 2 votes 27=: VA - Scandi90's (Zion 604) 11 points from 2 votes 29=: Digicult - The Lucid Nation (Dacru) 10 points from 2 votes 29=: Escape Into - The Dream (Enlight) 10 points from 2 votes 29=: Para Halu - Beats & Pieces (Not on label) 10 points from 2 votes 29=: VA - Boulevard of Broken Drums (Cosm) 10 points from 1 vote 33=: Shiva Chandra - The Beauty of Noise (Spintwist) 9 points from 2 votes 33=: Khooman - The Depths (Darkapuggla) 9 points from 1 vote 33=: Phobos Azazel - Organistic (Lost Theory) 9 points from 1 vote 33=: PsiloCybian - Brain Dissolver (Hyperflow) 9 points from 1 vote 33=: VA - Revolution (Prog on Syndicate) 9 points from 1 vote 38=: Hypogeo - Tree of Lies (Zenon) 8 points from 3 votes 38=: VA - Blue Moon UK Sampler (Altar) 8 points from 2 votes 38=: Aavepyörä - Katso Kukkaa (Aavepyörä) 8 points from 1 vote 38=: Braincell - Psychedelicious (Free-Spirit) 8 points from 1 vote 38=: Darkshire - Path of Memories (Discovalley) 8 points from 1 vote 38=: Querox - How Life Goes On (Prog on Syndicate) 8 points from 1 vote 44=: Adrenal Glands - Glandular Dreams (Dropout) 7 points from 1 vote 44=: California Sunshine - Infinity (California Sunshine) 7 points from 1 vote 44=: Jikooha - Sirius Rising (Panorama) 7 points from 1 vote 44=: Salakavala - Unusual Conditions (Hippie Killer) 7 points from 1 vote 44=: Sychodelicious - Another Level (Geomagnetic.TV) 7 points from 1 vote 44=: VA - The Mushroom Speaks (Lamat) 7 points from 1 vote 50=: Lyctum - Tales from the Universe (Yellow Sunshine Explosion) 6 points from 2 votes 50=: Loud - No More X (Nano) 6 points from 1 vote 50=: Mindwave - Concept of Freedom (Iono) 6 points from 1 vote 50=: VA - Multi-Faith Mantra (Sangoma) 6 points from 1 vote 50=: VA - Tech Tales II (Electric Power Pole) 6 points from 1 vote 50=: VA - The Crystal Mountain (Burning Trip) 6 points from 1 vote 56=: Ubar Tmar - Ubarpedia (Panorama) 5 points from 2 votes 56=: Andromeda - Equilibrium (Vertigo) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: Atman Construct - Elysian Terraform (Liquid Seed) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: Brainforest - Remastered (Zion 604) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: Merkaba - Language of Light (Merkaba) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: VA - Dimensional Gateway III (Neogoa.tk) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: VA - Groove Attack (Iboga) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: VA - Origin Four (Nano) 5 points from 1 vote 56=: VA - Rainbow Circle (Mental Sauce) 5 points from 1 vote 65=: Sectio Aurea - In Vena Veritas (Akashik) 4 points from 1 vote 65=: VA - Back to the Mothership (Mighty Quinn) 4 points from 1 vote 67=: Ajja - Tulpa (Peak) 3 points from 1 vote 67=: Musik Magier - Moved (CYAN) 3 points from 1 vote 67=: Terrafractyl - Electronic Evolution (Vertigo) 3 points from 1 vote 67=: VA - Akashik Memory (Akashik) 3 points from 1 vote 67=: VA - Infinity Keepers 2: Depth Perception (Moon Koradji) 3 points from 1 vote 67=: VA - Parvatrip 3 (Parvati) 3 points from 1 vote 73=: Demoniac Insomniac - Power of Destruction (Rockdenashi) 2 points from 1 vote 73=: PharaOm - Tesseract (Underground Alien Factory) 2 points from 1 vote 73=: Rye Smugglers - Chili Con Karma (Sun Station) 2 points from 1 vote 73=: Vacuum Stalkers - Aelita (Electric Power Pole) 2 points from 1 vote 73=: Various - Protozoa 2.0 - Interstellar Evolution (Sita) 2 points from 1 vote 73=: VA - Fractal Forest (Medulla Oblongata) 2 points from 1 vote 73=: VA - Sourcecode Transmissions Vol. 1 (Sourcecode) 2 points from 1 vote 80=: Attoya - Wooden Beats (Sonic Chakras) 1 point from 1 vote 80=: UX - Ultimate Experience Reloaded (KissTheSound) 1 point from 1 vote Downtempo 1: E-Mantra - Silence (Altar) 73 points from 9 votes 2: Connect.Ohm - 9980 (Ultimae) 57 points from 7 votes 3: RA - Unearthly (Altar) 53 points from 7 votes 4: Sync24 - Comfortable Void (Ultimae) 50 points from 6 votes 5: Globular - A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Omnitropic) 37 points from 4 votes 6: Aes Dana - Pollen (Ultimae) 34 points from 4 votes 7: VA - Conundrum Concoction (Dark Prisma) 31 points from 4 votes 8: Akshan - The Tree of Life (Altar) 26 points from 3 votes 9: Koan - Argonautica (Section) 25 points from 3 votes 10: Ishvara - Under a Hexagon Sky (Virtual) 23 points from 4 votes 11: Tor.Ma - Inside Universe (Beats & Pieces) 20 points from 3 votes 12: Kaminanda - Gateways of Consciousness (Not on label) 19 points from 2 votes 13=: SeaMoon - Expression of the Moment (Awakening) 18 points from 2 votes 13=: Zymosis - Between Two Points (Altar) 18 points from 2 votes 15: Ascoil Sun - Emergence (Moon Koradji) 14 points from 3 votes 16=: Aquascape - Underwater Stranger (Altar) 13 points from 2 votes 16=: Ishq - Deep Space Objects (Virtual) 13 points from 2 votes 18=: Easily Embarrassed - Different Dimensions (EE) 10 points from 1 vote 18=: Hybrid Leisureland - Variable (Double Life) 10 points from 1 vote 18=: Steve Roach - Back to Life (Projekt) 10 points from 1 vote 21=: Bvdub ‎ - Serenity (Darla) 9 points from 1 vote 21=: Floex - Zorya (Minority) 9 points from 1 vote 21=: GMO vs. Dense - Tales from the Yellow Kangaroo (Altar) 9 points from 1 vote 21=: Ishq - Bloom (Virtual) 9 points from 1 vote 21=: Paul Harbor - Insert Yourself (Soundmute) 9 points from 1 vote 21=: Phobium & Phobosphere - Cubes Combined (Not on label) 9 points from 1 vote 21=: Tron Sepia - Weird Fishes & Other Stories (Fish 'n Trips) 9 points from 1 vote 28=: Erot - Mechanical Lifeform (Graviton) 8 points from 1 vote 28=: Soulacybin - Self-Existing Earth (Psyderweb) 8 points from 1 vote 28=: Steve Roach & Dirk Serries - Low Volume Music (Projekt) 8 points from 1 vote 28=: Twisted Buddha - Waterfall (Angel Dusted) 8 points from 1 vote 28=: VA - A Conversation Between Two Trees (Critical Beats) 8 points from 1 vote 28=: VA - Floating Spirals (Altar) 8 points from 1 vote 34=: VA - Greenosophy (Ultimae) 7 points from 2 votes 34=: Alio Die ≈ Antonio Testa - Rêverie (Hic Sunt Leones) 7 points from 1 vote 34=: Astropilot - Fruits Of The Imagination 2 (Altar) 7 points from 1 vote 34=: Shulman - ALive (Aleph Zero) 7 points from 1 vote 34=: Xerxes & Phoenix - Let Silence Roam (Not on label) 7 points from 1 vote 39=: Aglaia - Absolutely Deep (Hic Sunt Leones) 6 points from 1 vote 39=: Don Peyote - Heaven & Earth (Don Peyote) 6 points from 1 vote 39=: Ishq - Flowering Mountain Earth (Virtual) 6 points from 1 vote 39=: Jaja - INIT (CYAN) 6 points from 1 vote 39=: Kalpataru Tree - Luminosophy (Not on label) 6 points from 1 vote 39=: Thomas Köner ‎ - Novaya Zemlya (Touch) 6 points from 1 vote 45=: Shamanizm Parallelii - Psychedelic Dreams (Neogoa.tk) 5 points from 1 vote 45=: Solar Fields - Random Friday (Ultimae) 5 points from 1 vote 45=: VA - Special Places (Sentimony) 5 points from 1 vote 48: Celt Islam - Baghdad (Ajnavision) 4 points from 1 vote 49: Makyo - Purnima (Dakini) 3 points from 1 vote 50=: Taruna - Beyond the Event Horizon (TarunaMusic) 2 points from 1 vote 50=: Vataff Project - Maeoma (Virtual) 2 points from 1 vote 52: Mac Mavis - Maviation (Not on label) 1 point from 1 vote

I like the idea, but I have no idea whether it's possible with the forum software, or whether enough people would be willing and able to maintain a front page. Nevertheless I'll mention your post to the mod team in case they missed it.

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Cool website, welcome to Psynews.

wat

Yes, it's a forthcoming Khooman album.

Indeed.

Another great cover by Anna Ignatieva:

Yes. The Depths is forest psy and I expect you'd like it, and I gather he has a couple of old Goa albums that can be freely downloaded from the Darkapuggla site too, though I've yet to listen to them. Looks like he has another CD coming out soon, though the site doesn't say whether it'll be uptempo or down.

Uptempo: 1: Kindzadza - Nano Ninja (Osom Music) 2: Khooman - The Depths (Darkapuggla) 3: OOOD - You Think You Are (Vertigo) 4: VA - Lubra Instincts (Osom Music) 5: Hypogeo - Tree of Lies (Zenon) 6: Atman Construct - Elysian Terraform (Liquid Seed) Downtempo: 1: Tor.Ma - Inside Universe (Beats & Pieces) 2: Phobium & Phobosphere - Cubes Combined (Not on label)

I listened to the two YouTube tracks, both very good I thought. The balance on Metamorph sounds a bit strange through my speakers, some sounds seemed disproportionately loud compared to the bass and percussion.

Nice cover.

Interesting article about Christian metal fans: link