Rotwang

Sorry, no.

Like how the Amish act in exactly the same way as Al-Qaeda, for example?

Well, The Last Temptation of Christ did result in a theatre being firebombed by a Christian "fundamentalist" group. But the Islamic world does seem to be a lot more touchy about criticism. To what extent that's a cultural difference rather than a religious one I couldn't say, not being at all knowledgeable about Islam. e: is a longer trailer, if anyone cares to watch it. I haven't. In case it doesn't go without saying, I think that going out of your way to offend the easily-offended like this director apparently intended is a bad thing. But a world where people weren't free say stupid and offensive shit would be an even worse thing.

I kinda like what I'm hearing ITT, especially this one: Can anyone recommend a good compilation or artist album?

Are you aware that Psynews is a French site? FWIW, every time I've tried to download the file the CAPTCHA has refused to display.

Pretty good.

Most Psynewsers are more into Goa than darkpsy, and based on the Isratrance results it would appear that it's the other way around over there. Among the 14 people who voted in the Psynews poll I reckon about three of us are regular darkpsy listeners (I'm one of them, but I haven't heard Onkel Dunkel's album), so the numbers involved are way too small to be statistically significant (that is, even if most darkpsy fans think Use your Head is the tits, it still isn't terribly surprising that nobody from a tiny sample of darkpsy fans voted for it).

Well it's nice that I managed to write something that people agree with for once. Makes a change from all the fights I start.

^ Cool, let me know what you think.

I agree that conceptual albums can be a good thing, but... I strongly disagree about this. Caring about the world's evils is good and all, but psytrance music (as distinct from psytrance culture more generally) is just not the right place to preach about stuff. Psytrance is not punk rock for angry teenagers who think they know the solution to all problems, it's hedonistic music for people who want to dance and have a good time. The only example that comes to my mind of an overtly political psytrance producer is Vegetal, and the result is just horrible - good music utterly ruined by a social conscience. Who on Earth wants to hear someone talking about a Turkish massacre while they're partying and quite possibly tripping? Add to that the fact that politics is usually highly divisive and you have a recipe for instantly destroying the loved-up atmosphere that characterises the scene.

I think you had similar taste to mine back when you were posting regularly years ago, i.e. lots of noisy darkpsy of the sort they made more of in 2006 (nowadays more people are making psycore or highko-style stuff in my experience). Here are some good albums you may have missed: Enichkin - In Memory of Love (2009) Kraft - The Mysteries of the Sacred Universe (2009) Overdream - Wonderwise (2008) Dragon - Spirals of Time (2011) VA - Multiple Personalities 3 (2008) Axis Mundi - One Foot in Fantasy (2010)

I think part of the problem with the poll was that the voting page that was set up didn't work properly for a number of people.

Wow, nice work. Thanks, trancedigital!

Then I'm locking this thread, and I'll request that you stop asking. If you want free psytrance then go to Ektoplazm.

Is psyside.no-ip.org a service for sharing pirated music?

Is that a service for sharing pirated music?

I don't know if it's Goa trance either, but I like it whatever it is.

Great cover.

I recall someone here saying he'd given up making music a couple of years back. e: It was Mike A (link).

^ Nice indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlzM51znaas or perhaps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qjX-bSYlY

Very nice.