Paul Eye

Am I the only one who's noticed that practically all artists mentioned started and/or were active in the '90s?

Everybody hop on Facebook and spam all possible groups

Got mine too yesterday. I'll wade through the poem one of these days

May I suggest you take a look at the 2014 suggestions aswell

Maybe there was less good downtempo released in 2015? Or I got my hands on less good downtempo in 2015. 2014

Is there something behind the scenes that I'm not aware of, if I may ask?

Well the hihats are quite Transwave-y Definitely not. That's more far off than anything suggested here.

Well, here's something to get you started Ajnia - Abstracts Ajnia - El Viaje Del Alkemista Alien Mutation vs Indigo Egg - Microcosmacrocosm (2015 Reissue) Amentia - Caliope Atman Construct - Weaver's Dreams Banco de Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa (20th Anniversary Edition) Chandanam - Upės Garsai VA - Chillheadz (not exactly sure about this tbh, I seem to recall it was good...) Dislocated Gravitation - Dislocated Gravitation Dislocations - Dislocated Mountain Eat Static - Human Upgrade (aka CD 2 of Dead Planet aka tracks 13-24 of the digital edition) Floating Planet - Fractal Wortex The Flowerball Project - Sonosophy Of The Forests Flowertz - Kumbhaka Hinkstep - My Forest Queen VA - Into This Wired Abyss Vol. 4 Ishq - anything from 2015 Jeremy's Aura - Stop What You're Doing VA - Locomotion Lowering Ipnose - The Root Of Fear Makyo - Mystic Fire Man Of No Ego - Web Of Life Martin Nonstatic - Granite VA - The Mystery Of Crystal Worlds (Prologue) Nervasystem - Nervasystem3 Nibana - Ask The Universe Planet Boelex - Moments Reflection - Mechanical Puzzle Rukirek - Hollow Void Sundial Aeon - Symbiosis Suns Of Arqa - All Is Not Lost, But Where Is It? Sysyphe - The Cities Of Silver Trees UCHU - Information Virtual - anything from 2015 (I'll keep updating this every now and then)

This isn't directed especially at you (but in general) but I just don't understand why people call this kind of music "ambient". I should perhaps start a separate topic some day and not clutter this one (thanks for reminding me

Zirrex - Born Of Osiris ? Edit: replaced with a video that works

No, all YT videos are like this. Edit: Adblock Plus is the culprit. And I'm NOT turning it off.

NVM, Adblock Plus was borked. Fixed now

Are the embedded Youtube videos borked for anyone else?

Process. Listen to the Superior Technology album and tell me you've heard something like that before and I say you're lying.

Oh hey, going a bit off topic, but another Pauli H. over here o/

Man With No Name seems to keep most of his tracks and remixes under 7 minutes in general.

I was going to comment on 7 minutes being considered "short", but sorted my goa trance playlist by track length. Tracks under 7 minutes total about 2 days, tracks over it total about 2 weeks, so I guess the ones under 7 are a minority There's loads of good stuff in there, I can't possibly post everything so I'll start with this: Infernal Machine - Loin King (Man With No Name Remix)

While I still prefer physical over digital, I do buy digital if a CD isn't available.

Oh yeah. Morphic Resonance. How did I forget to mention that track?

100th Monkey - Spiritus ? https://youtu.be/O6MJfs7sfZI?t=23m1s

Well to be fair that's not an Asia 2001 album but a Trans'pact compilation

While not absolutely groundbreaking, it's a comp that knows what it does and does it (mostly) very well. Definite highlights are Zirrex and Merr0w. The Zirrex track is just ridiculously awesome and sounds unlike anything else on the comp, and Merr0w is downright BRUTAL (for the lack of a better expression to describe it). Also the Artifact303 closing track was a nice surprise. The only track that I could very well do without is Filteria. While not being a huge Filteria fan to begin with, that track is just downright lazy. And Skarma didn't exactly surprise me by sounding almost more like Astral Projection than AP themselves again The track also lacks a bit of the punch that the rest of the tracks (apart from Filteria) have. But as it's a 3xCD it's a bit much to listen to in one go so a few more listens might reveal some more standouts (the Celestial Intelligence tracks have caught my attention a few times already).

I don't really see a connection to any of Asia 2001's album covers.

I don't know, it's what I started with and have never used anything else (for music making that is).