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Best Psy Uptempo: Zen Mechanics - Holy Cities(2008) Toi Doi - Technologic (2000) Gappeq - Speaker Seeker (2007) Logic Bomb - Headware (2000) Cosma - Non Stop (2003) Audialize - Wanted (2003) V/a Arc De Triumph (2005) Mr Peculiar - Mind Dala (2005) Vibrasphere - Archipelago (2006) AKD - Progressing (2008) Best Psy Downtempo Carbon based lifeforms - Hydroponic garden (2003) Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker (2005) Zero Cult - Ikebana (2007) Ten Madison - Trip Illusion (2000) Abakus - That much closer to the sun (2004) Aes Dana - Memory Shell (2004) Shakatura - Shakatura (2001) Gaudi - Bass sweat and tears (2004) Puff Dragon - Sazanami (2005) Ishq - Orchid (2001) 2005 was a splendid year for the genre! Is it ok to change the order before the thread closes, because im not really sure of the ranking?

jealous

wow trippy stuff. just what one would expect from toi doi. psytrance as it should be. im getting so excited for the new album. any idea if it can be pre-ordered?

Gaudi - Bass, Sweat & Tears

The hardest hitting album that could have heralded the new millennium in the best possible way. I was in complete awe of the music when i first laid ears on it, everything about it is still uber awesome. I make it a point not to overplay it because it loses its charm when im not in the right frame of mind to appreciate the psychedelic depth of this masterpiece. It truly is an album meant to be played to appease the gods and danced to to bring rain in times of drought.

But if you've done some before it makes the experience even better a bit like levitating without anti gravity propulsion technology , IMO ofcourse ontopic

+ Filthy capitalist.

I knew there was a gandhian spirit in me

The cover is one of the best i have seen in a long time. the font and the colours .... just purrfect

A new album from AKD is something that i highly anticipate. A true genious in melodic progressive trance! This is one of the best progressive albums evargh

I'm also waiting for Papiyan debut and new Atriohm. AFAIK Jahbo doesn't have a full length album under his name. He is truly one of the best producers out there!

Are those house remixes on the 2nd CD?

Nice! Or we could cut straight to the chase http://www.last.fm/music/M.E.E.O Not really Swedish forest trance but the closest you can get to a single man electronic orchestra sounding like it. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkl4ahL5fJI

Hello! who is the freak in your signature ?

+100 I've just realized what it is about down-tempo that i completely dislike: The use of glitch!!! Its a complete buzz-kill and ruins even the best non-glitchy parts in the same tune/album. Fans who like glitch , that step stuff and dig the signature ott style will lap it up like hot sauce no doubt.

New Phyx will be the shiz

There is something about this term "underrated" that doesn't ring well. Just because an artist isnt spoken about in forums too much or if there is a negative perception about him from a few quarters online would not make him underrated unless there is a hidden psychedelic artists ratings list somewhere that i am not aware of.

I'm really looking forward to M.E.E.O's next album ,if ever there is going to be one! Any one has any idea whether Mathias is working on a new album? "Highlight me please" is still one of my favorite albums! Also zen mechanics last album was stellar, really hope he comes out with the next soon!! Whats on your wish list?

All brilliant albums !

I think you pretty much nailed it. Braincell is uber talented undoubtedly but is not using that touch he has for the greater good of psytrance. I really hope his next release is exactly what , all of us who know what he is capable of delivering, expect it to be.

Kiriyama is an electronic project of Swedish artist Alex Örtegren, more precisely producing mend bending subliminal forest dark psytrance the signals of which are not limited to earthly stratosphere but abound far and beyond into the unknown depths of deep trans-dimensional outer space Alex needs no introduction . He is co-founder and co-owner of Devils Mind Records. During his teenage years, he used to play guitar in a local skate-punk band and was greatly inspired back then by groups such as Green Day and Millencolin. Around NYE 03/04, he hooked up with Weirdo Beardo to the Little Blue Men studio in Charleswood where he had his first real experience with synthesizers and electronic music production. Alex has revealed that writing music is a kind of necessary therapy for him, a way to give output to whatever that goes on in his head at the moment. "Reaching escape velocity" isnt your standard cookie cutter trance that you can pigeon hole into a specific genre. Its deliciously psychedelic bringing in its fold various elements the first foremost which spring to mind are melodic GOA , encompassing in its melodic wake hypnotic mind-splitting dark psychedelic forest. Not "im going to beat your braincells to 4X4 pulp with inaccessible sounds so you have no option but to call it killer, mindspliting" ; Alex has a totally different method to his madness , he will start almost in a somber haunting ambient fashion and will slowly and patiently build a series of complex , labyrinthine webs that interlink in no uncertain fashion but at the same time leave you gasping and amazed at how they come together and then withdraw not letting you the listener get a complete hold of what his exact intentions are , like a painter who is in absolutely no hurry to compromise his artistic expression , totally absorbed in giving his audience as much of an experience that he had in weaving the strokes on his digital canvas. Never once do you sense any hurry or jarry overtones to spook the listener out of his trance, which is pretty apparent since none of the tracks are less than nine minutes with immense twilight eerie potential to boot! There is a calm composed inner peace that this music exudes while being exactly what it intends to be, twisted forest melodic GOA to the core! So yes all in all a very patient and valiant effort from Alex, who took almost four years to get these sublime moments of magic together, has paid off very well. This album seeks to push the envelope of the stereotype that has been cast around DMR to an area where from where it can broaden its r'epertoire of albums to come . Listeners of this genre will be pleasantly surprised by this album i believe because , i reiterate again, its not your standard dark psychedelic forest trance. This is 'melodic' stuff that breathes, grows and becomes you and takes you places you wouldn't mind taking a short trip to , meant for those hours where there isnt too much action on the dancefloor but for those who are in the thick of things , take my word for it , you will exchange glances , shimmer in the glow of the frequencies and sounds that envelop and surround like a warm embrace and you will know the time has come to reach escape velocity and revel in the enchantment and fascination that will hit you like a meteor shower. " Unexpected the expected" and "Moving hills barefoot" are my picks from the album and the latter is where this album take a divine u-turn of sorts just at the point where it was exactly needed, a perfect track for bringing in the morning hours. Kudos to Alex once again and i urge all you forest freaks to check this one out. One of the top albums of last year IMO.

This is a free release ? full marks to the artist , really twisted music ! keep up the awesome spirit man

the dickster and lucas track more than makes up for it. love it

Even though i know i will end up liking it anyway, the braincell sound is getting a bit predictable now. its his signature trademark kick and use of some fx's that you can tell from a distance , even though the wizadry inside might change now and then. im digging his stuff under the solar spectrum moniker more. i hope he re-invents/jigs his harder alter-ego just to cut the monotony that does seem to set in after a while.