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plastikman / krakpot I think it's great for late nite, deep acid techno.

Quite my thoughts. In home of course you're in charge of the music. In that perspective home listening is great. But a nice outdoors setting, good music, people dancing to the beat... at best, it's madzik.

Mantrix - Universal. This album was supposedly one of the highlights in psytrance according to Deathposture's review. My impression was quite the opposite. Could only enjoy the first half of alpha beater and that's about it... will unselfishly give this top of the line crown jewel for anyone as bonus who wishes to trade some cd with me. Tristan - Audiodrome. If you have yet to hear this - let's just say're not doing wrong if you judge "the book by its cover". The moments of brilliance Tristan had couple years earlier in space sage or paraphernalien are long gone.

(Normal) trance is simple. It gets easily worn out, it's unchallenging. First time around some piece might be good, but after a while it gets boring. Like Rino said, I need my 'goa' or 'psy' prefix there.

Rino stole my words really, nothing to add.

I admit writing my comment when I was drunk. FSOL has of course made some brilliant stuff such as papua new guinea and their Q (santa monica mix) as mental cube is one of my personal fav'es when it comes to idm techno. And honestly I haven't heard half of their massive output so I should've kept my keyboard untouched.

I find both Burial albums excellent. First one is a spacey and economic in the use of sounds. There's some clever effects such as car key sound from Vin Diesel's XXX. I find "Burial" to be dark in its mood and prefer to listen at night. I wasn't quite sure if Burial's hype was justified before listening to the second album "Untrue". But I'm convinced now. I've heard nobody process human voice, take Simon Posford aside, like him. The tracks are much lighter than on the deput - so as a sidenote, if you haven't heard Burial before my personal suggestion is to start with "Untrue". It's easy to get into.

I've not heard "nu" meaning experimental. In my post I meant nu as new.

Intriga should have album released in summer (on Ektoplazm). He's truly one of the most talented nuskool artists, even heard a few tracks he's thinking on putting on the album and they sound excellent. The freebie on organic circuitry was a nice track too, but he can to better. Keep your ears open...

Planet B.E.N. - Summerspirit (1994) Nothing like tracks on "trippy future garden" I can tell you.

moonweed & squid / sonic shower a fine piece of old school

earth nation / live tribal science va order odonata experiments... va some nice old school I've not heard before. e. A day later I got Hallucinogen / Twisted (finally! ) Bufo / Bug Eyes GOE / Sigilweaver

The twilight mix of Anjuna runs at 150 bpm. I consider it a top choice tune for the peak of old school DJ set. It flows well, melodic stuff from start to finish. In my top-5 Transwave tracks. The dark mix is a bit stripped down version I don't enjoy as much, albeit it's not bad either. I think you listened to a wrong vinyl mate.

Logic Boomp / Sonic Algebra Listening to first time... good so far.

D5 / Beetlesnuff Bought the album to notice it's actually much better I remembered. From now on I'm in the official D5 bandwagon...

Yeah, he PMd me also.

Both are excellent. You're in for a treat.

DJ Anneli is nice looking indeed. Magda

Scion (process and arrange Basic Channel tracks) Basic Channel Monolake

FSOL isn't bad but.. Shpongle. Cmon guys that's music of its own league.

Miranda - Labyrinth

Yeah why not. Break-filled music is just not that trance-indulging. I personally feel it's hard to get "lost" in the music if the beat stops all the time. I find stretched breaks sound so ridiculous I don't know how to move on the dancefloor. Actually I've noticed quite many people to stop dancing completely and wait for the beat to come back on. LOL!

The problem is, these artists (such as kindzadza and furious) do play this stuff in front of live audiences. There are also lots of bandwagon DJs who play this kinda overpaced music. It might be nice home tripping music I'll give you that. But played live for hours, it gets boring faster than staring a grey wall. I've tried to dance to darkpsy - but I've noticed dancing is a physical thing related to the beat of heart's pulse - without certain "improvements" your heart pulse will only raise up to 150 or so rate. That's also the maximum bpm that really you can "keep up to" without getting off trail (as the dancer tries to move to the beat of the music). What I forgot to mention about this release - it also contains awful amount of breaks. Almost all tracks go by this recept. Not only that, the breaks are stretched to the max then releasing the beat for half a minute before a new break section. Artists please take notice: it DOESN'T make the music better. Quite the opposite actually...

jeanette christensen (of e-rotic) version of "charlene" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvNJ9muaW4k

I decided to check this out after a few members on this forum gave it a good word and said it's something new and special. This album/compilation definitely has its moments. On a few occasions the sheer level of ideas represented parallely reminds me of hux flux's heydays. Then again there's something typically idiotic about many tracks - pumping at 160 bpm and more makes me question the danceability of the tracks. Who can dance to this for more than 30 mins, meth heads excluded? I strongly think the top-end of bpm in psytrance would be in the 154-156 range. A fast rolling bassline is not enough for a great psychedelic track. I wish more darkpsy producers would understand this. This supposedly cream de la cream darkpsy compilation also suffers greatly of uninspired bassline driven moments and one/two layers of effects that often fail to give any harmonic/sensible rhythm to the track. There's not enough variation in the effects - now darkpsy hardly ever goes to melodic realms so at least I would hope the sound structure to have light effects to create some contrast (I think contrast is the keyword to a successful inspired psytrance track). Overall I feel exhausted (largely due to fast bpm) to listen this compilation thruout. I feel the wrong guys are in the spotlight of darkpsy - this isn't the best the genre has to offer. my verdict: 6/10 my recommendations for darkpsy: tutankhamon 9000 / lost in luxor (2008) m.m.c. / alice in space (2007) m.m.c. / worlds i.d. (2009) arsenic / arithmetix (2009)