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Bumping for more IDs. I'm keen on finding out what that track is at 1.05.15... epic stuff!

0.00 Third Eye: Siddhaloka 11.50 Alien Sex Fiend: Inferno (Oscar Madness) 21.55 Moondust: Are We Alone 30.40 Lazonby: Sacred Cycles (Planet BEN Positive Elements Mix) 39.20 ? 48.25 ? 57.00 Dissidenten: Jungle Book Part 2 (Mantra Trance Mix) 1.05.15 Borgia: Mandrake 1.13.50 X-Tron: God Meets Ganesh 1.25.00 Mystic Force vs. Effective Force: Everglade

Here's some more smooth and sleek, synthpoppy trance/goa you might like. The Overlords - Organic+ http://www.discogs.com/Overlords-Organic-/master/122951 Jungle High - Jungle High http://www.discogs.com/Jungle-High-Jungle-High/master/92568 Cybordelics - Adventures of Dama http://www.discogs.com/Cybordelics-Nighthorse/master/35517 Kuro - The Revolution, Waterproof http://www.discogs.com/Various-Tokyo-Tekno-Tribe/release/140665 Ree K - Apollo, Atomic Energy Dragon, Glycogen http://www.discogs.com/Various-Psychedelic-Krembo-Selected-Tunes-Part-1/master/101964 http://www.discogs.com/Ree-K-Yammataikoku/release/201544 Black Sun - Ligea, Time And Space remix http://www.discogs.com/Various-Dragonfly-Classix/master/58084 Mindfield - Life Is An Illusion http://www.discogs.com/Mindfield-Mandarin/release/257190 Stardiver - Someday http://www.discogs.com/Stardiver-Someday/master/24984 Noise Unit - Decoder LP http://www.discogs.com/Noise-Unit-Decoder/master/27547 Arpeggiators - Liquid Sky http://www.discogs.com/Arpeggiators-Selected-Remix-Works/master/56281 Stanley Shanti & The Chillum Wallas - Cosmic Dream http://www.discogs.com/Stanley-Shanti-The-Chillum-Wallahs-Placid-Cosmic-Dream-Koyote-Clean-Room-Mix/master/111578 Kaaya - Braindance, Ormazd http://www.discogs.com/Kaaya-Braindance-Ormazd/release/96209?ev=rr Ceiba - 1+1=1 http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Language-Of-Light/release/148075 Trance Mix 3 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Trance-Mix-3/master/364016 Har El - Interzone 2000 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Arsim-On-Acid/release/285226 Cydonia - Chrome Android http://www.discogs.com/Cydonia-Mind-Hunter/master/20494 Gravity Kills - Guilty (Youth's Art As Prostitution Mix) http://www.discogs.com/Gravity-Kills-Guilty/release/1296779 Depeche Mode - Oberkorn (Delta Signal Mix) http://www.discogs.com/Various-Trancemode-Express-101-A-Trance-Tribute-To-Depeche-Mode/master/394974 Controlled Fusion - Psychological Way http://www.discogs.com/Controlled-Fusion-Patient-Zero/master/14912 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ocQ7XcScU

Psychedelic rock on synthesizers, with a techno beat.

A ghoulishly eclectic, eighties versus oughties mix for Halloween night: http://bringthatbeachback.com/2013/10/31/monster-party/ Featuring Comateens, Brighton Trash Department, Savage Scream, A Flock Of Seagulls, Crying Orc, and more. You might say it belongs in the... CHILL room! Iahahahaha! ...ahem. Anyway, if you're into early 2000's darkpsy and proto trance with a bit of goth flavor, you might find this one amusing. Or you can come to my house and TP my CDJs. Up to you Length: 1:27:30 Mixed & recorded with Traktor, Pioneer CDJ-350, Pioneer DJM-600, Sony PCM-D50 Genre: Various

Tamlin and Uni come to mind.

I didn't remember that Disco Volante track, it's damn good. I can see where the strings would remind you of Electric Universe but it also reminds a bit of Deviant Electronics. Both artists have a playfulness in their music... I don't know how to describe it, it's like creepy and cute at the same time. I'd actually like to play it early in the night, to get people into a slightly weird atmosphere. Granada is a bit much for mornings in my view. More of a late night/early morning track, if we're talking about oldschool style parties where the energy peaks in the middle of the night.

I go back to things I loved all the time. But I keep feeling like nostalgia is the proverbial finger pointing at the moon and that I'm only looking at the finger. It's what I was feeling at the time that really matters, and not the material trappings or initial stimulus of those feelings. Sometimes I fall in love with music I've never heard before because it reminds me of an early time in my life. Some movies, ect. are the same way. Sometimes it's new things, not old, that hit some old and well hidden button in me. Nothing's completely new, and nothing's completely the same at is was, but you can always have new combinations of old and new... maybe eclecticism is the key?

I've never had a problem with Elysium. His tone could be abrasive, but I largely agreed with what he was saying and (at least from what I saw) he saved his ire for worthy targets, such as incompetent or corrupt people in the music business. He's worked with a good part of the psytrance scene and seems to get on well with all those artists, so I tend to trust his reportage. To me, that 'I don't care about trance' business sounded like facetiousness born out of frustration. It's clear he does care, or he wouldn't be so critical of the psytrance scene. I'm not out to change anyone's mind about him, and I'm open to changing my mind if I see a situation where he was excessively mean. But I see it as a clash of personalities and communication styles, nothing more.

I don't have a good list, but here are a few of my favorite melancholic-yet-driving tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqdOYjwqz8s

I'd recommend that anyone who was disappointed by the live action movies watch The Animatrix, in particular the shorts Beyond and Matriculated. Visually, they're stunning -- Peter Chung and Koji Morimoto are probably my favorite living animators -- and the stories they tell are deeper, too. For one thing, they do a better job of tackling the question of whether life without/outside of the Matrix is actually a good thing.

But delicious.

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Sir Stephen is pretty damn oldschool sounding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQqgNQsbqaE Here's another great cut off the same label, 100% Silk:

Neo-proto-trance forever, man

I wasn't even alive when some of this was going down.

Tsuyoshi called it 'album one and a half' Xenomorph must qualify as the artist with the most good non-album tracks... Schizoid Transpersonal Progressions, Incongruent Anatomy, Silimaki Murder Tool Kit, Inexplicable Distraughtness, Maladjusted Noise Experiments, Chimera Shadow, Killer State, just to name some of them. I like Xenomorph's albums but I LOVE his compilation tracks.

Forgot to mention, you'd probably like the A.D. series, along with most things on Waveform. http://www.discogs.com/label/Waveform+Records

I see your Semsis and raise you Menis. Seriously, though, great act. Planet destroys me every time.

Make an album with Graham Wood.

A number of years back, an artist named Infect Insect had the most INSANE psytrance/power noise crossovers I've ever heard. Is anyone else doing music in a similar vein? I've heard some 'experimental psycore', but it just sounded like sped up/chopped up psytrance with funnier samples... this wasn't like that. This was HEAVY. More like this plz.

It could also have do with the fact that, before the 1980s, most of the good synths/drum machines/sequencers for making trance and techno didn't even exist. I think the 80s/90s were all about "hey we can do this", where the 2000s were more about 'let's do this this way'. Look where we are now. The greater EDM scene looks to the 80s (and the 70s) for inspiration, like psytrance looks to the 90s for inspiration. I think that's a reaction against the conformity of recent years. Ironically the scene Ray Castle talks about, while musically heterogenous, was more homogeneous than the present day... maybe more risks could be taken when the audience was limited to three or four hundred people, all into the traveller lifestyle, and mostly into the same drugs as well. You can't take it for granted that you have an up-for-anything, acid party vibe now... polydrug abuse and a broader spectrum of attitudes make it riskier to experiment musically. So DJs and promoters are more inclined to hedge their bets to appeal to more people. I guess that's the lowest common denominator you mention. Maybe, too, certain subcultural memes in psytrance (e.g. the idea of exact BPM altering brainwaves) are a rationalization of this fear. The good thing about the internet and retro parties (like Feeling Weird) is that more people have the opportunity to be exposed to alternative and 'lost' ways of doing things. I think a lot of fans would be receptive towards a broader psy sound and party aesthetic, but have been second guessed out of it by the artists, promoters, and DJs. It's a feedback loop where doing something different will get some negative feedback from fans, but it's the people delivering the music who are in the best position to break that loop. Darkpsy and psycore are an area where the idea of 'avant garde for the dancefloor' has been kept, at least in theory. Once again, though, I think darkpsy is working off of a set of premises I don't agree with. Most of it uses the same rhythmic base and a similar palette of sounds to conventional psytrance, just in a lower register, more chopped up, and with more noises in place of the melodic lead. I think darkpsy would be far more avant garde and transgressive if it went back to the roots and incorporated acid rock, old school industrial, and synth-pop elements, and kept the high tempos and interesting processed sounds while ditching the kbbb and the nordvirus squiggles. That's my opinion as a non-producing music fan, anyway.

Libra presents Taylor - Anomaly (Calling Your Name) Faithless - Insomnia Brainbug - Nightmare Back when I listened to the radio, these are the ones I remember getting a lot of play.

You forgot two. Sirius Shuttle, Aquarian Spirit, Prana, Wavin Electronic, Smooth Elevator. Smooth Elevator is the only one I'd call good, not great. It has the typical Electric Universe sound. The other four are on a whole other plane of godliness.

I think I understand, some of his morning and downtempo music has a wistful/sad feeling to it. It's subtle but it's definitely there. Maybe try X-Dream: Rain? Or old Morphem? Not trance but something that gives me similar feelings is this album: http://www.discogs.com/Alpha-Conspiracy-Aura/release/264638