Blair Thaumic

Maybe. Disregard.

AFAICT, electro house sounds like the love child of an electric razor and a particularly annoying mosquito.

Psy-Harmonics doesn't get brought up a lot in these discussions, which surprises me since they released some of the first artist albums (Third Eye, Zen Paradox, Shaolin Wooden Men, ect.) And of course Youth was a big pioneer of the early Goa and proto-Goa scene through his work with Ben Watkins, Stephen Holweck, and Alex Patterson, not to mention numerous one-offs, remixes, and production work for acts like System 7 and many others. But who were the pioneers really depends on what 'side' of Goa you're talking about... do you mean melodic, uplifting Goa, or the more dark & twisted night-time stuff? If we go back to the very beginning, the 'morning' sound seems to have its roots in Italo and high-NRG disco records... artists like Lime, Patrick Cowley, Mike Mareen, Bobby Orlando productions, ect. While the 'night' sound came from predominantly EBM artists like Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, Portion Control. Somewhere in the middle, you have synth-pop like Cabaret Voltaire, Hard Corps, Chris and Cosey, and early house, electro, proto-techno artists like Model 500, Moskwa TV, Newcleus, Telex (listen to Moskow Diskow, already goa-ish by 1979), Grauzone, ect. Of course the list of influential artists goes on and on, but I find that it helps to break it down in this way...

What's the CD under Ubar Tmar - Eigou Kaiki?

Shakta - Out Of Sight. I like it as much as his goa! Doof Records - Mind Games Electrypnose - Le Tireur De Ficelles

Complete Unknown, which was a complete waste of my money. It's a shame that a movie about storytelling couldn't find an interesting story of its own to tell.

It's all about Triptooth's Tribal Reboot. The best slow track I've heard in ages. I want mooooore

Cosmosis - Dawn Of An Era Total Eclipse - Age Of Reason, Bad Data, Untitled Apollo 3D - Nature Song MFG - Mystic Dawn Prism - Vapour Trails White Dent - Neinstein (Dragonfly style goa, produced by Youth) Juno Reactor - Ice Cube, Alash When I Graze My Beautiful Sheep Deviant Electronics - Elastic Bang (IIRC) GAD - Apollo 3D album (probably most of it) I can't be arsed to look up BPMs but there should be some good slow tracks on POF comps as well, like Electro Psychedelic Trance and Nataraja 3.

I meant to call attention to the ghost writer and his own lack of confidence in the "art of the deal", not whether or not Trump is a sociopath. I actually find HC sociopathic and Trump psychopathic. But they both support an "America first" politics that I utterly despise. Presidency is a bad institution. Every single presidential administration, going back to Roosevelt and McKinley, has been imperialistic, and the world has suffered from their beligerence and willingness to step on other countries to further American goals. Even supposed peacenik Jimmy Carter was a Cold Warrior whose administration supported the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. http://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-i-started-the-mujahideen/ So no, I don't support any president.

Yeah, about that... http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/behind-the-art-of-the-deal-trumps-ghostwriter-calls-candidate-a-sociopath

Some weird Italo stuff for today. The flute reminds me of TIP - Mystical Experiences.

No arguments there. Dragon Tales is a great album but the slower tracks especially.... hnnnng. Listening to VA - Analog Trips through my new Focusrite audio interface. Both are sounding rather nice.

At least the basslines vary from track to track, which already puts it above 90% of modern psytrance. It's a good album. Quite poppy and not breaking any new ground, but a nice nod to classic trance. The last three tracks (Oasis, Re-transmission, Mad DMA) are what do it for me.

I was wondering how the TAL and Lush synths compared. Which sounds more like a 101?

I'm not a grump, but I am an old school partisan. I like some psytrance, but dislike the way it got defined as a single sound and production style rather than the 'melting pot' approach of old. It's so sound-alike that it quickly overstays its welcome... I can listen/dance to psytrance for two, maybe three hours before I want the music to go somewhere, anywhere else. And while I like a lot of newschool Goa, it's a little too straightforward for me, compared to older tracks where there was more of a storytelling approach. I want more artists to take their time, build up an atmosphere with their tracks, and take me on a journey I'll remember. Judging by the one party I went to, the scene today is thriving. Better sound and nicer venues than 'back in the day', friendly people from all walks of life, and DJs are starting to play Goa again with the popularity of new school labels on the rise. If only the music was a little more adventurous, though! I think it starts with the fanbase. We can make the scene better by demanding different and more varied music from the artists and labels. Buy it, play it in your sets, book it for your parties. Don't settle for normal when you can have weird. BTW... congrats on the new album, Oopie. It's some of the coolest Goa I've heard in a long time.

Without a little more editing, it's hard to tell what you're going for. Are you trying to make glitch/IDM? Anyway, the pulsing beats on the second track are nice, but try to make more different patterns with them instead of just adding effects.

Just listened to a few Ingmar Veeck tracks. Pretty lame overall but this was kind of amusing:

I can't decide if I like this or not: https://www.discogs.com/Ketha-Minh-Ketha-Minh/release/402387 Some good tracks (Chichen Itza) and some that just try my patience. Repetitive and minimal, but not without its trippy moments.

I looked up Flying Reindeer and a couple of other tracks to see if they were really that bad, since I don't remember Trans-Lucid too well (and I generally like artists on High Society.) ...I think we have a winner.

Is he that bad, though?

I don't hate Power Source, but I always thought Goaway was a ridiculously overrated track.

I love the downtempo tracks on that album. Evolution - Shiva Technology is a bit worse IMHO, but I didn't want to include it considering how far back the tracks date. And there are some good ones even there.

Kinda cheesy. I like Psychonauts - Shadow Of The Moon, and some Cyan, but I didn't know about this stuff. Are there a lot of tracks like this one? ...OK, now I'm further into the track and it sounds vomitous indeed. Everything's working at cross purposes to everything else, nothing gels. Yeah, I'm willing to call this bad. C-

1st track is solid. Eerie floating sounds, a playfully growling midrange lead, industrial percussion, and a lot of atmosphere. Where it's lacking is in the arrangement; it doesn't really have an ending and feels as rushed as its title. Still not bad. I've always thought that that artist sounded like a poor man's Kris Kylven... less polished, but the ideas are there. The 2nd track is right up my alley. Groovy bass and brain twisting melodies. I like the saturation/distortion on the riffs, it reminds me a little of BOTFB. The track also reminds me of Masa and the Tokyo Tekno Tribe compilations somehow. B+ and A for those respective tracks.