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New Mindwave, everyone ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPqQegQL8AI Your reaction : "_What ? The new Mindwave EP is already here ? Mmm... I've been waiting for it in secret. I'm just so happy right now ! " And YOU are perfectly RIGHT to blush out like a Japanese school girl ! 'cause you know... it's Mindwave.

UP. Any news, Mr. Mars ?

My dear gentleman, with all the respect due to a fellow psynewers, and though i do agree on certain points, i must react to some of your views and express my own feelings in order to contradict you. Then, here are a few of your claims that, if I understood them correctly, I can't agree with : First point : About this statement of yours : People are free to believe in what they want. Indeed. Mr. Spoke has the right to believe in invisible forces that surrounds reality. You have the right to consider that the best way to understand the universe is a rationnalistic approach. So be it. We are all free, and you yourself claim that we're free when it comes to such subjective views. But in the same time, you yourself are being narrow-minded and self-centered. According to what you write, your rationalistic, de-mystified approach is correct, and other views aren't. OK, no problem with that, after all, that's a creed. But what, my good Sir, gives you the right to mock those who don't share your views ? People experiencing mystical experiences are being delusional ? They should go to the asylum ? Pious Christians worth mockery because they are eager to deal with their God ? It seems to me that - judging by the brutality of your reaction - you are being intolerant and unrespectful. There are as much absurdity in being rationalist as in being a believer, an atheist or a polytheist. By no means it is a more legitimate approach of reality, and many intelligent, wise (and non-fanatic) persons would mock your view as well as being absurd and delusional. Some people have experiences. Sometimes it is a mere illusion produced by their ego. Sometimes it is not. Who can say ? And I also refutate your statement that because of his mystical approach of music, Mr Spoke is being a mainstream guy. Mainstream is consumerism. Undergroundess is the search, the exploration of creativity, of art, of new perspectives. It is also a refusal of the end products such as delivered by the mass market of entertainment. The fact that Spoke is looking for something spiritual inside the music, that he elaborates a thinking over it, that he can't be satisfied by the current trend of commercial consumption of music can't make of him someone that belongs the mainstream world. Not saying either that mainstream is necessarily a bad thing. Second point : You claim that the representation of space in psychedelic music is only but an a posteriori construction of the consumer. That the music itself is meaningless and that it is the mind of the listener that will fill it with its own representations. I agree on the part that says that the listener theirself add its own feelings and representations to the songs. Of course. But it seems to me as well that the music itself contains pre-established narrative schemes and emotions that are no less valuable that one's own perceptions. I'm currently listening to that famous track by Artifact303 that I quoted hereabove. I will here admit and confess that even if I recognize Mr Zsolt to be a great artist in the realm of Science-Fantasy, I don't think that even once he sent me into space, even with the cheesy (and so cool !) vocal samples contained by the track. Actually, he makes me dive in a very natural Fantasy world : see of clouds, castles, dragons, medieval cities, mountains, falls, and never-ending temperate forests. Organic and magical landscapes. Because this is my own feeling. However, something inside the music, that was meant to say something, can't be altered. You shall first consider that the Goa masters are artists. Artists create. A painter such as Delacroix painted obras that embodied ideas. For instance, here is La Liberté guidant le Peuple (Liberty guiding the people) : Both you and me can have our own understanding of the picture, our own interpretation, in the same way that I interpret Peter Zsolt's science-fiction to be a Fantasy universe. But the language of the artists can't be erased by subjectivity. No one can deny that the lady holding the flag is an allegory for the idea of Liberty. No one can deny that the painting is meant to represent a battle, with characters engaged into a fight. Though it seems more abstract, it also applies to music. The language of the artists, though subject to many interpretations, remains. And a red thread inside the music, that you can choose to ignore or not, is set in order to lead you to a story. In Beyond Lightspeed, the very dynamic of the song is hard to be ignored. It deals with supraluminic journey. It is a song that embodies speed, energy, travel and delirium. All those elements are still present in my own approach. No one either can listen to this music and pretend that it makes them think of slowness. And without the presence of red threads within the songs of the Goa Masters, I wouldn't have been able to redact my previous thread (Epicness of the Goa Masters). Now, let's go further. We have admitted that there is a pre-established sense within some Goa Trance songs. Why couldn't that sense be related to the feeling of spacey-ness. You say that As I said, most people won't think about space, even if some schemes issued by the artist's will remain into their listening experience. But I also do believe that a few people can and will understand the feeling of space in the tracks. For instance, I always knew that E-Mantra's track Transneptunian Objects was about astrophysics. However, when I listen to it, I don't only understand this track with my intellect. I feel it with my guts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivElJlaWPig Indeed, some of the sounds inside the tracks really make me feel as if I was a probe launched at several thousands miles/hour that graze celestial objects, and that feeling was so intense that sometimes I can feel (rather that understand ) the planetary mass of the Transneptunian objects, and here, I know that I'm communicating with E-Mantra's universe rather than with my own representations. Final point : Goa/Psytrance is not that a special music, and it's no more special that other musics. We give too much importance to the artists (we "idolize" them). Why wouldn't be Goa Trance more acurate when it comes to space representation ? Isn't it a music based on Science-Fiction ? Haven't the movement elaborated and designed sounds that were meant to be spacey ? Goa Trance aims to stimulate the imagination in order to create precise feelings. Oh come on ! That's a lame argument. If there is no sound in space, then the best way to figure it out is to enclose myself in a sonic-isolated room ? Goa music uses common representations of celestial objects (planets, asteroids, starships, nebula... as well as the ideas of distance, void and stellar radiations) and translate them into equivocal sounds. Is it that hard to understand ? Void is pictured by ambient layers, and planets can be embodies by acid loops or spacey melodies. One final thing : about the statement that Goa can't be a special mystical music. Music has power. It is amditted that some musics in particular have virtues that affect both mind and body. Musico-therapists cure some diseases with specific sounds, such as Bach or Beethoven. Why couldn't Goa music have some virtues as well, able to make you explore spiritual dimensions (whatever you mean by that) ? Why couldn't it affect you in order to streghten the spirituality, or the imagination of one's individual ? It is a hypnostising music that burry itself into the subconscious. You just have to read the topic of people hearing Goa Trance into their night-dreams or day-dreamings to understand it. It goes far into one's mind, and we can assume that it has consequences. And I myself have used Goa Trance songs such as ones by Toï Doï or E-Mantra to help my mind in difficult times. There are songs that makes me feel brave and gives me energy when I'm so hopeless and desperate that I can't get up from my bed. Somes songs can do that. And what makes me consider as well that Goa Trance have something special is that there are songs that, as I were in a normal condition, made me cry of emotions, and one's ego can't fake that. Of course, I don't worship Trance music. I don't pray the Goa artsits. I don't idolaze them. They provide me a music that fills me with something. And that something helps me to move on with my life. This is why I can but agree with Spoke statements. Does that make me a delusionnal person, or a mental person ?

He did remixes.

Dude, you needn't answer, he was trolling you -_-"

I'm just listening to Phreaky, and it really recalls me Hallucinogen. Wax ?

What about all this part :

I think that the three main spiritual elements treated by Goa and Psy music in general are : Space, Mind and Earth. All those representations are treated in very various ways. The Mind is depicted accordingly to the specific emotionnal areas of the psyche (melancholy, psychedelism, dreaming, anger, madness). It also depends on the approach (more or less para-psychological). In Goa, the most powerful acts must be Hallucinogen and Crossing Mind. The Earth also varies a lot. Serbian-style prog is excellent when it comes to embody the tectonic shifts of the continental mass. Khetzal is a master when it comes to Telluric Trance, since he embodies the spirituality of Mother Gaïa. Ethnic Trance and Psybient are specialized into the lore of communication with the Earth through ritual beats (Etnoscope, Hilight Tribe, Kaya Project...). Space must be the wider dimension ever explored by Psytrance, since it can be a vessel theme that corroborates subjects such as : science, philosophy, onirism, rituality, ufology, etc. E-Mantra have explored the stellar systems. Cybernetika have explored the outer reaches of Galaxy. Filteria deals with the space-time continuum. Astropilot is floating aroung a nebula cloud. Trinodia describes the invasion of the Earth. Space can be warm as a supernova, or cold as the spatial void. It all depends on the textures that are used by the artists. The feeling of cosmic-ness can be given, in Science_Fiction themed Trance music, by a feeling of rush (precipitate melodies) underlined by warm acid loops and a tantalizing, overwhelming bassline, giving you the feeling that the whole universe is moving. It is the realm of Space Opera. Our best example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6puFJz-ogM A less warm Trance music tends to make appear a feeling of deepness, that is excellent to describe the celestial objects. Astrophysical Trance has more a feeling of watching a BBC documentary. Colder means deeper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5T1l2ZLG_U I don't feel able to describe the way a Trance track feels cold or not. I think it's because it sounds less organic, and more "mechanic" in some way, more detached from emotion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSdUQj9tbc Floating Space Ambient. You just suspend the feeling of gravity by suppressing (most of) the beat, and you draws heavy layers with minimal melodies. You now have left the space shuttle, and between you and deep space, there is only a space suit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYFY3iM4Cg&list=UUpRYF3rIduXq4QJ8aXSKPVA Now, retry this space suit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDnB-DBU_dY You are now one with space. Hope I could help you man. EDIT : A psytrance track that explores space, contrary to a track exploring Earth or Mind, emphases on an idea of vastness, of being overwhelmed by something that is all around. It sets a large-scale space around you (you identify to the core melody, which is enwrapped with many auxiliary sounds), and that space is moving at various speeds. Ludicrous Speed for Artifact303. The speed of an asteroid for E-Mantra, Elegy, Ovnimoon. A few meters per/hour for Space Ambient.

Psy label founded by Sir Christopher Lawrence. Top full-on music. Many cool artists (Splattered Implant, Suduaya, Champa, Daniel Lesden, Frost Raven...). Seriously, just listen to that track at 04:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IKhOCcRnI&list=UU7tlN8-mZ1xbe0ziTD-JWhw Other cool songs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYgtX92jdy4&list=UU7tlN8-mZ1xbe0ziTD-JWhw&index=45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOL548i-PbA&list=UU7tlN8-mZ1xbe0ziTD-JWhw&index=33 Well, I am convinced. Have a nice day, people ^^

Agreed 100% You're never too cautious on the internet. Especially when you know how hard it is to erase what you wrote/posted in the past, and how easy it can be spread. Internet is not a place to be clumsy or unaware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADKcH5ZGIrI Perfect bassline. So sweet. Japanese Trance is really a thing.

Agreed with Agneton. The review section is really self-centered on Goa Trance. We lack A LOT of reviews for FIRST CLASS psychedelic music. For instance, we have few reviews in psybient, which may be the most thriving psy-music nowadays. We have a lot of epic psybient music being produced by many prolific artists. The scene also produce many gems in many genres (Electrypnose for darkpsy ; Protonica for progressive ; Aioaska for morning ; Ajja for forest ) and they seem to be quite the forgotten ones in this forum, since they are almost never discussed. It's not that we are close-minded, but it would be cool to gather as well folks from the other shades of the scene. I knew guys who dislikes Goa because it was too organic for them, but they provided me excellent night-time music, which enlarged my musical universe. I think that this forum can host more than the "Goa-core". We also have the potential to make come people from more diverse horizons that can make psynews more varied and interesting.

EDIT : A very happy birthday to you, Suntrip ! ))))

You tricky jerk Challenge accepted ! Nice to have a fun game to overload that epicness XD

Being fond of it isn't at all the sign of a lack of maturity. (Except if the addicted person isn't able to stand any serious conversation about more "serious" topics.)

My epic-o-meter just blew up.

I also want to know. And why is the artwork more epic than in Europe ?

Wow, that sounds funny xD

Actually I also wanted to write something about Artifact303, but since he produced less material than the other three, I had less ideas. However, I might come up with something for him as well. Also, I really consider E-Mantra to be a fundamental project. His sound is more humble, but very creative and poetic. Anyway, thank you for your reading and reviews

Bam ! Just spent 5 hours non-stop writing a mega-thread on Neo Goa. Thank you Radi, you unwillingly encouraged me. Now, time to go to sleep.

This is another thread amonsgt many other that deals with how great are some Suntrip artists. I think that most of us here have already had a lot of talkings about them. But even if I tell you what are my views on those 3 Trance projects, I'm not willing to be redundant. Actually, I'm trying to delivering up something new. I've already started heavy imaginary topics (one dealing with mental landscapes induced by psychedelic music, and another one where I imagined non-existing Goa albums). Here, I will unfold the narrative, story-telling aspects of Suntrip stars in a very subjective way. Indeed, I consider that Filteria, E-Mantra, and Crossing Mind are almost like movie directors. I wil hencel describe their movies. My purpose is also to introduce those projects to people from the outside in an insightful and very fun way (or so I hope). Then, just forget what you know when you read this, and just dive into imaginary. I shall also precise that I will create some facts that might not be true, but I'm not even trying to be realistic. Filteria The Master of Energy Sensitive reality as you know it is a mere echoe of the real universe. Ancient Greek philosophers and actual Buddhist scholars, as well as most of the masters of wisdom that have guided mankind to a higher level of knowledge, agree to say that reality as we know it consists of veils that cover the core of the very existence. Those illusions of reality, those « veils » are issued from both the physical world (matter and energy) and the mechanisms of the mind. What you should know is that those veils prevent humans to access to a greater, genuine existence (the Nirvana, also know as the Kingdom of Heaven) by filering the energy descending from the One Light upon we, mere humans. Filteria comes from the Latin word filtra, plural form of filtrum, which was a rough cloth used to filter some fluids many centuries ago. But Filteria currently designates the musical project of the Sweden-based producer Jannis Tzikas, a sound engineer who has undertaken to explore the world of energy through sonic experiences. Jannis has indeed based his works on the idea that the world surrounding us is filled with terrifying amounts of energy hidden from our consciousness by the many filtra of human reality, that act like insuperable barriers. Those gigantic flows of energy run through our world, raining hard over physical objects, but leaving undisturbed the atomic particles that constitute our being. The existence of this energy would explain the missing mass of the Universe. The questions that Jannis asks us are : What if we could unlock the filtra to discover the real nature of energy ? Can we capture and use those secret flows of energy that runs invisible through our bodies ? What is to be discovered in this world of energy ? In 2004, after years of experiments, Jannis Tzikas releases his threeling thesis. Entitled Sky Input, it is a 75 minutes long record that uncovered wonders that we couldn't have imagined in our wildest dreams. This obra learns us that mysterious vibrations from outer space hit every second the Earth at a supraluminic speed, and that one single blow of these vibrations could wipe out our world in less than a nanosecond if they were to be aligned on the atomic frequency. The first chapter of this thesis, Operation Pulse, describes a way to measure the sky input thanks to an advanced technic : by shaking the atoms at a high frequency, we can indeed alter their structure slightly enough to reveal an energetic anomaly that leads us to believe an amazing truth. Subatomic particles as we know them are being deprived of more than 99.999999% of their energy by what we assume to be a stellar influx that filters their real power. Later in his thesis, Jannis Tzikas tells us how he invented a machine, the Domestic Modulator, which allowed him to materialize and domesticate, under precise circumstances, this higher power. I shall eventually mention a last chapter of this obra, Galactic Rays, that studies the otherworldly flows that cross our world, and their unbelievable potential. Filteria's music is an attempt to unleash reality by breaking down the filtra. It drives you to a dimension saturated with cosmic energy that forces awe. The unreal sound of Filteria will shake your universe as he will shows you how the Cosmos is perpetually being destroyed and re-created every moment in every single fiber of matter. Disasters of the size of galaxies lurks in every grain of sand, allowing us to dream of new genesis to come. But Filteria is not only an exciting scientist. He is also a great Science-Fiction author. For instance, one of his best obra, Birds Lingva Franca, tells us a wondeful story : In another world far away from our Earth, an intelligent civilization has emerged. Just as they started the exploration of space, a terrible event is about to happen. Their Sun is on the edge to mute into a bursting supernova. Birds Linga Franca is the story of these people trying to prevent their Sun to explode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMAQ0IMBOo Dive into the Filterian Dimension. Surf over gigantic waves of cosmic disasters. Break free from physics, and travel at the speed of light into the heart of the warmest stars. E-Mantra The Celestial Master E-Mantra, the Trance project from Constanta (Romania) of Emmanuel Carpus, is certainly the most significative event in the contemporary Goa scene. This man has, indeed, shaped a new musical vibration that was the greater innovation in the Goa landscapes. E-Mantra is in fact the expression of man that has turned his glance toward the starry sky of the night. At the dawn of humanity, in a time when men had yet to master the fire, they used to gather in silence during the quiet nights to watch at the stars and comtemplate their faint light. Together, the men from the tribe listened to the voices of the astral sky, receiving the stories of the first gods and sharing them with their children respectfully. When humans grew more conscious of the fact that they were linked to the stars, that it was the after-world where migrate the souls of the dead, they started to dance in circles under the constellations, tasting the first trance experiences. They danced round and round and round, singing the names of the luminaries. The repetition of these sacred names were to be called, in a later time, the mantra. The rise of the early civilizations, and the growth of religions, lead mankind to perfect and vary their mantra practices. Each clan master their own mantra, the one of their mother star, in order to get strenghth, advice and guidance bestowed upon them from the world of the gods. But soon enough, these spells were used to achieve despicable motives. The hierophants, masters of the mantra, used their powers to make war to rival nations. This misuse of the mantra lead to terrible, bloody events, such as the destruction, in one day, of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha by the priests of Ninive. Monopolized by the pharaohs, this power eventually grew forbidden for the commoners. The mystery cults developped, gathering apprentices in secret. The most reknown of these cult was Orphism, whose disciples were the tenants of a powerful mantra that was used to preserve mankind from disasters, and guide it toward wisdom. The name of this mantra was E – the Greek letter epsilon. The great letter Epsilon was even inscribed on the Temple of Delphi, the most holy sacred place in Olympian religion, and the meaning of this inscription was even a subject of writing for the Greek philosopher Plutarch. Threatened by their fiends, Orphic disciples had to move away from Greece. They established themselves in the colony of Tomis, that would eventually become the city of Constanta. This mysterious group never disappeared, passing down their astral knowledge from generation to generation. Finally, at a time when the electric streetlights conceal the stars in the sky, Emmanuel Carpus, heir of an ancient tradition, has come to reveal to the world the secrets of the E-Mantra using modern styles of music : Goa Trance and Psychedelic Ambient, that recall the rituals from the past and revive the shamanistic connections that mankind used to have with nature. His first Goa album, Arcana, released in 2009, depicts the forgotten history of the astral lore. Shamanistic Rituals deals with the beginning of astral trance in prehistotic times. War of the Hierophants and Nine Under the Stars relate the use of this lore by the early Mesopotamian nations. Approaching Nibiru, that narrates the summoning of a demon by priests willing to destroy Babylon, is a warning adressed to mankind : never use the mantra to commit evil. The second Goa album of Emmanuel Carpus, Pathfinder, transmits through Trance music the ancient lore establishing a connection between the world of men and the world of stars. It is a dialogue with the stars, filled with ritual magic. The obra of E-Mantra is best described by the title of his later album, Echoes From The Void. Indeed, Emmanuel Carpus offers us a sound which is a resonance of distant echoes from mysterious worlds that can't be reached through time and space. It is filled with ghostly vibes from ancient times (such as underlined by the album Visions from the Past). It can also perpetuate echoes from beyond the stars. In fact, this sound dives into the deepest mysteries that existed when the stars were about to born. E-Mantra's music is an enigmatic celestial odyssey that will make you leave the Earth. It will make you feel the coldness of starlight, the vastness of the cosmos, and it will lead you astray between the lumanaries : boreas, nebula clouds, asteroids... It will make you feel the weight of the spacial void that stretches between the planets, and take you to a silent journey beyond the realm of imagination. E-Mantra is the master of Celestial Goa Trance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp6tXndNaM4 Crossing Mind The Master of Unconsciousness Among all the realms that science have ever managed to explore, the mind is certainly the most hazardous one. It is only in the 18th century – the Age of Enlightment – that scholars have began to enter to this new area of knowledge. Their purpose was to determine « the very origin of all our ideas ». One century later rose a new science, psychoanalysis, that would revolutionize our perception of the human world. Psychoanalysis has proved to the world a terrible truth : human beings are not masters of their own mind. They are submitted to an unknown, undefinable force, that seems to take away their free will : Unconsciousness, the craddle of Fantasy. Even the most enlighted men are appealled to this obscure joker that plays with our mind like a mad god, enforcing twisted fate mechanims upon every single individual. In the same way that the developpement of archeology has lead many adventurers to explore the newly discovered continents and civilizations, the rise of psychological and neuro-sciences gave birth to several generations of adventurers of the mind. They like to be called the Psychonauts. Their goal is to calculate the potential power of Unconsciousness, and some of them even will to attain an unreachable objective : they want to master their own mind. The Psychonauts dealt with many experiences. They achieve many progress in realms such as hypnosis (that allow one individual to take the control of the mind of someone else, by inscribing an order into the unconsciousness), lucid dreaming (that allows the mind to gain control over unconsciousness in order to master one own's dreaming process), an even telepathy (thanks to the rallying of the unused forces of the mind, stocked into unconsciousness). These past few years, the release of the movie Inception has awaken a global interest to the art of mindbuilding, which consists in falsifying the unconscious data sent to the mind accordingly to one's desires, so that the conscious reality of an individual is transformed to a purposed extent. Mindbuilding has eventually gave birth to a new kind of Psychonauts, the Architects. The Artchitects are not really scientists. They are closer to poets. They are artists that have achieved to master their own mindbuilding. Those rare persons are able to transform their own consciousness, shaping it into every possible (and impossible) form. They can create hallucinations such as characters provided with intelligence with whom the architect is able to talk. They can levitate into their own mind, ordering their own mind to suppress the feeling of gravity. They can build kingdoms that they rule each time they dream at night. They live into two worlds : our world, and their own. Crossing Mind is one of these architects. Behind Crossing Mind is Stéphane Bèze, a French craftsman who works with computers. The project began when Stéphane, amateur Psychonaut, had the idea to program his own mind as if it were an operating system running softwares. After successfull attempts, he realized that he had exceptionnal mindbuilding skills. His abilities allowed him to go further than most of the best architects. He then managed to go through his inner universe until he reaches a place than no one have ever been before : the point of origin of all our ideas. The name of this quest through his own inner universe was easy to find ; it would be the Crossing Mind Project. To help him in this quest, Stéphane tried many different tools to maintain his focus, to provide him with energy, etc. He has long been unsatisfied, until one day, per chance, he met the perfect vehicle : Goa Trance music, which is certainly what, on Earth, approaches the most a musical psychotrope. He started producing Goa music under the name Crossing Mind in order to having a satisfying and reliable material as an architect. His many musical experiments helps him to go further into his quest. But his tracks are also useful as a notebook when Stéphane describes his many journeys. He has also decided to share his experiences by releasing, on official labels, his Trance songs. This music is therefore an excellent tool for anyone who would like to try mindbuilding and mindtravel, as it is extremely psychedelic, trancey and hypnotising. Crossing Mind's music is a dive into dedal of neurones. It reveals the inner structure of an unconscious mind with an incredible acuracy. It is also a dense and mysterious music that uses a lot of twists and subliminal sounds in order to shape your mind into what you like. Crossing Mind likes to produce rich tapestries of precious sounds with a lot of narrative effects. His last album, The Inner Shift, with its eloquent title, deals with the adventures of a solitary mind trying to create his own Fantasy world. He will go through obstacles, doubts, wonders, and eventually experiment multiple psychedelic flavours that will all take part in this newborn world. It is to be mentionned that Stéphane's style is at the same time really sensitive and emotionnal. Crossing Mind explores the roots of psychedelism by studying the way it is formed into unconsciousness. He stands between neuro-science and parapsychology, making great efforts to refine his music in order to bring joy to our inner universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz8D1jMem8A