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Thank you Sir ! If you check this out, could you please tell me here your opinion about this release ?

Artist : Rigel Title : Blue Star on Green Sky Label : Binary Audio Machinery Date : August 2014 Genre : Psytrance Hello Goa Heads, This EP is a little piece of Psychedelic Trance that deserves attention. You may already have heard of Rigel as a collaborator of Hector Ovnimoon Stuardo. He have compiled some compilations for his label, have released a few tracks in here, and is also the co-author, with Ovnimoon, of a new album entitled Omnipresent Technology, that have already been mentionned in this forum. Until now, I knew Rigel for his pieces of Goa-influenced psyprog and a few extremely pleasant Morning tracks (such as The One). Then, I already spotted that this guy had some potential. But this release was quite unexpectable. It consists of two tracks : 1_ Blue Star (08:39) 2_ Green Sky (08:52) There were two things that surprized me. The first on is the originality and the creativity of the sound of this EP. Because it's not progressive, nor full-on, nor morning. Nay. It is pure psytrance, that breaks the ordinary formulas of the scene. It has pretty nothing to do with his previous works, and with the sound of many contemporary producers as well. The second remarkable thing is the quality of this soud. Rigel didn't only renew his music with a new experimental poetry, he excels in it. So, why should this EP be enligtened ? It is a carnival of sounds and colours, with crazy psychedelic accents and funky hints. The rhythm is breath-taking, with unusual changes of tempo, and it seems that Rigel had much fun playing with the bassline all along the tracks. And you know what ? This EP reminds me of one project in particular : OOOD. Then I listened to the classic album A-Live, and yes, there is definitely something of this crazy/experimental energy in Blue Star on a Green Sky, but this energy is driven by a very contemporary approach that is deeply rooted in the modern means of production. Personnally, I'd give an A+ (I rarely give that note) to the first track (Blue Star), and A to the second (Green Sky). This is a really good work ! It may even be a little masterpiece of an EP. You can buy it here : Beatport

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnEckVrNEk Efficient Trance music from Japan. The instrumental version sounds better without the cheesy vocals. Edit : the original, from the album Rewind Amnesia

That was a cold summer indeed. But not as cold as the year 1816. During the Spring of the year 1815 occured one of the strongest volcanic eruption in Human History : the eruption of the Mount Tambora, in Indonesia. This event had disastrous consequences on the climate worldwide. The amount of particules released in the atmosphere lead to a mini volcanic winter that occured one year later, in 1816. This year was named "the year without summer". The temperatures in the North hemisphere during that summer hardly surpassed the 0°C (Celsius). Here is the map of the average temperature in Europe during this cold cold summer :

What's up Psynews ? A few weeks ago, we had two memorable topics about the power of evocation of Goa music : _ a topic named "What songs do you connect to a girl ?" _ another one who dealt with synaesthesia, and the colorful feelings one might have when listening to Goa Trance. Well, this thread is not that much different. Let me explain. It is hard to me to listen to a release when I don't have a "key" to understand it. As soon as I figured out that key, I can dive deeply into an album, an EP or a mere song. This key, in my case, is the feeling of a story, or a landcape, or both (when the narrative side of a song meets up the descriptive one). A question I adress then to the people who might feel intrested is : What release do you connect to what kind of landscapes ? This kind of topic should also evaluate the potential of psy music to stimulate the imagination, and the importance of its atmospheric work. Then, I shall begin myself. Here are releases that I personnally connect to specific landscapes : Filteria - Lost in the Wild : Gothic landscapes. Towering cathedrals plunged into the night. Gargoils, vampires, and necromancers acting under the dim light of candles. Electrypnose - Bloomy Trap : The Dark side of the Internet. Cyber war. Egorythmia - The Remixes 2011 : The inside of a moving tectonic rift. Astropilot - Solar Walk 2 : A silent city with concrete buildings, without any people or animal. The sun is shining of a surreal light. The time has ceased to be. Merkaba - Ancient Relics : A dark, moist forest where you can lose yourself. The trees are filled with pagan magic. E-Mantra - Arcana : An eerie nightscape, with fairies dancing and fluorescent plants. Electrypnose - Brain Stretching : A post-acopalyptic landscape. Industrial ruins filled with noxious chemicals and deadly radioactivity. JIS - Illusions of Reality : Open blue sky. A refreshening breeze. Some flying boats passing by. Deedrah - Self Oscillation : The dark suburbs of a cosmopolite city. 90's cars, drug dealing, gang wars. Akshan - The Rise of Atlantis : Gigantic white cliffs in a Fantasy world, bordering an ocean looking like the Atlantic. Gulls flying around. Skazi - My Way (No, I won't put a link) : A pool party in Beverly Hills. With a lot of rich people making dumb hip-pop, dressed as if they were gangstas. Psykovsky - Tanetsveta : A dystopian world. Babies growing into tubes. Torture rooms. Cybernetic technology at the service of evil.

Wow, what a super song ! Thanks for the share. Here is my contribution : a genuine uplifting trance track : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HeAptz3Qy8 For other killing bangers like this, check out the Serbian Label "Pulsar Recordings". Edit : I shall add this killer Vocal Trance song from Redux Recordings : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ocNernN6M Too bad that those kind of labels release their products song by song instead of releasing full-lenght albums/

Happy birthday, Mister Vranken. I wish you all the best.

Hello Psynews. This thread is to deal with the creativity inspired by psychedelic ambient and EDM. Indeed, Psytrance and Psybient are not just about music. It can help people to have ideas in many media. Here, I will share with you a few Youtube channels whose common point is to release montages made to suit a Psytrance or Psybient song. There are two purposes for this : promote those channels, and show you how a Psytrance/Psybient song can be visually interpreted. I hope that you will complete my short list with more amazing channels/clips. 1. Brume Argentée Link to the channel : Brume argentée "Brume argentée" means, in French language, "Silver Haze". This gorgeous chanel focuses on the angelic dimension of Psybient. Even if it is mostly dedicated to Psybient, this channel have made a few clips for Goa songs. Amazing poetic montages here, full of wonder and well-being. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ryhNprqlgM&list=UUpRYF3rIduXq4QJ8aXSKPVA E-Mantra - Orphic Hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbMA1shOyo&list=UUpRYF3rIduXq4QJ8aXSKPVA&index=1 2. New Aeon Link to the channel : New Aeon This channel insists on the spiritual dimension of Psytrance/Psybient. Astral Projection - Enlightened Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVHLE-NLDFE&list=UUzZmaO78Uih_YQZGjwFwT0A Desert Dwellers - New Generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d2k6CKgtmM&list=UUzZmaO78Uih_YQZGjwFwT0A&index=5 3. Astral Seeker Link to the channel : Astral Seeker A classic channel for Goa-Heads. If you don't know it already, run to subscribe. Khetzal - Listening Winds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanuJmloe4s This video on the three following channels are more properly montages than clip. But it is well done, and agreable. 4. Psybrations Link to the channel : Psybrations Etnica - Intense Visitation 5. Live at Goa For more montages : Live at Goa Astropilot - Memories Maze (Khetzal Remix) 6. Reacthif23 For more montages : Reacthif23 Asura - Celestial Tendencies

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As Rotwang said, it's pretty good. By "pretty good", I mean, I feel that you master your devices/software, as well as the rhythm. But it's not a banger too. They are some beginnings of interesting melodic ideas hi and there (example : Untitled from 04:25 to 05:00). This is your personnality : work on that more, in order to create a really original content. However - but I think it's normal since you're beginning - it globally feels too generic for me. This full-on resembles too much normal full-on music. Then, there's much more work awaiting for you. But it seems that you got the basis : the tracks are solid, weel balanced. There is harmony, the developement are well built, etc. I wish you good luck.

This is fresh new from today : Mono - Rise (Nova Fractal Remix)

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What about asking the community if they wish it back, thanks to a vote topic ?

It's not out yet, but I already fell in love with this future track of Travma. It's not complete, but it's damn good ! Travma - Voyager

Progressive Dreamtrance ! Dear ! I like that concept !

Erosion (Analog Tape mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLwGeKdS8Rk

Hello dear Psynewers ! A few weeks ago, a very interesting topic started by Taika-Kim was asking : what are the most oldschool-ish producers of our contemporary Goa scene. This lead to an exciting talk about the great comeback of the old vibe in modern Goa music. However, it seems to me that this talk must be completed by reverse questionning : _What is the most newschool Goa songs and artists ? Those who are firmly Goa, but that have very few in common with 90's Goa. _What are the common points between those songs/artists ? _Do these songs/artists express a trend that is to be developped in the next fex years ? Then, to start this topic, I'll submit a few candidates for the top rank of the most newschoolish sounds, and I will conclude with a short analysis. 1. Eleusyn (and Emmanuel Carpus in general) Hypno & Eleusyn - Ganduri (Eleusyn Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckl4b-7FFsE According to me, the Eleusyn Project (consisting of E-Mantra and Reasonandu) is the best example of Newschool Goa. It is, at the same time, a very effective conveyer of the Goa energy and a very inovative project with futuristic sounds. E-Mantra - Liquid Frequencies (2008 mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrKK_jLXImI E-Mantra is obviously one of the most creative and inspirationnal Newschool project, leading Goa music to a kind of new trend based mostly on deep, subsconscious, spiral melodies and heavy rolling basslines. But this track in particular is very intriguing. It is Goa Trance, without using any of the traditionnal Goa sounds : no eastern patterns, no Goa bassline, no acid whirling. 2. Fractal Vivisection Fractal Vivisection - Molecular Instability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5EN8UPh_g This songs begins like a Darkpsy track, and then turns Goa. This artist is only at its beginning, so the quality has to be improved, but the important fact here is the kind of sounds used in the Goa recipe. 3. Nova Fractal Nova Fractal - Perception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8R41bccqvI In my opinion, this song embodies the most what is the Nova Fractal Project is : an oniric voyage through simple but efficient formulas, with those crystalline melodies typical of the Newschool era, and the integration of the full-on sound. 4. Filteria - Perpetually Delayed Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3J6FsuT-m4 Filteria, although the fact that he's considered as the spear-head of the Newschool scene, can't be considered, IMO, as the most newschool project, since it is more a continuation, by modern means, of the Pleiadian spirit. But this song in particuar - Perpetually Delayed Voyage - has nothing to do with oldschool, and sounds like a vision of the future. It insists more on onirism than psychedelism, combines uplifting tones with a modern full-sound, and has a very contemporary storry-telling. 5. Lectro Spektral Daze (Sorry, the video embed doesn't work for my two final links. Please consider clicking them.) Lectro Spektral Daze - The Third Eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5fsdbVK6tY Lectro Spektral Daze do stay faithful to some oldschool melodic patterns. But it the way he plays with them that is brandly new. He enriches the oldschool spirits with a lot of modern sound taken from psytrance and progressive, and this engineering makes IMO of this project one of the most newschool one, alongside with its innovative acoustic experiences that can be heard in the climax of this song. 6. BlackStarrFinale BlackStarrFinale - Star Cloister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMRNbOVKB0c When dealing with newschoolish sound, you cant' forget the project of Luis Pabon. He's a very newschool artist by the way he turns the full-on sound into a Goa sound, and develops blurred melodies scattered between the kicks. A brief analysis All the songs and projects quoted hereabove are pretty different from each other. However, we can notice some similtudes. The most striking aspect of all those songs is the fact that, in their definition, they aren't so a continuation of oldschool Goa that an evolution of the 2k's psytrance scene. They seem to be more an evolution of psytrance than an evolution of Goa, and the fact that Neo Goa concentrates most of the creative potential of the whole psy-scene and attracts more and more young artists makes me think that this melodic trend of psytrance will develop, and perhaps replace former genres, while newschool oldschool will keep spreading in parallel. And, a second point that links several of these songs is that they insist more on onirism than psychedelism, and insists much more on storry-telling than the 90's artists ever did. What do you think of it ?

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I also remember that Gilbert from Asia 2001 has a trance side-project named Loren-X. In 1994 Loren-X released an album named Definitive Perception, that was really Goa-influenced. Loren-X : Sectosphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSwe9RSe1s Loren-X - Goasubliminal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0msdB_4h-w

I have a friend who is a trance producer. I asked him once to make his own version of 1001 Arabian Nights by 1200 Micrograms. Perfect Anthem Trance with a nice Goa climax : Martin Boesgaard - 1001 Danish Nights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXAVuSNi3C4 He's a super talented and kind guy. If you like Uplifting Trance, that worths the listen. I especially love the way he turned the Goa sounds into anthemic/emotionnal effects. Edit : the original tune by 1200 Mics Edit 2 : Thank you Rotwang ! Edit 3 : I forgot this awesome tune by Pulsar Recordings. A dark uplifting trance track with Goa elements : Ilya ViG - Ashian (2014)(official clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20R49tNp-Eg Bonus : How would sound a crossover of J-Pop, Euro-Trance and Goa Trance like ? Sound Holic - Tao Trance I'm always happy when I listen to this one.

90's artists getting back into Trance seem fascinated by the full-on bassline. MWNN is confirming that trend. Not to mention Toï Doï, Asia 2001, Etnica/Pleiadians, and so the more. This needs an inquiry.

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