Scandinasia

Pokemons are cool, OK ?

That is a shame, because obviously you are, with all respect due, someone who lies about the product, if not about who you're pretend to be. And yes, that is a shame because the samples, I say it once again, are good. You have no need to lie, as the product is quality. And unless you prove me wrong, I won't believe you're Japanese either. You proved me by twice that you were unable to write in kana, and besides, you do speak english very well. Stop pretending. You're a newschool producer.

This music can't be from 95. It uses sounds that didn't exist by then. 95's Goa is far more about atmospheres, acid and modulations, and especially Japanese Goa, who emerged from the late 80's acid techno scene. The Japanese scene is about distortion, raw-ness and esoterism. It means to be deep and psychedelic. These samples can't compare with Japanese 95's Goa. They are newschool nitzhogoa, insisting on energy, euphoria, celebration and orientalism. Your claims are impossible.

I don't understand. Do you mean that the Kanji album was actually produced in 1995 ?

Nitzhogoa = systematic use of middle-eastern patterns as euphoric melodies + fast beat + laser kick It's a typic formula that emerged in Israel around 97/98. (but these samples show an affiliation to newschool Goa, mid-2000's style) Then, I was wondering why you claimed the 95's legacy to expose that product of yours.

Yes, but nitzhogoa didn't exist by 95.

The sound is interesting, that's good Goa, but if I may allow to ask, why this reference to 95/96 Goa ? It's not a criticism, but this sound doesn't match at all the 95's sound, and especially the 95's Japanese 604 sound. Some Japanese artists are reviving this forgotten vibe though, just as Tocomoco : https://soundcloud.com/dj-tomocomo/tomocomo-cosmic-ocean

WTF ! Do people like these ?!

I am in complete disagreement with your statement, Mustafa. You assume that jihadism is attached to the core of Islamic tenets, but that's not right. Regarding archaeological sites, the Quran is pretty clear. It explains Allah has wiped out from the surface of the Earth the early pagan civilizations, and that the remnant of their cities constitute signs for the believers. Those archaeological signs are to strenghten the faith of the Muslims, and they are called to witness those signs in order to be convinced by the truth of Islam. 40:21 : Have they, then, never journeyed about the earth and beheld what happened in the end to those [deniers of the truth] who lived before their time? Greater were they in power than they are, and in the impact which they left on earth: but God took them to task for their sins, and they had none to defend them against God. 11:100 This account of the [fate of those ancient] communities - some of them still remaining, and some [extinct like] a field mown down - We convey unto thee [as a lesson for mankind]. Islam is the antithesis of idolatry and polytheism. If the Muslim world destroys the history of idolatry and polytheism, the very idea of Islam is in peril. If you don't know what is an idol, how can you be prevented from worshipping it ? That must be one of the reasons for which the very first caliphs protected, or at least, didn't destroy those places. You will also notice that those caliphs, who are held by the Sunnis to be perfect examples of believers, maintained those sites. None of these sites were destroyed during the very long and movemented History of Islam. And today, they are being destroyed by violent people who also kill muslims and blow up mosques. How can one say that this is Islamic ? You also states that these sites are being destroyed due to an "inner Islamic intolerance" towards outer cultures. Do you know what were the first sites destroyed by the Islamist ideology ? The vaults of the Companions of Muhammad ! The very first believers, martyrs and free men, who are held by every single muslim as what a muslim should be, were deprived of their tumbs by these people ! And last year, ISIS even destroyed the vault of a prophet ! It was the vault of Jonah ! What is less Islamic than disrepecting a prophet of Islam ? So, before destroying the history of others, they began by destroying their own history ! This has nothing to do with Islam being "intolerant" with other cultures. And if you study the period called Islamic Golden Age, you will have to study a very particuliar phenomenon, called translatio studiorum. The "translation the the studies" was the phenomenon of translation, study, commentary and appropriation by the Muslim world of the greco-roman legacy, especially in terms of philosophy. It is the Muslim world that preserved the legacy of Plato and Aristotle to the Renaissance West. They even preserved the poems of Sappho, the first poet of Europe ! And di you know who burnt down the library preserving this poem ? The Crusaders. I also call to your attention that so far in History, it is the Western world who has destroyed the more sites. In Andalus, in China, in South America, in Egypt, they destroyed, when not stealed, many remarkable monuments. And do you realize that if ISIS destroys so much sites, it is because there are so many of them in the Muslim world ! How do you explain that there are so many them even today, who date back from - 2000 BCE ! Weren't they carefully preserved to be still visible today ? Final remark : That is false as well. The Muslims who are the most attached to the Quran call themselves the Quranists. These people reject all the hadiths, which, constitute the backward litterature justifying the backwardness of today's Muslim ideologies. The Quranists are far more progressive than the Sunnis, and because they are so progressive - as they only follow the word of the Quran rather than the tenets of Arabic standars (no lapidation, music allowed, no killing homosexuals, etc.) - they are being rejected by the Islamists ! People who follow the Quran in the purest way are called apostates by these people ! The fact is that you have prejudices towards Islam, and that these are wrong. But what is worst is that the Muslims themselves held the very same prejudices regarding Islam and Muslims. The Quran isn't read by the mass. Or its reading is biased by propagandists. It is not Islam that causes so many commotion. It is the corruption of Islam that does.

OOPS ! I didn't notice your gender, as it wasn't indicated on the sidebar. Sorry ><" !!

Why no kana man ? They are awesome creatures, used every day to write foreign names.

Sorry man, I didn't mean to offense. Really. So, please bear my sincere apologies if you felt hurt at any moment. Being harsh wasn't my intent. However, why did you use kanji instead of kana ? I was more thinking of this : スカンディナぢア EDIT : For people reading, 道化師 stands for clown (thank you Google Translate) xD EDIT2 : I renew my apologies to OP. No offense intended ! Please bear my clumsiness.

I completely am ^^

The samples aren't fake, they're good and real. It's nitzho-ish Goa, and one track has some E-Mantra's influence. That's pretty decent actually. But since I have doubts regarding our guest Submoon Records, I'm teasing him in order to confirm or invalidate my doubts. And what just happened is that I asked him to write the name Scandinasia with the Japanese letters from the kana syllabaries. And Myoko-san claimed that he couldn't do so because the term "can't be translated". There are two possibilities, Myoko-san : _either you misunderstood my challenge, which was to transcript my name into the kana syllabaries, even though I expressed myslef in clear terms. _either you don't know the use of kana writing, and you're a troll. Every Japanese can put my name into kana. It's really easy. So, Myoko-san, I give you a second chance (I love this game xD) : Are you able to write the word Scandinasia into kana letters ? I dare you mate

This is why I prefer to use the term 'Goa 604' rather than 'Goa Trance'. Goa is very used because it's a short and poetic name, with whom psytrance is very tight.

Hey, man, I have a challenge for you : write my name in kana. I DEFY YOU ! Other challenges might happen. Then, I will tell you if you're a troll, or not

Now that you say it, the samples are surprizing by the fact that the artist sounds very experimented for a debut release, whereas the label is much obscure. Plus, the music contains this very peculiar nitzhonic vibe that is unknown in the Japanese Goa scene. And if we compare the styles, they are pretty alike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov2sh6lC4Vc Also, I have several reasons to believe that OP is not Japanese.

Actually, I reproach to this article to not giving sources, and to rely on a solo individual who had, by himself, discovered the secret mechanism that had moved human history for centuries. I've read tons of conspiracies, and everytime, the guys make the very same statements, but names change. Who want to control the world through a massive plot undermining worldwide politics ? So far, I've read : America, the Satanists, the Jews, Free-masonry, Muslims, Protestants, the Illuminati, the communists, the homosexuals and the aliens. So, when I read another guy using another time the same tricks, I just read to have fun. However, that doesn't mean that common views of the world shall be admitted as well. Hidden motives lead the politicians, but rather than believing that they are led by dark mystical forces embodied by human troops standing on the stage, I believe that they are merely motivated by the most basic instincts and passions : power, money, hatred. As for the free-masons. Not an osbcure ideology filled with hellish beliefs, but a network connecting the politicians, the jet-set and the socio-economico-artistic elite. Hence, a treacherous movements because of a system of alliance defending the interests of the richer over the poorer. And as for considering that mystical powers do reign on this world, I agree and admit that some phenomenons and powers beyond the human realm can and do interact with our lives, but it's not a reason for becoming un-reasoning and to agree with biased statements and unsane people building up fake theories. The satanist guys do exist. But they don't lead any massive movements. They can't have a large influence. Most of them sacrifice cats on saturday night for the sake of feeling cool. Others do nasty things, but they don't lead nations. The socio-economic developpement of our society is far more serious that these cults.

Merci Gabriel ! By the way, the French titles for the tracks are lovely : Emergence > Emergence (obvious but not to be taken for emergency) Rêve éveillé > Awaken dream Les liens du sang > Blood ties Déploie tes ailes > Spread your wings La Danse des elfes > The dance of the elves Suntrap > y not french ? Efflorescence > same word in French than in English. Refers to the process of mineral blooming. One the most beautiful and mysterious word of the French vocabulary. L'Oiseau de l'aube > The bird from Dawn EDIT2 : I'm having a listening of the album. Oh, man, it has this Jaïa-esque energy that can be felt in this legendary album : You are a wonderful continuator of this rare morning vibe, of this skilled poetry of light and wonder. You master !

The main techniques of conspiracy theorists : _every major event in History is actually the result of occult forces ; History is a lie, and its true nature is an obscure followings of plots and secrecies that only a "non-conventionnal view" can reveal and aknowledge _be hypercritical regarding the medias, the doxa, historic researches and the scientific community, and be hyper-trusty when it comes to the sources supporting your own views. Most of the sources are biased, distorted, or simply not given. _magical thought. the conspiracy theorits are appealing by using the most profound parts of the collective imaginarium : in the Western and Eastern world, the monotheistic imaginarium is fully exploited (Book of Apocalypse, Prophetic hadiths,...) to revive the fear of the idols, and present the Egyptians and the early civilizations of Mesopotamia as a source of ongoing evil. Emotions rather than arguments. _they adress either people with poor education in terms of History, Science or culture, often not able to build up a reflexive insight about sources of informations, or people who live in a cultural background with a strong religious belief (and thus more sensitive to some imaginary themes : United States, Muslim community, etc.) _"if you refuse to embrace my view, you're part of the plot/blind to the world"

It was, but on a tinier scale. Like, not a whole country. But still.

The problem today is that people today tend to be person led by interest and greed. Kicking out Saddam to steal oil from the Iraqis gives lots of money. Kicking out the monkeys of ISIS costs money, and beyond it being a good action, what is the economic point of it ?

Agreed with reger, Poutine's Russia is ominous towards Europe. And by the way, some say that ISIS are barbarians, in contrast with us being the good guys. American troops in Iraq were as much barbarians as ISIS can be. Anyone remembers Abu Ghraib ? Not saying that all American GI's are like that though (fortunately !).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqReVMv1I10