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This comp is so goddamn good; Global Sect always deliver in terms of track selection and presentation (love their artwork...I also got one of the UV banners which is fucking beautiful). My favorite tracks here are Celestial Intelligence, Alienapia (Night Train), Psy-H (all of them), Mindsphere, Artifact303 (Contact), Median Project (Mad Space), Omnivox, and the downtempo Liquid Flow and Slow Reflections tracks are amaaaazing. It took me a while to get into it because of the sheer size, but once I did I had it on repeat for weeks. There is seriously only like 1 bad track, a few mediocre ones, and the vast majority are really good.

Lol there are too many subgenres. I thought that Dacru stuff was prog? Tropical Bleyage is cool though, I have 2 of their albums.

Hey guys, looking for some good Full On tracks/producers, I don't know much of that stuff. Looking for good production, good melodies if possible, and most importantly interesting/psychedelic sound design. For example, I really like Psilocybian.

Have you heard Airi - "Conscious Species" on Zenon, it came out last year? It's really good; dark and atmospheric but still has a lot of "psy" elements. The new Kromagon is pretty cool as well, but it gets a little too techno-ish for me.

Goddamn, been waiting for a new MWNN for so long!!!! It will probably be mostly generic bullshit, but hopefully some of his classic style in there.

I love Bitter Hitter. The production on that album (The Grid) is absolutely phenomenal, soooo spacious. Some of the old stuff like Shadow of the Beast is really good too. I have the Sonic Algebra album as well but nothing on there really stood out to me.

up 1. V/A - Terraformer [Global Sect] 2. V/A - Inti [Suntrip] 3. Morphic Resonance - Trip To The Stars [DAT] 4. Airi - Conscious Species [Zenon] 5. Somnesia - Cosmic Resonance [Timewarp] 6. Psilocybian - Third Eye Itch [BMSS] 7. E-Mantra - Compendium Vol 1 [Melusine] (not sure if this counts) down 1. Zymosis - Insight

Hehe this is part of the problem, you can't really hear/make out the bass in a lot of goa songs! But here are a couple that I really like: Alienapia does some great hard basslines And I like Psy-H for basslines too, you can actually hear it clearly in the beginning. This one seems fairly close to the typical psy bass but mainly the low end only without the emphasis on mid/high tones, leaving room for the synths.

So first of all, I totally under the "psy" bass which is used in every single prog/Dacru/etc track ever made. I can make that with no problems, but it doesn't really fit with "goa" type songs. This type of bassline is pretty easy to grasp because it's almost always one of the main focuses of the song so it's easy to hear the tone/notes. However, the thing I am struggling with is that in Goa the focus is on the layers of synths/melodies and the bassline is usually kind of buried and hard to make out. So what exactly makes something a "Goa" bassline and how do you create it? Also feel free to post any examples of particularly "goa" style basslines.

Nice, thanks! Hmm for some reason it's telling me that the "collect goa & psychedelic trance" page doesn't exist anymore? THANKS FACEBOOK

Are there any good Goa/Psy groups on facebook that people actually use? There are a few regional ones I am in (sadly in the US) but nobody really uses them beyond the occasional soundcloud or event-from-across-the-world post, and there is never any discussion. I'd like to find something that at least posts frequently about new releases and the posts get some activity

This release is so goddamn fucking good

Thanks for posting about this, reminds me to grab it!

You released something called "black star of the death" but a black metal style logo is too much for you?

I didn't find too much goa this year (could be out there and I just didn't hear it), but still lots of good psy came out in 2017: V/A - Terraformer (Global Sect) - huuuuuge goa comp V/A - Dimensional Gateway 4 (Neogoa) Imba - Golden Times (Spacedock) Morphic Resonance - Trip To The Stars (DAT) Morphic Resonance - Chromatic World Revisited (Neogoa) Median Project - On Saturn (Timewarp) Spirit Architect - Moonshine (Dacru) Digicult & U-Recken - Days In Paradise (Dacru) Psilocybian - Third Eye Itch (BMSS) Airi - Conscious Species (Zenon) JaraLuca - Fata Morgana (Goa Madness) Zymosis - Insight (Sentimony Records) - more on the downtempo/idm side but still psy and awesome Ajja - Spira Mirabilis (TIP) Ajja & Outsiders - Divine Particles (Sacred Technology) and I released an EP on Timewarp so I'm pretty happy about that

Whoa, great compliment. Thanks man!

I like Nordland Orchestra a lot, it was dark and heavy, even reminded me of some of the industrial stuff I listen to. This new one was totally different and didn't do it for me at all.

I checked this one out on the sole basis that it was from Sita and had Pharaoh in the title. I liked it quite a bit, lots of good old school sounds in there, some very similar to Man With No Name and with great modern production. The composition didn't blow me away but the sounds and overall vibe are right on the money.

Hey all, after writing Industrial for like 10 years and posting a few of my goa demos on here, I've signed some of my tracks to Timewarp! The material is inspired by ancient egypt and is somewhere between goa / prog / industrial / tribal. I think it sounds fairly different from what other people are doing and misses most of the psy tropes/cliches. Very curious to hear people's opinions... https://timewarprecords.bandcamp.com/album/worms-of-the-earth-sekhem-a-kheftiu-timewarp065-timewarp

Awesome thanks!! Glad to hear the industrial stuff doesn't turn people off

Here's a thing I've been working on which evolved out of my older tribal industrial style and morphed into this...whatever it is. Prog-y goa tribal industrial ? Curious to hear thoughts on it!

Thanks for this!! Yeah it's so hard to find people using synths to make specifically psy/goa so this is really helpful. Are all the synths in that track from Diva? It sounds really good, some great classic sounds in there. LuSH-101 is the most recent thing I've gotten so I haven't really gotten super into it yet, but so far it's really great for making goa style BP arps, and also pads

Whoa, these sound awesome! Wasn't aware of these, thanks for the tip

I've heard nothing but praise for Diva, but I have not personally used it. I've heard demos of it and it certainly does an incredible job doing 80s type sounds, but how does it do for goa and filter modulating stuff? I've yet to hear a VST come close to matching the character of a hardware analog synth filter. But maybe I'll download a demo and give it a shot.

Hey guys, I've decided to sell my virus ti snow cause it's too digital and wimpy sounding. I want to replace it with one or more of the newer analog synths. Was wondering if you guys have any recommendation for stuff with a really good filter that would be good for the hardware goa sound (for example stuff like Celestial Intelligence)? I am thinking about maybe the MS20 mini or one of the new roland things like the forthcoming SE02. I also saw video of a guy making amazing goa on one of the Dreadbox units. I used to have a prophet 08, but all the dave smith stuff I have owned has had issues and broken so I refuse to buy his stuff anymore. Currently I'm mainly using the nord lead 2, minibrute (it's so meh though), virus rack, virus snow...then for VSTs: LuSH-101, Superwave Ultimate (kind of a JP8000 clone), Superwave Sirius (kind of a MS2000 clone), and Sylenth. So as you can see I really like the 90s VAs but I feel like goa needs a good analog filter. Any recommendations? No old/really expensive/bulky stuff plz