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Why someone should care what commercial labels do. How funny these are.

Sorry, but this kind of argumentation looks more like to direct to believers and converts. Especially with the selection of specific excerpts as representatives of the whole text or dogma. The most important, Quran is a perception of the world which seems not to accept physical diversity, the diverse of personalities, faiths, tribes, cultures, thus it uses the term "Kafir", infidel. The word of the Prophet is undeniable and suits to every man and woman in the world. I don't know about jihadism and i'm not blaming blindly, but the more literally you accept and follow the Quran (or stricter tenets) the more hostile you might become to other faiths and negative to research. Let me say it again, if major expressions of islam (or just Sunnism) hasn't used raw force through its history, its influence and effect would be quite small in the world. The Quranist perspective you evoke looks quite minor and has been renounced. The only muslim country i know that the ethnic religion is tolerated is Iran for various reasons. What it is marked as "islamic golden age" i think it's more fair to be revised as an Arab/Persian one. Further, enlightened spirits like Averroes were denounced for their beliefs and efforts, and persecuted. There is also a historical controversy about the fate of the alexandrian library or what remained of it. And yes, the western perspective has commited ethnocides, destructions and plunders in europe and around the globe, but this wasn't of a different nature of muslim atrocities, although in the later centuries these were driven mostly by greed.

I agree so much. Corruption and decadence, and the undermining of cultural principles by this jungle technoeconomism is far worse enemy than any obscurantist fanatics. I have explained this here. I remember an iraqi jihadist with rage and cries in his eyes threatening the west for all the evils the americans did to him, to his family and his land. And this is the power that the halifat has. The jihadists, ofcourse, surpassed any measurement of rage and dignity because they are not motivated by reactionism or by patriotism but only by a perverse theocratism which also inspires likeminded foreigners who hate the western policies too but also the european culture or any "heathen" one. They became much worse than their predecessors in tyranny, whoever these were, Hussein or Blackwater army. Examples of this insane perversion inside its own corpus are many like the ad loc stonings for ridiculous "reasons" and the parade & spectacle-like executions oftenly intentional. Now they are threatening to destroy the Ghizeh Pyramids by saying “it is time for Muslims to erase the pharaoh’s heritage”. It's more obvious that the world has now to deal with a "cancer". And it's not the first time as in 2001 Taliban blowed apart 2,000 years of Buddhist history. Generally, islam hasn't been, what we say, a tolerant doctrine towards other cultures, if it hasn't used raw force through its history, its influence and effect would be quite small in the world. With the exception of Sufism, which is indeed a cultivation with its roots to be found in Zoroastrism & eastern neoplatonism, islam as a doctrine doesn't varies so much as it has been said. There are not evil violent muslims and good pacifist muslims, but muslims totally attached to the "Quoran" and muslims more open & liberal, political, or more "ethnic" based. The whole "arab spring" along with the islamoextremism growth is a so peculiar and obscure situation, though evenmore odd is the apathy of the nato and "security coalition" towards the expansion and the consolidation of islamization in Libya, Nigeria and Iraq contrary to their rush to strike light-islamic or secular regimes like the one of Syria. It's really so suspicious like the american & western foreign policy follows a secret agenda to reform the world replacing the stability of UN ethnic-type/independent states with black bloody chaos. Their foreign policy has proven much more than dissapointing over the decades.

Misery comes in many ways. Either you live in riches, either you live in poverty. Either you live in the west, either you live in the east. Sad subculture, especially to feed the young minds.

It's comments and statements from a city guide about local recordshops. This viewpoint is a common place among these people, and to avoid nasty thoughts, plenty of these underground shops offer CD releases too or otherwise prefer to deal with CDs only when Vinyl is not available. Of course, most of these shops promote mostly Rock or Jazz. So, a good question might be if this has an effect on instruments or hardware produced music, software produced music, or no effect to either. And as i said before, this is an opinion of many music aficionados or plain listeners i come across oftenly since i got involved in music. For the only thing i'm abit skeptical about the Vinyl format is the endurance of it's material.

Thousand years of history, the strive of man to survive, to understand and to create. It wouldn't be unseemly these masterpieces and artifacts to be considered as exceptional fruits of the pass of time. These were what had survived from ancient times and unique cultures, what had left to present generations to help understand history and culture and to provide a door to intellection through admiration and wonder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbTdAxT-7s

This is an opinion of many music aficionados, an opinion one can possibly come across oftenly. So, here it is another 5,000 year war topic.. On which platform does goa/psy music sounds better? CD / Digital, Vinyl, cassete tapes ?

Indeed. The thing with the "progressive" style is abit messy. The psychedelic "progressive" sound progressed from the days of Human Blue, Atmos and the rest back in '99 to a more "open" style with broader influences from progressive trance and house around 2005, and again (from what many have commented) to a more commercial direction the recent years. I add too that Progressive Trance is a different genre from Psytrance although the Progressive sound since the late 90s relates both the Trance and House fields, there isn't a very clear line.

Soundscapes, deep atmospheres & rhythms, tribal elements. Archaic Revival was a term used to characterise their music, a McKenna term i think.

I remembered i had 2-3 studies somewhere in my archives. This is one of them: Psytrance and the Spirituality of Electronics (1) / (2)

Nice. Good thinking. I searched a little bit for this subject and found these two topics: Behind the music - conceptualism in Goa trance What are you thinking when you dance?

It's abit tricky to perceive the notions of Space and Cosmos/ the cosmic concept. Space has firstly the meaning of the astral world and secondly the meaning of the void, distance and depth, floatation & movement. As well, the cosmic concept has meanings that have to do with the universe, the planets, nature and the conciousness. Has "Sky Input" and "One Love" been mentioned? I could also add Power Source's Cosmic Waves, Xerox & Freeman Human Race and Sandman's Witchcraft but i am not sure because the element of the subject here is basic in this music so i get confused.. ..like a saying referring to such a condition as "someone is bringing Owls to Athens"!

I once asked an old fellow to tell what images does his favorite music create or evoke in his mind. He answered that when he listens to epic or extreme metal his mind projects images of forests, untrodden places in fog and other special places that inspire power like castles, mountains etc.. Does your favourite music inspire to you images or visions? Maybe even a way to see or to seek yourself? Does this differ depending the music type you listen to? Does every music type has it's own kind of visualization or an agenda of concepts?

What a title...

:D That's a good idea for a topic. Respect.

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I think the whole expectation matter is based on a misunderstanding. The last single tracks before his debut album were "Levitation Device", "Influence Your Dreams" or (2008's) Feelings, tracks not very different than the way his composes but more acid and twisted. That's why what was thought to be expected from Artifact303 was full goa storming. The sound in "Back To Space" is floating in the Suntrip way but also more mellow and trance. Likewise the music is a mix of mellow trance and goa trance, in some parts leaning mostly to mellow trance like "The Will Communicate" & "For A Better World", and in other leaning mostly to goa trance as in "Mysterious Fantasy". Not badwritten since the composer's capabilities doesn't lack of skill, but still the direction isn't towards pure psychedelic. That was for me more of a dissapointment since i like his music as demo versions and in "The Holographic Paradigm". I saw CM as a descendant of Jaia, MFG and Asia 2001. I think that the modern production and the use of a larger variety of sounds drawn away Crossing Mind from his roots. A dissapointment, indeed. His promo demo versions circulated as "unreleased_album-(promo)-web-200x" is quite charismatic & spiritual material. Sorry, the production here is very shiny & polished, plus the direction of the music is more contemporary & new age than psymbient. It is on a different field than his previous creations on Altar, which were magnificent. But i cannot deny that it doesn't lack of interest at an extent.

More than that. I think i have first to re-check these releases... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXASqgaONUU

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A japanese eurodance/trance track, perhaps from an anime's soundtrack. It's fast & energetic but too pop and happy for my cup of tea. Generally, i like this kind of pop/rock/contemporary music from Japan oftenly used as animes' soundtrack. 7/10 as a rate for the vocals.