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Don't know what everyone else is doing but I will revisit this topic when I have given Filteria's stuff some more listens. Everything after Sky Input is still quite new to me. Nova Fractal I also only recently started listening to and he is great.

Agreed. I am listening now and loving it! It is constantly full of unique and memorable sounds and melodies. I really like the sound they have used for the lead melodies as well. The way it is ever changing is great too. Recommended!

In terms of recommendations, my all time favorite track is RA - Shift and the bpm of that is apparently only 120, which surprised me as it has quite a bit of energy. Judging by reviews not everyone accepts it as Goa trance but it certainly has Goa elements and amazing atmosphere. Edit: Just remembered you said 90s, so I had the wrong decade and wrong bpm, but maybe you will like it anyway.

Thank you for posting this! It is a great coincidence because I have also been looking for Goa of around 130 bpm this last week or two and honestly not finding much. Almost all Goa is faster than that and then psychill and psybient are normally quite a bit slower. It is of particular interest to me as I learn to make Goa trance as the track I am currently working on is at 131 bpm. I was tempted to try and make the beat a bit faster to conform more to what listeners seem to expect from Goa, but then my melodies don't work so it will stay at this speed I think. I will have a listen to these other tracks as they may help my inspiration. I too generally enjoy my trance on the slower side these days. A very high bpm does not often play well with anxiety.

I feel like I have become much more critical of music - all music - and harder to please lately which probably says something about my outlook on the world in general. This has nothing to do with Xamanist: I don't believe I will ever fully tire of Goa trance but in the short term I am certainly at risk of tiring of any generic and mediocre sounding bits of it (and those are to be found even in some of the very best albums and tracks). I listen only at home these days and much prefer midtempo and downtempo stuff most of the time. The point to all this is that when I read this album has full-on and progressive psytrance elements and started listening to the first minute and a half, I wasn't expecting this to be to my taste at all. But once the great Goa melodies and sounds came in, I started to enjoy it and having listened to the whole thing, it was very pleasant to have in my ears as I went about my day. Every track is creative and lively and just when I start to think it is going to become predictable or generic, another beautiful unexpected organic sound or captivating melody comes in. Great work. 7.5/10

For me I think it has to be Snakey Shaker. Other tracks like Deranger have more going on but the simple yet beautiful and urgent acid lines of Snakey Shaker are surely what you get when you distill Simon's talent into its purest, most concentrated form. That square wavey sounding choir of synthesized voices is so cool as well! It helps that I had not really heard any Goa trance (with the possible exception of a B side released under Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Allstarz moniker) before buying Lone Deranger on sight, so the second track was by far the hardest, trippiest thing I had ever heard and left a lasting impression. After that, I would probably say Horrogram for the great melody, followed by Deranger and LSD.

Yes I must admit I just listened to Sky Input again and it was better than I remember. I enjoyed it. So mood and expectations play a huge part in the appreciation of this music and it definitely has its time and place.

The melody of one of the tracks on Daze of Our Lives reminds me of Ebeneezer Goode by The Shamen

Do you know if there is going to be a third album from Artha? I really hope so, or even an EP. I see there are a few clips and remixes on his soundcloud. He really has an amazing sound.

Just to follow up from what I wrote above, I listened to Lost In The Wild for the first time and my initial impression was that the sound felt just a little warmer and a bit more reminiscent of old school Goa, at least to me. So his next album somewhat improved things from my perspective in that regard. That is not the whole story but I will save it for a possible future review. Thanks for the recommendations. I will check those others out. There was enough in Daze and Lost for me to want to come back for more.

Hey man, good to see you still posting here as I really like your reviews and recommendations. Another big fan of RA - Unearthly

Background: I have never been a Filteria fan. When he was a new artist I assumed it was kind of new school stuff but when I read all the amazing revews here from Goa fans and the comparisons to Pleiadians, I tried a couple times to listen to Sky Input, but I had a similar reaction to most of the other handful of negative reviewers: there are good Goa sounds and melodies but once the tracks get going it becomes a sort of wall of monoculture, like, I love chocolate cake but I don't want every space in my fridge and cupboards squashed full of only chocolate cake. (I should also mention incidentally that IFO is not one of my most favorite albums, though I do like it and listen to it quite a lot. I feel it has more color than Sky Input). I read that Daze of Our Lives is considered by many an improvement on the earlier albums so I have given it my first couple of listens. I am trying to let go of my biases, but that is hard to do, but I do need to say that the best bits of this album are really good and there are certainly moments where there is a really interesitng and unique sound. For me the really good bits are when he goes more ambient / downtempo and lets the music breathe a little. My favorites are the first and last tracks. I think he should try a whole album of downtempo. The other stuff, I like it OK, and I will give it more listens. It's technically good; the melodies are good; the effects are really good, but I honestly have to say that for most of it I don't get that really magic feeling that I get with older Goa or something like RA. It is hard to put my finger on it and it may be down to preconceptions. It might be something to do with the mastering or just Filteria sliding back into his tendencies for a relentlessly constant level of energy in a track. There are colorful melodies and organic effects yet many of the tracks for me feel a little on the flatter, less colorful, more homogenous kind of side in terms of their overall impression. This is just my subjective personal preference. I should mention this album does have quite a few Posfordlike elements that are done quite well, the warping chords and bright arpeggios. He has also nailed the weird, stuttery vocal effects although I do wonder if these were verging on being over-used here, though that's a minor quibble. This is no Hallucinogen 3 for me though, unfortunately. I award that title to Artha's incredible Influencing Dreams. I give tracks 1 and 9 9/10. The rest, I would have to give it more listens to really rank it fairly but my current feeling is if I was just rating the technical achievement it would probably be about 7 or 8/10 but in terms of my own enjoyment, 6/10. So for the whole album: 7/10.

I got some new headphones which means I am back listening to a lot more Goa and psy, which hopefully means I will get round to writing some new reviews.

I like them. Good choice of color and shading and you've nailed the 90s flyer look.

I finally found a bit of time to finish off my first acid techno track. It is heavily inspired by some of the hardest acid house tracks so a lot of the time there are only drums and two layers of 303, but I added more modern effects and a few other sounds to give it a more psychedelic feel which also makes it sound a little like some 90s IDM tracks. One kind listener even compared it to Infected Mushroom which was unbelievably flattering - this is certainly more simplistic than their stuff!