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In Sadness, Silence and Solitude is good. I'm not that familiar with the rest but i've heard some bits and pieces.

I like it, though some of the other tracks may get a bit sleepy. It's still very good. And it's almost worth getting for the Phase IV track alone. Wicked stuff. Other raison d'etre albums may have a more captivating gothic atmosphere with more melody and gregorian chanting.

Listening again. Holy crap. Seriously, how was this made... It builds and builds....and finally becomes a completely overwhelming chaotich noisefest. This is awesome!

Raison D'etre - Metamorphyses Phase IV This is the most insane dark ambient track I've ever heard. I'm not even going to try to describe it. Listen in bed with headphones, with loud volume... not knowing what to expect.... Good luck

Prodigy - Scienide

LSG - Netherworld (Jules Verne remix) trance how it was meant to be

Some old Scooter tracks are actually on the same level or even less crappy than most darkpsy and fullon. And since I judge an artist by their best works, Scooter > quite a lot of psy artists.

Yeah gotta love those CS-80 sounds...he used that synth a lot. As far as I can compare the CS-80 softsynth sounds nothing like the real thing...the soft version sounds more like a thin buzzing sound of a bug. (it weighs 100 kg lol )

Depends how you look at it, but yeah.. you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part 2 & Part 5 These are my favorite parts. I almost forgot how good this was/is.

Kraftwerk: the techno/electro rhythms, the repetitive minimalism, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream: the spacy, evolving melodic sequences, they capture a trance feeling too And J.M. Jarre also. And more less known artists from that time. These got to be the true pioneers.

Delerium - Colony

Psychedelic Ear Terrorism Crappy Bedroom Artists United Meow Meow Cute Little Kittens Records Bulgarian Fartsounds Inc.

Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles) It's so perfect. Perfect for the movie. Perfect in sound. Perfect in melody. I always get goosebumps.

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Rachmaninov (composition) Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze mid-1970s lineup & gear Steve Roach

Plastikman - Consumed

aah you see where I'm going..

It has elements of 1. dark ambient and 2. rhythmic ambient/IDM It is dark, dense, brooding, mysterious, but also rhythmic, with organic, complex, pulsating rhythms. Something like... a bubbling mass of magma flowing through an underworld where ghostly spirits and strange creatures lurk. It must have a sort of soothing effect... not too much sharpness..slightly low-fi...very 'organic' and pleasant in the lower and mid frequencies. Some of Vir Unis comes close in the rhythm part...but it lacks a truly dark, underground, gothic atmosphere of artists like Lustmord, Raison d'Etre. Hmmm yes.

Klaus Schulze - Schwanensee I The master.

Klaus Schulze - Der Lauf Der Dinge Analog POWER

Raison D'Etre - Metamorphyses Phase IV holy crap, this is insane!

That's just great! Thx for the clips. Check this out: Klaus Schulze live 1977. Doing his usual thing: going nowhere AWESOME clip. Watch the whole thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jsRoeNUuo Short clips of Vangelis just playing around a bit. I really like the first one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tksji4XyLP0 Tangerine Dream live 1976: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMxZybnDO2U

Speedy J - Drill Great track. Lovely loudness.

Speedy J as a true electronica artist. And many eurodance and eurotrance artists. Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten have made some tracks I like, commercial or not, gotta give 'm some credit.

If I'd do drugs first track I'd play is Klaus Schulze - Floating (original master). Then more favorites from Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach, Ozric Tentacles and some other artists and some psytrance.