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LOL, memories. Metaphorically speaking, I used to listen to it when I was 12, permanently stored my gabber CDs at 12 and 4 months, permanently removed the permanent storage to my basement at 12 and 6 months, fed the local basement rats the whole load at 12 and 9 months. Now that's hardcore!!!

Same here. One of the greatest albums I have ever heard, and despite the fact I haven't listened to it in ages, it has yet to leave me unfulfilled. No Good, One Love and Voodoo People were THE dance hits, Poison was their first track with real time vocals in it, Their Law had that amazingly catchy guitar riff in it, Break & Enter had that amazing effect in the track sounding like a glass cup falling on the floor and breaking to pieces, and Claustrophobic Sting had that spooky laugh sneaking through the track's opening, and the listz could go on and on... "So, I've decided to take my work back underground, to stop it from falling into the wrong hands." Whatta classic!

I got a share of those as well, I just find them awfully dated now. I mean, I can still get a kick out of them every once in a while, but most of the times I find them... Dare I say it...? Ch***y. Anyways, fast and furious acid driven techno must be the illest sounding form of electronic music to get me buck wild on the dance floor! :posford: My favorite acid techno track must be Point Break by Sulfurex, and the insanely berserk remix of Egyptian Empire's The Horn Track, with those demented bagpipes getting mixed in with the 303s, by The Pump Panel, is quite probably a close second. And then there is Public Energy's Three O' Three, Misjah's and Jean-Pierre's Temple Of Acid, DJ Skull's Acid Wiss L... etc. etc. etc.

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I am not impressed, but I guess I am entitled not to be. Right off from the start Bay Hall Magic put me off by the "bombastic" kicks and the epic leads during the entire second part of the track. Despite some playful acid wizardry, the cheese factor made my cheese-o-meter go off balance. Vega wasn't much better either, 02:40 and I've hit the skip button with both of my fists. Sounds like a throw away track from an unsigned artist making an anthem for the early version of Magix Music Maker, with absolutely no disrespect intended to fans of the software. Super Secret Area 51 should have stayed just that - a super well kept secret. Is it possible that a goa trance track anno 2008 still can get a passing vote with a "flying saucer" sample. No. Impossible. The melody at 04:00. My window. It opens. The speakers? They fly. My face? The smile is back all over it. Fractal Rock City and Red Road place me in a stone cold coma, and I've just had a cup of hot coffee. The guitar riff on Fractal Rock City is simultaneously so corny and cheesy that even my socks itch. I know there are people out there who fully enjoy mystic, natively influenced and tribal tracks, so I would recommend Red Road to them. Well, I don't, so it's yet another reason why is the aforementioned cup of coffee eager to escape from the clutch of my hand and spill its contents all over the stereo. The anger menagement sessions must be working though, as I've successfully held mycelph back. Omega Point is relatively listenable, although one must keep in mind that "Revolution spaceship" alters the definition of relativity in music. Even the guitars are moderately used, modulated in a manner that they subtly stay in the background, letting some playful melodies pave the way for a break with a sample, and then from 04:40 on, once more we're thrown in some fromage de lait de brebis territory, just not as in your face as on the previous tracks. It's a track I've played through twice, but no more. Sorry... More sorry than the disposable Linkin Park guitar riff entering seven minutes into the track. I was waiting for a Jay-Z hip hop verse as well, but they somehow never thought of doing that. Could have been cool though. The penultimate tune, Galaxy Journey has a Fisher Price, "my first attempt at making a goa trance track" type of sound. But I'll admit, the track has some very positive vibes all over, I just don't feel 'em as much as others might. I mean, after five minutes, it sounds like DJ Bobo on acid. However, My Revolutions And Yours (Filteria's Vive La Revolution Remix) is redemption at its purest form. It's a ticket to Noa's arc just when you were convinced a tidal wave would terminate your existence. But my!!! This is almost nine minutes of multiple climaxes oscillating and colliding in perfect harmony, getting drilled in and out of the track at the speed of Schumacher's vehicle on steroids. Fantastic and perfectly placed guitar riffs serve as brief break downs just before you get thrown in an endless universe of intriguing psychedelia and dance floor madness. In short: this is my pick for best tune of the year up to now. Unfortunately, the album is further away from it than I had expected. Ah well, taster's choice...

Hi. Out of the whole list of tracks you made, these are the only two I like. Martin Buttrich turned the globe upside down with his instant classic Full Clip back in '06, and I urge you to get it if your taste is to be judged by the above list, and Hunter is ace as well despite the fact it is obviously light centuries behind the aforementioned tune. Too bad the flip side does not match it. Nathan Fake's Out House.... Aw, the memories. It tore clubs up not too long ago. The original is still #1, with that long, subtle and amazing progression going on for what seems like an acoustical infinity... And naturally, last year's minimal hit, Pan Pot's Charly 12", where the original is just sooooooooooo entertaining, while the flip side's remix is disposable, IMHO only. As for my other picks, recently I have been bumping Josh Wink's Swirl 12", the low-down-&dirty Collabs 401 by Jochem 'n' George Issakidis, and the immaculte, perfect, slick, sly and too good for your ears to believe, Jared Wilson's Jared Wilson's Drug Related Stories 12". As for CD albums, Alex Under's undisputable classic "Dispositivos De Mi Granja" just refuses to leave my CD player, and unless you have been on a long vacation under a rock, you somehow missed Petar Dundov's fresh and magnificent come back, "Escapements", on Music Man Records. Last year's "Nightwidth" album by Anders Ilar was a breath of fresh air within the niche of minimalist copy pasters, with the opener tune Radius being the tightest bomb on the entire album, while any early comments on his last output, "Sworn", would be very appreciated! Have phun, and drop by some more recommandations please if you stumble upon anything interesting.

I agree. It would be cool to have one of those as screen saver while listening to a mixed album I really favor. You know like those Windows Media Player graphics which hypnotize you while you the music lures you inside the monitor. BTW, reger, I like your new smileyless image, it'll take you about 250 years to make another 19,000 posts...

I don't think Malevol3nt here was asking for an album a decade old, but from more recent stuff, you have Vox album on Metapsychic album released as a free downloadable net release last year, you have those two brothers, Twisted Twins, doing some live acts in Zagreb, you had Parrket, who made some amazing music, though I completely lost track of the guy, and the last I heard is that he started producing progressive house. DJ Go Cut and Cortex (who back in the day recorded for Bonzai) had a vinyl or two out together... Other than that I don't remember much right now...

unikos, before you and your sorry ass clique of virtual whiners leave this place, drop by and I'll give you a tissue for your snotty nose. Naturally, my life had absolutely nothing to do with the Off Topic, but that is mainly because I have a life, and always had one. So there was no need for me to click there. But now even my eyes feel better when I see psynews regaining its original purpose and stand, that of informing and discussing aspects of various forms of psychedelic music and its elements, culture, widespread appreciation, etc. Which directy implies this forum does not need you. Topics about feaces, bulgarian highways, cheating girlfreinds and math homeworks just don't belong here. Obviously you never did either. So, good night.

I saw Anthony Rother live last some time around March 2007, and it was awesome. A little too short, but awesome nonetheless. As for recommendations, I don't know, electro is not really my thing (yes, Rother is electro, so if you're after techno you're pretty far off...), personally I prefer more sinister electro sounds, like Dopplereffekt, The Hacker and especially Advent. Rother's biggest club hits to date are Father and When The Sun Goes Down, both of which have been canned to death by everybody who have a fully functional turntable at their home. Simulationszeitalter is overall a very worthwhile electro album, though the german singing irritates me, but mainly because I don't understand it He's had great tunes, no doubt, but a shit load of filler as well. But that's only based on a fraction of his work. But I'd go to see him live again any given day of the week.

I go along with this. And I add Tamlin's album, which I've only downloaded thus far, but will be buying for sure with my next order. Other then that, can anybody tell me where can I order Jikooha's latest from? The "usual suspects" don't seem to have it in stock... Androneda's miraculous ambient debut is head and shoulders above anything labeled as downtempo, with Distant System not falling far behind. That's my quick glimpse at 2008.

I don't think that quite qualifies acid techno, but whatever, you're entitles to an opinion I'm with pixiejanet, some of that stuff is so mental and tweaked out to the bone marrow! I still remember dozens of shows, vinyls and albums, DJs and parties and hundreds of classics dating from an era when they were the shit. Anyways, we had some great 303 orientated topics in the general section, and I remember posting some of my picks from the genre, I might go and use the search engine to dig some of those out. Aaaceeeiiid!!!

I'm actually glad the off topic is gone... For one thing, a topic about other styles of electronic music is much more interesting. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, drama queens whoose lives have been "irrevocably and undeniably influenced by the off topic section" can finally go and get a life now. A crappy one perhaps, but it'll be a step forward nonetheless. Get girlfriends and jobs, contribute to society...

I see Stevo is croatian as well... Not much music was properly released, but those Twister live acts were like... KaBooooooom. WoW. Indeed, R.I.P., man, you made our day quite a few times!!!

If you're from Europe, and use international bank transfer (like I do), I suggest buying new CDs from www.beatspace.com, which is a psy trance orientated shop based in Milan, Italy. As far as my experiences with them go, they never screwed up anything, and have great prices as well.

http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=52383 ^^You need this. Everybody does.^^

Very very cool initiative, Fede. I just hope it won't be a one tricky pony type of a label. All the best, hope your work and input don't go by unnoticed. Cheers! I am really looking forward to coping the album. Took a while to get there, but the patience was worth it, I guess.

Hmmmmmmmmm tasty. Very tasty.

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!! There is NO fucking way the above was for real. I don't wanna believe it. No.

MY INPUT TO THIS THREAD: Even if old school goa trance did lack creativity, I reckon that would put off anybody who is momentarily, or has been during the years, a faithful and "diligent" aficionado/follower of the genre. FINAL VERDICT: Q: Does old school goa trance lack creativity? A: Does anybody really give a shit with two flies circling around it?

Classic. In the words of one great MC, Talib Kweli: "Just because no one can understand how you speak don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep".

Oh yeah, how could I forget? Kailash has an amazing track as well on that V/A. Actually, the whole thing is hella impressive, minus those numbers by Total Eclipse in disguise and that track Whirling Dervish by a project whose name I cannot remember right now... And Sedom (not Selom) is massive, man, one of Ofer' finest collabs evargh!

Inscape's Sedom is such a remarkable, energy driven track. I love it. Despite having the misfortune of being filled with a few tracks which have not really aged with grace, Matsuri Productions release "The truth of communication" to this day remains my favorite old school various artists compilation. Pleiadians, Inscape, A.P., Quirk and Endora all deliver stellariously stellar tunes!

Eastern Europe, around Christmas time of 1993, which means approximately 6 months after Spastik's breakthrough. Despite the fact his projects Final Exposure and F.U.S.E. were relatively known, even a war struck Croatia was overflooded with the Plastikman hype. Apparently, the rest of the world wasn't falling begind. Wrong. It's not what a DJ's dream was, it is what Richie Hawtin made it to be. Prior to Richie's full frontal minimalism attack, techno was all about quality and not quantity. Mr. Hawtin started a trend of unprecedented copy-catism, which led us to what we have today; bleeps blops clicks & clacks. WoW! Some achievement. The art of mixing was raw, energetic and a constant race against the party crowd's urge to dance faster and harder to raidly changing rhythms and patterns. Richie Hawtin made it an unwritten rule that techno tunes need a four minute intro and an outro of the same lenght, accompanied by an "explosive" middle part with 1 to 2 layers tops added. See, I don't blame him for doing something nobody has done before, I blame him for blatantly bleeching his own sound out, thus lowering the criteria for techno followers and afficionados lower than they have ever been before. The guy farts, I record it and blow my nose, while recording that as well. My sister hits her pen against the table in equal intervals, while I am still recording. Re-loop the whole thing, I count three recorded sounds, that must be it: A techno tune for M-nus. Richie Hawtin always kept the DJ in his mind, and by his own admittance, his DE9 trilogy is for the DJ and the art of DJ-ing and helping it move on to the next dimension. So naturally, I SALUTE him as well, despite the fact his live mixing skills leave a lot to desire for. He doesn't have a patch on any of the great turntable wizards. BTW, interesting side note, but do you really consider Richie a turntablist? I mean, a few months ago, he openly declared in an interview that "the year 2008 has definitely made me abbandon the vinyl medium." Fact. Not that he lost interest and motivation, but he just wanted to "push forward", with lackluster music. Yuck. Of course, I'm just playing when I exaggerate like this, it's a matter of personal taste. Duh. Disgraceful. He slowed down Plus 8 and gave birth to M-nus. They didn't part ideas back then, as you maybe remember, because in 2000 they toured the world together to celebrate Plus 8ths 10th anniversary. Yes!!!

Fun topic, now let me see... 1. Morning/Dark balance Dark, but not as in dark psy, but as in deviant, macabre, obscure, dim. 2. Maximal/Minimal balance 100% Maximal over here as well! 3. Trance/Techno balance Mostly trance, when I listen to psy trance. But I like it when a track has that irresistible techno drive. 4. Genre balance 80% goa trance, 10% scando madness and about 10% of phat and massive proggy, such as Gus Till. 5. BPM BPM from 145-150 6. Signature 4/4 only 7. Lenght The lenght is mostly irrelevant, it's what you do with it that counts. But, need I pick, I'd say between 9 and 12 minutes is a great time span for a psy trance track to fully develop. 8. Melodies Melodies yes. Agressive, playful as in unpredictable, uncontrollable, and erratic. Not overly joyful and epic. 9. Bassline Fat, juicy, opulent, like a pair of yet untarnished tits. OK now... 10. Percussion Status Hard and steady kick. No nitzo or schranz kiddie stuff kicks. Deep, with a great amount of pressure getting squeezed outta the speakers. 11. Intro/Outro Big, atmospheric intro. Better if it has a nice pad. It must gently prepare you for what is coming. Outro would be perfect with one layer dissapeared after another. Best ending with a delayed sample. I concur, more or less. 12. Layers Multi-layered. Lot of madness together or scattered throughout. I love apparent chaos which gives birth to harmony through multiple listens. 13. Build Ups/Climaxes Yes and no. I sometimes enjoy a track which just floats around with no determined goa and purpose, but it's so good you just can't mind 14. Twists/Breaks/Turns/Changes Yes! I like to be surprised; any form or shape of change in pattern or direction is great! 15. Spoken samples/Singing/Real Organs NO singing. Only electronics. Samples are more than welcome if not overused and well thought out and placed in a track. Perfect synaesthesia color: Blue. Darkish blue. Tracks that fit my description the best: Lotus Omega- Diwali Syb Unity Nettwerk Experience- Limited Access To The Files Crop Circles- Antonomasia Speedy J- Punnik Stoop & Fidget- Mudless ...