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I don't usually venture into feuds and arguments with other forum members, but this Mike guy ought to get a guinea pig, pick roses for his aunt, spit shine shoes or find a hobby of some sort... I find it hard to believe he likes this forum THAT much he actually comes back ban after ban after ban.

I don't think we've reached the point where it's digital or nothing at all... Not quite yet. As I stated in my post, digital will fully take over in years to come, CD is still the predominant medium, IMHO. As for donations, I am with you and your idea, but I reckon you're overestimating human nature. People will stick to anything free like flies stick to shit, meaning that most people would rather have lower quality music for free than paying extra money for full quality music. Unfortunately, there is a completely distorted idea amongst the public domain that music is free, just floating around the internet to be taken by the masses. That is the current situation: more people settle for p2p downloads while a minority stays "true" and buys the music (or paying for full quality digital format), thus supporting the artists/labels. I agree with you about repressing a "gazillion" out of print CDs, but we're talking something else. We're talking about a (more or less) one man initiative -draeke- who is well acquainted be it with the original artists be it with the supply/demand of the scene. Furthermore, for an adventure like this one, the parties involved must be beforehand aware of their financial capabilities, and eventual losses/gains. To my knowledge, draeke is well off here. So, for now we are talking about a release of an album for which there IS a fanbase and a place on the market. How big of a place, nobody can say. As usual, time will tell. But without even giving it a try, what's the point of further discussing? With some decent promotion, through the web spaces of the artists themselves, on-line shops and some forum members, who knows? It might reignite the spark in the hearts of countless former old school freaks, right?

Blasphemous statement, reger There are people on this very forum who spent years collecting and searching in order to complete their Etnica/Pleiadians/Lotus Omega/Crop Circles collections, and having "Tetrahedron" on CD would be the icing on an already creamy cake. I hope you see my point. Yes, digital is the future, but no - no "Tetrahedron" as some FLAC/WAV!!! I've been waiting for one too many years to be satisified with some files on my monitor. I hope that made sense... I'm kinda tired, this thread is cool but it's on fire.

I think you guys are not quite understanding the point here... Not only is this hillarious even without hearing the music first, but once the tunes kick in - literary everything falls in place. This was my first psy trance blind buy since... I don't remember. It's funny, in a ridiculous way, and doesn't pretend to be anything else. Just great. I love it! They made some of the most atrocious music I have ever heard. In fact, I think that after hearing Analog Pussy I started to develop a sudden interest for happy hardcore or sumthin'... EDIT: Shiva Shidapu, and anything related to that name, part of that name, and syllable of that name is plain idiotic.

Here it goes, a top 5 of the most frequently listened to genres by moi: Techno: Richie Hawtin- Minus orange Umek- Gatex E Dancer- Velocity funk Speedy J- Krekc Speedy J- Pannik Goa Trance: Cosmosis- Gift of the gods Technossomy- V.T.O.L. Etnica- Mystical appearance in goa Prana- Scarab (Green Nuns Of The Revolution remix) Slinky Nuns- Shitty stick (better than a poke in the eye with a) Rock 'n' Roll: U2- With or without you Pink Floyd- Welcome to the machine U2- Bad (live @ Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, on 13th of June 1985) Cream- Sunshine of your love Rage Against The Machine- Wake up Hip Hop: Nas- New York state of mind Organized Konfusion- Releasing hypnotical gases Ras Kass- Nature of the threat Souls Of Mischief- '93 till infinity Del The Funky Homosapien- Catch a bad one Minimal: Josh Wink- Superfreak (freak) Martin Buttrich- Full clip Alex Under- El encuentro (Collage 12" is quite probably the finest minimal release I own ) Anders Ilar- Radius Plastikman- Pakard Acid: Solar Quest- Harmonation Sulfurex- Point break Zenith- Flower of intelligence Solar Quest- Acid air raid (George's all nighter) Egyptian Empire- The horn track (Pump Panel remix) House: Josh Wink- Don't laugh Laurent Garnier- The man with the red face Sueno Latino- Sueno latino (Illusion first mix by Derrick May) Jeff Mills- Pacific state of mind House Master Boyz And The Rude Boy Of House- House nation Ambient: Dreamfish- Hymn Solar Fields- Air song (8 AM version) Solar Fields- Time slide Carl Craig- Technoloambient (max dub) June Rashava and Senzar- Beautiful you

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Kai - fucking - Q You'll even get the CIA suspicious with so much shiny plastic heading in one direction!!! I got some classic, classic vinyls in France: Sueno Latino- Sueno latino 12" (Derrick May remixes) (1992) (Buzz) http://www.discogs.com/release/145681 Winx- Don't laugh 12" (1995) (Yeti Records) http://www.discogs.com/release/149238 Josh Wink- Evil acid 12" (2001) (Ovum Recordings) http://www.discogs.com/release/7123 + Prodigy's Experience: Expanded , Richie Hawtin's DE|9 Closer to the edit & DE|9 Transitions all dupes up for trade...

Dreamfish- Hymn It's 28 minutes of straight up atmospheric, light, relaxing and extremely melodic musical soundscapes. My all time favorite ambient tune, no doubt. Check it out. The album was licensed to, and thus released on many labels, so it's not that hard to find. IMHO this track on its own validates the purchase, the first one falls in close, the last two don't quite live up to the previous numbers.

Usually, when this is the order of the day, I leave myself with no other option but to stay home...

The line up is damn right insane, although we're more inclined to head for Hungary and the O.Z.O.R.A. Festival, which has twice already proved to be the place to party out. Oh yeah, and the fact that Hungary is right above Croatia only helps, as travelling to Greece is an expense not easy to cover.

Oh hell yeah, but I'm a colossal party addict, and wouldn't mind doing a 6 mile walk to spend 8 hours jumping in front of a big ass speaker. But, yeah, sometimes my friends are too indecisive, take too long to make their minds up, unsure of where, why and how to got, too lazy, or just flat out broke, etc. etc. etc... Sometimes, I just feel that if I wouldn't go alone, I'd spend way too much time just sitting around and waiting for others to make a move first, thus missing out on all the potential fun First time I've been to O.Z.O.R.A. I went by myself. I heard nice stories about it, packed my shit and just went there. Was hella fun too!

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http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=47819 Torrents of great acid recommendations from psynews 303 freex

Richie Hawtin- Minus Orange

I disagree here. As far as Plastikman's initial phase, where his tracks were constructed mainly out of long and addicitve acidic synths, percussion and/or glimpses of melody, background sounds, I find "Artifakts" to be his strongest album. Despite the fact it lacks killer classics the name Plastikman is frequently associated with, as an album and a front to back listen, together with "Consumed", I am pretty confident "Artifakts" marks the peak of Plastikman's opus. "Sheet One", "Musik" and "Recycled Plastik EP" at least in my book, were hit and miss material. All three had timeless gems, but packed a certain quantity of dull, artsy/nerdish and instantly forgettable tracks. "Artifakts" does not suffer from that issue. In fact, even now I don't have any particular track from this album floating around in my mind (except for Are Friends Elektrik?!?!, but it's kinda hard forgetting that one...), but I do recall the entire album being an extremely psychedelic and mesmerizing trip down to the essence of minimalistic sound. Great album! In fact, few albums with a strucutre so relatively simple have such power and ability to provoke such a wide spectre of moods, feelings, ideas and portray such diversity and wealth of sound. I love it, or better yet, used to. It's been ages though...

Anything with California Sunshine stamped on it. But then again, I'm not sure whether it's just atrocious music, dated sound, or incompetence and/or ability to master properly?

Not only do I agree, but I must say the other replies regarding kick drums in this thread lack pure and raw power when compared to Speedy J's production skill. The whole "A shocking hobby" has jaw dropping production vaults. It still beats me how in the hell did he ever succeed in placing such enormous quantities of pressure in the bass without becoming completely distorted noise, to quote Bahamut. The highest frequencies don't crackle, there are no audiable surface clicks or anything, while Paap's sound is sooooooooooo juuuuuiiiiicy & maaaaaaaaassiiiiiiiiiiiiveeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

Pitch Black are just awesome. I have to admit I haven't been adequately acquainted with their music and sound until they came to Zagreb and turned 2/3 of the local party population upside their heads.

"Multimoods" is one of those albums which should have served as the foundation stone all subsequent israeli psy trance releases should have elaborated upon and/or at least looked up to. It's that good. Cross that, it's much better. We all know how that story ended, though. Dropping the entire discussion about Ofer Dikovsky's present musical whereabouts, his collaboration with Marko Goren is just out of this world. There's enough raw power and energy here to last three parties. The music is as furious as an irritated elephant trying to chase a mosquito off his testacle. OK, that would be taking it too far, but the extent to which "Multimoods" maximizes goa trance is unsane. Not insane, but not quite sane either. Whatever. Standouts are impossible to pin point, but Alien Pump is easily the greatest goa trance related tune I've ever heard come out of Israel, New Aura is the finest mid tempo goa trance track we've never heard since, Naughty Moves, Visually Distorted and Rodeo are overdosing on their own respective greatness, and relying on melodies so stalwart and bewildering, so hot you'll feel as though your cheeks are getting crushed by plastic bags loaded with hot piss. The whole album is packed with sagaciously applied particular details, those "Oh did you just hear that?" moments, dazzling and acutely sharp metallic sounds which will resound in your ears hours after the album's playing time is through. Unforgettable experience.

MyMy- Songs for the gentle (2006) (Playhouse) http://www.discogs.com/release/823179 Valentino Kanzyani- Palazzo volume six (2007) (T:Classixx) http://www.discogs.com/release/1188713 M.A.N.D.Y.- At the controls (2xCD) (2006) (Resist Music) http://www.discogs.com/release/810934 Agnes- Dumbles debuts (2007) (Resopal Red) http://www.discogs.com/release/959465 V/A Jeremy P. Caulfield: Detached [05] (2005) (Dumb-Unit) http://www.discogs.com/release/459123 Cristian Vogel- The never engine (2007) (Tresor) http://www.discogs.com/release/1118196 Roland Bone- Electronic injection (2006) (Harthouse Mannheim) http://www.discogs.com/release/890031 Roland Bone- Active agent (2007) (Harthouse Mannheim) http://www.discogs.com/release/1093914 V/A Meerestief presents wassermusik (2007) (Meerestief Records) http://www.discogs.com/release/1126612 Marco Bailey- 160 minutes of Marco Bailey (2xCD) (2004) (T:Classix) http://www.discogs.com/release/341361 For a while now I should keep my eyes and fingers off CDs and steer clear of music shops...

In my all time top 10 releases, no doubt. One of those rare old school albums which even to this present day never cease to amaze me. "Multimoods" is a brilliant release. Enjoy!

Carl Craig- Sessions (2xCD) (Studio !K7) (2008) http://www.discogs.com/release/1282243 Dave Clarke- Remixes & rarities 1992-2005 (2xCD) (Music Man Records) (2006) http://www.discogs.com/release/828682 Underworld- 1992-2002 (2xCD) (limited edition) (2003) (Junior Boy's Own) http://www.discogs.com/release/218366 DJ Rush- U60311 compilation techno division vol. 2 (2xCD) (V2 Records Inc.) (2002) http://www.discogs.com/release/100108 Except for the brand spanking new, and utterly breath taking release by mr. Craig, the other three items were all found in one of those mega discount bins, each of them for the super price ranging from 4 euro for Underworld and Major Rush to 6 for Clarke's beautiful collection of remixed gems.

I mean, it's Coccoon Records, the guys have world wide distribution. Their releases are available, like, everywhere. No joke. If a shitty ass local neighborhood in Zagreb has it, any given darn store in Europe is bound to have it.

I have been listening to an advance promo copy for a fair few weeks already, and I can tell you I really enjoy the album a whole lot. The first CD is loaded with klik-klak / plink-plonk minimalistic groove all over the place, and it sure as hell portrays some amazing skill; the music moves, it is thought provoking and thoroughly enjoyable. The second CD, on a whole personal level, does not strike me as much, but it's a fantastic CD per se nonetheless. The tracks flow into each other with seemless smoothness and make it an all around great release. Well worth your time and money. If you have enjoyed virtually anything Coccoon has released during the past two years, and if releases like False's "2007" and V/A "Nothing Much And Something More" did it for you, you'd better grab hold of "Animals" a.s.a.p. Enjoy!