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"A bit less would be great, thanks!" is underestimating the level of irritation indian samples provoke when fusing into one with my ears and brain.

666- Allarma! Mousse T.- horny

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That's a fantastic deal Tatsu! Today I got: Gus Till- Best of the Rhino years vol. 1 (2007) (Sonic Dragon Records) http://www.discogs.com/release/987060 Gus Till- Best of the Rhino years vol. 2 (rest of the Rhino daze: the missing, the unreleased and a coupla classics (2007) (Sonic Dragon Records) http://www.discogs.com/release/1138541

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I had a lil' trade with Ringo as well. Not to prolong, everything went smooth. He hooked me up with some nice V/A compilations I'm quite enjoying. Thanks, anytime again!

When I put the CD in my stereo, I usually just lazily lay on my bed, doing nothing, thinking about how great or crappy is the stuff I'm listening to. When I place the CD in my CD-Rom, I sit in front of my computer and try doing something smart on the internet until the running time is up. When I listen to my iPod, I'm most likely outside with my dog, and just walking through some forest/park with my hands stuffed deep into my pockets or sumthin'...

Unmatchable. Unexcelled. Incontestable. If you ever ask yourself "why", my guess is you've never listened to Prana's self-confident sophmore album, Geomantik. Just recently did I rediscover it and it still delivers so much drive, as Suzuki & Co. tax their powers to the utmost. Every single aspect of this stentorian masterpiece screams with massive ideas and the respective artists involved went at it hammer and tongs in order to forge an album as monumental as this. Everything on here is done with utter might and main- from the crsipy kicks to the mind wielding melodies, from the brain drilling acid sorcery to the speaker crushing bass lines. The trenchant style presented throughout the lenghth of the album today leaves the impression of a super cocky Tsuyoshi Suzuki pointing the middle finger to the world before irretrievably abbandoning ship. His musical visions are flawlessly brought to life and audaciously carried out one after another, rendering them almost palpable on this high flown chef-d'oeuvre of his career. Eruptions of sonic genious escalate to massive climaxes, while torrents of meticulously arranged musical sections offer an opulence of instantly memorable jiffies for any old school infected individual. The inexhaustible amount of fashions and possibilities one can find here in order to pave his tortuous way through to, and subsequently get lost within, the most dispersed, but most renumerating corners of psychedelia is surely breath taking. The total of nine tracks offer enough ear candy for both, mind & feet, igniting a real life pseudo-acoustic metamorphosis whilst letting these numbers crawl into your cerebrum and wide spread well-intention impulses everywhere. From the kick off collab with Merv Pepler, Geomantik, which sounds like the greatest track Joujouka never recorded, through to the Green Nuns Of The Revolution remix of Scarab, which is basically a TB-303 track indwelled with rabies going on a fanatical rampage, closing with the ridiculously intense and guitar tingled number Taiyo (Chakra remix), Prana's album shimmers with a never ending urge to surprise and astound the absorbent listener, keeping him on the edge of his seat. It constantly takes twists and turns by wandering off in unpredictable directions, but always maintaining focus, avoiding the random factor. Style wise the album fluctuates like the Dow Jones average, wavering in and out of every possible spectrum of psychedelic trance known back then, never delivering anything but ultimate excellence, skill, grace and slickness in performance. On the spur of the moment did I get launched to a seemingly endless orbit around planet Earth, and countless aspects of Geomantik's divine resonance had me copiously tripping in my head for hours after the album was finished, forsakeing my entire body while an infectious miasma wraps itself around it. In brief, Geomantik dissipates energy, more of it than you thought exists. Once the running time is up, there is little left to desire for. A compulsory release which few albums are (were) a match for. Words hardly suffice here- this classic album itself is ineffable, to say the least. To put an end to this discussion, Geomantik should cause all about instentaneous spontaneous human combustions.

I read both of your reviews amphition. I like when I get the impression that real effort was put into coming up with track comments, and both of your reviews seem well thought out. I have not commented on neither one because I haven't heard the albums. But, overall, I quite enjoyed reading both.

+1 It's by far my favorite Juno Reactor track Other than that, I find their complete discography to follow somewhat of a hit 'n' miss pattern. Their albums are patchy, consisting of wonderful music, manifesting pure skill and outstanding production capabilities courtesy of an extremely talented collective. Unfortunately, on the down side, some of their tunes made me toss my KFC chicken wings six feet high up in the air. Often did I mold a negative opinion about certain tracks of theirs, due to pointless arrangements and idealess directions some of their music followed. I'll try to elaborate: some of their (IMHO) not so impressive tracks in my ears often came across as a collage of various sounds conjuncted in an unfocused, overly ambitious tunes. They threw everything they could get their hands on in the mix- from vocals, oriental melodies, broken beats, breaks, melodies and what not- but sometimes it just sounds like chaotic show off material. I think the "Odyssey (1992-2002)" is a pretty adequate overview of the first decade of their carrer, but how they managed not to include either Mars or Samurai is beyond me.

Sonify's "King of the swing" is quite something :posford: Fantastic tunes, no doubt. Keep up the amazing work!

V/A Opus Iridium will be my next purchase. The samples did not particularly tickle my spine or anything, but I can't help it. I gotta have it... Other than that, I don't have the slightest clue about the recent releases worth having. Oh yeah, I'd like to buy M.E.E.O. but haven't even listened to the samples yet, but it seems to be getting rave reviews all over zee place.

What it all comes down to is that I quite liked Tea Chairs. I find the album entertaining, versatile, with enough going on to keep my interest on a steady level throughout the extensive 3 CD marathon. However, my beef with this one is that if you were to ask me, I could not point out the stand outs. Likeweise, even with a Magnum pointed to my temple I would not be able to tell you which tracks qualify as skip material. Noth that I remember skipping any, but... You get the point. 38 tracks spanning across 3 CDs is a task hard to match and out do for anybody. The Texas Fagsies dudes pulled it off quite nicely. But sometimes "nicely" is not quite up there with my expectations. None of the tracks are sensational, but none are utter crap either. The whole bunch leaves me satisfied, but once the running time is over, I don't recall a single track stuck in my head. You know, one of those albums that'll have you saying "cool" after each listen, but won't send you orbiting around Milky Way. To conclude, you get quality material no doubt. Purchase validated for all fans of suomi flavored trance. The 3xCD digipak is a treat on its own, and the music doesn't fall far behind. Classic material it is not, but a more than worthy continuation of the fairly impressive Demon Tea Recordings legacy.

Stoop & Fidget- Mudless To my ears, this is still easily the nicest progressive tune ever recorded.

Psy & Goa trance wise the following albums never cease to amaze me, front to back: Pleiadians- I.F.O. Prana- Geomantik Tandu- Multimoods Cosmosis- Synergy Orichalcum & The Deviant- s/f Planet B.E.N.- Trippy future garden Etnica- The juggeling alchemists under the black light Honorable mention goes to Green Nuns Of The Revolution- Rock bitch mafia, which I don't own in original format, but hopefully that will change pretty soon... Just lemme sell the family values and I'll bless myself with a copy Other musical albums would be: Pink Floyd- Wish you were here The Verve- Urban hymns X 101- s/f E Dancer- Heavenly Laurent Garnier- Unreasonable behavior X 102- Discovers the rings of saturn Joey Beltram- Aonox Toktok- Tora bora Ken Ishii- Jell tones Richie Hawtin- Selection 1990-2000 Speedy J- G spot Sven Vath- The harlequin, the beauty & the beast DJ Shadow- Entroducing... Public Enemy- It takes a nation of millions to hold us back ...

I think this release might fit the description of what you're looking for: Petar Dundov- Sculptures 1-3 (2001) (Tomorrow) http://www.discogs.com/release/24937 Also check out the other two Tomorrow CD releases, "Europa" and "Time Machine". I know that sums up to only three releases, but I find them all worth seeking out.

Very much so. In fact, versatility is what X-Dream has always been about. Just listen to Children Of The Last Generation, put on We Created Our Own Happiness after, let X Ray Eyes be the follwing tune and close the mini session with Thorazin... I mean, W - O - W - ! :posford: In fact, I don't agree with ecstasio's statement here that Rough & Rush were "...way better than most other. In their period.", because in my opinion X-Dream's time is not nearly done. I would be very surprised if the electro/minimal clash was the maximum they can give. But then, Out Here We Are Stoned and Panic In Paradise do have a certain full onish feel, true, I never came around to noticing it up until last night. Good point, thread starter.

This is a very interesting topic seraph, and I just saw it. Here it goes... The idea of producers doing their own music to already existing music never really intrigued me that much. I am not that familiar with all the examples listed here, but being a big fan of Detroit techno, I'll use Jeff Mills to try and prove my point. While the combination of Metropolis and Jeff Mills seems like a dream-come-true clash between cinema and music (speaking of the industrial, machinery orientated connotations of the motor city and Lang's flick with a similar theme), after a few thorough listens back then, I was left wanting for more. I always felt like recording a soundtrack for a mute motion picture was more a show off attempt than a really creative artistic move. By the time of completion of the Metropolis soundtrack, Jeff Mills has covered every, and I do mean every aspect of the techno spectrum. Even if he had wanted to, there were too few little holes to fill up. I'm not trying to say he should have recorded yet another Axis Records techno album, I'm not trying to say the soundtrack on its own is a bad piece of music, I'm just of the opinion it's kind of a pointless direction to take. It's a great movie- and for a reason too. The music on its own cannot evoke the overall brilliance of the visual presentation, while the combo of both is great, but I myself always pushed the movie to the forefront, leaving the music behind, and thus placing it in a category of uncoutable other darker ambient releases that could have played the accompanying soundtrack role to Metropolis. While Jeff Mills' production skills shine through once again here, like they always did, I just don't consider it an adequate move for somebody who is considered the world's greatest techno music innovator. Metropolis pursues a more experimental path, fine with me as I'm opened to virtually everything, but it bounces too far away from Mills' niche to be measured against his previous works, and is most definately outshadowed by his later, more experimental and really thought provoking stuff like Medium and One Man Spaceship. That was long... phew.

Actually it wasn't that one, but the one before I think. That Solaris Heights tune didn't really tell me much. But you know what? Only one the second listen, with headphones on. The first listen kept us busy for a good part of the morning. Very, very nice stuff. It actually worked better when played as background music while we chit-chatted about our favorite Chemical Brothers videos and other ten-o'-clock-in-the-morning-state-of-mind shit. This mix is more versatile than the last one I commented upon, but I surprisingly like the Klik Klak stuff more. I remember this one had a few excursions into some (dare I say) cheesish waters, attempts at over the top electro/minimal/house clashes which make my nails crack in two, but take that with a grain of salt, since the man writting this spent New Year's eve screaming his lungs out to Umek's electro house set Anyways, great mixing and track arrangement. I don't wanna give you an ego boost, but this is good enough to rock a club during the lazy after hours. Hate on it as much you want, it is. It will either grow on me during weekends to come or the few bugs this one packs will aid its way to the recycle bin. Time will tell. In a few more listens I'll be able to point out the stand outs and all. Overall, great job. 148 minutes of continous quality music is always worthy of some praise. One of the better DJ mixes I've had in rotation during the last... 4 months? Since Umek's session over at Pete Tong's studio? Yeah, I guess so...

First off, if you don't like the mix, which you obviously haven't even listened to, there is the door. Feel free to walk out. Second of all, anybody who has been listening to psy trance for an entire decade would never make such a stupid and ignorant remark, let alone on a psy trance forum with 8500+ users. Good one. Third, where in GHS' tracklist have you noticed names like DJ Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren? Help a blind man out here, bro. There must be like a hidden bonus track thrown in the mix for all you real psy freaks. I cannot hear it, thus I must suck. Now, get your act together and learn your history. IM would be disappointed in you. 'Nighty night.

Sounds like my kinda thing. Mos def will I be getting this one as soon as possible.

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I won't comment upon statements which resemble the ones like "Psy trance is dead!" just because it's a waste of space on my monitor, for starters... A scene with so many labels, releases, artists, styles, parties, world wide festivals and what-not, is not only alive and kicking, but is flowering, damn it! I am not discussing quality issues when mentoning what I did in the row above, but just mere facts. There is so fucking much music coming out on a daily basis that the only risk this scene is running is getting suffocated by mass production. I find it impossible for anybody familiar with the concept of -psy trance- to banalize the whole thing here and dub everything crappy. While there is music in general, there will be good music as well. Regardless of the genre. As long as men make music, there will be utter shit and high quality gems. Psy trance is no exception.