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Astral Projection- flying into a star (ast-roid mix) THE greatest (re)mix of any A.P. track... I usually found other remixes of their tracks to be pretty lame, but this takes it to whole new levels of psychedelity and full on-ness!

PM sent big time!!!!

Indeed, an end of a wonderful era. Everythin I have from the Schlabb guys is in constant rotation in my CD player. Oh well, thank you for all the great moments your music has offered me, and the best of luck with whatever you chose to do in future! Respect!

Jesus... You have no idea how much I appreciate when somebody writes this. Seriously... Thanx, stay tuned, there will always be more coming!

Oh god, Basilisk... I seriously don't know how you remembered this one, but man... respect I have to be honest here: I use to enjoy a whole bunch those reviews back in the day, although I could follow throughout only the shorter and simpler ones. Why? Because my knowledge of english back then allowed me to concentrate and understand not more than five sentences in a row ! Then I'd get all confused and I would just ditch the whole site. BUT, just reading the names of those albums and artists meant sooooooo much, and only now, after you created this thread, do I really see it. Incredible! I crossed language barriers and all just to assimilate some further knowledge about this music we all fell in love with some years back. Damn, now I remember how I wanted to get the Technossomy album (because of the name I though it would be some hard hitting, bass heavy and head noddin' music ) based on the group's name, but after reading those rev's I was like "naaaaaaah!!!" And Astral Projection... the guys who had videos on international music channels... Reading people's positive comments on their music made me unbelievably happy to be a part of it all!

Awww, yes, something nicey nice came in my mail from this man here. Quicker than I expected, wonderful condition, the prices this lad gives you are beyond comprehension. Low and cheap!!! Easy communication, and if this deal didn't go by smoothly then nobody ever will have a smooth one. Tons of music, at least check it out- you're bound to find something to your liking!

Astral Projection's mastering circa 1996-1997 stands above any other releases of that period, in terms of sound quality, clearance and sharpness. And that more or less sums it up. The others cannot compare. And the best part is, they never even tried to... There would have been no point. Their mixing ability miserably fails when compared to the talent they displayed by delivering records as crisp and nice sounding as they did. And the way in which they precisely and immaculately cleared away all the scratching and extra noises from their samples. Wow!

...some more animal tracks from my archives... I'm hooked onto this thread- all I do is look for tracks with animal sounds!!! Chakra & Edi Mis- X file (monkey mix) -monkeys are heard Hallucinogenic Horses- the stable of hooves -hoarses on the track!!!

Astral Projection- Unmixed Artist: Astral Projection Title: Unmixed Label: Transient Records Year: 2000 Tracklisting: A1 Axis V0.99 (8:15) A2 Dancing Galaxy (On A Mission Remix) (8:29) B1 Virtual Booster (7:51) B2 Searching For UFO's (Bright Light Remix) (9:44) C1 Life On Mars (Domestic Remix) (11:26) C2 Electrostatic (7:38) D1 Flying Into A Star (Ast-Roid Remix) (9:51) D2 Free Tibet (Free Spirit Remix) (7:45) His Story:Astral Projection. They came. They saw. They conquered. But just like the once great Roman empire, their realm got "invaded" by various barbarian civilisations, and it was time to milk the psy/goa trance scene for all it's worth while they were still in the position to do so. By the year 2000 these two outstanding israeli producers have done everything there was to do: they released four must-own albums, they catapulted themselves into superstardom, thus becoming the most famous and demanded goa trance act ever and they managed to stay on top of their game and the psy trance scene for around five years. Not an easy task, but they pulled it off. No doubt about that. And then the trouble started. In 2000, they released a mixed double CD, which is generally considered as their "greatest hits" album (although I am still one of those peeps waitin' for a proper A.P. "best of"). On that release we had a mixture of some of their old classics, some new tracks, amongst which a god awful euro trance tune, which was a result of a studio collaboration between them and their greatest influence, Trilithon. And then we had a slew of their old classics remixed. Or so to say. Because listening to those so-called remixes, I never noticed any major improvements or changes being done to those tracks. Actually, I never thought of "In The Mix" to be anything more but a weak attempt to cash in on their fame. And then came "Unmixed". The Album: Now, what you have here are eight tracks released previously on "In the Mix", but here they come in their unmixed form, as the title implies. And I have to be completely honest here, this is nothing to be excited about. Say what? An Astral Projection release and you call that nothing to be excited about? Yes, I do. No matter how much it hurts to write anything negative about these guys, considering myself a huge fan of theirs, this release is just pointless. Why? Well because what you have here is five remixes of previously released classics, and only three new tracks, which are nothing to brag about... Two of these new tracks, Virtual Booster and Electrostatic, are fast paced, hard hitting and pumping floor orientated tunes. But the problem with them is that they both have very stomping and hard bass drums, the kind that makes you put your fist in the air and just jump around, but that's about all they have to offer. You know, that kind of "put your hands in the air and wave 'em around like you just don't care" attitude. Wait, wasn't that the Sugarhill Gang? Whatever. But these tracks are just hollow and shallow, as they don't even scratch the surface of psychedelic music. Electrostatic has no melodies whatsoever, just a bunch of what are supposed to be psychedelic effects thrown over a stomping beat. It surely didn't take them more than half an hour to complete that one. Virtual Booster, on the other hand, has some melodies, albeit weak ones. The track is uplifting, sure, and the melodies are as well, but the whole thing is uplifting in a way that it will engage your body when you hear it in a club, blasting out of some big ass speakers. And that's the only time it really comes across as worth your time. I heard it on many o' parties, and it always hits the crowd like a tsunami on a wild run. For home listening though, it could work only if you got a diving board in your bedroom. It's light years behind Astral Projection's previous work, which by the way, was perfectly apted for the dance floors, while still being nicely crafted and highly psychedelic. This is stripped down of each and every psychedelia element and just trying to lure you on the dance floor. And those background whistling effects on Virtual Booster... Yuck! If this track had been released last year, AVB would have included it on his "A State Of Trance" compilation. Speaking of AVB, he would have loved Axis V0.99, which is practically Astral Projection flirting with club trance, something they would fully accomplish on their fifth studio album, Amen. And now the remixes. Which are even worse than the new tracks. Now, don't get too wrong here, these remixes are not that bad on their own. The problem with these remixes is that they resemble the originals so much, that if you haven't been listening to your old A.P. albums for a while now, you could even be mistaking them for originals! Just look at the remixes of Dancing Galaxy, Searching For UFOs and Free Tibet- they seem almost identical to the originals. In fact, while listening to this, I could swear that these tracks are just shortly altered versions of previously released gems. And this really irritates me, as it only brings the real purpose of this release to the forefront: make money, make money, money, money... All Astral Projection fans already have these tracks on CD, and they have thoroughly enjoyed them dozens of times, so why go and cop this useless vinyl release and get weakly "remixed" classics. And I especially don't get Searching For UFOs, which seriously seems like a 40 second shorter version of that 1999 classic! And Dancing Galaxy, which is one of my all time favorite Astral Projection tracks, is not much different. I just don't get it. Actually I do. Yeah, money gets to people, and speaks to them as well. And I bet those green bills spoke a lot to Avi and Lior. And they told them to make a dull release to get some more of those green bills. And that is just what they did. Oh yeah, and the remix of Life On Mars, courtesy of Domestic, has one of the most annoying bass kicks I have ever heard. And is that Darth Vader having an astma attack I'm hearing on this track? And it almost eleven and a half minutes long. If you can go through it, you're in the top ten list of the world's most patient people! These remixes are so lame, and so effortlessly carried out, that the remix of Kabalah from "The astral files" will now seem like pure gold in your ears. This is a shame... And this leaves me with Flying Into A Star (Ast-Roid remix) which is without further ado and exaggeration the finest remix ever of any Astral Projection track! Vavoom! Ooops, wrong review, that one should be in Mista Freelandhaaz, as Arnold Schwarzenegger would pronounce it, thread! Well, ka-boom then!!! I have virtually no idea how this track found itself here, as it is truly amazing on its own, while keeping all the elements of the orginal. Damn, if you liked the original even a bit, you're bound to like this one. This one has it all: amazing, furious and mad full on (you know what I mean) melodies, a crowd moving beat, and a very raw and psychedelic attitude. It is so fine that I'd almost dare say that this release is worth tracking down for this one alone. But, that would be taking things too far as there isn't much to enjoy here with the exception of this excellent remix. I don't know how they've done it, but I'd put this one right up there with the original, and believe me that on a good day, the remix impresses me more! My biggest regret is only that this one has never been released anywhere else but here. It never appeared on any CD, except in its mixed form on the "In The Mix" album... The Verdict: So to conclude here, there really aren't any intelligent conclusions to draw. With "Unmixed" the best thing you can get is a lethal weapon. Meaning that after listening to this, the only thing in my mind was to slit my own throat with the vinyls. It really isn't easy to write negative comments about Astral Projection, and even I usually prefer not writting a review at all to writting a negative one. But I had to do it this time. And if you read my reviews of the older A.P. albums, you'll notice that I'm as far away as possible from being a hater. I simply love their music. But that does not mean that I will blindly praise anything with their name stamped on it. No way! IMO, this has to be the most pointless release in the history of psychedelic trance music. It has one, and only one sole purpose: get the cash yo! The dolla dolla bills!!! And that is highly frustrating, and especially when coming from Astral Projection. I mean, wasn't "In The Mix" enough? Two preposterous releases during the course of the same year? Just how far can you go? If this was at least a proper remix album, like "Ten" was! But no matter how bad that one is, it's still a remix album, and sounds like one too. This really sounds like a paying desk, being constantly open and just admiring the money gently flowing in it. I guess the money making industry really knows no limits! This album, if I can even call it that has one track truly worth owning out of eight total tracks. I can't even see the most die hard Astral Projection fan praising this. The only ones I could recommend this to are, well, DJs. I guess tracks like Electrostatic and Virtual Booster, and the above mentioned remix would work very nicely if played during peak hours of any party. Even though each and every of A.P.'s older tunes would work much better. A shame for the damn fine remix of Flying Into A Star, for that one deserves to be separately released as a maxi-single CD with the original. I'd be the first one to buy it! I seriously cannot recommend this to goa/psy trance fans. What I can tell you though is to go and buy their first four releases, if you haven't already. Buy two copies of "Dancing galaxy" if necessary, but stay clear of this. Ya heard? Avoid this. Maybe not such a bad release standing on its own, but only if you miraculously succeed in forgetting and neglecting everything these guys have previously done and released. But as a cheap and lazy way to continue an amazing legacy, this is a shameful attempt to pull themselves out of the quagmire they slowly started to sink into. This is to be avoided. I am inexplicably sorry Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter, but y'all hit rock bottom with this one! Final Vote: 4.5/10

Pleiadians- analogue step The melody on this one may be simple, but it's as unique as it can be... It just cannot be imitated! Such a nice, short and energy packed track. And it's been a while since I last listened to it too!

This is just me being bored and posting twice in the same intelligent topic... buahahahaha!!!! I'm so evil...

I think MFG couldn't give a dry piece of shit about you not liking their last studio effort. I don't like it either. So what? I don't go around making threads about it. For the record, I didn't even like their third album, and the first one didn't do much for me either. Once again, so what? I think nobody gives a damn... And what is alien about their sound anyways? Enlighten me goa-guru

Not only did I notice it, but I played the living hell out of it, and personally, I consider it to be the finest ambient/downtempo release of 2006, a few inches behind the simply amazing V.A. Peace Therapy 2, released on Kagdila Records!

...Jesus Christ... I have to run back to my room and dig this one out immediately!!! This is such a sweet, juicy sweet tune. If not MWNN's finest ever remix, or in a close run with the Three Dives On A Vinyl one...

My god... if we were back in them pirate days, this would have been one of those deliveries I would have jacked for sure. Damn, if I was a hacker, I would have made sure to intercept this one, and get it delivered to my house instead. Awesome picks, all of 'em. Hell, I'd even give Joujouka a spin or two before selling it!

WOW! technosomy, your selling thread really seems like the Wall Street stock market! Anyways, I am so broke that I cannot even call it a joke anymore, otherwise, I would have snatched a CD I liked on your list . ...those damn bills and taxes...

...silence in the air... *sounds of rino's saliva dropping all over the keyboard* *rino with his eyes closed trying to imagine himself holding "The juggling alchemist under the black light", which he has been wanting for years* *sounds of rino cursing the name of whoever could afford to collect 700 euros on such short notice (rino has the misfortune of coming from an ex-communist country, which has been in war from 1990-1996, and for that money he literary robs museums )* *rino sighs in disappointment, and hopes his five minutes will sooner or later arrive*

OOOOOH YES!!!!! And to you, my fellow countryman, check out these as well: Masaray- "Cosmic Trancer" Paradise Connection- "Paradise Connection" Elysium- "Dance For The Celestial Beings" V.A. "Psy Harmonics volume one" V.A. "Psy Harmonics volume two- Dancing to the sounds of the sun" P.S.: good luck finding the last two, though!

Yo Cosmogenesis & Felipe, I think there's something wrong with the WAV files download link! I tried to download the album 6(!!!) times already, and it never went past 60%!!! Why is that? Can it be my computer? But I really doubt that, because I'va had no trouble whatsoever with the Metapsychic releases thus far...

Dunno antic, man, I wouldn't complain about that one as much, yo! Be happy with what you got- draw your own back cover, or even better, I'll design one for you!

Yeah, I second that, remember how also a lot of artists (OK, not a lot, but some) had trouble releasing tracks for not paying copyright and asking for sample permissions and stuff? No, I see what you mean about the T.I.P. releases (eventhough I don't have too many of their originals) and the mastering, but I was never arguing that- what I always argued is that tracks actually got re-mastered for the purpose of V.A.'s like Distance To Goa, Tantrance, Goa Head or Destination Goa... Mastering itself is a whole new thing, and it is not always mentioned who was in charge of it. For example, with Etnica's and Pleiadians releases... I mean when you put a '97 track already released on an album, and put it on a '97 CD compilation, I don't see much need (or way) to improve sound quality. OK, it's another thing when you want to use a vinyl only track for a compilation- I reckon you won't place it on CD with all the hissing noises...

What a fun thread!!! Respect for this one, Ormion!!! Cosmosis- Down At The Crossroads (the wolf howles as the voice speaks) Pleiadians- Modulation (during the break, you can hear an entire jungle) ...this is such a fine topic that I just have to run and take a quick glance at my music and come up with some more... EDIT: My apologies for not putting the animals, DeathPosture, thanx for the tip.

Yeah! In fact, you really got me intrigued now, and I'll test and hear for myself! Yeah, I have no inside information, but I always thought that if you want to change or modify a track, in order to make that process legal, you have to present all the necessary information in the CD booklet, no? For the copyright and stuff... As for the "making sense and factd out of non-facts", it wasn't that I'll try and deny a 100% sure fact, but I mean, can't you actually hear remastered and digitally improved music? I know I can... But, I'll do some V.A. comparing, you do some, and then we can (maybe) draw a sensible conclusion! radi... no comment: in your own thread, when you ran out of arguments, you went for the lowest common denominator and started insulting people (me, to be specific)... I don't even have to know and see you, in order to understand that you truly are a child. Incapable of having normal and civilized discussions. And I read a post of yours once complaining how nobody ever replies in your topics. You want to know why? Because nobody likes to deal with incompetent kids. People stand behind their statements. You don't. In fact, you cannot even reason and explain why you wrote that. You instantly try and gain some credibility and bonus points by insulting me? And that is the best you can do? Now I see it was a good idea that you changed your nick... Nothing more to add.

Man, do not get me wrong, but sound wise and style wise, I do not see these two fit in any possible way along with those longloststar listed... But they are two phenomenal albums nonetheless! ...some melodic gems everybody missed out on: Asia 2001- "Live" Total Eclipse- "Violent relaxation" Astral Projection- "Dancing galaxy" Miranda- "Phenomena" Ominus- "Ominus" Go look around the net, and dig out these three jewels, if you're into old school melodic-type goa trance. They are available free for download: V.A. Pyramidal trancedence Vox- "Innerpolarity" Afgin- Old is gold (promo album)

@ Jon Cocco: saw your update, nice to see you feel that way about the track as well! As for the WAV.files version of the album... like my birtday came up early this year! I'll modify my review if I manage to somehow feel different about the release as a whole after reliving it through, but on some huge living room speakers this time!