Taika-Kim

PPL have been asking for a tradelist, well, I'll just post it to the buy/sell-section, if several people are interested in the same release, we'll see what we can sort out.

Conflict is still one of my all-time favs. The acid just RIPS through you after the breakdown, and the ending is just hyperdelic...

Aren't they on TIP blue & phoshporescent? Or was it 3D?? Anyway yes I like those tracks too... And there's many of the same sounds used on all these tracks so probably they were written quite close in time...

Post edited by moderator to comply with review guidelines... Release info added: Label: TIP Records Catalog#: TIP 026 CD Format: CD5" Country: UK Released: 1997 1 Re-Vision (8:11) 2 Universal Mind (9:42) 3 Stop The Carnage (9:58) 4 Friagram (8:41) 5 Dreampod (Video Edit) (4:32) 6 Out Of Your Mind (8:22) /DP -------------- OMG yo wow phazooong I just listened to this yesterday for the first time and I was so totally bulllldozered by this 3D attack on my aurals. Sheeesh is this the highest pinnacle of this certain liquid fractal trance that labels like TIP & Flying Rhino put out around 1998?? Like, woooow!½ Only the last track fails to deliver, the rest are just zarjaz! This beats the heck out of all earlier Koxbox material IMO, I never liked Forever After and Dragon tales so much. I remember I didn't like Stop The Carnage when I heard it the first times back then, but now it just made my mind go boing and I nearly stopped being for a moment. Phooh. Yurg. Kazargh. Plonk. Quirp. And so on. SO recommended.! So now I need to check what they did after this one, I somehow always got the impression that they too jumped the minimal bandwagon after 1997....

All the music is on the site, as always... Suvetar is on Ötökkömanifesti and O-Vals on Aanrnimaa...

I haven't released anything since Blissful Moments. There have been some inquiries but people always have a problem with the fact that all the music is, and will be freely downloadable from our site Also unless there would be a lot of money, I don't see what I had to gain because already the tunes are downloaded more than any album would ever sell. Gjallarhorn was going to have a remix CD with at least that O-Vals remix, but I think that the project is now long forgotten... And btw I wholeheartedly recommend Gjallarhorn's Sjofn for all fans of ethnic/ folk music. It's probably along with early Hallucinogen & Shpongle the best music I've ever heard... And something different to the all-ubiquitous celtic stuff Raw, warm, nordic sounds... And also it's probably one the best produced ethno album I've heard. And Jenny's singing is just numinous... And and and... ->http://www.gjallarhorn.com

http://kim.apinavuori.net/avp/falso2.mp3 http://www.aavepyora.net/music/aarnimaa/AV...vp_remix%29.mp3 http://www.aavepyora.net/music/otokkamanif...608_Suvetar.mp3

SO WHERE'S THE NEW COMP?? Come on, August is quite past already

I gotta agree with Ukiro about the influence question... These days many young psy-artists take their influences only from other psytrance or electronic music and this healthy... hmm let's say cross-pollination between musical ideas doesn't get to happen. I'm not saying that this means people should just do t "fusion" tracks, but only implying that the artists with long musical background and (probably) very varied taste tend to make the most interesting music... I'm also not saying that in "those days" everybody who started to produce was a cross-genre professional musical expert. No way, I've been going through my goa collection lately and dear gooood how much crap & totally NULL tracks there are... Just saying that now that I've had intenet for a few years and I've listened to new albums for the first time since 1999 or so, I can't but wonder who bothers to release all these nearly identical albums these days??? I mean, I just got Psychopod's Headlines EP in the mail today and I can honestly say that's it's lightyears more advanced and 3D than 95% of the music released these days. And it's almost 10 years old... Also there might be a point about the change of mindset some people have pointed to... I've been going to parties only since 1999 so can't say how the vibe was around when the first commercial releases started to sprout. SUOMISOUNDI ruined it for me, along with minimal housy/techy music. I remember when I had been listening to goa for some years and then started to go to parties and at the same time this huge minimal-german-shit-wave along with TF and the rest of early Finnish trance was emerging. Ooooh my head still hurts when I think of the music in some parties I went to in those times... I still remember those early parties with fondness though, because there were so many great people and the forest parties always have such nice atmosphere. At least today goa is acknowledged, around 1999 it seemed to be the worst enemy of the scene with nearly every "big" scene figure and oldtimer dissing it. So there was a period of a few years I didn't enjoy Finnish parties at all, but they're getting better again, now that the spectre of sounds along with production skills is broadening here. Also I don't much care for indoor parties because I have a real hard time with tobacco smoke and bad air so the time each year I go to parties is only a few months I hope I lived somewhere with proper climate :¨(

Hey, our music is free http://www.aavepyora.net This has already been mentioned, but I'll say it again just because they're absolutely one Finland's finest: http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=23789 I just today realized there's a lot of new tracks added recently...

http://www.last.fm You have to install a plugin for your player of choice, and afterwards it keeps track of the music you are listening to. The fun part begins when you hit the "recommendations"-button or just check what people with a similar taste to your's are listening to. Either ways the system works amazingly well, revealing artists that you'll probably at least not hate And there is a custom radio too, playing only music you like. Haven't tested it too much, but it never played a bad track for me, which is quite amazing too. Dunno about the selection of tracks available though, only listened for it for a few hours. Check out what I've been up to, for example: http://www.last.fm/user/Taika-Kim/

IIRC they were mostly active around 2000 or so.

I have also a collection!! I have at least: Hallucinogen, Doof & some other good albums. Yiiea! I actually like to listen to my albums and appreciate them, I think compulsive collection is not completely healthy I know since I used to buy stuff just because it was rare and oldschool and goa... But at some point realised there's no point just collecting stuff because it's cool or whatever. Well, the loose parts are going, watch out for the buy/sell area soon

Hallucinogen of course. I look at the credits for almost any of my fav trax (from TIP, Doof etc) and mr P is contributing on almost every single one :/ The way he weaves all the sounds & meldies together is just amaaaazing. Doof, Cosmosis, TIP, Psychaos & Gnotr are good runners up. And of course Phreaky, if only for Paranormal Activity, the best nighttime track EVER!

Hey, there's more where those came from

Instant payment, very friendly guy, A+++!

Hmm I think there's people out there who will be enjoying these more than me and I need the money, so... Juno Reactor - Luciana (say no more...) Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes (original Blueroom 1997 digipak release) Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (1991 double CD version) All CDs are nearly mint, the digipak of Mystic Cigarettes has some minor wear & tear though. Email your offers to kim303@suomi24.fi

I've been SO angry because of this for the whole day. But the only way we can keep the fire burning is to just keep on organizing these events. Nobody, NOBODY can say what we want and can do. They may beat us up, they may arrest us and they may even kill us, but in the end, they can't control our thoughts! And what the HELL is this shite I read at some indymedia site that they're planning to ram through a new law on a very short notice that would make this kind of gatherings forbidden in Czech in the future? My love & all the support for Czech partypeople, -Kim

My appreciation of the album has grown immensely over the years (I first heard this in 1997 IIRC). At that time I was disappointed because there wasn't so much hard psy-sounds here, and many people were expecting more. Which was justifiable, given his at-that-time recent releases like Telport... Actually I believe that altough this is a 1996 release, most of the trax are quite old, given that this was released by CID who probably held a lot of his -+1994 stuff. Anyhow, nowadays I like the relaxed feel of the trax a LOT, and of course there is Low Commotion and Sugar Rush which are both brilliant. I used to like the original of Sugar Rush better, but I'm not sure... This one has maybe a more polished sound.

Hmm, the rmx of Blue Monday is somewhat fun, I think... But then again, I'm a sucker for 80s synthpop and electro Inside yourself is very good and Dead or Alive has some nice crunchy stuff, otherwise this is quite average. There's a lot of hq sounds as always with his albums, but the songs just don't inspire me. And the speech samples are super tired :/ Sounds just like everybody else.

Now THERE is a gooood idea!

Helloooo. It's me, Kim spiikking to U earthlingzzzz (: Summamutikka trax were written mainly by me, except for a few by Samu. It was a more goa oriented project from back in the time when there were four (more or less) of us in Aavepyörä and I didn't want to confuse people, and also we didn't want to stigmatize Aavepyörä with any genre limits. So we kept the goa out I'm not very happy with the Summamutikka trax these days, they have this annoying over-excited, EQd & compressed sound, and the trax have many silly parts that make me gringe these days :/ I've been thinking of remastering them some day, but I doubt I want to go back to them anymore. Aavepyörä was started around 1997, altough some of the guys started in 1994 or so... I started doing music in 1998. Now the rest of the guys are doing whatever (having kids, growing snakes, squatting wholetime, geeez...), and I'm the only one releasing under the name Aavepyörä. Jani has been talking about making an album aimed for this August, but we'll see. I've been doing music all the time, the trax on Elektro Fluoro Punx are from the last year and half, except for Evil Attack Robot Empire, which is somewhat older... Now I'm having a creative pause, but already ideas are starting to bubble under... So. There will be a new album in maybe a year's time or so. If you want to take a look at how the trax were made or remix them, all the project files can be downloaded at: http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/ You'll need Psycle to load them, but noprob since it's free & opensource Thanks for all the support for people here and on other forums. Knowing that people care about my tracks really gives me energy to go on with the hobby! The email kim303@suomi24.fi should work OK?

Hey, remember that Total Eclipse was also on Project 2 Trance with a very good track, so it didn't take them years to progress their sound

This is very NOT good. I'm willing to trade mind for some other oldschool album It's in very good condition considering the age, just a few scratches.

Hmm, there is shuffle and somewhat in many of the tracks altough I don't usually make it completely over the top... And I don't like the typical suomisoundi so much myself, too messed up I like to think that the weird influences come from SID-tunes and oldschool tracker music... Altough of course I'm affected by local sounds, there's no escaping. And thanks for the kind words