Taika-Kim

http://unimaa.aavepyora.net/musa/efp.html The high-res versions of the covers are not up yet, but here's a preview: Phew, I certainly made an effort to get this out! DL the tunes, throw your shoes away, run to the woods and dance like mad All comments are very welcome and appreciated, of course.

OK, I'm waitiiiing already

Initially I was very excited about this album, but afterall haven't listened to this so much... I agree with the previous poster... There's a lot of good sounds (they're real analog synths for most part not "cheeap synth sounds" as far as I know!) and melodies on the album, but, yes, it's a bit too much... All the tracks sound very much the same and it gets a bit tiresome, there's no subtlety, drama and sense of mystery here. The same thing with Filteria live, I don't think that the basic concept of just climax after climax is TRANCE really, more like hard DANCE or something. So one or few tracks on a compilation, or in a DJ set and this will rock the hell out of pretty much anything released lately, but in so large portions as this it just doesn't work so well.

Oh YES! This release wins hand down the award for the best goa cheeze gfx & title And the music sounds great, too! I think I'll need to get this

Well, I listen to a lot of electro and 80s music, and I must say that this IS really good electrowise too! The more trancey tracks suck, but the huge octave-disco-riffs just ooze grit I also love vocoders so I love the tracks with vocals too. I'm a big fan of oldschool goa, and in a sense the electro tracks here have some of that fun, if not psychedelia of the old times. Minimal doesn't _have_ to be boring & stressed.

Oooooh WOW WO woW! I'm now listening to track 2 only and must say that along with X-Dream's new album this the absolutely greatest new trance release I've heard in ages? Some complain about the commodore-ish 80s vibes, I happen to love these modulations and melodies to death :D Ooh crap, this is good! This doesn't really imitate anything and has a sound if it's own, which is a really big step for melodic trance. Often so called "oldschool goa" is just manneristic plagiarization of old sounds that never quite get it right, this is just purely enjoyable sunny happy sound of it's own! (and just in comparision, I thought that both Synsun's and Talpa's albums were rather mediocre after all...) The only gripe about this one is the a bit too 90s detuned saw leads, I happen to despise those. But otherwise this is just brilliant! Npt for cynics. Recommended for those of pure soul!

Psycle. And it even ain't a MIDI sequencer (well, except internally for the VSTs though)

Why do people even bother with these threads???? A sequencer usually either plays samples or sends note data to plugins. That's pretty much all there is to it. It's REALLY down to each one's own preferences what to use: good musicians will always be good, and mediocre ones will be flaming other people's sequencers when they realize they're not really up to this music writing thing, and decide to idle on forums instead and try to inflate their weak ego by rising themselves above other people...

I always thought Cosmosis's Synergy was pretty funk-ee.

This sounds very, very good! Glad to see some real melodic trance for a change... I'm definitely going to get this

Well, those two samples are definitely human voices, no way they're synthesized with Delay Lama, that's an absurd proposition. I use Delay Lama a lot, but there's no way it can do rich sounds like this. I didn't hear any effects on those voices, altough there was a lot of other sounds layered on top. They do a lot of throat singing in Siberia, in Tuva, it's believed to be healthy to you, and for example pregnant women do it a lot to get healtyhy babies. I can just imagine people sitting around in cold, dark winter evenings and everybody's just throat singing. Beats TV anytime

Hmm, I didn't quite get that part about DAT trading... So it was more acceptable back when it was some elitistic sport of people who thought themselves better than others so as not to spread the tracks? I like to buy CDs that I really like, too. I like the idea of immaterial files more, thoug. Just as has been said already, CDs don't last very long and create a lot of waste, including heavy metals. I think the internet pay systems should be developed and somekind of global internet money be devised... Not everybody has access to credit cards, and credit card companies (and banks too BTW) are EVIL! I like the idea of being able to listen to some tracks and then just give money with a few mouse clicks to the artist... Myself being an artist who releases on the net, too! And YES, go and support FLAC & OGG! OGG sounds way better than mp3 to my ears, and it's opensource too. And the new hardware players support it. NP: Indoor - Sweet Coming Home - oooooh I'm in heaven, thankyou Avatar Records for finally making this album available!!!! I soooo love many tracks on this album

Mystical Experiences is bollocks, just like 99% of synthy ambient... Booooring. There's only a few moments where that quality that we have grown to love with Shpongle is present. I don't care to check now, but I recall that the tracks where Posford was collaborating were the best. Feeling Weird. Now THAT'S a different game altogether. I think it's still a really great album, one of the best goa trance albums released. The funny thing is, that TIPs best tracks are always those Posford/Barber/Freeland collaborations. So it seems that Raja Ram & Graham Wood had the vision, but needed a little help to manifest it. I still don't get this "outdated" thing. It's different, ok. But how on earth is something outdated? Like black & white movies you mean? Tracks like Feeling Weird, Freedom from The Flesh and Doof's remix of Hyperspaced will probably always stay on my top-whatever-list of electronic music. I like the relaxed, dynamic & smooth sound of old trance. I think most modern albums have musically inferior production when compared to older releases. All the dynamics are killed and loudness dictates everything.

IIRC the throat singing on The first Shpongle album was real, but there was pitch shifting involved, or at least in sounded like that. And I believe that Delaylama uses formant filters on (saw?probably) waves just like most of the other "vocal" synths.

http://www.aavepyora.net Not all is goa though. About downloading: Hey, what were 99,99% of DJs doing in Goa at one time? Trading DATs. And the sound spread like fire.

Then there is always the question of how being financially dependent from your art affects your creative soul. I think goa sounded the best and most fresh back in the very early days when I think not too many people even thought about getting their tracks released. They just made music for people to dance to, and have fun. I think this one of the reasons why psymusic is so different and fresh here in Finland, there is absolutely zero chance of getting so "Big" as to support yourself with psytrance, so people don't have to think too much about getting their music sold to anybody except the partyppl. The downside is of course that it's much harder to focus on the craft if you have to do another job to support yourself... And originally I was talking about OLD tracks anyway, that nobody will probably be interested to release anymore since they are "outdated" (hmm, is delta blues outdated?? dixieland jazz?), but many fans would die to hear. But I agree, the discussion is getting diverted

Mm, I haven't given a completely accurate listen yet, but this is in my opinion just as bad as most psytrance that's been released in the last 6 or so years. Everything is too sharp and loud, where are the dynamics? I feel like being ran over by a truck after listening to music like this, where is the subtlety and depth? Technically this is superb, there is a LOT of technically interesting stuff going on, there's a great variation to the tracks and there are melodies, which I'm fond of. Somehow this just lacks soul & spirit SO badly.

Oops! True, Hallucinator wasn't on the album. I only have a OGG version of the album so I'm not so keen on what's there since the files are spread around my hard drive. (since I have all the Chakra tracks I like on original CDs already...) The Cosmic Conspiracy is listed as 1994 on many websites, that's where my info came from. Discogs tells it's 1997, though.

Fullon is popular, so the people who want their tracks to be popular use the sounds that are "current". People who just make the music for the love of it, use whatever they want. I use those driving offbeat ohs in 99% of my songs

Hello, this is some new stuff I finished a few weeks ago. I've received some very enthusiastic feedback from this one, but I'm really uncertain about some aspects. Does the high end get too active towards the end? I think the sound DOES get a bit too over-compressed and fat in the last minutes... How about the transitions between the time signatures? I think some of them aren't so great. And of course _any_ feedback is great before I make the final album version http://amerika.aavepyora.net/tk/maailma.ogg http://amerika.aavepyora.net/tk/maailma.mp3

I've posted this here a few times over the years already, but here's a go again for the new forum http://www.aavepyora.net Has a ton of tracks by me & friends. Influences are oldschool goa, electro and 80s mostly. People love this stuff, so go ahead and try! Aavepyörä Aarnimaa Is the latest album. And a few straight links to showcase the sound for laaaazy people: http://avp.1g.fi/music/aarnimaa/AVP709_Thr...cendescence.mp3 http://avp.1g.fi/music/aarnimaa/AVP701_Kaa...n_salaisuus.mp3 http://avp.1g.fi/music/otokkamanifesti/AVP608_Suvetar.mp3

Funny you say, that, Feeling Weird happens to be one of the best trance albums ever released, and the GNOTR album is also great. NovaTekk made a re-release of Feeling Weird (altough it does not have the cool fluoro covers like the TIP release) a few years ago, and now also the Mystical Experiences is re-released, as is Mystery of the Yeti 1, so... I've been looking for: Transwave - Hypnorhythm EP & Phototropic Chakra & Edi MIS - Promised Land (altough it's not that good as a whole, the best tracks , Liquid Troll, X-File & Hallucinator are on a million comps) Matsuri - Infinity HZ (this one rocks soooo much!) Then there are of course the obscure old comps that seem interesting like that '94 Ibiza comp with some Muses Rapt tracks (altough they are nowhere as good as Spiritual Healing imho) Avatar Records has made great work of re-releasing many good old albums. So no my search for Progressive Trance is finished Go and order it, it's good!

Mm, I think file sharing is so great just because of this: obscure tracks lose their "rare" status and they can be appreciated by their artistic values only... The problem is, that many people that own these tracks on vinyl/cd/dat/whatever have a strange jealous attitude towards them and they are very anti-spread about them? I can't seem to understand that. I think this music should be appreciated by everybody, so just share that music so the vibe will grow and maybe even some fullon people will accidentally listen to some real trance every once in a while And another thing is that I don't see why labels and artists cling on to their old unreleased tracks that will be never published. Why not just put it all up on the web, since SO many people are interested in them anyway? Personally I think this whole rare tracks trading stuff is sick, people breaking into labelpeoples' houses at night, etc. I've only released one track (that wasn't even very good) on a label, but I can promise that all my finished tracks will always be downloadable from the net, no matter what.