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For me this can be quite disturbing. Ok, the specific artist and album look like to be somewhere between industrial, extreme metal and psytrance and targeting for a neutral occult atmosphere. But for a more psychedelic or goa synthesis such or more targeted (politicized) references would be unsuited, could feel foreign and for sure regardless of side, lines and colors. Wouldn't such samples be spoiling for the feeling of the music and diminishing for its essence? For example, instead of a sample or a voice of a scientist, a visionary, a psychic, a poet, a guru would be politicians or whatever political messages. I think goa trance is a musical expression that has to do conceptually with images and themes like space, cosmology, futurism, exploration, mysteries, nature, science fiction & theories, intellect & consciousness and spirituality in general, like hinduism, mythologies, theologies etc.. Of course it would be deficient not to mention that this genre was born in and expresses a spirit of freedom. How much pleasant or tolerable such references and expressions in the musical synthesis could be? Can there be exceptions and of what kind?
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It just occurred to me that the flourishing of psytrance in Israel in the '90s kind of coincided with the escalation of the US violence in the Arabic countries. Has anyone else noticed that? And notwithstanding the situation, few, if any, Israeli tracks seemed to address what seems to me and many other people an injustice. Moreover, the popularity of that Astral Projection track with a stupid Bible quote re: creationism has always buffled me. Then it only got worse, with gun-brandishing Skazi, Infected Mushroom, etc. and really ugly track titles and album covers by the latter, that seemed to undermine the very humanity of the people listening to this genre. (The claim to Infected Mushroom's outstanding contributions to the scene, which seems to be a very popular idea, is something I don't quite understand, either.) In general, I think that although some psytrance tracks seem to promote a more enlightened view of the world, the scene overall is largely hedonistically & narcissistically oriented. Any thoughts?
