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Albums:

 

1. Shift - Excession

2. Midi Miliz - Nonstandards

3. E-Jekt - Dark Fader

4. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts

5. Jaia - Fiction

 

VA's:

 

1. Va - Street Art

2. Va - Feel The Force

3. Va - Vibraspirit 23.11

4. Va - Set 6 Evolved

5. Va - Global Alliance

 

Really really hard to pick faves.. have some more left!

For example: Nobody mentions Xerox & Illumination - XI! or Psysex - Remixed, two of the best Israeli albums this year IMO. (Though they suffer from good competition hehe)

.. and it was a good year , some great releases :)

 

 

Moderator's note: user has been requested through PM to sum up his "best of 2005" list in a Top 5. received by PM this:

 

Here you go :) and goodluck with the calculations.. thanks!

 

1. Shift - Excession

2. Midi Miliz - Nonstandards

3. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts

4. Va - Street Art

5. E-Jekt - Dark Fader

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edited my list, so ignore my old one under fugpuggler. these are all in the right order from best to "worst" too, took me a good while to get it right!

 

1 jaia

2 entheogenic

3 ticon

4 khetzal

5 derango

 

 

and the top 5 other stuff, highly recomended goodies here!

 

1 porcupine tree - deadwing

2 kevin yost - future flashback remixed

3 bloodhound gang - hefty fine

4 kamelot - the black halo

5 it's a tie between jamiroquai and madonna... hmm... the 70s vs the 80s?

 

 

 

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how is it even possible for entheofaggortry to score so many 'points' while its a shit album filled with average remixes and 110928409182094812 in one dozen 'psy chill' ... and one shit commercial cover as well..

 

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how is it even possible for entheofaggortry to score so many 'points' while its a shit album filled with average remixes and 110928409182094812 in one dozen 'psy chill' ... and one shit commercial cover as well..

 

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untill you realise that entheogenic isnt meant for you typical reality addicts, you should just shut yer pie hole

 

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1) Shpongle

2) Voice of Cod

3) Derango

4) Mushy Mystery

5) Broken Toy

 

And now, with the time remaining to me, allow me to express a whole bunch of useless opinions in the fine tradition of psynews forum threads.

 

First: of course these "best of" threads are worthwhile. Supporting argument 1: lots of forumistas of their own free will participate in them. Worthwhile in the context of a web forum is pretty much defined as "that which participants find worth their time." Supporting argument 2: what is a community without a) a common set of values that bind members together ("mmm, psychedelic...") and an ever-ramifying set of differentiations of taste to provide frisson ("Shpongle is The Suck!" "No way dude, they are The Ruliest!"). Supporting argument 3 (ad hominem flavor): please don't tell me you are the kind of person to walk into a fun party and start criticizing everyone for the banality of their conversation. You know damn well you are not. You'd never be invited back if you were, and it would be nothing but Friends reruns for you every Saturday night until you're old and sad. So, why do that on a web forum? You charge in demanding of everyone that they Justify Their Behavior, but where is your justification? Oops.

 

Second: as others have mentioned, it's really awkward to make a single best-of list. There are at least 3 different kinds of music commonly discussed here, and the case can easily be made that it's more than 3 depending on how anal one wants to get about one's subgenres. To put it mildly, Shpongle and Derango don't have a whole lot in common.

 

This begs the eternal question of just what exactly is psytrance, anyway? On a very mundane level, I struggle with this whenever I try to sort my CDs. I used to mix all of "dance" together, then I separated it into "dance" and "psy" and now I'm thinking about going to a scheme such as "trance and house"/"breaks"/"goa"/"psy"/"prog psy"/"psybient". These distinctions are obviously arbitrary and there are going to be outliers and misfits no matter how you break it down. Why is it that we discuss Shpongle on this forum but not Nick Warren or Steve Bug or Crystal Method?

 

Thanks for reading,

Gus

 

 

 

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how is it even possible for entheofaggortry to score so many 'points' while its a shit album filled with average remixes and 110928409182094812 in one dozen 'psy chill' ... and one shit commercial cover as well..

 

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May I agree with you once ? :rolleyes:

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I'm thinking about going to a scheme such as "trance and house"/"breaks"/"goa"/"psy"/"prog psy"/"psybient". 

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thats kinda how i do my thing, but now im thinking of splitting my "psy" into fullon/darkpsy/ and "the rest" as my collection grows and when im in a certain mood i like similar things grouped together for easy decision making...

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And now, with the time remaining to me, allow me to express a whole bunch of useless opinions in the fine tradition of psynews forum threads.

 

First: of course these "best of" threads are worthwhile.  Supporting argument 1: lots of forumistas of their own free will participate in them.  Worthwhile in the context of a web forum is pretty much defined as "that which participants find worth their time."  Supporting argument 2: what is a community without a) a common set of values that bind members together ("mmm, psychedelic...") and an ever-ramifying set of differentiations of taste to provide frisson ("Shpongle is The Suck!"  "No way dude, they are The Ruliest!").  Supporting argument 3 (ad hominem flavor): please don't tell me you are the kind of person to walk into a fun party and start criticizing everyone for the banality of their conversation.  You know damn well you are not.  You'd never be invited back if you were, and it would be nothing but Friends reruns for you every Saturday night until you're old and sad.  So, why do that on a web forum?  You charge in demanding of everyone that they Justify Their Behavior, but where is your justification?  Oops.

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interesting points you have there. some people see me just as a moderator, and not as a person who has feelings and brain, so i didn't wanna get "in there".

 

Second: as others have mentioned, it's really awkward to make a single best-of list.  There are at least 3 different kinds of music commonly discussed here, and the case can easily be made that it's more than 3 depending on how anal one wants to get about one's subgenres.  To put it mildly, Shpongle and Derango don't have a whole lot in common.

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true, but not everybody can or wants to split psytrance into subgenres. that's why we just asked Top 5 from people, leaving the rest up to them.

 

This begs the eternal question of just what exactly is psytrance, anyway?  On a very mundane level, I struggle with this whenever I try to sort my CDs.  I used to mix all of "dance" together, then I separated it into "dance" and "psy" and now I'm thinking about going to a scheme such as "trance and house"/"breaks"/"goa"/"psy"/"prog psy"/"psybient".  These distinctions are obviously arbitrary and there are going to be outliers and misfits no matter how you break it down.  Why is it that we discuss Shpongle on this forum but not Nick Warren or Steve Bug or Crystal Method?

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well, this could be the subject of a new thread. if you wanna do it.

i'd say that psytrance is the base. the headquarters if you want. but it's possible that in time, subgenres will differentiate from eachother and will stop being labeled as psytrance.

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These ARE the best albums of 2005 :P In this order

 

1. Wizzy Noise - Sabotage

2. Tegma - 002:Avant.Garde

3. Solar Fields - Leaving Home

4. Ticon - Zero Six After

5. Entheogenic - Dialogue Of The Speakers

 

Anyone disagreeing has absolutely NO :angry: double no :P taste in music. Period.

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how come so many people like the mediocre entheogenic album?  :blink:

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I'm wondering how does it come that some of you people are that antagonistic towards

entheogenic. Traveller, NightmareTrancer and whatever your names are --- it looks like you're

doing here some kind of lobby-work against those guys. No other artists are dissed that much on this forum like entheogenic. The same stuff, that was the point of your critic here could be adapted to so may others. Why don't you put your hate-parade towards somebody else? It would be enough when you post your top 5 list --- and at the end the score will show what people like more. I'm sorry if your favourite artist didn't get into the top 5, but what you want to reach with dissing others?

 

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DeathPosture picks for 2005...

 

Albums:

1. Voice Of Cod - We Are Free (Organic Records)

2. Derango - TuMuLT (Inpsyde Media)

3. Kemic-Al - Twisted Parameters (Butterfly Records)

4. Tegma - 002: Avant.Garde (Candyflip Records)

5. Meller - Rockable (Tribal Vision Records)

 

Compilations:

01. V/A - Set/5 (Summer Collection) (Iboga Records)

02. V/A - Schlabbaduerst 007 (Schlabbaduerst ReKkords)

03. V/A - Psy Stories (Parvati Records)

04. V/A - Wild Rumpus (Wild Things Records)

05. V/A - Hyperspatial Chrysalis (Ketuh Records)

 

Chill-out:

01. Solar Fields - Leaving Home (Ultimae Records)

02. V/A - Quality Relaxation (Chill Tribe Records)

03. V/A - Albedo (Ultimae Records)

04. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (Twisted)

05. Capsula - Synthesis Of Reality (Ajana Records)

 

If you don't like my categories, well sue me! I wanted to do it even more specific, and go into genres like melodic, progressive, dark-psy, etc... So I think you got off easy with only three categories from me...

 

;)

 

/DP

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Well, I guess I'm gonna have to make these fifteen choices into five... That's very hard, but I guess it would look something like this:

 

1. Voice Of Cod - We Are Free (Organic Records)

2. Derango - TuMuLT (Inpsyde Media)

3. V/A - Set/5 (Summer Collection) (Iboga Records)

4. V/A - Schlabbaduerst 007 (Schlabbaduerst ReKkords)

5. Solar Fields - Leaving Home (Ultimae Records)

 

/DP

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1. Derango - Tumult (Inpsyde Media)

2. V//A - Crazy Goblins and Wicked Pixies (Trishula Records)

3. V/A - Alien FM (Dropout Productions)

4. V/A - Psy Stories (Parvati Records)

5. Psykovsky - Psykovsky (Vertigo Records)

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Sorry my vote change :unsure: , i discovered Tranan album, a must !

thanx to change or erase my old vote : #25

 

New :

 

1 - Ketzal - Corolle

2 - Human Blue - Discovery Channel

3 - Solar Field - Leaving Home

4 - Tranan - Restarter

5 - Cell - Phonic Peace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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hey guys !

i haven't post here for a while i was too busy !

 

Here's my top 5 !!

 

1. Khetzal: Corolle

2. Entheogenic: Dialogue of the speakers

3. Nystagmus: The immaculate perception

4. Menog: Emotions

5. Jaia: Fiction

 

6. Muses Rapt: You

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- V/A - Intelligent Manipulation

- V/A - IdeaFX

- Scozbor - Mountain Lord

-V/A - Invisible Incursion

- Derango - Tumult

 

ufff... that was hard

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poster's note: Yes, thank you B)

 

Moderator's note: oops, i've been caught :lol:

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