Psynews's "BEST OF 2007"!

[buzzman]

Psytrance is officially Dead.

Or is it just the responsible for this chart who is dead

[yohankiwi]

STILL no update on this? I thought moni was back now...

[Pandemonium]

yay, its July :clapping:

[travbrad1001]

Okay so I was REALLY bored this morning, so I tallied up some unofficial results from the thread. People who didn't vote for separate genres (downbeat/upbeat) I just counted as one top5 (ie 5,4,3,2,1 not separate). Also it's only Artist/Album, no label or any other cool results. Anyway here goes

 

 

 

TOP UPBEAT/TRANCE ALBUMS OF 2007 (Rank-Artist-Album-Points)

#1 Solar Fields - Earthshine 49

#2 Goasia - From Other Spaces 46

#3 VA - Twist Dreams 46

#4 Logic Bomb - Sonic Algebra 43

#5 Eat Static - De-Classified 40

#6 Vibrasphere - Exploring The Tributaries 40

#7 Prometheus - Corridor of Mirrors 30

#8 Transwave - Backfire 30

#9 Dimension 5 - Transdimensional 26

#10 Tea Chairs - Tea Chairs 26

#11 D-Nox and Beckers - Left Behind 21

#12 Ace Ventura - Rebirth 20

#13 Mindsphere - Inner Cyclone 20

#14 Trold - Time of Illusion 20

#15 Bigwigs - National Heroes of Sonic Parallel 18

#16 Sound Field - Audio Surfin 18

#17 Penta - Horn Please 17

#18 Xenomorph - Demagoguery of the Obsurants 15

#19 Vishnudata - Dreamforce 15

#20 Cosmosis - Psychedelic Melodia 14

#21 Sattel Battle - Sounds Cool 14

#22 Scorb - Ipso Fvcto 14

#23 Perfect Stranger - Changed 13

#24 VA - Mainspring Motion 13

#25 Furious - Uncanny Beats 12

#26 Gappeq - Speaker Seeker 11

#27 Mr Rogers - Ooze System 11

#28 VA - No Tone Unstirred 11

#29 Sienis - From A Nutter Perspective 10

#30 Sun Control Species - Scienza Nuova 10

#31 Troll Scientists - Useless Science 10

#32 VA - Ultrapop 2 10

#33 AMD - Big Fish 9

#34 Kindzadza - Waves from Inner Space 8

#35 Matenda - Natural Development 8

#36 Protonica - Search 8

#37 Astroschnautzer - Astroschnautzer 7

#38 Braincell - Tranformation of Reality 7

#39 VA - Golden Vibes 2 7

#40 Shadow FX - Direct Influence 6

#41 Talamasca - Obsessive Dream 6

#42 Antix - Wanderers 5

#43 Cujorious One - The Art of Mindfucking 5

#44 ESP - Sensor Overload 5

#45 Hiyarant - Collision 5

#46 ITP - Loose Your Illusion 5

#47 Mr Peculiar - Infinite Evolution 5

#48 Neelix - The Same Thing But Different 5

#49 Opium of the Masses - The Lost Planet 5

#50 VA - Pure Planet 2 5

#51 Vibrasphere - Archipelago Remixed 5

#52 Alien Mental - Mind Hack 4

#53 Electro Sun - Double Troub;e 4

#54 Frozen Ghost - Edible Technique 4

#55 Heterogenesis - Revoluciones Maquinicas 4

#56 Hujaboy - Black Belt 4

#57 Igor Swamp - Metsa Vastaa 4

#58 Lamat - Fearless 4

#59 Ocelot - Psymatix 4

#60 VA - Kaleidoscopic Vision 4

#61 VA - Positive Alchemists 3 4

#62 VA - Set 7 Declivity 4

#63 VA - Vapour 4

#64 Concept - Paranormal 3

#65 Deeper in Zen - Silence 3

#66 Gus Till - Best of the Rhino Year 2 3

#67 Kiwa - On the Frequency 3

#68 Paranoize - In the Lab 3

#69 Pitch Hikers - Sting 3

#70 VA - Dream Theatre 3

#71 VA - Japanhythm 3

#72 VA - No Time No Space 3

#73 VA - Phunk Core 3

#74 VA - The Hidden Dimension 3

#75 Ziki - Eliminator 3

#76 Electrypnose - Where Do We Go Now 2

#77 Gaudium - So Called Life 2

#78 Haldolium - QNT 2

#79 Klopfgeister - Travel Diaries 2

#80 Ocelot - 9 Lives 2

#81 Symphonix - Music Prostitute remix 2

#82 VA - Deep Mental Trauma 2 2

#83 VA - Future Cuts 2

#84 VA - Human Hyperactivation 2

#85 VA - Mysterious Force 2

#86 Vox - Innerpolarity 2

#87 Ajja - Psychogenica 1

#88 Bitmonx and Fabio - Plugged 1

#89 Cosmic Tone - In-Action Remixed 1

#90 Cosmo - Akustical Pollution 1

#91 Funky Dragon - Massive 1

#92 Life Extension - Side Effect 1

#93 Phobium - Future Uncertain 1

#94 Prahlad - Movement of Consciousness 1

#95 Shift - Alternator 1

#96 The Observer - New Born EP 1

#97 Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker Rewired 1

#98 VA - Extrasensory Perception 1

[travbrad1001]

TOP DOWNBEAT/CHILL ALBUMS OF 2007 (Rank-Artist-Album-Points)

#1 Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity 112

#2 Asura - Life squared 104

#3 Sync24 - Source 39

#4 VA - Oxycanta Winter Blossoms 32

#5 Flooting Grooves - Upsyde Downe 23

#6 Outolintu - Odd Man Out 20

#7 Shulman - Engless Rhythms of the Beatless Heart 18

#8 The Peaking Goddess Collective - Organika 18

#9 Krusseldorf - Smokers Lounge 17

#10 Chronos - Steps to the Great Knowledge 12

#11 Khooman - Life is a Flexible Liquid 12

#12 Pushmipulyu - 133 Thursdays 12

#13 Master Margherita - Mastura 11

#14 VA - Chiller 1 10

#15 VA - Midnight Soul Dive 9

#16 Zero Cult - Ikebana 9

#17 Polyploid - Grow Your Own 8

#18 Sundial Aeon - Apotheosis 8

#19 Kilowatts - Ground State 7

#20 Krill.Minima - Nautica 7

#21 SynSUN - Unstoppable 7

#22 VA - Cosmik Chill Orange 6

#23 Anahata - The Unmade Sound 5

#24 Audela - Audela 5

#25 Bola - Kroungine 5

#26 Cymphonic - Strataradialis 5

#27 Evan Bartholomew - Borderlands 5

#28 Tom Middleton - Lifetracks 5

#29 Kuba - Through A Lense 5

#30 Deep Dive Corp - Undiscovered 4

#31 Dymons - Druids Brew 4

#32 Evan Bartholomew - Caverns of Time 4

#33 Liquid Stranger - The Invisible Conquest 4

#34 Sensorica - The Realm of Fancy 4

#35 VA - Ear Pleasure 4

#36 VA - Kokopelli 4

#37 VA - Moonshadow Beats 4

#38 VA - Bioluminescence 3

#39 VA - Pop Ambient 2008 3

#40 Grey Area - And Then the Clouds 2

#41 Kukan Dub Lagan - Step Ina Rasta Step 2

#42 Outersect - Caldera 2

#43 Proem - A Permanent Solution 2

#44 The Orb - The Dream 2

#45 VA - Bliminal 2

#46 VA - Intermittent Memories 2

#47 VA - The Art of Chill 4 2

#48 Electro 7 - Habanadelic Gozadera Experience 2

#49 Astropilot - Fruit of the Imagination 1

#50 Kettel - Whisper Me Wishes 1

#51 Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot 1

#52 Pitch Black - Rude Mechnicals 1

#53 Secede - Vega Libre 1

#54 VA - Tibet, A Culture in Danger 1

[RTP]

Okay so I was REALLY bored this morning, so I tallied up some unofficial results from the thread. People who didn't vote for separate genres (downbeat/upbeat) I just counted as one top5 (ie 5,4,3,2,1 not separate). Also it's only Artist/Album, no label or any other cool results. Anyway here goes

 

 

 

TOP UPBEAT/TRANCE ALBUMS OF 2007 (Rank-Artist-Album-Points)

#1 Solar Fields - Earthshine 49

#2 Goasia - From Other Spaces 46

#3 VA - Twist Dreams 46

#4 Logic Bomb - Sonic Algebra 43

#5 Eat Static - De-Classified 40

#6 Vibrasphere - Exploring The Tributaries 40

#7 Prometheus - Corridor of Mirrors 30

#8 Transwave - Backfire 30

#9 Dimension 5 - Transdimensional 26

#10 Tea Chairs - Tea Chairs 26

#11 D-Nox and Beckers - Left Behind 21

#12 Ace Ventura - Rebirth 20

#13 Mindsphere - Inner Cyclone 20

#14 Trold - Time of Illusion 20

#15 Bigwigs - National Heroes of Sonic Parallel 18

#16 Sound Field - Audio Surfin 18

#17 Penta - Horn Please 17

#18 Xenomorph - Demagoguery of the Obsurants 15

#19 Cosmosis - Psychedelic Melodia 14

#20 Sattel Battle - Sounds Cool 14

#21 Scorb - Ipso Fvcto 14

#22 Perfect Stranger - Changed 13

#23 VA - Mainspring Motion 13

#24 Furious - Uncanny Beats 12

#25 Gappeq - Speaker Seeker 11

#26 Mr Rogers - Ooze System 11

#27 VA - No Tone Unstirred 11

#28 Sienis - From A Nutter Perspective 10

#29 Sun Control Species - Scienza Nuova 10

#30 Troll Scientists - Useless Science 10

#31 VA - Ultrapop 2 10

#32 Vishnudata - Dreamforce 10

#33 AMD - Big Fish 9

#34 Kindzadza - Waves from Inner Space 8

#35 Matenda - Natural Development 8

#36 Protonica - Search 8

#37 Astroschnautzer - Astroschnautzer 7

#38 Braincell - Tranformation of Reality 7

#39 VA - Golden Vibes 2 7

#40 Shadow FX - Direct Influence 6

#41 Talamasca - Obsessive Dream 6

#42 Antix - Wanderers 5

#43 Cujorious One - The Art of Mindfucking 5

#44 Dream Force - Vishnudata 5

#45 ESP - Sensor Overload 5

#46 Hiyarant - Collision 5

#47 ITP - Loose Your Illusion 5

#48 Mr Peculiar - Infinite Evolution 5

#49 Neelix - The Same Thing But Different 5

#50 Opium of the Masses - The Lost Planet 5

#51 VA - Pure Planet 2 5

#52 Vibrasphere - Archipelago Remixed 5

#53 Alien Mental - Mind Hack 4

#54 Electro Sun - Double Troub;e 4

#55 Frozen Ghost - Edible Technique 4

#56 Heterogenesis - Revoluciones Maquinicas 4

#57 Hujaboy - Black Belt 4

#58 Igor Swamp - Metsa Vastaa 4

#59 Lamat - Fearless 4

#60 Ocelot - Psymatix 4

#61 VA - Kaleidoscopic Vision 4

#62 VA - Positive Alchemists 3 4

#63 VA - Set 7 Declivity 4

#64 VA - Vapour 4

#65 Concept - Paranormal 3

#66 Deeper in Zen - Silence 3

#67 Gus Till - Best of the Rhino Year 2 3

#68 Kiwa - On the Frequency 3

#69 Paranoize - In the Lab 3

#70 Pitch Hikers - Sting 3

#71 VA - Dream Theatre 3

#72 VA - Japanhythm 3

#73 VA - No Time No Space 3

#74 VA - Phunk Core 3

#75 VA - The Hidden Dimension 3

#76 Ziki - Eliminator 3

#77 Electrypnose - Where Do We Go Now 2

#78 Gaudium - So Called Life 2

#79 Haldolium - QNT 2

#80 Klopfgeister - Travel Diaries 2

#81 Ocelot - 9 Lives 2

#82 Symphonix - Music Prostitute remix 2

#83 VA - Deep Mental Trauma 2 2

#84 VA - Future Cuts 2

#85 VA - Human Hyperactivation 2

#86 VA - Mysterious Force 2

#87 Vox - Innerpolarity 2

#88 Ajja - Psychogenica 1

#89 Bitmonx and Fabio - Plugged 1

#90 Cosmic Tone - In-Action Remixed 1

#91 Cosmo - Akustical Pollution 1

#92 Funky Dragon - Massive 1

#93 Life Extension - Side Effect 1

#94 Phobium - Future Uncertain 1

#95 Prahlad - Movement of Consciousness 1

#96 Shift - Alternator 1

#97 The Observer - New Born EP 1

#98 Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker Rewired 1

#99 VA - Extrasensory Perception 1

BIG THANKS TO YOU BROTHER!!!

Also thank you for evaluating the chill releases!

FINALLY! I don't care if this is uber official or sooo hardcore detailed or whatever, a tendency is all I wanted. THANK YOU!

You are da man :posford:

 

About the results ... well, it surprises me that EarthShine is on top, it wasn't that good to me ... and Matends on rank 35, it really could have done better, but well...

 

Good result is Sync24 on rank 3 in chill. That's nice.

 

Cheers, man, this is cool

[Insejn]

Nice to see Sonic Algebra doing good

[buzzman]

BIG THANKS TO YOU BROTHER!!!

Also thank you for evaluating the chill releases!

FINALLY! I don't care if this is uber official or sooo hardcore detailed or whatever, a tendency is all I wanted. THANK YOU!

You are da man :posford:

 

About the results ... well, it surprises me that EarthShine is on top, it wasn't that good to me ... and Matends on rank 35, it really could have done better, but well...

 

Good result is Sync24 on rank 3 in chill. That's nice.

 

Cheers, man, this is cool

+10 to that!

 

 

And yes, Sonic algebra deserves it spot in top 5!

 

 

Anyways, to travbrad: thanks for the Chart dude, cool SOMEBODY posted it Official or not, this was what i wanted... THANKS

[p(sy)ayam]

AWESOME

 

THX

[advance]

I nominate travbrad1001 for Forum Member of the Year 2008

 

Voting will start now, results will arrive sometime in 2010...

[pedro]

I do agree that travbrad1001 deserves our collective thanks. Moni, on the other hand, I think deserves a kick up her backside.

 

She is not the only busy person nor the only one with a convoluted life. If she commits to something, then she has the responsibility to do it. Favour or no favour.

 

Or if it is indeed an impossible task for whatever reason - then she should have at least the humility and honesty to come clean with us and inform us that she is unable/unwilling to do it.

 

 

Pedro

[RTP]

I nominate travbrad1001 for Forum Member of the Year 2008

 

Voting will start now, results will arrive sometime in 2010...

 

voted

[Jon Cocco]

Nice work travbrad1001. Thanks for the list.

 

 

Guys, be fair to Moni. She'd done a lot of work in the past. I agree that it's July, 2008. It took too long. She could have communicated that she's been busy, and that the list may take longer than expected this year, thus encouraging one of us to do her work if we couldn't wait. But people here choose to wait. Naturally no one gets paid for this. We all invest our time to write reviews, post comments, and take part in what we connect with. Blah, blah, enough rambling.

 

About the list... I expected Younger Brother 2 and Asura Life2 to be at the top on the downtempo genre. Asura really kicked ass last year, and YB2 produced some superb tracks too, especially the last. And I'm a little surprised to see Solar Fields - Earthshine so high on the uptempo list. I thought Transwave - Backfire and Xenomorph - Demagoguery of the Obsurants would be above that, but I'll take your word for it. And I don't mention D5 because it released in 1997 so I imagine people were generally investing more thought into new releases, modern work, basically, but I couldn't help but acknowledge Dimension 5 and Transwave. Mindsphere - Inner Cyclone was up there too, Goatrance wise. It would be amazing if that artist produces a follow-up album for Suntrip Records with superb mastering, production. I didn't mind the mastering, but a handful of listeners seemed to have a problem with it.

 

V/A - Twist Dreams was good, the lower end of great IMO, but the least strong compilation by Suntrip to date. I'm amazed it scored #3 via uptempo. I'll definitely say that Goasia - From Other Spaces was one of the best releases of the year, though the last track could have been better and several others too. My expectations are so high with Goasia because he's produced some tracks that are just Naturally, tracks 3, 4, and 9 were worth the album alone.

 

 

Oh, and Penta... his wiz-bang style is getting old. Fast. If his next album doesn't have more songs with substance, super songs, I'm done buying his work. I thought Horn Please was good. My friends didn't. Penta's Portuguese Abduction album released 6 or so months after Horn Please, and deserved "most rushed album by a famous artist in Psytrance" IMO if ever such such an award existed to be given. Yes I thought Time Jump and Andes were two very cool tracks from an album that didn't deserve to make the list, and didn't. But around that it was more or less formula rehashed and mis-mashed. And the last track on Portuguese Abduction was a slap in the face. It wasn't cult B or even C art, nor funny or enjoyable.

 

Worst song of the year goes to: Neo Cheesy by Penta on the Portuguese Abduction album. What was the point of having that on the album? Other than that I like Penta. But his fans pay 15-20$ to buy great work and since he has built a respectable connection associated to his name, it would be cool if he strengthened that connection with stronger songs, less rushed and/or similar sounding albums.

[buzzman]

Worst song of the year goes to: Neo Cheesy by Penta on the Portuguese Abduction album. What was the point of having that on the album? Other than that I like Penta. But his fans pay 15-20$ to buy great work and since he has built a respectable connection associated to his name, it would be cool if he strengthened that connection with stronger songs, less rushed and/or similar sounding albums.

+10! He won that award, just followed by nr 2 wich would have to be the whole hypersonic album.. Wich is crap from beginning to the end.

[murphythecat]

1- younger brother-The Last Days Of Gravity

2-midnight soul dive-compilation

3-Solar Fields-Earthshine

4-prometheus-corridors of mirrors

5-vishnudata-dreamforce

[murphythecat]

i didnt know that we could vote for upbeat and downbeat, so there is my new list

UPBEAT:

1-Solar Fields-Earthshine

2-logic bomb-sonic algebra

3-prometheus-corridors of mirrors

4-vishnudata-dreamforce

5-Vibrasphere - Exploring the Tributaries

 

DOWNBEAT:

1-younger brother-The Last Days Of Gravity

2-midnight soul dive-compilation

3-mimesis-Art Imitating Life

4-Matenda - Natural Development

5-Pushmipulyu - 133 Thursdays

[Go-Goa Trancer]

It's cool that you participate, but you know that your vote won't be counted, right?

 

Anyway, you can start thinking about 2008's vote.

[RTP]

Apart from the fact that the votes won't count:

 

DOWNBEAT:

4-Matenda - Natural Development

DOWNBEAT?

What's downbeat in Matenda except the very last track?

[yerg]

#32 Vishnudata - Dreamforce 10

 

#44 Dream Force - Vishnudata 5

 

from the travbrad's list

 

That means five people voted for Artist:Dream Force?

[travbrad1001]

#32 Vishnudata - Dreamforce 10

 

#44 Dream Force - Vishnudata 5

 

from the travbrad's list

 

That means five people voted for Artist:Dream Force?

Oops I didn't even notice that lol. I have to admit I'm not familiar with that artist. I'll edit the list accordingly

[Sideffect...]

in less then 3 months it's 2009

[Ormion]

I think it's time to start thinking about our 2008 best.

[mephistopheles]

...is it too late to give my Best of 2007?....I mean it seems nothing has been decided yet.....

[abasio]

Next year, someone who actually has the time to do it should do all the tallying and collating should do it.

 

No disrespect to Moni, I'm sure she's just been too busy to do it & an internet forum should not be her priority but I think someone else should do 2008. It's October and the year's drawing to a close.

[Drosophila]

Next year, someone who actually has the time to do it should do all the tallying and collating should do it.

 

No disrespect to Moni, I'm sure she's just been too busy to do it & an internet forum should not be her priority but I think someone else should do 2008. It's October and the year's drawing to a close.

true... we need a master of excel though