djmaxfactor1995 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The last time I saw so many V/A albums was on late night TV. You know: Best of Soul...Decade of Duets...Best of the 80's, etc. With Goa/Psy, they are used as debuts. What happened to the 8-10 tracks by the same artists. I present all of you with this topic. Please list your Top Ten Goa/Psy Albums of these ten years: 95-98; 00-02; 05-11. For example: Etnica – The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light (Acceptable) Etnica – Totemism - Etnica Remixed 1996-2006 (Not Acceptable) ¿Comprenez-vous? EDIT: These are the my ten: 1995: Juno Reactor -- Beyond the Infinite 1996: Etnica ------------ Alien Protein 1997: Hallucinogen -- The Lone Deranger 1998: Celtic Cross --- Hicksville 2000: Asia 2001 --- Dreamland (horrible year) 2001: Electron Wave -- The Uncertainty Principle 2002: Charasmatix -- Soma Agents 2005: Shpongle ---- Nothing Lasts...but Nothing is Lost 2006: KoxBox --- U-Turn 2011: Ovnimoon -- Magnetic Portal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoline Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Why did you exclude some years? I guess I could try to post mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Try this out: http://www.ektoplazm.com/essentials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmaxfactor1995 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Why did you exclude some years? I guess I could try to post mine. Because I wanted your best 10 years. Since there has been more than 10 years of this music, I wanted to make it challenging by random access of the past -- no linear. Oh I forgot to do mine... this is gonna be difficult. Thanks Penzoline -- I look forward to your top ten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmaxfactor1995 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Try this out: http://www.ektoplazm.com/essentials See what I mean in 1995: Out of 18, 7 are V/A's...Now try to consolidate that into these guidelines...I can't wait to see what you kept. Nice Website!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I find there is a paucity of good artist albums prior to 1996. V/As were the first step... they allowed new artists with only a few tunes available to get their sound out there and receive some feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walkabout Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I find there is a paucity of good artist albums prior to 1996. V/As were the first step... they allowed new artists with only a few tunes available to get their sound out there and receive some feedback. That depends. I think Israeli psy was pretty strong in 1995 (AP's Trust In Trance 2, Har-El: New Pagan World, Guy Sebbag & Gal Carmi: In Trance), and that year had more all-time classics from the British scene (Hallucinogen, Juno, TE, 2X TIP), as well as Koxbox and two Boris Blenn albums. And if you're a Psy-Harmonics fan, then the groundbreaking artist albums were all in 1993-94 (Third Eye, Mystic Force, Lumukanda, Shaolin Wooden Men, Zen Paradox). Just to go on a tangent, I find it ironic that the biggest critical backlash to goa/psy happened around 1996... what was seen as sameness, overcommercialization and quantity over quality then is seen as a kind of golden age now. I'm more inclined to think of it as a golden age based on the weirder stuff that was being released (you had Etnica and AP, but you also had Solar Systems and Apollo 3-D) and I actually like a lot of the maligned 'formulaic' goa 12's made by super obscure underground artists... that music of 96-97 seemed more wild, colorful and psychedelic than most of the harder and darker psy of 1998 onwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmaxfactor1995 Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 The last time I saw so many V/A albums was on late night TV. You know: Best of Soul...Decade of Duets...Best of the 80's, etc. With Goa/Psy, they are used as debuts. What happened to the 8-10 tracks by the same artists. I present all of you with this topic. Please list your Top Ten Goa/Psy Albums of these ten years: 95-98; 00-02; 05-11. For example: Etnica – The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light (Acceptable) Etnica – Totemism - Etnica Remixed 1996-2006 (Not Acceptable) ¿Comprenez-vous? That depends. I think Israeli psy was pretty strong in 1995 (AP's Trust In Trance 2, Har-El: New Pagan World, Guy Sebbag & Gal Carmi: In Trance), and that year had more all-time classics from the British scene (Hallucinogen, Juno, TE, 2X TIP), as well as Koxbox and two Boris Blenn albums. And if you're a Psy-Harmonics fan, then the groundbreaking artist albums were all in 1993-94 (Third Eye, Mystic Force, Lumukanda, Shaolin Wooden Men, Zen Paradox). Just to go on a tangent, I find it ironic that the biggest critical backlash to goa/psy happened around 1996... what was seen as sameness, overcommercialization and quantity over quality then is seen as a kind of golden age now. I'm more inclined to think of it as a golden age based on the weirder stuff that was being released (you had Etnica and AP, but you also had Solar Systems and Apollo 3-D) and I actually like a lot of the maligned 'formulaic' goa 12's made by super obscure underground artists... that music of 96-97 seemed more wild, colorful and psychedelic than most of the harder and darker psy of 1998 onwards. I was asking for specific albums, not a critique of the timeline. Thank You. This Took Me 4 hours to put together. The beginning, I just put an album down because there are too many good ones. 2000-2002--slim pickens 2005-2011--don't know many so it was easier. 1999 had a lot of good releases, but I did not put it. Okay, here goes: 1995: Juno Reactor -- Beyond the Infinite 1996: Etnica ------------ Alien Protein 1997: Hallucinogen -- The Lone Deranger 1998: Celtic Cross --- Hicksville 2000: Asia 2001 --- Dreamland (that was the most difficult year) 2001: Electron Wave -- The Uncertainty Principle 2002: Charasmatix -- Soma Agents 2005: Shpongle ----Nothing Lasts...but Nothing is Lost 2006: KoxBox --- U-Turn 2011: Ovnimoon -- Magnetic Portal That was difficult. Whew! Challengers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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