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2012 wrap up! how was it for you? what were your highs and lows


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sooooooooooooo psy freaks 2013 is there and we ain"t dead, in fact i more alive than ever.

first up are we doing a 2012 best of?

i thinkin it was 1997 all over again, so many awsome releases

as far as psynews goes, i been loving the good vibes between so many here.

but not all roses, plenty of afterschool fights behind the bike shed also. (and other weirdness involving leggings and boris blenn)

few of the threads have been falling apart, and as usual we all go a bit quiet this time of year.lowin

but the music!

dat records going off!

suntrip still blowing us away with pure genius

and amazing albums

space elves

etnica live

mindsphere

ubar

oood (which is amazing if you havn't heard it)

so many more

and thats just goa, all subs been popping up with gems

 

new labels zion from japan you rock!

 

chill, ra absolute genius, almost perfect for me

 

you fins been a bit quiet for my liking, faggots due for a stomper

 

just a few though as i could go on all day

so many highs, so many lows

 

biggest disappointment the ongoing saga with ap album, i just over it, but still want it to happen. come on raj!

 

biggest hope, h3 of course,

 

just like to say thanks to all for the great vibes and generosity from you all at psynews (especially my mate radi)

you all a awsome bunch, and i honoured to have been able to share this amazing movement we all have

look forward to many more laughs and good times for 2013

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Very releases-wise rich year. Few of my personal picks:

 

Compilation of 2012: Shaltu [Suntrip Records]

Album of 2012: Mindsphere - Patience For Heaven [suntrip]

Newcommer of 2012: Innerspace & Global Sect Music

Best label: Suntrip Records

Best artwork: Space of Power [Global Sect]

Best EP: Liquid Flow - Cosmic Ascension EP [ Spacedock records ]

Best DJ: Stevo

Best FREE album: PharaOm - Tesseract [ UAF Records ]

Best FREE compilation: Dimensional Gateway 3 [Neogoa]

Best FREE EP: Galactic Mantra - Wings Of Time [ ACPrecorp ]

Best Website: Psynews & Ektoplazm

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I guess this is the place to dump my traditional yearmix. Still doing them even though I'm not sure if anyone cares. Also, Soundcloud declared it verboten. Bloody mixtape-hating arsebandits.

 

Audio is here, 173 MB VBR MP3, 101 minutes. Use right-click or something to download if you're using a browser that hijacks mp3 to its own silly player.

 

Content:

 

01. (00:00) Ren Toudu - We Are the Visitors ["Intangible", Ovnimoon, Apr 2012]

02. (01:40) Globular - From Mind There Spills Forth Light ["A Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Gliese 581C/Omnitropic, Mar 2012]

03. (05:20) InnerSpace - Rising ["InnerSpace", Suntrip, Sep 2012]

04. (09:20) Mindsphere - Spirits of Devotion ["Patience for Heaven", Suntrip, Oct 2012]

05. (15:30) PharaOm - Two Parallel Worlds ["Tesseract", Underground Alien Factory, Jun 2012]

06. (18:30) Jikooha - Survive in Babylon ["Sirius Rising", Panorama, Dec 2012]

07. (24:10) Trinodia - Eltanin ["Stargazing", Ovnimoon, Feb 2012]

08. (28:50) Main Sequence Star - Archaea ["Full Force Travellers V.01", Astronautic, Feb 2012]

09. (35:40) Scopes - Eyes Closed ["Digilog", Psyderweb, Jul 2012]

10. (42:00) UX feat. Jan Rechberger - Children of the Night ["Ultimate Experience Reloaded", Kissthesound, Jun 2012]

11. (51:30) SynSUN - Space Sirens ["The Sounds of Cosmic Lifeforms", Phototropic, Jan 2012]

12. (57:40) Etnica - Nice Toys ["Live in Athens 1996", DAT, Dec 2012]

13. (65:40) Liquid Flow - Chaotic ["Space of Power", Global Sect, May 2012]

14. (72:30) Dimension 5 - Glow (original unreleased version) ["Blue Moon UK Sampler", Altar, Jun 2012]

15. (78:20) Hunab-Ku - Dreamstar ["Magik Universe", Amakusa, Sep 2012]

16. (84:20) Nebula Meltdown - Mindstream Continuum ["Shaltu", Suntrip, Mar 2012]

17. (88:40) Nova Fractal - Redemption ["Dimensional Gateway 3", Neogoa, Dec 2012]

18. (95:50) Agneton - Wizards from the Future (Afterlife Remix) ["The Omega Point", Neogoa, Apr 2012]

 

Track notes:

 

02, 05, 09, 10, 17 and 18: Available as free downloads on ektoplazm.com .

08: Available on astrecords.net .

10: "Lost track" first released in 2012 as a bonus track of the 1997 album's expanded version.

11: Originally self-released in 2001.

12: Recorded from a live performance in 1996, released in 2012.

14: Compiled by Blue Moon in 2000, not properly released back then.

15: Originally released by Blue Moon in 2000, remastered and re-released in 2012.

 

 

 

Not everything could be shoved in but I tried to include most of my favourites. Enjoy.

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Very releases-wise rich year. Few of my personal picks:

 

Compilation of 2012: Shaltu [Suntrip Records]

Album of 2012: Mindsphere - Patience For Heaven [suntrip]

Newcommer of 2012: Innerspace & Global Sect Music

Best label: Suntrip Records

Best artwork: Space of Power [Global Sect]

Best EP: Liquid Flow - Cosmic Ascension EP [ Spacedock records ]

Best DJ: Stevo

Best FREE album: PharaOm - Tesseract [ UAF Records ]

Best FREE compilation: Dimensional Gateway 3 [Neogoa]

Best FREE EP: Galactic Mantra - Wings Of Time [ ACPrecorp ]

Best Website: Psynews & Ektoplazm

 

I agree with that!!!
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An excellent year of psy for someone of my preferences:

 

RA - Unearthly

CONNECT.OHM - 9980

Hibernation - Second Nature

Solar Fields - Random Friday

Mindsphere - Patience for Heaven

Kettel & Secede - When Can

Etnica - Live in Athens 1996

Kindzadza - Nano Ninja

Aes Dana - Pollen

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Highlights for me - I became a Neo-Goa lover! I opened my mind and got converted - love the Mindsphere album and really dig the Crossing Mind. (also really like some pre-2012 albums but this is the 2012 thread). Ra - "Unearthly" is fantastic also.

 

Other highlight - the progressive trance abums!

 

The Atmos album "604" was a progressive highlight for me - very good release, nice diversity of styles, and the remixes are good too.

 

Solar Fields - "Random Friday" - would have competed for my abum of the year with the Mindsphere album if not for the Beat Bizarre album. Love this album - Solar Fields is such a master, and this album is sublime.

 

Album of the Year 2012 - Several lovely albums this year, but, hand's-down, my Album of the Year is Beat Bizarre - "Mukharv"

 

"Mukharv" feels like a new concept in progressive psychedelic - sounds like nothing else out there. It is so well executed and even though it is way up on the psychedelia, the beats and rhythms are so fat and groovy that my friends who don't even like trance music thinks it's badass. Huge amounts of style, mindblowing hypnotic, super danceable - love it!

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  • 4 weeks later...

I agree with you guys this year has been awesome... So many strong releases both up- and down-tempo

 

I just ordered another bulk from beatspace today mostly 2012 stuff, so still have some more good stuff to digest.

 

the biggest surprises for me this year have been Innerspace and Phobos Azazel... Innerspace came out of nowhere and Phobos Azazel has in my ears only released pretty mediocre darpsy before this bomb of debute album Organistic.

 

 

And guys.. remember to cast whatever votes in the best of 2012 "poll" if you have missed it!

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