Shpongled247 Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Talpa/The Riddler (if we discount his collaborations with other Tesseract guys). His production style changed over the years but the overall aesthetics and melodic approach stay more or less consistent Terrafractyl ^ This +1 Terrafractyl has imitators now, but frankly they were all fans of his beforehand and are mostly found on his own label ha... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taika-Kim Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 Nice discussion, I was also thinking of 1st Sandman album, nice soft goth industrial style. James Reipas for sure! I myself was thinking of artists that make music that is psytrance, but not only strictly in the confines of psytrance, having created kind of a genre of their own. Since 99% of trance is genre music, where artists already beforehand have a pretty rigid idea about what they are going to do, and they then stay inside that spot only. Maybe a good distinction is, that a style is so original that it takes balls to imitate it?-) Like general psytrance, it doesn´t really sound like anything particular. But, if somebody created a 90% copy of Twisted for example, that would seem pretty crass, no matter how good the job was. Process had ace sound design, I think he was maybe the first one who used modulars heavily? But the songs are not that great mostly in my opinion... And he admitted as much recently when I asked about some stuff, that he always was more into the sound design aspect than finetuning the songs. So it´s too bad he never collaborated in some dream team with a more dedicated songwriter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imba Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 He does! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astralprojection Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 where uve been imba? nice to c ur presence and the handsome nhjo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Process had ace sound design, I think he was maybe the first one who used modulars heavily? But the songs are not that great mostly in my opinion... And he admitted as much recently when I asked about some stuff, that he always was more into the sound design aspect than finetuning the songs. So it´s too bad he never collaborated in some dream team with a more dedicated songwriter... You mean, other than Beast (w/ Simon Posford) which was easily Simon's high water mark for psychedelic trance as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Eye Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 You mean, other than Beast (w/ Simon Posford) Or Satori with Pete Martin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 ...and the Process & Tristan, Promethues Process, Process and Tsuyoshi, and Process and James Munro tracks? ;-) lolololol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 All joking aside, Dr. Williams definitely loves modular synths and sound design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychedelic Alien Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 New goa was a little uncreative but since 2010 that is not true anymore, the modern scene exploded in creativity, I am looking forward to a lot of the new releases! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imba Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 New goa was a little uncreative but since 2010 that is not true anymore, the modern scene exploded in creativity, I am looking forward to a lot of the new releases! Creativity + quality... you will see this year festivals will be full of new goa trance producers Filteria for 12 years he remain same, Agneton for 10, Goasia... then bunch of newer artists, they have their style which you can easily recognize on parties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair Thaumic Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The problem is that most really unique artists released one or two albums, sometimes not even an album, and then vanished from the scene. Look at all the amazing compilations from 97-99, full of totally freaky and weird psy-music the likes of which isn't heard any more. One off collaborations, super underground friend-of-a-friend artists. Spectral had the best morning music of anyone and folded after one album. Same with Acid Rockers and psybreaks. Noosphere released two great goa/tech trance albums and then vanished, there were whispers of Morphem returning but then Raphael died. Chi-A.D. is mostly making games now, IIRC so is Deviant Electronics... Though I should mention Zirrex as another artist who doesn't really follow anyone else. Lots of new (at least to goa) musical ideas, while still remaining goa. In R Voice also does some good stuff here and there and is (or was?) very prolific, kinda hard to follow with so many aliases though. Elysium definitely has his own trademark sound too. We probably need a place (offline) for people to innovate and come up with their own style, without worrying about what genre it slots into. Maybe freeform musical jam/DJ nights at non-trance venues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panoptes Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 kox box ka sol I'd even say nebula meltdown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Eye Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Algae Bloom - The Blossom. Totally unlike anything else out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsyDyke Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 From the nights side I have to say Silent Horror has always stood out for me. He has wonderful leads that just really grab my attention, can always tell his tracks apart. Also really nice composition and hasn't crossed over to the fun yet somewhat annoying "psy core" high bpm style. Actually the label his albums are on, Devils Mind, is one of the best IMO labels for darker styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 i think most artist on psy-harmonics fit the bill, truly unique style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephistopheles Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Juno Reactor Koxbox Hallucinogen Violet Vision Sandman Ubar Tmar Xenomorph Quirk The one with those bunch of "my little pony's" on the cover .... name slips my mind right now .... damn it .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Rip Van Hippy Odd Harmonic Scozbor Outolintu Haltya (My Little Ponies... you speaking of Vishnudata? It was a rainbow of unicorns, but similar in look) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Darshan (back in the day) ECT Nervasystem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsyDyke Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Sandman for sure. His sounds really took me in to space. Funny how to me Hallucinogen was really great but I wouldn't have said so unique, whereas the early Shpongle & the Twisted Eclipse compilation really took me somewhere special. I remember listening to "Are You Shpongled?" pretty much a few days after it was released & going WTF? I could't understand it at all. It took me almost a year to get my mind around the sound & style. When I trekked the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal in '99 this was on constant rotation at the end of the day when I'd sit & stare in to the amazing night sky. Life was so simple for me back then, no kids. No bills. I had worked hard for 2 years after school doing 3 jobs & had loads of cash saved. I spent 3 years travelling the world, every now and then seeing my girlfriend *now wife* if she travelled (she was at uni) but apart from that just 3 years of ultimate freedom. *sigh* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin OOOD Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Process... it´s too bad he never collaborated in some dream team with a more dedicated songwriter... Process has a new collaboration on Nervasystem's upcoming new album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkraver Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Process has a new collaboration on Nervasystem's upcoming new album. Which looks like it's not gonna make it to the £750 mark! What a shame! Just 60odd hours left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I forgot Son Kite last album is somewhat different ... unique path nonetheless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taika-Kim Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 Heh, about Process collaborations: so right about those one Goaconstrictor mentioned, never should write these three in the night after reading scientific papers for 12 hours, I didn´t think of individual tracks at all Spawn was that track that was basically really good, but was played in practically EVERY set for like 6 months when it was released, I got soooo tired of it... Process/Nervasystem collab sounds like a million tons of fun! I checked it, it´s indiegogo and they have quite a lot already, I hope they can scrape the rest together, since over there you get to keep the money even if the goal is not met. Funny, I was kind of thinking about the first Son Kite albums too... The first Kino Yoko album was pretty incredible, nothing to compare against really, and still very musical and coherent. Closest maybe Sandman all old Amiga music I should check one day what he´s up to now. BIOT was great, too bad he kind of disappeared I think. Shaolin Wooden Men, Rip Van Hipy etc for sure But about the Psy-Harmonics stuff standing on their own, without associations to the psy scene, I´m not sure. Like, if trance and the wholy party scene didn´t exist, and Shaolin Wooden men released an album, what would be people's reaction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasalom Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Rip Van Hippy Odd Harmonic Scozbor Outolintu Haltya (My Little Ponies... you speaking of Vishnudata? It was a rainbow of unicorns, but similar in look) Wow... Nice choices. By the way, nice to meet another geezer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taika-Kim Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 Oh, and while we are it, since we can see a certain pattern forming here: Let´s find artists that released their first album, say after 2005? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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