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Bringing Joy to my life Amazing some of the things we remember, and things we just totally forget. I'm listening to Eat Static - Dead Planet now, I wrote a glowing review about it, and forgot all about it. Enjoying rediscovering it. A nice mix of Old Eat Static and full on!

There is a surprising number of classic Goa albums I bet lots of us haven't heard before, just waiting to be (re)discovered. I love all the Trust in Trance albums, but this one is probably the culmination of the series. Recently listened to all 3 in a row. 10/10 would listen again.

Yeah the thing about chores is no matter how many hours and days you spend on them, there will always be a load more waiting for you. The music is about the only saving grace that can get you through them.

After a long streak of summer events and heat, I'm doing many chores at home - also ripping a bunch of albums I got as CD only and checking assorted vinyls which I haven't added to my bookkeeping yet.

Yeah for some reason I remember it well you were super excited to get it, especially the extra tracks

Some of the comments on the start of this thread are hilarious, people finding out about this for the first time and their jaw dropping. To be fair though, I only found out about it today by looking on discogs.com after seeing tracks by S.F.X. on Trust In Trance, and it wouldn't even be on discogs if it wasn't for the kind folks on this thread!

How on Earth or in space did I miss this one for so long? I am listening for the first time right now and it is E X C E L L E N T. It is the best Goa I have heard in a long time. I wasn't having such a great evening and this has cut through and helped me a lot. I am not going to dissect it too much. Just excellent, excellent arrangements and melodies, absolutely classic old school Goa trance, but it is the way it is mixed and mastered that just really brings it to life! Maybe 9/10, maybe 9.5/10.

Listening to Astral Projection Trust in Trance 3 for the first time ever and it is sooooo good! Gonna give S.F.X. – Rainbirds a listen as well soon. Proto– Astral Projection album that I have not heard either.

Listening to Trust In Trance Vol. 3 now and loving it! Thanks for the recommendation! This could become one of my new favorites. I am getting a few early Posford vibes from some bits too. 9/10 at least...

I bought Another World not long after it came out and played it loads. It remains my favorite of theirs but for many years it was the only album of theirs I had heard. I first listened to Dancing Galaxy a few years ago and I couldn't seem to get into it. I am listening again now and finding it pretty good, although not stunning. However, if I heard it back when it came out I would have most likely loved it. My impression half an hour into Dancing Galaxy is that it has some nice wibbley acid but the overall feel comes across a tiny bit more clubby for some reason, like I am listening to club anthems, than Another World to me whereas the leads in Another World really felt like a trip into space. I am interested to find out what I will make of Trust In Trance Vol. 3.

Listening to this now, just finished the live set and it's amazing. Very glad that I read through all these reviews and realized I had one of the most amazing releases just not being listened to. No I will listen to it....more often 😉 Tell them you came & saw & looked into my eyes, & saw the shadow of the guard receding Thoughts in time & out of season The hitchhiker stood by the side of the road & levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason (and then a car passes) Why does my mind circle around you Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you All your soft wild promises were words Birds, endlessly in flight Your dog is still lost in the frozen woods or he would run to you How can he run to you Lunging w/blooded sickness on the snow He's still sniffing gates & searching Strangers for your smell which he remembers very well Is there a moon in your window Is madness laughing Can you still run down beach rocks bed below without him? - JIm Morrison

I found it in my CD storage and am listening to it now on nice open back headphones. Really really glad I did

Is it you I have to thank for that Masterpiece? Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had the main album on cassette but the CD had so much more and it is still in heavy rotation at Casa De' Basio

Trust In Trance is also my favourite. Love the more raw sounding stuff from them 💕

Now that's an awesome find

No worries at all on the history lesson—it’s a great topic to dig into. But I’m not sold on the idea that Atmos had no Goa connection, or that Flying Rhino had “abandoned” Goa by 1997. While it’s true that Atmos helped define the progressive psy era, especially with Klein Aber Doctor onward, his earlier tracks and DJ sets still circulated heavily in late-phase Goa trance parties and compilations. He contributed to Flying Rhino during their transitional period, when they were fusing Goa's psychedelia with progressive structure—he was part of that arc, not outside of it. And yes, Airborne signaled a shift, but even that comp had tracks with Goa DNA—just more refined and minimal. To say Goa was “dead” in 1997 is overstating it a bit. Goa was evolving, not vanishing. There were still active scenes and labels well into the early 2000s, especially in Europe and Israel. Also worth noting: while Klein Aber Doctor isn’t traditional Goa, the atmosphere, psychedelia, and structure are clearly an evolution from it—not a total break. So I think Atmos and Flying Rhino both straddled the Goa→progressive shift, and that’s part of what made that era so rich.

All the 4 albums have strong tracks (only Astral Files is slightly weaker).... but I do agree with you: T.I.T. is the best

If you have, then I have also. For ambient I have been listening more to ambient ambient: Steve Roach, Robert Rich etc. State Azure is a really nice ambient artist that sometimes has some similar textures and rhythms. I wouldn't compare them, except that State Azure is also always really good, like old Ultimate.

Sorry, I meant Dancing Galaxy, not Another World. Everyone in this forum and social media refer to Dancing Galaxy as THE album. Am I wrong?

I'm one of those dinosaurs who still listens to CDs at home and in my car, every day I go up to the collection and pick something random. However recently I have pulled out my folders of the ripped CDs of all the ones I sold over the years ( some may remember the sales I had selling way to cheap mind you and abasio I believe you purchased a copy of prepare off me many years ago) So yeah been diving into old krembo and the more obscure Israeli stuff recently, man there is some good stuff there, being ripped discs with only album title, I often have no idea who the artist is, but try to guess by the often traited acid lines etc, when get home at night, memorize the track number and look up on the computer see if was right, surprisingly not to bad, or in the ball park at least( and no don't have mobile phone) to look up instant

Realised... how? Is there some secret place with such information? Looking Discogs 🧐 -> Trust In Trance / Avg Rating:4.7 / 5 / Ratings:634 Astral Files / Avg Rating:4.34 / 5 / Ratings:457 Dancing Galaxy / Avg Rating:4.59 / 5 / Ratings:634 Another World / Avg Rating:4.52 / 5 / Ratings:608 I hope that clears the... issue. 😆

My issue is that for years I thought Trust I Trance Vol. 3 was their greatest album. Another World was too commercial and formulaic for me. It was only a few years ago that I realised most ppl consider this their top release 🤔

The annoying thing is that no other label was able to step in and fill the void. Except if I missed something.

I feel like the problem is I yearn for NEW stuff but I can't be arsed to find the goods amongst thousands of digital singles/EPs that come out each week. Also in the trend of nobody reviewing nothing - it's difficult to spot the good shit you're supposed to. Do I go back to the "good ol" simply because I know it better? Yeah I do.

So you think he suddenly lands out of nowhere to release Klein Aber Doctor? Like... "let me try to do a tune... oh fuck it became a classic!" Atmos has done music already years before that. A Finnish dj had this tune in his DAT bag already around ~95: There's probably more... just unreleased or lost. EDIT: This tune itself is from 1994.