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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.

Atmos as an individual might have started in the goa scene, but his early tracks doesn't reflect that. If anything, he was on of the leading names of the new era of progressive psytrance. His first release with Flying Rhino was Klein Aber Doctor (1999), it's not a goa trance tune, and goa trance was long dead by then, and FR had abandoned goa a long time ago, marked by their 1997 compilation Airborne. Sorry for the history lesson, I'm sure you're very familiar with this.

When I was younger I lived alone and I had music room, a place with my stereo, my decks, surround sound speakers, a listening chair (all on the cheap mind you, but damn was it good to have a room just for listening to music) and all my CDs organized/categorised and easy to browse and find. When I got married and moved house, my buzz kill of a wife did not want a music room (why did I marry this woman? A question for another thread) so all my CDs (I thought) got ripped and put in storage. Over the last 10 years I have listened to CDs less and less and FLAC more and more, I also started streaming music more. I have 2 apps on my phone for music. Bandcamp where I amassed a collection of 6000+ albums (you can stop buying CDs but the idiot that cannot stop buying new music will never be silenced) of mostly "name your price" of $1 albums (mostly just as good as the $20 offerings to be honest) and Ymusic which allows you to search and stream anything that is on any of the big hosting sites like YouTube or....their competitors, I'm sure their are some somewhere. Totally free and you can stream just the audio and it has everything you could really want outside of the really indie stuff that no one likes (and for that there's bandcamp). Anyway, I digress, over the years I found, like a lot of people I have been using my phone for more and more things. It replaced my camera, my music player, I stopped reading books because what's the point when you can doomscroll? 😲 It replaced my PC, my TV, my consoles, shit, everything. But as the saying goes, a phone is a jack of all trades, but a master of none and I have come to the realization over the last few years that smartphones suck at everything they do and having one device for everything is making everything just a bit crap. I even used it for email, basically meaning I never sent email (sorry mum 😭) or posted on forums (sorry Psynews 😢) So over the last few years I have been spending my hard earned on getting back the things I need (not a camera yet because I suck at photography anyway) I have a kobo e-reader and reading is so much more enjoyable than doomscrolling. I got a Miyoo mini retro handheld for games and playing all the old Gameboy, NES, SNES, Master system & Genesis games is so much more fun than whatever crappy mobile games are available. I got a portable music player again, then upgraded it to a hunky hunky slab of a well amped music player (Sony ZX707) with decent iems and headphones and put all my previously ripped music (see this thread is getting somewhere) on it. I stopped streaming, I bought a lot less new music and rediscovered all (wait for it) my old favourites. I even got a bigger tablet with a full(ish) sized keyboard to help me reconnect with the people that are not in my face every day. Back to the music, well I thought I was rediscovering ALL my old music, but I was clearly not. I have been re-reading the review threads here and today I came across Pleiadians - IFO remastered and 3CDs of extra goodies and I was like "Oh wow, how did I miss that???" I was then surprised again to read my review of it, as I had clearly bought it but had never ripped it (or lost said rip) so I went looking for it and in just the small section of my storage that I found that, I found 20 or more other old classics I had totally forgotten about. A load of Eat Static albums (I always did overplay Prepare Your Spirit but I did sometimes listen to the others) the later Order Odanata compilations, an album by Zen Lemonade and another by Green Oms. All forgotten about until today. I haven't ripped a CD in years, I need to find my old external CD drive and figure out what to do to get all this excellent stuff on my Walkman so I can listen to it again, properly, with decent headphones Is anyone else having a renaissance with their music? What have you recently re-discovered? Go over the review section and give you thoughts 10, 15 20 years later TL:DR? Screw you then Nah, Just read the last paragraph

I had completely forgotten about this, I didn't rip it to my digital library and I haven't played CDs for a while now. I need to look through my CD collection to find it and listen to it over and over again

Oh, it's been a while since I listened to Shaolin Wooden Men I loved them NP Chronos - Ants World from Earth Compilation

Carribean Eclipse is one of my go to chill compilations. I actually listened to it yesterday while packing for Apsara. 😀 Now I'm listening to Shaolin Wooden Men - Ragu (Snake Thing rmx) https://psy-harmonics.bandcamp.com/album/ragu-remixes

I feel you, while I think there are still decent releases since this album, the quality just hasn't been like it used to be. Ultimate used to be "instant buy" no previews needed, now everything that comes out needs to be vetted before I buy as there has been too many disappointing releases, something I never thought I would say about Ultimae

This is still a really enjoyable listen from @phobium A wonderful space Odyssey: close your eyes, listen on decent headphones and let your mind free

If you are going to post a link to Miranda's work, you surely need to tag @Radish6404who may or not be @radi6404but has a clear preference for Miranda Never seen either version of Radi in the reviews, so I am curious how he feels and articulates about other music from his favourite artist.

Thanks @RTP You're right that everyone has problems. One of my biggest is getting my wife to see perspective. I want her to understand that a sock, left on the floor, is not the end of the world, and yes, there has been socks left on the floor many many times, and it is annoying that a 10 year old cannot tidy up everything and always leaves a sock, or something else, but at the same time, it's just a sock left on the floor, so many people have problems 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000x worse: Food insecurity, war, domestic abuse, terminal diseases, to say but a few. While I really don't want to invalidate her feelings, I also don't want to support the idea, that a sock left on the floor needs the same reaction to having stabbed her friend at school (my daughter did both these things and the reaction was basically the same: full on judge dread) Anyway, sorry for the tangent but yeah, the internet has a lot to answer for. My wife doomscrolls constantly. It's always a joke when me and my daughter are out "what do you think mummy is doing? Lying on the sofa doomscrolling" and when we get back, she always is. I've cut out social media, Reddit and the like are just cesspits of negativity and I was so much better off for cutting them out of my life. My online presence now is hobbies and sport, and even sport can be frustrating, check out any BBC Sport/Football have your say and see just how many sad idiots there are complaining about everything from women being allowed to play football to brown people being allowed to play football. I love the internet, I hate the internet with equal measure. It should be the sum total of human knowledge at our fingertips, it should mean everyone is informed is informed and can easily know everything right? Absolutely not! More people than ever think that the Earth is flat and that Miranda - Mars Needs Women is quality GOA track.... 😬

I am now even more confused, but I am old, and I did not take care of my brain while I was younger, so it was always likely that I'd be confused about crypto currency and things like that. I am still mostly using cash every day and credit cards scare me as I spend more than I think because it's not real money

Atmos - 604 Now Twin Reaction (So Italo Mix) Lots of really nice melodic prog tracks on this album, but nothing that's overly memorable.

So glad seems to be working out better for you. I was away for a while and reading this thread is just a rollercoaster of emotions for RTP. Sorry to hear about your dad, but happy to hear he kept it together mentally to know he had become a grandpa. Very happy to hear that your daughter is doing well, that must have been a tortuous time for you, I can't even imagine. Enjoy your well earned holiday. I hope it is relaxing and fun 😊

Atmos did start in the Goa scene on Flying Rhino that was part of that, but his music helped define the shift away from classic Goa toward progressive psytrance (also seen on FRR). So while 604 as a title might nod to his roots, the album itself represents the refined, stripped-down evolution of that sound.

So far so good, it seems I can finally keep it up coming by here more often, as other posts show I find that very positive. I will gladly keep it that way and my new project ideas will enable me to stay engaged - at least every few weeks at the latest! It seems that I just was trying to find my place - and the key for that was to stick with stuff that I like and can do. (Sounds easy, but isn't actually that easy - I had to realize this slowly ). I am going on a holiday now, a well-earned one ... we'll see how relaxing it is, with my daughter ... back in last week of August, see you around

Yes, everybody that has the "Bananos" to pay the asking prices can enqueue videos there (when nothing is playing, it's super cheap - which I took advantage of last week, thus proclaiming this new project). I got into the Banano thing because of my ex girlfriend who has found out about it. She was a bit into Bitcoin and these things and took me along on that one - said: Banano is good for learning what crypto is and how it works (it is, I tell you that!). Unlike other sh*t out there (crypto world is really wild and full of potential scams - beware!) this at least seems to have a stable enough community with kind people who support it ... even a bit similar to the spirit of these forums in the old days JungleTV was something I found later and I was a great fan of it to earn a few Bananos every now and then ... sometimes cool people stop by and just donate there or enqueue a bunch... So ... I'll hang around every last Tuesday of the month and post happily. We will all see where this is going

Sad to hear that. I wish you luck. Everybody's having their fair share of worries lately, hardly anyone spared... With all these problems in the world, it may seem it's getting worse ... crises everywhere - and if not in the world, then in people's private lives. Then again, I think these don't increase so much as we think, it's just the internet connecting everything more and more together and they become more and more visible. That line was already true ten years ago, but it still keeps increasing. I wonder where it will go - but I think it tops out pretty much around now or already has topped out as people tend to reduce their online activity, or is that just me feeling it from others...

I don't quite get why the album is called 604. Atmos never was a goa artist and the album is not a goa album. Any theories?

When we speculated, you went to the source. Thanks for looking into that.

I installed it and it's pretty impressive for free software. It has a lot of gorgeous presets as well. I did have to find a couple of gigabytes of space to install it though, so it is big. I like that you can choose between digital and analog curves for the envelopes and warm / natural / bright character. Nice features.

I talked with TIP and they said they stopped to release music as vinyl, Avi wanted to release it on all formats, vinyl, cd (not confirmed yet) and all digital platforms. Astral Projection are managed through Sonic Booking and Beyond Management...both are closed to Iboga records.

This looks useful. Thanks.