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I get like that with a lot of music lately (Not this, though) but I put it more down to my own brain chemistry than anything to do with the actual music! Give it another 7 years and maybe you will love it again. Everything around you is what you create...

Very strange that I used to love this album, and I realized after maybe 7 or 8 years not listening to it, that it didn't age well to my ears. It grew old. Maybe it's finally time to feel that a release from 2012 feels old in 2025... The track I used to love is Ascend, it's still great but I lost those emotions it made me feel back in the day. Anyway, still top quality music, and track No Rain No Water is still beautiful.

I want to review this but I am not sure I can do it justice. Every aspect of it is beautifully and expertly crafted. It is so melodic, so trippy, so atmospheric and so meaningful. I think every single track is at least a 9/10. I stand by my claim that their later downtempo album, Unearthly, is the greatest musical work of all time. This on the other hand definitely makes my top ten of uptempo Goa albums. I am reluctant to award it a full 10/10 but then I cannot really find any obvious fault with it. OK, what the hell then: 10/10

There is one track I rate highly, it's 7. Delina Did It, and a track I do enjoy as well, 8. Sonnambula (with William Orbit). All the tracks before are boring, pompous, sometimes irritating.

Hmm. I think there's a difference if the user himself asks for a comment to be deleted compared to a mod action. But if you feel that way, then sure. Tbh I'm kinda flabbergasted that's your reaction. In fact that's the craziest mod response I've gotten from any mod any forum past 30 years ☺️ I respect it though.

lolololol As you said in another thread: <<Don't just delete messages like that, leave them up. Now Noone in the future will have any idea what was said.>> LMFAO

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@abasio I am with you up to a point. Throwing blame 100% on such people seems the obvious and easy decision. But I think things are a bit more complicated. Firstly, in some countries in Europe (or in Greece at least), even though the governments were very late to take precautionary measures in the beginning of the pandemic, after much harm had been done and the vaccines were out, they were trying to force the people do the vaccines. This made people suspicious and reactive. There was, and still is, a significant number of people that did the vaccine but still feel repulsion that they were forced to do it in order to keep their jobs. Secondly, the vaccines for Covid were developed urgently and the whole procedure took much less time than it normally does to develop a vaccine. If anyone raised a doubt, they were called conspiracy theorists, idiots, and so on. So, in Greece, instead of encouraging people to do the vaccine for the public welfare, the government's way of dealing with the problem was something like "shut up and do the vaccines otherwise you are anti-scientific idiots and you will lose your jobs." Thirdly, there were some reasonable concerns. AstraZeneca, for instance, has infamously been involved in several scandals, which has tarnished its reputation. And, if I remember correctly, some countries suspended the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine after some reported deaths related to it. And regarding the widely used Pfizer vaccine, so far as I know this is a completely new type of vaccine, so I suppose it is not completely unreasonable if someone wants to wait a few years to be convinced that it has no long-term negative health effects. Finally, poor practices have indeed been reported during Pfizer's pivotal trial of the vaccine. See this paper for instance, from the very respected and reliable British Medical Journal. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635 So, I think it is unfair to point as idiots or extreme right-wing fascists etc. all the skeptics of the Covid vaccines (sadly, governments and media manipulated the public to adopt such an attitude). Of course, those who refuse to use face-masks are idiots indeed. And the worst are the real fascists who deploy the anti-vaccine hysteria in order to attract voters. Anyway, these are my thoughts. No intention to give support to the person you criticised, since I do not know him. Either extreme seems wrong to me.

Johan Bley – Leave Your Body (2000)

Ectogasmics – Bamboo Message

^ Yes ‘Boards of Canada - An Eagle in Your Mind’

Fair enough. I am of the view that trippy and psychedelic music can be successfully done without an overload of layers; At some turning point, many layers ruin everything. Arronax has mentioned his admiration for this album and no wonder why his music is so chaotic. The three masters you've mentioned are highly appreciated by me and in general I think they have been more careful in their selection of sounds and layers. Fair enough though, each one to their own taste.

I understand where you're coming from. For me their sound on this album is a bit more focused on exploring amazing sonic textures and rhythms but still with decent amounts of melody, rather than on great harmony. I like all those things in Goa trance which is why the real masters for me are those who excel at harmony, texture and rhythm all in one track: Dimension 5, RA, Elysium. As for MFG, I will try and pay more attention to consonance and dissonance when I listen to their music. I don't really remember much if any discord standing out to be honest but there is certainly a lot of distortion and noise by design. I am a sucker for dark and gloomy music. A few tritones always help with the dark vibes. As for the chaos, I agree there are moments in this album where it starts to head that way, and the whole thing is more chaotic than a lot of other Goa. Again, for me though one of the things that makes Goa trance enjoyable are those moments where on a casual listen you almost can't follow what is going on, because there are so many layers and rhythms and different sounds. It would be boring if we all liked the same trance music though.

It's nice, reminds me of the first two CPU albums, I would like to hear a full new album with this style

I agree, is not that bad, but is hard to find something that sounds good, specially compared with the other payed options, but if you something that's free sounding dirty and distorted I think it is useful.

Better than their crappy second album (which is a cacophony of electronic sounds, to be honest). The change of style is welcome, but it doesn't mean greatness. The tracks often become chaotic. They also lack nice build-ups, can be too repetitive and too harsh for the ear. Some decent tracks, but that's all. Nothing essential. Their first album is quite good, see Magnetic Activity. And also Global Light, from the compilation Gamma Draconis. These two are their best tracks from what I've heard of them, really good compositions. Their overall sound and style though is not what I'm looking for in Goa trance. And that is because I like harmony and not dissonance when I listen to music.

Indeed, people. This is one of the many, many reasons why only posting a link to an external resource without any hints is a bad idea, no matter how deceptively easy it might feel. Anyway..."An Eagle in Your Mind" seems to check out, including the timestamp. The video with that Youtube id is discussed here. https://xoxo.zone/@tonx/110234057092485667 (Oh the irony of posting a link to an external discussion... But you have the name here now.)

Lul, now I can’t remember and the earworm is long gone … If it pops up again I’ll write it down here. Posting only a YT vid. which is now gone was a mistake.

I'm currently working on a (free) soundbank for TAL Bassline 101 with sounds, sequences and midi from a classic album - I can't divulge more, but I think some people will find it interesting and it might lead up to a few remixes. I'll post it in the Music Making forum when I finish (sometime next month), so keep an eye out.

Mods can you delete this and all the other spam topics by this account.

Congrats Reger 👍

+1. this very sound is a big reason why we love this album. To me personally the quality is really really excellent. I think it sounds just the way it should. 😇 i know what everyone means when they say muddy. but that really is a part of the whole sound for me. its more organic and alien. and if you wanna get technical, for 1998, it sounds amazingly well produced. more so even than Dancing Galaxy (albeit a year prior)

Yes - and this is precisely what I might be using it for, at least to experiment ... if anytime we or I happen to come up with a cool thing like this one from you, I'll get back on it (ps: if you want to know how our best shot on a remix, check my sig - without stem separation, we used an official Remix Kit)