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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.

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.... 😬