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Number 1 and even 2 better than 3

Was awsome! Next up here in Oz is the new mad max due real soon

You're welcome AP. I am hoping to start posting more reviews on here soon because I want to wake this place up a bit. It needs more content otherwise there is a death spiral of no-one posts because no-one else is posting so I'm gonna try and change it! When I do my own reviews I will link to bandcamp in preference if the artist is on there because it's a more direct way for someone to buy the track, or wherever they have it for sale. If you want to post a youtube link in the comments though be my guest. Sure. Edit: TLDR; The world is screwed up and I spend too much time and energy on dealing with mundane chaos in everyday life and too little time on making Goa trance and reviewing new music. Edit: Oops! Was I oversharing there? Think I need to go listen to some Psychaos and Chaos to Order! @DoktorG Apologies for derailing your thread!

expecting the reader to do the "work" for you is lazy and bad form. Thanks for the link. Sad to hear youre grumpy, wanna chat about it?

Dude, how long would it have taken you to copy and paste it in your own comment? I mean, you may have a fair point but why not do something positive along with it? Yeah I know I'm grumpy too. Bad couple of days. FWIW I hesitate to put up youtube links myself because some artists don't like it and prefer someone listens to a sample on bandcamp or similar and buys the record...

YouTube link helloooo??? Nothing I hate more than a review that doesn't share a link to the album in the actual review it's just lazy and ignorant. Would've taken you 5 seconds to have that inside the review. There's ZERO ways to listen to the album you are reviewing, in your review. No YouTube, no bandcamp, no Spotify, no apple music, no nothing. God I hate that so much. Imagine being so disrespectful to the readers of your review that you won't even take 5 seconds to actually link to the damn music you're reviewing.. Can we please make this a rule? You can't post a review if you don't also link the frigging music??

Fantastic news Dok thanks. I'm listening to the opening track and it sounds just as excellent as his Elysium output. I love the way he builds up very unusual and strong rhythms by combining a number of different sounds. He is a master of rhythm. I agree about the texture too. Really excited to listen to the rest of this.

Next up, track 11. This was finished in early April 1999, almost 2 months after the previous one, and this is where things are getting a bit weird. I'd been spending much of the preceding months completely fascinated by The Lone Deranger, and the Twisted Records Dementertainment compilation. Listening to those on an almost daily basis, here is where my sound took a turn towards more gritty and should I say "dark". This is definitely the most complex track I managed to write in Impulse Tracker, both technically and as a composition. I remember a situation where I described the track as "organised chaos", and that's quite an accurate expression here. The only things that bother me a bit about this one is the rather murky and nondescript bassline (I really wish I could have come up with something better), and the track title feels oddly disjointed.

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Yeah that's the issue with all those modern movies that put all their eggs in one basket, that is special effects, picture etc. but story wise it is a bore. So many movies like this these days.

Vaporized Human Odyssey 2023 Digital Reprints Human Odyssey 1 1-1Vaporized (2)–Return To The Source 12:51 1-2Vaporized (2)–Circle Of Dust 11:21 1-3Vaporized (2)–Solar Cycles 10:38 1-4Vaporized (2)–Human Odyssey 9:44 1-5Vaporized (2)–Full Moon 9:44 1-6Vaporized (2)–Silverbox 10:54 1-7Vaporized (2)–Enter The Circle 10:37 Human Odyssey 2 2-1Vaporized (2)–Return To The Source (Dig Deeper Mix) 12:51 2-2Vaporized (2)–Circle Of Dust (Red Rock Mix) 10:36 2-3Vaporized (2)–Solar Cycles (In Orbit Mix) 11:03 2-4Vaporized (2)–Red Dust 10:22 2-5Vaporized (2)–Silverbox (Acid Mix) 9:47E 2-6Kristian* & DJ Cosmix–The Vision (Vaporized Remix) 10:00 2-7Vaporized (2)–Artifact 12:22 This is a fascinating double album released in 2023 by Danish artist Kristian Thinning Andersen. He is most famous as Elysium, though he has a variety of other monikers. Andersen made some of the greatest Goa tracks ever in the 90s with a unique mellow, tribal, and hypnotic style. One of my personal favourites is the Sheyba ep on Flying Rhino from 1995: Who can forget the wolf howls in "Ancient Lands" which take the listener deep into the ancestral past. Other notable releases include Spiritual's "Ride the Snake", Kaaya's "Ormazd", Kailash's "Higher", and the two Elyzium albums Dance for the Celestial Beings (1995) and Celestial Sounds and Neurotic Tribal Beats (1997). Evocative, storytelling stuff, more for the inner journey than for 'aving it on the dancefloor, though plenty potent on the dancefloor too. Rather than give a track by track formalist description, which is not so relevant to this style of music, I want to try to sum up Andersen's artistic goal and the feel of his tunes, with which I'm sure many of you are familiar. Perhaps the most important thing then is to point out that if you are a fan of his work, as I am, then this is a must. Andersen has not changed his style. This is not to say that he is stuck or lacks variety or experiment or is narrow, but he simply has his own unique style that is instantly recognisable. And what a style it is - poised hovering in the liminal zone between the dancefloor and the chill out zone with bpms seldom getting up into the 140s, its distinctive feature is hypnosis. In a sense, then, his music is the very essence of trance, which is a hypnotic state, a state of immersion if you will. There's a deep calm in his music, that is quite different to the ecstatic excitement, even freneticism, of a lot of trance and psytrance. It is more of a highlands plateau than the peaks and valleys of psytrance. It is likely that the Dionysian among us will not like this calm. If you want high drama, crushing rhythms, major chords, frenzied build-ups, hardcore blastoff, then look elsewhere. For those who can enter this calm state, it provides the meditative bliss of relaxation and acceptance. This music creates the atmosphere in which it is best appreciated. Here are the words of the man himself from Youtube: "I wanted to return to the way I think trance should be like. To me, trance is a slowly building journey on the dance floor by its hypnotizing patterns and deep soundscapes. Repetitively rhythmic to put you in a state of trance." Andersen emphasises his return to proto-Goa, which was slower and lacked the build-ups and galloping horse basslines of post-millenial psytrance. What I most appreciate about this relaxation is that it tends to grant the space for the mind to expand into fantasy - it is quite easy to be swept to far-off lands with these tunes. This does not mean that Vaporized lacks intensity. Intensity may be provided by tribal vibes through vocals, samples, percussion. This seems a little less obvious here than it was in the 90s, but it is still there. Intensity is also provided by the microdynamics of texture and small changes. A master of texture, Andersen was always good at making sounds that ranged from silken smooth to ragged ripping. Many of his sounds, showcased by the relatively constant rotating polyrhythms in the background have more pixels per nanosecond than there are motes of dust in the Sahara (though you will need a good hifi to hear this). Moreover, he is also very good at small changes, subtle shifts of delicate percussion, unexpected time wobbles - small changes amidst heavy repetition that can tug at your ear, especially when you are in the calm and receptive state of trance. There, in a nutshell, I think you have the spirit of Elyzium/Vaporized: hypnotic trance. It is relatively introspective stuff that eschews drama, performativity, grandiosity, hysteria, going instead for meditative calm. This, of course, does not mean that the artist is always so calm himself. Hypnosis is also invariably haunted by the image of the zombie: who is controlling the hypnotised is the question that typically arises. Is it a corporate AI? Perhaps it is the Soviet nostalgia hackers? No, it is definitely the aliens described by Cixin Liu. Whether you are concerned about being hypnotised or not, the questions that have historically accompanied the inner path do flutter about this introspective art. If hypnotic trance sounds appealing to you, then you won't do better than this excellent album and the stunning back catalogue behind it. ~*~

I find it almost hilarious that this track from 2008 still is the very best and defining track of new school goa trance. 11/10 This is still the track that everyone has to beat. Many have tried but noone managed to do it.

i tried watching dune 2, had to stop watching after about 60%, damn it was boring! im sure it was better at the cinema.

great ideas mr richpa, make it happen

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Moon Tripper - Hypnotic Frequencies Altar Records - ARCDA130 I hadn't heard of Moon Tripper before, the Dubai-based artist Brad Ashtar. I came across this album because I enjoy psychill and want to start posting reviews of new music here so I was looking over Altar Records' recent catalog. 1. Moon Tripper – Inside Your Head 13:03 2. Astral Waves – Black Panther Medicine (Moon Tripper Remix) 10:15 3. Moon Tripper – Mystical Realm 6:57 4. Moon Tripper – Transcendental 7:15 5. Moon Tripper – Arise 6:00 6. Moon Tripper – Hypnotic Frequencies 6:59 7. Moon Tripper – Dopamine 7:55 8. Moon Tripper – Spiritual Smiles 8:53 9. Moon Tripper – Elevated State 8:00 10. Moon Tripper – Earth's Consciousness 6:46 1. Inside Your Head: This has a lovely long build up with mysterious pads, slow flute, growly synth sounds, what I think is a sitar sound, tribal drums and later a nice kick and bass come in. A little reminiscent of Elysium to me but with the psy turned down and ambience cranked up I suppose. 6/10 2. Black Panther Medicine (Moon Tripper Remix): We start with some tribal voices and cool drippy sounds. The kick and bass makes it sound a little bit dark and we have some nice somewhat tribal percussion coming in then some really trippy melodic synths. Nice. 9/10 3. Mystical Realm: This track is harder and a lot more psychedelic than the earlier ones but still has a lot of ambience. A nice, slightly more irregular beat. 7/10 4. Transcendental: We continue the harder psychedelic theme with this one which is really nice with layers of squelchy synths and still little bits of ambience sprinkled in here and there. 8/10 5. Arise: A mystical sparkley opening with a female voice and some flutey ambiences. Then the driving kick and bass come in quite near the start and groovy synth stabs. It feels more ambient than the previous track whilst maintaining the pace and energy. 7/10 6. Hypnotic Frequencies: For the title track we're back to harder psy again with some really tasty acid lines. The production quality is nice and the pads envelope you with a real sense of depth and immersion. If you only have time for one track, listen to this one. 9/10 7. Dopamine: This sounds closer to pure psytrance to me. The light sort of synth-almost-a-flute melody is nice from about 1:40. Past the halfway mark I must admit I was losing interest a bit but the closing parts of the track were a bit better. As mainly a Goa fan I may not be the target audience. 5/10 8. Spiritual Smiles: It opens with chanting, then the standard kick and bass, and a fairly laid back mood with lots of weird ambient sounds and one meandering synth. Then from around 4 minutes we get nice acid coming in. A trippy breakdown where the chanting comes back. 8/10 9. Elevated State: This one is some crazy mind jumbling psytrance. Sounds to me a bit like darkpsy with the tempo turned down slightly. 6/10 10. Earth's Consciousness: We end with another serviceable psytrance track that's well put together but not really my cup of tea. 5/10 As primarily a Goa fan who also enjoys psychill and ambient but is less keen on modern psy, I find this album a bit of a mixed bag, but the good bits are great and the rest of it I certaintly wouldn't mind having on in the background. I deliberately listened to this before trying any of Moon Tripper's older music. It will be interesting to see if that is more to my tastes. 6/10 https://moon-tripper.bandcamp.com/album/hypnotic-frequencies?label=3714585001&tab=music

Psynews has been a cornerstone for all psytrance related topics: from music, party/festival annoucements, new releases news, discussion about various topics ranging from album/compilation reviews/talks, interesting video sharing (interviews, old video-clips), production tips and tricks exchange, general talk about culture, entertainment, spirituality and so on. That being said, my opinion regarding the improvement: Disclaimer: I'm aware it requires resources, mostly someones time, knowledge and some money, but here me out. Two things are here important and both of them can be seen as a great foundation for eventual re-haul/improvement of the website/board. First one is content and second one is user-database. Forum/board should be just one segment of the website. The front-page of Psynews.org shouldn't be board. It should look like a interactive web-page where you can find couple of things: - A nice clean horizontal menu with few sub-menus such as: News, Videos, Reviews, Events, Playlists, Forum. You can add Contact and/or Newsletter info as well - Big horizontal header, Psynews logo or promoted banner for certain release/event/something else - Top 4-6 articles should be right below, in form of a box or as a list, but pinned - Eventually side-bar with latest topics/threads from the board/forum - Everything else is a matter of details - Footer with standard copyright and privacy policy Now to the point: When you have already great content, such as well-written reviews or proper music annoucements made by members, you can use that to put it (highlight it) on the front-page of your website, with nice image attached it's like pro-looking article. For example if you are using Wordpress page, you can make great SEO (search engine optimisation) of each article and attract more visitors to check your website and engage in other content (including the forum). It also gives nice exposure to artists, event organizers, label owners, DJ's as something representative. It's a win-win situation. Turn on some social-media commenting below the article, or link it with board/forum, you have engagement. I'm not that much into technical side of things, especially regarding the server/hosting that Psynews got, but I believe it supports latest version of Wordpress. You can get nice web theme/template in style of blog/magazine for like 50 bucks. Everything else is a matter of details, how you segment your page, what kind of plugins are you using and how you format certain text within articles, what images are you using and so on. But let's be honest, it would look much more professional and more involving for many content creators, no matter are they posting new release infos or putting up some album reviews or just sharing the event details with public, as well to some random visitors or psytrance enthusiasts. Regarding the forum membership: I'm aware that many registered members are inactive, but let's keep focus on active members, lurkers and eventually newcommers. Form a small team of 5-10 well-spoken users who will be in charge of re-posting forum content on the front page. Start with ongoing year 2024 - put up all reviews up in the frontpage, pick couple of festival annoucements, some upcoming releases and create 20 articles. You can, but you don't need to re-post other reviews, news, but it would be great to get each month at least 20-most commented/viewed reviews in form of article (form past years), just make sure to change the date when creating the article (in case you don't want to see it up in the lastest article sections). Add couple of articles regarding the most important festivals, share some nice DJ mixes. You can always edit articles, format images, credit the authors. Instagram reels, Facebook posts and new YouTube uploads by labels or artists can be great source for a fine article. All you need is a engaging article title, 200-300 words, link within article, nice looking photo and of course some links. The best thing is to directly add/embbed a clip or a videot. Put some hashtags and it's good to go. Feature some playlists by DJ's - make it on weekly or monthly basis. Daily throwback - put a highlight on some forgotten artist or release or even label. I can go on for hours with this idea, but in the end, what matters is the will to re-shape this great website, and I'm not sure is that even an option, but if someone from Administration decides to deal with it, I will be first in line to check it on daily basis and support it by recommending it. Sorry for lenghty post.

Dune Part II was epic on so many levels. A true cinematic experience.

Hi all! 🫶 Not active as I used to be, but from time to time I get back here to check new Nhjo music annoucements! 🙃

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Store: https://www.beatport.com/release/geometrie-variables/4537074 Release Date: 2024-04-26 Label: Bom Shanka Music Catalog: BSMDG011 Genre: PsyTrance Artist: Digital Talk,Synthetik Chaos,Rugrats,Eeriegeist,Radikal Moodz,Pantomiman,Junesix,Braingineers,Dezzert,Wode,Creepy Deep,Loose Connection Title: Geometrie Variables TrackList: 1. Digital Talk - Rush (Synthetik Chaos remix) 6:47 2. Rugrats & Synthetik Chaos - Jungle Mess 7:53 3. Eeriegeist & Synthetik Chaos - DMT 7:26 4. Radikal Moodz & Synthetik Chaos - Dropin Tales 7:33 5. Pantomiman & Synthetik Chaos - Bimboobambats 6:51 6. Junesix - Rifo (Synthetik Chaos remix) 6:44 7. Braingineers & Synthetik Chaos - What Is Your Emergency 6:44 8. Dezzert & Synthetik Chaos - Geometries Variable 7:09 9. Wode & Synthetik Chaos - Mad Monster Party 7:02 10. Creepy Deep & Synthetik Chaos - Drinks On Me 6:58 11. Loose Connection & Synthetik Chaos - Time Travel 7:05

Store: https://www.beatport.com/release/portugoa/4533906 Release Date: 2024-04-26 Label: Matsuri Digital Catalog: MD088 Genre: PsyTrance Artist: Absolute Hypnotic Title: Portugoa TrackList: 01. Portugoa [07:53] 02. Bereshit [09:46] Matsuri Digital is delighted to announce the release of an EP featuring two outstanding tracks by the project Absolute Hypnotic: Portugoa and Bereshit. Absolute Hypnotic is a collaboration with Raziel Harus and Boaz Turgeman, and the two brilliant productions on this release - mastered by the legendary Avi Spacecat - will get dancers around the cosmos moving and grooving. Portugoa is a high-energy track with a driving rhythm, uplifting harmonic and melodic riffs, and incredible momentum. Bereshit, by contrast, is much slower but still incredibly powerful and uplifting, with some old-school harmonic Goa elements that bring a hypnotic vibe together with extremely psychedelic atonal figurations - an incredible mind-expanding journey! Two phenomenal tracks by two amazing producers that will shake things up in very different ways - be sure to check these out!

Store: https://www.beatport.com/release/flying-saucers/4529073 Release Date: 2024-04-26 Label: Nano Records Catalog: NANODIGI361 Genre: PsyTrance Artist: Ital & Alienatic Title: Flying Saucers TrackList: 01. Flying Saucers [08:28] Pairing Ital and Alienatic was the best idea the aliens have had yet! Whether through mind-control, audio manipulation or secretly injected extraterrestrial substances, we are not sure how they did it, but it worked! The aliens brought these two crazy producers together to spread their alien message to us all, and make sure we are all paying attention! Hearing the fruits of this Alienatic and Ital collaboration makes it very clear just how well these two acts' sounds work together, and the thrill is evident from the first beat to the last! Get ready for take off!

Store: https://www.beatport.com/release/nostalgia/4530627 Release Date: 2024-04-26 Label: Rave Tool Catalog: RVT004 Genre: PsyTrance Artist: Re-Twin Title: Nostalgia TrackList: 01. Nostalgia [06:37] Re-Twin's latest release titled 'Nostalgia' is a captivating journey back to the golden era of Full-on trance. Filled with nostalgic melodies reminiscent of the genre's prime years, this track encapsulates the essence of euphoria and energy that characterized Full-on at its peak. With pulsating basslines, uplifting synths, and intricate layers of sound, 'Nostalgia' invites listeners to immerse themselves in a sonic landscape where every beat evokes memories of dance floor bliss. It's a testament to Re-Twin's ability to blend the classic elements of Full-on with contemporary production techniques, resulting in a track that is both timeless and exhilarating.