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Let's be honest, Goa Trance truly emerged around 1993-94 and started dying in 2000, that's about 6 or 7 years of peak popularity. Then it came back around 2006-07, and now we are in 2025, that's almost 20 years of what we used to call new school Goa. Do you think Goa Trance evolved much in that time? After so long it's not surprising to see it decline, it's a natural phenomenon. Listen to a random Goa Trance album from 2023 and tell me how different it is from a 2013 album...

I don't really feel like getting into the pissing contest about how people (or kids these days) are listening to wrong music and listening to music wrong, but we can check some trends for sort of hard facts. One go-to place is IFPI's global music report. Right now the main site is acting up, but you can get a referring article or the pdf. For some possible key points: Music revenues as a whole crashed by about 50% from the late 90s peak (or "peak CD, no Napster yet") to the 2015-ish "how should we even get stuff" confusion low, but now they've actually made a new all-time high again. Nowadays the big money comes from streaming (51.2% subscriptions, 17.7% ad-supported, 69.0% together), but obviously not for everyone equally. Physical media is 16.4% globally, probably less in the US and similar countries. (You can find US stats separately.) Vinyl has outsold CDs since 2020. I still buy CDs and vinyl - for reliable hard copies and simply for collecting, but overall CD buyers are a small minority and people actually listening to CDs even smaller. That "I don't even own a CD player" boast was popular already 20 years ago. Today I know people who actually hoard CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives because their production is dwindling and eventually you won't be able to get any new ones even if you wanted. Anyway, streaming is how people get music. It's another story how "kids these days" listen to music. I'm not saying that everyone only checks six second video snippets, but I do think that swiping, skipping, shorter attention span and instant gratification are real trends. I'm obviously old and grumpy, but in my opinion psy-trance in general got a bit weird already in the 00s when it still insisted on 8 minute tracks, yet placed some crowd-hyping filter effect or fill in there every 20 seconds. It was different in the 90s when listening involved the effort of loading a physical disc, and a few minutes of gradual building was a thing, acceptable, or even expected. I don't know if I'm getting anywhere here but let's just say that goa, CDs, and goa CDs are on the losing side of major trends. Also, there is so much of everything that marginal stuff is ridiculously marginal now. I'm almost literally drowning in music and I'm buying it on physical discs. If I tried to follow even a fraction of all the digital stuff, RIP me. It takes me more than a month to process what I can easily get on a single Bandcamp Friday. I'll stop here because it's late again, but maybe I'll dedicate another message to Cronomi. Let's see.

i think you all are sleeping on how good the 2003 MWNN album was.

OCTOBER 17 - 2025 - RELEASED - SUNTRIP RECORDS track list: 1-1 Take My Hand 9:11 1-2 Children Of The Sun 8:09 1-3 The Path Of The Ascetic 10:11 1-4 Sacred Phase 10:50 1-5 Endless Ritua 10:43 1-6 This World Is Not For Us 7:40 1-7 Gone Like The Wind 8:03 1-8 We Can Never Go Back 8:54 2-1 Emptiness 10:09 2-2 For A Memory 21:05 2-3 Supplication 6:35 2-4 Everything Will Be Solved Today 7:15 2-5 Source Of Emotions 17:09 2-7 Heartfelt 4:52 2-8 Blurred Memories 7:55 3-1 Drifting Into Myself 8:13 3-2 Moment Of Decision 15:05 3-3 Longing For Something 11:18 3-4 Bottomless Pit 9:23 3-5 What Was Left Behind 5:30 3-6 Nowhere I Meant To Be 5:26 3-7 Impasse 4:16 3-8 Lasting Memories 9:36 3-9 Regeneration 6:05 Im not going to go thru each track. Ill just give an overall impression. There are very interesting pieces of music here, on all tracks. So i recommend if you like Mindsphere and New School goa, you will like alot of this one. But, something is wrong with the sound. I cant pinpoint it, but its very sharp, annoying and doesnt feel good. I think the wrong files was sent for mastering. Or rather, the wrong files was sent FROM mastering. Thats just my honest thoughts. Because it sounds harsh, digital, annoying, and the bass+kick doesnt feel well defined or pleasant. So while I might hear it in a technical problem area, you might not. But for me this reduces the grade ALOT. Cause, theres really no excuse for sounding bad anymore. Musically sure, but soundwise? no. Again theres tons of really cool tracks here, that I invite you all to check out. Maybe you dont hear the issues I hear. Afterall, Mindsphere is a great talent, so it saddens me that for me personally, this album goes into the trash just because of its sound. To me this music is WAY better than Astral Projection - For all Mankind. But the sound is even worse than it. Sadly. I cant understand what happened because his older albums did NOT sound like this. Again, sound only.... I hope I can come back to this later on , because i have lots to say about the music. But for now, unfortunately, the music will suffer due to unpleasant sound. And it is really sad, because the music deserves SO much better. 2.5/5 The best thing about this massive album is that he reprises or remixes alot of famous melodies. Thats worth the listen alone.

Compilation to celebrate 10 years of our small collective: https://10yearsofoh.bandcamp.com/album/va-10-years-of-oh Besides digital download, compilation is also available as a limited edition box featuring a custom wooden USB stick containing all tracks plus an exclusive mixed version of the compilation. Includes OH sticker, badge, and a 8-page booklet. Tracklist: 1. Third Eye Channel - Old School Calling (OH opening mix) 2. Nervasystem - KadelikFu 3. Omnivox - Solar Seeds 4. Dragon Twins - Hrvatisfaction 5. Morphic Resonance - The Dark Inside Me 6. Ubar Tmar - I'm Shocked (Sab Kuch Milegator edit) 7. Mania - We Are Infinite 8. Liquid Sun - The Last Unicorn Compiled by OH (Kičma & Mrva) Mastering by Drezz Dressler Artwork by Lucija Glavina

Prodigy are what got more into Electronic music in the first place. Hearing the Prodigy Experience when I was young was mind-blowing, then Jilted as a follow up...wow!!! Still love these 2 albums. Neektone on Bandcamp remixed both the Experience and Jilted as D&B - just missing Voodoo People and No Good Start the Dance but they're excellent remix albums, he keeps the core of what makes the track special but changes it into a totally different style. I have heard so many remixes that are either unrecognizable or too similar but he does a great balancing act.

The Prodigy and Goa trance? Yes! You can argue that it’s not Goa trance, but Goa DJs constantly play this track in their sets. And Empirion’s work is often associated with Goa trance as well — not all of it, but some of it. The Prodigy — Firestarter (Empirion Mix) (1996)

What's the prodigy etiquette on this forum It's not goa but, maybe a precursor? Maybe not music wise but brain wise. Or am I just drunk asf. Possibly both. Whoooooooo

Hallucinations of the Buddha. Part 2 - First samples 🧝‍♀️🧙‍♂️ Listen now: https://soundcloud.com/globalsect/hallucinations-of-the-buddha Attention! The disc box features a specially designed form created exclusively for this release. When unfolded, it conceptually complements the first part of the compilation, drawing an analogy with the game Tetris. Therefore, if you want to enjoy the complete visual and musical experience, make sure to get the first part while it’s still available - no more than 70 copies remain in stock. This is a limited release and will not be reprinted. Grab your copy here: https://globalsect.bandcamp.com/album/va-hallucinations-of-the-buddha-6cd Samples tracklist: 1. Dream Phase - Light Through Darkness 2. Arthur Pralaya - Pale Blue Dot 3. Fiery Dawn - Starlight Lullaby 4. Giilgamesh - Orbital Resonance 5. Artifact303 - Escape 6. Astronobios - Name in Progress 7. Fiery Dawn - Wings of Night 8. SETI Project - Headbanger 9. S.U.N. Project - 380 Volt (Morioun Remix) 10. Processor - People Worth Shit 11. Galaktik Wizdom - Focused Meditation 12. Eraser vs Yojalka - Rassah Munkabu (Morioun Remix) 13. Fiery Dawn - The Fire From Within 14. Summamutikka - Menisa Wirutana 15. Rayhaviina - NistiGoa 16. Hämeen Nopein - BulGoarian Folk 17. G O U G A S - Effing the Ineffable 18. Processor - Back To Nitzhogoa 19. Goalien - The Silence of Dead Stars 20. Dragon Twins - Belgian Drip 21. Giilgamesh - Type III Civilization You are in for a massive, diverse, and deeply conceptual musical journey. The tracklist features a wide range of outstanding works by true musical wizards: a new track from Artifact303, remixes of Blue Planet Corporation, S.U.N. Project, Xenomorph, Eraser vs Yojalka, a new guitar track from Xenomorph, a pure suomi CD by DJ Dark El Kante (Random Records), a nitzho CD by Agneton (Sita Records), deep ambient immersion, and a new CD from DJ Masala and DJane Hisui. Enjoy!

For All Mankind * *certain exceptions apply

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Elysium doesn't have any decent original tracks? That's an odd opinion, sounds like someone has never heard Dance for the Celestial Beings

Phobium - The inescapable contract

Is good in my opinion, at least they keep with their own style that I appreciate very much.

I'm really sorry to hear this news. Cronomi was one of the few labels that I really admired and followed. Music itself made strong impact on many goa-heads who were into the second wave but also on some older goa-heads too. I believe you guys can all be proud of yourself and what you did through many years. Also I can understand most of the reasons you mentioned. I can only wish you best of luck in your next adventures!

Acid drop straight into your ear. Wizack Twizack - Re-Rotter

does the music get better each time you spam it? you dont even post links anymore. wtf is a galaxy liquid sky. this is a very strange remix of space dwarfs not sure how it was even on an album. everything good about the track was destryed into something garbage. then again i never understood space tribe. that was always trash to me. but this? comon.

Maybe we need a cassette player global plugin for our os 😋 Yeah it is a good album I'm just kinda waiting for the (hopefully) inevitable remaster/proper version to fully enjoy it. Tons of great stuff here.. Bunch of Easter eggs and hidden stuff that makes you go "oh, damn that's cool that's the xxx melody"

OK firstly, the music is pretty lovely. About harshness though, when I heard the first track I was going to say any harshness was a marginal thing, maybe hidden by my tinnitus. But I heard the second track and I started to notice it more. It is not the worst ever, but it is enough to notice, and enough that if I crank the volume my ears will start to get tired after a couple tracks or so. Across the whole album though, some tracks are more tolerable in that regard than others because they don't all flood the upper mids all the time. I wonder if it is just due to the fashion of cranking up the upper mids to increase perceived loudness, which isn't such a great idea for Goa because most Goa fans won't want to feel like someone is hammering metallic objects right into their ear drums, well IMHO anyway. Maybe we just need a cassette version AP! Good album.

this one surely is a spiritual healing version. one of the better ones then again i dont think it sounds that good tbh. sonically it lacks in alot of departements. .

haha thats funny. same chord progression on the bass, but i think its a key higher? i wouldnt call this a spiritual healing version per se, but its way too similar to disregard. hmm i think we need a spiritual healing versions topic 😛 i dont think this one really fits but why not.

Haha yes thanks, didn't know that one, could clearly be a remix, and it actually sounds really good, has the same chords but on top of that a different melody that fits perfectly... very nice one!

Even Fractal Glider has his own Spiritual Healing. A unique 8-minute track that radically changes its melody at around 04:09 (I love that kind of thing). For the first four minutes it’s this driving acid trance, and then at 04:09 — bam — the track turns into a perfect floater and a clearly recognizable Spiritual Healing. Fractal – Them (1999) https://youtube.com/watch?v=IY9-6lDyMdY

I am glad to see this forum still alive, although there aren't much new threads. Wish you the best webmaster!

Very good but not as good as the tracks on Shing Faces.

This is a very good track by MFG. I also like a lot MFG - The world is a narrow bridge

This is a very good track

pure psychedelic doesnt get much better

Thanks!!! ❤️ ...and only 10 copies left

I don´t remember you ever having on Facebook.What about Amen, which tracks are your favorites? ON AStral Files, why don´t you like the tracks I emntioned, I find them very melodic and good. Astral Files is a popular album among the goa trance scene, so I don´t understand why you like only one track. https://ibb.co/GvPCXv6M This is how I look now This is how I looked earlier https://ibb.co/FbX9tgbn

As Cronomi is unfortunately about to disappear off the face of the Earth I am listening to, and yeah in many cases purchasing, their various releases. I will try to do some mini reviews of some of the ones I have missed. Portamento - The Portal Cronomi Records – CRONOMI005CD 1. White Dwarf 08:41 2. 48 Hours 08:05 3. The Portal 08:07 4. Monkshroom 08:41 5. Injected Spawn 08:17 6. Biosphere 09:24 7. Vitamin E 07:56 8. A Grain Of Sand 07:33 9. Controlled Experiment 09:12 This is such a cool album because it really nails the sound of early Goa, with tons of croaky acid, highly resonant synths and classic sawtooth basslines. It is incredibly old skool and yet the sound production sounds a lot more clean and modern. It manages to be highly energetic, highly melodic and highly acidic all at the same time. Very, very good. Do Cronomi a favor in their last days and BUY IT NOW: https://cronomi.bandcamp.com/album/the-portal If you don't they will actually destroy the CDs! No joke: 8/10

Maximum Goa

I am the real radi6404, I can remind you of the talks about Monika or of my likings rarlier of Electric Universe, where I praised Electric Universe in the What are you listening to? thread more than Astral Projection. On Amien I like Chaos,, Electric Blue, Heavens Gate, Sticks and Stones, The Nexus, Electrogroo. That´s all. I don´t like the track Flying into a Star because of the one key melody, that is between the main melody at repeattime 1 and repeat time two.

I think it is disrespectful from the goa scene public not supporting artists by streaming all their music for free or on platforms that don't pay them I refuse to still participate in this charade and changed priorities, to do what feels authentic - the choice has been made ❤️

this is just noobs uploading stuff and titling stuff whatever they want 😛 theres nothing here thats copyright infringement. sure the bassline follows the exact same progression and to fans it is CLEAR he is trying to do his own "spiritual healing" but its not a remix its a homage if anything but nothing more.

you have a very strange taste when it comes to AP. for example you left out Nilaya out of your "another world" list. and you mentioned Ionized, zero, free tibet and kabalah on your "astral files" list and theyre all trash imho. Time began is good, utopia, electronic, ambience again trash. and you left out Enlightened evolution remix which is the single best one on that album and one of the best AP tracks full stop, top 3 without a doubt. your taste isnt Wrong, its just Odd, to me at least. i couldnt stand the sound of For all mankind so i havent listened to a single track on there more than once. it basically hurts my brain listening to it. but, considering your odd taste, what do you think of Dancing galaxy, which tracks do you prefer there, and which do you not like. again youre not wrong, everyone is entitled to their opinion and i respect yours fully. i just find it interesting. And one mans treasure is another mans trash and vice versa. but to answer your question i thought For all mankind was a huge fail. maybe in 5 years ill go back to it, realise im wrong. maybe. hard for me to gloss over the way it sounds though, its just too squashed and very very flat.

Understandable. Talk about the same boring lineups with the same well-known names over and over again! Not to mention the very high ticket prices for the festivals.They are not affordable for many of us. It's kind of sad that many people who go to festivals have deep enough pockets to pay for travelling costs, festival tickets etc., but not for an album. You're probably right that most of the new audience don't really care about buying the music or at least getting acquainted with relevant discography. They just want to go to festivals, even if they don't know who's playing. I feel the scene is becoming more commercialised, like the rest of Psytrance. Fast food for the masses. Not sure though whether the Goa scene itself has shrunk. It seems it's becoming more mainstream. The underground feeling is fading away, and instead you get big expensive festivals with extravagant, flashy decoration, and very prominent, levelled up DJ decks, as if they are some kind of superstars. They look ridiculous, egotistic attention-seekers to me. When the scene emerged in Goa in its most authentic form it was not like this; the dancing experience itself was the focus. There are more events and music released than 15 years ago. It's just that there is no "quality control" anymore. As physical format is gradually being abandoned, individuals and labels can publish virtually anything online, which is not costly I suppose and therefore not risky. And then you end up with tons of music released, most of which is of poor quality, and most of which almost nobody buys.

I think astral managed to create way more memorable melodies and patterns on the previous albums. This one was really flat. It felt the same as Prana's latest album, just really boring, although approachable stuff. There's nothing that sticks.

Yeah but random people named it like that, it's not considered a remix officially.

Very nice find. Yeah part of this one is nearly identical to spiritual healing. Two of the key changes are the same, two are not. Then you have the main screaming lead which is very close to the ending part of spiritual healing. Excellent find I've never heard this before so thanks for that 🙏 Did Juan gather inspiration from this? Very possible! Because there's no denying at some parts, it kinda goes in and out, there for sure great resemblance. 🙏🥳

Terra Ferma - The Scream (1996) I think that this track is where the roots of the legendary The Muses Rapt — Spiritual Healing come from. Just don’t look for similarities in the first seconds. The Scream has a very long build-up, and the part that resembles Spiritual Healing starts around 05:00. But again, not immediately — it builds up for another minute and a half, and then it becomes really similar. At least I can hear something familiar there. I wouldn’t call it plagiarism, but these two tracks definitely share something in common…

@Astralprojection, I also think that Time dilation by Pleiadians is one of the best goa trance tracks.

i guess the reason why this album got so many enthusiastic reviews was the fact that it was released in 2001 and at the time goa trance was dying because otherwise i agree with astralprojection the sound quality is very poor and now it sounds very old the album 9th is so much better

@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.

It's a Darren Beale alias. Darren Beale + Drezz = Nervasystem 94-96 Well, I used to be a heavy crate digger back in the days...

OOOD - SOURCE CONFIRMED - PHANTASM RECORDS, 2024 TRACKLIST Source Confirmed – 140 - Gmaj Starcaster – 138 – Fmin Aurora Lux – 144 - Gmaj Seven Minutes to Sunrise – 135 - Cmin To The Stars – 142 - Gmin Outer Space Type Music – 145 - G#min Have You Ever – 145 - Fmin The Search - 125 – Amin Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/source-confirmed/4840527 Bandcamp: https://oood.bandcamp.com/album/source-confirmed All links: https://phantasm.ampsuite.com/releases/links?id=230 Hello Psynews, it's been a while I'm extremely proud to present our 7th album "Source Confirmed", released on Phantasm Records on December 20th 2024. Here's what the label wrote as promo text: As you can see from the track bpms, this is a very different album from the one we released in 2021 on Iboga Records, and we're super happy with where we are right now in terms of writing and production. The release includes a continuous DJ mix of the album which you can download in WAV. Please check it out!

Artist: Phyx Title: Corruption EP Label: Timecode Date: May, 2010 1. Corruption 2. Fountainhead Now lest you think I found some extra cash, or...lifted some green from my wife's purse I assure you that nothing of the sort has occurred. I had this review done on my hard drive and recently found it. Apparently it doesn't belong with all the porn. Sheesh....labels. I love it when a new Timecode release comes out. I said it before and I'll say it again, but South African psytrance just sounds better. I don't know how they do it, they just do. Ian Summs is a major force in the South African psytrance scene. He's part of Twisted System and Brethren two giants in this genre. Do you remember what you felt like when you first heard The Dealers? Yeah, hide the women and children, it was an evil ass kicker. This is the solo project (I'm sure most of you enthusiasts knew that already) of Ian and this EP is grittier, with a harder edge than his album Kiss The Blade. One thing, I don't understand the cover...are they saying that the Arkansas Razorback athletic program is corrupt? It's true, surely, but how do they know that? Corruption- This one drops a bass line with laser light focus that makes your dead grandmother want to shake it. The break talks about the perfect chord and is filled with sinister feelings. The two don't really go together but their use of effects creates that atmosphere. The climax rips and sounds crystal clear. Expect nothing less from this guy. Good job. Fountainhead- More crusty bass and ringing metallic sounds create the darkness that hides. You can see the similarities between the two tracks with the dirtier sound. The distorted synth is like a tsunami, crushing all that it touches. Synth stabs echo over the bouncing bass line and when the break arrives it is like the proverbial calm before the storm. Another good track. Man it is sh*it like this that really whets the appetite for more. Ian has done it again with two very good thumpers for those that love the twilight. Oh, good God...can we grow up? Love the South African sound and can highly recommend this puppy. Plus it was less than 3 bucks. Nice. Beatport Mdk

Laughing Skull - Extraterrestrial Lover (2025) | Goatrance Laughing Skull - ACID IS EVERYWHERE (2013) | Goatrance | best track from Laughing Skull, IMHO

better than any astral projection album