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The Doktor has written more than half of the recent reviews here so probably best not to insult him. I'm normally not into quoting the book at someone, but you were talking about rules, soooo: I'll say no more.

Really nice review... ....And a little bit of drama added to keep things interested. You can buy the release here: https://digitalreprints.bandcamp.com/album/human-odyssey And in the meantime check the new 2xCD Elysium's release as well :) https://digitalreprints.bandcamp.com/album/a-journey-through-time-space

That's my personality, I'm quite brazen and in your face.. Is that better or worse than being anonymous and spamming " 😥" reactions to my posts? Like some random coward? If you don't like, say it. Don't hide behind a anonymous reaction like whoever keeps stalking me. Also, what's wrong with my superlatives? Is it that hurtful? No, it's really not. And yes it's a jokey style. It's not my fault everyone here are so freaking uptite. I really feel bad for you if you can't take a freaking joke. (I don't mean you personally acid being but "you" as in a general statement) Put your fucking skirt down and stop reacting to me like I'm a fuggin Hitler.

It's OK to be sensitive. Lots of us are sensitive. I don't know about anyone else but I don't want you to leave the forum. I just feel like it's better to tone down the totally intense way you write your criticisms, if you can. For example you're not wrong that it's helpful for a review to include a link to the music. But if you say it the way you did full of intense insulting superlatives like "nothing I hate more", and calling him things like "lazy" and "ignorant" which are usually hurtful to someone, if you say it like that then you will get these kind of reactions. I'm puzzled that it needs spelling out but you contribute a lot to this site, so I just want to figure things out. I mean, are you going for a jokey style with those kind of comments? It doesn't work. Any further discussion should move to a different thread IMHO.

What rules was I talking about? I already forgot.. And noone is above criticism not even The Doktor. Especially not since you said "it's best not to insult him". That makes me really want to insult him 😢 Edit. Aha I said "can we please make this a rule". Yes, please let us make that a rule. Write a review? Post a damn link. That's not that crazy is it?? What's crazy is the gaslighting going on right now and the anonymous harassment with the "reactions". It has become very toxic just to post here now. Oh well. I guess it's a good way of bullying someone off the forum. Just spam "😢" reactions at him until he leaves. And if you think I'm being overly sensitive just look at my comment history and you'll see I'm being harassed with those "reactions" how crazy it may seem. Yes harassed. Peace ✌️

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HI. Hey FP. I live in SEOUL, SONGPA GU, SONGPA 2 DONG HANYANG ART. If I have lot money I will take with you with Outback Steak house and Papajohns Special Pizza. But I have now not have lot money. I love Pizza. If you visit my house room I will buy pizza with you. haha. But I you have lot money you pay haha!. I always visit psynews. I recently make My new band "The Superman" and "The Trance" etc. I will release my new albums and singles at nearly soon. thanks my email nhjohyennro@naver.com

I heard he is on tour doing keys for Coldplay

Sometimes I close my eyes wave my finger and pull out random CDs out of collection, well today I got this one https://www.discogs.com/release/575684-Various-Bali-Trance-Dua-Ribu Got me thinking have stumbled across few random ones like these over years but wondering could this be a kind of bootleg? Has some no name artists in it, plus cosmosis tracks from synergy yet released few years after these made, couple of seeming exclusive or unreleased total eclipse tracks yet one seems familiar? This one in particular on king coconut records,with just this release, so am assuming done from someone's bedroom for something to do. The tracks by limited or unknown artists some actually quite good, but interested in these total eclipse tracks if anyone has any info as they great, anyone else come across these type of comps that don't seem to make any sense?

King Coconut says it all.

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I agree 100%. I love this guys too. Peace, Love, Union & Respect

RA - Unearthly You may think I'm crazy. I do not think I am being hyperbolic when I say that I truly believe this album is the greatest musical work of all time. Sure, there are classical pieces that may be more technically impressive in terms of composition and performance, but I make this judgment based on the end result, the acoustic experience that the listener is transported into. To take everything that is great about classical music and then adopt synthesizers, creating sounds, textures and subtle effects that are simply impossible with a traditional orchestra, that's surely how you go about making the best music we can possibly hear on this planet at this present time. But even in the world of synths, Klaus Schulze, Jean-Michel Jarre, nobody has ever equalled the best moments of this gorgeous album. 1. Floating Shrine of Inanna Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian Goddess associated with love, beauty and fertility (also war but let's skip over that for this music) and I really feel those themes infusing this deliciously mellow and warm track which immediately draws you into RA's world. The vocal sounds by Marthe Borge-Lunde Pfirrmann are lovely and very much add to the ambience. This music awakens my visual imagination and as the title suggests I do get a picture of an ancient eastern temple floating on a rectangular platform high above the clouds. 10/10 2. Rain No Water The title of this track suggests a tragic twist of fate to me. Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink? The looping pattern of the main melody does evoke the idea of rainfall and the mood may be very slightly on the melancholic side but the overall impression is one of soothing ambience and warmth, as well as an epic sense of scale and awe. It's also another stunningly beautiful piece of music. 9/10 3. Ascend From the intro, through the second track and now into this one the pace and intensity has been gradually building up. The voiceover on this one immediately reminds us of RA's previous albums and once again the words are deeply meaningful and inspirational as if they were genuinely transcribed from some blissfully benevolent universal intelligence. "Everything you see around you is what you create. And all you can do is experience this ascension process as it unfolds. Lived in the now." This echoes the wisdom on an earlier work that "There is only one thing we ever truly control: whether we are good or evil." Both phrases represent the idea that the content of our instantaneous life experience is determined in massive part by the millions of choices we make which in turn may be determined by our genetics combined with the information we learn from our travels on Earth. In this track there is also a hint of philosophical Idealism which is the belief that ultimately all of reality is generated by consciousness. This induces a state of awe and wonder as the beautiful track progresses. 9/10 4. Shift Now I've claimed the album is the greatest musical work of all time, by extension logically this track must be the greatest track of all time, and it certainly is my all-time favorite Goa trance track, and I believe Goa is the best genre of music, so yeah, I believe Shift is the greatest of all. With each track so far, we have been building up to this, and now RA absolutely pulls out all the stops. It's nothing short of amazing. We get some slightly sinister pads at the start and the first of a number of sci fi voice samples about space and time travel. Then we hear some tubular, erm, bells? - Let's call them chimes - that hint at the main melody to come. It's got a more uptempo beat this time and nice bits of acid. When it finally comes in fully, the main melody may just be a relatively simple sequence of notes, but RA have somehow uncovered one of the most mystical and intriguing tunes I have ever heard and what makes it perfect is the inspired choice of synth and effects. It sounds dark and very exotic and conjures up images of an early Medieval bazaar in the East where some ancient magic has animated objects or strange alien beings into dancing in wild circles. This tune plays over lots of exquisitely chosen layers with even some barking acid notes in the background. Towards the end of the track this main melody gets even better still as some subtle effects are added that make it sound even stranger with a sense of uneasiness. I'd love to know how they did it but it could be increasing the detune, flanging, some kind of slight pitch bend or maybe a combination of multiple effects. However it was done, for me it's the perfect moment in the perfect track. 10/10 5. Lifethread (Serene Mix) At the start of the review I mentioned Klaus Schulze. Well the moody, swirling pads in this one are reminiscent of Schulze's Timewind. Then we get an upbeat, optimistic arpeggio. That drops out to some moodier, growling acidic sounds which are great. Some gorgeous pitch bending synths follow and it sounds lovely. There's even a cute little xylophone that comes in to accentuate the melody. All that said, I do find this one less memorable than the earlier tracks which is inevitable given Shift is to me, musical perfection (Did I mention that? ). 8/10 6. Lightspark This has a fast kick and bass, a spacey synth and some nice little bits of melody. A light, playful track. As before it only suffers by virtue of existing in the shadow of the first four tracks. The fact that most of the tracks seem to have similar sounds means there's a risk this far in of things feeling just a bit samey. However, when those sounds are as warm, clear and exquisitely beautiful as they are on this album, I am extremely grateful for every track that features them. 7/10 7. Unearthly A catchy opening melody here is filled with love and hope and it builds with some faster, crystal clear trancey sounds. We even get a high piano to reinforce the strong melody over the driving, trippy beat. Then the goregous lead synth. This one is quite addictive. From the 6 minute mark we get some really nice interplay between the different layers and then the lead comes back again. 9.5/10 8. Celestial Slice This builds up layers of lovely, bouncy, oscillating high pitched melodies and then that stunningly gorgeous lead synth comes in again. It gets joined by the tasteful use of an acoustic guitar. A spacey and uplifting track. I agree with other reviews on the themes of hope and love. The title of this one makes me think of space, but also perhaps our celestial slice is the little slice of time and space we are each gifted with to experience reality, lived in the now. And thus concludes some of the most beautiful music of all time. 9.5/10 I cannot recommend this album enough. I generally agree with johnb820 and Jon Cocco's reviews and with the consensus that tracks 5 and 6 are the weaker ones, but in my opinion they're still great. As for why I seem to be the biggest fanboy on the planet for RA and Unearthly, I loved ambient and enjoyed a little bit of the older Berlin school output before I discovered Goa and psytrance. There is a bit of a retro feel to some of this music. I can't believe that for years I overlooked RA because I snootily assumed they must just be yet another new school psytrance project that only the kids were into, from what I can remember some troll dismissed their music and I stupidly took that as confirmation. I couldn't have been more wrong! If you love ambient, Goa or downtempo you simply must hear this! 10/10

Funnily enough I didn't find this topic while searching.. 1) fluoro neuro sponge 2) gamma goblins 2 3) lsd / angelic particles / magik 4) demention 5) horrorgram / snakey shaker

wops i forgot about space pussy. that was my fav track for many years around the 00s. Should be also shared 3rd place. Interesting you mention jiggle of the sphinx which i think is one of his more weaker tracks

Sounds very nice hope we find out. Sound feels familiar

Indeed, anyways you gotta admit, he's been very consistent in his spam over the years. It's like Pavel invented this theme, and then stuck to it. I think NHJO have been posting these things for around 15 years or so on Psynews, maybe more even. So yeah it has become a bit of a tradition, many people came and went since then. But NHJO is eternal no doubt.

Devolution and the Soft Organic Edge One problem with "cutting edge" as a phrase is that it suggests the trendy, the sharp, the new, the hip. But what if the new is ancient, organic, soft? To pick up on Wadax's comment about the "evolution" of jazz and how after the cul de sac of extreme tempos in bebop we got Kind of Blue, I feel that Goa reached a kind of dead end with hyperfast hi-tech machine gun psytrance with this as an early example (ag, no man, I just wanted an opportunity to post this fantastic cover art): For me, the "cutting edge" is in fact a blunt edge that goes back to the roots of Goa in slower and more organic music. I think it can be found in the slowed up, dark, and extremely psychoactive swampdelica of Battle of the Future Buddhas, Katedra, Proxeeus. This is the opposite of showy music for the festival (which will continue). It abandons humanity's magpie love for shiny stuff, manifesting Goa's original love for nature in a more organic music and sound for the darker era in which we now live: I doubt that this will much appeal as there is no rap, no trap, no dubstep, no hyperbole. It feels ancient rather than new, but for me this is a step forward in Goa. ~*~

Sorry NHJO, I got a bad case of diarrhea in the last couple of days from presumably too much Korean BBQ. Next time, I hope

Please do, nothing we need more over here than more reviews and content! Yeah bandcamp is a great way to both let the reader quickly check out the music as well as promoting the artist. Just don't be lazy and ignorant like the doktor (and then be crazy enough to redirect it back to me as if I'm the problem and not him for not posting a single fkn link) and you'll be more than fine 😊

And id really appreciate if you, in the future, could post a listenable link to the album you're reviewing, thanks What's with the quoting? We all can read what I wrote but thanks for really driving my point home! 😚 And I'm gonna comment even more on your threads now. 😃 (and I just have to mention the "reactions". Haha. It's kind of hilarious. So basically you want reviews with 0 links to the album in question. And hate if someone calls that out. Gotcha and holy shit people here seem to have their little pink panties in a twist these days. Jesus christ, grow up)