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The first LSD track I heard was Gamma One, and I was instantly in love. A breath of fresh air through goa land. More EP's followed, an album followed, but I became less impressed as it didn't feel new or fresh anymore. Something was lacking. Now, talent always comes to the surface again. And what do you know?! YES! Danny aka LSD is back with a bang! On "Infinitely Intricate Unfolding Kaleidoscope" he still uses his biggest trademark: the basswork. This is incredible. All tracks have a glooming, pumping bassline in the back that carries the track. And the kick. Wow, LSD doesn't make big loud drops, but when the break ends, the naked basskick sneaks in like a lizard and it screams UNDERGROUND! What sets this album apart form previous releases? In my opinion, overall track structure and soundscapes. Every track is a story, a beauty with so many delicate synth sounds. Never harsh, but so sweet. And always psychedelic. The slower bpm of some tracks is perfect to make the tracks breathe more. It's very difficult to select a favorite track. Maybe Wave After Wave because of its floating nature. But the whole album is so very beautiful. "Infinitely Intricate Unfolding Kaleidoscope" is LSD's stamp on goa and psychedelic trance. His best work to date. And I'm proud to have the cd on the shelf. And I'm sure we will be blessed with even better and other work from him in the future. But let us first enjoy the beauty of this music. Congrats Danny and Neogoa!

Agreed, sadly.

This is a really funny and interesting topic (rare for Psynews these days). My fiancee is a primary school teacher (6-13 yo), me being a sound/light professional I usually help her (and the whole school) with the various plays and shows that they do. So I try to throw in as much alternative music as possible, since kids only listen to the rubbish promoted by TV and youtube. Whenever they have anything to do with magical fairy tales and lepricons I usually put in some version of Gamma goblins, when they did a presentation about modern technology I put Rinkdadink-Message from my chilhood (which has a lot of 6-bit samples from old video games), Juno Reactor very often too. This is not just limited to dance music, whenever there is some kind of battle or evil character, I prefer to throw in some punk or hardcore metal. This summer they are preparing a theater play based on sports and I'm planning to use 2 old-school Greek hip-hop songs which talks about people who succeed in life outside of the educational system but at the same time they mention the struggles in doing so and the struggels of their families unti they succeed. What I've noticed with the kids is that they can't listen to it for a long time. They like the beat and the simple melodies and the effects but only for a short time. I think it has to do with their attention span and cognitive ablities which are still under-developed. There's this funny story: My fiancee was just starting the preparations for a theater play and was explaining to the kids what's it going to be about, the characters, the music etc. So she played some tracks and some were trance tracks. After the class ended, this 7 year old boy comes to her and says: -Miss, that was trance music, right? Have you got any Man With No Name at your playlist? The kid is Naturelement's (https://www.discogs.com/artist/2037166-Naturelement) nephew so he had heard a lot of electronica at his studio. I actually know Dimitri very well, I just didn't know that he had a nephew at my fiancee's school.

2 old super awesome tracks

Ahahaha. Well, that's the difference, science doesn't believe. They observe, gather data and reach a consensus (and ready to change if data changes). Religion is about "truth" and science about knowledge. You cannot have the ultimate knowledge, ever, but religion believes it has the ultimate truth. Yes it more reasonable to believe something observable, measurable and experimentally proven than a dogma created by a group of people thousands years ago under constant recession to the corners of what science is not able yet to explain. We are working on that, and we have a pretty good idea. We just need to prove it. Give us a couple of decades please BTW, evolution is a process, it is not created. Exactly, but a group of people that decided to write a book and tell me what to believe shouldn't be humble? Science's understanding is limited, religions understanding is zero. Totally wrong, it has been recently observed that matter can appear from nothing. See, science, they change their "beliefs" depending on the evidence. What is that if not what religions are trying to do against god? Take note though that I am bashing only religion. Not god or our need to believe in god. I think it was about the last movie that made you cry or something haha.

Normally I do not reply to reviews, but I have to do it now (please take no offence in my words, it is just my humble opinion after listening to this 'genre' for 20 years and numerous talks with Ray and many other psychedelic trance artists in the past decades). I'm not talking about the quality, style or what ever of these tracks, just about what they are and do (imo). These things are up to everyone to decide Apart from that, if you would take even more time to dig deep into the history of this 'genre', you'd realise a few things: a ) goa isn't a genre, it was called 'goa trance' by party organizers in the mid 90's in Goa (India) to attract people; so it was a pure commercial move to call it 'goa trance'. Detail: at that time all sorts of 'weird' electronic music was played at those beaches - info by Ray Castle himself. It is an illusion to pose goa trance started to exist only at the mid 90's, nope, the sounds capes we so adore came a live gradually (listen to some 'proto goa' sets from the early 90's and you'll hear what I mean). b ) That is why 'goa trance' could better be called 'avant garde trance' (quote by Ray Castle), and he is right: that is exactly what this music is all about. Fucking avant garde and out of the box: challenging the mind in a musical way. Goa therefore is a mind set to rethink electronic music to re-invent itself and NOT get stuck into a certain formula or sound scape. c ) So that taken in consideration the term(s) 'old skool goa' (and new skool goa) is (are) far from correct and is (are) utterly useless to determine what has been released here. (my personnel) Conclusion: this CD/album should be for everyone who wants to know about avant garde trance and wants to buy and support a wonderful project/artist/music! -Our minds are polluted with the idea goa is a genre and the fact that goa should sound a certain way: guess again Ray proves goa is a fluent, organic and non deterministic way to make psychedelic electronic dance music. Good thing to wake that up again Ray (and Suntrip): may it inspire more new artists to be more unique and utterly avant garde <3 ...and not just copy a existing sound without searching and using the 'basic' ingredients. -Our minds are polluted with the idea this 'goa trance' has to be melodic and that these (well distinguished) melodies should lay 'on top' of the music. No, melodies are found also here in Rays music, but in a more non obvious way we hear nowadays. Again, Rays music is about being unique, psychedelic and avant garde, and - surprise - this is what (how we call it today) 'goa trance' is all about. -Rays melodies are blasting and crazy...plus: this sound is far from 'early goa sound', it is the 'goa sound' from a certain period. Without the intention to be smart or arrogant...yours truly