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Solar Quest - Harmonation (Energic Trance) (1995) 22:00

Feels rushed!

Personally I’m #ProIsrael, AND #FreePalestine. I’m against this terrifying longtime war-time idea of a Greater Israel, and so both Israel and palestine deserves to exist -in peace and normality / harmony … ANTI-NAZIONISM. https://openletter.earth/psytrance-in-solidarity-528f1d8e Update 24 September 2025 Please make sure to confirm your signature! Your signature will only be valid and appear if you click on the link in the email you receive after you sign! There is also an option to edit your Signature in case of an typo or similar. If you are an artists, promoter or such you can add your project name in "organisation" or also with your name. https://openletter.earth/psytrance-in-solidarity-528f1d8e Psytrance in Solidarity We are humans within the psytrance scene demanding an immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinian people. We refuse to contradict the values from which the psytrance scene was born, and support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality under the 78‑year‑old occupation by an apartheid state. As members of the global psytrance community, we ask you to join the growing critical mass by signing this letter to pledge your support and solidarity with the people of Palestine. We are at the height of a global reckoning – a watershed moment. We have witnessed massive waves of solidarity for the Palestinian people across nearly every musical genre, with independent creators and renowned industry figures condemning the atrocities unleashed by the Israeli government. Yet the psytrance scene stands alone: with its close ties to Israel, it remains shrouded in silence and complicity. Major psytrance promoters and artists have scarcely spoken out against the staggering loss of Palestinian lives as Gaza continues to be devoured in an apocalyptic blaze reminiscent of multiple Hiroshimas. This deafening silence means the psytrance scene will go down in history as complicit unless it unites in solidarity against this unthinkable atrocity. We understand that this silence is rooted in the belief that standing with Palestine betrays the friends we lost on October 7 at the Nova Festival and those still being held hostage, and that any compassion for Gazans could be mistaken for support for Hamas. While we unequivocally condemn the horrific attacks that shattered our community that day and feel for suffering of the hostages, we cannot remain silent about the catastrophic violations of human rights and international law unfolding in Gaza. Ultimately, the truth about this live-streamed genocide is impossible to ignore. We stand with the global movement opposing Gaza’s destruction and the mass displacement of the Palestinian people, and we denounce every attempt by complicit governments and cultural institutions to normalise the greatest human‑rights violation ever witnessed in our lifetimes. Together, we must fight to end the occupation, stop the genocide and dismantle apartheid. https://openletter.earth/psytrance-in-solidarity-528f1d8e Sign this letter to show your support for the people of Palestine. We are one.

If you like oldschoolish acid trance check it out peace. https://on.soundcloud.com/pcSvIvY5Q53lMFqo4P

It's sad that I have to resurrect a 23 year old (TWENTY THREE) thread to get the discussion moving. This track is still one of my all time favourites, but is there anything recent that feels like this?

I think amen is exceptional. Chaos, Elecric Blue, Heavens Gate, Sticks and Stones, ETechnodrome and The Nexus are very good tracks. The best tracks of Astral Files are all except Enlightened Evolutio and Ambience, altough Ambience is very good and Enlightened Evolution is only good.

I think it's not. I prefer TiT 2, 3 and Astral Files. My favorites is from those years. Enlightened Evolution, Zero, In-Novation, People Can Fly, Utopia, Mahadeva and some more. =))

Oh boy, I have happily overlooked that thread, not believing ... because, face it, since when are we waiting? Tell me otherwise, it feels almost like 20 years of wait! But now it really is out and I am on the first spin of a few tracks, liking it a lot. I'm not going to open all of this package at once ... I don't believe we will get another one soon It feels so good to read here! From the announcement to release comments, the banter about the mastering ... love you all ... love that we have made it here, all the ones that did. After all I've been though lately this feels super super good, I tell you that, balm on my soul Himalaya is a very good track.

I´m glad you did not mean it mean, I mean like in a bad way.

you are reading too much into this.

I share the sentiment - it’s nice, atmospheric and nostalgic, but there are no real surprises. Nevertheless, I’m glad to see them back with new music after all these years. What I really dislike is the mastering - everything is so loud, and every sound layer is maxed out in terms of volume. Dynamically, it’s almost flat - just a hard wall of sound - and for me, that ruins the otherwise top-level production. There’s no fidelity. They did the same thing with Goa Classics Remixed. I guess it sounds “better” on (cheap) Bluetooth earbuds and headphones, which most people use. I tried it on both Tidal and Deezer - it sounds the same. Hopefully, the vinyl master will be different.

1998 auracle dat version one is better than the other 😃 (disregard youtube compression)

oh nice to see some love here from those guys. into the sun has always been a fav of mine not sure if its the crowd sample that makes it sound so underground and legendary. such a wonderful magical psychedelic track. thanks for reminding me.

This track is 9:40 long, but the beautiful melody doesn’t start until 6:02. You’ll have to be patient. Digital Sun is a Goa project by the guys from Tarsis. I like Tarsis too, even though it’s psy-prog.

Another Timeless classic

Then his comment is even more ridiculous 😂

Probably from Israel, but that doesn't help much 😁

Damn, the exchange rate is going the wrong way. Maybe the new Japanese prime minister will sort out the economy (prediction - she won't)

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

My sense of time is as good as my sense of smell.... Actually last year my father-in-law gave me covid and since then I have had no sense of smell and a reduced sense of taste, so I literally have no idea if I smell or not. I am reliant on people being honest. I think it's ok as random people don't move away from me on the train when another seat opens up...

Yes It wasn't super melodic like a lot of stuff and people despised it, but I find it super trippy.

People hated this when it came out. I've always loved it 💖

Pivoting hard 😂

Browsing random old threads for music recommendations and this was a top one. Love this album, just giving it another whirl now. Anyone looking to download it, it is available on bandcamp https://avatarmusic.bandcamp.com/album/witchcraft

Just look how steep those Bulgarian mountains are Beautiful steep mountains that are fitting for all Astral Projection tracks of the album "For all mankind", and especially for the album "The Astral World" Just look how small the houses are and how big the mountains are Steep mountains far away for all beautiful astral Projection tracks of the album "for all mankind" So what do you think aboutt those Bulgarian mountains? The location, the village, is called Yurkovo, close to the small town Jakoruda.I think the mountains are very steep and are fittingvery well to the new album Astral Projection- For all mankind J ourney back from Jakoruda in expensive new Setra bus. The bus went only to Razlog. Than I Cought the bus to Blagoevgrad, my home town. The mountains in Jakoruda are a big higher ,but not as steep as in Yurkovo. Steep mountains from the near. Very beautiful mountains with very beautiful mountain slopes, which are very steep and flat grass just under the mountains which I like a lot.Very beautiful for the track Himalaya of the new album For all mankind.

Astral Projection - The Dream

I consider it one long track that is snipped up for art's sake 😃

Longread on our site. Interview with Morioun https://globalsect.org/b/interview-with-morioun/ In this interview, we are delighted to introduce one of the brightest and most talented musicians of the new wave of Goa Trance — Daniel Lübke. Despite his young age, he has already released a number of remarkable records, founded his own label, and become a member of a band exploring the realm of Psychedelic Rock. With artists like him, the future of Goa Trance is in safe hands. Enjoy!

The Solar Question Mark? - Acid Baba (1995) | 20:32

pure classic ❤️

Well look at what the cool people out there dug out years later ... I just figured I'd share this with you: Anybody remembers Nemo? I was not super close to him or anything, but one thing I'll never forget what he said about a musician who was yet to become (and now is) one of my biggest favourites. "Anthony Rother's way to make music is one of a kind." .... probably not the exact quote, but that's what I remember. Many, many, many years later I was about to find out what Nemo meant by that --- when I found the answer in an interview that Rother gave himself. Well, he was right: Rother makes and listens to music in a very unique way... Nemo knew that before me. Enjoy the mix R.i.P. Nemo <3

Damn. The new album isn't good. I'm upset. Sad. But I honestly didn't expect much either. I hoped but, didn't really think it would be good. But I hoped.

Huh... maybe they've lost it? It's obviously still melodic Goa trance and in some way it's "hats off" for staying true to their sound. But listening to this track... nowhere near their best standards. 6/10.

You don´t have to attack me with "lol". I did not say anything bad to the album and only praised the album. I don´t EQ in any music, since I want to hear t he music with real sound.

Coincidentally I listened to Goa Classics Remixed again a few weeks ago and I thought the same about the mastering, it is loud and while the music is excellent, the loud sound destroys the album. Same can be said about this new album, loud mastering, it ruins it all unfortunately.

Awesome! Thanks 🙏

I just listened to it. sadly none of the tracks really gets my attention. i remember last year they played new tracks to a festival somewhere, and i think it was a kind of tribute to nova festival. that was some veeeeery cool tracks they played, new fresh melodic and surprising. but none of those tracks seem to be on the new album.

here you go:

What the motherfucking fuck? How glad am I that I am browsing threads from years and years since. I have everything from Gus Till on bandcamp except this which I was completely unaware of, and it was going to be released on FRR before it folded. I think I just came. Instabuy and it's pay what you want....sploosh

OUT NOW: https://globalsect.bandcamp.com/album/morioun-grimoire-ep-2

I enjoy this combined project throughout and I can play it from start to finish. For the time being my favorite is probably Liquid Love, but I will have to listen to it more times. I have to say this I feel like the predominant of this album is the Filteria style of sound with traces of Cosmosis. It does not beat any of the artists best albums - Daze of Our Lives, Cosmology, Synergy. The best way I can describe how it sounds to my ears is a mix of Filteria's Lost in the WIld mixed with Cosmosis - Psychedelica Melodica, which is not a bad thing! Highly recommended for fans of ether artist.

SOME OLDSCHOOL TYPE GOA TRANCE FOR Y'ALL enjoy 🙂 https://soundcloud.com/user-967504840/completemidiotz-god-complex

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, 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 area 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 and will find this album boring. 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: "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. Whilst I do miss the tribal vibes a bit on this latest album, they are still there in the background. 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). Part of the sonic magic is the recordings and masterings: no compression wars here and sounds have space to breathe, do not blur together, dynamics are free. I checked out my vinyl and cds and the only information on the mastering I could find was "Prodam" and "Podam" - I searched but nothing came up. This is also true of this new work, which is also well produced. This high quality recording and mastering pays off in psychoactive sound with good micro as well as macro dynamics. This is crucial to Andersen because he is 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 Elysium/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. Of course, this means that this is more home music than for the main floor. If hypnotic trance sounds appealing to you, then you won't do better than this excellent album and the stunning back catalogue behind it. ~*~

very underestimated artist IMO. This is one of the best psy albums I have!! It's some very mellow psy, which turns to chill-out at times, but incredibly trippy, with loads of oriental influences. All tracks are very well built, melodies have a nice progression. Best tracks: Buddha Raga (BTW don't let the title fool you, it isn't reggae at all, not even dub!!) and Journey To Hunabku which kinda reminds me of TIP - Mystical Experiences. 10/10 oh and also I don't think this should be compared to Shpongle, I find it's quite different from the Shpongle style, so don't think it's some sort of bad imitation or anything.