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its not a great album. in fact RA has a crappy sound quality. just listen to the highs, sharp annoying and generic boring egyptian-esque melodies. Khetzal did what RA couldnt, in making a proper album of this style. 😅 theres some parts that are allright, but theres at least 3 other artists who did it better, cleaner, and more well produced. sounds very amatuer the sound quality. 😙

@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.

Hi, I removed the drums and bass using Izotope RX, then added my own. You can do that with any program that has stem separation (Cubase added the option in v15). I also doubled some existing sounds with my own to give them more definition, and added a couple of lines. When I don't have access to the original stems (as is usually the case), that is what I do. Also if I call it a "bootleg", as in this track, it means I have not changed much. If I call it a "remix", then I've done more stuff.

So many years have not tempered the insanity that is @CyclotronMajesty Every single post you ever made just dripped with conspiracy theorist "logic" and honestly was never anything I could take seriously. I always saw your posts as someone who just took too many drugs and completely fucked up their own mind. Seeing this post just makes me sad, not for you, because you have always been this insane, but for all the people that were brought over to your insanity during COVID. "Fake Vaccines" "Mask Hysteria" buzz words for the idiots. I live in Japan, everyone was really quick to mask up during COVID, and the vaccine take up was near 100%, the result was very few COVID deaths, yet the countries that resisted putting a bit of cloth over your mouth because it was so painful (fucking pussies) and distrusted the vaccine had 100s of 1000s of deaths. It's people like you @CyclotronMajestythat killed 100s of others. You should feel ashamed of yourself but I can guarantee that such scumbags like you will never ever dare feel like you were in the wrong and will never ever come to understand just how much pain and suffering you brought to the world

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.

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.

Congrats Reger 👍

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…

<<Then I read about Vaccine Electronic through the narrative that Younger Brother caved into pressure from fans not liking Vaccine, and I must admit this narrative immediately soured my expectations of Vaccine Electronic, because if that is true, it is rarely good when an artist works under duress.>> I dunno. From talking with Benji, I do not take this to be the case. Maybe you know more than I...

@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

very boring album 🥰

This album is simply a masterpiece. Words fail... So beautiful, magical... It transports you to transcendental realms. The only thing I don't like much is the cover artwork. But who cares when the music is timeless!

I want to review this but I am not sure I can do it justice. Every aspect of it is beautifully and expertly crafted. It is so melodic, so trippy, so atmospheric and so meaningful. I think every single track is at least a 9/10. I stand by my claim that their later downtempo album, Unearthly, is the greatest musical work of all time. This on the other hand definitely makes my top ten of uptempo Goa albums. I am reluctant to award it a full 10/10 but then I cannot really find any obvious fault with it. OK, what the hell then: 10/10

Hmm. I think there's a difference if the user himself asks for a comment to be deleted compared to a mod action. But if you feel that way, then sure. Tbh I'm kinda flabbergasted that's your reaction. In fact that's the craziest mod response I've gotten from any mod any forum past 30 years ☺️ I respect it though.

Fair enough. I am of the view that trippy and psychedelic music can be successfully done without an overload of layers; At some turning point, many layers ruin everything. Arronax has mentioned his admiration for this album and no wonder why his music is so chaotic. The three masters you've mentioned are highly appreciated by me and in general I think they have been more careful in their selection of sounds and layers. Fair enough though, each one to their own taste.

Indeed, people. This is one of the many, many reasons why only posting a link to an external resource without any hints is a bad idea, no matter how deceptively easy it might feel. Anyway..."An Eagle in Your Mind" seems to check out, including the timestamp. The video with that Youtube id is discussed here. https://xoxo.zone/@tonx/110234057092485667 (Oh the irony of posting a link to an external discussion... But you have the name here now.)

Lul, now I can’t remember and the earworm is long gone … If it pops up again I’ll write it down here. Posting only a YT vid. which is now gone was a mistake.

+1. this very sound is a big reason why we love this album. To me personally the quality is really really excellent. I think it sounds just the way it should. 😇 i know what everyone means when they say muddy. but that really is a part of the whole sound for me. its more organic and alien. and if you wanna get technical, for 1998, it sounds amazingly well produced. more so even than Dancing Galaxy (albeit a year prior)

Glad to have helped! It's a good solution for unofficial remixes where you don't have access to the stems. There are also AI tools for stem separation, but I haven't used any, so I don't know which are good.

MFG - Project Genesis Phonokol – 2118-2 I have been listening to this a lot lately and it is rapidly turning into my favorite MFG album. I loved Pure Energy but a lot of that album is remixes of older tracks and I think Project Genesis is darker, which I like. For those who say it has a muddy sound, I really think it is supposed to sound like that as it makes it gloomier, bassier and creates a harder, tougher sound. I am sure you know MFG's music and indeed their name itself feature a lot of religious references. The title of this album in particular is interesting in itself because it references not only the first book of the Bible concerning the creation of the world and life, but also as we will hear in track 3, the Genesis Device of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (first introduced in Star Trek II). The latter device was designed to terraform planets which ultimately proved to be dangerously unstable due to the way the device was made. As this album also has killer robots, the message seems to be that using human technology to play God and create life and intelligence can have catastrophic consequences. Such a theme is hinted at in the book of Genesis itself where the knowledge Adam and Eve gain leads to humans being expelled from the Garden of Eden. 1 Intro 0:41 2 Intelligent Machine 7:30 3 Project Genesis 7:34 4 Open Mind 8:08 5 Why? 8:12 6 Voices 8:27 7 Sunshine 7:41 8 On Mars 8:02 9 The Creation 7:42 10 Metamorphosis 9:29 1. Intro: Really nothing much to say about this very short intro. It does the job just fine. 2. Intelligent Machine: Definitely at least 99% as evil as Psychaos - Chaos to Order, actually maybe even more evil, this track introduces us to killer androids with scary voices, thus establishing the mood of most of the rest of the album to come. The sounds in this track are just incredible. The effects at the start at the sides of the stereo field are modulated just right to actually tickle my ears. It is groovy, everything about the track is dark, the choices of sound, the little bits of melody including a nice gated synth flute sound and one of the most awesome basses ever with key changes as well. 9.5/10 3. Project Genesis: Another nice bassline, but pretty much every track has one because MFG are the masters of amazing basslines. Nice acid. Nice effects again. A nice build up of layers as the track progresses. Some people may feel this borders on the chaotic but I would say it is part of the point and what chaos there is is expertly selected and delivered. The Star Trek samples are cool and the crazy tweaking bassy synths after those are lovely. 7.5/10 4. Open Mind: This has some cool weird melodies, loads of twisted sounds. The mood I would say is slightly closer to neutral compared to the darkness of the previous two tracks (yeah I know, "life from lifelessness", but like I said, watch the movie). This is a perfectly serviceable track but some of the others are even better. 7/10 5. Why?: has cool distorted drums and a wild wailing melody that is gated so much it feels like it has been torn up into little bits. Then of course there are the evocative voice samples. Nice key changes again on this one. It's catchy. 8/10 6. Voices: Others have considered this a weaker track. For me, it is a favorite. The best bit is that loud twitchy, twangy acid lead which is pretty memorable and unique. It has a fast, energetic pace, and I just really like the particular way all the crazy effects fit together in this one, and how unsure of herself the woman sounds when she says "I don't hear any voices". 8/10 7. Sunshine: This is a bit smoother than the previous track, a little bit upbeat, and the title and voice sample suggest a happy mood yet it is still filled with plenty of darkness and layers of wild sounds. 7.5/10 8. On Mars: The dark bassy synth at the start of this sounds like an evil alien slurping up all life from a planet. The bassline itself is heavy and great yet again of course. My head was bopping at the relentless drive of this one. 8/10 9. The Creation: A slightly more laid back feeling with some fascinatingly gloopy vibes bring you into the start of this track, then the heavier kick and bass and snares come in and as the track goes on the tension builds and the darker mood returns along with nice layers of melodies. 7.5/10 10. Metamorphosis: This is such an excellent way to close out the album, with a relentless deep, dark resonant synth pattern playing almost continuously in a groovy, hypnotic pattern and later wailing melodies come in as well and the track builds and gradually metamorphoses, like the name suggests. At the end we get key changes. 9/10 My favorite tracks are 2, 3, 6, 8 and 10. They were not all my highest scored tracks, because I try to score on technical and artistic merit as best I can rather than just my own subjective preference which seems to vary quite a bit over time anyway. Overall score: 8.5/10 https://mfgmemo604.bandcamp.com/album/project-genesis

Yes - depending on the program used, it usually gives you 4 layers (drums, bass, vocals, other). The stems have some artifacts, you might wanna compare apps (I know Cubase 15, izotope RX and Spectralayers, but there are others - possibly there's some online app too) for the best result. You can work with an mp3 as well but, since the stems aren't perfect and mp3s are already a lossy format, you might wanna try to find the best possible quality original file.

The original 12" does sound good, like most Posford releases always have. I've been meaning to compare all these tracks since I bought the new vinyl box, but never got around to do it. But today after work I did a quick listen on Space Pussy. From what I heard or read, I don't remember, they didn't want to change all that much. Not getting into the loudness war, 1.0(radio/tv) or 2.0(youtube/spotify). Kevin Metcalfe knows what he is doing, he has been working with Posford for a long time. Everything sounds a bit clearer, not much but still. The volume on the remastered version is a little lower, which I take as a good sign. All the small details is not lost, rather enhanced. They did a good job with it. =))

So there is still hope for a pink Doof tshirt, sweet. =))

Nice! Can I ask how you did it? Did you get the project files or did you remix it by sampling or re-creating the sounds (because I hear differences that are definitely not sound sampled to my ears)... I was always keen to remix stuff, but I figured it's impossible without the files (would have to be a Cubase Project in my case) - and even people who I asked to remix us always asked for the project files.

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...

Hi! I'm back with typical Nitzhogoa! This track has Agneton influences, but also a bit of Uplifting in the middle... and also, being Nitzhogoa, a healthy dose of Goa Trance vibes! Gates of the Sky Temple I made the cover art with Mandelbulb 3D! And also a video! But it's slow, so I only recommend watching it if you want to listen to the music while staring at a very slowly evolving version of the cover art! x')

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

All psydub, basically. Well, more seriously, a lot of roots reggae and dub runs at a tempo that could be described as emphasising (in drumming) only the 1st and 3rd beats of 140-ish BPM, so that we might want to call it 70 BPM instead. Coincidentally, a lot of classic and newschool goa runs at 140-something BPM, allowing a drop from the steady every-quarter beat to the halved reggae/dub pattern. I've sometimes used that in mixes to provide a break from the standard mayhem. Furthermore, if you play kicks for all quarter notes in reggae, you get the steppers rhythm (basically four-on-the-floor before disco made it cool and then it evolved into house) which was used in the classic era of reggae and it comes up in psydub as well. For example, check Vlastur - Steppa9, which is apparently named after that rhythm and it runs at something like 141 BPM due to that drumming, even though it has the half-time dub nature and bassline as well. It's not goa, but it shows how that crossover could work. Then there are some goa tracks which pull off that half-BPM dub switch within the track itself, for example Cosmosis - Spores from Space in its intro/outro and for a brief moment at 4:30 (while the full-speed bassline is still playing). Koxbox - A Major Problem in Australia was remixed to a dub version with that trick by Saafi Brothers, also using steppers-like drumming in some parts of it. Etnica in Dub album does that as well. Are we getting anywhere here? There are opportunities but also challenges in that combination of two quite different BPM ranges. The question might be if the combination can really exist smoothly or do we just have dub with goa hints and goa with dub hints...

I'm just thinking: Recently I contacted someone to do a remix ... price was 500 EUR If you charged 500 EUR for your trax you'd make 194 716 * 500 = 97 358 000 EUR 97 million EUR ... that's some damn big money

Ah shit, that's a lot of music bruv

better than any astral projection album

Hi ... um ... as a person who had Covid, I can tell you it's pretty nasty shit and I can understand China, that they have these strict rules, because China is crammed with people; if they get a serious spread there it's gonna be apocalypse... The restrictions hit me aswell because I want to go to China again for a bit of travelling, but at the moment they don't let any tourists in, I was told ... and even if they do, as you say there is 28 days quarantine - I can only take a few weeks off work, so that's not an option. I have heard though, once through the quarantine, you are a free person in China 28 days later and can do EVERYTHING there ... and that means much, I tell you, because here in Austria the ECUs are full and we are lockdowned again and well, even if some people do party illegally in private, I do not condone it and I absolutely don't go there, because as said, I know what Covid feels like to me and I really don't want to catch it again and we have enough cases here meanwhile absoutely everywhere As for that "cabal of tyrants" ... nah, I tell you, the only thing that is, is that some humans out there are gigantically stupid ... and while that is a problem, it also prevents such "big conspiracies" from happening, believe me, people are just too stupid for it to pull it off ... and even if you contradict me on that and say that these do exist, I am slowly leaning towards acceptance, because if people are clever enough to pull this off, in this world of immense stupidity and selfishness, they deserve it almost a little. I have a good soundtrack for your state of mind, with which I wanna close my post ... here it is: