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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. =))

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')

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...