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I know I'm a bit late to this discussion but I am always pro-owning your own server and owning your own data. I really really hate what Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google) have done to the internet and our communities. I truly love the idea of the Federated Internet and having various Federated websites that can communicate to each other in a way that email allows. So I can comment on your facebook/twitter-like webpage from my facebook/twitter-like webpage that are on different platforms. I have been considering building my own Mastadon instance to network with and build out with other similar instances. Instead of creating new redundant pages/sites on Discord or Slack that are built on the back of another proprietary service, do so in the wild of self ownership. I _LOVE_ psynews for this understanding and completely support whatever you choose to do to keep this place functioning. I do wonder if, since these types of forums are sorta dwindling and a relic of a previous internet age, maybe pivoting to a more Mastadon type of Federated platform would be a beneficial transition for long term growth and usage. Has there been a consideration to maybe make a Psynews Federated Mastadon site for people to use like Twistter/Threads/Instagram/etc? Would love to see something like that happen down the way 😃

Flying Rhino and Dragonfly were the first two labels I started collecting. Some stunning releases on both. I was very partial to the Flight Series on FFR, GNotR, Technossomy as well were amazing. They were the main label that I was into that really evolved their sound. Their Re: evolution compilations still get regular play time. Dragonfly were pure Goa for longer and had great hits like Hallucinogen - Twisted, Pleiadians - IFO and Family of Light, The Muses Rapt - Spiritual Healing as well the Order Odanata series Also their chill out label - Liquid Sound Design was a regular in my post party sessions. Still love most of these releases.

Flying Rhino's First Flight and Retrodelica compilations are totally fantastic. Obviously Twisted Records because Simon. I bought one or two things from Transient Records when I first stated collecting Goa as well. So those were the three I was most aware of at the time.

The track that got me into GOA

I'll have to go back on the IFO choice here. I've been listening to the 3CD version recently and it's absolutely stunning. Some music just needs us to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate it, and so there are many albums I initially disliked but came back to later and loved. I think in the era of streaming, this is much less likely to happen. When I'd bought something and had the physical disk sitting there, I'd usually give something a lot more chances.

That's amazing. Thank you

The full discography of a TRUE legend of Goa and Psychedelic Trance. Seb Taylor is joining Digital Reprints, under his Shakta alias this time. All Shkata, Biotone and Somaton tracks release What's included? 6 double ECOpacks (6-panel) 4 Shakta albums (remastered). Each album will be accompanied by an extra disc gathering tracks from comps and EPs from a similar era or sound. An unreleased Shakta album, fully mastered. Somaton album, remastered, plus all Somaton tracks released ever. All Biotone tracks, remastered. Unreleased and vinyl only tracks, mastered and remastered. A chunky booklet. A rigid box to keep your discs safe. Signed flyers as an add on. A hardback cover book (100 pages) as an add on. A digital companion book. Target has already reached https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalreprints/30-years-shakta

Hello This forum has been running on Invision Power Board for 20 years now. Before that we were on vBulletin I think, and previously on something terrible I forgot the name of. At first Psynewss was not a forum. It was added on top of the reviews resources back in 2001 or 2002. And it moved to a forum/community only as less care was given to the reviews part. So back in 2006 we purchased a *perpetual* Invision Board v3 license for $185. In 2017 when Invision v4 was released, they told us our *perpetual* license only applied to v3 and they fucked us! We ended up making a fundraiser (see here and here). And we collecxted more than 300€ thanks to you. Besides the site was moved from a VPS to a spare Raspberry Pi to save on hosting, and more recently on a mini PC next to my fiber box. Sweet, so we only paid for the Invision subscription basically. We paid $25/semester for 4 years, then those same gentlemen at Invision boosted the price to $40/semester (a 60% raise, mind you) and we've been paying that for 4 years now. Total for 8 years of subscription: $520, so we'll double the 300€ initially collected by the end of the year, but, hey, Psynews cannot be stopped just like that and although it's nearly an archive and that's a cost I can support. One year ago give or take, Invision v5 was released and I didn't care. And recently this appeaed in the Admin console. Our version of IPS is phased out at the end of the year. After that I'm not sure if/how/how much they'll charge us but the bad part is we'll have no more security upgrades... So I checked the upgrade path, which, obvisouslyn led me to the licence upgrade page, which shows that instead of letting us pay for each of their products separately, now we'll get their whole suite for a better price. Alas...a better price for those who used more of their products than the sole forum like we did. So, I was only half surprised to see a 150% price increase : 40*2 + 40*2*150% = 200. Well, we've come a long way since our perpetual licence (lol) that cost less than one year of their new subscription model, haven't we ? I'm really glad they recognize our loyalty in the matter. We have many options: Upgrade to IPS v5 despite the price. Honnestly, although I was happy to pay $80/year for an almost-archive site, I'm not keen on paying $200/year for all sorts of features that we won't even use. I'm not in favor of this also because we've been Invision customers for 20 years and they keep fucking us over. A new funraiser. MEH. At this rate we'd need one per year for site that's barely got a pulse. Migrate to another cheaper/free forum. Maybe doable, we need to check which are available, but they must have some scripts to let us convert our database to theirs. Convert the whole forum to a read only archive. I've been thinking about this over the past year after a talk with an Admin here. We have the database, we could maybe hack something (with AI or not), to make all this a read-only site. At all rates it has to be reversible, for, even though Facebook killed nearly every forum on the planet, the monster is also dying now, so who knows if there's going to be a forum revival in the future ? * Do nothing. And we might be facing hacks if security issues are discovered, or we might have issues in the future if a new version of php breaks something. But why not, it's a stand we can take for a couple of years. We have (at least) until the end of the year to find a solution. And Id be happy to read your input now. As you read between the lines, this is not only about the cost. This is also about the future of Psynews. We have to think of what to do with it for the years to come or what legacy to preserve. With love, fabien mars.

Thanks, I always wondered where this came from, especially that the singing in the background can also be found in The Infinity Project - The World of the Acid Dealer.

thank you many of the codes still work.

Dimension 5 - Iron Sun (1996) Sample at 01:13: And at the onset of trance, the spirit of the creature enters the body of the dancer, enabling him to reach a transcendental state. Finding the original source of this sample on your own would be damn near impossible—the source film is so obscure it doesn't even exist on IMDb. The audio comes from a 1993 film titled "Distant Echoes: Yo-Yo Ma and the Kalahari Bushmen", which made its TV premiere on Channel 4 in 1997. Maybe it was a re-broadcast, and the original aired in 1993? There's no way to verify it now. In 1993, Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world's greatest cellists, traveled to the Kalahari Desert to play Bach for the local tribes and record their traditional music. A true anthropological and musical artifact that miraculously survived thanks to YouTube. Sample appears at 40:54

Free 2007 release for those who didn’t grab it on CD back in the days?! Wonderful ^^… ☕️ ..off my cuffs: T1 is nice enough (6/10) T2 is 100% a homage to Hallucinogen’s ‘ Shamanix’ (6/10) T3 is a silly fun jam, much like Procs … (6/10) T4 is a crazy humper, harsh acid and bubbly yum for some - barely sniffing the space cat’s ass of the Shamanix (6.5) T5 is overall the best track for me on the album, such 100% alien pumpadelicious stuff inside ~ and Pink Floyd not ,,just’’ the Hallucinogen hat-tipping - And then it Dances, what a cool platå (8/10) T6 grooves into disco and tribal psychedelia with Mathias E. Electric Orchestra ~ track for me continues something from T1 - and it’s got that o.g. Sandman in it, before it travels into happy & scary land inside a coozie fønny video game (7/10) T7 is pretty exciting on tension, tribal in it’s travel. Most ‘Rave’ friendly track here, tho’ as these tracks do, they turn and morph . Track has some crunchy stuff, the last I remember having this sound was Principle Of Flight. Anyway, the inspiration in this squirming banger’s KB is close to Juno Reactor’s ..Bible, of, dreams track- like a 100 other producers. And who inspired Ben eh (6.5/10) *https://demontearecordings.bandcamp.com/track/sata-kielta T8 is nice, interesting and a bit beautiful in it’s crazey sonic partey gifts (7/10) T9 is the finale track. And it does it’s carnival job well. Shpøngle ahoy (6.5/10) So totally it’s a 6.6/10 for me today. Inspired and original as this album is, it’s quite the spectacular old-school Psychedelic Trance music release, with thumbs ups. Listening to it on a hefty shroom trip must be such s fun flip! For that, I’ll give it an overall score of 7.56/10 In normal land I’m giving it a 5.6/10 Also recommended are the debut albums of Nystagmus, and Talpa

https://demontearecordings.bandcamp.com/album/highlight-me-please This is a fantastic album. A real gem. And yeah I see what people mean when they say it sounds like Hallucinogen. Because it does, a bit. Similar sort of grooves and energy and just like Posford's work it sounds very original and quite distinct from your typical psytrance or Goa tracks. It also reminds me a little bit of M Run with all the wild crazy sounds. Really cool. 9/10

Hey. You are not late. I am I admit having already a few thoughts about this though. We really have come a long way, baby. Thank you for the Fatboy Slim reference I could ramble on about the licensing price and the meaning of money, but that is not the point ... I didn't know it was already 2x $40 per year. Huge thanks for paying our license, Fabien. I completely understand the will NOT to pay the $200. In fact I'd also understand the wish not to pay anything anymore, in fact Server upkeep costs enough already! Not doing anything will probably awake the nostalgia in Bruce and others and they may take us down again, I am quite sure, sooner or later, if we just stick our heads in the clouds. MAYBE the best solution is to migrate forum software. Migrating the database and content is wishful on my side, but I would even understand if you make a cut and make all the InVision stuff ReadOnly. I would be happy to move away from InVision! I LOVED this forum back then as I became admin - then the love slowly diminished after the last major upgrade - but nowadays it turned to dislike: I can't find functions, it's buggy and I have given up, honestly. It all has become a chore with this software. I am going to venture my research capacities into forum softwares and database migrations... If you really wanna do it the hard way you can also just install a different software and we will later find a way to migrate content ... AI will help. Or maybe hallucinate the content. (On an honest note, why not do this: a Psynews AI. Fed with ALL the content that Psynews ever produced and then some, because it would be allowed to hallucinate. I think that would be rad. I need more knowledge to build this though. Will get back on this.)

I dont know much about it at this stage but here they suggest the length can be set to whatever you like in a Javascript file: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/zyd34j/discussion_of_mastodons_character_limit_and/ and they mention some forks that support long posts by default. They were discussing it here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7973 and a code change years ago added a Read More kind of button by default for long stuff: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/8205 About it being niche, I guess the big concern is 15 years from now will it still be getting regular security updates? As it is open source at least the codebase shouldn't be going away. Regarding it having fewer users than some of the other platforms, as long as psynews.org takes you to the Mastodon instance and as long as it is easy for people to sign up, I would've thought it should be as good or better than what we have, but as I say, I have not really used Mastodon myself yet beyond just reading a few posts. There are recent posts about Goa trance, not many under the #goatrance tag but maybe us being on there would help to grow what is already there? https://mastodon.online/tags/goatrance

I asked a few friends for their advice: They are all between "use another forum" and "make it a read-only archive". Let's wait for more feedback...

Gah, I should have replied already last week but things have been happening. They're still happening but anyway... Yes, that offered price is ridiculous in this kind of use case. Some other software could be more realistic in that sense, but the migration task can range from lucky to really tedious. Hard to predict. Using the content in some other form is an option, maybe even an interesting one. I definitely have to give this another thought. Right now I cannot come up with anything brilliant or even coherent due to things, but it seems we're not in any immediate hurry either. Just keeping at least this thread alive for now.

I think converting the database to phpbb3.3 forum is good idea, if possible, I always liked phpbb free clean and simple lots of themes and extensions, I would like help it if something needed

It sounds like Another World part 2 to me and the music would be almost as good as that album if it wasn't for that mastering. I love Another World though which counts in this album's favor.