HolyLight

Listening to this and reading the beautiful Bhagavad Gita. 🌸

Excellent, a movie you say? Hollywood must be salivating right now. And probably P-Diddy too.😅Nothing but pure respect for your jingle bells Goa project.

Yeah I feel ya, some similar observations over here regarding social media. I mean I really loved and love the focus this forum had and continues to have to some degree on everything Psytrance. Like you say, the social media platforms are like a barrage of "offtopic" constantly vying for one's attentions, so it a rather different experience for sure. And besides the algos there are very much working against whatever preferences one might have, I have followed soo many interesting artist pages there, interesting creative brands etc etc, still it serves me stuff I have no interest in. So yeah, this type of forum, is much more of a deliberate experience, more like reading a dedicated Psytrance newspaper/gossip, as opposed to the social media experience which is more akin to beeing inside a TV-commercial. As for the different styles popular here, I've always felt it had a bit of everything, I met lots of people here before who were into all kinds of Psy styles I had no clue about, and it was interesting for sure. Going to DarkPsy events, Swedish Forest music, some Suomi stuff, etc, Prog Trance, Full-On events, Neo Goa events sprinkled with some retro Goa as well. But yeah that was quite some time ago now. I'm sure the lurkers here represent a wider variety of styles. But I understand your impression, after all this forum was somewhat managed before by Suntrip peepuz, so it probably attracted a lot of Goa heads so to say. And Belgians overall seem very into Goa. I think there was quite a few of those here.

Was it bootlegged or featured on a proper release? Link please if it's on the legal platforms Youtube/Spotify etc Gotta hear what all this fuzz was about. Better be epic.

Sure I can see both sides of the issue. You know I wouldn't mind hearing it in good quality for sure, and yeah as you say one day he'll be gone, so why not leave something more for his own legacy? Still, in the end it's his choice, his life. On the other hand, if I try to put myself into his shoes, and try to see what he could benefit from it. I mean there isn't much besides you know for the fans. As for everything else, we all know there aren't that many that purchase this kind of music sadly, so most of it will likely be pirated. And perhaps he feels at ease, knowing full well that he achieved what he might've wanted already with his music, IMO. And btw on a side-note regarding his musical output after the 90's era, did he release something I should check out? I haven't kept tabs on his music besides his classic album. Could give some ideas as to the quality/style of the new remix.

So what's your favourite "Angelic" or you know just very uplifting heavenly euphoric Trance for the spirit? And I don't mean in terms of the tracks needing to have an angelic thematic for the track name. Just you know the general feeling it evokes. I'll start with these:

So to chime in, out of curiousity. The remix in question, is it a relatively new remix or from the golden olden age? Or perhaps from the full-on 00's era? I really love the original track and the remix from the Goa Head era. As for Juan keeping the track to himself/for his live audience. I mean can't blame him, his own property. I think it's quite common, to have a something a little extra special for the live sets. I even think Hallucinogen had that when I saw him live. I'm not sure, but I think he played some remix of Gamma Goblins.

Indeed I agree. If for example Psynews had a huge active user base, then the private could make some more sense perhaps. But alas it doesn't so yeah that's that. Either way one flips the coin, the inevitable reality of changed internet behaviours/trends, the effects of the generational shifts, is plainly visible for us.

My first poll here so bear with me, I can add more details surely. With private I mean as in, members have to login to see the contents of the forum. Which could perhaps make the lurkers step out of the shadows? Maybe just wishful thinking on my part. Many forums have like a mixed setting. In which some content is only visible to logged in users. And some is visible to lurkers too. In such a scenario I think the news section would be a good contender to keep public. Which is a kind of smart option, because it tends to incentivize, the joining of a forum/participation. Reddit is a bit like that, and yeah facebook, is to some small degree. The down-side to this closed approach is that, threads would get less exposure/views overall on Psynews I think. And also so that the AI search engines like Bing still gets Psynews relevant search results etc. The closed options were those that RTP proposed, I.E: closing the forum permanently (kinda like deleting it from the internet I suppose?). Or archiving it, meaning it's still visible but not open for participation. Like a Psynews museum if you will.

So I just wanted to check what our dear forum members think, I don't hold the fate of the forum in my hands obviously. That's the admin/mod teams/owners decision. But I thought it would be interesting to see what the opinions are. With a little poll/survey. The poll is anonymous.

Indeed, anyways you gotta admit, he's been very consistent in his spam over the years. It's like Pavel invented this theme, and then stuck to it. I think NHJO have been posting these things for around 15 years or so on Psynews, maybe more even. So yeah it has become a bit of a tradition, many people came and went since then. But NHJO is eternal no doubt.

@MikroMakro Yeah I mean that's one thing that has been quite noticeable over the years on the forum. The absence of the artists themselves. And when there were artists here, many were drama queens anyways. And got booted, so maybe that scared some away. Thinking it could affect their, reputation. One thing many of those who were on the dramatic side here had in common was how thin-skinned they seemed. So obviously that often lead to some drama, when this forum housed some pretty strong opinions/critique on albums. On the other hand, maybe it was a wise decision, after all. Better focusing on making music then risking beeing involved in some meaningless online drama. But it's still a bit intriguing, seeing that many of the Psy/Goa artists are quite active on social media posting memes and political blablabla and conspiracy theories. But yeah personally I think we should either close the forum down, or make it private. So the lurkers would have to login too. And I am all for embracing new technology, we could employ bots to ignite the news section. And yeah the bots could boot/mute people as well. No need for many active mods in that sense, more than to check what mess/wrong decisions the bots might've made every once in a while. We could set up some strict filters. So everyone would be banned in the end. Cursing? Boom banned, wrong opinion on a classic album? Boom banned. Nah just kidding, that would be like Instagrammy or Faceduck.