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  1. So I was recommended this new Goatrance podcast, perhaps created by the Destination Goa team? Not sure. :) Maybe someone here has more info? Anyways gonna take a listen, always nice with some Goatrance focused content. Two episodes so far, with Cosmosis. In the second part he discusses his new collaboration with Filteria:

    https://app.springcast.fm/podcast/destination-goatrance

     

     

    OVER DESTINATION GOATRANCE

    "A Podcast for lovers of Goa Trance. We are bringing in-depth interviews with artists, label people and organizers from the golden age of the 90’s to the modern era, collecting stories of legendary parties, inspirational psychedelic experiences and all the tricks of creating the magical tunes we love.  You want to know about the origins of psychedelic festival culture? How was your favorite album recorded? The secret sauce of the biggest dancefloor hits? We are here to ask the movers and shakers of the scene to find out. 
    The two hosts of the show are both avid collectors and passionate fans of the original Goa sound. Psymon Peter has been behind the decks as a DJ for 2 decades and Tibes has made his mark on the scene as an organizer. In each episode they bring you a selection of the most relevant tunes from the best artists in the genre and share why those tracks are so special. Join in for a journey through space, time and sound!"

     

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  2. @Jotinha You are doing a great thing for the forum, paid or not. I for one find it refreshing to see a lot of new releases this way. The way I see it, your contribution can draw some new users or lurkers here to get some info on new releases/events. And besides that I think it's only good if this forum is still somehow deemed relevant, for paid or unpaid participation. Either way it benefits the forum one way or another.

    And when I've been reflecting at times on what this forum would need to be re-ignited, I have always thought about the idea of the forum having a front page, like a Psynews blog, with curated daily updates/videos/festival news/interviews etc. Something in the vein of what Ektoplazm had back in the day. Which nowadays obviously could be done by integrating some AI-service with RSS feeds etc or paid promotion from labels. So yeah this is not far from such an idea of a more regular flow of updates. Cheers!

  3. 6 hours ago, acid being said:

    Nice arrangement. I think you're some of the way there with the Sheybaish sound. It sounded a little sort of thinner but that's probably just my terrible laptop speakers - I need to repair my headphones!

    EDIT: My comment was about an earlier video you put up. If there were two, I only heard the first.

    What waveforms are you using for the lead is it a saw?

    Ah sorry, the first video was only mobile cam of the intro, the last was entire track(mp3) with leads etc, the intro only had like what you could call "pad leads/hooks"

    I played around and changed the kick drum today from a regular goa kick to a more Mystica/Shiva Shidapu/Nitzhonot one. Huge kick.  So gonna need some tweaking to re-adjust the levels around it. :D 

    I'll upload the mp3 when the mix is more final, it sounded better in the headphones than on the iphone. :P So back to the drawing board.

     

  4. I mean this video I link i would be categorized as an interview per se, but it's Psytrance related atleast and funny, more funny then the video in the original post, which I just find to be a regular normal interview. Mars and Filteria seem down to earth and, and yeah nice to see artists and label owners speak some about their art/passion. Interviewing people and beeing interviewed is not easy either, you know shyness is a thing right. I would love to see more interviews, not for some cringe, but to get some insights. If they are funny, that could be a plus. A laugh is always nice, as long as it's with the glimpse in the eye. :) 

     

    This video is hilarious though, Duvdev is very funny I think. He seems to have a lot of hyperactive energy. (ADHD)? :D  The drunk fan?/dude in the video sure is a bit cringey right?

     

  5. 5 hours ago, Tatsu said:

    I also hate Spotify and never use it. But the album is also available on youtube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbvoMC0zUvPL8vjswhLOSw) if you want to listen to the full tracks. And if you like it, the tracks can be bought from Beatport, or you check if the physical release is still available in the Infected Mushroom merch shop.

    Great album btw. The remakes sound (obviously...) more modern than the original versions but IM still managed to keep the original spirit of the tracks. I definitely hope for a second edition with more tracks...

    Yeah neat when artists post their album on youtube as well, nice album I agree! Kinda crazy to think back to when the original albums were released. I had The Gathering and Classical Mushroom on my Mini Disc, and Luminus, Yahel and Eyal Barkan. So those were on repeat, 24/7. Imagine if one back then would've had the possibility to glimpse into the future, and listen to these remakes. How epic wouldn't that have been? Now we are here around 24 years later, still alive and kicking. :D The Mini Disc is dead tho..

    Also I have some nice memories from when I did some mushrooms for the first time, and listened to Classical Mushroom. It was perfect, the album artwork looked very cool as well, the oily effect on the Mushroom textures on the artwork gave like an holographic effect in that state of mind. And yeah the music obviously sounded very alien and 3D-holographic as well, as if flowing flowing out from the speakers.

    Btw would be cool if Hallucinogen re-imagined his two classical albums as well!

  6. On 2/29/2024 at 8:56 PM, DoktorG said:

    Thanks for alerting us to this. Lots of brief, flippant answers in this interview. Simon is a proper humble human, so of course he's hypercritical of his own work. Also, he has genuinely moved on from the Hallucinogen days so it is faintly embarrassing juvenilia for him. Ironically, however, for me "Flux and Contemplation" is by far his weakest work yet. I couldn't even bring myself to buy it, and I was really keen to do so until I heard it. 

    Similarly, Underworld's "Second Toughest in the Infants" and Leftfield's "Leftism" and "Rhythm & Stealth" are classics, but since then... 

    Yeah Simon seem like a nice guy. And about him getting a bit tired of his old tunes, if one had to play those tracks live for so many years. I imagine I would've been bored as well after a while. :D 

    Still I can't help thinking sometimes, what if he had taken another path? And would've continued with the twisted uptempo Psy and developed it even further, in some other weird direction. Don't get me wrong I love Shpongle, Younger Brother etc. But yeah fav stuff is his Hallucinogen/Beast/Anubis/Infinity Project etc and his work with Slinky Wizard.

    Anyways his legacy is all over Psytrance. So in that sense his ideas continue to inspire and evolve through other peoples interpretations/lenses. 

    Those early pillars of the movement created like somekind of archetypal models for the Goa sound I suppose. I'm still waiting for some of the classics to be surpassed, or atleast to be mindblown like that again. Hopefully one day!

  7. On 3/5/2024 at 2:05 AM, Stefan stargate production said:

    So sorry to be late with answer. 

    Bypass Unit - Color Box - Vaporized - Psygone 

     

    Thanks! Btw killer lineup for your upcoming event in Denmark. 😊 👍🏻 

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  8. On 3/6/2024 at 1:21 PM, acid being said:

    Yeah it would definitely make my top 20 Goa trance tracks at the moment. Sheyba / Elysium have the best rhythms and I love the way it builds up.

    Thanks for the tips. I'll keep playing with plugins - you've given me some good ideas. I was some of the way there before but then I got diverted into making music. :)

    I wouldn't want an exact duplicate of the lead anyway, just to recapture some of that lovely warm, bright, squishiness. If I had to describe it, I would say it sounds like a thousand glowing chocolate oranges caught some rays of sunshine and partially melted, sent tumbling, rolling, curling up on themselves and gurgling into a puddle of pure bliss! Yes, it's a great lead! :lol:

     

    Yeah indeed! Sheyba had a very distinct sound! Dreamy and mysterious for sure. Always an adventure for the imagination, when one is in the right mind frame.

    I'll try to see how close I can get to something Sheyba-like with the Jupiter plugin just for fun. It's a nice little challenge, and hopefully learn something new in the process!

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  9. On 3/4/2024 at 4:45 PM, acid being said:

    I think it is in Ganesh as well but my main reference was Ancient Lands. It's the synth that first appears about 3:30 and is playing solo (well, almost) at 5:28:

    When I first started writing my earlier comment, I think I was looking at the waveform at a point where there were other sounds playing and getting confused.

    I love this track! Yeah it can be difficult to get a good isolated piece of a track. Also can be very difficult for example with Jupiter-8 since it has X-Mod which can shape the waveform quite a lot. And also the OSC waveform mixer on the SH-101 etc. Anyways I sometimes when I play around, I'm often getting a "oh that sounds a lot like Sheyba leads" when playing with simple oriental melodies on those abovementioned plugin emulations.

    And also when just using an oriental midi melody to audiorealism bassline, instead of using its internal sequencer. The simplicity of that and other Roland filters nails the sound IMO. With some lush reverb.

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  10. On 1/22/2024 at 8:12 PM, acid being said:

    I would like to figure out how Sheyba did their leads.

    I saw someone said they used an Alpha Juno 1. But the waveforms of the lead in Ancient Lands look like they're based on triangle waves to me, and I thought the Juno 1 could only do combinations of sawtooth and square waves.

    The big triangular waves could be the LFO - I'd have to check the frequencies to know. But the smaller, higher frequency waves look kind of symmetrical to me too like little triangles.

    Is it a different synth?

    Update: I've more or less figured it out. On the Juno 1 some of the sawtooth waveforms have lots of little peaks. They're not really triangular, more sinusoidal, especially at lower VCF Cutoffs. With the VCF Resonance turned up high, I'm starting to get something sounding a bit like their leads. :)

    Can you link which track you're referring to? If I remember correctly from some interview Sheyba used Jupiter-8, SH-101 and TB-303 a lot for leads and stuff. Probably Juno-106 too, not sure. But I wouldn't exclude the Alpha Juno from the equation either. Do you mean like the lead in Ganesh for example?

  11. On 2/11/2024 at 11:00 PM, CosmicEquilibrium said:

    What about this version, I changed the bass the delay and reverb, now the bass is less full on and more Goa Trance in my opinion, I prefer this version, I have to add more atmosphere sounds and an 303 and some music theory, I'm trying to figure out which logic delays and reverbs sound better and more Goa like and now I used the stepfx ones they are simple and do the job. I use the delay and reverb trying to create a space ambience, but yes the bass in version 4 have more quality, but I'm trying to achieve some olschool sounding doing everything  with the same synth ES2, to make it sound more consistent.

    I'm gonna take a listen since I'm very much into Goa Trance. For nice Goa delays in Logic, I would recommend that you get Native Instruments Replika XT:

    https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/effects/replika-xt/

    This is one is really really good if you wanna get those Alesis Quadraverb type ping pong delays which were, and are still very much an essential aspect of the Goa sound. You can fine-tune it by importing for example any track from Hallucinogen or Astral Projection from that era into logic and listen to how long their delays are and how much stereo spread they have. As for your track, what is the target sound you're aiming for style-wise? Any particular slant? 

    For reverbs, you can use Logics own ones, they are not bad. But if you can, preferably Valhalla Reverbs. Their delays are also God-tier for Goa.

    I'm working on a very old schoolish sounding Goa Trance tune myself now, I could show a sample later if you want. For scales if you want a really nice one that is tried and tested and which isn't the Pleiadian one. It's more what Astral Projection used. Try this: in the key of E.(E-F-G#-A-B-C-D) Transpose to whatever key you like, but I recommend staying in E for 145 BPM. This scale is a major one, so it's very glorious/victorious. Works very well for Nitzho-Goa/Uplifting, and euphoric Goa in general. However you can have a dark atmosphere and it will still work. Listen to Astral Projection-Time Began With The Universe for example of how this scale sounds in action.

    If you want a really Dark Goa Trance scale try this one in Em: (E-F#-G-A#-B-C#-D) Which is dark and still keeps the oriental ornamentation., it's a minor scale.

  12. On 12/28/2023 at 8:48 PM, GeorgeMoonstoneD said:

    Some interesting links that make things clear:

    - Crop Circles - Tetrahedron ?

    - crop_circles_-_tetrahedron-(unreleased_album)-dat-1997-angel

    - Discogs Release # 543012

    Case closed, right..?? 😉

    Funny stuff, takes me back in time. :D This album sure had some mysterious aura around it. The backstory for why it wasn't released properly in the 90s would've made some nice background story for the remastered album booklet I think. 

    Like they did with the Pleiadian I.F.O remaster, which has some background story regarding the Live tracks. Where it is stated that some DJ or party organizer had recorded some of their live-set unauthorized or something. So one has to assume, some similar scenario of how the Crop Circles mini disc, that Mars encountered in 1999 came into existence. Maybe a label or DJ leaked it, or yeah other Goa artists.

    Could it be that part of the reason for why it wasn't released properly in the 90s, was due the fact that it got leaked back then? Or was it perhaps simply because Crop Circles as a group split? Anyhow it became somekind of viral Goa underground athem. Which is usually a good sign for unreleased music. Not that I know of any other unreleased Goa albums like this. One could always hope that there is some scrapped Hallucinogen album or similar waiting to be discovered. Buy yeah not too likely...

    This was the holy Goa grail for sure. :) 

     

     

  13. 2 hours ago, GeorgeMoonstoneD said:

    Despite the fact it has been released on the reissue of "Lunar Civilization EP", for the time being i have no idea if or where it can be purchased from..

    Etnica refused to renew their contract with DAT Records, when it expired some years ago and demanded the label to remove all their music from all platforms. That's why no Etnica / Pleiadians / CC music is available at DAT Records Back Catalogue Bandcamp page. Etnica recently started releasing their music again under Classic Goa Trax, but i have no idea what is going to happen with their "DAT Records" past releases..

    Aha nice! I had no idea it had been added to that classic EP as a re-release. Thanks for the heads up! 

    https://www.discogs.com/release/7515173-Crop-Circles-Lunar-Civilization-EP

    So this was digital only then I suppose? 

    Weird with the 192kbps bitrate only? Was it somekind of soundcloud only promo thingy? Imagine the mastering effort, for a target of streaming/mp3 only. Oh well, The mini-disc era wasn't to advanced either after all. And we were happy in those days too. :) 

  14. On 12/2/2023 at 10:28 AM, _rado said:

    Infected Mushroom – Reborn

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    All order will be shipped On February 9th (Oficial release date)

    https://www.merchadvice.com/product/infected-mushroom-reborn-double-gatefold-cover-lp/

     

     

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    Dream Theater remake is the second track to be revealed, sounds really good. Takes me back in time for sure. I like that they even used the classical old snare drum they used in that era.

    Was the original ever released officially on CD/Vinyl? I remember listening to it and other unreleased tracks like Gamma Goblins remix back in early 2000's or perhaps earlier.

    And other tracks which were available as mp3 downloads on the Infected website. I don't remember when their website went online first time, time flies by.

     

  15. 3 hours ago, GeorgeMoonstoneD said:

    I searched for "Crop Circles - Pentagone" and found some 128kbps MP3.

    Track time is 9:02 and it is exactly the same as the "Tetrahedron" one... And i can assure you that i am a connoisseur on the CC / Etnica / Pleiadians stuff..

    You can check it out yourself..

    Indeed, "Pentagon(e)" never made it to any compilation, in any kind of format..

    IMO, there's never been any alternate version of the track. It was just circulating in P2P sites as "Pentagone", before its official release, but it was the same track.

    I was discussing this with a friend, who was involved (and still does) in DAT Records releases and is aware of the unreleased stuff found in the DATs of Etnica. He has never seen or heard about a different version of the track..

     

    You who seem knowledgeable on the Crop Circles subject, any info on the track Ghost Circles? 

    All I can find is a deleted page on the DAT website, via google. Was it something planned that never materialized? Or was it released on a digital EP which is no longer available?

    Maybe I'm blind and it's on Discogs, but I can't find anything about it.

    And yeah searching on youtube for anything with Crop Circles or Pleiadians get's a lot of non-music related noise. lol

     

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