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It now works as it should again it seems, perhaps some lag :)

So yeah progress looks promising, but no mention of a label? I would assume it's gonna be a suntrip release if I had to bet But hey what do I know. What I do know however, is that it will be interesting listening to it, and contrasting it to his first album. Too bad it doesn't seem to be released earlier this year so one could listen to it during the summer, it would've made a more fitting release window think.

https://www.facebook.com/khetzal.fr/videos/235905400938196/? The Nord Modular sounds great Some quotes of interest in other posts on facebook related to the teaser and album: "for the first time, I'm happy to listen to the whole 9 tracks of my 2nd album... track-list order not definitive, but it's already an enjoyable experience, as you may guess ;-) well, work almost done, now checking for all the small details to be modified, here and there. I think that an album is like a good old red wine ;-) (fifteen years old ageing ?) and... I guess I will have to cut 9 seconds (1h20mn9s would not fit on a 80min CD, anyway who cares about CDs, now ?) well, thank you again for patience and all support. the 2nd Opus is about to be finalized, at least ! best vibes, take care, and stay tuned !" "well, I wish to thank you all for support and good vibes !!! the "CD-release-headache" was just a personal joke. for myself, I really like to buy CDs from all the artists I REALLY like. I wish to have the "physical" object and the cover artwork. and for supporting the artists, of course ! as some of you may know, I work with some electro-rock bands here in my home-town @ Lyon, and as time goes by, I was unaware that a lot of people were mostly downloading or hearing tracks on digital platforms, CDs are nowadays, well... somehow outdated. not for me, anyway... well, the personal joke was just about my last track, that could be just 30sec shorter ;-) no, I will not release a 2 CDs album !!! (for all the people who asked...) I worked on it, and now the album is 1h19min42sec... I guess it's a nice move if ever there's a CD release. and yes, there will be some sound teasers, later in June. thank you all again !!!" "compared to Rosin Memories, yes, maybe closer to that sound, I think, very different from the first album, fifteen years later, I work with different hardware and of course, a lot of software, drums may (will) sound thicker compared to Corolle. I also learnt a lot about mixing tips... anyway, can't say if it will be better or not, depending on anyone's tastes... ;)" "just let me enough time to settle all the last details on each tracks, I think that all will be ready for late June (2020...), I also have to think about a nice artwork for the album cover, and I expect a release for september... who knows ?" "working on track #7 of the 2nd album with a good ol'friend of mine but sometimes, recording hardware synths can prove to be time-consuming, becoming a real hassle of audio and midi cables in every nook and crannies in the studio well, just a teaser, that track is called 'Didge Voices', almost finished. still two or three tracks left, and I'm done with the "big work" on the album. next, a lot of details to check here and there ;-) stay tuned, thanks !" The quotes are not in cronological order, rather the opposite, so the last quote about the teaser was from earlier this year, when the album progress was less completed.

The teaser for Khetzal's second album on facebook sounds very promising. I assume the album will be released on suntrip? The teaser to my ears at least sounds more egyptian than the indian vibes on his first album? And in all the good ways. The background layers have a very euphoric morning vibe, with lush delays/reverbs.

And yeah the issue with the view count of posts is still here on the forum, at least for me. But I think we can all agree that the down-time was worse than this small nuisance of a forum error.

I have a request, while browsing the interview section I noticed that there isn't any interview with Mystica. Seeing that they/or at least one of their original members is still doing retro-sets, could someone pehaps make an interview?

Yay

Good stuff! And what a perfect introduction to this wonderful genre.

It's just amazing ancient egyptian inspired downtempo.

I definitely think he could enjoy it in the right context, for example during a studio session with Youth, perhaps in a micro-dosed state. And yes if he has known Youth for quite some time, I would assume that he must've been exposed to it at some point of their friendship. Then again there's so much different goa made, one would hope that some of it might hit home with an older generation of psychedelic explorers. (Like in the case of Raja Ram). My bet would be that he would love some of the more downtempo psy stuff. Like Younger Brother or Shpongle perhaps. And yeah a collab between McCartney and Posford would be awesome of course. And if we also take into consideration how much of a cultural shock the first goa wave was in the UK during the 90's, as it continued the issues the general public had with the raves since back in the acid rave days. Paul must've followed the phenomenon with curiousity. Since he as well has the experience of beeing part of a culture that wasn't entirely accepted by the "adults" in the beginning. And the parallels between the hippie era of the 60's and the 90s goa wave are of course there as an obvious aspect, which he surely could've reflected on, as it must've been quite a déjà-vu. I can totally see Paul watching this on the TV in 1995:

So yeah I tried all the skins, the issue is there on all 3 of em. And I also noticed that it affects one thread of another member as well, as you can see there in the print screen of the Paul McCartney thead. I tried browsing the forum logged out now as well, out of curiousity, and yes it's still there.

So from this we can deduce that a thread made back in february is not affected by the glitch. So I'm not sure yet if my threads are only like this from my POV, or for other users as well. And not sure either if the actual view count gets delayed and will display proper values in some days/weeks/months from now. We should be able to narrow down the culprits atleast :). I'm gonna test now as well with the other forum skins, to see if the issue persists "across the board".

It's only on recently made threads that I've noticed the glitch so far, pretty much all my recent threads in the general section. Hold on gonna try and get a printscreen of this "ghost in the machine"

Yes indeed, and a rather cool thing I discovered just recently is that Eutuchia Records/Music has made some deal that got them a huge chunk of the classic Nitzhonot releases. Like all the Shiva Space Technology compilations among other things, so there is tons of it now on spotify thanks to this aquisition/catalog expansion. However it's not as of today added to discogs. It's not remasters or anything just the originals put on spotify. Only way you can tell is by looking at each album/compilation on spotify and seeing the Eutuchia label copyright thing at the bottom of the album/compilation.

Baghdad Legends Oriental Music Zone Stellar downtempo, just listen to those lush Eventide type reverbs.

Egyptian Meditation Temple - Ramses Secret Rather nice egyptian themed meditation music

Egyptian Meditation Temple - Ancient Egyptian Path Yeah really beautiful mediation music in the Egyptian theme.

Noted that there are lots of E-Mantra releases on this label you linked Tsotsi https://melusinerecords.bandcamp.com Might be of interest to those into his music, perhaps E-Mantra is somehow involved in the label? Since it's a Romanian label. Didn't find any info on the labels discogs that verifies or discards it.

Interesting interview, it mirrors a lot of how the goa trance experience was in my country as well in the 90'.

Thanks! Wow didn't know Spiral Trax were on there too Miranda - Cosmic Treasure Vol.1, sure is a treasure hehehe. Easily one of the best old school remasters out there, very nice sound quality indeed.

Lmao, they don't make em like this anymore. Foe shizzzle baba. Kind of crazy when you think about it that NHJO came up with the Korean Psy before Psy-Gangnam Style. INNOVATION.

Sounds good to me

daaymn cool little synthesizer, what is it even? some kind of mini-modular system? Does it have a sequencer?