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Ethereal-Moondawn An album full of tracks like that would be wonderful!

Favourite track so far is: Close Encounter, the other tracks haven´t really drawn me in yet. It appears as if Artifact303 has been getting some inspiration from Filterias first two albums. I was expecting tracks more similar in style to: Energy Waves, Feelings, Trip Back From The Sun, Trip To The Sun and: The Ancestors. But yeah Close Encounter has a bit of that vibe going for sure

Sometimes it takes a while to really appreciate a good album, this album didn´t pass by unnoticed, but I somehow missed how great it is. I always liked the track: Bells of Sarnath, and I had just skipped through the other tracks without really giving them a sincere chance. So today I took a walk in the morning sun, and now I understand what all the fuzz was about this album The CD has a very nice theme, and it has very good production value. Lovely deep kick drums and fat basslines, with a very clever soundscape on top. Love the reverbs and delays on the hi hat/tamburine. The only track I didn´t gel with so far, is the for my taste to fast/high BPM track: Ganesha Pramana. Oh and THE pads... lush, dreamy and floating. The first track: Listening winds, is simply beautiful with its slow paced flow.

Perception is my fav on this compilation, Mindsphere has a very distinct style which is characterized by lots of acidic layers with talking sounds. Always with a good balance of melodic story telling and entrancing loops, without loosing direction. Senseless reception should have been on a compilation as well.

I have to listen to this album a couple of more times before i can comment more specific on each track. Initial impression is that I really like the kick drum on some of the tracks, I haven´t heard deep knocky kick drums like those since Mirandas albums.

Looking forward to anything new from the sun god Ra. To Sirius and 9th are perfect summer albums, imagine a fresh remaster of To Sirius! A man can dream The track R.O.M (Reign Of Madness?) is amazing, the background sounds are very good.

Nice! You found the Lost Buddha 1. Transfiguration (Anti-gravity Mix) is a great track. I do however prefer Astrancer´s original art work, with the letters L and T making up a pyramid shape.

Ganesh is a very nice tune indeed! It´s a good track to use when testing out new studio monitors.

NHJO was more killah back in the days when he was underground.

As long as someone believe in something, that something exist in the mind of those who believe. I guess you guys have to pray some more for Nitzhonot in order for it to continue its existance, atleast in wikipedias narrow universe. A bit strange that such a rare subgenre is selected for deletion, perhaps it could benefit from beeing considered an endagered species, before it becomes extinct.

Nitzhonot X-Files..

Taboo is a nice night time goa tune! People are complaining about the lack of darker modern goa trance, this album sure has some some. Not in a sinister way, but definitely in an enigmatic alien kind of way. Ra and Goasia should team up for a VS double CD. Goasia for the night side, and Ra obviously for the day side. There are lots of details and overall a kind of flying soundscape, characterized by echoing effects that makes me think of some type of unknown space craft that travels rapidly across the surface of the earth or another planet. So there is certainly something very organic to the style of the tracks by Goasia, that immediately paints up vivid images in my mind.

An album? Bring it on I say I just realized by looking at discogs that Loop is involved, I noticed some time ago while listening to the track: Princess Mari Ta Ma E on some other compilation from Eutuchia that this guy has some spectacular composing skills. One can clearly hear that he knows his harmonies, classically trained I suppose? Do you know if he makes regular trance as well? And BTW would it be possible for you Eutuchia guys to perhaps upload all the compilations as a single torrent, as it is now it takes forever to download them, since each CD is divided into several separate rar archives and on top of that hosted on rapidshare I wanna hear the rest of the tracks by this dude!

Instabuy for sure, will test it on my forest walks during the coming weeks.

Hey.. I like the Airesis track, quite cheesy yes.. but at the same time, quite difficult to not move the feets. A jumpy and funny track with some really playful oriental melodies. I like the breakdown part, quite epic actually! It reminds me a bit of a classic trance track: DJ Tatjana - Soul cry, even though the soul cry track is a bit more serious/emotional in the tone, as opposed to the playfullness of the Airesis track. Here is the soul cry track:

NHJO is simply put, a larger than life character. mucho el lulzos to the art gallery Oh´boy there is some serious potential for a fruitful career in art. ;) I want to believe!!!

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Thanks to the recent article in Computer Music Magazine, I had to revisit this compilation so that I could listen once again to Amithaba Buddhas track: Obsidian Stones. I am not sure as to why, but when I initially heard this track it didn´t capture my attention, this time I decided to give it a proper listen. And yeah it´s a lovely track, very much in the same vein as Lost In Paradise, but a bit more mysterious, very nicely composed! Gotta love the kick drum

So far so good, listening to the track Etnic City, pretty intense stuff!

I agree, I think that a perhaps more realistic approximation would be something below 50? I mean something that has the production and arrangemente value of let´s say Ra, Artha, Mindsphere, Lost Buddha, Filteria, Artifact303, Goasia, Astrancer, Khetzal etc, there are more I know, but those were just some that immediately popped up in my mind when talking "new wave goa". These artists probably represents quite well what this new wave goa is, if one would have to show someone new to this, what it is and how it sounds. And of course the quality of their output is ever-changing and improving. I think there are quite few that are fortunate enough to have a complete studio set up like Filteria and Goasia, but I am really impressed with what some are making with the few tools they have available. Im looking forward to see how some of those I listen to now will develop in the future, hopefully with more live bookings, they will be able to invest in better studio monitors, sound cards etc. Overall if one takes a look at different forums dedicated to different genres of electronic music production, I get the impression that in other genres it´s more common that people invest more in equipment. Everyone and their dog seems to have some synthesizers like Access Virus or Clavia Nord Lead series, and Dynaudio, Genelec, Mackie and Adam monitors. But for some reason the overall Goa Trance producer seem to be more restricted, and often use either regular speakers or some really cheap entry level studio monitors. This is something that I think contribute to how people conceive the current state of Goa Trance. Perhaps people active in other genres like for example regular Trance, are more focused on making it big time, since there are more possibilities for commercial success in regular Trance or Electro/House. So therefore they invest as much as they can, as they see a window of opportunity if they can compete with the biggest names in terms of production quality. BTW is it just me who has noticed an increase in free Goa Trance releases lately with more or less undeveloped tracks? Most often with very cheap looking CD covers. It´s like the tracks that didn´t quite cut it to be released on some more well known label, are released on these labels, kind of like a "Salon des Refusés". I think quality control is pivotal if anyone outside this little bubble will pay any attention to it, and take it serious. People should be more active here in the production section and music promotion section, so people can post some honest feedback in order for people to improve in areas where they may be lacking.

Nice site, the discography section made me realize that I haven´t kept up lately with everything that´s being released. A pretty colorful mozaic of CD covers, I also like the links section with flags.

Nice, going out right now to buy this magazine! A Mad Scientists Night!! this reminds me of an old article i found in a Swedish music production magazine (musikermagasinet), where they interview Simon Posford and Martin Glover (Youth) around 1995. They explain a bit what Goa Trance is etc, and about the production of the Twisted album. All modern goa labels should bomb all types of magazines which emphasizes on the production of electronic music, with review copies of your latest compilations. It would be really nice to see a studio special or something, where they visit some contemporary goa trance producer and let them explain a bit about the creative process as well as the equipment used. Props to whoever made this possible, this music has been neglected for way to long by these types of magazines, who most often focus on the production of regular trance, house and electro. Also i believe firmly that these type of magazines will listen to their readers if they get a lot of requests for more articles like this one, Filipe should make a complete tutorial and submit it.

I haven´t heard this one yet, but based on the reactions here in the thread Artha must be doing something right, since causing reactions is what music is all about. I understand that this CD is perceived as a bit unorthodox by some and I believe it´s a logical path for Artha to take, to change his formula a bit. I mean considering how old some of the more goaish old tracks are (controlled) which was featured in the psynews contest here in 2002 if I have understood it correctly. Then it would only make so much sense that some things have evolved since then. For those who might think that this is to modern sounding I recommend the live set at aquatica. That one is pure old school and causes havoc on the dance floor. I saw it with my own eyes everyone went berzerk!

Heh pretty cool to see how long some have been around, Artha and Alien Noise(Artifact 303). No wonder they know their stuff And about the dynamics between the people around here, I don´t think there is a solution to that. They are all a manifestation of the same phenomenon.

The Ancestors and Trip To The Sun, are my favourites so far by Artifact303. It would be nice to hear Trip To The Sun with good mastering. All the best wishes for the album, I hope there will be some tracks like The Ancestors and Trip To The Sun, with lots of driving 303 parts, lush pads and deep kick drums.