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Yeah, that's the purpose of the thread, thanks for the support man!

I tend to agree with your review except the technical part, there were MANY who could made mind blowing productions in the early years, just mentioning Simon Posford, X-Dream, Etnica who created really awesome produced tracks already in 1993/4/5... so it is just that maybe he did not have the skills (or the machines!) to make better productions back then. He clearly got better with time, but I agree this is a forgettable cd.

Hello Starkraver, no idea why you cannot send me pm but you are welcome to send me an email , maybe my box here is just full, take a look at DAT website. About the DAT t-shirts: the first batch was actually manufactured in Indonesia, but did cost too much between the shirts themselves, the special inks and the special "imprint" created for the dat logo, now that i will switch manufacturer, I won't save anything of that. There was for almost 2 years the option to get a t-shirt from theTreeTribe who had 16 shirts for sale, one per size in every colour. But since he manage to sell only 5 in the said time, I asked him to ship them all back, so what he had left, he sent to me in Italy, literally last week, sorry about that :/. I don't think I will manufacture any more in Asia as I also had to pay a lot for shipping and import taxes, so I will produce the next in Europe. To all else: thanks for the support!

Ahoy Ahoy! Summer News, before we all go on holiday in August, even if I know some are already there enjoying a sunbathe somewhere in the world 1 Pleiadians IFO: the booklet is almost done (just a part of the interview is missing) and the mastering has been done for 1/3 of the music (CD1). But since there is the need of some audio restoration on the liveset (the mastering brought some dat errors to our attention) we need to slow down a bit on this and we will complete everything after the summer as I will be away 6-26 August, unable to work on anything music-related. I also want to mention that with this release we have achieved a great result sound wise: I have sent a 10 minute sample of the mastered/unmastered version to a well known loudness complainer and he told me the original unmastered was not sounding very good and featured dynamics of 10 on the Foobar dynamic range analyser while the remastering sounds terrific and has a dynamic range of 8, which is an excellent result, meaning the change is really minimal and we preserved almost all of the dynamics of the original version, extra attention has been paid to not have any peak in distortion, anywhere. The artwork is being finalized by Miro, the same Artist who did the awesome job on the Doof reissue, and I can tell you it looks awesome. 2 I have sent in the work the EPs of Opale and Vedama (both mysterious French producers, that have an awesome sound): the artwork is almost done for both but the mastering will be done after IFO is finished. The artwork is also almost finished and looks terrific, courtesy of Vladimir, the same Russian designer who did the Artwork for Virtuart. The EPs will be pressed together with IFO so expect the releases all-together right after the summer. 3 T-shirts: I have some news, some sizes of the original DAT shirts returned to me from India, will update soon the shop. I also have inquired about Doof t-shirts and will look into it in the next days, with more clarity on the project I'd have to know how many people would DEFINITELY want a pink t-shirt, because if I have to make only one for me and one for KingGoaConstrictor, well, maybe I won't do them. I might see if I can make a batch of blacks too but I seriously think pink would be the best looking colour for this. These also would be made for September, as there is not much time left now and takes time. 4 Mind Rewind 3: I have selected already a number of tracks for it and will soon discuss with the team of people cooperating on the series about this all. We aim to release for Christmas. Hope you'll love the idea! That said, enjoy the summer everyone and DAT will hopefully bring a lot of smiles soon after it... Draeke

Just to push the thread up that we still have copies of Mind Rewind 1 available if you want to buy We still donate every 6 months to the charity the income from the sales of both compilations. If you want to get both volume 1 and volume 2 you can do so at the price of 30 eur for the discs + 5 eur for shipping. It ships from Poland anywhere in the world. Thanks once again for the support and enjoy the music!

Creative SB1240 Sound Blaster X-FI HD has also the Toslink line in, has anyone tried it or read any reviews?

Hello Starkraver, the Etnica shirt would be difficult to make as the band are offering official tshirts. I would hower continue to pursue the realization of the Doof shirt, that is for sure, as soon as i have some news, would be posted

Thanks for the punctuation Dolmot, I wanted to tell you that I feel the most important music, the new and previously unavailable should be the first CD. The bonus disc is actually the IFO album. I am releasing the liveset, I see it in a completely opposite way. The tile will be decided later on, in any case, if we are lucky we will press in July and release in September, anything earlier, it's impossible.

So here we are, with the announcement many are waiting for: The Ultimate Pleaidians early era collection. CD 1 Pleiadians – I.F.O. Live 1997 1. Pleiadians - Merope 2. Pleiadians - Alcyone 3. Pleiadians - Asterope 4. Pleiadians - Maia 5. Pleiadians - Electra 6. Pleiadians - Taygeta Bonus Track: 7. Etnica - Vimana (Pleiadians Live Mix) CD 2 Pleiadians – I.F.O. 1. Pleiadians - Maia 2. Pleiadians - Taygeta 3. Pleiadians - Merope 4. Pleiadians - Alcyone 5. Pleiadians - Electra 6. Pleiadians - Asterope 7. Pleiadians - Celaeno Bonus Track 8. Pleiadians - Time Dilation (Original Mix) CD 3 Pleiadians – Vinyl Tracks 1. Pleiadians – The Pleiadians 2. Pleiadians – Boarding Pass To Balangan 3. Pleiadians – Cyberland <- fixed correct spelling, finally 4. Pleiadians – Sonic System 5. Pleiadians – Analogue Step 6. Pleiadians – Jungle Track 7. Pleiadians – Zeta Reticuli (Full Mix) 8. Pleiadians – Deep Frequencies What else could you want?! Hopefully this album will bring a lot of joy to many as it really is a dream coming true. As a final detail, I will not discuss anything related to mastering, regardless of requests/comments. Thanks for understanding this point.

Great atmosphere on the VA and I love the diversity. Btw that Morphic Resonance tune is outstanding!

Dear Psynews, since nobody has made an official review in here, I will paste a couple found online. Doof Lets Turn On: Remixed & Remastered (DAT) Posted in Reviews 2015 by psyreviews - April 25, 2015 Many years ago (okay, in about 2006) the present reviewer had reached a certain brief echelon of fame within the scene and found himself connected on MSN Messenger (remember that?) to none other than Simon Posford, of whom you have probably heard. In a chat whose MSN log I desperately wish I still had, Posford asked me whether Hallucinogens Twisted would have got ten out of ten if psyreviews had been around to review it. My response, with which I was and remain incredibly chuffed, was that it would indeed have probably scored ten out of ten; but if it had, then I would have had to give Doofs Lets Turn On eleven out of ten. Hilarious Spinal Tappisms aside, what makes Lets Turn On the greatest Goa Trance album of all time? I must admit, its a question I struggle with but all I know is that even in its original form, Lets Turn On still holds up ridiculously well as being a brilliantly produced, playfully fluid, straight-down-the-middle fluoro thunkslab. I rarely go back to the old Hallucinogen albums (probably something to do with knowing every note, wobble and adjustment to the reverb knob by heart), but I cant recall a time since its release in 1996 when I've not thoroughly enjoyed slapping Doofs first album on. Its never sounded dated, except in the best possible way a parallel can be sketched between Doof and Soul II Soul (bear with me) whose Club Classics Vol 1 never sounded old or out of place because its blessed with a degree of uniqueness that somehow lifts it out of the sheer context of time. Perhaps its longevity is down to its high number of standouts. Doof crafted the archetypal Goa Trance Hearty Party vibe with Mars Needs Women, and all of a sudden nobody was sure whether this was a serious scene about shanti and awakenenings, or a scene obsessed with wobbly noises and sci fi samples that was taking the piss out of itself from the inside out, from a zillion different angles, simultaneously (etc.) Meanwhile, Angelina was a top-line example of how 303 abuse and deliriously-high BPMs can create a sort of blissful silence in the middle of everything; and Star Above Parvatti gives oxygen to experiences by slowing things down, and the albums title track remains the best-sounding opening bookend that the era ever produced. So when word came out that the superlative DAT records were talking with Nick Doof about remastering and re-releasing this album, I will confess to a little bit of wee coming out. Recent releases on some of what we used to think of as majorish labels have had a cast your mind back vibe so it wasn't entirely a surprise that this would get the treatment; but still, regardless of surprise its a huge, huge delight. And its difficult to know which half of the 2CD set to be more excited about. The first contains remixes, one or two I think might have heard before, but never so crisply and evenly layered as here. The Live Mix of Mars Needs Women is a lesson in how themes can be subtly introduced to make people lose their absolute shit (in a good way), and the alternate mix of Double Dragons has you wondering why it was never released until now, being so uniquely and deftly avin it as to make sweat pour from the ceiling (metaphor). Secret Sun was never a standout favourite, but the way the 7th Sun Mix builds and layers is reminiscent of what Doof would later do with his contribution to Tips Crystal Skulls it has that ticklish effect of good weed on the senses. The brain-tingling probably peaks with the alternate mix of Destination Bom, sounding stretched and deep and dripping with an organic ooziness; the movement and progression is somehow honest and innocent, and so distant from what we call psychedelic today it almost begs for a reclassification of the word. Finally, the Original Mix of Star Above Parvatti may or may not be the same version as was released on Tip Blue Im tempted to say flat out that its the same, because eventually someone will tell me in the comments that it isnt, and then finally Ill know without dragging out the CDJs to listen to both simultaneously but anyway delightful. The second disc is a remastered start-to-finish of the original album and surprisingly, even with something so familiar theres a some added depth and clarity in the remaster. The bottom-end is rich, theres sharpness in the high mids, and the sheer absorption of it is somehow more engaging; this might all be because the sound of the original release is so indelibly etched into my nervous system that Im substituting novelty with quality, but who cares. Such a well-known piece of work doesnt warrant a track-by-track, so lets just say that the experience of the remastered album is an incredibly fun one. Parts of the fluidity reminded me of that 2002-ish Israeli revival, the glistening movement of the upper-end acidlines sounding shimmery. At times the BPMs sound too fast and beg to be slowed down, but somehow that feels like adding three sugars to a cup of tea or dipping a Dairylea Dunker into a $10,000 Penfold Grange: doing so would be to miss the point. Its worth making the point that Doof was never just about belting out daft sounds at high speeds; there was always an unquantifiable stream of emotion in there, a very genuine capturing of an out-there experience and translating it into a musical form. This extended beyond Doofs party music: his solo acoustic work is honest, stripped-back devotional stuff, and the Third Ear Audio collaboration with Earthling had some humbly beautiful moments. Theres a common thread Nick Doof captures an otherworldly experience and recreates it sonically, and thats definitely in evidence here. So, the greatest Goa Trance album of all time has just got greater; which, I think, means that the greatest Goa Trance album of all time was actually released this month, by an Italian record label called DAT records and not by a London record label twentyish years ago. Whether you look at Lets Turn On as a relic in history, as a milestone in your own love of the music, as a lesson in sheer Goan hedonism, or as a sideline curio, you need this re-release. I'm running out of superlatives, but I still cant see this album ever losing a special little place in my soul, and nor should it ever lose its place in yours. Damien, Psyreviews. And then: Doof Lets Turn On: Remixed & Remastered (DAT) Discogs User: Nousagi, May 28, 2015 I absolutely ADORE this re-release! What we get here is not only the original Let's Turn On album but also a remix album from the artist himself. This cannot go wrong! Right? The remix part differs quite a bit from the original. I would say we should not compare them straight forward but in fact listen to them with another mindset. The original is melodic, fast-paced and outrageous on the dancefloor. On the other hand, the remixes are mostly hypnotic, trancey and with barely any breakdown. The melodies from the originals are subtle, they come as quickly as they go while the acidic trippy beat continues to expand your universe. Not many Goa albums around can achieve this level of trance using this formula. For me personally, the first CD is better put in an indoor environment. I love listening to it while relaxing on my sofa. I do not believe it is suitable for the madness of the Goa parties (except of course in downtime). To experience the most of it, you have to submerge yourself solely into its sounds. It's mesmerising and quite beautiful! The second CD does not need introduction. All the tracks are simply stunning. I also do not understand why is there such a complain regarding the mastering. It is excellent and you can clearly hear all the details of the tracks. The dynamics are far from ruined either. But I guess some people want to find flaws in every piece of art. Just enjoy the music which comes in a great package for just 13 EUR, instead of spending 30 on the older release, which will probably come in scratched. Speaking about the package, you get not only the two magnificent CDs (which are coloured below as well, very neat idea!), but also great artwork and a gorgeous poster, folded gently inside. There is no reason not to obtain this marvel coming from one of the best labels currently, and please don't let yourself be fooled by this malicious review from the person on the bottom. Some people just like to shoot down the work of labels such as DAT or Suntrip, just so that their collection of old-school Goa classics cost more on the market. If you are a music lover like me, ignore them and support this fantastic result of hard-work. Nousagi, Discogs

This is completely true, it is a nightmare for a small label to hope to get its music pressed because majors order tens of thousands of vinyl and pay it all upfront, as they know they will make big bucks on the sales (as they press famous/popular artists & commercial music). When I wanted to press etnica I paid (in full and in advance) and then I was made to wait 4 months to finally get my records pressed.. So yes, it is like impossible to do that for small labels. Finally a lot of vinyl lovers must know that modern presses & reissues are nothing like the vinyl pressed in the past. The mastering was made ad hoc for the releases, and music was taken by original sources, like original recording sessions and whatnot. Nowadays SO many plants just take the music off a cd and make the platter to press the record, with no sound processing for the vinyl groove.

It's the other way around it is the original mix of chemical trance. The released version it is actually the "instant remix" you will read about this story, soon enough, somewhere. The vocals (very low) in the background though, were added to this mix, by the dj, they are not on the original etnica track.

Of course Dolmot, that is the implied reason of a repress, of course to make something rare available again, but I think that whenever possible, you have to include extras and added value to have something that people who own the first pressing would want again, being it a bigger booklet or remastered audio or extra tracks (if they exist) That said I have not given up on the t-shirt thing and my designer is preparing something for the possible Doof shirt too, I must just find a producer in europe as I don't want to deal any more with import taxes which were heavy from Indonesia.

Soon I will announce the tracklist, but of course the first disc will contain the so wanted 1997 Recorded Live Set, with a bonus track at it's end and the second disc will be the remastered original album, also including a bonus track, but what will be on the third disc? Speculations for now ...

So many sad news, the music shall live on though!

Ah yes it's also stated on the bandcamp page: "All CDs are from a new pressing without the skips that were present in the first batch in summer of 2012. More information, photographs and love can be found in the booklet that comes with the CDs."

speaking of your albums, is there a good copy with no glitch available through bandcamp? so that i may buy both

Both releases will include previously unavailable material, otherwise, what would be the point? The release will be appealing to whoever has the original pressing, all the compilations and everything they released because there are unheard before tracks in them, unless you partied in 95-97. IFO will contain pleiadians tracks 1995-1997, spanning on 3CD, including IFO Live, which was the goal since the beginning. The original IFO album will also have a bonus track . but more details, later . Juggeling information will come a bit later on, since I will release Juggeling later on, they will not be consequential releases, now it is the time of IFO.

Beautifully written indeed Taika-Kim, I feel this album is really epic and judging by the first track, that i have just finished listening, it is probably one of your best, bravo! I loved the time-s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d sample at the beginning of the said track and the really epic finale, beautiful music. Will certainly buy to support your hard work and the long nights in the studio. Positive vibes your ways my friend

I would love to press vinyls, but before anything I have to finalize the release, if anything vinyl's editions would always come afterwards. I cannot really sustain the costs of pressing both at the same time. I would love to press other releases on vinyl too, but well, one thing at a time!

Well Guys, this is THE announcement that many of you were waiting for... it's finally happening! I have been giving hints for the last 2 years since I've asked the authorization for the very first time to Pleiadians Maurizio. We still had to discuss further details of the release but finally last week I went to Ibiza and stayed at Max's where Etnica's studio is and where we signed the final deal Before announcing it properly I wanted to make sure everything was OK and that I would encounter the final approval of both members of Etnica, and all went very well. I am very happy to say that this release will really come true. And the edition will be special, not two but THREE CDs. More details will come later... Here is the proof:

With all the imaginable happiness and good vibes I am proud to say I signed two contracts with Pleiadians & Etnica. I will reissue special editions of Pleiadians - I.F.O. & Etnica - The Juggeling Alchemists Under the Black Light. Prepare to dream once again with the mystical and magical music of Etnica!

Thanks for the quick answer! I am listening to the tracks and they sound amazing, can't wait for the final album in hands, congratulations, mature and deep!

Thanks for the music Chris. Will who purchased cd with tshirt still get both? I was one of those supporters, but since a long time has passed, just wanted to check Also, not directly related but did you ever release on acidworx any acid techno remix on vinyl? I think it would be too awesome if u did...