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  1. people everyone knew it was going to be different but i for once would like to stand up and say i find the samples interesting. U must compare this music NOT to IFO or FOL but to what is heard around these days, i personally heard transwave live in london and my god THAT was rotten full on heavily on the hard trance side.. just a super banging kick one bassline on it's top and some synths here and there i didnt hear one single evolution nor a killer melody and nobody else did (i heard many negative comments). I am sorry to say so but that's it and hearing the samples of this i am more thrilled by its sound! On the Vimana Part 2 i can hear a nice thing going on and galactic and starbase 11 are sounding promising. Also the beat seems to be lower than the synths which is a good thing i simply hate to hear only the kick :)

    PS: also track condition critical seems great, up to the sky it goes!

  2. I do have some mixtapes of mine made in 1999 when i was really playing madness 150 bpm pure goa ;).. that was when i was kinda enlightened ahah but true you are right they sound cool and different, nice idea to record from and then back.. less digital sounding for sure.. nice idea!

  3. Just turned 28 and on the crossing line of the 5th Night to th 6th morning i decided to preapre a mix putting my efforts to make it clever, ecleptic and varied, so it' won't be melodic goa from beginning to end (i think i never made one like that in any case) but a bit ranging on the genres, styles that i like.. as usual is packed of weird unknown obscure tracks for your delight!

    but let's not waste time and there you go:

    http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...9B1CD4D32198CB7

    Happy Listneing :)

  4. WOW man it surely is a marvellous thing! Cause they kept the sound SAFE and SOUND!! I totally tought it was an old set as it sounded SO analogic and SO killer!!! WOOOHOOO BIG THUMBS UP for the Nuns who prooved to be able to make AGAIN the OLDSCHOOL sound (where everyone else is failing i can add, ot at least 99% of the musicians).. Simply monstrous it was..

    I wanted to catch you too man, would have been SO cool!

    Why don't u play a retro set too? would it be NEAT!

  5. My Review! :)

     

    First of all the party was AMAZING and lovely, best in my life (but again i

    never went to any open air festival so can't really judge that) and to

    people who told me the crowd wasnt really so warm , i can answer

    we were in london and that is the best you can find there, enough for me

    tough :). So let's start talking of the party shall we ?

     

    Here the sets i heard in the order: Simon Baring DJ, Serge Soque DJ, Younger

    Brother Live, Hallucinogen Live, Shpongle DJ, Total Eclipse DJ, Green Nuns

    LIVE. in the gaps i took a little listen to transwave, tristan, dimitri and

    process but i will add a comment about this at the end of my review.

     

    Times for the sets are more or less what i remember, they can very possibly

    be wrong, other lister from the party can correct them :).

     

    Simon Baring 23 to 24

    We were let in at 23 and here is when this guy, new head at Twisted started

    his nice set of electro ambient chill, nice material all the way, perfect

    for preparing my mind and body to the mad dancing of the rest of the night.

     

    Serge Soque 24 to 1.30

    Awesome set, only oldschool material played!!: total eclipse, green nuns,

    man with no name, doof (i think i heard one), the infinity project, astral

    projection and similar, was one hour and a half i think, really emotional

    and perfectly matching the atmosphere, really a perfect start: goan vibes

    all the way!!.

     

    Younger Brother 1.30 to 3

    Wohoo!! start of Simon all the way marathon... they were wearing funny masks

    on a halloween great stage! simply perfect, can't say what he played as i

    don't have yet their cd, only heard tracks on compilations.. massive stuff

    all over the liveset, really loved it now need to buy their albuim!.

     

    Hallucinogen! 3 to 4.30

    Was his birthday (written big on the screen at his shoulder) and he really

    stormed the place, played all the classic hits putting many times the gamma

    goblin melody played from a little keyboard, everyone could see he was

    really playing notes and doing other random melodies in the tracks here and

    there, there was his apple running but he had at least 3 keyboards and a

    massive mixer where he was playing on knobs all the time... a REAL fucking

    incredible liveset, mindexpanding blowing and simply perfect. Couldn't dream

    anything like this and furthermore he was playing in front of 3000 persons

    (Event went sold ou, 400 ticket at door probably sold out too). I was in

    first line the closest possible to the stage! Was a delirium, he even had a

    full crowd of super beautiful girls going wild for him! he is a real

    superstar and incredible musician. At the end of his set the crowd all sang

    a happy birthday song for him and i seen he almost shed a tear for commotion

    as he didn't expect. Applauses and cry for joy were from all the crowd,

    simply marvellous...

     

    Shpongle 4.30 to 5.30 or 6 (cant remember)

    He ran from the main room to the chill room to play his 3rd set in a row,

    joined by freak number one Raja Ram looking as crazy as possible for the

    night with his psychedelic football hat and his weird clothes.. our

    godfather and grandfather of the scene.. i wish i will have the energy he

    has at his age, no idea how he can be so energetic (or maybe i do have an

    idea ahah). Shpongle set attracted so many people that it was probalby much

    better to keep it in the main room and the chillout place got overcrowded

    with the result of terrible sweating (there were not the strong fans they

    had in the huge main area were u could really get a cold if u stayed

    directly under, incredible air ventilating system). Beside this little

    overheating trouble it was really special, most of the tracks were played as

    it was a realy long set, floating inbetween relaxing and stronger material

    so the result was that people were dancing in the area like nuts in some

    point :).

     

    Total Eclipse 5.30 or 6 to 6:45 / 7

    The duo without Serge (no idea why they kept the name and serge left) it was

    a mixture of material of their long career with possibly some new tracks

    (anyone can confirm?) I can't really say i liked it as much as serge set

    tough as for me he is much more a spiritual person than these two guys...(is

    just a feeling) also one of them was making crazy gestures and faces and

    looked a little bit tooo high and insane (the one with short hairs, no idea

    who of the two is). But all in all a nice selection of tracks.

     

    Green Nuns Of The Revolutions 6:45 /7 to 8:15

    No words for it, simply the most incredible live set i've ever heard, so

    acidic i was literally thrown into hyperspace!!! Monstrous synth lines and

    mindexpanding acid patterns, i could almost see the flying rhino around the

    room aha! :) Really it was a proper liveset: they had a cd going with their

    live tracks (i tought it was a DAT like i said to Joske but when i went back

    near them to make a photo i seen they had an analog Korg synth and and a cd

    player goin plus the mixer but no DATs, so basically they were playing with

    frequences on the mixer and alternatively they were using the knobs and

    plugging the cables of the synth (no idea what it was but was really

    oldschool!). Every track they played was a remix but they played them all!

    all the album all the compilations tracks, and not one single original

    version, i could really cry for joy. Klunk remixed was even more funkier and

    possibly the wicked most funny track ever made in goa trance history... not

    to mention ring of fire and atomic armadillo enhanced versions... no words

    for them!! Probably they had a liveset on dat made back in the years and

    they recorded it onto a cd for the event. But all the manipulations they did

    on the synth were really live!! I couldnt expect anything so awesome. As a

    note of their funny spirit they played the looney tunes theme to end the set

    in a more than perfect way. They were also very funny people always smiling

    and seeming to have a lot of fun doing their things!

     

    Bad notes:

    I had to show up at 20 in front of the venue and queue on a first line (i

    had no ticket reserved). Then at 21:30 they set up a table with the guy from

    Access All Areas and someone from the crew security started

    to shout: Who has a ticket reserved come over here, all who need a ticket

    please queue up down there (into another point, so basically everyone ran

    ther other way and all the priority order of arrive was fucked up). Where

    everyone queued at 20 or earlier became the queue for who already had a

    ticked in his pocket.... this was very unprofessional and casual. Then I had

    the chance to buy a ticket from a guy of the staff and could queue in front

    of the main door. They made us wait another hour and half and doors

    opened only at 22:30/23.

    They had some sounds check at 22 that we all heard and finally let

    us in. So in this they didnt really keep up with the timetable that was set up

    with music starting at 21 no idea how they reduced the sets or managed to

    reschedule all the artists, not very professional but understandable for

    such a big party.

    So all in all i had to wait 3 hours stading before being able to enter the

    venue... but was worth!. Other bad thing at the end of the set everyone

    rushed to queue to get his jacket back and they had the most crappy system

    of queueing and organization for giving back stuff (but here to blame is the

    Renaissance Room owners) So it took me no less than 1 hour and something and

    could get my jacket at 9:30 in the morning... this was SO painful as i used

    all my natural energies to keep up dancing for hours and hours and since i

    dont use any substances i could almost fall on the ground waiting for my

    jacket... i started to have blurry visions...Not to mention i had to go back

    home, shower, pack my things and go to the airport!!! All in all i stayed

    awake over 36 hours.. no idea how i managed: first time in my life, just had

    2 coffees and 1 red bull over this whole time and loads of water, juice and

    a couple of beers!! i proved myself something huge i guess aha, was the nuns

    who gave me the energy to arrive back in italy.

     

    Terrible notes:

    Transwave... my god. Some friends warned me NOT to venture into the main

    room when they were doing the live.. but i had to give it a chance and

    inbetween a set (cant remember who was playing) i took 10 minutes to go

    seeing them... i was astonished. TERRIBLE music, GMS all the way, only a

    boring bassline and a super strong kick, nothing else, few lines here and

    there. A guy who seen the complete set later said me they played all like

    this including a depeche mode hit remixed into full on and NOT one single

    old track.. what a joke, you are not even a shadow of what Transwave was

    bleah!

     

    Dimitri set... what the hell was that? was djing crap modern stuff in the

    retro room, crappy full on, including at least 3 pop trance tracks, "how

    does it feel" the 80s hit remixed, one prodigy track remixed and another one

    and all in all ONLY new music in the room that was supposed to be the

    oldschol one!! Totally hated it, people wanted to hear OLD

    stuff but he didnt play one single note of that, what a shame.

     

    Tristan in main room was playing new full on too.. :( but somebdoy tells me

    he selected something nice and not so boring.

    Process seemed ok.. didnt pay too much attention to it tough!

     

    Special note abput the Psynew posse: SUPER COOL PEOPLE! :) Was great to speak with all of you! I hanged around a lot with Fabien and quite some time with Joske and his friend (i think was Chris), very nice people! Hope you will bring the Nuns around!! :) Also very sympathic DP, Asherett and The indian guy (he knew a LOT of track titles! but sorry didnt catch your namE!)

  6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/51479375@N00/...57594353396295/

     

    this guy is a guru.. i remember him from parties in year 2000 and he NEVER wanted to be photographed.. he was there with his girl (an asian girl with a third eye thing on her face) and when i asked them to take a picture he said no way. Lucky he didnt crush your camera i guess :)

     

    thanks for the other photos shared..

     

    the girl with huge boobs was together with a kid with a face of a zombie.. how could such a cutie stay with that dude is a mystery (he looked WAY younger than her)

  7. Nasha!!!

     

    I have only _one_ track, Chai Machine from White Rhino, but I looooove this, there are these deeeppp sarangis & stuff all over... This is still one of the few "eastern style" goa tracks that I like, usually the faux eastern scales just sound like shit :P

     

    This was very similar to Cyborganik - Centre Of The Cyclone released on Transient, same eastern style.. I now wonder if Mad Sher Khan could posibly be an alias of Ott.. that are 2 oneshot massive tracks..

     

    speaking of unknown projects / old stuff i can name: MushroomMan, Old Aeon (the one on NinetySix), Akasha (the one of Beings From Another World), North Central Positronics (aka of Simon P), Amtinaoüs, Analogue Silence (one killer goa track on trigger), Anopheles (one underrated ep only), Ax-Om, but it would take me some time to browse more my collection/my memory to find others :)

  8. Don Brown and Peter Huber just did the records you see are released then both took diferent directions, there were tons of remixes of the tracks and many of which were done/released illegally EVEN by big labels. Peter was hilarious when i showed him on howmany compilation their tracks appeared and he told me less than half were properly licensed.. ahh the music business of the 90s... everyone released whatever mos tof the time illegally... and speak of PLUR!! :S

  9. I have found an extra copy of this jewel:

    booklet very good plus (would be near mint if the dude didn't use his pen to circle some of the tracks numbers,on the booklet, but is something really small and not ruining the artwork, they are tiny signs).

    cd is near mint, one visible very small sign but totally shining cd!

     

    i wait your offers :)

     

    PS: i MIGHT trade it but my wantlist is very lil for such an item and here it goes:

     

    orion - futuristic poetry (symbiosis)

    transwave - hypnorhythm cd (step 2 house)

     

    boom

  10. they are the same persons who made Nitrox and sharp. so because this release is under different name that means nothing..some ppl can't understand that..with simples words: don't expect anything interesting.

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    I think maurizio did something cool with Photonik for instance and if all the album will be like that it would b einteresting, but people, forget analog sounds a la IFO, that's history and will never come back!

  11. Another perfectly executed trade. I received my CDs very fast (well, once he finally got around to sending them ;)) in really, really good condition!

     

    One of the nicest guys around here and professional trader too.

     

    Thanks, Ola!

     

    :)

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    professional packages i got from him in the past :)

  12. Another LARGE purchase from Pedro... Everything went smooth again... Very friendly guy with loads of neat stuff... Recommended!

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    yes pedro is the best! he is friendly and lives in a non materialistic world where he wants to make everyone happy, i wish i was like him.

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