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    Oddvod greets Seb Taylor, 17.05.2014, Zagreb, Croatia

    in Party Announcement

    Posted

    It's all good as long as they are showing those tracks now and I think it's great not everything was released back then. We have some sort of continuity mixing old producers with fresh ones - thanks to it the change is more fluid (offtopic mode: off).

     

    Going back to the party - the lineup looks perfect for a mid-small space and is not overstuffed (Mr. Taylor will have lots of work to do :)), I wish you great frequency.

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    Oddvod greets Seb Taylor, 17.05.2014, Zagreb, Croatia

    in Party Announcement

    Posted

    Seb's music as Shakta, Digitalis, Hibernation, Kaya Project, 8-Ball, and Foxglove are all so awesome.

    Too bad that last Shakta album never got released. I wonder if he'll ever release the music from it, or if he still writes new psytrance music.

     

    +1, I worship Kaya Project and have great memories regarding this music. Best sounds for hiking, Seb is a magician.

     

    Does Shakta has 'Suntrip' written because of the track from Temple of Chaos compilation (+ Filteria's remix on Shaltu) or maybe something pleasant awaits us in the near future :ph34r:?

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    V/A - Goa Classix 1

    in 2000

    Posted

    Thirteen posts and almost every track has been marked as someone's favourite (the same time 2 or 3 were bashed as crap, you gotta love different tastes :)). It's a sign of a great compilation, right? Even someone mildly interested in goa trance should know some of the producers just by looking at the playlist.

     

    As few posters wrote - great starter compilation, favourites: 1 (IMO best triplet-rhythm track ever) and 5, but all of them are worth your attention.

    Ufomatka

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I always tought his name is Ufomatika...thanks for explanation btw!

     

    Track from the first post is one of the best from Dancing Mavka compilation, great project indeet!

    Strange, I've always read this one 'Ufomatika' too.

     

    To cloud things even more I'll add that 'matka' in polish means 'mother' and 'ufo' is quite self explanatory, so there you go ;).

    2014 releases

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    In our own Cronomi way, we are working on it.

    But seems some artists need more time than others ;)

    I hope this sentence includes Portamento working on second album, because somehow I've missed info about Cronomi releasing his second LP ;).

    Someone else has made this

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Oh, it's that kind of 'off'. For starters I thought Paul Eye was writing about not putting deliberately the original producer of a track and inserting someone else instead ('anyone knows that this track is made by X, not the Y, who's name is on the cover'). Anyway, this one ^ is also interesting.

     

    Feel free to put both groups here :).

    Which artists have come the closest to these classic groups?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Well, it's pretty easy to imitate someone else's ideas... unless you don't know what you are doing. :ph34r:

     

    I'm not sure about that. In my book there is a difference between:

     

    - poor copy of X

    - influenced by X

    - X ver 2.0

     

    Many times the track resembles some other artist's style but Your mind says it's kinda like X, but something's missing... and than You discover an artist who grasped not only the technology, but the feeling/flow of another artist and it's all good :). Hard to explain, but I hope I've managed.

     

    You haven't heard his track called 'Mindwarp', it was supposed to be on the EP, but due to the uber-similarity to the Phthalic Vibes by Etnica, I decided not to release it on the debut EP, and especially not by that name, because I really see that track as a tribute/remix, and it kick-ass (I think, Draeke and Jos heard it when I sent them demo version a couple of months ago) I will see to check it and upload it for you to proove you how much he can 'immitate' that sound.

     

    That would be great, he's doing it right :). Using other people's melodies without nodding to the original is a dodgy area (and it's not the same as using similar gear/presets to develop different ones - just look at the rock bands ;) ).

    Which artists have come the closest to these classic groups?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Richpa has some spot on suggestions, good hearing, Man :).

     

    First two tracks in Afgin's Astral Experience are AP ver 2.0.

     

    Last EP by Morphic Resonance was defo inspired by some Etnica/Pleiadians works (gotta listen to it, people!).

     

    KoxBox - maaaybe Portamento?

     

    That's a very weak 'maaaybe' in my book :), I gotta check Earwall's Derango suggestion as I'm a sucker for KoxBox.

     

     

    My two cents - JIS resembles Blue Planet Corporation at times, T2MU noticed that too in his review.

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    D&B with trance influences?

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Roughly ten years ago there was sub-genre called trance'n'bass or trancestep by some, John B was one of the producers making this kind of music, although some of the tracks by 'trance' meant short loops with only slight changes during the progression supposedly helping listener to get into a trance-like state.

     

    Reversing the topic tittle, few Slackbaba's productions are trance with d'n'b influences (in all his three albums), IMO definitely worth checking.

    melodic goa trance request

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Goasia, Afgin or Antares are too loud and less melodic

     

    That's Your opinion, when I was hearing Afgin's music for the first time, I thought he had Astral Projection on the speed dial. And IMO Trinodia has the loudest melodies around.

     

    Goasia's 'Dancing with the Blue Spirit' less melodic? Well, I rest my case :).

     

    Maybe You shoud try nitzo artists, they ooze with melodies.

    melodic goa trance request

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    even if he would ask that, would be kinda silly since I doubt any artist would chage his or her style because of a forum request (otherwise IM would sound very different nowadays aftert all the bitching here... :D).

     

    Now that's the alternate universe I can easily exist in :).

     

    For melodic neo-goa I would check out Crossing Mind

     

    That's a good suggestion regarding complex and not obvious melodies, but I'm not sure OP was looking for such tracks (if he firstly didn't have the intention Rotwang wrote). Since goa pride mentioned artists from last years I would add Khetzal, Goasia, Afgin or Antares to the bunch. Special mention: Trinodia - nobody does such beautiful in-your-face melodies.

     

    I love this Talpa track from the first post, probably the the most goa-sounding tune by him (still in my top 10 post 2000 goa/psytrance tracks).

    Some other artists like Transwave?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I don't know and I am not so much into it anymore anyways. But again be careful calling artists "pioneers" because they make one or two tunes in a genre.

    This may not be the case here, but when someone does even one or two tunes in a style noone has ever done before, in my book he can easily be called 'pioneer'.

    Cosmic Dimension - In A Special Kind of Space

    in 2013

    Posted

    As of now, they're IMO among the top-5 of new-school goa newcomers.

     

    Yeah, they're delivering for sure. BTW, nice review antic :), although one note:

     

     

    believe it or not - their only official release before that album was on Suntrip's VA "Blacklight Moments".

     

    Here is info about EP from last July called Voyage In The Universe.

     

    I know it's sacrilege, but I prefer this album to latest ones from E-Mantra or Filteria. In A Special Kind of Space will almost surely be in my uptempo top ten for 2013. It's not over the top (in my book), plus has brilliant moments all over. I don't see fillers here, it's even and sometimes this is more important than having 3 glorious tunes, 3 mediorce and 3 bastards.

     

    If this would be released 5-6 years ago everyone would be praising Cosmic Dimension, I understand some of us are like kids in a candystore nowadays, so it's tough to impress, but in my case - they succeeded. 8-8,5/10.

    Talpa - The Art Of Being Non

    in 2004

    Posted

    I think 2004 was a pretty good year for psy scene. Goa started to make a comeback by the likes of Filteria or Ypsilon5, Electric Universe did an awesome job with Cosmic Experience and presented us one of the best full-on albums to date (minus guitars), Infected Mushroom made the last one with more trance than other styles (I can't help it, I kinda like it, I'll take their guitars over Boris' any day, but the singing - well, You all know -_-), Misted Muppet moved few butts with their 'take no prisoners' medieval atmosphere, some chillout albums from '04 are still on repeat in my playlist (Kaya Project, Aes Dana, Bluetech, Abakus, etc...).

     

    And Talpa. Oh yes, how great discovering this artist was! I can't count how many times I've listened to all his three albums (definitely I'm not in the 'bash the second one' group) and as The Riddler he's even better at times. But The Art Of Being Non was the first one. Recently I've re-listened to this album and it still sounds great. It's not the music for the people who like long build-ups and repetitiveness. But the rest should at least TRY it. Crazy, schizophrenic, funny, scary, danceable, inventive - it has it all.

     

    Thank You, Mr Talpa for this one and I hope we won't loose You altogether for progressive party.

    Vibe Tribe - Melodrama

    in 2004

    Posted

    The album unfortunately turned out to be yet another Infected Mushroom clone. I love melodies, but this is just too boring and simple. If you like Infected Mushrooms recent albums I’m sure you’ll love this one though.

     

    Well, talk about answer delay :), but I may be the proof that You are wrong. I like IM's recent (as for 2004) albums and I have a feeling this one will bore me very soon. Few sounds here and there may remind of Infected Mushroom but it's only a transparent shadow. In my book this one is closer to epic trance than psy, but it has its moments (not many, but still).

     

    I've heard worse, nice hands-in-the-air-trance. As Lemmiwinks wrote, it's a matter of context and this CD fits the scheme like no other. The tittle perfectly tells the story, so this might be a treat for sweet melodramatic vibe fans.

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