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  1. No comments on this one for over a decade...

     

    I can't count how many times I've listened to this album (I had this LP on original cassette :) ). I think it was my introduction to psychill and no matter what anyone says, to me the main ingredient of Patchwork's music is always psychill, this album included.

     

    Children's rating is a bit harsh, I hope He'd changed His mind over those years ;).

     

    Very calm, mysterious and solid album (the cover describes music quite well here). 8-9.5/10 from me for producion and mood, sentimental value is uncountable.

  2. I'll never forget the confused look of what now many would call hipsters faces as Mahadeva blasted at 9am in the morning, while some dude with a Mohawk & Space Tribe tshirt danced like he was having a fit behind the decks in the middle of the cbd on a Saturday.

    Was this some other guy or You're referring to Yourself in third person? Sorry, I got confused.

  3. 1. Astral Projection - Maian dream :excl:
    2. MFG - Magnetic activity (remix)
    3. Transwave - My dear medical assurance :excl:
    4. Etnica - Tribute :excl:
    5. Total Eclipse - Chaotic circus :excl:
    6. Hallucinogen - Jiggle of the Sphinx :excl:
    7. Koxbox - D.M. Turner :excl:
    8. Pleiadians - Taygeta :excl:
    9. Shakta - Lepton head (part I)
    10. X-Dream - Freak
    11. Prana - Primal orbit
    12. MWNN - Azymuth
    13. Psychaos - Return voyage
    14. GNOTR - Ring of fire
    15. Infected Mushroom - Ratio shmatio :excl:
    16. Electric Universe - Radio S.P.A.C.E.
    17. Chi-A.D. - Eye am the I
    18. The Infinity Project - Telepathy
    19. Cosmosis - Howling at the Moon :excl:
    20. Oforia - ...don't know too many...

     

    :excl: (one of many)

  4. Listening to this album (especially the last two minutes in 'Ghostrider [time tunnel mix]') I'm absolutely sure Infected Mushroom duo has liked this release A LOT. Warm and happy sounds are minority here, this one is twisted and tough. Recommended to those who like more industrial side of psytrance and prefer X-Dream or Darshan to Astral Projection.

  5. I won't be too original:

     

    KoxBox - Dragon Tales

    Pleiadians - I.F.O.

    Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy or (couldn't pick) Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger

     

    ...and if anyone asks ;) my sentimental top 3:

     

    Electric Universe - Stardiver

    Transwave - Helium

    Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation

  6. Three questions:

     

    - where to put music like Sephira, Akshan (110-130 bpm, ambient-trance style), I saw Akshan's previous album in downtempo best of 2012, but I wanted to be sure nothing has changed (some tunes are closer to progressive and uptempo in general than to regular Shpongle/Shulman/etc)?

    - can we include EP's?

    - if I put, for example, 5 positions instead of 10, they will be granted 10 points to 6 points or I should fill all ten places to be valid?

     

    Sorry if I'm being too detailed :)

  7. Just hearing 'Transdimensional' for the first time, nice trip, lots of knobs turning, but it's nowhere near my favourites.

     

    Too cheesy for me. Tho I think this must be a really good album for ppl that
    love melodic stuff whatever...

     

    Found this one, funny how future can surprise us, well respected melodic-stuff-revival-label-co-founder :).

  8. Sometimes 'mighty have fallen' is just an artist trying to make sth different than the genre he got well known/famous of. I got bunch of producers I miss because of their early works which suited me completely and than they've tried to add/change their music and I got lost during the journey. More than few times I thought that I wouldn't mind listening to 'Twisted VII' or 'Cosmology VI' ;).

     

    Not 'crappy' by any means, but the group that moved the furthest away from my taste

     

    I somehow missed this post, my thoughts from above in one sentence :).

     

    Having written that my vote goes to IM and EU, but if by 'mighty' we count newer producers I'm starting to worry that Talpa's music won't be accompanying me in the future. It's not fall, more like longing for this crazy psytrance feeling, well - nobody likes to sit in one place the whole time, right ;) ?

     

    Ten years. As a time span that's like...from 1993 to 2003.

     

    OT: It's strange how (to me of course) '93-'03 seems like an entire century of music comparing to '03-'13 period in electronic music. Sometimes I can't differ the tunes from an early millenium than the yesterday ones.

  9. Number two, IMHO (very important I stress that) I think the Drum and Bass has run its course.

     

    Well, we are on psychedelic goa trance forum and this music has had its peak almost 20 years ago without any groundbreaking changes in the goa area since then (also IMHO), so :)...

  10. KoxBox, Astral Projection, Electric Universe, Etnica, Transwave, MWNN, Cosmosis, GNotR, Hallucinogen and so on...

     

    The first league guys are all here (well, maybe MFG and Total Eclipse are missing), but if someone wants to know who-was-who back then, he should start by exploring this double CD.

  11. However it's not without a blemish. Like a man going to see the Notebook in the theater something was out of place. A11 wasn't bad, but it was too polished and shiny. Too...full-on. The feel of the track didn't match the overall vibe of the album.

     

    Exactly, I thought I've accidentally switched to Delirious Noon. This and the chill track didn't click for me (too many walkie-talkie for my taste), but overall I've enjoyed this album a lot.

     

    Trinodia has the ability to create great melodies and he doesn't afraid to give them the first row. Some of the bunch are close to epic trance but somehow he pulls it off ;). Great work and I think it deserves to be mentioned among one the best of 2013.

  12. You seem to keep both feet strongly on the ground, which is great, just don't be too surprised when Second Comming occurs or Allah shows up one day ;). Using 'anything', 'nothing' or 'zero' in discussing religion seems (to me of course) out of place, because it's not physics or chemistry, the best way is to believe (or not) and at least tolerate the rest.

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    you are confusing religion with other things here. "some sort of revelation" is not religion. philosophy, way of thinking, and moral codes are not religion. religion is by definition a specific set of beliefs and practices. it is not "some sort of revelation" or a "philosophy".

     

    and no its not being picky, thats the point. religion does not and is not intended to help anyone understand the meaning of anything. it is a set of instructions and stories that stifles any understanding of anything. how can it help people understand when its entire purpose is to give people made up answers and reasons for things with the explicit instruction that it is never to be questioned or thought about?

     

    religion in fact does the exact opposite of what you suggest, it hinders understanding and prevents people from reaching their full potential.

     

    You've just sticked to my 'some sort of revelation' phrase. I meant a specific situation when person starts believing, it's not something we can only see in christian channel movies. Saying something isn't doesn't make it so and yes, I know it works the other way aswell, I think we have agree to disagree here.

     

    May philosophers, especially ancient, based their system on believing that the world or specific behaviour is like this or that because they thought it is and I see no great difference between religion, you just have to add supernatural to equation (I wrote it somewhere earlier that religion is to me 'a philosophy + supernatural'). Religon does hinder nothing, only shallowminded 'believers' follow everything like sheep, they are the same who read everything literally. People question, investigate and progress. There are plenty of scientists, writers and other who follow religion and have successess on their fields, they don't see the collision.

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    religion has never, i repeat NEVER made a bad person not do bad things. it has however, countless times over the millena, caused good people to do horrible horrible things.

     

     

     

    That's a bold statement, You want to say that there was no person in history of mankind who was an as*hole and has changed his life completely after some sort of revelation?

    I can also imagine someone who could do worse, but he/she's afraid of the punishment from up there.

     

     

    i repeat...there is nothing good that religion provides that humans cant provide for themselves, in a more efficient, lasting, and genuine way. there are however plenty of awful things that religion provides that arent so easily accomplished via other means.

     

     

     

    Religion, philosophy, way of thinking, moral code - call it what You want, but denying that 4 example someone says religion helped him understand the meaning of empathy or love, because he could do this differently and more efficient is just being picky.

  15. T2MU did an awesome job (as usual) describing this gem, so I'll just add that this one is a must-listen if You're into danceable goa trance where beat hits you right in the face and You want more. There's no place for corny prayers or minimal approach here. This one is serious psytrance, a little bit like AP or MFG but in classy suits with bluetooth behind the ear instead of shorts and bead necklaces ;).

  16. I too would be interested to know why. Cassette seems like a medium that has absolutely nothing going for it compared to the modern alternatives that exist.

     

    I'm guessing that nostalgia/retro wave strikes back again here, I'm almost sure an old fashioned walkmans are the sh*t for some people who put style, fashion and 'being seen with' before quality and practicality.

  17. From this album I knew only Viral Spiral and Oystadub (great tune, fits to many different styles sets) before. In my opinion 'BiCP' is one of the shiniest examples of a great work from golden era. Not overproduced and, just like Anoebis wrote, the sounds that are left are pure quality, superb melodies. Also listening to this LP I have a feeling it had a great impact on lots of new wave goa producers. Yes, it's not Koxbox or Pleiadians, but definitely worth checking for it's own style.

     

    Edit: I can live without that 'space whale wail' from Catharsis ;).

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    Missionaries used to baptize non-believers and kill them before they renounce the faith. This was done so they can be "saved." Some of you fetishize about the end of times and actively aim to bring it about. Don't forget the witch hunts, those were fun.

     

    I see You're having trip down the memory lane, so don't forget crusades too.

    Lots of bad things was done in the name of science or reason, so religion doesn't have monopoly on this one. Religion is a philosophy with supernatural ingredient and, just like any other thing, can be used differently.

     

    I heard nice sentence in an interview once, interviewee said she envies people having faith, because she doesn't have this privilege. I see the begining of having faith exactly like this, You can't learn it, either You have it inside or not.

     

    Reading this topic I see lots of bashing religion and pushing religious people to a defense and calling religion crowd control or something for the weak minds. Well, there is/was that, but if it was only that, none of the greatest religions could end up with hundreds of years of what we have now. Just try to see through the priests, preachers and institutions itsef, You may see something great (but, as I wrote above, it could be tough without the privilege ;) ).

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