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  1. 22 hours ago, HolyLight said:

    Thanks for clarifying! Since they use the same or at least similar font, as the DG comilations I assumed some relationship. Besides the name of the podcast as well, anyways a little hommage perhaps?  :D

    Definitely confusing, and agreed, most likely a homage.

     

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  2. On 3/14/2024 at 8:08 AM, HolyLight said:

    So I was recommended this new Goatrance podcast, perhaps created by the Destination Goa team? Not sure. :) Maybe someone here has more info?

    The Destination Goa compilations were compiled by Robert Jarnroth, and sometimes with help from Peter Hartzell and DJ Anti. The podcast guys are not the same, so not related.

    Anyway, thanks for recommending the podcast, will listen to it.

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  3. 18 hours ago, Parasphere said:

    On the other hand I think there were also people who transitioned from more "regular" mainstream music into the Goa Trance market, when it became a short gold-rush. As with anything I guess some enter things based on trends/financial opportunities.

    I find it very hard to believe that anyone would transition from mainstream music to Goa trance to make money. I can't think of one example.

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    I think Infected Mushroom and other artists from Israel who were embraced by both the Psy scene and more mainstream market segments, had a good formula. Astral Projection I see as one of the few groups who didn't need to compromise on their style. It has stayed more or less the same in essence. And is still widely popular it would seem. :) 

    Astral Projection are certainly appreciated in the psytrance community, but I wouldn't say they are widely popular nor appreciated by mainstream markets. They have 77 970 monthly streams @ Spotify, that's far from widely popular. Dance Is The Answer is their latest "hit", and it hasn't even got one million streams.

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  4. I found this great Tripiatrik live set at Youtube:

    It's actually a mix of mostly Paps and Yumade tracks, and one Tripiatrik track, nonetheless, great stuff.

    I was a bit surprised by a comment: Pierre Busson, aka Yumade, is currently making disco flavored electronic music as Yuksek.

    And he's doing really good judging by the number of streams:

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    What other psytrance artists have managed to transition to other genres and become successful? The only other example I can think of is Infected Mushroom.

  5. I didn't think there was anything old school out there to be discovered, but there was. I recently stumbled over The Spirit Dance album by Imago, and I quite like it. Not all tracks are winners, but The Black God, Azure Heaven, Angels of Peace, Wild E and Galactic Answer are certainly worthy of your attention. The album is available on Spotify.

    Turns out they are Swedish, which makes me even more surprised, how did they not get more attention? Can't recall I've ever heard about them. Maybe the album was considered to be too much "goa"? Back in 1997, when the album was released, most labels and listeners (me included) were more interested in the more psychedelic and less melodic sounds from TIP and Flying Rhino. Looking back, it's certainly an underrated album.

    Imago were three guys: Jesper Ahlström, Per Stålbrand and Johan Löfstedt.

    I dug up some of their other projects of interest.

    Jesper and Per released a four track EP on Why Not Records in 1996, as Choreus. Why Not was the label responsible for the Destination Goa series. I've found two of the tracks on YouTube:

     

     

    I believe the track Creative alternative by Exotic is well known by most old school lovers. It's made by Jesper and Leo Bergman aka Spindrift:

    Jesper and Per collaborated with Swedish house and techno pioneer Jesper Dahlbäck as Axxess Granted and released a track called The Guide, released on the Nordic Rave compilation.

     

    Any way, I think these guys deserve more attention.

     

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  6. It's not often there's a new post from Hallucinogen @ Facebook, but a couple of days ago it happened. Posford posted a link to a dj set by boom boom techno dj ANNA and was some what upset of a lame remix of Gamma Goblins. He wanted to know who was responsible for it. Turned out it was ANNA's boyfriend Wehbba, but she claimed it's not a remix, but an original track. Someone wrote that there's a "gamma goblin" preset on a synth called Polybrute, so Wehbba probably used that preset, not knowing it's importance for the psytrance crowd.

    That could have been case closed, but someone posted a clip from an old Brian De Palma movie called Sisters from 1972, and accused Posford of hypocrisy:

    Posford is born in 1971, so it's not unlikely he saw the movie in his teens and maybe the melody stuck with him. Fast forward to the mid 1990's and that melody resurfaces in his mind and becomes one of the best psytrance tracks out there. Or maybe it was a rip off. We will not know until Posford replies, and so far he hasn't.

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  7. The source of the track has been identified. It's from a John Fleming mix, and it's labelled as an Astral Projection track called Structural Schematics (starts at 52.07). A Fleming remix of Mahadeva was released back in 2004 and he's one of the most well known trance djs, so it's not unlikely that he had access to unreleased AP material.

  8. In this Etnica live set, there are two remixes of old time classic: Technossomy's Elektron Bender och Sheyba's Trance Africa Express.

    It made me dream that Etnica would release a Goa Classics Remixed album just as Astral Projection did.

    What old time classics do you think would be suitable for an Etnica treatment? Here are some suggestions from me:

    Chakra - Hallucinator

    Kailash - Higher

    MFG - Shape the Future

    Power Source - Skywalker

    Slinky Wizard - Funkus Munkus (already sounds like it could be an Etnica track)

    Witchcraft - Whale

     

     

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, Prana4ever said:

     

    Even if Shamanix was indeed a remix of an old track never released, there is no way the Domestic and Space cat remix should qualify as a remix of the 1993 track since they wouldn't know about it anyway.

    Of course, Domestic & Space Cat remixed the remix, but the Shamanix track is still from 1995.

  10. 15 hours ago, the goa constrictor said:

    Yeah. Simon talked about it on the old goa mailing list-serv from the 90s/early-2000s.

    goa@party.net and 604@party.net

    He had an account (whiningtrancer@yahoo.com if memory serves)

    He posted a list of corrections and songs and such

    Gumbo had an entire album recorded but was abandoned. I could be mistaken about the song being attributed to Gumbo vs Hallucinogen, but I very much remember him mentioning that Shamanix is a remix of an earlier song that he is entirely embarrassed by and that it would never be released.

    This is also where I read about that 15 or 20 minute remix of Slinky Wizard (that I finally got to hear at ZNA a few years back)

    Ah, the good old days! I was a regular on that mailing list. I vaguely remember the conversation you're referring to, and I definitely remember Simon's presence. I thought I had saved all mails from that era, but it seems I can't find any mails from Simon. No results on whiningtrancer@yahoo.com, and as far as I can recall he used to sign his emails with "Si", but no luck.

    It would be excellent if we could find that e-mail. This is important background information.

    Seems like I only have e-mails from 2006 and onwards. Probably lost the rest when I switched to gmail. 😞

    @ukiro, do you have a complete 604 mailing list archive?

  11. On 7/17/2023 at 2:05 PM, Plusminus said:

    I wrote Skarma to the messenger. There is no answer yet.
    For now, I suggest listening to his set from old tracks (2014). Every track in this mix have Astral Projection vibe.

    Now I hear what you're getting at! This definitely has more of an AP vibe than his latest album.

    Let's hope he replies back to you. Even a negative reply is positive when trying to identify an unknown track. 🙂

  12. On 7/15/2023 at 12:26 AM, the goa constrictor said:

    Shamanix itself is technically a remix of an earlier Gumbo track called something like "Song of the Shaman" or "Dance of the Shaman" or some shit.

    Shamanix is a remix (hence, Shaman"ix")

    So the Space Cat remix is likely 30 years later but few people have heard the original as the Gumbo release was scrapped

    Are you sure about that? The only released Gumbo track is The Quickening and it sounds nothing like Shamanix.
     

     

    Google returns nothing relevant. I've asked both ChatGPT and Bard and neither are aware of a track called "'Song of the Shaman' or 'Dance of the Shaman' or some shit."

    I thought I knew all Posford tracks so I'm naturally curious about this track.

  13. On 7/12/2023 at 2:32 PM, Plusminus said:

    I think it's Skarma. He started producing Goa Trance in 2002 and his style is similar to Astral. Sometimes it just seems that this is the Astral. He has a lot of unreleased tracks, an album was released in June, you can listen and compare his sound.

    His current sound is too intense, I don't think it aligns with the mystery unreleased track.

    I'm not familiar with Skarma's older output, but I listened to the album you suggested and it lacks melody, and what's special about this unreleased track is the melody.

     

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