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Besides the Talpa follow up album, here's my disappointments: Gappeq - Speaker Seeker One of the most exciting new artists of recent years, but nonetheless an uninspiring debut album. One of the biggest disappointments. Cosmosis - Trancendance One of few old school artists that have managed to develop his sound, and then suddenly it's the well known and boring full on formula. Ocelot - Dream Selector The Vector Selector album is amazing, I just love all those strange alien sounds, and the idea of him turning melodic (as was the case with Dream Selector) was very interesting, unfortunately the album didn't work for me. Koxbox - U-turn All talent obviously left with Ian Ion. X-dream - We Interface There's no denying that the X-dream guys are one of the most important acts of psytrance, but the We Interface album is well crafted boredom. The Delta - Minusman Same as above x 10. Prometheus - Robot.O.Chan His first couple of singles are really good, but the album just doesn't do it for me. It's like he's trying to be more intelligent and avant garde then he actually is. Same applies for the Corridor of Mirrors album. Quirk - Quality Control Their debut album is one the essential albums of the golden years, their follow-up is one the biggest disappointments. Deedrah - Body Soul Impressive sound quality, among the best I've ever heard on cd, but the tracks doesn't go anywhere.

Will be one of the top ten best albums of 2009. No psy-trance albums on that list so far.

I understand that artists get disillusioned about the trance scene, but I can't understand how über cheesey new age ballads are the answer.

Some of you might know Zomby as a dubstep artist, but his debut album, Where were u in '92?, is old school breakbeat and hardcore, and it's excellent nostalgic music! He claims that "this album was produced using 92 studio techniques using the Akais2000 and Atari ST with Cubase". I don't know or care if that's the truth, all that matters is that it's a great album. Any similar old school recommendations would be appreciated. I had some old tapes with some great breakbeat, but I've lost them, and I would love to listen to some of it again.

Nice job with the interview. The questions were relevant and the answers felt honest. Any ideas on what his techno alias might be?

You should look for Ubar Tmar - True Sandman - Witchcraft Shaolin Wooden Men - Supermindway Spiral Active Project - Spiral Active Project Texas Faggott - Petoman's Peflett V.A. - Shamanic Trance mixed by Tsuyoshi Suzuki Odd Harmonics - Coincidentalism - Demon Tea - 2000

You are looking for: Ubar Tmar - True Odd Harmonic - Coincidentalism Shaolin Wooden Men - Supermindway Process - One Drop or Two?

Warp Records and the London Sinfonietta did something similar to some Aphex Twin and Squarepusher tracks: http://www.warprecords.com/londonsinfonietta/

I can't help you, but if you could manage to get those tracks released it would be excellent! Good luck!

Great work draeke! I would prefer a gold or black disc in a jewelcase. It depends on how the color of the artwork corresponds to the color of the disc. But I'm sure you'll make all the right decisions, this is after all your (and our) dream come true!

I just heard Interstellar Overdrive, not the Pink Floyd track, but the psytrance act. Wow, that's my kind of psychedelic trance! Dark, weird and with some haunting melodic parts. Who are they? Why are they unreleased? Are there any more tracks besides Dark Awakening and Part 4?

It was a long time since I enjoyed a Wizzy Noise album, and with this album I consider them to be off topic as far as psychedelic trance is concerned.

Best album of 2008 so far

I recommend all of you to visit Illuminus MySpace site and listen to their tracks. Even though I'm personally fed up with the ethnic downtempo sound Illuminus manges to make it seem fresh and of high quality.

Tell him to upload some of his old unreleased goa/psy trance dj mixes for his fans.

Slide can be called a lot of things (for example: intense dark alien psytrance), but "mediocre standard goa" is a very unfitting description. There's nothing goa about Slide in my opinion and I can't really see any "standard" about it. It's of course reminiscent of "Ultimate Experience" and somewhat related to Battle of the Future Buddhas, Orichalcum and maybe some Shaolin Wooden Men tracks. But very far from standard. The Unstable album is a great dark journey from start to finish, and there are strong single track releases by Slide such as Alien Hitmen, Confusional State (a sound I wished had been more thoroughly explored by psytrance). The collaboration tracks with Process (The Real Creeper & Creepy Crawly) are also good, but the highlight is of course his collaborations with Cass (up until their debut album when most of the magic was gone).

I know I'm not the only Nuclear Ramjet fan on this site so I thought I would tell you all that there's some really good free music at their website: http://www.nuclearramjet.com/ I especially recommend the different remixes of Brightness and Delta1. The Brightness remixes are Nuclear Ramjet at their best: deep, melodic, space trance.

A classic tune is a tune that can stand the test of time. A classic psychedelic trance tune would be a tune that can still blow people's mind's ten years later. I doesn't have to be known by many. Hallucinogen can still play all over the world based on albums that are more than 10 years old, that's classic stuff.

I'm an old school fan and just as Pawelek I dont' think the current new school trend is all that. I like Suntrips compilations and the Filteria albums but the rest of the albums haven't been that exciting. I can enjoy one track at a time from most of the albums but I can't enjoy the albums from start to finish, there's something missing. ...and don't get me started on the net labels that are dedicated to the new wave of goa trance... Ra is ok, I've been listening to them since before their debut album. I have an old demo tape of theirs, their best stuff in my opinion. I'm not sure what my verdict on the 9th will be, but I'll keep you updated! :-)

...by using that logic the upcoming Guns 'n' Roses album will have the most soul ever!

I've been looking for Electronomicon for such a long time! Dub mission deserves recognition for re-releasing this album. An essential album in any serious electronic music collection.

My recommendations: Anahata - The Unmade Sound Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works I & II Global Communication - 76:14 Healer - Wonderground Padmasana - Padmasana Robert Rich - Rainforest Sync24 - Source The Infinity Project - Mystical Experience V.A. - Floatation V.A. - Oxycanta V.A. - Oxycanta Winter Blooms

It's an instant contender for best album of the year.

I feel the same way. I still listen to Hallucinogen in Dub, but Ott's own albums aren't that interesting. The only tune I found to be above average on the new album was the second track, The Queen Of All Everything.

The release date is 2008-01-25 according to the distributor: http://arabesque.co.uk//index.php?option=c...Itemid=99999999