Trolsk
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A blog post from Brittish newspaper The Guardian about bubstep and ketamine:
"The drug ketamine has long skulked around dance music's fringes, but has it found its synergy with wonky's disembodied beats?"
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V/A - Airborn - Flying Rhino Records
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My list in no particular order:
Accidental Occidentalism - Symbiosis - 1995
1st Flight - Flying Rhino - 1996
3rd Flight Slipstream - Flying Rhino - 1998
4th Flight Velocity - Flying Rhino - 1999
Black Rhino - Flying Rhino - 1997
Yellow Compilation - TIP - 1995
Phosphorescent - TIP - 1996
Beyond Colour - TIP - 1998
Halluci-nations - TIP World - 2000
Mu Clear Compilation - Nippon Crown / TIP - 1997
Dementertainment - Twisted - 1998
Demented - Twisted - 2000
Made on Earth - 2CD - Blue Room Released - 1997
Pulse 6 (CD1) - Sub Terranean - 1998
Joker's Files - MDMA - 2000
Vibration 2 - Com.Pact - 2000
Beats and Beyond - Surreal Audio - 2000
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This year's best album, so far.
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I listened to Music for 18 musicians (on Spotify) yesterday , and I'm very impressed by it.
Great recommendation!
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Yes, it's hard to explain...
It must be the sense of speed and the beatiful scenery that make it happen. Watching a beautiful sky while listening to something such as AP's Mahadeva, feels like God itself visits my soul...
I know exactly what you mean
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This might be what you're looking for, bossa nova covers of pop songs:
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Probably all samples used by GMS.
All Matrix samples.
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I heard from someone i talked to working with shiva shidapu back in the day that duvdev had actually prevented erez from playing sets with DJ Jörg and told him to focus on their new album (which then was Converting Vegetarians).
So, good luck trying to pry Erez away from that duo..
Understandable as Duvdev has everything to lose and Erez everything to win.
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It says Post-production, meaning it isn't finished
Maybe it's on cannes next year? Either way, never heard of it nor the directorA lot of movies get shown at Cannes even though they're in post-production, and several movies get re-cut after they've been shown at Cannes.
Oh, and the movie might not have been part of the Cannes competition...
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I just stumbled over this at Twisted's Younger Brother page:
"Meanwhile Benji and Simon are working with Philip Ridley on the soundtrack for a film called Heartless, which is set to be one of the UKs biggest movies for 2009 which premiered at Cannes in May 09."
I watch a lot of movie's, but I'm not familiar with Philip Ridley and I can't recall that his movie did get any special attention in the Cannes 09 reports I've read.
Any rumors or comments about this movie or his previous work?
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I deeply agree with Hitler on this matter. Deeply.
Also, with the Eurovision remark.
Classical Mushroom is a musical masterpiece, in and out of the psy/goa scene.
The entire point of this topic is that we want another Classical Mushroom album, not more crap.
For every new album they release it's a new big step away from a new Classical Mushroom album, and the current progression of their music points towards the Eurovision Song Contest, sadly.
Simon Posford should start a new collaboration with Erez and save him from Duvdev. Then Posford and Erez could create amazing music together, and Raja Ram and Duvdev could create their own electronic rock band. It's a win-win-situation for everybody.
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It is only a matter of time before IM decide to enter the Eurovision Song Contest, it's the next logical degradation of their music...
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But these are also good, swedish shop called DotShop
DotShop has some good stuff, too bad their closing down...
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Old school fun
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I doubt they'd make an album for those reasons. You can't force people to do things like that over the internet with a few haphazard comments!
Really how old are you? Can you really be so dumb/naive/troll?
Facebook is full of stupid people doing stupid things if X people join this or that group, so people can actually be "forced" to do things because of a few haphazard comments.
Let's just hope that the GNOTR guys aren't stupid, I wouldn't want another full on album by an old school act...
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Now that I've listened to this release a couple of times I must say that I'm disappointed.
Mr S, Kamni and Piter 26 are good tracks because of their subtle melodic parts, but the rest of the tracks are forgettable darkpsy.
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Been a big fan of Trance for a good few years but was getting tired of the same old sounds over and over and was on the look out for something very different. Stumbled onto Solar Fields by chance a couple of days ago and have been listening to various tracks of theirs on-line and have been mighty impressed. Also been listening to tracks by Asura, H.U.V.A Network & Aes Dana and Im getting really excited about acquiring some new deep thought provoking music to usher in a new chapter in my life.
There are so many excellent releases in this genre.
We recently compiled our Top 10 Psytrance albums, of all time. That topic might be useful to you, but keep in mind that most people on this particular forum enjoy the stuff pre 2000. Most of the stuff in our top tens can no longer be purchased.
Here are some releases from the last six or so years that I find to be of high quality:
12 Moons - Solid State
Atmos - 2nd Brigade
Filteria - Sky Input
Freq - Strange Attractors
Son Kite - Colours
Haltya - Electric Help Elves
Human Blue - Electrolux
Talpa - The Art of Being Non
The Misted Muppet - From The Legend
CPC - Uber Den Angst
Derango - Tumult
Jaia - Fiction
Magnetrixx - Wired
Midi Miliz - Non Standards
Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception
Ocelot - VectorSelector
Psykovsky - Debut
Filteria - Heliopolis
Triac - Mean Between
Vibrasphere - Archipelago
Zolod - Deja Vu Fabrique
Parahalu - Space Rock
Transwave - Backfire
Abakus - That Much Closer To The Sun
Adham Shaikh - Fusion
Bluetech - Elementary Particles
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible
Hallucinogen - In Dub
Phutureprimitive - Subconscious
Pitch Black - Electronomicon
Shpongle- Are You Shpongled
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
If you manage to get through the above list you will find that psytrance is a very diverse genre, ranging from the utterly mad and intense to the mellow and laidback. Sometimes there are beautiful melodies, other times the melodies are more subtle and sometimes there are no melodies at all.
Try some of the above releases and tell us what you like and we can give you more specific recommendations.
If you visit Psyshop or Saiko Sounds you can preview and purchase some of the releases.
You can also visit Discogs to get an idea of labels, artist connections, previous releases etc.
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I want to like Tim Healey, but he's not really my cup of tea, too club oriented, but I think I would love his stuff live. Feeling a but ambivalent.
Here's another track of his that has gotten a lot of recognition, it's a Pete Martin (aka Slide) and Tim Healey collaboration:
It's a great anthem, if you like that kind of stuff.
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Wisp is indeed an excellent and very interesting artist.
His best albums are NRTHNDR and Honor Beats.
This is a great track from the Honor beats album:
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As for the reasons why the quality was better in the earlier times, I second the reasons Trolsk stated. Nowadays just about everybody can become a producer ... and while this is actually a cool thing, it's also part of the problem. The market is flooded with thousands of average tracks. And it has become easier to release the stuff aswell.
It's sort of a "democratization" of music making.
If close to anyone can become an artist the absolute amount of above average releases should increase because of the normal distribution of talent. The previous distribution curve of talent was biased towards high amounts of talent because of the need to invest in equipment etc (see my original post). When the threshold to make music is lowered the distribution curve of talent will get the shape of a typical normal distribution curve since talent is normal distributed. It means that the amount of good and bad releases should equal each other. Our experience is however that the amount of average and below averages releases has increased whereas the growth of above average releases has declined.
My theory is that psytrance is (more or less) dead and therefor the above average talents in general do not make psytrance. If you were to look at electronic music as a whole then you will find that the absolute amount of above average releases have increased. If you look at a particular genre of electronic music - like minimal techno - you will find that the amount of above average releases is higher than the amount of below average releases because this is the most inspiring sound at the moment, and that's where the talent is at the moment. The same could be said about IDM a few years back, and about psytrance pre 2000.
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2005 was a fantastic year for psy. despite my seemingly negative rant alot of my favorite albums were released that year.
I'm afraid that 2005 was the last good year of psychedelic trance, but I hope that 2010 will prove me wrong. :-)
Blue Planet Corporation - A blueprint for survival
in 2009
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Here's my rushed and biased review:
Excellent release! The beauty, the melodies, the trance, the oldschool. Love it. It's the soundtrack to my late night bicycle rides. A Blueprint for survival will certainly be one of the top ten best albums of 2009. Even though I have already heard several of the released tracks, the new mastering makes them sound like new. Really crisp and beautiful stuff.
Highly recommended to all.