benf52

well many sounds also sound great if u're not tripping... and what it takes to make good sounds like inf mushroom can make is knowledge in technical stuffs and u also have to be creative... u need to always try new things and think about ways u can make new sounds all the time, which is not easy... listen to classical mushroom or the gathering, those albums were pretty psychedelic and i don't believe that they were tripping every weekend when they wrote them... so u don't need to have taken any drugs to make trippy music, i think what is more important is a certain state of mind, or a way of thinking about music and also to be innovative... good music is good music, if u're tripping or not... and everybody doesn't take acid in parties too btw....

i don't think the quality of music has anything to do with the drugs taken if any... and inf mushroom for ex don't do drugs... it's just a fact of creation.. i don't know if u make music seraph but if u do u will see that it is hard to keep having new and interesting ideas all the time... so that's why a lot of artists make their best stuffs early on... also fame and money pollutes creation to some extent

the thing is in every interview IM make u can tell that they make music more for the crowd than for themselves... like in the link that filteria posted they said that if a track doesn't work on the dancefloor they will go back in the studio and change it, or even not release it at all... they became slaves to the mass of people following them... compared to the beginning when they were making what they really wanted... and they have always said that would love to be on MTV, so that says it all for me anyway... and overdose i understand how u feel.. just keep in mind that the infected we knew is gone and will not come back... once u get that it'll be easier to deal with... as for the new album i will download it also, but probably delete the whole thing quickly as i did with CV anyway... i refuse to put money into what they do nowadays...

to adam: gotta be open minded about people having different tastes than yours....

mines are: infected mushroom - the gathering xdream - radio & we created our own happiness vibrasphere - echo atmos - headcleaner hallucinogen - twisted and lone deranger shpongle - bothe albums makyo entheogenic overlap - 6th sense cosmosis - intergalactic and there are some more that i can't remember right now...

quark please don't take everything so personnaly because u still like inf. mushroom... the fact is that releases are getting weaker and weaker.. the psychedelic elements are getting harder to find... track structure is getting worse and worse..... only the production and the sounds are getting better....i think it is due to two things essentially: -it's becoming too easy to produce -psytrance is becoming more and more mainstream... and it's only gonna get worse... before it eventually gets better (i wouldn't hold my breath though....) of course there are still good releases.. like overlap for me this year, or freq recently... but compared to the amount of stuffs being released there is not much good stuffs anymore... compared to 1999/2000 when there were less release but more quality stuff...

i agree... they have been dead for me for a while too, right after classical mushrrom was released... i mean they were a couple of good tracks on bp empire (like 2 of them) but they have gone downhil from there... i can't stand their overly digital sound nowadays, sounds too plastic and not warm at all, and their track structure has also gone downhill if u compare to the gathering or classical mushroom, so has their sounds... and that singign is just plain awfull really... i can't seem to listen to anything these guys do nowadays... and that says a lot considering i got into psytrance thanks to them in the first place after listenning the gathering which i loved so much... and classical was a great piece of work... u need to look no further than their website... seems like people who dig their music nowadays are 16 year old kids who are only interested in braging about how many IM tracks they have.... well, their new music is not crap, but it almost become so considering the potential that these guys have, which is huge... i will not go to see them live again, cause as seraph said i got really bored the last time i saw them....