murphythecat

Inspired? of course! but seriously, i dont see that much of exactitude, whatever.but its just funny really, listen to any psytrance artist, and you can make always make comparison, so i dont get your argument. I listen to bob dylan, its sounds like crosby still young and nash. I listen to gentle giant, sounds like genesis. I listen to the rolling stones, to bowie, to pink floyd, sounds all a bit like each others listen to jimmy hendrix, sounds a but like the doors or led zepplin i listen to Bon iver, sounds exactly like nick drake (folk artist from the 70's) BUT its still all amazing artist, soooo what your point? Really??? what album are you talking about, cause his album from the past are my favorites from kettel... just wondering and for me the best album idm ive listen in my life is smilling little cow from kettel, and its his third album i think, maybe listen to it again? i know his sound sounds old, but the complexity of the melodies are seriously something ive never heard! ever!!!!

wisp releases http://www.wisp.kaen.org/

you and joker seems to be the one trolling right now

And my two favorite songs comes from the same album last year, never happenned for me, the two comes from the flashbulb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWXLDtgCZP8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meySo_HpxXI besides: my top album were: the abbassi brothers-something like nostalgia Subheim-approach The flashbulb-soundtrack to a vacant Burial-Untrue Kettel-myam james part 1 helios-eingyra hecq- golden pines i think Ametsub-linear crypth (only for the song snowy lava!!!!!!!!) Blackfilm maybe Wisp - Katabatic

i'll suggest another good site: igloo magazine http://www.igloomag.com/

we all have to be positive!

+10

there was nothing offensive. But hey, +10 on your choice tough. but myam james part 2, it was this year right

It's just that theres nothing groundbreaking. I'm not excited while listening to it. Good sound, but im not like oh yeah! I'm just indifferent to the atmosphere he creates. It's reeally too repetitive for me. Makes me think of some solar field work. But it's true, hes got an original sound. But no originals idea. The release seems to go nowhere, you know what i mean i think. the songs just flows well, but without a goal, theres no direction at all, no BIG moments. I tend to agree thats this is not shitty, interesting, bvut i lost focus, i just listen to it again, and i just cant finish the album. I suck on explainings things tough.

please

I doubt that. If someone likes the new material from IM, well, i really doubt that they would dig out the OLD psy. I mean, you have to be pretty retarded to like it, or you have to have no background musically, cause practically, the new stuff from IM is even worst then what new britney spears album has to offer. Maybe a couples of dude will dig, maybe. But i don't see it like you seem to see it: If psytrance would actually go mainstream, i think that mainstrimisation would most definitely destroy the scene. Infected mushroom, the way I see it, is only a BIG lost to the scene. I wish that the non singer of the group start releasing some stuff solo, it would be most probably awesome.

yagya-rigning: pretty good Kettel-Myam james part 2: always a masterpiece if you ask me filteria-days of our lives Wisp-The shimmering hour jon hopkins-inside thats it for now

What! you loved that album? IMO this release lacks of everything: no originality, not enough changes from one song to another: there's always that percussion african or whatever influence. His sound quality is amazing, but you really tripped listening to that?? his songs are going no where, the main melodies keeps coming back. It's like a circle album. Didn't do it for me! tough i'd say. Ozmali!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your welcome! I'm glad that you liked it, and i'm not suprised: i use to listen only to goa, psytrance and psychill. For something hard, i suggest you to listen to the debut of kettel( you Cant buy it anymore) albums like Red Pear,Split lp 2 or hydrus/kettel and You have to listen to Kettel / Setzer EP

Taygeta, dont get the fuss around that

but really WHO doesnt know his classic anyway!!!! i dont LOVE the goa style, but i sure know my classics, instead of starting always the same kind of topic, just look thrue the old post, and you will find the god damn classics

Faith no more!!!! but its not metal, faith no more is just like soundgarden or alice in chains and nirvana, its called grunge man, i was listening ten years ago to Korn and deftones!!

and seriously, wisp wouldnt be the one that a can relate easily with aphextwin. Benn jordan, or trentmoller and venetian snares for example look a LOT more like Aphex twin then wisp seriously... Havent you notice that entheogenis looks a lot like shpongle? or logic bomb looks like cosmosis. Kettel: Through Friendly Waters, Whisper Me Wishes, Smiling Little Cow (so underated, this is one of my all-time favorite, its old, rough sound, but the best idm you can find imo) and you could finish with My Dogan and Cenny Crush. Wisp: First, you can download all his early albums free!!!! right here http://www.wisp.kaen.org/ fav albums from wisp that you can download free: let me see your shapes( You will freak out, i hope ) Frozen Days EP humpelndenBEATS wisp best release not free: Nrthndr and Honor Beats and The shimmering hour The flashbulb: Red Extensions of Me (but you gotta be carefull, some songs are REALLY extreme, while others are beautifull. That Missing Week: its his masterpiece, he has done nearly 15 albums, tyhis one is his best IMO Kirlian Selections Flexe (the flashbulb)-love programming songs Those three are The ones that i respect A LOT Bluetech: sines and singularity, but all his album really, Evan bartholomey too. Venetian snares: the most extreme artist out here and imo the best breakcore ever made: Doll Doll Doll My Downfall The Stupid Chocolate Wheelchair Album The abbassi brothers: Something Like Nostalgia Lights out asia:Eyes Like Brontide( and if you love this one, ill recommend you Tanks and Recognizers) apparrat: walls Ellen Allien & Apparat:Orchestra Of Bubbles Squarepusher: Selection Sixteen the best one from him no doubt and aphex twin but do you really need help with this one?

+100000

I agree a LOT to your top 10, but thers a few at the end of your list that i never even heard of! i have to go tchek em out

They HAVE to be added to the list

i'd recommend you kettel-mydogan and wisp-the shimmering hour you absolutly need are you shpongle-shpongle : if you want a journey, you have it with that entheogenic-Spontaneous illumination you like trance? you will love flexe-love programming songs, maybe aphex twin: look for the best of aphex twin into our forums because theres so many albums of this guy the abbasi brothers-Something Like Nostalgia you will need Mystical Experiences by the infinity project, you would need celtic cross again with a journey, ill recommend secede-tryphasia some bluetech would be nice, my favorite from them is sines and singularity, but that is not the general opinion hre even if its psytrance, ill tell you to intruduce yourself in the world of psytrance with infected mushrooms's B.P.Empire album and twisted by hallucinogen solar field is always okay to great a personnal favorite is mimesis-Art Imitating Life. It's trippy, profound storytelling album with stunning ambient and be sure that at first for a couple of month everything youll hear from psy-chill-dowtempo-whatever will sound incredible, but after.... the excitement will leave, and then, youll be an addicted motherfucker trying to find THE best albums ever, and you will spear all you freetime and money to try to find amazings releases...lol

i recommend: subheim, the abbasi brothers, wisp, kettel, Library Tapes, Blackfilm, Lights Out Asia, Another Electronic Musician, The Black Dog , Rudi Arapahoe and helios!!! thats my BIG discovery out of this list, but i encourage you to go see every artist myspace, it will give you a good idea

i admit, most of it sucks, change of style, that's what i did, i still listen to psy, but really, for me, idm suits me way more. So all you have to do is to find your style, if you really thinks that most of it sucks, here a list of best 2008 that open my eyes on different amazing genre of electronica: TIER 1 : ABSOLUTE MUST OF 2008 : TOP 10 (alphabetical order) Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness (Somnia) Hauschka - Ferndorf (130701) Hecq - Night Falls (Hymen) Jacaszek - Treny (Miasmah / Gusstaff ) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia (4AD) Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees (Make Mine Music) Murcof - The Versailles Sessions (Leaf) Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static (Erased Tapes) Subheim - Approach (Tympanik Audio) The Sight Below - Glider (Ghostly) TIER 2 : THE VERY BEST OF 2008 : TOP 25 (alphabetical order) Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia (Dynamophone) Autechre - Quaristice (Warp) Barry Lynn - Balancing Lakes (Planet Mu) Benn Jordan - Pale Blue Dot (Alphabasic) Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves (n5MD) Blackfilm - Blackfilm (Spectraliquid) Byetone - Death Of A Typographer (Raster-Noton) Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words (Kranky) Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp) Emanuele Errante - Humus (Somnia) Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (Somnia) Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch) Helios - Caesure (Type) Ital Tek - Cyclical (Planet Mu) Kettel - Myam James Part 1 (Sending Orbs) Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide (n5MD) Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (130701 / FatCat) Motionfield - Optical Flow (Somnia) Peter Broderick - Float (Type) Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One To Another (Symbolic Interaction) Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir (Warp) Sylvain Chauveau - The Black Book Of Capitalism (Type) The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life (Alphabasic) Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist (Planet Mu) Wisp - Katabatic (Rephlex) TIER 3 : THE ESSENTIALS OF 2008 : TOP 40 (alphabetical order) 2562 - Aerial Aidan Baker And Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8) Alva Noto - Unitxt (Raster-Noton) Anders Ilar - Sworn (Level) Another Electronic Musician - Five (m5MD) BLÆRG - Auspices & Vagaries (Bottle Imp Productions) Balmorhea - Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl) Bluetech - Phoenix Rising (Somnia) Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative (Modern Love) DJ Hidden - We Are Haunted; The Signs (Prspct) & Past The Flesh; Prayer's End (Killing Sheep) Daturah - Reverie (Golden Antenna / Graveface) Digitonal - Save Your Light For Darker Days (Just Music) Fjordne - The Last 3 Days Of Time (Dynamophone) Funckarma - Vell Vagranz (n5MD) Ginormous - At Night, Under Artificial Light (Hymen) Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance (Type) Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence Limited) Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Darla) Hecq - Golden Pines (Binkcrsh) Hol Baumann - Human (Ultimae) Igorrr - Moisissure (self) Integral - Rise (Tympanik) Jasper TX - Black Sleep (Miasmah) Juxta Phona & Offthesky - !Escape Kit! (Somnia) Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (Raster-Noton) Kaya Project - And So It Goes (Interchill) Machinefabriek - Dauw (Dekorder) Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune (Planet Mu / Metropolis) Near The Parenthesis - L'Eixample (n5MD) Nico Muhly - Mothertongue (Bedroom Community) Ø - Oleva (Sähkö) Ott - Skylon (Twisted) Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal) Richard Skelton - Marking Time (Preservation) Silent Land Time Machine - &hope still (Time-Lag / Indian Queen) Skyphone - Avellaneda (Rune Grammofon) Slow Dancing Society - Priest Lake Circa '88 (Hidden Shoal) Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schachtel) The Drift - Memory Drawings (Temporary Residence Ltd.) William Basinski and Richard Chartier - Untitled 1-3 (LINE) TIER 4 : HONORABLE MENTIONS AND COMPILATIONS : TOP 50 (alphabetical order) 40Winks - The Lucid Effect (Project: Mooncircle) Aleph-1 - Aleph-1 (iDEAL) Amon Tobin - Taxidermia EP (self) Appleblim - Dubstep Allstars: Vol.06 (Tempa) Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (Tempa) Cardopusher - Mutant Dubstep Vol.2 (Spectraliquid) Deadmau5 - Tech-Trance-Electro Madness (Mixmag) Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (Virgin) Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord) Elite Barbarian - It’s only when you get to the end that it all makes sense (Front & Follow) End.user - Left (Hymen) Evol Intent - Era of Diversion (Evol Intent) Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band (Anticipate) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp) Heartthrob - Dear Painter, Paint Me (M_nus) I Awake - The Core (Ultimae) Ilar & Hedvall - Melt (Narita) Interbellum - Over All Of Spain The Sky Is Clear (FSS) Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood (Nonesuch) Jérôme Chassagnard - (F)light (Hymen) Kamran Sadeghi - Through Thickness (Dragon's Eye) Kelpe - Ex-Aquarium (D.C. Recordings) Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch - Two Swords (Defcom) Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (Touch) Lustmord - [ O T H E R ] (Hydra Head) Minilogue - Animals (Cocoon) Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna (Ninja Tuna) Nebulo - Ãvutmã (Hymen) Noisia - FabricLive. 40 (Fabric) Peter Broderick - Home (Type) Philip Jeck - Sand (Touch) Plastician - Rinse 06 (Rinse) Port-Royal - Flared Up Port-Royal Remixed (Resonant) Portishead - Third (Universal) Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (XL) Sumner McKane - What A Great Place To be (self) The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow (Soma Quality) The Doubtful Guest - Acid Sauna (Planet Mu) The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (Barge) The Herbaliser - Same As It Never Was (Studio !K7) The Ideal Setback - Dream Dialogue (self) The Remote Viewer - I Can't Believe It's Not Better (Mobeer) Valet - Naked Acid (Kranky) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL) Various - Diaspora: Cottage Industries 5 (Neo Ouija) Various - Now (Underscan) Various - Our Sound 2 (Destructive) Various - The Platinum Series (Metalheadz) Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (Kranky) Zentriert Ins Antlitz - ...No (Tympanik) TIER 5 : ADDITIONAL READER'S SELECTIONS : TOP 50 (alphabetical order) Aidan Baker - Book Of Nods (Beta-lactam Rin) Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (4AD / Kranky) Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers) Auburn Lull - Begin Civil Twilight (Darla) Beach House - Devotion (Carpark) Beck - Modern Guilt (XL) Benoît Pioulard - Temper (Kranky) Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (Lidar) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Dolores (PIAS) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular) Deadbeat - Roots And Wire (Wagon Repair) Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. (Kranky) Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD) Distance - Repercussions (Planet Mu) Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music (Keysound) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Fiction) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Bella Union) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Warp) Gas - Nah Und Fern (Kompakt) Gregor Samsa - Rest (Own) Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type) Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (Enemies List Home) Headhunter - Nomad (Tempa) Leila - Blood, Looms & Blooms (Warp) Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound) M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Virgin / Mute / EMI) Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying (Field) Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (Matador) No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop) Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest (Resonant) Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds (Not Not Fun) Ratatat - LP3 (XL) Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco (Perlon) Scuba - A Mutual Antipathy (Hotflush) Shearwater - Rook (Matador) Shed - Shedding The Past (Ostgut Tonträger) Starkey - Ephemeral Exhibits (Planet Mu) Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde) TV On The Radio - Dear Science (4AD) Tape - Luminarium (Häpna) The Alps - III (Type) The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune) The Daysleepers - Drowned In A Sea Of Sound (Clairecords) The Dodos - Visiter (Wichita) The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (City Slang / Domino) Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino) Twine - Violets (Ghostly) Why? - Alopecia (Anticon / Tomlab) Zomby - Where Were U In '92? (Werk Discs)

okay!! we cant wait for the rest!!!!