I think there could be som concensus about the opinion that you as a musician should not quit making music but you need to do it more for fun and inject spontaneous emotions and personal rewards into your creations rather than just making it "proffesionaly". Also, to maintain whatever sanity there is to maintain I think that you must continue to express yourself, may it be through music, arts, vandalism or whatever. I think you know this yourself to, wich is why I think this post rings more like some adolescent suicidethreat than just some random anouncement of a release. Should I appreciate or sherish this release more because it is dubbed "the ultimate"? Should I ever judge an effort according to it´s commentary and history? Is this comment even necessary?
If it is true that you already admitted this to yourself, then yes, this post is relevant, otherwise it sure as hell isn´t. As I choose to believe the former more than the later I have to say that the production is solid. There reamins no doubt in your skills as a producer and creator, even though they are put on the more "cleaner" goasound instead of the earlier more rusty timbre of the oldschoolgoa wich I am more in favor of. This is not just because I prefer the more rugged dirty sound of the mid-90s, but also and more so because the sound of those days strived to be sinister in a way that predates the emergence of dark psy; there were almost evil introspective harmonies whereas modern goa is trying to be a "softer" counterpart to dark psy, hence full on. In this release this is mostly manifested in the track "cyan" and perhaps "aqua bay", but as a positive suprise the remainder of this EP offers some introspective opportunities. There is the new clean soundscape of modern goa, but the harmonies have been used in a way that prooves that the analogue dirtyness of old is not a must to make a goatrack kill on the dancefloor, or remain interesting outside the fluoroscent raveparty.