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    I am a Suntrip fanboy

    in General Psytrance

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    I think the simplicity played an important role in oldschool goa. Tracks never start out with 20 different sounds playing at once. They start with a couple, and slowly add a couple more over and over. As they add them, they manipulate them and make beautiful music out of the sounds currently present. In this way they prove every sound belongs there and shows their brilliance at blending sounds together. Tracks were long and built up slowly throughout, allowing us to admire the artistry the whole way through. As we are able to comprehend the entire buildup of the track and the place of every sound in the whole, the music seems very deep. It's as though we are watching a beautiful thing evolve.

     

    Newschool goa is a lot different and partly because of the new technology. These tracks are usually changing way too fast to fully comprehend them. They seem a bit more superficial because they flit all over with sounds. I'm listening to a Filteria track right now and the entire track basically sounds like the climax of a Pleiadians track. While this may seem nice, climaxes are always going to be superficial unless you get a big buildup before them. Climaxes should be your reward for paying attention for the last 5+ minutes.

     

    Pleiadians IFO is nice, but let's not get the wrong impression from it. Stuff like THIS are the real gems from Etnica. It's only because Etnica has made tracks like this first that IFO can be appreciated. As far as I'm aware, nobody in the chill scene has even made something as nice. Nobody in the newschool goa scene has dared dropping their BPM below 150 yet (:rolleyes:), so no chance there.

     

     

    P.S. I saw Agneton mentioned earlier and I agree, it's great. Since the Ethereal album, only Ra and Agneton after that are with my goa trance collection.

     

    I agree with the first part of your comment. But i can't understand that you (and others) haven't found a newschool (if it was up to me it wouldn't have that name, 'oldschool' or 'newschool', it's all Goatrance to me) artists/track/album yet that you like. Are you guys so narrowminded, do you instantly dislike something if it's released post 2000? Today there is much less goatrance released than in the 90's, so it's normal there is less great stuff out there, but i can't believe there is so few to your liking.

    And also there is some kind of weird contradiction, that Goatrance today should sound more like the old stuff, but on the other should sound new and fresh, and shouldn't be stuck in the past. I have never understood these new/old discussions, just listen to music you love :) I personally like old and new goatrance equally, only difference imo is production(quality), and i'm not gonna talk about what's best, there are both new and old artists i really love...

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