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V/A - Energy Waves SUNTRIP RECORDS 2010 1. Mindsphere - The Awakening 07:07 110 bpm 2. Astrancer - Inhabitants of the Sun (Gnostic Theory) 07:43 143 bpm 3. KhetzaL - Indian Attic (E-Mantra's Tellurian Remix) 08:10 145 bpm 4. Somnesia vs PharaOm - God's Tears 09:08 146 bpm 5. Liquid Flow - Reformation 07:12 145 bpm 6. Astrancer - Athanaton 09:06 140 bpm 7. Antares - Eureka 10:36 146 bpm 8. RA - Time Current (Silver Remix) 09:44 142 bpm 9. Space Elves - Anjuna Beach 07:56 143 bpm Energy Waves is a new morning goa-trance compilation from suntrip, said to be first part of a dual V/A along with a darker goa-trance compilation this year, appropriately named, Temple Of Chaos. There's a bag of new upcoming artists here, not resorting to older artists this time. Unlike in the last V/A from Suntrip. There's also clear concept in this V/A which should be already visible in the samples here or here. Mindsphere - The Awakening The long awaited return of Mindsphere, who released a free, extremely energetic, goatrance debut album Inner Cyclone on Metapsychic Records is here, finally. The track begins with a very ethnic tibetan monk chant soundscape, calm and a spiritual opening. Soft melodies and effects carry on like in a calm stream. At 2:56 a soft bassline kicks in and it slowly grows as if it'd guide us through the track. Soft hi-hats come along with it and 4:25 introduces a slow tempo kick. 6:23 ends the hi-hat, kick and bassline marking that we've reached the final steps of our journey. The deep melodies and atmosphere carry us till the end. A very gripping piece of work. The atmosphere is full of mystery and softness. Downtempo Mindsphere is just amazing. Ali, you really known your stuff. Downtempo and uptempo alike. Can't wait for the 2nd album. Astrancer - Inhabitants of the Sun (Gnostic Theory) As if anyone didn't see this coming, Astrancer joins in with the suntrip crew, and for a good reason as well. His style is very uplifting and magical with all those atmospheric pads and sharp and bright effects. This begins with a deep soft magical sound and evolves to a high melody driven ride through a magical landscape of Egypt. 1:04 and the deep bassline finally kicks in with. 1:54 the first taste of big melodies ensue which is greeted by the atmospheric break at 2:20 that calms things down so it could gather itself back up with even a stronger force. Bright magical effects flying everywhere. A beautiful melody emerges to take us even higher and another break at 4:37 comes. The bassline stops briefly until 5:04 and we're on our way again. 5:32 and we get yet another new, magical, melody. Things slow down to a beautiful end. A wonderful piece with a rich soundscape of vivid textures and ethereal melodies. KhetzaL - Indian Attic (E-Mantra's Tellurian Remix) E-Mantra's take on the legendary Khetzal's Indian Attic. The track starts of quite the same as the original, but at 0:19 we get the deep trance-dripping signature E-Mantra bassline with a scent of Indian Attics version. We get the ethnic sounds from Indian Attic at places throughout the track, but coupled with E-Mantras signature effects, soundscape, and melodies, it gets a whole new meaning to it. If you've heard E-Mantra's debut album, you know how spacey he can get, this is no exception. While Khetzal is completely down to earth, these two styles don't crash, but actually complement each others in a surprising way. This track is the best from both worlds, I don't think there's much else to say. Somnesia vs PharaOm - God's Tears Again new artists on Suntrip's side, Somnesia and Pharaom, I remember when these guys weren't even on a label yet, both were promising acts! The track starts of with a sample of thunderous raining, hitting the ground and a sample a man saying 'The Tears'. Then we get a deep synth sound that creates a mysterious, Egyptian and a dark atmosphere and a not hard, but not overly soft either, kick. Effects emerge at 0:58 and some good old acid surfaces softly on the top. 1:30 introduces us a very bright sounding melody unlike any other and at 2:00 it gets strong slow beat hi-hats which really adds to it. 2:30 a first break and not long and at 2:36 the track gets a trance-inducing really superB melody. At 3:58 the track evolves with a grander, yet sharp, a bit nitzoish melody. 5:44 arrives and we are greeted by thundering rain sample, epic soundscape and an epic melody that really takes a liftoff at 6:42. It's sounds so epic, grand, Egyptian. This is a trip to the pyramids. The melody fades at 7:35, we're left with the rain sample yet and again and then it transforms to a blasting thundering epic melody at 7:45. What an amazing last part, far from what I've heard in a a while. It's huge. Big ups for these two promising acts. Liquid Flow - Reformation Epic chord ensue, interesting fx flying on and about. Everything starts with a lighter sound as it gets bigger and full soon. 1:45 first breakpoint and 1:48 the track continues brining along this really tasty acid line, but I do wonder is this all of it. 2:13 the melody turns more melancholic and epic 2:41 and a new breakpoint to introduce the interesting fx and chord once again. 3:46 BLASTOFF, the sweetest acid! It's tasty, it's wet, it's old school, acid lovers will surely love this part. 5:06 turns the track into an epic view of the ancient rome from the highest mountain. Liquid Flows best track to date for sure, he touched some new ground on this track. Class act. Astrancer - Athanaton Another Astrancer piece is greeted. Following very much in the same spirit as Inhabitants Of The Sun, but with a bubblier and rawer execution. Wonderful melodies, some rattling goodness, soothing quirky effects and a deep bassline takes us through a journey through magic once again. Another solid track from Astrancer. His style has a twist like no other on the new school offerings. A debut album is something to look forward to. Antares - Eureka We start off with ethnic Indian sounds. Then a deep bassline and a 'hollow' kick arrives. The melodies flow us forward like in river. The track's melodies flow so smoothly and seamlessly from another to another. The tempo stays throughout the 10 minute track the same basically and the speed and force only gets faster towards the end. This is a really well-thought track with clearly a lot of effort was put into. Still, personally not my favourite, just because this kind of style doesn't fit the bill for me, it's not something I listen to a lot. Yet it's still so well made that I enjoyed a lot even though. Very Ethereal like track by the way. RA - Time Current (Silver Remix) If you've heard Time Current, you will know what to expect, basically, but this remix is like another step beyond of Time Current. The textures, some melodic twists and added layers are insanely rich and the deep sound of RA still lays here. The quality just reeks of Gold to me. One of the strongest remixes I've heard. Space Elves - Anjuna Beach Begins with an atmospheric, really old school sounding interlude and then we get really plain hi-hats, a flat, yet deep kick and a tempo that's slower than the rest of the compilation along with Mindsphere. I would say that already is a premonition to a track that genuinely wants to sound old school. And to be honest, it quite succeeds. The whole atmosphere sounds genuinely spacey and out there in the old school way - think of California Sunshine. The effects really add to that as well, they create a texture that feels worn, which I like a lot. The track is also very hypnotic with it's tempo, spacey and deep atmosphere. At first I didn't like Anjuna Beach much, it felt like it fell flat on it's face in comparison to the other tracks on this compilation, as it's sound is not as 'typical' with the rest, had far less intensity and the quality seemed off, but after upon more listening this is simply a great piece that does new things in the new school era. Really looking forward to hearing more. Although, I really don't like the sample they used here, but it's not that big of a deal. The short version of this review is, that Suntrip has, yet again, released a quality morning V/A, but this time it has a strong concept of a warm Egyptian/Indian atmosphere in it. So it's not just a group of great tracks put together in a V/A, but actually having some real depth and story to it. The tracks themselves are the best new goa-trance you can find right now. Surpassing every other 2010 release so far in my opinion, although not by much. The competition is sure getting stiff with the high quality of releases from everywhere in the goa-trance territory. And that's a good damn thing. Thanks Suntrip, for releasing yet another quality Goa-trance compilation. I'm looking forward for V/A - Temple Of Chaos later this year. Where to get it? http://www.suntriprecords.com/shop/ http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=8361 http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sut/sut1cd018.html http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=5539 http://www.goastore.ch/product_info.php?products_id=3744 This review is best read with the "blue darkness" forum skin option.

Honestly, there's so many great movies. There's so many great movies that surpass this one in so many ways that it's stupid to even try to explain them all. But, an opinion is an opinion and this is what I consider my favourite movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/

Only 6? I never personally expected them to answer everything, a lot, yeah, but not everything. I'm almost satisfied with everything explained already.

Goddamn nostalgia. Before I learned of psy/goa I did always like electronic, whenever I found something that was electronic and sounded at least ok I checked it out(A LONG TIME AGOOOOOoooOOoo) VNV Nation - Electronaut Live http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsIq0ziAqiU EPIC, just.. E P I C. The best electronic track I had heard to date back then, I was in love. It's still a stomper tbh. btw, synthpop? Freezepop!!! Goddamn that brings memories. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOToS0fxb8&feature=related :lol:

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF EPIC I got chills down my spine a ton of times! wow.

The music can be good but the lyrics make me just facepalm.

Bubble up is epic. That one melody reminds me so much of Hallucinogens Gamma Goblins, twisted. Good stuff!

Yes and in may it will be probably out in june. Talk about being optimistic.

69:00 FF-what was that????

Still got it I see. Gotta love when someone is able to produce the old school sound today! Can't believe you weren't able to release an album back in the day. Oh btw, Psycrise was my inspiration for making this http://gasolin3.deviantart.com/art/PsyCrise-155201541

Hi, To each their own. Regards,

Dimension 5 But really now, I would think he's looking for full-on..

It's not for you then, but it certainly doesn't suck. Well, 90% of it sucks, but that 10%, like the track I posted above, is fantastic. Good trance has a such strong, vivid emotional(love) and scenic atmosphere throughout for me. While other genres achieve emotion in strong ways aswell, even the same kind of emotion, trance has that special way of doing it. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jzh9y_6K-g

Looks very interesting, will take a listen.

E-Mantra - Voyager II

Goddamn, I just listened to the Halloween 2004 mix and it was epic, fantastic tunes! God I can't wait for you to release some old school goodness like these ones.

Yo zip, could you make a mix out of all the most intense tracks, like the one's posted here. This thread is making me want to listen to full-on again lol!

First that came to my mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEF14Vt6AY Too bad about not interested in goa, there's a ton of energy to be found there. Also maybe? And timecode's releases are pretty maximal : d

Crap Circles!

Spiritual Rising, what a rush when I heard the first time. I love that track.

Thanks.

May post more later those are from the top of my head.

That interview just pissed me off...

Somnesia - Blast Of Colors