Penzoline

Some of those tracks are really moody and emotional. I really like this.

K.O.B. - Multiple Disorder Incredible.

Hmm, no. Not yet, at least.

Well this thread is old. Albums either taking a while to make or nothing is even happening.

In Suspense is incredible! The tracks in this comp are freaking good, but somethings off with the quality..

I forgot to comment on this. Interstellar Hymn kicks ass.

Filteria – Remixes & Unreleased SUNTRIP RECORDS 2009 1. Filteria - Operation Mind Expansion 10:45 2. Filteria - Latch 8:55 3. Filteria - Poem 10:03 4. Filteria - Speech Module (Filteria Remix) 8:18 5. Filteria - Rotate To Vibrate (Ze Remix) 8:13 6. Filteria - Unfiltered (Sun Remix) 8:52 7. Filteria - Reflected (Blinded Remix) 10:26 8. Filteria - Total Planetary Being (Filteria Remix) 8:30 9. K.O.B. - Multiple Disorder (Filteria Remix) 8:30 10. K.O.B. - Weight Of Oblivion (Filteria Ambient Remix) 8:31 We have our first Digital Only Suntrip album right here. Remixes and Unreleased was originally meant to be released on another digital distribution site, but problems occurred and it never happened. Now that Suntrip has finally their own shop, this was made possible. I'm not sure if I had anything to do with this because I actually asked about this around E-mantra's release and lo-and-behold, it actually finally happened! So how is this much-wanted Filteria album? Does it meet the expectations or fall short of them? Filteria - Operation Mind Expansion We start off with a remix of two tracks together meant for Live sessions. Operation Pulse and Mind Expansion respectfully. Those two tracks together plus tons and tons of small and big details everywhere. This track already shows that Jannis likes to go wild with his live performances. There’s not a single second savoured here. If you liked the two tracks separately, you’re gonna love this one, if not, you still might like it a lot. There’s a lot of same elements, but the new stuff thrown in, I.E. the melody at 2:45 is an obvious remix of the melody heard in Mind Expansion, but it’s far from the old version. There’s more playfulness in it. And so on. Great stuff. Filteria - Latch Finally we get some new-old material. This track is an unheard one, not a remix! And this is exactly why I wanted this album to be released. I love the old Filteria stuff, like you can see my rambling about it in my Filteria reviews. Latch is a really really interesting take for Filteria, it sounds awesomely old school with it’s synths, effects and some melodies, but it’s more playful than what you ’d hear in -97 tracks. Also has this haunting ambient throughout. This track plays around with the stereo space it’s given. A ton of left to rightwork here and it’s fucking awesome! It makes the track immensely interesting and fun to listen to. The pinnacle of what’s so 'trucking awesome' is the sample that says (spoiler) I see spacewalkers and moonwalkers and earth orbiters galore Snip@2:20 and goes left right left right. This is gold honestly, it's so fitting and deep how it's incorporated. It may not sounds like it's a new thing, but the way it actually does sound makes it feel like it's a new idea. This track also just keeps on adding more at every corner, breakpoint comes, it differentiates from the previous part starts of slow, but eventually you have more layers than before the end of last breakpoint. One thing I found was that the melody segment at the end has a small reminiscent from a melody part in Galactic Rays. Awesome track! Should have been released a long time ago! Filteria - Poem Ahh! Another old unheard track! Starts with epic, epic Filteria style spacey location, gives us a sample about woman going on about something about war and songs, it’s a good interlude sample that much I can say. We get a kick and some effects in the background and submelody, 0:54 and here we go, yeah a new Old-Filteria melody! Frantic very, very driving melody. You get your usual Filteria add-on details going with it, 2:18 first breakpoint 2:28 melody is back, more layers continue to grow, a background ambient appears, and it’s beautiful spacey ambient. Soft transparent synth continues to harass throughout. 3:20 comes and the melody just takes a new playful road, it’s so danceable and smile-inducing. Love it. 4:18 Melody stops and we’re greeted again by the background ambient more on the front than the back. 4:40 breakpoint kick stops and 4:50 we get epic background melody 5:10 we get a new melody on the front plane. Well I’m not carry on with this second to second review anymore because I was actually just carried away by the amount of changes and details going on and how awesome they are. The rest of the track follows the same patch, just injects more epicness at every turn! Fantastic track - Old-Filteria lovers are gonna fall in love again. This track has charm! Filteria - Speech Module (Filteria Remix) A remix of one of my most memorable tracks from Heliopolis *robotic voice* "Speech Module". This version isn't all that different from the original when compared to the other remixes on this album. It's changes up the original track more subtly and tries to make it sound more deep. Again the original version was so very in your face but here the same segments seem darker and deeper and some parts have been given the twisted knob treatment. This version is just much more darker than the original version. Whether you think this remix is superior to the original or not solely depends on which style you like more. That means the remix has accomplished at what it, assumingly, tried to do. A good remix. Filteria - Rotate To Vibrate (Ze Remix) The magical ambient from the original version starts of the 3rd remix from this album. Now you may ask, is it even possible to top the original of this, which is the pinnacle track from Heliopolis? Maybe? Again the remix just makes the original version much more playful. And that isn't bad my friends. This track is pumping the crazy melodies from Rotate To Vibrate in your face. Another class act remix with a bit of a surprising ending - Love that twist on the melody! Those who loved Rotate To Vibrate will surely love this one. Great remix. Filteria - Unfiltered (Sun Remix) I don't know how else to put it but this track feels like it's Unfiltered (Moon Remix). . . inwards. Many of the effects, melodies and even the kick feels like it's inwards. It's odd to hear the track like this when you've heard the other version tons and tons of times. Some people may even prefer this version over the Moon Remix, but I personally find it quite a weird remix. Not a favourite, I prefer the Moon Remix over this one. Filteria - Reflected (Blinded Remix) Following the lines of the earlier remixes, this one does nothing out of the ordinary. It's Reflected with a new way more playful composition. Also throws in these wet acid style layers on the melodies that weren't there in the original. Quite an interesting choice, though probably my least favourite track on this album next to Unfiltered (Sun Remix). Filteria - Total Planetary Being (Filteria Remix) Sky Input-era is very present on this track again. Starts with this crystallic/mirror sound, muddy acid in the background and gives us a really muddy driving bassline @ 0:17. Small details carry with it till 1:20 where we get our first melody. It's nothing you wouldn't expect, fast Filteria-esque synth melody. From there on it keeps on giving you more and more at intervals of a minute or two. This keeps going till 6:28 where we get a breakpoint and at 6:38 we get this new really alien sound and an intense synth comes on top of it. This part keeps on going, while adding a little again on short intervals till 9:14 where it all tones down to a new break and then keeps growing to the last climax. Solid new-old-school Filteria track. Wish there were more! K.O.B. - Multiple Disorder (Filteria Remix) We finally get our first K.O.B. offerings here, as everyone is, or should, be aware of, K.O.B. (Kind Of Behaviour) is Filteria’s more wacky, playful side project. Might remind some people of Green Nuns Of The Revolution but with Filteria style. Multiple Disorder starts with these hallucinogen style mixed to hell and back voice sounds, some revving sounds and then a kick comes. A lot of really funky sounds flying everywhere, few sounds straight from cartoons. Just to give you an idea how funky it is. The track keeps progressing, giving breakpoints and then inducing more layers and so on, but good god what has Jannis done? You will not see it coming, you can’t, it’s impossible to see it coming. -- Don’t read further if you want to experience it yourself, and trust me, you’re going to want to do just that. – Jesus fucking shit 3:43 gives us the most epic insane melody EVER. FUCK. It comes out of nowhere and just gets in your face without a warning. The melody is just incredible, same quality as Earthrises climax melody, it’s awe-inspiring beautiful work of art. And it only lasts till 4:23. I think Jannis realized how good it was and wanted to savor it so it doesn’t get old with every listen. It comes like an orgasm, it feels perfect for a brief moment and leaves you with a lasting good feeling(Can someone suggest me a better metaphor? : D). Brilliant. The rest that follows after that 4:23 takes a piece of that melody and the previous wackyness and gives us more power. It stays up a while then it tones it down until 6:00 which brings it back with more force and this really twisted melody mixed with the last one. 7:18 brings it back to pre-3:43 and slows things down till the end. This track is magnificent one of the best things Jannis has ever done. Brilliant work with the melody segment at 3:43, just brilliant. K.O.B. - Weight Of Oblivion (Filteria Ambient Remix) The ambient remix of the original Weight Of Oblivion (Feat. Klara Steiner) that appeared on Suntrips V/A - Twist Dreams. If you've heard the original version, you're going to know what basically to expect. The same sad/dark ambient in the original is at it's finest here and the woman sample is still here. It seems as if the same kind of effects are here like in the original but made into a downtempo version, they're more minimalistic like you'd expect. The melody, sample, beat is all very slow, yet driving. This is the finest downtempo work Jannis has been involved in. It is the sad, dark and a little mysterious ambient/mood that lifts this track above a lot of other ambient for me. This is a very interesting work to listen to and extremely gripping. This is the quality that I would like to see Jannis maintain whenever he's working on downtempo/ambient. An extremely good piece. Honestly if all future K.O.B. tracks would have the quality of the last two tracks on this release, a whole album of them would be groundbreaking. Needless to say my expectations were met well. This Remixes and Unreleased album is meant for the fans of Filteria, especially those that love the older Filteria. So, if you're a fan, or just like Filteria this album is essential. If you liked daze but never really got into the old Filteria material, this might not be for you, but it's not completely the same. The new tracks here are different from the old one's, they have a more experimental, playful sound to them. And at a price of 6 euros, it's a no brainer. Get it here. http://www.suntriprecords.com/shop/item/SUNDG01/ This review is best read with the "blue darkness" forum skin option.

Old school spirit to be found here!! Awesome tracks! Surprise of the year no doubt! By the way soundmute, it'd be nice if you'd include the cover and places where you can purchase this album on your post.

Yes, finally got the mail back!!! Can't wait to listen to this.

Hahhaha oh my.. hahahahah :lol:

So it's all downhill from here according to you guys? One day people will just pack up and leave?

Gonna see it next week, decided to go for 3D version.

I see you're in the mood. Merry christmas from me too!

V/A Alternative Colours, anyone???

I agree Asstrancer isn't a good name but Astrancer is alright.

Updated my review a little if anyone cares. I should also comment that now that time has passed since the release, I don't find myself coming back to this album as often as I'd hope to. I'm not sure why that is, but when it comes to Sky Input and Heliopolis, I listen to them both weekly.

Various Artists - Opus Iridium SUNTRIP RECORDS 2009 CD1 1. E-Mantra - Voyager II 10:26 2. Shakta - Ten Times Around The Sun 6:32 3. Filteria - Birds Lingva Franca 9:32 4. Artifact303 - Feelings 9:24 5. Ajna - The Art of Happiness 9:12 6. Radical Distortion - The Dreamer 7:37 7. Afgin - From The Heart (Tribute to Wonderboy) 10:17 8. Ethereal - Moondawn 11:02 Suntrips 10th release. It being a compilation, they wanted to make it a special one with 2CD's with 1st CD dedicated for the highest quality new school goa and 2nd CD for quality downtempo/Chillout. From the art to the the tracks, it's mostly wonderful. Uptempo - review. E-Mantra - Voyager II Is very crisp, open and mysterious goa with a nod to etnica's style with a moving progressive journey theme(Voyager II's journey in space perhaps.). A lot of tiny little details and atmospheric pads accompanied by a dark moving kick. The track progresses through various sections where it slows down for the upcoming mini-climax that brings a new twist to the trip. Gotta take hats off for the 4:38 part which brings in this very very dark, alien layer to the mix, and the awesome shakta-like melody that follows in it's footsteps. Really, really nice stuff. The tracks ending is met with slowing down the track from moderate paced action, which leaves a climax to be desired. This track is a very good piece, tons of amazing atmosphere, but the ending could have used a more exciting one. Shakta - Ten Times Around The Sun Ahh, Shaktas back? Fantastic. This track is very much made in the old school spirit, it definitely has that old school quality where you know you're in for a ride right from the beginning. Chummy dark effects and pads melodies throughout and a mysterious and entrancing melody make sure you get hypnotized in it. The track Ten Times Around The sun is exactly what you'd except, 1997-shakta with 2008 production quality, it's fantastic. A true old school classic released in 2008. Filteria - Birds Lingva Franca Is a track that I was looking very much forward to hearing and it is un-questionably the pinnacle of Filteria sound up until now. Begins with atmospheric mood and playful bubbly acid and birds singing a'la Birds Lingva Franca. From there we get the rolling fat goa bassline and not so in your face kick whilst more little detail layers ensue. 1:40 and we're finally off with a moving sound, not long and the main melody arrives at 2:20. It's unbelievable. Epic, sensual, spiritual with a hint of spaceyness. While I was thinking it was the best thing ever, it's nothing compared to what arrives at 3:10. Holy fucking god, Filteria just hit a home run. The climax is so out of this world, I feel an Arabic and Russian influence in it, and that's something I've never heard before in my time of listening Goa. Rest of the track is a solid great run, no complaints at all! My #1 track of 2008 no doubt about it! Artifact303 - Feelings We are greeted by atmospheric 'epic' interlude with some bird-like and playful acid flying around and then we get a kick. Revival of the brute force that Astral Projection was able to make? For sure. What else can I say, uplifting super melodic with crisp true-to-the-last-bone 303! This is what I would love to call full-on, not the stuff they actually call full-on. Strong track that reached my top 4 of 2008 best tracks. Ajna - The Art Of Happiness Is the debut track from Ajna, a new new-school goa artist from France. Begins with rattling acid/synth, a sample from a sci-fi movie like in the good old days and some really really gripping atmoshperic-pads in the background. 0:55 and we're introduced to the melody that the track is holding in itself which gives us a kick with that melody at 1:10. Rolling a little more pitched goa-oriented bassline that is basically on a overly noticeable loop that sticks out to me for whatever reasons. Is it a negative, though? Nah, just a tiny nitpick. 2:04 brings us this pitched acid line which is a feast and a joy on your ears, but the sub-melody at 2:20ish, I don't honestly think it flows well with the one going on well. It just comes forcefully and sounds a bit cheesy at moments. From there it keeps growing it's main melody and is full of smaller details that we heard earlier on the track, some new one's too. It's a solid latter half, but what the first 2 minutes promised, it kind of lacks something. It's ok, but sounds immature so to speak. I usually tend to skip this if I listen to Opus Iridium. Radical Distortion - The Dreamer Ah, mysterious spaced out intro with a sample saying "I had a dream-" with that rattling 'r' which is the perfect interlude for the sounds radical distortion uses. A lot of chummy rattling acid and synths everywhere. Bassline sticks to a deep, fat kick. This track has a lot of awesome sounds and a good amount of layers. But the melodies, the melodies are a perfect fit for those sounds. Awesome, awesome stuff! Easily their best track up until now and in my top10 best tracks of 2008! Afgin - From The Heart (Tribute to Wonderboy) It took a while for me to understand the real beauty of this track. Starts with this very harmonious emotion-rich melody and a sample from a forest with birds chirping away. Then the kick arrives with the soft hi-hats and we're already in Eden. A small breakpoint comes, kills off the kick and brings us that soft, utterly awestrucking soft bassline, then after a while gives us the kick back. Next step in the evolution of 'Eden' we get the oh so amazing acid lines. Soon a breakpoint comes, bassline and kick disappear, then we get this extremely fitting, for whatever reasons, sample "I think something happened in the early 60's that LSD was related to, music was related to, there was new soundstage and maybe once a second or something, LSD was just... the power" and we get the track back on it's feet. It's just so fitting, perfect. And how far are we in? only roughly 4 minutes. After 2 minutes of little to no chance of the harmonius combination of layers we get new melody there. This continues solidly until 7 minutes in and we get this soft harmonius interlude for the main melody, 7 minutes and 40 seconds and there we go, chills down the spine eyes get watery and the sample comes for the 2nd time. Chummy acid's accompanying the big strong, full-of-emotion melody. 9:28 and the track slows down with an epic ending till the end. This track has so many sections that bring new stuff and powerful layers that it's pure gold. Not to mention, all of the layers are injected with pure emotion. Afgin you're the man - Or as my friend put it, "Afgin on äijäöä!" How did I notice the real beauty of this track? Summer. I was out there listening to my mp3, this piece pops up, it's evening suns setting down, warm, not hot. I feel alive. This track conveyed so much emotion in me when I noticed it. Ethereal - Moondawn This one starts with harmonius darker downtempo very nature oriented style. It's very interesting for what it does do. Ton of layers, dark downtempo bassline and harmonic bright synth melody. I feel like this track was made for the mother nature. It's so very deep and earthly. The sample use of the "let there be deities" I'm not digging, could do without, but it's not too bad. I previously said it was very repetitious, and, well, that it is, but take time for it to hypnotize you in it and you see it's better than just a repetitious slow boring track. There's some seriously good stuff in there, you just gotta give it some time. Although 11 minutes a tad too long for this, if you have the patience to make it, it's worth it. But if not, it's gonna wear out, bad. In that case this is not for you. So there we go, Suntrip has once again proven it's the best new-school goatrance label on earth. The tracklist is full of quality artists and quality tracks with only a few that I find a little bit lesser than the rest, but not much. CD2 is very good aswell, but I don't review downtempo so I won't be making one for it. But it's assured, it's up there with the Ultimae quality in my opinion. Get this compilation, I find it quite the essential one in new-school offerings. Where to get it? Downtempo only https://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD10D/ Uptempo only https://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD10U/ Original https://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD10M/ Saikosounds http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=7130 Psyshop http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sut/sut2cd010.html Disclaimer: Reposting on a new post, because I thought my earlier review was way too short and just a bit.. eh and I spent a while on this. This review is best read with the "blue darkness" forum skin option.

You guys should have automated File selling system, I know you guys need to send the physical copies yourself, but files are just files. Hmm.

Yes finally got my e-details from my bank back and was able to pay for it! Can't wait to hear it!

Astrancer - Athanaton

Awesome new free track! http://www.4shared.com/file/158128054/b6a36c26/VA_2012_-_Astrancer_-_Athanato.html http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153152913&blogId=519728740

Yes? What the hell do you expect? Is it strange that you don't like something that others do? Of course it's strange.

What a shame, this comp deserves be released more widely! :/ Ah well, can't wait for what's next in store from Sita anyhoo!

Well I don't disagree there either. I'd love a real copy of course. Collectors edition anyone?

hope they sort it out and get it out there..