Penzoline
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Dang. Those are some golden records you have there.
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I can't believe I never posted on this thread. Then again I haven't posted much at all. Aaanyway..
This Sky Technology alright! Melodic climaxes for days, but this time with relentless basslines and sound design similar to his older tracks, but with more finesse and control over how it synergizes with everything. Great album and even with all going on, I hope his (fanboy moment) penultimate "Reactor Of Life" album will see the light of day.. someday.
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7 hours ago, 浮木茜 said:
6. Unreal Remix 09:16
Which artist is the original author of this song?
I believe it's a remix of a track with the same title on the last album.
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11 hours ago, Halosian said:
Is track one Morphic Moon a remix of one my songs?
I remember Cristian once asked me if he could do that, must have been like 7 years ago now..
Damn I remember posting a thread about your website a long time ago! Yeah some of those melodies sound the exact same. Interesting you weren't credited (unless it's in the booklet). Edit: apparently it's not.
Are you still planning on releasing that album by the way? It'd be an apt fit for https://unreleasedgoarecords.bandcamp.com/
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(UPDATED 2023) 6. You should aim for the first post to be more informative, but honestly since the review forum has become a bit of a graveyard, just posting an album you wish to be discussed with a mini review is, at this point, more than enough.Here is a few well made reviews that should give the general idea on how an informative review could look!
https://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/54539-solar-fields-movements/
https://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/56930-fragletrollet-playground-of-spirit-shaman-film-records-media
https://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/54395-crop-circles-tetrahedron
https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/73083-martian-arts-giant-locusts-tip-records/
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Thank you! And yes those are fantastic tracks! TAO & NAGA was a complete surprise of a track for me. Very inventive tracks on that mix.
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I mean I already loved Ephedras outputs previously, but this is the best thing he has done so far. I love how soft the sound is! It's just so pleasing to listen to while remaining very psychedelic.
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Guys this thing is on fire. Jesus christ what this guy has achieved. It's going above and beyond what you'd expect from him.
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https://suntriprecords.bandcamp.com/album/extrasensory-perception
https://open.spotify.com/album/0rSBL7941yuntGX8l2a7Ic?si=bQqnhIizRsO-HD0PkwjaXw
1. Morphic Moon 10:16
2. Xenex 10:22
3. Extrasensory Perception 09:03
4.Insanity 12:01
5. Subliminal 10:35
6. Unreal Remix 09:16
7. Hypnoman 09:14
8. Borg Madness 08:44
Morphic Resonance is back with a 3rd nightish acidic goa-trance album from an alien world! The big difference with his previous albums? The production quality! Cristian Fernandez from Spain managed to upgrade his producing skills big time without losing his analog touch and this resulted in his best album so far without any doubt! After testing his new music on many parties and festivals around the world he was finally satisfied with his newest work: Extasensory Perception! Smashing powerful darker goa-trance for psychedelic minds that miss the old school influenced night music!
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released March 3, 2023
Written & Produced by: Cristian Fernandez Font
Mastering by: Tim Schuldt
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I'd call this my best goa mix so far. Mostly new tracks post-2020 to give you guys and idea what to expect form the current goa landscape. Starting off with a couple of creatively fun tracks toward more serious stuff. Prepare to be surprised. This is a good mix for those who are out of the loop.
Astrogano - Borderline
Hypnoxock - Spaguetization
Celestial Intelligence - Phantom Dancer
Artifact303 - Unidentified
Nebula Meltdown - Bending Space (2021 Warp Drive Mix)
Triquetra - A Large Cup Of Chaos, Please
InnerZone - Sea of Tranquility
Ephedra - Acid Headache
Moon Beasts - Demon Star
Ephedra - Right to the Soul
TAO & NAGA - Spirit Bomb
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This album is really awesome up until track 7 (I just cannot stand that Tanta Pena scream anymore, it's offputting). Sublime and cinematic atmospheres. It's not really goa, nor psy, just a fusion of whatever Ben was interested in back then. Perfect Crime is a great ender for tracks 1-6.
Recommended to anyone who wants to visit the world of Blade Runner / Ghost In The Shell / Matrix / whatever cyberpunk setting you prefer.
Too bad about tracks 7 and 9.
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6 hours ago, Paul Eye said:
Hmm, what happened in 2022? Let's see...
I deleted all my DJ sets from SoundCloud (and cancelled my pro subscription) and YouTube in June. I did play a whopping 8 gigs during the entire year, mostly with not much inspiration, and half of them were birthday gigs with people turning 40 (I mean, a few years ago I played at people's 30th birthdays, we're slowly getting old here...). The highlight of the year (again) was the finale of our series of top secret goa trance beach parties. We decided that a decade of doing these was enough and went out with a blast: a 10 hour nonstop back to back gig with 7 (or was it 8?) DJs on constant rotation. No laptops, just one pair of SL1200s and Nexus CDJs. Even I played a few vinyls even if I'd never done that on a gig before.
What else? I've mostly turned into a reclusive hermit, didn't go to a single party unless I was playing (actually no that's bullshit, I did go to one or two where I wasn't playing but didn't really enjoy myself, bleh). Emptied all my social media accounts too (didn't close them though for various reasons) and been spending (too much) time just by myself. This can't be good in the long run but I can't be bothered to do anything about it right now.
In general I've lost most of my interest towards anything "trance" (not all of it, that's impossible), trying to find some enjoyable metal and/or heavier rock bands instead (or even some electronic music with guitars etc), with not much success, but still some, that's a plus
So uh, did I forget something? Probably.
Man, just when I got into mixing you go ahead and become a recluse. Could've attended parties together.
Sounds like a very bad degree burn-out. You need some ointment (dunno what it could be for that).-
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What type of accodomations are there? I'm not a tent sleeper..
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What a lineup, jeez.
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Anjuna wins over my heart a million times over.
Edit: I removed this mix because of soundcloud time restrictions. Also I think it's quite all over the place.
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I'll be posting whatever sets I make in this thread. The first one isn't really psytrance, but the next one will be, so I'll reserve a slot on this section anyway.
I'm a total noob so not all transitions are smooth.
First one is inspired by Anjunadeep explorations that I attended this year. Mostly deep house and chill house. I'll guarantee you a melodic journey back to the warmth of last summer.-
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For me it was an interesting year sonically. I basically had a massive turnover toward modern psytrance, techno and all things house (mostly the melodic deep/prog type). I attended Anjunadeep Albania during the summer, which was my first festival abroad - it being completely deep house. I always imagined it being goatrance, but alas! (I've gotten old.)
Though regardless of that huge shift towards other edm, I still love to find goay productions. Everything with 303 and melodies! Minimal ain't my thing.
I also started hanging out with this local producer who encouraged me to start mixing. We're planning a trance/techno party for march 2023 and, hopefully, I'll be playing deep house/trance set for the beginning. I'm also planning a bunch of psytrance mixing which I'll share here. Who knows, maybe you'll find me producing in a few years.
As far as releases goes this year, well, I did listen a lot, buut not much stuck to my mind. I really enjoyed Nebula Meltdown's Gloria In Excelsis Lumen, I even had the privledge to listen to it live. Filteria was a maaassive lettdown, but it suddenly became my most listened spotify album. Who would have guessed? Heh. Honestly a lot of releases got ignored because the amount of time I gave to just listening whatever the hell spotify offered me - and most of that was house/techno/trance/psytrance. Just random bits mostly, no albums. Edit: actually a lot of (at least fullon) psytrance artists seem to release a lot of singles these days, rather than storytelling albums. Did anyone actually come across decent full-length psytrance albums this year? Not just singular tracks put together, but an album experience, something like fragletrollet's 2009 album.
3 hours ago, Tsotsi said:There is no rest, there is no peace.
Sorry mate.
On 12/20/2022 at 6:13 PM, Magus Knight said:As for reviews my impression is that the activity of those might've moved to Bandcamp? I'm not a Bandcamp user myself. But that would be my best guess, and Discogs maybe. Or is Discogs dead these days?
Still tho, not all releases are available on Bandcamp so I don't quite see how it could be a complete review site for Psytrance.
Anyways kinda sad, I would like to see the forum prosper. I looked around on Discord to see if there is any Psytrance servers there. Not much, so I suppose most hang in the Psytrance label groups on FB.
Discord can't really replace the forum because of the review forum. Maybe we will eventually fade out but as a resource of all things psytrance this place is irreplaceable. But you are right, people are following the artist on other platforms that, quite frankly, suck for discussion. Bandcamp is good for reviews but there is no discussion. Discogs is as dead as this place.
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If any album deservers a remaster it's this one. A lot of the tracks are, like you said, quite muddy. Just about anything from this era of MFG has bad mixing, which is a total shame. You can EQ the tracks for sure, but it only masks the problem a little bit.
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So, almost at the end of 2022 and we have basically gotten 3 album reviews this year. Even 2021 had at least 27 threads. Also the post count has decreased dramatically from the previous (quite dead as well) years.
I know a lot of reviews from 2021 were by a handful of users, same for 2020. Did we stop listening to new albums or don't we just care enough to write about the highlights? How are our members doing? What kind of a year did you guys have (sonically or otherwise)? Any notable albums or tracks from 2022?
Let's at least try to have an active thread to have a send off for 2023!
I've attached the post counts per month for the past 3 years.
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Thanks for sharing. Interesting tracks there! Temple of the doofvibe is excellent space ambient.
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Some of this stuff fun as hell to listen to! It's quite suomi-esque in nature, but still isn't exactly suomi.
LSD In 1960, Just Legalize It, Go Deeper and Pitter Patter should make a storm in any dancefloor, gaddamn.
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Well the thread is from 2008 and scythe of orion came out in 2010.
But yes, a monster album that one. I actually have it on CD.
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Yes it was because of the updates. Mars got it fixed. Something to do with database corruption.
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I just checked your bandcamp. What a busy man you've been. I never received that one cd though.
Proxeeus - At the Mountains of Madness
in 2015
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An interesting take. I've noticed similar patterns with quite a lot of artists. Usually the first album/tracks are quite raw in their energy and have interesting quirks to the production and style. As time passes many artist "fine-tune" (sometimes homogenize) their sound and become "professionals" in what they do, but usually that is at the expense of that early rawness. Another great example is E-mantras early tracks and the later ones. He still has that signature sound, but it's definitely more "mature". Sometimes it's a good thing, other times it might sour fans of previous inputs (not saying either in the case of E-mantra). Obviously artists evolve, but sometime's it'd be interesting to experience that "raw" of the earlier productions later on.