Penzoline

What a lineup, jeez.

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.

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.

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. Sorry mate. 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.

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.

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.

Thanks for sharing. Interesting tracks there! Temple of the doofvibe is excellent space ambient.

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.

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.

Yes it was because of the updates. Mars got it fixed. Something to do with database corruption.

I just checked your bandcamp. What a busy man you've been. I never received that one cd though.

I have no idea whats going on with your account. You arent banned anywhere. I saw these types of reports for several months on admin panel however "Logged in from a new device but did not complete two-factor authentication: Chrome 86.x.xxxx.xx on Windows. October 20, 2020 (IP RETRACTED) " This is really odd, since we haven't enforced 2-factor authentication.

This album is masterful.

I'm starting to think we're not on the same page about the topic of discussion - or I'm missing something else? There is no echo chamber when we're dealing with facts. It's like saying the psynews theme is red, when it clearly isn't. If the artist says the sounds are not software, then they're not. Go check out the drumsynth in question and listen what it sounds like. Or do you think people disagree with your opinion of the track itself? Because that's just not the case. I'm so confused about your reaction.

Dude, the guy behind the track explains to you how the track was made and you still refuse to believe it? That makes no sense.

It felt like magic getting that album on physical the first time. I'm stunned the remastered version has been completely sold out as well and there are apparently no plans for re-release.

I used to check their new releases list quite often, but last 2 years it's been pretty much empty now... http://www.arabesquedistribution.com/index.php?option=com_artistavenue&task=newReleases&Itemid=1 Their facebook feed is full of digital releases now. Maybe Arabesque physical is completely being phased out? Even suntrip moved on from them a few years back.. https://www.facebook.com/ArabesqueDigital Edit: wow I apparently posted this in the wrong section.

Altered Second Movements is an instabuy. I never pre-order but I did not want to miss out on that.

Damn thats a good ep, completely missed on it. Fkin nice ravey sound. But yeah, officially crimea is not part of Russia, unofficially anyone can have an opinion.

Some amazing artist on that list. I've also seen a lot of smaller parties being promoted in facebook in Ukraine back before the war, I actually thought about going there at some point, but alas.. "Zeta Reticuli (from Crimea so not really Ukraine)" Eh? Crimea is a russian occupied area in Ukraine..

https://avatarmusic.bandcamp.com/album/goa 1. Nerve - Channel 59 06:38 2. Hallucinogen - Beautiful People 07:19 3. Genetic - Alpha State Synthesis 08:22 4. Bamboo Forest - Own Way 06:14 5. Total Eclipse - 10 Years Of Trance 06:05 6. Nerve - Nervous 06:15 7. Jaia - Factory Of Mind 06:40 8. Lennie Lazer Bean - Bionic 06:33 9. Atmos - Qualitat Im Quadrat 08:16 I'm not even sure how I stumbled upon this release, maybe I was just browsing through Avatar rec catalogue, wondering if they're still around, and there it was. This is a mixed album featuring unreleased old school tracks from the hey day. I absolutely found it a worthwhile mix containing some of the more unique types of unreleased tracks in the goa realm. It's not all melodic, but instead the mix goes through rather all types of goa sounds (barring forest) from more minimal sounds (nerve) to uplifting (genetic) to intense bangers (bamboo forest, Lennie Lazer Bean). I didn't really care too much for the ender of atmos's housy/bpc fusion sound, but eh, it's a solid and a calm send-off. A fun listen for sure and there are a couple interesting tracks (Hallucinogen, Total Eclipse) for collectors. Recommended.

I got 2 vaccinations. Last one was like september or something. I didn't take a 3rd even though I could have, kinda feel bad about that decision now. Feeling better now, but my heads all foggy and the cough is quite persistent. Wow it took a while for omicron to land on the US.

Yeah I remember you got it really early on. I also figured the original variants were horrendeous, so I'm "lucky" to get the latest variant - though some of my friends who've gotten the new one still have symptoms months later. Mostly general fatigue and heart rate rising easier than before. Also most talked about losing sense of taste, but I didn't have that. Yours was really bad though, I'm glad you survived that crap. How long did it take for all the symptoms to alleviate? Been taking zinc and avoiding my favourite.. ahem, beverages. Even if it doesn't help, at least placebo helps. I think the omicron is really spreading like crazy everywhere. They also opened bars and everything over here, but aren't really talking about the infections. Then again the infections aren't even being monitored anymore, so it's hard for media to say we have 100's or 1000's of infections per week when they don't even count for statistics anymore. Exactly! This is the word I was looking for

I guess this omicron crap is spreading like wildfire in Finland now. My inner circle of friends have now begun getting this and we basically avoided the thing for the whole 2 years. I got so fucking scared when I found out with home-test that I have it but for now it's just been 2 days of fever + annoying as all hell coughing and really woozy feeling in the head. Can't recommend. 0/10. The media made it seem like it's practically non-existent now, because of the whole other crisis. Maybe 2023 will be ok? If we're all still alive at that point I mean.

Basically if no admins are around, it'll take a while to get approved. Somehow there is a constant stream of bots trying to register which is the reason why it's not automated. But apparently you're now able to post.