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There's also another fact to consider and both of those tracks share cheesy melodies. As great as BLF is the melodies after 7:40 become really predictable and cheesy. Also from a purely audio design standpoint Maia runs circles on either track. Maia is flawless. It just needs a remaster. Agreed. And not everything-pleiadians was perfect either. It's just that certain tracks cross a fine threshold.

I also agree with the 5 year old sentiments that a downtempo ender is great, let's you cool off from an album. Having a short intro is also quite cool. Then again Artifact303 - Back To Space showed how you can stick a downtempo number in the middle of an album very efficiently.

I was pretty hyped around the release for this after the great title track on shaltu, but this "album" sounds more like an EP with a track that has a bunch of versions/remixes. I understand the idea behind releasing the album, the guy has a great unique sound and decent melodies but I can only say "too early" as far as the album goes. There is a serious lack of variation. Tracks 2-6 sound exactly alike with different tempo and arrangement. The lead synth is the exact same on all of them. If it was up to me I would just throw away tracks 2, 3, 5 and 6 and keep 4 as I feel it's the best out of them. As far as the other tracks go, track 7, which already appeared on Shaltu, is a proper stormer with great buildups and melodies. 1 and 8 are also respectively good, the first one sounds a lot like Radical Distortion but with innerspaces production and a bit softer sound, which I like, and the last is a nice downtempo ender. So in my opinion this album misses 4 tracks hence "too early". To give a better idea, I'd give 2/5 for the album and 4.5/5 for the 4 track EP.

We've been through some odd phases. They were saying Goa is the future in the 90's and it never took off in the way people probably thought and devolved into full-on for the casual audience and it generally just seemed to sink ever since. It's going to be interesting but I still think goa itself is too hardcore for any sort of mainstream audience. Then again I don't know how people approach EDM in 10 years nor do I know what it will sound like then. However I have noticed the increasing elements of EDM in radio for sure, especially during the dubstep craze and even now where many songs reek of house.

They don't share the sophistication. Nothing about Maia sounds random. Though I have to admit the indian attic remix is something else.

I have to agree with the fellow. As far as the topic goes I find it hard to list just a top 5 or even 10.

Yep I'm enjoying it but it might end up another fad, though let's hope not! The track you just posted is good but unfortunately the "epic" melodies are still predictable and pretty cheesy(imo). Need producers that can create awesome melodies(Theres plenty) to try this stuff, it would be mighty interesting.

This is fine. I didn't know about half of those personally. It's been stated before that early goa producers had often other musical history which explains a lot when discussing the musical quality of the tracks from the hey day compared to modern times where people can basically just open up fruity loops and start experimenting out of the blue.

Some big names have been pushing progressive psy lately like Paul Oakenfold and John 00.

This thing is super rare. Discogs copy pasta of sold copies: 2013-08-21 Mint (M) Mint (M) €400.00 €400.00 Comments: ONLY 200 copies made. MASTERPIECENEW!UNPLAYED! CHECK MY OTHER RARE Dragonfly Records ITEMS!! 2011-01-29 Very Good Plus (VG+) Generic £100.00 €127.52 Comments: mark van bead 12 end of 2008-01-24 Near Mint (NM or M-) Mint (M) €100.00 €100.00 Comments: played once otherwise mint 2007-12-05 Near Mint (NM or M-) Not Graded £200.00 €255.04 Comments: Immaculate condition from dry storage. Plain black sleeve as issued. No press release.

Yeah the thought crossed my mind. Hmh.

I'm watching The Core right now and there's a part where one of the characters says What are you, crazy? Plan C? Restart the core "somehow"? and I swear it's from a track. I just can't figure it out.. Does anyone here know if psydb could be made into an open (source?) project? I think it would be neat for people to update it themselves rather than the one guy it had.

Title is accurate enough but as mentioned Maia is the pinnacle creation of theirs. One day I wish to hear a new school artist as sophisticated as they were in their heyday.

Great that's how it should be!

It's a shame what happened to the background synth pads on Travma. Those synths are why the track has such a swooshing atmosphere and here they sound peculiarly quiet because of the emphasis on the kick as it drowns it out. I actually prefer the muddiness of the unmastered brick wall mp3 you can find floating around because of that sole fact. You know for some reason this same thing happened with Travma - Tesla; the bassline on Space Of Power sounds too loud(bringing out the mud it had anyway) again in comparison to the unmastered version. Sometimes you can leave the basslines in the background, guys! Some tracks are just meant to be tinny like that! Also I think Travma's tracks have had generally the worst luck when it comes to representation. His other tracks were on such belovedly wonderfully mastered albums like.. Alternative Colours... Pyramidal Trancendence... Suncokreti... really what is up with that?!? That's like the holy trinity of brickwall. It's a great track though, very metaphysical-era-balls-to-the-walls kind of goa. I was hoping Travma would have continued to put out such masterworks but his last release was.. full-on-oh-well. Rest of the comp is pretty good too. It has a lot of styles from the new school formation. From darker goa of Shidartha to a super bright track like Astrancer and even a little crazy like OGO. Actually for some reason I'm starting to grow fond of OGO's sound a lot. It's super silly, but it works! It sounds fun, like it doesn't give a crap. Another good track he did was a downtempo track on Galactic Discovery called Mystical Forest. Really weird but good stuff. Wish they'd give a break with these covers thou, I mean damn!

Actually yeah, the Ovnimoon Rigel album is fantastic! I really hope they are creating a new trend in psytrance with these albums.

Which one did you get?

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I know the bpm is still high but the rest of the production sounds much calmer and carefully laid out. This track sounds very old school to me. It's not all in the bpm, you can still make high bpm music have a nice rhythm going on with everything else tuned down some imo. I just wanted to point it out since it struck me so well. On the other hand I've been going through some of my collection and it's true 90% of the bpms are around 145~ bpm. It would be interesting to see someone come up with a new school goa album that has a max bpm of ~133 or somewhere like that and tries to play around more with rhythms and less so on the never ending climaxes.

This sounds very cool. I'm gonna check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OLfgiM4rE Brand new! You are absolutely right, slowing the tempo, or pace in general, makes wonders on the way a track sounds. Much more psychedelic, it suddenly has a nice groovy rhythm which makes the body move. Super fast sweeping melodies and tempo are definitely instant gratification that benefits more as a climax from a slow buildup rather than something you need from the get-go. I can't believe I didn't account on it before! I hope artists start to play around with this concept more as I can only see good things coming out of it!

dat last track. Super old school style with all those superB slinky wizard-esque sounds, fx and just overall production. Paced a lot slower too which makes it more psychedelic and the bassline is just lovely. I wish it wasn't so predictable in progression(typical modern buildup) but this is tasty stuff! Damn!

Sounds interesting!

It's really similar to Cybernetika dnb albums but with a different flavour, not so noisy. Stuff like Icarus, Pandora, Sapphire and dreamcatcher are just fantastic. Really, the whole album is great.

This slow enough? At least the progression takes it's time. I can't really think of much from the top of my head. Though I agree with what you're saying. I enjoy the many facets of what goa can give and it did get very homogeneous. However there has been some evolution past few years, so it's not as bad as it was. Though it still needs to be much more psychedelic that what it generally is.