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I finally watched Revolutions again now. While I would agree with many common criticism's people put on it, there's is more depth to it than what seems on the surface. The 3rd movie basically makes it clear, although subtly(unlike say the architecth scene), what the mythology actually is; instead of what it was supposed to be(Matrix as a 1 film). I never even paid attention to the whole fact how Neo suddenly sees the machine world as this yellow light and that theres three dominant colors going on all the time, Blue (physical), Green (mind) and Yellow (spiritual). They even go as far as to put the christian cross sign on your face the moment Neo "ascends", for what I believe, just to make the average movie-goer think there's something more going here than just ending the war - that something more was accomplished. There's enough credible sources to own up to whatever the watchowskis did, they did it deliberately, and the whole mythology notion isn't just something people make up it to be even if it wouldn't have had deeper meaning (like often they tend to do that). The problem of seeing this is that the watchowskis themselves dont tend, or even want, to get involved with the public. This creates distance to the intended meaning of the movie, because they don't straight up tell people whats supposed to be what and you know how that goes. They have experessed their desire to stay out of the limelight, and it can be seen just for the simple fact; how many of you actually knew Larry Watchowski changed their gender? I was oblivious to that before I watched this movie, still thinking it's the brothers, like many others, even with recent movies coming out from them. Weird. Maybe I do have some bias towards the Trilogy as a whole since it was a big thing to push me into goatrance, which arguably changed my life, and it came with a visual and an artistic style that I heavily connect with. I never really looked into the story that strongly but as I get older these things pique my interest more and more. Still, that said, I do think the Matrix Trilogy as a whole is underrated, even if some criticism is justifiable. Anyhow, I just loved this little piece of dialogue in revelations. "Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?"

Why does it even exist is the question I ponder.

Soooo elysium is not gone from the scene afterall? I'm intriqued. Samples sound really good, too! Is there more coming or is this just a one-time ep?

Good points there, although the information-age was a complimentary system to the other form of control. Guess we'll just have to think this was the best solution in the lore or that the robots just werent all that smart, pick your poison. And I have never heard of the movie you mentioned.

Oh yes lol. I didn't pay attention to the "subtleties" word that you had there.

Oh man that Ganesha shirt is neat!

Wah cool remix lol

This is irrelevant, very much like many other stories that are told today, their ideas have been known for ages. It's the medium and it's influence that matters, value is more subjective. Like saying Star Trek's warp drives dont make no sense. It's science fiction. Was explained by the architecht, according to the universe of matrix, humans mind couldn't cope with the utopian world. As was extensively explained about having more than one The One. A failsafe mechanism and another way of control. That is on the eye of beholder but Cypher was generally considered the bad guy, he accepted the fake world, as everyone is of course an individual. As a big part of the theme is choice, the machines don't even allow humans to have it. Obviously Morpheous had made a mistake with taking cypher out - or cypher made a mistake of wanting out. They should have perhaps investigated his personality before unplugging? A human mistake in the actual story, not bad writing. Wanting to live in a fake world or eating slop in the real world comes with an ethical perspective. Matter of the fact is, the fields were disgusting, what the machines did do to the humans was disgusting. One of the stories in the Animatrix delved even deeper into what went down and how horrendeous it was when they took over in "the second renaissance" Again whether you agree with the philosophical questions or way the story approaches it, that's just in the eye of the beholder. The biggest factor that I believe matters is, again, the medium and influence it brought it to. Matrix movies were huge blockbusters. Watchowskis could have easily just ignore even trying to create a story that can make the viewer think and just go that dumb action movie route, thing is, it was special for it didn't. What I also noticed is most complaints about sequels were about them destroying the mythos the first movie laid to the viewer, but in it's lore and universe the mythos was bullshit as explained by the architecht. Whether you think it's a good story or not, that's all about opinions again but fact is, they wrote the whole story before the first movie was even made. Why should they? That's again what made Matrix so special. Obviously people will disagree with the way they did it but it still at least tried to push some boundaries with the medium back then.

Daze grew out of me over the years, I barely listen to it and what I do is Wormhole, Eyeless Obs. and Earthrise. It is faaaaaar from bad music, even great, but my current taste acquirement pushes me away from it. Maybe one day I will love the whole thing and find something I haven't yet, because it has potential to do that. But with this new album the samples showed again a new sound direction, I'm cautiously optimistic of what it might entail.

It happens every time. Year after year, matrix continues to rile me up. I care to argue it is far more than what the majority of people perceive it to be, and even more important than it is considered. If I actually went on about explaining my thoughts on as to why I think this is, I'd end up writing a fokken book - but I'll indulge you on some levels. Matrix in of its own is a perfect standalone movie and the sequels did not affect it and that's great, but what is not great is how easy it is for people to flock to critize a sequel to something that did not neccesarily need one. The writers obviously had the whole thing panned out before the movies were made, I mean the whole story. The trilogy makes The Matrix into a more substantial universe and has the guts to answer questions in a manner that make you think - ergo; the architecht (see what I did there!?). It never becomes inadvertently dumb(although the last Smith fight in Revolutions kinda, well, does). Whatever the trilogy does, does with love and care. The bullshit the sequels got weren't deserved and I will forever and always stand by that. They are more than just dumb sequels and whoever argues otherwise doesn't care to look further than their own nose. The standalone of the first film didn't automatically equal the sequels being just a money grub sham dumb hollywood shit, because they aren't that. The trilogy was, is and forever will be special. It proved Hollywood we didn't have to settle for story-noaction or action-nostory while doing it's own thing not neccesarily diluting itself with both into mashed potatoes that just tastes like water, the pacing of the movies makes sure of that. I'm sure a lot of people in the psytrance community, whats with many having field days with themes of religion and exploration of the mind, can agree these movies are fascinating ideas brought fourth with a different type of entertaiment typeset. I felt the movies are what I would define as perfect representation of Goa, not the place, not the genre, but the ideas it brings forth - to make you think, imagine. And that is why I fucking love this trilogy and hate to see the hate. I'll just leave the end of this post for suggesting to being open minded, going back and rewatching the trilogy, not ignoring the philosophical questions it puts on you, not ignoring the tremendously fantastic work of the lore, art and even action(I was genuinely suprised how fantastic the action was in Reloaded, even to this day). There are a lot of good articles on the internet about the more deeper themes The Matrix presents us that are often ignored, if you are interested. And before I forget, the Animatrix, if you never saw it, GO WATCH IT. It explains SO MUCH and extends the lore and story even further than the sequels did. Remember remember the fifth of... Fuckawesome that is.. The Matrix.

Grr you pressed me to buy the L.E. It's always a fuzzy feeling having something most don't. Then again it's all kind of pointless and whatever you get is, in the end, a quality product. Btw is there gonna be early digital copy for preorders?

Well that sucks... Anyway I find it funny that such obscurity like Planet Funk (nowadays) is still being mentioned in such a place like this hehheh. Nobody ever talked about it in my life.

Oh boy. I remember way back when I had a school trip on the 6th grade and when we were finally heading back home I borrowed a CD (Back when we actually had pocket CD players) and it had all these pop hits of early 2000's and one of the tracks was Inside All The People. Obviously this was yet the mass-information age where we had high speed internet and whatever that was even remotely electronic was always up to my alley. Absolutely adored this sound. The vocals were something I enjoyed (and still do, this type of melting voice) and the electronic elements just sealed the deal. I had such affection for this track but alas I couldn't get much more of it and it eventually disappeared. Now fast forward some years and I remembered the track and googled, got their albums and The Illogical Consequences just completely made one of my summers, good memories, lovely chill electronic sound. Guys really made masterful stuff and I always felt were way under-appreciated even considering they did sink into mainstream with a couple tracks. Was disappointed as fuck with the shit 3rd album called Static. What made Planet Funk so flippin good and unique was gone and instead replaced with this wannabe artsy crap, like they tried too hard and it ended up being just a fucking disaster. Apparently 2 years ago they released a 4th? Haven't listened yet but I'm not holding my breath.

Ha that's awesome!

Heard this on a radio show the other day, so pleasantly surprised! Pure 90s! Post moar new old schooly tracks

Humm the samples sound different from what I was expecting. We'll see.

The weather. It sucks. It sucks balls. Fucking weather, man.

Ultimate example imho. It's the perfect 1 hit wonder.

Ah that'd be fantastic.

Also of course exclusive clips of tracks and all that kind of stuff.

Nasha is THE album along with Dark Side Of The Brain (aside from the shit mastering). I always preffered the dark CS sound, it's very hypnotic.

You really need to give reasons to stay tuned on it. Update every week at minimum. Also what drives a good page is to get people involved, I don't know, do occasional give-aways/contests, polls, questions that you actually care about. Party pic of the week, interviews(maybe let people make the questions), comments!? All sorts of stuff if you really wanna get into it. I'd suggest you plan ahead a little bit so you don't run out of content immidiately.

Their 90s stuff is fantastic fo sho.

E-Mantra for the love of god, make a full album like Tracks 1 and 5! That amazing dark, twisted sci-fi ambient sound is incredible! Man I could totally see this type of sound in a darker thrillerish scifi movie too. "Scored by E-Mantra", wouldn't that be neat!?

Awesome! As a side note have you guys managed to get some more unreleased process/mfg/ubar tmar tunes at all? I did hear mfg might have already released everything..