RTP

Though I already know the site... ...this thread rocks :D

I disagree. Listen to S-Range's older stuff, like Micron Transponder, Illegal Software, Black Lotus, Complete Delete or DNA Trackers and you will hear that he has indeed once been pretty progressive. Of course meanwhile S-Range's style has changed much, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents

I go to a psy party because of the music. Picking up women would be just a neat side effect for me, it's not my goal there, I love the music so much ... mostly I dance so excessively (without drugs, people, without drugs ... I know I'm too proud of that ) that nobody comes close to me anyway...

I knew that this thread would still exist! So I'm gonna bring it back up Harsh words. I wouldn't say that. Jarre has changed, that's a fact, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Metamorphoses is very different to Oxygene (though some tracks aren't that much at all - Millions Of Stars for example), but I still like it - and C'est La Vie is an absolute gem IMHO.

It's nice, I like it Though you should make it a bit smaller, it's too wide ... and you could surround the round images with a haze (like the font)...

Wow, that was a lot of information! Thanks, Kai So there doesn't exist a Mortal Kombat psytrance track Somebody should make one ... but please not in crappy full on style...

I remember Antix' stuff very well (on every Plastik Park compi there's a track by Antix) ... for me the best word to describe their sound is plastik. It just sounds plastik. I began to like it, then began to hate it and now I somehow begin to like it again ... it's weird...

I don't know the Guitars On Mushroom 2 compilation ... somebody knows that track and can tell me if it is the one that I'm searching for?

I absoulutely agree! Music shall be about fiction - about flights over strange planets and worlds, alien cities, unreal landscapes, odd creatures ... about everythng but reality. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not interested in music about reality, that's nothing for me, really ... it's also the reason why I dislike many HipHop music, because the text is about some crackdealers getting fucked up or conflicts going on, I'm not interested in that, really. So I don't think I'll ever buy Zoo-B ... not even if I saw it on a CD market for two Euro...

This might sound a bit cheesy, I know But I'm just on this retro-wave now ... and you surely all remember that film Mortal Kombat (even I have seen it though I don't watch many films). And many of you surely also know the THEME of that film. Well, I know it and though it sounds cheesy and techno-ish and not that good at all actually it's so wonderfully retro and I just love the "Mortal Kombat!"-scream! Well, to cut it short ... are there any psytrance remixes of the Mortal Kombat theme? Or if not, do you know any songs that use samples of Mortal Kombat? At least the scream ... it would be just great if it only had that "Mortal Kombat!"-scream in it ... hehehe Please, don't you have some tips?

And one more: SPACE TRANCE (S-Range, ...) (well, actually S-Range can be filed in one of the others too ... but it just overcame me ) And Matenda can be put to morning trance too I think...

I'm sure the one above is Bruce! No, seriously, I have no clue as I unfortunately haven't been there. But it's a bad, bad, bad thing to hear there were robberies at Boom. It shows actually that the evil doers are at the source, at the festival itself! That makes me angry. And sad. I hope someone can identify those shitheads

I don't like fast bpm either. The bpm hasn't so much effect on how rocking a track can be. I suggest: Penta - 1001 Hangovers Delirious - Analog Booster Space Buddha - Acid Prophecy Neuromotor - Black Planet Azax Syndrom - Shockwave ...

Yahel is defintitively a good suggestion. I'd also recommend to check out the Man With No Name, I especially think of the track The First Day right now as this track always reminded me a little of Infected, but I don't know why...

Yes, it's "Phase 2", though I thought the cover would be like that on this page: http://www.juno.co.uk/IP/IFX149671-01A.htm Anyways, I won't buy that...

Wait, I have found ONE reason to go to techno/trance events: The chicks! They indeed were yummy, yummy ... But after all every one had a friend ... such a 2 meter cupboard-style prolet. So it was always: just look, don't touch

This may not even be wrong. I have been a trance/techno head before (luckily) discovering goa and psy. Of course I also have visited some events in that direction ... seen artists like Mauro Picotto, Jaspa Jones, Beam & Yanou and what all that crap is called. And what I can say about the techno/trance scene is, that it's frequently visited by skins, "prolets" (I don't know if that's an official term, here in Austria we call 'em so) with their "Rotterdam Terror Corps" T-shirts, E-heads jumping around madly and disturbing people, kiddies with their bottle of "Eristoff Ice" in hand and others - in this category there are also some intelligent and peaceful people, but not many. And the most stupid people you can find in the techno scene, on those Biosphere events ... aaargh, I don't even want to think about it, I wasted so much money to go to an event full of shitheads... As I came first to a psy party I could FEEL the happiness of the people - people were not looking angrily and making comments like "fuck off" when I accidentally bumped into them while dancing, they were smiling! And I loved, loved, loved the music, it was such a difference to the techno shit that's always the same ... this music felt like energy reaching into my brain, my whole body in a salad of sounds, it was awesome (BTW ... the only DJ name on that gig I still remember was P_Mac - and as far as I know that guy also rocked the Boom festival this year, so I truly enjoyed a great set)! And I could talk hours and hours about the decoration - there were blacklight blankets everywhere, the whole little club was full of them and it was sooo beautiful, I have never seen anything like it before! And the people were so cool, everything so cool there, even the smell - a mixture of mostly incense sticks and weed smell. Great! So great that I never looked out for any techno party any more - from that time on psy had got me! And I hope it will never release me again...

Right - and this under the name Elektron Wave. From this project I only know the track "Chromatic Aberation", but this one is really calm ... good stuff, not epic synthy, but calm...

Synsun inspired by Rhapsody? Wow, interesting ... I must check that out, I also love psy and metal And Filteria sounds absolutely great! I'll surely keep that in mind, I'm curious about the album!

Absolutely! I do not actually own that album, but I checked out the "radio edit" of Cities Of The Future from their site and it can't be filed under "genuine" psy anymore. But actually this is not even bad, I like it when artists try to experiment with new stuff and those "Cities Of The Future" don't sound bad actually. Yes, Infected has switched their style for I also know and like their old stuff, but well, everyone of us continually grows up, gains experiences, changes styles, whatever - that's not a reason to bitch about Infected. However, a reason to bitch about them is the fact that their music is already on the way of getting commercial (and that they WANT it that way!) ... and I don't want to see Infected on MTV one day, that would be horrible for me as millions of morons would jack off to the music and radio stations will start to play them and they will get overplayed like all the commercial crap and not a long time afterwards psytrance festivals will be overcrowded with techno-shitheads and hardcore-skins who came to this music through infected and they will bring bad, agressive vibrations and- ... nonono, I don't even want to think about it!

True words - unfortunately! Soon we will have psytrance played on mega-events like Gatecrasher or Trance Energy or however those cocksucking moron trance events are called and all those shitheads will discover this divine sound. And not long after that even more Astrix clones will arise and conquer the market and the psy world will slowly drown in their sound... For fucks sake, keep this stuff underground!

I couldn't make it to Boom 'cause I have to work [] Now I can at least listen to it ... many thanks for this link, this is great []

The only artists I know that use samples from the "Final Fantasy" movie are Silicon Sound (Strange Planet and others) and Neuromotor (Black Planet). I don't know if this helps

No. I might be an exception, but I never did any psychedelic drug (and I strongly believe I also won't do it in the future) and I love psychedelic music. It does not depend on the substances you take, you just need to have a sort of twisted mind ... you just gotta be a little insane []. Some people get into this state of mind by taking psychedelic substances, others can do it without... It's the same with creating the music (or psychedelic art in general). Drugs can be an element of inspiration, but I don't believe that all psy artists get their inspirations from drugs... Just my 2 cents...

In earlier times I liked pretty much everything that was psy, no matter which style. But this has changed. Meanwhile I also can't hear any full on stuff any more, it has become mostly all the same and the energy is somehow gone ... really, on the last party as the DJ was playing full on stuff I didn't even feel like I would want to dance. It was all crap without energy. Fortunately the night was saved as the next DJ started his set, there the style changed drastically to progressive and this got me instantly. So basically I like progressive better than full on. It has simply more energy...