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good for you then... as much as I dislike Compactsticks, but I'd probably have kept it...

Arzt+Pfusch german speakers will agree

Brighter Death Now :: You Got Sperm On Your Jacket (I Know, 'Cause It's Mine) SCNR ... I find that one brilliant...

hehe...

holy merde, I just discovered that there are three new releases from the Klangstrahler Project guys ... one from 2009, just released recently actually -- the Klangstrahler Progressive Trance and Dance Compilation: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/kla/kla1cd006.html How on earth could this pass me by? the last time I heard something new from these guys was about seven years ago! And this is good stuff! Because, unlike Feuerhake, this member of the former Free Form Records artist roster has NOT changed to lollipop-progressive! How on earth could this pass me by? These guys meanwhile founded a freakin' label! Insane

Dude, did you just give back the Compactstick, which usually costs more than a CD and has bonus material on it, to get something worth less? And you even invested money in sending the stick back?

sorry, too busy! funnily enough, I just posted one here but still, I'm too busy, seriously. not that it was addressed at me, I write every holy twice in a year or so ... but nevertheless ... time is scarce since I had the job. you have my support though

S-Range - Remixed Memories It had become quite silent about the artist S-Range in the last few years ... after his two critically acclaimed albums "2001" (released in 2001) and "Space" (released in 2003), there was a big gap. A number of compilation tracks and remixes and rumors of a leaked album was all that remained besides the (official) release of only one single ("Another Theory, the Remixes") that came out until ... well, until one week ago! However, Anthony Sillfors, the man behind the S-Range alias, decided to break this long period of silence and show the people that he's still alive and making good music! For that purpose, a series of releases has been planned, where the Remixed Memories album shall be the first one. Regardless of anything yet to come (we will get to know soon enough), this album per se stands for 10 years of S-Range tracks and what people made out of them over time. It contains some selected tunes out of S-Range's musical history, transformed through the zeitgeist. A remix album. Basically "Astral Projection - Ten" style. Anthony Sillfors' involvement in this release is, that he himself himself picked these remixes. And that brings me already to the spot what might disturb some fans: since the zeigeist that I mentioned before is fullon, this album contains a well dimensioned share of it. This will not surprise people who have been following Anthony's live acts over the years and noticed the changes in the style, but it will be something new for those who are used to the old sound. Let me tell you this: I don't like fullon myself. I really don't like it; people who know me here since longer will know. Thus, I was quite skeptical as I checked out the samples on psyshop. But since I'm a great fan of S-Range, I still decided to order this thing -- and verbally rip it apart in a review if necessary... Turns out it isn't necessary at all. This release is actually good! Lots of new elements and new perspectives for old and already well known tracks. Well, okay, some tracks could be better and there are a few tracks which don't float my boat at all, but overall it's really not bad. Track by track it listens as follows: The first track is Morning Star (Re:actor remix). An instant startoff after a short intro prepares for the basic fullon style of this album. The piece has not much in common with the original except the twinkling synth parts in the background and the voice samples. It has a very trancy touch, especially in the finish. Overall it's a signal regarding what potential Morning Star actually has. However, I'm not too big a fan of this. Second one is Yellow Base (Atomic Pulse remix). Fullon flair again, a great deal rougher than the first one ... and it seems to have even less in common with its original. This one is one of the reasons for my expression that the album "could be better" above ... but it's nothing too bad. Third track is Serial Overtypes (Skulptor vs SMS remix). And here now finally begins what I like about this entire album: the elements of the original tracks are still present and are taken and re-arranged in a bit of a new manner, giving the original itself a new touch (after all, this is what remixes are about, but the former two tracks kinda didn't do it for me). This is good! I didn't even like Serial Overtypes that much, but thanks to this I finally realize how good it really is! Yeah that totally does it! And the short synth bleep melody is the cream topping. A total new perspective on the whole track. THIS is what I pay for! And it keeps getting better, the fourth track is coming: Boom (Zen Mechanics remix). This one is really good ... I loved the original Boom, but over the years I concluded that I kinda missed a bit of a bite in it. This remix gives it just that bite. The rest remains miraculously unchanged -- well, not THAT unchanged, but the basic effects are the same ... and also this absolutely perfect brilliant warm synth melody that Boom is so known for, it's there as ever, no trance overkill or anything ... this makes for a really good finish and a really good track! A true to the original remix. Very nice! The next one, Kym (Mad Maxx remix), attempts to do it the same way like the third track ... Kym effects in a new dress, but it doesn't really make it, especially in the second half of the song and I end up finding it to be too intense and too fullonish. Clearly not one of my favourites... And then there comes Hypermental (Exaile vs Uriel remix). Now well, I had great expectations for this one (Hypermental is one freakin', freakin' awesome track!) ... but I don't really know what to make of this one. I want to like it, the usage of the original's background synth loop is good, it's a happy track, nice, warm effects, but then the breaks and the fullon style in this one is what I really can't bring myself to love. Although I see good intentions in it... However, once past this point, the album really shows its qualities. Track 7, Larger Plan (Squidfingers remix), is probably the best one on the CD. Larger Plan is my favourite old (pre-2001) S-Range track and this remix absolutely does it justice. Good bassline, wonderful effects with a significant touch of the original and the melodic part is plain awesome. It got me dancing through the flat to this ... really good! Test Tones (Alternative Motion remix) is a very good one aswell. I loved Test Tones, this track is well known and also has been remixed by Chromosome already (an awesome remix aswell btw). This one adds quite a new touch to it with a different melody theme, but it feels good and solid and fitting. It's really worth listening ... and the really good progression in this one also makes it worth dancing to! But the best one has been saved for the last track: Space (Ibojima remix)! Unlike all the other tracks, this one is progressive ... and it's damn good! This tune is smooth and nice, with a wonderful warm feeling that triggers memories and lets you just smile and be at peace with all the universe, all that was and all that will ever be. It goes down like a good Southern Comfort on the rocks on the roof of a skyscraper under a clear summer night's sky. Wonderful! A really new polish for Space; not even the original is that good. The second half of the album is somewhat better than the first one ... but as a whole most of the tracks make a nice impression. Even though there are a few that I don't like (Mad Maaax remix for example) ... the release of this album shows what potential the original tracks have, that they are still rockin' and now even having a comeback in the form of remixes! That's a very strong signal for really good music. So ... overall, this album should have something for everybody. S-Range fans (old and new!), fullon lovers, even progheads, although these would be better off beatportin' just the last track. And if you plan to just buy one release with some fullon in it this year, choose this one! Favourites: 3, 4(!), 7, 8, 9(!!) I reviewed the CD version here. The Compactstick version contains three more remixes, a DJ mix of 8 CD tracks, the original version of the song Ten 4 and remix files for Ten 4 (in wave format). If anybody owns it and has an opinion, I'd be glad to hear...

Just thought the same, but then I found that Tribal Matrix 2 compilation from Dakini Records has been released this year aswell! That one is interesting for sure.

can anybody recommend any stuff for me that's dynamic, fresh, happy, not too psychedelic and neither fullon nor cheesy house-prog? that would be smooth... as for my recommendations (if I may call 'em so), see the sig below

it's sorta the same here ... I get over 80% of what I want in music from "goa/psy" (which is often not goa/psy anymore but prog, but it's still in this genre)... but I don't really follow the genre anymore so much ... I have my roster of well established artists and stuff that I like ... and even though it's always a pleasure to discover something new and exciting, this sort of has declined.

yo! -> instant PM hey! aren't you the one knowing the Astral guys personally? can you tell us what's up with the album?

sounds really bad... I'm happy I saw them years ago in a better environment ... and with better crowd. It actually was good Ah well... What's the matter with the album now? I now dug a bit and on Wikipedia they say it's going to be released 2010, which I think is likely, but they claim to have the information from Astral's Myspace and I just looked there and there is absolutely nothing?

When it comes to cities, my pick is Ulver - Perdition City ... an incredibly great title!

Sci-Fi is always good! Really good actually. Science fiction and space stuff. I could do without the "religion" though. "There is no religion. Only kindness." is what I have read in a cool book about buddhism lately. If you present me something like that, then I'd like it... But not the standard shanti shiva-ganesha-annapurna stuff

then you're still better off than when they find out you were surfing pr0n over the uni VPN. ...like me...

Baphomet Engine ... oh gosh, this one is so crap it's already genious again I really had a good laugh at this anyways... it sounds good, it looks crap.

(video has been taken down ... can still be watched here though: ) Pissing on the dancefloor sucks. I mean, what an idiot, drugs or not. Pissing on the dancefloor is only appropriate when everything's so full around you that you can't leave the crowd (or would need half an hour to do that). But the kick was inappropriate. That really was a nasty one ... and from behind too. You can't kick a guy so hard who's apparently not in control of his senses and surroundings. And even if he was, this is nasty and cowardly. Letting the guy clean it up and then escort him out would have been very acceptable. But the kick was just wrong. For this, the kicker should clean up the piss and leave the party, together with the other guy. nevertheless, the video is another reminder that psy partys are getting more and more fucked up

Ultimae? "moaning women"? now you made me curious.

apparently nobody's for that blacklist

just label the tracks and labels (and ideally also the release you took a track from) right and don't press endless copies to flood the market and I'm sure it's okay... it's basically just a DJ mix you're making, only not just for download, but already burned on a CD there are DJ mixes out there that have way worse labeled tracklists and nobody's having anything against it so I wouldn't worry

Spark 7 ... that name made me chuckle. Especially since the guy is czech, because then he must know it. There they've got this bank called "Czeska Sporitelna", which is the czech branch of a bank we also have here in Austria. And this bank has a product for the youth, which is also called Spark 7. Well, they write it "Spark7even" or in some other weird way, but the name is the same ... hehe. Wonder if he took his inspiration from that

happens to me almost any time when I hear a DJ set on a party it's always new stuff that I don't know. it has never been different though, so I'm used to it there's just a handful of cases where the DJ played older tracks. Once there was Prex - S4 playing ... and once it was Silicon Sound - Onida ... and once it was Eat Static - Implant 2002 Update ... see, those cases are so scarce I even remember them ... there were a couple others too though still, it happens very rarely that I hear older tracks playing...

wasn't that one from Pavel where he put a goa track over an ordinary wedding video?

Flukeeee! :posford: Would not classify it that similar to Leftfield though ... well, okay, the older stuff maybe. Check their album Six Wheels On My Wagon!