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unfortunately this is true there's one for sale on Discogs though...

just wait till I get my MIDI controller I declared it on my xmas wishlist ... so it depends on Santa

it says "om mani padme hum" well, maybe not, I don't have a clue maybe this helps: http://www.thlib.org/reference/translation-tool/

This is so great I have declared this album to be my Advent calendar: every day a new track! (because I actually declared it as my xmas present and feel bad to listen to it before the 24th ) Yesterday I listened the first track, today the first and the second, tomorrow I'll listen to the first three and so on! Already the first one is uber great ... it's this somewhat slow yet steady progression, gentle is the word for it, paired with the synth effects and short creative melody bits that gets me :posford: edit: oh and today (past midnight, so I may listen to the third ) it's 46Daz! that track meant a lot to me already before, I loved it, was constantly listening to it on Thomas' Myspace site and the best is, I just had a quite big pile of luck, yes, a quite big one ... and as I came home just ten minutes ago I put in the CD and WOHOO, it was 46daz playing as third track! this can't be a coincidence... I mean ... the luck (a really quite nice coincidence ... actually a series of the latter) and then coming home and the track ... my judgement is unfortunately a little influenced by un-soberness right now, but I guarantee I'll never revise what I say now. This track must have some kind of universal connection because it just is so awesome and just always pops in at the right time when LUCK is on the trigger! Yes, at the right time, because this one is what I remember best from the Atmos live set that I heard this year, I instantly loved this gentle, floating atmosphere and the nice female voice and the slow, slow but gentle progression ... and there he also threw it in at the right time! I'm freakin' thankful that he played that track in the live back then so I gotta experience it. This is definitely one of the best Atmos tracks ever. And to me it now shall be an ode to all good coincidences, to all lucky runs, to everything positive! Forever. 46daz!

well, the release was planned as a double album at first about five years ago (there even was an announcement thread here), but then Spiral Trax went down and that peculiar double album never got released... Then it got pretty silent about Thomas. only last year news on Digital Structures popped up that there was going to be a new Atmos release ... but that news never got updated and as I asked some months ago I got the info that Atmos signed his material to Spiral Trax again... On the whole I think this album is different material than the one that was originally planned to be his next album on Spiral Trax five years ago. I don't know that for sure though ... but I guess so. I'd be curious what happened to the material...

Cool, a new CBL release I'm a little disappointed though that it only comes as a download. With the term "EP" I normally connect vinyl releases and now as I saw the thread I was already hoping... Well, anyway. Samples sound promising (especially POU!).

I more or less agree with the former reviewer, though I might add a few things: The actual reason for me to buy Blue was track 8, Matenda - Prisinors Dilemma. I knew that one and knew it was good, so I wanted it in hardware. I didn't care too much about the other tracks at first to be honest. But overall I can say I'm happy I own this now. The opener is very good, I like it because of the nice progression and the comfortable feeling light effects. A bit of a spacy atmosphere is in that one indeed, although I'd not associate it with a waterfall... I also like the second one because it has good bassline, good progression and even though there's not much melody it's catchy. The third one feels stomping. It somehow reminds me of the second CD on middle-aged Goa-Head compilations (around vol 13). Don't know if anybody can relate to that... Fourth one I don't like at all. Well, a little bit maybe. But if that's Vaishiyas I'll steer clear of 'em. Fifth one, POTS - Hippies With Attitude is actually a gem. I'm so happy this is on Blue, I heard this before and knew it was good, but didn't know it was on that compilation! Really great tune, very progressing, absolutely addictive bassline, kick, rhythm. Awesome! The next one, Human Blue - Multipus I don't find that great, I know better (way better!) Human Blue stuff. Goa fans will probably like the effects in second half of the track and towards the end, but I don't think this compilation is mainly directed at people who like those types of tracks (judging from the other material) ... but well, anyway ... it's not that bad, I'm just not impressed. The seventh one I think is better than said before. Not a masterpiece, but I percieve the atmosphere as spacey as in the first track... The eigth one, finally, is my beloved Matenda - Prisinors Dilemma! When I listen to the CD I mostly skip instantly to this one. It's so great nothing else on the release comes even remotely close to it, already because no other track is in that style ... actually I don't know what this one has to do on that CD anyway, it would look much better on a 12". But well. This track is perfect because it just sounds honest, bright, morning, nice ... it doesn't sound pretentious, overpacked with stuff or anything like most of todays's prog stuff. What you get is generally a recurring morning trance effect paired with an addictive fast synth melody - this is probably what is refered to as the flanger above(*) - and the characteristic early Matenda progression and sharpness in the sound. In other words, perfect. A little bit of amateurish undertone in it aswell, that's what I like and what gives this piece some kind of warmth that makes up for the fact that it's not released on 12". To quote the sample, "This is the sound!". It is. The last track to me seems not very special in comparsion to the one before, but it seems ok to me. Well, actually I don't know, the Matenda is so great I don't want to brabble about that one now, want to listen to Prisinors Dilemma again Overall: a must for crazy Matenda fans such as me. The others will find a nice prog CD that doesn't disappoint on casual listens, yet there are better releases out there than this one... Favourite tracks: 1!, 2, 5! and ... 8! (*) actually the flanger is cool (I get now what that is), but what makes it so addictive to me is not the flangered base melody per se but the conglomerate that is produced out of the flangered melody and the oscillator-like effect that comes in after the first third of the track AND the third bassline-like effect. So you basically have three flangered sounding layers and that's what makes it so great when that peculiar moning trance melody comes in again (yes, it's really that awesome)...

oh dear god no... sorry, but I was into chav techno seven years ago and that was pretty much the time that it was infested with schranz (Mauro Picotto sets, I was a fan, check them) ... and now I hate this type of music for reminding me of the sunstudio chavs and bitches and cheap aftershave and aggressions and ... ah,whatever...

Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy ... that was the first AP track I heard and it has always been somewhat special compared to the others. S-Range - Ten 4 ... it's not the very best from the album Space, but it's still great ... and it's the only one that can be found on youtube. And I guess if the world was going to end, I'd just put on that whole album and forget about all other tracks anyway Etnoscope - King Size Rizzla ... this is one of the best tracks on their first album and definitely has to be played. Matenda - Natural Development ... no youtube vid of this track ... masterpiece nonetheless Matenda - No Return ... no youtube vid of this track ... masterpiece aswell

yeah, I remember that comic was already outta that scene as it came out though oh and btw, I'm not following that advice in the comic, still going to parties because of the artists that play there

I wouldn't be interested in any complex statistics ... sure it's cool, but just a toplist is enough. Like last year's results. That was a really cool move of you... Of course we wait till the year's over, don't we? As far as I recall, Psynews tradition is to give the people 2 months time to catch up on releases. And at the end of Febuary the votes should be fix. That's how it was all the time. We shouldn't make it different now. For example some great stuff has been released only just last week (yeah, really, guess what it is ), let it take some time to get to the people...

check out their track Fire on Goa-Head 18 ... that one is totally awesome it makes me wonder ... if they could produce such nice tunes, why didn't they make a new album?

it's fast walking, with 2 sticks, you know ... I call it pseudo-jogging so progressive music would fit best... no ambient for my mother, she generally doesn't like that too much unless it's Ishq maybe

lol, that was my favourite track like 8 years ago! I loved it! I even found the maxi single of it in some store. I guess that's eurodance though and not trance. Just like Mauro Picotto. Omagawd, I was such a big Picotto fan back then ... Pulsar, Iguana, Komodo, Proximus, Like This Like That ... I loved 'em. But then I switched to goa ... Back to Cali was the last tune I heard of, then I wasn't interested at all anymore... And DJ Quicksilver! That was totally eurodance. And I was big fan aswell

A really, really good question! Actually an old one ... isn't there another thread about this hidden somewhere? I remember one. It got very silent about them indeed though. That's a pity, they were great!

I could never afford it. Yeah, seriously. Can't afford to spend like 15 Euros on a christmas present (if you even get a CD for that). I can afford to spend like 15 Euros on like ALL xmas presents I give out! A pity, yes But I could give away one of the CDs I don't like that much. I want to bring my mother to go nordic walking, maybe she will start if I give her some sound. Eventually I'll do that (if I didn't find another present).

Audiomatrixx - Variations has a great cover aswell

1987! damn yeah ... that's something for you, Psytones! I second The Zap! aswell...

yes, me too! this one isn't bad aswell though:

And yet another successful trade with Matt here. Everything went perfect as always. The condition of the goods is excellent! A totally recommended trader.

good question I've wonderd about aswell I couldn't.

If I listen to anything before going to bed (or while going to bed), it's never psy stuff, it's what I call "medieval ambient". Mostly it's old Mortiis or Wongraven...

Ott - Blumenkraft Say what you want, I don't like it. The first song is good, yeah. But the rest not IMO. Never understood the fuss that chill fans made about this one...

it was a great album indeed, but then there came so much other ethno chill with indian singing samples and whatnot that it got generic nowadays I don't listen to this one anymore at all...

Vibration Three compilation current track: Amorphous - Sector damn good