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hey, that's actually quite interesting I'll put that on my to-do list when I'm bored...

Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom! The best name ever IMO Eat Static is a genious name as well other than that I like the names: Prisoners Of The Sun Battle Of The Future Buddhas Pope Of Gegga Shiva Chandra Magnetrixx Klangstrahler Projekt Green Nuns Of The Revolution Box Of Frox 1200 Micrograms

...what Mike says. I as a consumer would think four times about buying an album that is avaliable for free via download. And I won't do it even at the first time ... okay, there are exceptions (the S-Range release, which is in a way in that same situation, hehe), but not many. You won't get big support off the consumer side except selling maybe 50 copies to poeple who really are behind it, maaaybe 100 if you are good. I would not count on more, I'd rather count less. Does this justify costs and effort? Nah, forget it IMO. There is no real point in releasing stuff available for free, you won't even play in the pressing costs from the factory. The customer wants and needs something more, something that he/she doesn't have yet and what he/she can not just download and burn. Don't say cover artwork or mastering now, I'm talking about more. To really get the money back that you throw out to press the discs (and nothing more, don't ever expect real profit!) you have to give them new and previously unreleased tracks, because only that will persuade them to buy it. Although not the whole disc needs to be new tracks, but about half of it ... everything below wouldn't be good. Unreleased tracks, special fresh remastered hand numbered limited digipak edition with extra amount of artwork, that would be it! This way you'll attract both people who have the release already in digital form and people that have never heard of it likewise ... and when you're lucky and the music is good you'll eventually really get rid of the huge amount of pressings you made and step out of it without red digits. That's the road to success in my eyes. And I have no clue of that release, it's only what I think

Let me give you a suggestion... Make a music evening for yourself. Get some beers, relax and start browsing through threads here and see what people suggest here and there, maybe check out the reviews section as well. Check out well and if any release sounds interesting for you, go over to Saikosounds and listen through the samples. Saikosounds really is good for that, I find. And while listening samples browse more and more, here and there ... you'll find some really good stuff, I bet. And of that stuff, make a list and rank it, see what you really would like to own and what you can afford and then go buy it! No matter what it is - oldschool, prog, dark, ambient ... listen through and see what you like. You really can do that well at Saikosounds I think. If I had 100 dollars to spend on CDs and wouldn't know which ones to get, I'd definitely do that. I also like to do something like that before an order, even if I know what to order already, maybe I come across some other jewel and get it alongside, you never know. And then I sit until late at night with my list, the music and the beer until I finally place the order. But the purchase I'd make at Wirikuta, although that's only because they're in my country... I think that's the true spirit of placing an order. Many people are just hurrying with it. I do it with heart and soul and I love it, it gets part of the enjoyment for me, so I already get something for my money while I don't have even paid ... it's wonderful and I pity everybody who doesn't have the time to do it like that

I order at Wirikuta. Wirikuta and nothing else. Once I did a Saikosounds order. Paid a horribly high fee for transfering money onto their UK bank account. Terrible memories. Will never do it again. Ever. Wirikuta is in my country and thus offers C.O.D. for a low fee (for me ), what do I want more?

I could listen to almost everything psy. Oldschool, Full On, Dark, Progressive, Chill, Ambient. My CD & vinyl collection contains titles from Hallucinogen's Lone Deranger over Quantum State's Subatomic Travellers across Mutant Star's Demimonde via Shiva Chandra's Auricular over S-Range's Space up to Massimo Santucci's Al Dente or Peter Gun's Firendly Fire even across Fluke's Risotto and further up to Carbon Based Lifeform's World Of Sleepers and Bluetech's double album and Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene, just to pick some representative titles for the styles I like. My taste is quite broad (I'd say) and I can enjoy almost everything that is psychedelic in some way ... or even beyond that. Recently I got Paul Van Dyk's Seven Ways and I like it as well. Or Enigma ... I enjoy that as well. Besides psy I also like Industrial, Dark Ambient and Viking Metal as well as some undefinable stuff (Attwenger )...

my top 5 for 2007 are: Matenda - Natural Development (Global Phonehead Rec.) Solar Fields - EarthShine (Ultimae Rec.) Vibrasphere - Exploring the Tributaries (Tribal Vision Rec.) Protonica - Search (AP Rec.) Sync24 - Source (Ultimae Rec.) Matenda clearly won it for me. Definitely the album of the year... edit: okay, since it's seperated into psytrance and ambient/chill now, here it goes: PSYTRANCE: 1. Matenda - Natural Development (Global Phonehead Rec.) 2. Solar Fields - EarthShine (Ultimae Rec.) 3. Vibrasphere - Exploring the Tributaries (Tribal Vision Rec.) 4. Protonica - Search (AP Rec.) 5. Funky Dragon - Massive (Iono Music) AMBIENT: 1. Sync24 - Source (I don't own more ambient from this year ... give it the 5 points please, it's a good album )

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I can't complain, I practically can't afford to complain ... I don't have much money and thus every album purchase needs to be well thought through. I almost only buy stuff I'm really eager to own - and for me that's of course never any bad stuff. I can hardly ever bring myself to pick something random, I don't want to throw out money for nothing ... although when it happens and the piece is good, the joy is the double. I actually can not really complain about any single psy album I own. Maybe one or two are not that good, but I don't own any bad ones, I simply can't afford that. I own some crap metal music stuff. But I can afford it, those CDs never were above 5 Euros...

hey, Jok, try this: V/A - Chilling Goddess (Peak Rec.) You won't regret buying that one, I'm sure The other Peak Records chill compilations are probably equally good, but I don't own them...

genious title

okay, meanwhile I have listened to it often enough to say something definite. I really was waiting for this one eagerly, counted the days until Wirikuta finally had it. Had high expectations ... and I'm happy they got met at least partly. EarthShine is a good, solid album. But it could be better! The first track is awesomely perfect, it grabbed me by the balls from start on and didn't let me go. And after many listenings it's still as wonderful as it was at the beginning ... a perfect progressive trance track. Second track as well ... more club atmosphere in that one and even more progression - I like it a lot! But then it begins, sneaks in. Slowly. What follows is actually good music, that's positive, but it kinda doesn't have so many highlights anymore, which is not that positive. I mean, yeah, it's really good when I listen to three of the six remaining tracks, but when I listen to all of them it becomes kinda monotonous, you know? It's good that a certain atmosphere is present throughout the album, I actually am a sucker for just this scandinavian trance atmosphere which is not present in many albums, closest artists to this style being 12 Moons and Matenda ... but I would have wished to have more (and less) drive in the one or the other track, more variation, even if that would have gone on costs of the atmosphere. Black Arrow is still cool, good track with good finish. Brainbow stands out a bit as being the best one of the six, but it's a bit too long. Spectral Nation is much too long as well, it wouldn't need 12 minutes to bring its point across. But track 7 is the weakest one, I occasionally skip it (!!! - SKIPPING in an Ultimae album, something I NEVER did before!). The last one, Cruise, is better again, fortunately. A quite good closer, I like the the calm part with the melody in the middle ... after being through the impression that lasts is satisfaction... Well, what does this mean now? I think the album is good, certainly one of the better releases that comes out these days. But it also leaves me with a bit of hunger after being through ... I was expecting it to be kinda as awesome as Magnus' Ambient works. I was expecting it to be THE album of the year! But sorry, the top, that's a point it can't reach Bonus points for the first two tracks though, they're absolutely awesome! I really like to put the album in the player for just those two! Conclusio: not the best, but one of the better albums this year I'm happy that the next Solar Fields release will be ambient again ... the only downside is that we need to wait until November next year for it. But a new H.U.V.A. Network album will come as well YES, DAMN YES! I was shocked to see this as well. They really could have made a booklet for this one, I was thinking it to be Ultimae standard... Edit: but you know, the EarthShine album is really suitable to write thesis during listening to it. Just a suggestion. I'm serious!

To psy parties I mostly wear a shirt with this motive - the only "psywear" I have apart from a blue dyed shirt: I painted it myself. So if you see a guy with this shirt, it's me

this sums up pretty well also what I'm thinking... but the main fact is, that psy music is just music made for me... I can be happy to it. I can dance to it. I can arrange my thoughts to it. I can dance and think. My whole mass of thoughts and memories is accessible to me, just like a library. I can think of things, think them through ... and be totally free. I can't do this in any other situation. Everyday noises and stuff distract me, lead the thoughts on other paths and in the end I come out with everything but a solution. It's like I have some sort of process in my brain that's producing thoughts and all that stuff continuously that interfere with the thought (or thing) I actually want to do through. And just this process is kinda switched off when I listen to psy, I can finally do and think without interference and that makes me somehow more free... weird, huh?

Haldolium - One Of These Days (Pink Floyd cover) ... but that's hard to get

Concerning really beatless stuff I only know drone ambient ... and that's mostly dark and I don't think she'll like that. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Rise To Tomorrow might be something

I did that. But that was quite some time ago.

I was at the end of 17 as I moved away from trance and got seriously into psy. Went on my first psy party with 18. That was more than five and a half years ago I can relate to this in a way because I was into trance music before I got into psy and I also knew nobody that was into it like me. In my class they were not really pro trance because only chavs were into it. But I never associated this kind of electronic music with social life anyway, I just listened to that stuff at home on headphones while lying in bed ... that was the first thing I did everyday after I came home from school: lying in bed and just listening to trance music for an hour And this relationship I now have to electronic music is still relating to how it was in the ol' trance days back then: even now I'm not connecting psy music to social life apart from this forum here. I don't know any people that are seriously into it except me. And I'm not that social on parties either to talk to many people. I just don't connect this kind of music to social stuff such as the others do ... although of course it's nice to have a good time on parties and when people are nice as well. But for me the core of this kind of music - well, actually of all music I listen to except humppa metal ( ) - is still listening to it alone. Either on the couch or while running. Some casual stuff (that I don't listen to really, just to play something) I also listen during household work and such. But the core will always be what it was back then: headphones and listen, alone. and that is the reason why many (actually most) people find it strange what stuff I listen to - goa, psy, ambient, dark ambient ... all stuff that roots in the initial approach I got to music while I was younger. I formed my musical future back then ... only now I realize ... but I'd never have thought that I'd sit here one day with the new Solar Fields on the headphones

Okay, I'm through it for the first time. And my first impression is ... well, it's good ... actually very good scando prog trance! Although I was expecting it to be so awesome that I'd be blown through the livingroom, which was not the case... Will post a review when I know what to make out of it more clearly. Oh and Ultimae left out the booklet ... why oh why did they do that?

now that I got my order I wish I had taken it

the fact that there's still some good music and some nice people out there ... that makes me the happiest

just curious ... how much money did you spend on all those?

Solar Fields - EarthShine ... I finally got it! alongside with: and:

Indeed, it's out! And it's dark. And good. I was browsing Wirikuta and had my finger on the order button ... but in the end I didn't take it. Money and the too intense sound were the two issues. The sound is really intense. It's good, but I'm afraid I'll only rarely listen to it, just like with the Filteria album I own. It's really good stuff, but not made for home listening. If Gappeq comes here though then I'm the first one that buys a ticket. Definitely have to see this guy! And maybe I'll even take the album as well, depends on my christmas money, will see if it's enough for another Wirikuta order...

I have to think of this saying "You are a God in amnesia." somebody has it as avatar...