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saw them live this new year's eve ... well, I could really have spent all that money for something else as for worst albums I haven't heard any bad ones this year, mainly because I currently own only one album that was released this year ... but that will change soon when I get more salary...

Austria, hmmm? If you come to Vienna we can meet for a beer ... for parties it is no season here in summer though, they're all outside somewhere in the fields... Maybe if you're lucky you could score some nice festy with the sounds you like somewhere around in the country ... but for that you'd neet to wait longer, lineups and dates are not fixed yet, too early...

I don't own many mixed CDs (except Ultimae). Mainly because I listen to the stuff at home and I don't want mixes when I listen at home ... for running I like mixes, but these I download, because I have to record them on MD, so why spending money on a mix CD when I have to re-record it afterwards anyway. But wait, the Earthtrance CD is mixed ... and therefore it's the best released goa trance mix I own

It's on his Auricular album too (just look closer) But that's a cool similarity. Don't know why this is. But it's a good question, this way I already have something to ask the man himself when I see him live one day...

I think the track is not that bad. Incomparable to their older stuff, yes ... but it could be worse.

I also think Ultimae will satisfy you ... check out Aes Dana and Solar Fields albums

Why still samples? Did nobody look on their myspace site? You can listen to the whole Open Society track there. And that is quite old news. http://www.myspace.com/astralprojectionavilior And I don't understand the sudden hype ... the whole talks about a new AP album are around since long time and I'm waiting for it since more than one year already easily... (I'm waiting already for a lot of stuff actually...)

a wise and accurate sentence I think likewise. Gil is no holy man. But he is cooler than the pope... Tracks he spins quite good ones. I like the style. Wouldn't listen to that stuff at home, but on a party why not. I haven't seen Gil spinning yet and I'm not that desperate for it, but one day if he's in town I'll probably go... And I'm curious if the mixing really is that bad... oh btw: ^that's pretty freakin' arrogant ... wouldn't have expected that from him ... that's not shanti at all...

Really? That's new to me. As far as I've experienced DJs are actually somewhat underrated. It is often the case that even the most crappy liveact is prefered to any DJ set ... which affects the quality of the parties, where crappy (and hardly known) israeli liveacts are booked and play totally uninspired fullon music just because nobody would come if there was no liveact ... I remember a discussion about that on some other goa forum place... It's in other electronic music scenes where DJs are IMHO way overrated (like in house music as you mention) ... but not really in the psy department...

Matenda - Orphean uses the same key and also a very suggestive similar melody as Robert Miles - Children... Even the song title is a play of words directed at the Robert Miles tune ... an orphean can only be a child. Intelligent.

Then hurry over to Wirikuta, they've got Cosmosis - Contact still available and even for special price You can find a few other old classics there as well, just look around...

Oh yesss... I got it now, today, finally (first salary ) ... and it's totally awesome! I'm tucking fired but can not go to sleep until I had at least put it in the CD player and listened a bit ... Matenda, MATENDA, man, awesome Perspectives is a totally awesome song! So far I think it's even the best one of the album, but I'm not fully through it yet...

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden A god damn awesome album ... buy this if you can find it anywhere ... I'm on the search for the CD version myself... You can also get its successor, World Of Sleepers ... that one is very very good too and it's still available. Solar Fields - Leaving Home and Blue Moon Station are awesome as well... Oh and ... what I like a whole lot about Ultimae as well apart from their great music is, that they print booklets to their CDs! REAL booklets with many photos and stuff (one picture for each track - that's the best ... not even in other music genres you find that everywhere, sometimes lyrics are cramped up on 3 pages for 10 songs...), not just those cheap 2 page leaflets! So I buy the albums not just for the sound, but for the whole package: digipak, CD and booklet ... which is as it should be. Not just cheap jewelcase, 2 page leaflet and carelessly boring CD labeling... Love Ultimae for that

Seconded, but not all tunes of the latter ones (especially Matenda) are happy... I would recommend you something like: S-Range - Dimension Jump (IMHO the best and most happy song of S-Range that exists out there!) Banco De Gaja - Obsidian (definitely ... a magical song - happy, bright and heartwarming ) Super Skunk - Planet Bliss (upbeat and happy) Klangstrahler Projekt - Rising (begins calm (not melancholic!), but gets very good in the later part - a "rising" tune indeed) Box Of Frox - U Know (chilled, relaxed and warm sound) Soundfield - Second Step Above The Sun (Etnoscope Remix) (etnoscope aside from drum madness - don't get irritated by the first 20 seconds, it's a nice song and I love this warm synth melody in the middle ) S-Range feat. Z-Man - Wonderful (simply wonderful, makes me smile every time I listen to it )

Treebient is a damn cool name for a genre! Death Full On Black Full On Pagan Full On Satanic Full On Grind Full On

Just ordered CDs and vinyl for a total of 51,50 Euros and haven't even got my salary yet and have only 55 cents on my bank account! That was not really clever, was it?

I just stumbled across Ypsilon 5 - Binary Sky ... sounds well and is spacy, maybe you like?

*checks sample* Hey, that is a really, really good track ... thanks for the tip! (no, sorry, I don't know anything really similar ... Atmos' other stuff is good, but not as good as that ... difficult ... but when you say "these analogue sounds" I gotta think of Bad 2 The Bone ... that one sounds different though and these sounds are subtle and short, but I like the song because of this "analogue sound" reason...)

same here ... thought it would not come back before the weekend thank you, Mars :clapping:

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY! I am waiting since two months! DAMN! The cover looks killargh And the samples are good. I was already looking for that Magnetrixx-ish touch in the sound WHEN IS RELEASE DATE? "Winter" is a bit unprecise ... apart from the fact that you shall be damned to let me still wait so long!

Hey! I own that tune! It's on some Ibiza compilation CD that I bought back in the times as I was a trancehead. I liked it and still do like it. In fact that's my travel tune ... I always listen to it while packing my backpack Never knew it had any impact on the scene though

If you seek melancholy and sadness then you will like Raison D'Être's works... For more psychedelic melancholic-ambient (at least some songs) I suggest Carbon Based Lifeforms ... but you might know them already...

that's exactly what makes me so angry: getting all the gig money without even working! you never could do such a foul number on a metal concert ... audience will rip you to pieces ... but in psy this is common...

Yeah, but I don't care if DJs look at BPM counters or not, that's not the point. Even if you look at BPM counters you have to mix right, the BPM counter doesn't mix it automatically for you. I would most likely look at the counter too. Don't care about that. What I find outrageous is playing pre-recorded sets in the way of pressing a button on the lappy and then just standing there and doing NOTHING! I mean, why is this idiot still on stage when he does nothing, he could even have taken his lappy there, pressing the button and then leaving the stage, would be the same! And that has not to do anything with BPM counters. In fact I'm even happy if they AT LEAST MIX SOMETHING, no freakin' matter if with bpm counter or without, just DO SOMETHING! Otherwise I could as well download a set and dance to it at home...

Space Buddha is quite cheesy indeed ... but they've got this one track Acid Prophecy, which is an absolute killer! Never heard anything more intense fullon than this one.