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Okay, I checked a few of that stuff now. But mmmh ... you know, this Future Pop stuff sounds almost like Darkwave in my ears. It reminds me so much of that music they play in "goth clubs". It's Darkwave ... with a bit less depressive and "pseudo-dark" themes maybe, but still. And point is, I don't quite like this music so much. I don't hate it, you know, it's ok, but "just" ok, you know ... so I better check out more into the industrial music direction, that gives me more kicks! Still, thank you, for now I know what music I am about to expect when it says Future Pop somewhere

Okay, you're right, nothing is wrong with changing style. In fact this already brought many new tidings in all various genres of music. But when the style is changing to something NOT GOOD (and judging from those narrations it obviously was not good!) ... well, then I have the right to critisize. And when the artist then just says "accept it" ... well, I mean, what else should he say ... but still, not good to me...

Tsk, tsk ... people, this piece isn't even released yet! It will come on June 20th. And I doubt you all got the official promo You should at least be a bit more subtle about it ... it's just too obvious

Thanks for the big list of recommendations ... I will definitely check out some of that stuff next time I'm bored Oh ... yeah, those two tracks are different to the others. I don't like them so much though, I prefer the others - even though some of them have a bit of a more commercial undertone, I don't care about that, it's great music I also know Slaughter House. That one isn't bad...

Well, I'd not say not to that

Hehe, that's what I call cool: today I went into this one used CD store where I once saw a Frontline Assembly album (but I didn't buy it back then). It was still there - even cheaper than before ... so I bought it It's the Implode album. And it's actually pretty good! Even the not-so-powerful tunes. Anyway, I think I'm meanwhile getting into the sound and moving away from that power fixation towards real sound exploration Still, thanks for your recommendations - I definitely will check out those tracks! Maybe I will check that out ... sounds quite good new musical doors opening ... I like that

Yes, the original version of Front 242 is pretty crap. But you should give the FLA remix a listen - it's TOTALLY different compared to the original! Oh yes. They come to Malmöfestivalen ... and play a free show there! A FREE FLA SHOW! Damn, I am SO jealous because of that ... If I had known this then I would have planned my trip to Sweden this year and not last one

I was thinking the same

hmmm... Well, I checked it out and ... to my definition it's not It's an okay track, but not more.

Is it POWERFUL and kickin'?

Okay ... I gotta say I totally love this track! I recently rediscovered it (I remember listening to it back then as I was in driving course and afterwards I didn't want to listen anymore because it reminded me of driving course and learning and stress...) and am again amazed how good it is. Gosh, I love it ... it's so damn great ... I played it so often meanwhile it's already at the edge of overplaying. So what I'm asking now is ... well, guess what. I NEED GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS OF SIMILAR SONGS PLEASE! Now of course I wasn't an idiot - I have checked out myself already some stuff. Frontline Assembly for example - after all they did that remix. Well, I must say that despite being fond of them because their sound is good I haven't found another tune of FLA that's as POWERFUL as this remix yet - got any specific recommendations? I don't hope this remix is a "one hit wonder" of them for me? Also Front 242 ... it's quite good, but I didn't find such powerful stuff of them. Their original Headhunter 2000 track is absolutely not my cup of chai The KMFDM stuff I checked out is also ... not powerful. But I fucking need more ... this one track is really sooo damn good! I need my fix of more such POWERFUL stuff as this! PLEASE! (What genre is that btw? Industrial?)

Euh ... wern't some of you guys that were going to a party where Frank spun saying his set was really crappy? And one of you even asked him about that and his only response was like "Artists change their style - accept that!"? ased on those posts back then I wouldn't set the expectations for the new album high...

UP / ENERGETIC / PUSHING / HAPPY / CRAZY : All sorts of psy (except darkpsy!) ranging from fullon to progressive - can be anything from Hallucinogen over Etnoscope, Silicon Sound and S-Range up to Son Kite ... generally rather higher bpm. POSTITIVE / HAPPY / CREATIVE : Progressive psy with not so high bpm ... I'm liking this stuff because it doesn't push you so much and is generally still having a positive overtone. When being in a creative or playful mood I enjoy stuff like Shiva Chandra TRANCED / DEEP : Koxbox or Saikopod is ideal stuff for me for those phases - although I could enjoy almost anything psy in general ... dark or not dark, low or high bpm, doesn't matter. ANGER / PUSHING : Darkpsy in general ... although sometimes it doesn't even have to be that dark, but rather fast. Some Industrial too ... even some industrial noise (Institut - Unto The Last Man). Also black metal in general I listen to when in those states of mind. PARTY / NON-PSY CRAZY EVILISH (kinda) / ENERGETIC : In that situations I enjoy nordic humppa metal ... stuff like Korpiklaani or Finntroll (searching still for other bands in this sector) ... or other folk metal, but non-epic and fast and crazy. PARTY / SOCIAL : that is a broad category and contains many different music types - it also depends on the party and the people. From metal over rock up to jazz or electronic even to pop music this covers everything that I find enjoyable on a scale from high up to down to the level where I can barely bear it without running away. When I'm social and talking to people I don't notice the music anyway. CHILL / SMOOTH / SOCIAL : Ambient, chill and electronic music, but rather less focus on the ambient genre. Stuff from Thievery Corporation, Tosca over Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield up to Enigma is what I dig in those situations. RELAXING / CHILL : There I like chilled music with ambient in between. Puff Dragon comes smooth then. Also Bluetech ... or Red Seal. Ott is smooth too. Chilling Matenda too. DEEP CHILL / DREAM / MEDITATIVE : One word for it: ambient. Ranges from Carbon Based Lifeforms, Aes Dana, Solar Fields and Healer for deeply chilled or dreamy states up to Makyo or Padmasana for almost meditative states. SAD / DEPRESSIVE : Depressive music ranging from melancholic dark ambient up to depressive neofolk. Also depressive black metal like Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var (his best piece IMO) or doom metal. DARK / DEEP : Generally dark ambient. But not too melancholic pieces ... stuff like Ulf Söderberg fits. Need to get more in this direction ... but I'm seldom in the mood. NON-PSY DREAMY : There I enjoy metal (Viking metal, to be precise) - and epic medieval ambient. That's where the "epic" folk metal also comes in. Also some black metal-ish stuff. As you see I like to dream off to various kinds of music - I just pick what I like. I tend to pick rather monotonous stuff if I'm tired so that I can slep off to it - Summoning for example, slept off to that already more than once ... but it's great stuff. TIRED / SLEEP INDUCTION : Dark medieval ambient. I sleep off best to this stuff.

but most of all it must be KILLLAAARRRGH!!!

Good choice ... if I had won I had picked that one... Cheers to faze and congrats to the winners

That's basically where we stand today ... in a nutshell: PSYTRANCE | | ------------------------------- | | | DARK PROG FULLON And that's also the genres where evolution will happen. Dark will become the new fullon concerning people bitching about it (because soon it will get too stereotypical ... many say it already is ... what's missing yet are the big commercial motherfunkers - just wait, they will come ). Prog will morph even more with club and house music making the hippies bitch about it because it will get too clubby and scene-ish and "hi society-ish". And Fullon will go even more in the guitar-and-singing direction so that one day there will be "fullon" on MTV and kids will rock off to it and everybody will shake their heads. As you see, Oldschool is not on there. Although I think there will happen some development in that sector I still don't believe it will be possible to start another Oldschool avalanche where it gets a global acclaimed presence (and recognisation of the big labels) as a genre where evolution still happens.

lol ... wasn't that that compi where this peculiar hilarious review has been written for? But hmmm ... this is really not the worst track I have heard. The part in the sample from 2:42 to 3:08 I don't even find sooo ultra bad at all... The worst one was from IM ... where Duvdev sings (remembe that vid?). Or maybe it's also not the worst ... but it's far worse than this one here.

The scene in Austria is ... well, quite okay. Could be better ... could also be worse though. A part of the scene is a bit fullon-infected and I don't like that anymore - so when they invite artists like Eskimo some weeks ago I prefer to stay at home, but there seem to be some minds thinking in another direction, otherwise they wouldn't have invited Tegma and Prisoners Of The Sun this winter. Also a lot of other interesting liveacts we had ... so yes, the scene's okay. We had once a sort of progressive collective that named itself Suntribe where they played quite good proggy-clubby psy music and invited quite some interesting international progressive masters as live acts (Son Kite I remember) ... but this one went down two years ago. Although recently there was another of their parties where they claimed Suntribe would be back and such ... but other than this party recently I don't know anything about future projects yet ... I'm staying tuned about that though, they were my favourite back then and still stick to their clubby progressive style and I love that...

Some sale stuff looks indeed tempting there... But WTF ... no info about payment/shipping/anything? I better ask first...

Are you still in A'dam? If so, then go to ABRAXAS coffe shop (it's in J. Roelensteeg)! And buy a pie! Do it

FILL THE HAT and So Nice You Name It Twice.

yay... The compilation it is on hasn't got bad names on it either ... I only dislike the cover, that's why I never made a closer look...

Damn, this track is STILL MARVELLOUS! Enjoying listening to it since more than 2 years ... and it's still great! I think that must be the most often played psytrack of all times for me. Meanwhile I already own it on CD And of those recommendations Another Time is not as good as Soon. Tarsis one was quite good. Any more recommendations?

haha, the bid race is on again

It's released by Free Form Records. The Free Form label went down some years ago already. I'd say you should try your luck on ebay or in used record stores, maybe there you can still find it.