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No! I would never pay money for interviews. Never. And neither do I want to foster this in any remotely possible way. Charging money for interviews, that's something this scene really does not need IMO! If we reached that point it won't be far until "pay twenty Euros and I sign your CD"...

Dude, the new psytrance is supposed to sound different to the oldschool stuff. And it's good IMO. Very good. I am not talking about fullon, I hate fullon, but the prog stuff coming out nowadays is very cool shite. Old School is retro to me - it invokes somewhat similar feelings in me that you describe ... but in today's music I don't even want to hear that anymore! It's GONE. It's PAST. It belongs into the past - and not into the present. Nowadays there's something different. And it's good like that, because when I listen to oldschool nowadays I get reminded of the past and that it was good. That is the essential point for me

They're nice But I wouldn't consider 'em "sick"? lol...

Absolutely Feuerhake and Klangstrahler Projekt ... it can't get more summer for me than that Matenda is also somewhat summerish to me in general. I mean, there are some tracks which are an exception, but overall it's rather summer stuff - no matter if it's his chill music or the more psy material. Maybe this is the case because I always used to listen to that stuff on nice summer evenings... Atmos too ... this stuff I don't listen much to in winter. Many tunes from Headcleaner remind me of running through the park in summer Also Etnoscope is rather summerish to me. But I listen to that in winter too. And hehe ... Ticon - The Cozy Cactus, that piece also reminds me of summer evenings... Oh and BTW, Son Kite - Colours is ideal spring music for me

hahahahahaha, of course not you, my dear I meant that you should post that "Thread closed, user banned" line on the forum where this ridiculous piece of crap was posted You don't seem to be very familiar with psynews offtopic habits?

Absolutely. 10am is not a real problem. Two Espresso and you're up. I did that as I went to see Magnetrixx & Morganixx on a Sunday night. Monday I had school at 8:45 ... well, I came there at ten (come on, I don't wanna get up at half past seven, I was so deaf anyway that I didn't hear the alarm). Just the time you have to be there too. No problem at all. I guess if I were you I'd have gone there and on the next day I'd have showed all my colleagues the finger ... like "ha, ha, I was there and you not, you boring wet sandbag"

Hahahahahahahahahahaha Oh man ... gimme a break ... lol, this is so stupid. Wayne is a mass murderer .. I pray every day that this murdering Ku Klux Klansman is in jail for life for mass murder and worldwide contravening of anti-terrorism .. I'm a good girl .. I'm not a dilettante like all y'all .. murder at trance gatherings is BLASPHEMY .. See, she even knows that Wayne is the murderer! Even though she hasn't even been to the festival! She must have supernatural powers... Wherever you saw that thing, Goannes ... "Thread closed, user banned", please Hey, it wouldn't even be tha bad if the government would shut down that "killer music". Finally, the end of fullon! That would be even cool!

and I want a Radi604 one

"sonic structures" ... well, kinda like that... You know, the structure that I can find in programmed tracks is something I can not find in Ozric songs and that's putting me into an irregular, nervous state ... in a way. And I don't quite like that...

Maybe that is the reason why I don't like them. Honestly, I once downloaded a few of their tracks because I heard people talking about how great they are and such ... I didn't like the stuff. It appears too irregular for me, you know. Freestyleish and floating and irregular. No "programmed boom boom patterns". And I guess that's what I'm missing. I need the programmed stuff, it's more structured and it's not irregular. I need structure.

indeed ... I guess they thought of making Psychedelic Chill a series like Goa Head, but obviously the sales of the first volume weren't good enough so they let it be ... which is a pity, because that compilation was really great

naaah ... I'd agree that this is not an outstanding masterpiece, but it'd never be in my bottom 5. Never. That's because Aiwana is on it ... AIWANA! ... man, I love this tune, even asked for similar tracks in kinda this style once years ago on the old forum ... it's years old and I still love it. Besides that, Clockwise and Driveshaft are good too. It's a mediocre album - at worst. IMHO Anyway, I don't even have a bottom 5. I don't have any so bad albums At least cocnerning psy ... I mean, concerning trance I still have some of the old crap lying around and could rant about that, but I guess that doesn't really count, does it?

SECONDED!!! Although IMHO the best tune by Klangstrahler Projekt is Rising ... that's not real ambient in itself though, but it has a wonderful and looong ambient intro and outro, in fact the best intro/outro I know in a track ... pure awesomeness! Everybody, get it haha dude it's not that which people have to chuckle at ... this Shpongle track is just far from unknown lemme guess ... you have the "Psychedelic Chill" compilation, don't you? That one is a damn great compilation btw ... can recommend it to everyone, there are many, many good tracks on there! I also agree with the dude that mentioned Enigma / Deep Forest. It's great stuff ... but I wouldn't say it's underrated, Enigma gets enough attention, the stuff is even played on the radio... Other than that, I'd say the marvellous uplifting beatless ambient piece Matenda - Smiri Se is DAMN underrated In fact the whole Chilling Matenda stuff is somewhat underrated IMHO...

indeed, this track comes really, really good when it's late at night, the air smells of incense, the smoke burns in the eyes and the hand holding a brush is painting weird ornaments on the canvas... However, I rather disagree with those. I hate Ambience. 12000 Suns or Ambient Galaxy are worlds better... And Doof - Sunshrine is good, but not that extraordinary...

"shitty 6GB download limit?????" dude... I have a friend who has 1 GB download limit. He's happy with it. I have practically a flatrate. I pay half a fortune for it and it's decent. However, the provider's terms of use say that you must obey the FAIR USE principle and that you MAY NOT DOWNLOAD EXCESSIVELY. They have inofficially limited the downloading to 8 or so GB I think. Rumors say it's even less. You see, not even a flatrate saves you sometimes. I never had problems though. With 6GB you can download/stream/whatever plenty of stuff. I think I use 1,5 GB a month or so...

oh yes ... and that's just the beginning! I think it will get even worse during the next few months. But I think one day people will wake up. Skazi's days are numbered. And also the days of his clones and all the other fullon junkies. It's just a phase. It will pass one day - certainly not now, now it will get only worse ... also surely not this year, not likely in the next, I don't think in the year after, probably maybe in the year after the year after that ... or even later ... but one day the commercial wave will be over, that's what I firmly believe in. And what will be left of the scene will be the true lovers of the music - no moneymakers or anything anymore, in fact it will be very underground again after that and you everybody - not only the artists, but also the fans and everybody - gotta invest time and money for themselves again to keep it alive. But these days will be pretty cool again I think The only question that is left is: do you have the musical endurance to survive the coming onslaught or will you leave in terror and sadness at the sight of how the powermongers and commercial hippies and gabba kids and chavs will rape, kill and burn all that was good in this scene?

indeed, it was a good decision to pick it

For me it would be (excluding oldschool goa albums, we've had enough of that here ... and besides that I hardly even own any ): S-Range - Space Etnoscope - Drums From The Dawn Of Time Son Kite - Colours Makyo - Shringara Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden

Okay. I have made my decision. It was not that easy. I pre-listened to both. And well, the Goa-Head was better. That was because the second CD of Pulse 10 is fairly weak to me. On the first CD though Pulse 10 had some really good tacks ... the Corellian, the MWNN and the Doof one ... and the beginning and the end were quite good too. I liked the first CD of Pulse 10 very much! But on the second CD it all went down. Goa-Head 12 is better balanced - there are good tracks on both CDs. Listened to them and liked them. I especially like the fusion between oldscholish tunes and other psychedelic music styles. Although ... if nobody buys the Pulse one (which is what I believe, no psyheads except me go shopping in that used CD store) and time passes they will lower the price for it. If the price was low enough one day and if nobody got it before me then I'll maybe get that one as well By the way: The SUN Project tune is the only one that is present on BOTH compilations

Interesting. I have been becoming a vinyl person lately ... although I grew up with CDs and that. I also still love cassette tapes. Guess I'm an exception. It's mainly because vinyl I can get cheap at record fairs you know ... and I love that digging through huge boxes of crap music vinyls, all smelling of basement and reeking and then suddenly you draw out a masterpiece ... it's not psy, but still good music, stuff that is not released anymore ... sometimes you even find old Tangerine Dream and such stuff ... for a really good price. I guess I could sell the stuff easily for the double amount or even more at any time And it's not only the price. Vinyl indeed does have a soul. You can SEE the sound waves engraved on the record, you can feel it with your fingers, you see where are breaks and where there's much sound going on ... it's alive, that stuff ... you can hear the needle playing the melodies even when the speakers are off, just listen closely ... and the sound itself is richer, warmer, not synthetic, even if it eventually crackles a little bit sometimes, it's just cool stuff... I also dragged two friends along with me into the vinyl frenzy, so I am not alone with all that either and can share tips and stuff

More let-downs than good tracks? I wouldn't say so ... I have a few other Goa-Head compilations - also the vol. 13, which is said to be quite mediocre, but I find it quite good actually - and I haven't been disappointed by them. The cheap issue, yeah, that's bugging. They aren't expensive, just 10,50 Euros for each, I think I would not find them cheaper so easily anywhere ... but I really don't wanna take both, that goes more on my money than I want.

No, I actually don't own any stuff from Pulse 10 - not a single track. From Goa Head 12 I know some few pieces (as I said), but owning as release I also do none. So we have three people who say they would go for the Pulse and two for the Goa Head (although only one voted ). Including my initial intention it's three. Three and three. Damn...

Interesting. I always thought it was obvious to take the Goa-Head (because I like the series) and that there's no need for a poll actually... turns out I was wrong.

Accidental Occidentalism winning bid: US $280.00 Gothdamn, I could already make a few days trip to Budapest with that money!

Okay, I saw them both for the same price, but I only want to get one of them, not both (so please don't answer "I'd take both", 'kay?), since they aren't uber cheap either and if I took both it would go on my money quickly, since there are also other CDs I'd like. I know a few tracks of Goa Head 12 (Ra - Initiated, Dimension 5 - Limitless Dimension) and they are absolutely good, from that point of view I'd take the Goa-Head, since there is also the fact that I try to collect a few of them. But still, maybe the Pulse is better? They have been released in the same year (2001). The Discogs rating is kinda the same (3.5 for Pulse (2 votes) / 3.8 for Goa-Head (12 votes)). So I dunno. Please vote for the CD that you would take if you were in my situation! Tracklists here: Goa-Head 12: 1-01 Prime Time Plastix - Nep-Tune (7:56) 1-02 Intact Instinct - Chicago Coin's Cinema (SBK Rmx) (6:42) 1-03 S.U.N. Project - Out Of My Brain (7:59) 1-04 Dimension 5 - Limitless Dimension (Gate 3) (7:43) 1-05 Ouija - Shit Happens (8:01) 1-06 Organic Noise - Labyrinth Of Colours (9:04) 1-07 Volldampf - Brainticket (8:37) 1-08 Disco Slickers - I Think... (8:06) 1-09 Hara Gobi - Holi Live (9:47) 2-01 Ra - Initiated (7:47) 2-02 Psychonaut - Chaidive (8:23) 2-03 Massimo Vivona - Isolation (9:07) 2-04 Space Tribe - Dance Like Nobody's Watching (9:05) 2-05 DJ Alex (2) & Element - Akasha (Remix) (7:25) 2-06 Lando - Landlizard Song (8:28) 2-07 Chi-A.D. - Total Perspective Vortex (8:29) 2-08 Koxbox - A Major Problem In Australia (Saafi Brothers Rmx) (7:44) 2-09 DJ Nitrogen - Secret Society (7:21) Pulse 10: 1.1 Blake C - Nightmarket (Gabriel Le Mar's Remix) (7:34) 1.2 Corellian - State Of Mind (11:43) 1.3 Dienzephalon - F.O.M.P. (7:50) 1.4 Cass & Slide - Opera (C/S Phantom's Only Mix) (11:08) 1.5 Element - Cat. Walk (10:07) 1.6 Man With No Name - Reincarnation (Tripster Remix) (6:40) 1.7 SBK - Mitleid Express (7:42) 1.8 Doof - Dawn Of A New Error (7:47) 1.9 The Rootsman meets Gab! - Dub Oriental (Mystic Mantra Mix) (4:54) 2.1 Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom - Elements (9:06) 2.2 Eat Static - Critical Mass (8:40) 2.3 Synchro - Eclectic (Hectic) (7:13) 2.4 Midi Miliz - Info (7:21) 2.5 Trickster - Y3K (8:23) 2.6 S.U.N. Project - Out Of My Brain (7:58) 2.7 Johann Bley - Leave Your Body (Jan Müller Remix) (8:41) 2.8 Organic Noise - Amplifier (6:57) 2.9 Authentik - Solid (6:11) 2.10 The Delta - Quiet And Still (6:56)