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Yeah, great band, make sure to check full album, it's great! Here are full lyrics for this track: A spectacle in vain of fictional entertainment Nothing more than a distraction With the characters created By such influential men behind the scenes Camera, action Make up, action Lies, snap Fucking action! Lightning, action Lines at the ready Lies, snap Fucking action! Creatively designing the illusion of choice Intrinsically sculpting At the aura of democracy Oh, this suit makes you look so honest A certain type of lightning gives a warm glow Now take your fucking scripts! Personalities Quirks and trivialities Spring from scriptwriters tongues So trivially Building a theatrical mass distraction That these puppets stand for Radically different Political philosophies Misrepresenting cleverly Like some cheap reality TV show Increased surveillance Tax and more control We'll try to lower taxes But we'll take more from the poor Like a sacrificial ritual To monetary systems The stars of the show fake a smile and Take their seats upon the glutinous wings of arrogance Watch Follow the script If you think that it will make the slightest difference Vote Waste your time on a fictional debate Pertaining to a legion of lies Obey this puppet Show stuck on repeat The illusion of choice Eat up You pigs Gorging yourself upon their fucking lies Infatuated with Opposing parties quarreling for inconsistent reasons Competing superficially Festering with dishonesty Shaking hands behind the scenes Entertaining the blind Pay close attention Charismatic tyranny! Do you have no memory? You're dancing with hypocrisy Part of the system Everybody's fast asleep Time to realize That whoever you'll vote for It'll make no difference They are one and the same! How could you think their one to trust? Glorifying the pursuit of greed and lust These streets were never paved in gold They're littered with the bodies of the ones who said no Vote for Corruption

Update from Ektoplazm Facebook page: An update about the "fake tunes" situation described in the previous post: I'm continuing to investigate the label group responsible for ripping tunes and selling them on Beatport under different names but it seems some progress has already been made. Their entire 2017 catalog (including a huge number of tunes ripped from Ektoplazm and other sources) has been removed from Beatport and their Facebook page (Sonik Sound Rec) seems to have been wiped. A label representative appeared in the previous thread to suggest that this was all one big misunderstanding and that an artist had sent them tunes they published without realizing their mistake but I don't buy that for an instant... and now that I take a closer look, that comment was deleted, so I guess they're trying to slink away from the matter. Fishy! Anyway, I hugely appreciate everyone's help in IDing stolen tracks and finding out about this in the first place. I'm only one person and I can't be everywhere all of the time so it's a huge help to receive reports of suspicious and improper usage of Ektoplazm content anytime you see it. The tracks we distribute under Creative Commons licenses are still protected by law and we will take appropriate action against those who violate the terms of those licenses, especially by doing something as heinous as what we've recently seen... but more to the point: why would anyone do this? We're working hard to advance culture in an open way. Most of the artists are approachable if you want to use their music in your web projects, video games, etc. Ripping tunes and selling them under a different name is despicable in any case, but it's particularly low in this case. Label owners and affected artists, please feel welcome to drop me a line by email (via the contact form on the site) as I'd like to organize a letter to the distributors and shops still working with the parent label. Thanks for your time and support, as always

I believe this topic might be interesting (especially to labels and artists who are releasing their work on Ektoplazm). I'll just paste the text from Ektoplazm Facebook page (for a discussion, you can join at Facebook). It was recently brought to my attention that several tracks available from Ektoplazm can be found on Beatport (and many other stores) under alternate names. After investigating the label responsible for these releases I'm starting to wonder just how many songs they've ripped off, retitled, and offered for sale without the knowledge of the original artists. They've got what looks to be some original stuff in their back catalogue but most of their 2017 releases (including hundreds of songs) sound quite familiar, and they've definitely taken songs from commercial releases not distributed by Ektoplazm. So, let's play a game, shall we? Step right up and test your psytrance knowledge by rifling through their releases and posting positive track IDs on this thread! This will be of great assistance in mapping the extent of the damage and I'm hoping to reach out to other labels to file a joint complaint with Beatport when the time comes. And of course, if anyone out there knows who's behind this shady label, this would be very good to know. How many can you find? Have at it! https://www.beatport.com/label/sonik-sound/49487/releases

It's been over three months since this one came out and considering how many great artists are featured on this release, I hope someone will take a time do to proper review here on Psynews. In case you missed, here is download link: https://neogoarecords.bandcamp.com/album/bgf-chronicles

It's kinda interesting to see CBL releasing music on the same platform/label with bands such as Emperor, SYL or Arcturus. They're in great company indeed.

Here is my input and suggestion. On the dark theme you should change the new/old icons for forums. It's almost impossible to distinct the new and old topics in certain forum. Example in attachment. I also added slightly different version of icon. I hope this suggestion helps. Cheers

Great news and congrats! It feels great to experience and be small part of this initiative. Upgraded version looks and feels superfancy and it's like new space shuttle I hope you guys will be able to get some 'darker' theme/skin for this version for all of us who tend to use it on previous version(s).

I might sound biased when it comes to music and content it self on this album (which I liked and it's one of the reasons why I decided to push it for early autumn release), this album in my humble opinion got amazing sound-quality and production value. We shared it with some DJs earlier and folks who had a chance to play it on bigger soundsystems gave a feedback that it sounds way better than most of 'the usual' stuff that we and other labels release and publish on so-called Goa scene. I believe them, even I personally didn't have the opportunity to check it in thoose conditions yet. However, I also believe they're right and I can say from personal perspective, based on years-long experience and priviledge of working with Lukaš/GoaTree, it's a huge step towards more sharper, spot-on Goa-influenced groove and dance-floor friendly type of sound. I wouldn't like to use word 'commercial', but more rhythm driven and smarter usage of melodies, while keeping the 'darker' or obscure vibe present through the whole recording. Overall, if you're into super-melodic kind of Goa trance, this record isn't for you. If you're into more raw and oldschool type of Goa trance, this record isn't for you either. But, if you're into well-executed, modern blend of melodic aspects of Goa trance and groove-extravaganza fueled with clever storytelling and top notch production, I believe you should give a chance to Black Star Of The Death. It's not super psychedelic, but it's different and it got it's own signature.

Complete album is up on YouTube (thanks to Protean Soundwaves): Make sure to grab it in WAV/FLAC for full audio-enjoyment: http://bit.ly/GetGoaTree

Yeah that sucks because I prefer PayPal too. However I contacted Mars and made payment via PayPal. P.S. - perhaps someone should share it on Psynews facebook page aswell

New Model is outstanding.

Get in touch with Imba

@proxeeus - Check out Mnemic, they're also great The most recent goodie:

NYP is great option and indeed we have people who are following our new music on Bandcamp who tend to support new releases. It's important because it helps us with all production costs for each release. Even it's not enough to cover everything, we still give our best to deliver each year few great releases (and it's always nice to see that some of 'em end up in TOP 10 in annual Psynews poll, in last two years we had two 2nd places and it means a lot to artists and whole team behind Neogoa). I hope GoaTree's new album will have the deserved support when it comes as digital download on September 15th

It is great music indeed and for me personally it fits my taste much better than Filteria (even I like the most stuff that Filteria released so far). In any case, I hope you will release more music in this style in the future!

DJ Stevo isn't organizator, Balkan Goa Fanatics is. The other thing is how much work certain member of that organization is doing and who have the biggest responisbility. Yes, he is part of Neogoa DJ-team just like he is part of Suntrip, Timewarp and BGF DJ-team. Your point is...? You did, while replying to Antic's spot-on question: I don't spank anyone and it's not my job to do. Certain criteria in every serious label has to exist and the only thing when I react is when someone who has been promoted by our label forgets to give proper credit to the label when playing the material we released. That's the basics of the licence we release under. The other situation is when our artists leak music prior to the release on SoundCloud. We don't like that and we prefer to release the material via official channels under the conditions we consider to be a part of finished release. Stevo plays Neogoa music on parties and he never played anywhere without giving a proper credit to the label(s) he represents. That is a fact. It was great festival from my personal perspective as a visitor. I came there as a Goa trance fan, not as an artist (I don't play DJ sets, I don't do live-acts). When did you see us (Neogoa Records) reviewing festivals from our official channels or any parties where our artists or DJs played? Have you seen any Neogoa Records Facebook, Twitter, Google+ post about our perspective on certain party, festival, whatever? You haven't because we don't do that. I posted on event page my (from my personal private Facebook account) view of the festival and what I liked it because of my own personal reasons, just like dozens of other people posted their experiences. You think I don't have a right to give opinion as a fan or visitor, huh? Why should I spank Stevo? Was that a Neogoa Records festival? Explain it please.... They run their own gigs and bookings and they have absolute freedom. How on the hell you connected Neogoa and Suntrip by single post of Joske (reffering to the visitors as DJ Anoebis) on event page and the reasons he gave he couldn't come? Seriously? Dude posted why he couldn't be there and told others who were there to have fun...Do you believe that was the official 'Suntrip Records statement' or that my personal experience of festival was 'official Neogoa Records statement'? Guy posted info to people as the artist/DJ. He informed them, just like I posted my status about festival experience as a visitor... Reading between the lines is a tricky thing to do. I'm sure they won't mix their own personal view/feelings about the organization with the work of Suntrip Records. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen any label posting anything via official channels about this festival. People who were there posted what they think about it and people who couldn't be there (from any reason) also posted their own personal view.

I will tell you from the first hand that we're not involved in any booking of any artist on this or any other festival. As I told in previous post (I will post this one from the personal account, it will make more sense), we don't run booking agency, we don't make deals for our artists, we don't organize parties or festivals, and that is a FACT. If you don't believe me, here are Imba and Proxeeus commenting this topic, they both know very well how we work and they can tell you did I or any core-member of Neogoa label-team dealt with their bookings, or they were in direct contact with Stevo about their respective gigs on the festival. Also, if releasing compilation (that has been arranged and confirmed weeks before even festival started) is considered as part of festival organisation than probably we don't have the same definition of festival organisation. As I told to Stevo (prior to the confirmation of BGF Chronicles compilation on Neogoa), we are ready to release it, but under our terms - and that means to be available for free download and properly promoted through official Neogoa channels, and I believe we did that on highly-professional level (just like we are doing with every previous release we had a chance to release). Neogoa's only fault was not to release it on festival (as we promised earlier), because we didn't have good internet connection over there and we had to delay it for a week until I get back home. We posted the annoucement and appologized to the fans and artists for waiting additional week. Regarding the Neogoa artists playing on festival, please, have a look on how many of them didn't come. So, all that non-sense about us being organizers or something in that vein is false statement without any hard evidence. Also, if we were part of the festival organisation (as Anu claims here publicly), wouldn't we have the similar thing like Suntrip had on first edition of the festival? To be some sort of label-tribute festival? I believe that would be a logical and natural thing to do. We didn't, because it's not our festival. Website? It was made by us as under Neogoa Design visual department, same as festival flyer and visuals. It's same process like we are creating artworks, websites, flyers for other labels and organisations, that doesn't mean that (giving you the simple example here: flyer made by Neogoa Design for party in Belgium means that we are suddenly part of the core-organisation). See the logic behind this statements? Important thing also: Did we have any influence on line-up selection? Nope. How could I or any core-member of Neogoa ask or request something that we don't pay, organize, run? What is the logic behind that? If you take a closer look at the artists who came to festival, there was artists from diferent labels/organisations, just like artists from diferent labels/organisations canceled their appereance there (or they couldn't come). FYI, unlike some people who are comenting about the festival, I was there for 4-5 days and I had a good time. Was it great organisation? It wasn't (and some people here already gave their view/perspective about it) I'm not one to say how to make good festival or how to organize things, it's not my job and I prefer to stick with music releasing and graphic design, but in the end I enjoyed this festival and I didn't have high-expectations. We met some lovely people from different corners of the globe and enjoyed my time in great nature. For sure I was sad that many artists, my friends and fans couldn't come there, but thats not my or Neogoa problem. And to be fair, I don't prefer to spend my energy on this kind of discussions, you have official BGF event on Facebook, go there and see what people say, what they liked, what they disliked, people who came and people who couldn't come. That will give you the best perspective about whole thing. @Anu: For the sake of fair and honest discussion please, provide us a hard evidences that we were involved into organization of this festival! If you don't have any, than stop putting our name into your own disagreement/frustration with BGF organization workflow. Probably you're not the only one and posting online accusations of Neogoa as label and as a team of people is highly unfair and not a nice way to say goodbye. Thank you!

Your input is highly appreciated!

No need to judge whole nation based on one example.

Great release, full support

Available now on Ektoplazm for free download. Enjoy http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/saluberrimae-time-is-a-flat-circle

This sounds and looks very nice and I look very forward to this release! Klecks

Thanks Adept! Yeah Anu, the early days was such fun, and I guess Neogoa is probably one of the few (or perhaps the only) label(s) which are founded thanks to Psynews. Many members here put a lot of their knowledge, feedback, suggestions, ideas, positive attitude towards what will later on become a Neogoa as we all know. On July 14th this year it will be a seven years since Mirza, I and few other people started this so I hope we will have something nice for this year too, to offer and give to all people who are following the work of the label.