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We all know about I.F.O. it's for sure one of the best psychedelic trance records released and it's probably one of my favorite conceptual albums of all time in all genres. Now, 15 years later I'm still enjoying Goa trance music, but somehow I think that many artists doesn't want to pay more attention to story behind the music, something that will send some message through some story or idea. I'm not that much familiar with old school Goa trance like I'm with newer production, but I think that back than artists made albums with more details regarding the story, regarding the track names, listing and album names. Nowdays (at least from my point of view), all that is based on good old 'classical' elements such as aliens, extraterrestrial-lifeforms, distant planets, hindu god-pantheon, psychedelic drugs, elements of nature, etc. I'm not saying that thoose elements are something that shouldn't be used, afterall, my own compilations are based on some of thoose, but I'm trying to say that maybe, we all should explore details a bit more. Pleiadians showed what does their name means, they perfectly represented feeling of the distant stars through music and that is something that I appriciate, especially because they made a conceptual piece of art. Something with similar idea (but only with drugs) 1200 Mic's made. Offcourse, I started this topic as a place where we all can speak about new ideas regarding the themes and concept in Goa trance, is there any space for a new ones, is it possible to expand Goa trance music on to other fields. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if some artist decide to use his sound as a weapon against injustice, political corruption or something similar, it doesn't matter if Goa trance isn't something that doesn't have 'words' but I'm sure it can bring out some focus on some issues. Or why there isn't any Goa trance release that 'speaks' about hunger, deforestation, or animal killing (last one was actually mentioned in Somnesia & Space Elves TAE Remix, kudos to them). I mean, it's cool to have positivity in music, especially in Goa trance, but with that same positivity you can send some message, there is no need to almost every song 'speaks' about sunrays, moonlight, deep space, colorful rainbows. Speaking from my point of view, I tried to deliver DG compilation in 2010 as something that speaks about Illuminati and multidimensionality, and it was hard to complete story like that, especially when you work with 9-10 different minds, but now, I'm really happy to be able to work with Arronax on his album and story for it and I'm glad that he also aims for something conceptual, something that will tell story with each track. Lunar Dawn's album also will represent Slavic pantheon and IMO that's cool concept for Goa trance, especially because it's something new and fresh. Very good example of conceptual can be found in Ra's album 9th, I think that they wanted to give listeners their view of mediumship and chanelling, especially with beings which are out of our realms, pretty much something that has been described in The Law Of One. Hopefully this topic will give good and healthy discussion regarding the topic title and I hopet we will give some fresh input regarding the ideas for possible new concepts and themes in Goa trance music and I hope a bit more courage to artists for their future works, so maybe some of them will start to devote more details to 'behind-the-music' stuff. Edit - some other releases that I find pretty much conceptual are Crystal Skulls compilations and The Mystery Of The Yeti, feel free to list yours.

Thanks for results, congrats to winners and all who participated in this poll.

LIT album indeed is something that every true goa-head needs to check. I enjoy it a lot and there are some tracks that are really outstanding, for example Mahageon and Xindiane which are my favorites.

Some of his latest stuff is really great, he's probably one of my favorite artists at the moment and yeah, melodies are AWESOME.

This is suprise but a great one. At this moment samples doesn't work on the website tho

Seriously corny.

I'm sure it will be a true bomb, probably album of the year. While we're waiting enjoy: http://soundcloud.com/mindsphereproject/mindsphere-in-the-mix

Ripping of the YouTube or Soundcloud is lame, soundquality isn't good enough. If someone respects artists and good soundquality he'll probably buy WAVs or CD. Plus nowdays, many artists doesn't have anything against YouTube uploads, it serves as great promotion platform and people actually always check YouTube for longer previews and it's much easier to decide are they gonna spend their money on the record.

Now there is serious psytrance?

Pity, he published some of the most crazy newschool stuff

Enjoy: http://soundcloud.com/graviton-records/nova-fractal-mass-extinction

Yep, here is another one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAgzCEqyMyM

Sounds really great! Looking forward to Photon Grimoires. Welcome to Psynews btw!

Thank you for a free album, loveley work sir.

Very nice release Natan, you managed to keep your trademark sound and input even more. Full support to Psychowave and Spacedock!

You can get this EP in WAV/FLAC/MP3 for only 3$ here: http://neogoa.bandcamp.com/album/mechanical-lifeform-ep Enjoy!

longloststar & Ormion - thanks for suggestions guys, I'm gonna check it

Speaking of oldschool I find Transwave's Flamicogyre tune really agressive and pumping with interesting breakdown. Speaking of more newer stuff, than two tracks stands out as being agressive, highly psychedelic and offcourse with nice atmosphere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HebZ0yu19u0

Last time I spoke with Bruno, he told me that he's preparing his debut full lenght release and I'm sure it will be a great because he spent a lot of time doing it and we also spoke about his participation on Dimensional Gateway 3 and it's confirmed, he's gonna release another tune via my net-label and it really sounds trippy -> http://soundcloud.com/neogoa/dimensional-gateway-3-2nd (preview).

By the way (sorry for slightly offtopic), I would really appriciate if someone can give some good suggestions for darkpsy in style of thoose two tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqj32NbJa6g Thanks

Please don't

Slower tunes I really like from him, but faster one's arent really my cup of tea.

:lol: :lol: If there's gonna be anything in a term of full release than I wouldn't mind to see it released in this kind of style: Probably my favorite post TLD tune.