Dolmot

I am. Not sure about the "within reason" part.

Hey hey hey, I suspect some people posting here are not actually drunk. That's totally against the spirit. (Spirit, get it?!) I'm slightly drunk now. However, we'll start playing the Eurovision drinking game soon. After that I'll most likely be royally drunk. Cheers...

Well, I simply bought the Colours of Shiva re-releases, which should be music-wise accurately reproduced, relatively cheap and convenient. The original CD titles are listed in release notes. They cover the goa heyday from 1995 to 1997, whereafter TIP arguably turned more techy and muted on average. Possibly worth buying for their historical significance alone.

Three Om Three. (OK, yesterday...)

Well, it's probably the very best known downtempo act in this scene. Downtempo lists tend to be shorter so it's easy to get to the top through quantity alone. Shpongle got 11 votes, Globular 8, nobody else more than 5. The average points of top 10 were all quite similar, possibly excluding Kurbeats who got top marks from all three people who managed to discover and/or to appreciate them. Anyway, Museum is a well produced and colourful album with plenty of themes and nice performances. I just listened to it yesterday and today. Am I not allowed to vote for it? I voted Filteria too, even though it might be more hip and cool to nominate something more underground than these sellouts who dare to sell a thousand copies! And to produce more than three albums. Surely past their prime... Still better than Isratrance.

How about starting with a "thank you" before offending other people's musical tastes?

Alright... Uptempo: 1: Filteria - Lost in the Wild (Suntrip) 2: Shantifax - Complete Tranceformation (SarnarSchourt) 3: Trinodia - Astral Clouds (Ovnimoon) 4: Nervasystem - Time Travel (Anjuna) 5: VA - Blacklight Moments (Suntrip) 6: BlackStarrFinale - AURYN (Neogoa) 7: Radical Distortion - Back in Time (Eutuchia) 8: VA - If I Wasn't Human, I'd Be a Trance Track (Cronomi) 9: VA - Mind Rewind 2, Past Forward (DAT Mafia) 10: VA - The Kingdom (Zion 604) Downtempo: 1: Kurbeats ‎- Folktronica (not on label) 2: Miktek - Elsewhere (Ultimae) 3: Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness (Twisted) 4: Tengri - Icaros (Peak) 5: 2Minds - Wave Shell (Geomagnetic.TV) 6: Field Rotation - Fatalist: The Repetition of History (Denovali) 7: Zen Baboon - Suber (Electrik Dream) 8: Globular - Magnitudes of Order (not on label) 9: Deep Fried Dub - Slow Cooked (Dubmission) 10: Nuage - Vivant (Purple Hexagon)

Psy or total?

Does The Colours of Shiva count?

Err, is there a significant difference to "reissuing" these by myself with a colour printer and, well, a CDr?

When Raja writes press releases for TIP, I barely recognise them as English!

Whenever I see that a seller is from Austria, I skip instantly as everything will be monstrously overpriced. No need to even check. Wonder why there have been so many "different" examples of that...

Oh the irony. I declared it the best release of 2014 (so far) in late January, but already managed to forget how it went to the extent that I didn't recognise it any more. I blame listening to hundreds of interwar swing tracks in last few weeks. Seriously. Anyway, about time to give this one a play or two again.

Still sooner than AP.

Where?

...with 1-2 new tracks per disc, which is quite a lot for a single. I wouldn't vote for a direct re-release but I might do so for these singles. This is the grey area of altered editions.

This comes up every year with no solid answers so we'll probably have to accept different interpretations as long as there's "2013" written somewhere on the release...

Do you really hate your audience so much?

big butts

It's pronounced "pretentious".

DVD-audio, 444 minutes at CD quality. (Hey, you asked.) Or maybe a 12" CD? No, wait, it kinda exists too...

Chinese

Hey, I learned something today! I always thought it was Plain Old Telephone Service. (Well, maybe not, but never bothered to find out...)