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That was good! I thought maybe it would be lame since I saw 20 different versions of that video already but this was one of the better ones.

Well this thread is a little bit lacking in point, so I propose a new question since it's going that way anyways... What was the first true goa trance release? :posford:

Parties used to be spiritual experiences, now they are not. You are kidding yourself if you think you can have the same depth of enjoyment of the music now as you could back in the oldschool underground golden years.

I really hope they wouldn't. But seeing how many other artists started making lower quality psy music we shouldn't take our chances.

I'm sad too. But I still love the music for what it is, regardless of hippy parties.

You are not enlightened. I am.

http://www.discogs.com/Shell-Shock-Sunshin...release/1129188 LISTEN: :posford:

I think Movers & Shakers and Jordi (especially) are great tracks considering they're from some obscure group in 1995-1996, but I'll let others judge for themselves. Oh there are a few but that's all. Of course you're of the idea that all goa trance sucks that isn't paving the way towards hard modern psytrance, so you probably wouldn't enjoy any of them.

I never got SAW2 yet... it's just sooooooooo boring I always turn it off after a few tracks.

http://www.discogs.com/MAN-Know-Thyself/release/872959 Damn it just went for sale yesterday, I guess someone bought it. Anyways pretty awesome music for 1996.

Well you guys are basically trying to force them by sticking them with this comment someone posted haphazardly a few years ago.

I really hope they don't make a new album... unless they want to for other reasons... because being "forced" to make something probably isn't going to have good results.

Very decent stuff but none of the tracks are really good enough to be released IMO. I don't find this all that interesting to listen to.

Hi, I don't know if you guys heard this cd (http://www.discogs.com/release/367350 ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZG2tEj64QY) before, but I really love it. Not sure if you call it drone or not, but it's the closest thing that I can enjoy, since some other drone music I heard is extremely boring and drones on the nerves to listen to. Thx for the artists Hexfire I'm going to check some of them out. :clapping:

Sounds like Ka-Sol to me, and I don't like Ka-Sol....

No you're dead wrong. Sadly I'm convinced you've never actually understood any old school goa music, since your top 10 and essentials lists are laughable. Oh, and you're trying to manufacture self-identity or fame or something by promoting newer psytrance and releasing stuff for free on your personal website.

You place The Lone Deranger in #3?

Dimension 5 and Ra

I tried isolating that voice and I agree it sounds like wasted.

Nope. I clearly said I don't have long attachments to some of these albums. For me I try to judge is the music complex, intelligent, interesting, meaningful, creative, etc, there's no sentimentality "omg I remember listening to this on the beach in goa 15 years ago" involved. Some goa releases I only heard this year and I can still notice that they are even better than some psy releases this year, even though they were made 10 years ago.

Look at the thread title: "The best trance ever was made before 2000..., why?" Sure we can enjoy some decent new music, but pretty much everything becomes crappy compared to (is not as good as) the old goa trance music. Anyways, this is definitely not an issue of nostalgia because: 1. I never even heard of goa trance 10 years ago, I've only heard it all after 2000, when it was already dying. 2. Some great goa albums I've only heard for the first time very recently ago and I can still realize they are great album. Why? I could tell after a couple weeks of Solar Fields - Moments that it was a great album and a classic of 2009.

Well let me explain... we listened to old music thinking "wow this is awesome" and now we're listening to new music thinking "wow this is crappy". That's what the entire thread is about. So unless you think we should PRETEND the music is good and it will magically turn into a classic in 10 years, you're not really saying anything.

You seem to be suggesting we force ourselves to listen to crappy music with some idea that in 10 years we won't think it's crappy anymore?

Try some of these: Distant System - Spiral Empire Essential Trip - Trip To Inner Self M-Seven - Activate ETC.

Oh yea? I think a post asking an artist CD to only be a certain "genre" of music is dumb, because good artists usually aren't confined into genres. (Not to mention most of Jaia's best tracks so far have been ambient.)