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I'd been listening to alot of industrial and The Prodigy throughout highschool. In about 1996 I purchased The Orb's album U.F.Orb.
Not long after that I had my very first experience with psychedelics and put this album on. I'm glad it was there for that (and The Doors) as it had a great impact on my conciousness at the time. There was alot of angry metal and immaturity around otherwise so The Orb's album really stood out and blasted my mind.
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What! you loved that album?
IMO this release lacks of everything: no originality, not enough changes from one song to another: there's always that percussion african or whatever influence.
His sound quality is amazing, but you really tripped listening to that?? his songs are going no where, the main melodies keeps coming back. It's like a circle album. Didn't do it for me! tough i'd say.
Ozmali!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you think it's not original then can you state some other older releases or artists that you think sound similar to this, but are better. I'd like to hear them.
Listened to it again today at work. Still enjoy it! The repetition you're referring to is I assume the stuttering, shimmering, electro-melodic style he's used throughout. That's what I like most about the album!
The texture work, layering and bass that backs it up is always varied from track to track. The African percussion element is nowhere near as prominent as you've suggested, IMO. The sound quality is excellent as you said. Some of his electro-instrumentation has a great organic touch to it and I like the mild glitchy feel that he's also sometimes incorporated. I never get bored or tired listening all the way through the CD like I do with heaps of others.
IMO this album reminds me of the heat and wind element and is something I'd listen to in the summer time, especially afternoon.
I never said that I loved it or tripped hardkore off it, nor is this a best of 2009 topic, but out of the 200 or so Psychill/Downtempo releases I've been listening to recently, it stands out as a style of sound that I enjoy listening to. I admit that it has the potential to maybe get a bit boring after some time has passed or if listened to excessively. That I have to wait and find out for.
Jon
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What! you loved that album?
IMO this release lacks of everything: no originality, not enough changes from one song to another: there's always that percussion african or whatever influence.
His sound quality is amazing, but you really tripped listening to that?? his songs are going no where, the main melodies keeps coming back. It's like a circle album. Didn't do it for me! tough i'd say.
Ozmali!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yah agreed, there's some repetition.
Huge variation in a release isn't always in an artists idea.
I'll listen to it again soon with your words in mind and write some more about it.
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Elea - Stellar Connection also deserves to be mentioned IMO.
Rotwang has done a review for it here.
I've only given this 3-4 listens and am reluctant to say much about it for now. My feelings toward it have only been positive thus far.
Not the greatest album of all time but well worth checking out depending on your tastes. I see how some may not enjoy.
I'll definitely keep an eye on the artist in future.
Jon
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A release that hasn't been mentioned much yet is oCelot - one.
I warn that I may not use words the way others use them to describe elements.
Some Ocelot purists may not like his deviation from the semi-dark side of the force. This particular release has made me interested in that side of his work.
One is mostly groovy, uplifting and electro-melodic. As far as I'm aware it has it's own funky style of sound. Some mysticism. Some trance. It has both up and down-tempo(predominately) elements and is mixed as one piece and designed to be listened so.
A description I can give for it is that it is as a sonic shimmering mirage with gusts of electro-heat and sun flares riding through it. Great journey.
I was considering writing a full review but found it to be too painful and it was ripping some of the soul out of my relationship to the piece and therefore just wasn't enjoying it as much.
Jon
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Transwave - Phototropic
Transwave - Backfire
Etnica - Alien Protein
Dimension 5 - Transdimensional
Filteria - Sky Inuput
RA - 9th
Ticon - Aero
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If you feel very strongly that an item on the list doesn't AT ALL belong on a psytrance forum in terms of genre, then state clearly in a post in this topic.
If FIVE people vote an album off it will be removed.
If a listing is excellent but is not specifically classified as "psy-whatever" (e.g. FSOL - Lifeforms, The Orb - U.F.Orb) please try your best to be forgiving.
I'll spam this ^^^ or something similar every time I update the thing. If anyone can think of any other rules, changes, or suggestions that might work, post them.
List Updated with:
Alien Community - Alien Community
Alien Community - Alien Community 2
Banco de Gaya - Maya
Biosphere - Substrata
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Cardamar - Steam
Eat Static - Back to Earth
Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies
FSOL - Dead Cities
FSOL - ISDN
Gabriel Le Mar vs. Cylancer - Night Radio
Hoopy Frood - Psychonaut
Kick Bong - Flower Power
Mystical Sun - Energy Mind Consciousness
Nodens Ictus - Spacelines
OTT - Skylon
Psyfactor - Endless Universe
Quaid - Eight a Day (Unreleased)
S. Zeilenga - In Media Res
Ten Madison - Avenue
Terra Nine - Strange Craft
The KLF - Chill Out
The Kumba Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio
Unstable Emelents-Technical Illusions
Xerxes - The Mirror Formula
Zymosis - Elements Into Data
hmmm.. how bout Third Ear Audio?
Just to let you know that I added this one despite my comments earlier in the thread.
Jon
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Quite often there's a dead bug as well!
I spent a year over there.
Shopping in India rocks, I miss it.
Anyway, I got no new music today. I have new music coming out my arse. But I wanted to get a lot of new music.
Jon
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Yeah, I dig.
I'd suggest to keep it downtempo and psychedelic.
So I reckon Autechre's Quaristice wouldn't fit in, but Amber would. Ah man, you don't know what you got yourself into... either it's gonna expand beyond whatever, or else people are gonna complain it's not "psychill" enough.
The KLF - Chillout is most definitely essential, since it's the album that gave the whole genre its name.
FSOL - Dead Cities
FSOL - ISDN
The Orb - U.F.Orb
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Biosphere - Substrata
All classics that aren't psychill. Monolake doesn't really fit in though, if you ask me.
Nodens Ictus - Spacelines
Eat Static - Back to Earth
VA - Downbeat Liquid
VA - Dissolving Clouds
Unstable Elements - Technical Illusions
Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies
Krusseldorf - Smokers Lounge
Don't know if the above have been mentioned yet, but they could be included as well.
A system I was thinking of the day I posted the thing was that if 5 people clearly voted an album off the list because they thought it didn't belong here due to genre, then I'd remove it. What do you think?
Or anyone else please offer your opinions.
So if 3 more people at any stage posted clearly that Monolake doesn't fit. Then it goes.
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Mwah, that's kinda nonsense.
If so, what are Aphex Twin, The Orb, FSOL and Trentemoller doing on that list, for example?
I wouldn't want them removed, and would quite some other albums, but if you want to keep it psytrance specific, that's hard enough as it is...
Yeah, agreed. It's really hard. I was reluctant to take on the "responsibility" because of it.
I don't mind personally what's on the list because I'm not all that fond of drawing lines in the sand. I think of it all as electronica. It's important to keep things open in all wakes of life. I just wanted to try and keep complaints to a minimum because if it gets too painful then I can't be fucked trying to keep it all together. Should I just let it run free and just add everything suggested? Who am I to judge what should and shouldn't be added? That's why I said I'm not perfect in my knowledge and nor is the list, nor is there such a thing as a perfect list.
Better to have a list than no list, no? But how far should it blow out genre-wise?
"as closely related to the psytrance genre as possible"
People can hopefully use some common sense.
For instance someone would be more inclined to make a topic in the General Psytrance section of the forum about Androcell than they would about Autechre. And hence Androcell "belongs" a little more than Autechre does.
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hmmm.. how bout Third Ear Audio?
Hey,
I'll try my best to keep the list pure and as closely related to the psytrance genre as possible. For this reason I won't add your suggestion I'm sorry. If you think I'm incorrect please say why.
If anyone feels strongly that any of the albums that are on the list do not belong there in terms of GENRE for a PSYTRANCE specific forum then please say so and I may remove the listing. I am not perfect and this list is not perfect but I figure it's better that it exists for people's convenience than not at all.
Thanks
Jon
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What are you even talking about?
Half the stuff on the list isn't very good, and wouldn't be recommended by anyone who I take recommendations from, only some random person named it so you added it to your list. That's why a combined list is useless....
Don't use it?
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A combined list is actually pretty useless, similar to looking at the combined rating for a release on discogs. You have no idea who recommended what. Ratings are only useful if you know who liked what and how often you like the same things that that person likes. If the goal was just to list chillout releases indiscriminately I could print out my directory list of them (before I delete 3/4 because they aren't worth saving) as a starting point.
These aren't chosen indiscriminately, they've been recommended by people on this forum. If you need to see who has suggested what, then go through the thread that I sourced this from, which I've linked to at the top of the list. Or go through this thread which I will also use for further additions. I won't just add things silently, entries must be publicly stated by a user. This list is not designed to be the end all of quality, it's just there. If you wish to use it you can, if you're unsure of an entry on it then get off your arse and listen to some samples. Copy and paste entries into google (or other search engine) and hunt around for detailed reviews or opinions from a wide variety of sources. Lists like these can be a useful starting point, but don't expect to be spoon fed.
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X-Dream - We created our own happiness
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I was drawn to this release from the first time I saw it.
Listened to the samples only for a few months.
Just gave it my first true listen after receiving the CD today and was blown away. Very nice!
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You missed Ocelot gem
Do you mean "One"?
Aye it is a gem and a worthy addition, was thinking of it today, was going to give it more time to settle before suggesting it.
*List Updated*
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The older thread was getting a bit messy and difficult to keep track of so I thought I'd do this.
All suggestions/additions/subtractions/edits/complaints/etc welcomed.
Hopefully this is helpful to some.
I have to go to work.
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No, this is sourced from all suggestions out of this topic on Psynews.
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This list has and will continue to be compiled from here and here.
If you feel very strongly that an item on the list doesn't AT ALL belong on a psytrance forum in terms of genre, then state clearly in a post in this topic.
If FIVE people vote an album off it will be removed.
If a listing is excellent but is not specifically classified as "psy-whatever" (e.g. FSOL - Lifeforms, The Orb - U.F.Orb) please try your best to be forgiving.
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Abakus - That Much Closer to the Sun
Adham Shaikh - Fusion
Aes Dana - Aftermath
Aes Dana - Leylines
Aes Dana - Memory Shell
Aes Dana - Season 5
Alien Community - Alien Community
Alien Community - Alien Community 2
Alien Soap Opera - Second Wave
Ambientium - Fractal Philosophy
Anahata - The Unmade Sound
Androcell - Efflorescence
Androcell - Emotivision
Another Fine Day - Life Before Land
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Astralasia - Whatever happened to utopia?
Astralasia - The Seven Pointed Star
Asura - Code Eternity
Asura - Lost Eden
Asura - Life^2
Aural Planet - Lightflow
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B. Ashra - Live At U Fusion
Banco De Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa 3CD version
Banco de Gaya - Maya
Biosphere - Substrata
Bluetech - Elementary Particles / Prima Materia
Boards of Canada - Geodaddi
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
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Capsula - Synthesis of Reality
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
Carbon Based Lifeforms - The Path (unreleased)
Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers
Cardamar - Steam
Cardamar - Where The Skies End
Cell - Phonic peace
Celtic Cross - Hicksville
Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds
Chilling Matenda - Mediteran
Chronos - Steps To The Great Knowledge
Colourform - Visions of Surya
Cymphonic - Strataradialis
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Digital Mystery Tour - Digital Mystery Tour
Distant System - Spiral Empire
DownHill - Silent City
Dub Trees - Nature never...etc
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Easily Embarrassed - Idyllic Life
Eat Static - Back to Earth
Ekko - Ekkocentric Remixes
Ekko - Centripetal
Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies
Elemental Journey - AbsoluteAmbient.com Vol 2
Elve - Infinite Garden
Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
Entheogenic - Entheogenic
Entheogenic - Golden Cap
Entheogenic - Flight of the Urubus
Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination
EN Voice - Hall Of Dreams
Essential Trip - Trip To Inner Self
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible
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Flexe - Programmable Love Songs Vol. 1
FSOL - Dead Cities
FSOL - ISDN
FSOL - Lifeforms
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Gabriel Le Mar vs. Cylancer - Night Radio
Galaxy - Science Of Ecstasy
Ganja Beats - Paradise & Tranquility
Gel-Sol - 1104
Gus Till - Electric Oceans
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HAB - maPOd
Healer - Wonderground
Hol Baumann - Human
Hoopy Frood - Psychonaut
H.U.V.A. Network - Distances
H.U.V.A. Network - Ephemeris
I
I Awake - The Core
Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences
Ishq - Orchid
Ishq - Magik Square of the Sun
Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Sun
J
Jairamji - Kindred Spirits
Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home (CD1)
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Kaya Project - And so it goes...
Kaya Project - Elixir
Kaya Project - Walking Through
Kick Bong - A Cup of Tea
Kick Bong - Flower Power
Krusseldorf - Smokers Lounge
Kuba - How The future Sounded
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Liquid Stranger - The Invisible Conquest
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m² - War of Sound
m² - Aswad
M-Seven - Activate
Ma Faiza & Veet Sandeh - Liquid dreams
Makyo - Rasa Bhava
Makyo - Yakshini
Matt Coldrick - Music For A Busy Head
Matt Coldrick & Matt Hillier - Elemental Journey
Mere Mortals - Ethnic Dub Simphony In Ten Parts
Mere Mortals - Universal Code
Miles Tilman - 3D Concepts Part II
Minilogue - Animals CD2
Monolake - Plumbicon Versions
Mystical Sun - Primordial Atmospheres
Mystical Sun - After Materia Cloudland
Mystical Sun - Deeperworlds
Mystical Sun - Energy Mind Consciousness
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Nature of Light - Shores of Jupiter
Nodens Ictus - Spacelines
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Ocelot - One
Omnimotion - Dream Wide Awake
Ooze - Where The Fields Never End
Optic Eye - Light Side Of The Sun
Optica - All The Colours Of The Rainbow
Orbit Constructions - Androneda
Orthonorma - Time 2 Wait
OTT - Blumenkraft
OTT - Hallucinogen - In Dub
OTT - Skylon
Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest
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Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot
Padmasana - A Universal Consciousness
Padmasana - Padmasana
Phuture Primitive - Subconcious
Pitch Black - Ape To Angel
Pedra Branca - Pedra Branca
Perpetual Loop - Universal Flow
Psyfactor - Endless Universe
Q
Quaid - Eight a Day (Unreleased)
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S
S. Zeilenga - In Media Res
S. Zeilenga - Of Beauty & Mystery
Saafi Brothers - Midnight's Children
Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes
Secede - Tryshasla
Shakatura - Shakatura
Shakatura - Glactivation
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Shpongle - The remixes
Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment
Shulman - Endless Rhythms of the Beatless Heart
Shulman - Soundscapes & Modern Tales
Slackbabba - "And the Beat Goes Om..."
Solar Fields - Extended
Solar Fields - Leaving Home
Solar Fields - Movements
Solar Fields - Reflective Frequencies
Solar Fields - Extended
Sounds From the Ground - Kin
Spacey urban ambient
Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War
Stress Assassin - Within The Office Of Eye And Ear
Stress Assassin - Carrier Track
Sundial Aeon - Apotheosis
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Taruna - World Fusion
Ten Madison - Avenue
Terra Nine - Strange Craft
The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences
The KLF - Chill Out
The Kumba Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges
The Mystery Of The Yeti - The Mystery of the Yeti
The Mystery of the Yeti 2
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio
Toires - Hemisphere
Toires - Oued
Toires - Sanäti
Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Tribal Drift - Collective journeys
Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker/Rewired
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Unstable Emelents - Technical Illusions
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Vibrasphere - Archipelago
Vibrasphere - Selected Downbeats
W
Waterjuice - Melbaphonics
Welder - Vines And Stream
William Orbit - Strange Cargo III
X
Xerxes - The Mirror Formula
Y
Yagya - Rigning
Younger Brother - A Flock Of Bleeps
Younger Brother - Last Days of Gravity
Z
Zymosis - Elements Into Data
|VA|
VA - Air (DJ ZEN)
VA - Amberdelic Space
VA - Ambient Meditations
VA - Ambient Meditations 2
VA - Ambient Meditations 3
VA - Backroom Beats 1
VA - Backroom Beats 2
VA - Butterfly Dawn
VA - Caribbean Eclipse
VA - Chillosophy 3
VA - Natural born chillers
VA - Dissolving Clouds
VA - Downbeat Liquid vol. 1
VA - Elemental Journey Vol2
VA - Fahrenheit Project Part 3
VA - Floatation
VA - Infinessence
VA - Kumharas Vol 2
VA - Liquid Dub Vol 7
VA - Live At Dakini Nights
VA - Midnight Soul Dive
VA - Module 01
VA - Moonshadow Beats
VA - New World Dub 1
VA - Oxycanta
VA - Oxycanta Winter Blooms
VA - Peace Therapy 1
VA - Peace Therapy 2
VA - Peace Therapy 3
VA - Quality Relaxation
VA - Schlabbaduerst 006
VA - Soul Vibration 001
VA - Vajra
VA - Water
VA - Wider Horizons
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Ocelot - One (Avatar)
This is a great release. I hope you enjoy it as much as I.
I've been meaning to review the thing with my n00b skills.
I might give it a seventh listen now on the way to work!
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Cool.
I've been keeping my eye on this one for awhile now, though haven't had the chance to listen to any samples yet.
Hopefully the sound lives up to the title of the album.
I like the artwork and font choices for both albums.
Jon
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gosh Crowman, thats a very nice list of albums you got there
It is! Took me almost a full day of listening to samples/reading this weekend to compile it. Only one of those albums I've heard in full is The Magus. Can't wait!
I really have to slow down my purchases from here though. "Needed" to round out my growing collection with more uptempo and a bit of classical material before I did.
I've set aside a weekly budget that I'll try my best to adhere to.
What new music did you get today?
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