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Because I swore never to register with myspace.com //Edith says, that I still don't have to. I found the e-Mail address on another site, so I'll be contacting them directly. Thanks anyway.

Apart from the usual suspects, who've been named several times already, I'd like to name one of my favorite producers, Mr. Alex Diplock, aka E.V.P, aka RealityGrid. RealityGrid's "Another Reality" definetely is in my personal Top 5 of 2009. Wildthings Records just deliver all the time!

Hey there, I was just listening to a radio stream of a mix called "Oneness" by PsyborX DJ Team. At the end of the mix, from around 70:00 min on, there was this awesome track, which immediately made all my synapses explode with sheer joy. The track has a very 8-bit-ish sound in the background, something like a C64 SID tune playing...maybe I heard it in a C64 game years ago. I was too amazed to press the record button in time. I managed to capture a part of it, though. I already found the mix as a free download on the artist website, but I couldn't find a tracklist. Come on guys, save Christmas for me and help me out on this one, will ya? Thanks a bunch! http://www.heresiarch.de/LFO/oneness.mp3 (The first two and a half minutes are from the track I am searching)

Just try searching "Michelle Adamson" or "Perplex" in youtube and you'll get more of your beloved cheese than you'll ever be able to puke out.

Excellent VA and Arahat is a truly outstanding track!

Some parts make me wanna dance like a snake out of a basket...that's a good thing! Me likey!

- Too many people who don't care about the music - Too many people whining about things that "ruined" psytrance

Samadhi - Zero Gravity BOOOM! :posford:

Yeah, Technodrome! Lots of good labels have been mentioned already. For darker pounding psytrance, I'd recommend a few Russian artists to you, because they kick ass. You should try the Sun Blitz Compilation by Blitz Studios, as well as Sulima, who is Alexander, one part of Manifold. Then you should try everything released on Wildthings Records, E.V.P, Error Corrective, Archaic, RealityGrid and so on. Phyx (Evolver and Fatality are killer tracks) is one of my favorites, too. Maybe you'll like some older stuff like Absolum as well. Oh, not to forget Ajja! And Shotu! And Rev! I could continue like that If you (or your brother) like it a bit darker, then check out Samadhi and Fungus Funk - Vostok 1.

MFG - Intelligent Machine

Just for "Eyeless Observatory" I would've spent the money. Acid thunderstorm!

Just why do some ppl hate them? I am looking forward to hear some new stuff from AP. I will be forever grateful for those legendary tracks.

I had exactly the same feeling, but some of my Japanese friends explained to me, that it's just Japanese "style". I don't thing it's Japanese style, but maybe it's Tokyo's style, especially at the big events. One thing I cannot forget happened at the Astrix / Pixel concert. I wanted to go to the bathroom and I couldn't believe the length of the line of people waiting there. I thought WTF?!, so I just went ahead to see what was happening there. When I got to the toilets I realised, that the guys weren't standing in line for the toilets, but for the mirrors! No kidding, the guys were brushing themselves up and doing their hair! I mean...WTF?! There was so much hairspray in the air that it would have probably caused an explosion if someone would have lit a cigarette. And I found that that was probably the reason for the people not to dance: The (often very, very beautiful and stylishly dressed) women could not dance because of their high heels. I never saw women wearing high heels at a Psytrance party anywhere else. The guys could not dance because if they would have, their fancy hair constructions would have collapsed. It was all about style, not the music, at least that was my impression. Of course I don't want to generalize on that, because there have been other parties as well. I think it has become pretty obvious that the bigger and more popular acts become, the more the crowd diversifies. That's why it's called Pop-Full-On...or Pop-Progressive One will just find "regular" party people, who don't really care about the music, as long as it's danceable. Then there are lots of people, who are only interested in drugs, of course. For me it has become difficult to tell, if a party will be a good party, or not.

There are not that many sites which offer "niche" information in English. The best advice I can give you is to check out the following site: http://metropolis.co.jp/default.asp It offers highly useful information for visitors, including a party/clubbing guide. Be sure to check out clubs like ageHa, womb, club.asia and so on, although it may not me Psytrance. It's too bad that Quintrix Records in Shibuya had to close it's Disc Lounge, although on their website it is written that they were forced to move to another location and eventually will reopen again. Their online store is continuing business though. Anyways, that was a good place to get all the flyers with useful party information. Other than that, it is difficult to find information in English. As I said before, the best place to find party information and listings would be MIXI, but it's Japanese and you'll need to get an invitation from another MIXI member in order to register an account.

When I lived in Japan, almost a year ago, the "scene" was still strong imo. I attended several parties/concerts, and there were always a lot of people. Astrix even managed to fill the Zepp Tokyo, which is a huge place! But I have to say that I didn't like the big events that much, because people weren't dancing at all. It's hard to describe...everybody seemed to be in a good mood, but few people were really dancing. At the smaller parties it was different. I was in several clubs and I liked it a lot, especially the Yabai Records parties. It's interesting to see the style difference between Japanese and European/German parties and party guests I've never been to parties outside Japan with so many beautiful women attending, but maybe that's just my opinion Anyways, entrance fees and drinks are way more expensive than here in Germany, almost all of the parties start earlier and most of them end at 6:00 a.m., except for the "Aftershow parties". I've not been interested in events in Japan (as I'm back in .de), but a quick look at some of the sites of known organizers made me come to the conclusion, that there are still parties in fairly big locations with known artists. The best place to start looking for event/party information would definetely be MIXI, which is the Japanese equivalent to facebook/myspace. It's Japanese though. Hey Jannis, Japan is so far, why not come to play in Germany? Btw "Eyeless observatory" is a stroke of genius. Edit: One thing that annoyed me a bit: Pop-Full-On was the big thing back then, e.g. people went crazy during the Last Men Standing set. God, SO boring.