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Continuous mixes, all of them, with the exception of "Earthshine", which is an uptempo album. My vote goes to "Movements" as the best Solar Fields album by some distance.
As for the rest, "Extended" is quite probably his finest pure ambient release, while "Blue Moon Station" is the most versatile one - from ambient to uptempo trance back to downtempo...
Think Im going to go for Blue Moon Station & Movements as cant believe how good Leaving Home is.
On another point I am going to buy a decent set of headphones to get the best out of the music so can anyone recommend a decent set for listening to this type of music (Im in the UK so looking to spend up to £70). Also would Open Back or Closed Back headphones be best, and what sort of frequency range should I be looking at?
Cheers
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There are so many excellent releases in this genre.
We recently compiled our Top 10 Psytrance albums, of all time. That topic might be useful to you, but keep in mind that most people on this particular forum enjoy the stuff pre 2000. Most of the stuff in our top tens can no longer be purchased.
Here are some releases from the last six or so years that I find to be of high quality:
12 Moons - Solid State
Atmos - 2nd Brigade
Filteria - Sky Input
Freq - Strange Attractors
Son Kite - Colours
Haltya - Electric Help Elves
Human Blue - Electrolux
Talpa - The Art of Being Non
The Misted Muppet - From The Legend
CPC - Uber Den Angst
Derango - Tumult
Jaia - Fiction
Magnetrixx - Wired
Midi Miliz - Non Standards
Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception
Ocelot - VectorSelector
Psykovsky - Debut
Filteria - Heliopolis
Triac - Mean Between
Vibrasphere - Archipelago
Zolod - Deja Vu Fabrique
Parahalu - Space Rock
Transwave - Backfire
Abakus - That Much Closer To The Sun
Adham Shaikh - Fusion
Bluetech - Elementary Particles
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible
Hallucinogen - In Dub
Phutureprimitive - Subconscious
Pitch Black - Electronomicon
Shpongle- Are You Shpongled
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
If you manage to get through the above list you will find that psytrance is a very diverse genre, ranging from the utterly mad and intense to the mellow and laidback. Sometimes there are beautiful melodies, other times the melodies are more subtle and sometimes there are no melodies at all.
Try some of the above releases and tell us what you like and we can give you more specific recommendations.
If you visit Psyshop or Saiko Sounds you can preview and purchase some of the releases.
You can also visit Discogs to get an idea of labels, artist connections, previous releases etc.
All right, I took delivery of Solar Fields album Leaving Home and Distant Systems album Spiral Empire today and both are bloody brilliant. Can anyone recommend any other similar albums?
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No difference. Original pressing and reissue. Even the CD logo and the inside liner notes are exactly the same.
The music has not been touched or altered in any way.
Thats good to know, cheers for the info. Do you also know if these albums are continuous mixes or individual tracks as the reviews I have read dont say. And which if any would you recommend?
cheers
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There are so many excellent releases in this genre.
We recently compiled our Top 10 Psytrance albums, of all time. That topic might be useful to you, but keep in mind that most people on this particular forum enjoy the stuff pre 2000. Most of the stuff in our top tens can no longer be purchased.
Here are some releases from the last six or so years that I find to be of high quality:
12 Moons - Solid State
Atmos - 2nd Brigade
Filteria - Sky Input
Freq - Strange Attractors
Son Kite - Colours
Haltya - Electric Help Elves
Human Blue - Electrolux
Talpa - The Art of Being Non
The Misted Muppet - From The Legend
CPC - Uber Den Angst
Derango - Tumult
Jaia - Fiction
Magnetrixx - Wired
Midi Miliz - Non Standards
Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception
Ocelot - VectorSelector
Psykovsky - Debut
Filteria - Heliopolis
Triac - Mean Between
Vibrasphere - Archipelago
Zolod - Deja Vu Fabrique
Parahalu - Space Rock
Transwave - Backfire
Abakus - That Much Closer To The Sun
Adham Shaikh - Fusion
Bluetech - Elementary Particles
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible
Hallucinogen - In Dub
Phutureprimitive - Subconscious
Pitch Black - Electronomicon
Shpongle- Are You Shpongled
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
If you manage to get through the above list you will find that psytrance is a very diverse genre, ranging from the utterly mad and intense to the mellow and laidback. Sometimes there are beautiful melodies, other times the melodies are more subtle and sometimes there are no melodies at all.
Try some of the above releases and tell us what you like and we can give you more specific recommendations.
If you visit Psyshop or Saiko Sounds you can preview and purchase some of the releases.
You can also visit Discogs to get an idea of labels, artist connections, previous releases etc.
Thanks (everyone) for taking the time to post your recommendations, its much appreciated. I have listened to samples of most of the artists mentioned in the thread and have come up with the folowing list that gets my attention:
Vibrasphere
Aes Dana
Bluetech
Phutureprimitive
Lauge & Baba Gnohm
Solar Fields
Asura
H.U.V.A Network
Distant System
Etheogenic
Anyone got any recommendations of specific albums for the above artists or anything similar that I might like. Prefer my music to be continuous mix rather than a collection of individual tracks.
Also could someone tell me if the Solar Fields albums are mixed or individual tracks?
Cheers again
Gadgie
Also been looking at the Solar Fields albums - Blue moon station & Leaving Home, but there are two versions of both, the originals and new releases from 2008 that appear to have vocals. Can anyone tell me what the differences are by any chance?
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Hi everyone,
As the title says Im new to all of this psy-trance stuff.
Been a big fan of Trance for a good few years but was getting tired of the same old sounds over and over and was on the look out for something very different. Stumbled onto Solar Fields by chance a couple of days ago and have been listening to various tracks of theirs on-line and have been mighty impressed. Also been listening to tracks by Asura, H.U.V.A Network & Aes Dana and Im getting really excited about acquiring some new deep thought provoking music to usher in a new chapter in my life.
In music I love cds's that take me on a journey, cd's I can totally lose myself in where each track is mixed seemlessly into the next. Trouble is havnt been able to find any music like this for a long long time. Usually I find really decent albums that are spoilt by 3 or 4 terrible tracks (a real hate of mine) and consequently cant listen too them anymore.
I would be very gtateful indeed for some guidence, definately want to get a couple of Solar fields albums (I prefer continuous mix cd's which Im guessing they all are?) but dont know what to go for, was thinking maybe Blue Moon station as all the tracks I have listened too so far sound excellent and also Movements (how do they differ in style?).
But bearing in mind that Im brand new to this any recommendations of outstanding must buy albums from the last few years would be brilliant.
Cheers
Gadgie
new to all this, need some guidence
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Cheers No Man's land for the info was actually looking at those today along with the v600's. Have you had any problems with the bracket braking as I read that this can sometimes be a problem, although anything of Sony's that I have ever bought in the past has been very reliable.