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Ultimae-like? Well, maybe, but more sci-fi, something you can't find on the great U label. One of my favorite albums this year, yet I want say things I don't like about it - in my opinion it lacks flow, I just can't connect these tracks story-wise, though they are brilliant! It may be my problem, but I would really like to travel all this "distance" to the far away "system" starting from the first second and reaching the point somewhere in the end, instead it's too discrete and track order does not represent order of places I visited listening through. If that makes any sense But well, that would be perfection.

And I thought it's about writing reviews... =)

How did you guys like RND - Ask the Dust (Celestial Dragon, 2008) and Mauxuam - Viceversa (Interchill, 2008)? I'm looking for something dubby, but more future-sounding and less default ethno-influenced, with real instruments though at least not laptop stuff. Any thoughts? If you come over something like I described - write here pls

It's great, looking forward to your reviews or at least short comments in the according thread

Tell me your budget and I'll try to make an advice (I've been reading different reviews and other info on phones for the last year or so). Also check head-fi.org for, well, everything you need, actually HD25 are great for djing or using as portables if you travel or move a lot - built like tank, I'd definitely get them If I was playing more. Technics :wank: at this area Though the price bites compared to them. They sound tight and focused so it's a great tool to turn knobs and press buttons with a smart facial expression but I never enjoyed this kind of phones for home listening, never worked longer than 30-60min. So I think you should try circumaural headphones with fat pads Some decent reviews and info here also: http://www.headphonereviews.org/ , but don't take their top10 seriously, it doesn't represent anything, just an average score from user-comments - some have 1 good/bad comment and some have balanced mark with 15 comments, it's a bit out of date too. Head-Fi's slogan is "Welcome to Head-Fi... and sorry about your wallet!" Have fun.

Headphones for me since I bought them 3 weeks ago, I dreamed about them for a year or two and one day I walk to a shop and there they are 60% from the original price here in Ukraine. Listened to most loved old albums and I can't express how they sounds To get the same quality speaker sound system I'd need much more money. Now looking for a decent amp, as there phones reveal flaws of my system. They'll shine

Hehe, I'm late Well, the color doesn't matter, it's a tool so what matters except it's pro qualities is comfort. Personally I'm happy with my phones, some say it's old in design and some other brands look more stylish... Who cares, I can listen to music for 6 hours and forget I'm wearing them

Haven't listened and enjoyed the darker side for a year now, except Parvati, but heard only good reviews for vol 1 and now there's the second chapter Will have to get my hand on these! Thanks.

Congrats! I got myself Beyedynamic DT990 Pro very cheap in a local store about 3 weeks ago. Now looking for a decent headphone amp, as my Sherwood sucks at that.

You're fast Thanks for the review! These big fat red A's make me even more anxious.

I also can't stand music-specified parties and go to sleep early. As a part of a promo group, we always have different styles - prog / dark prog / some faster psytrance / deep night stuff / forest trance and goa in the morning followed by suomi. You can't put everything in, of course, but diversity is needed.

I'm really anxious about Sundrops because of the slower bpms

I've enjoyed those, right in that order VA - Opus Iridium (Suntrip Records) Ra - 9th (Suntrip Records) Braincell - Frequency Evolution (Glowing Flame Records) Human Blue - Base Basket Buffet (Transient Records) M.E.E.O. - Highlight Me Please (Demon Tea Recordings) Artax - 8 Bits Of Bliss (Sundance Records) OOOD - Fourthought (Phar Psyde Records) VA - Little Worlds (Glowing Flame Records) VA - Divine Interventions (Liquid Records)

Gel-Sol - IZ This is the most pointless thread ever 1500+ pages of non-sense.

Agreed. Though I enjoy good quality ethno instruments and vocal recorded live

Perfect Stranger - Free Cloud (Iboga, 2008) Yuli goes minimal. Nice try, but the über long tracks get monotonous and boring. I don't get this idea for dance tunes, the dj has to play half of the track with so little going on? I mean I love long tracks, but the deep trancey ones, not progressive house / trance / techno / minimal. Just when you think "ok, enough of this" he tweaks the knobs and the sound changes. Not sure about it's dancefloor capabilities, so I find this a home-listening album, at least works fine as background music for working. I may be wrong, will give it more listens (I've heard it 5 times already). Also, there are some interesting neo-trance ideas among minimal artists, I really hope some of these psyprog->minimal guys follow that path, it should really be something. PS Again. What about making this thread sticky?

Just what I said and I completely agree with the rest.

Darkpsy is infected, just like full on. There is cheesy, primitive kind of full on and schranz, 160bpm terror music with blood and corpse on their covers. These things should be differentiated. My point is, it's great we have them and much more above all this. You can't deny there still are marvelous albums, brilliant producers, understanding organizators and people who give a damn about what they are listening to, what they want and what parties/festivals they are going to. I'd even say that the quality is much higher now. Utopia is utopia, this is reality and new people have their influence on psy pscene, but you still can get everything you want, can't you? Personally, what I get exceeds my expectations So thanks for everyone involved!

Darkpsy old guys out? Different story here, only old guys in darkpsy parties, teenagers in fool on. Darkpsy is the direct response to isra-blasters-exstacy-put-your-hands-up-in-the-air music Which actually has less to do with "psychedelic" than dark, in my opinion.

The people. Artists are free to create whatever they want. Only people define trends and stuff, as a result we are given low-quality music in more quantities (not to use the s-word). Ethno? Liquid sounds? Posford? Minimal? No melodies? - Who cares if it's interesting, musical and future-sounding? You can't stand still for 20 years producing, releasing and listening to the same music over and over and over again, psytrance is evolving and it's magnificent! I love goa trance, but I tend to enjoy new albums more than 50% of the old stuff

Hibernation - Some Things Never Change (Aleph Zero) Not what I expected (hoped something like Hibernation - Spatial Needs [Max.Chillroom, 2008]), wanted to write a review but can't find words The sound is glitchy, dubby, jazzy, funky, chilly, full of real instruments with IDMish click and cuts over it. Lots of details you notice after every listen. Just see the promo text: "We asked Seb to go places he never went to before, and he came back with Some Things Never Change, Hibernation’s debut album. It is a mix of downtempo electronica touching many genres and styles. Seb mixes here Lounge, Glitch, IDM, Psychill, Breaks, Ambient and more". Mission accomplished. BTW good thread, lets stick it to the top?

It would be better without all this bs, but hopefully it's the music that counts

Have you heard his latest album? What should I start with 1st or 2nd?

Any programmers? We could automate the process and get the results in 0.01 seconds I could help with text formatting, visual data presentation and stuff. Also, since we make the 2008 poll, we can come up with the rules we like.

Any mp3z?