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    Your biggest surprise this year?

    in General Psytrance

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    Ra-Unearthly. I was never a big Ra fan and I thought this album will be similar to E-Mantra's downtempo albums which are very well produced, but I don't love them. But this album is awesome. Very trippy, melancholic and it sounds like it came from 1997.

     

    Don't you think it's too cheesy in some parts? I like Rain No Water, Ascend, Lightspark and the downtempo-version of lifethread, but the rest is just too cheesy for me.

     

    Very intriguing to me that you of all people like this album so much :D you're the one against the cheese most of the time, while I enjoyed many stuff you classified as too cheesy for you. But maybe you don't hear any cheese in this album... Ah, taste. So intriguing :D

    Your biggest surprise this year?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Ok, so apart from the albums and comps you knew were going to be good (like for me the new Suntrip and Zion604 compilations), what album and compilation was your biggest surprise this year?

     

    For me it's the free foresty Chill-out compilation Through the Afterlife (download it here), and Stereofeld's Frequenzwechsel (downloadable here). These two still blow me away every time I listen to them. So two free releases. Which blew me away. The quality of free psytrance/chill-out/goa releases has been greatly improving these last couple of years imo.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxYJON3LD-c

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAR-ym-K9Mc

    Stereofeld – Frequenzwechsel

    in 2013

    Posted

    Yet another very classy release for free... Great music, fantastic chill vibe and psychedelic to boot! Recommended for sure, every prog-fan and even the people who do not like prog should check this out.

     

    Pure earcandy.

    fine my jig is up

    in Off Topic

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    I love me some off-topic drama! Why people get worked up about things other people say on the internet is completely beyond me.

     

    Do not take anything seriously ever.

     

    Ow and procyon, please stay. :)

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    Ray Castle on oldschool Goa

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Yes x a million.. It's only as I get older and have been around the scene for a while that I'm really starting to notice such things though.. Perhaps at first you just are so overwhelmed and enthralled that 12 hour slots of the same sounds are ok lol..

     

    I think it's easy for us though to point out what's wrong but its hard for me to identify what can be done to swing things back the other way? :/

     

    Yeah, I agree it's a very good post by earwall. I pretty much agree on everything.

     

    To answer your question shpongled: I don't think we can. The global scene is too big to be under control. I think the only thing we can do is reflect on an individual level and act accordingly and in that way contribute a little to the evolution of psytrance. There will always be good music, whether a scene is fucked up or not.

     

    Aside from that... You were at Lost Theory, right? It wasn't the biggest festival, but you can't say there weren't enough people. The vibe was good, the music was good for the most part, and it was international. As long as there's this kind of festivals in the world, and good music, everyhting is fine by me :)

    Name some really good ambient compilations

    in General Psytrance

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    I might recommend some of the sentimony records compilations, which are free for download over at ektoplazm. I think it's probably a bit less dubby than what you mentioned before, but I think it's quality ambient none-the-less... Very cinematic at the very least.

    http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/special-places

     

    http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/time-loop-beyond-borders

     

    http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/absence-of-gravity

    Should you feel a bit more daring and want to venture into trippier more twisted kinds of ambient soundscapes I cannot, and I mean CAN NOT but recomend this gem of a comilation:

    http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/through-the-afterlife

     

    Enjoy!

    Goa Trance artists who do not take drugs.

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Of course Cosmosis was doing psychedelics - look at like half his track names..

     

    Also:

     

    1. Caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol are far worse to take regularly than psychedelics. Talk about killing creativity!

     

    2. LSD, Mushrooms, Mescaline, and DMT are non-toxic to the body/brain. Rather, they have great transformative powers.

     

    3. There is no single "message" from psychedelics - those people who said they "got the message so hung up the phone" probably still drink caffeine and alcohol - in my opinion the real reason people quit psychedelics is because it continually confronts them with changes they could make in their life, and with their deeper issues, and most people become less comfortable with change as they age.

     

    4. Basically, psychedelics require courage and a questing mind - alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine (and coke, heroin, speed, pills) are easy highs that provide no challenge - that's why most people eventually switch out of psychedelics into the easy drugs.

     

    5. I hope to be dancing to psytrance on psilocybin like I do now when I'm 100 years old :P

     

    You managed to convey in words what I was thinking all the while reading this thread :)

     

    I might want to add that I don't give a shit if an artist takes drugs or not. As long as the music is good.

    Classic tracks that you think are nothing special

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    that was after that guy said that he shouldnt bother because he wasnt interested.

    not beeing interested in hearing a track one not heard before, while that person likes other tracks of that artists .. well i agree, is not a goatrance fan.

     

    still doesnt give that person the reason to start swearing and telling him to shut up etc. totally uncalled for and from left field.

     

    I disagree, everyone has the right to want to listen to tracks on their own time. It has nothing to do with being a goa fan or not. Telling someone to 'listen to something or you're not a fan of the genre' is called peer-pressure and is actually quite immature in my eyes.

     

    What I do consider a bit unfortunate, is that it was so predictable that this thread would turn into a 'Blasphemy!'-flame thread, escalating quickly instead of just respecting other people's taste. If I don't like a couple of tracks from an artist I am not inclined to go out of my way and search for tracks that I do like by the same artist, even if offered some by other people that enjoy much of that artist's stuff.

     

    OT: I tried but couldn't really come up with a classic track I don't think is anything special :)

    Manmademan

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    WOA! thanks for that! Just bought one of the 5 cds remainng ;p now seeing the Cosmosis track, are the others old unreleased tracks? newer but first and only released here?

    mmm that MMM track is delicious ;D

     

    Yup, it's all old unreleased tracks! Great compilation :) But then again, everything and anything from Zion604 is great...

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