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Phluff last won the day on November 30 2023

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    Goa makes the cake. Everything else is just icing.

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  1. I’ve never met another goa-head. The only artist people here know is Infected Mushroom. You just don’t see it around here— nobody I’ve talked to has heard of it.
  2. I am aware that a lot of us already know people from the forum in real life; on the other hand, there are probably many who only know one another through the forum itself. For anyone who has interest in meeting fellow Goa-heads virtually or, better yet, physically, where we can listen to music together: what part of the world do you live in? I’ll go first: I’m in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Have hybrid car, will travel.
  3. Can’t go wrong with industrial. Suicide Commando-Jesus Wept (Resurrect V.2020)
  4. Just need the reviews section to pop off again. I’ll come up with a few for 2020-2023. Need to know what’s good!
  5. Tom from Indianapolis (in the States). I’m here quite often. Been into goa/psy since 2005. Listening to a ton of New School Goa these days. Hard to know what’s good with no operational psynews reviews section— I’ll check out Bandcamp + Discogs.
  6. I’m kind of an outsider here (onlooker of 15 years) but I don’t think it’s necessary to exclude people from the conversation. Perhaps we didn’t really understand where the other was coming from based on our words. As far as I’m concerned, this thread should be about the music community, (the psytrance community! at a peace gathering on the border, of all people to be targeted) and about concern for the victims. They were targeted by hateful people (terrorists who don’t represent their community) and those victims should still be alive. Perhaps the rest of the conversation should stay on other forums, and we ~everybody~ should listen as much as we speak (and speak with empathy).
  7. No. This thread is just a place to share in our common humanity. These victims have nothing to do with any of that. This is not the place for that discussion. Do you walk into a funeral and start playing the Devil’s advocate with cancer?
  8. I did it, I found the most melodic trance track. The whole thing is great! The song proper starts at about 2:30, and from then it’s rather melodic. But at 11:30 or so it begins a kickass melody that is probably two and a half minutes long. No lie. It’s a 16-minute track, longest I’ve heard since “…And the Day Turned to Night”, but it doesn’t feel like it. I’m seriously in love with this track. Going to go ahead and check out everything Psy-H Project has ever done.
  9. I've been on the hunt for several days now, and have searched just about every relevant comment on just about every "melodic" or "melodies" post. I've also gone through Suntrip's catalog (specifically the releases that I don't already know somewhat well) up to 2009. Celestial Intelligence write outstanding melodies all the time in every track, rarely repeating a loop once they've moved on to another melody). I haven't put a lot on my playlist otherwise, but I've found some good stuff: Filteria - Wormhole at 4:31 Agneton - In the Heart of a Dying Star at 2:29 And Artifact303 - Feelings And I would be remiss if I didn't feature the song that got me obsessed with melodies in Goa: Celestial Intelligence - Alteration at 2:35 That's the stuff! It's not just playing an arpeggio, noodling around on the same 5 notes in a chord, but really beautiful melodies that could stand on their own in a jazz or prog song. Many of their other songs feature a dozen melodies or more. I looked into nitzhonot, but other than Agneton there's a lot of cheese. After listening to (or remembering) these, can y'all think of anything?
  10. Thanks a billion! He's got a large catalog
  11. Necropost! Happy holidays I've been listening to Celestial Intelligence since last year. Like, nonstop. I'm in danger of wearing it out. I've listened to pretty much everything else in this post as well, and sadly I need a little something else. Astral, Afgin, Filteria, IFO (!), these all do it for me. But nobody does it like my homies from Macedonia C.I. Got anything for a melody fiend? Less is more, really -- if you can think of one or two really kickass artists that'll do me more good than 5 or 10 okay ones. Thanks!
  12. I don't know what to say. I can't say how sorry I am that this has caused your wife pain. I guess this is a conversation that not everyone wants to have who is affected by it. It's the number one conversation taking place in the States right now, so I thought it might be one that it would benefit this board to have.
  13. @Tsotsi Yeah, that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. It's pedestrian here. I live in a pretty insular community, composed primarily of progressives, so I don't hear that much at all compared with when I lived in the city. But our little oasis is surrounded by rural towns, so we get a lot of Trump supporters and Confederate flag-wavers coming into town for work and stuff. What I was meaning to say was that the author of this book, Reni Eddo-Lodge, says that in Britain, racism is a big problem and nationalism as well. British nationalists are just as afraid of immigrants as the American ones, just as racist, and just as shameless.
  14. That's interesting. I've read one book by a black American woman since the killing of George Floyd, and I'm currently reading one by a black British woman. So it's interesting that you say the UK is an exception to the general rule of nationalism over racism in Europe. Not to say that Britain doesn't have its own nationalism problem, because it does, but the narrative given by this author is that racism is still very much a factor in the way she leads her daily life. It is such an unhealthy big problem here, and I sadly hear so little about other parts of the world sometimes, so that my conception of racism around the world may not be as truly representative as I thought. I still don't think it's easy to be black anywhere other than Africa, and even then you have places like South Africa and a bunch of colonies where there's that intense strain.
  15. No, you hit the nail on the head. It can be an awkward topic in some ways, but I would say it still needs to be had, because it affects every person of color. Also, sorry for writing/deleting/writing again the part about LGBT producers, as noted above I didn't want to attract any negative attention to people who might be put at risk. I hope this conversation about race doesn't do that, either... And Chi-A.D. was the soundtrack for my second and most influential Goawakening.
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