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  1. Yeah i've been hearing this night time full-on you seem to be talking about, the djs call it "slick", because it's rapid with very high production quality and little to no melody, and yes the acid makes itself known every couple of tracks, really good to dance to. I still find it quite predictable and not particularly psychedelic, just your average cliche bubble/fart sounds laced on top of a powerful and pleasing bassline. Not for home listening personally, but quality on the right night.

     

    V/A Temple Of One represents the style i've been hearing a lot on the trance floor.

  2. Leary very famously said, "you must turn on, tune in, drop out," and by this he meant that all people should take psychedelics. This is an ignorant and dangerous as well as damaging view, I hate it when people believe that psychedelics are the answer to all faults with society etc, its just idiocy. I know so many damaged people that became that way from taking acid believeing it was some sort of key that they could never get to the end of. Few things Mckenna said were quite agreeable but he also spent a lot of his time deciding when the world is going to end, thinking about the fact that mushrooms are alien lifeforms sent from space purely because they can exist in a vacuum, despite evidence towards evolution, but overall they were authority figures themselves, and it's just so ironic that they're going on about the right way to live and denouncing all others while preaching open-mindedness. Mckenna said it was our job to take philosophical concepts from psychedelic experiences so that we can advance, for me this dehumanises the experience, it makes people think that all acid is is a key to the algorithms of space and time etc, when really it's an emotional, personal experience, there is no obligation to trip in a certain way, because that's impossible. Overall I dislike they're obvious love of being adored, their egotism. I find it ironic that they (much more with Mckenna) use the destruction of ego in certain experiences to compound their pride and egotism when not high. There are far more profound people out there, Neem Karori Baba, Alan Watts, Krishnamurti. This is all my opinion though, and that's all it is.

  3. There's a group of people who listen to psytrance, and insofar as you listen to psytrance and go to psy shows, you're part of a given subculture. It's the nature of modern subcultures that they all tend to overlap and that no-one belongs to one subculture exclusively, but they're all still there. Psytrance culture has a thoughtform of its own, so to speak, at this point, and exists fairly independently of whatever you have to say about it. You can deny there's a psy scene, but Ozora's still going to happen, if you catch my drift... it's unrealistic or solipsistic to flat out deny that something exists when that very something has tangible effects in the world.

     

    (for the record, I don't get a good feeling from Leary OR from McKenna, but that's a different story.)

     

    I agree with your description of the scene, but really agree with you about Leary and Mckenna, I can't stand they're delluded forced attitude to drugs and egotistical ideas about enlightenment. Mckenna was just insane, and personally I think he missed the whole point of psychedelics as I see them (IMO of course). Sorry for being off-topic.

  4. Great recomendations! MFG are incredible at creating atmospheres, but it took me a long time to appreciate them. Sandman is sick, one of the best in twisted Goa. BPC do create nice atmospheres but they aren't as dramatic as some, like Chi-A.D's huge epic ballads.

    Sorry guys but I can't get those feelings from newschool, i'm not trying to make a point or anything but they just don't give me those emotions and deep entranced calm, I was dissapointed with Erta Ale after all the raving reviews tbh, it was a bit bland.

    I found this gem that does the trick as well:

     

  5. I agree, one needs to adjust his ears to listen to acid house, it lacks melody. I think it is because acid house sounds are raw, hard, given it is a direct descendant of Detroit techno. Listening to it now, it's hard to realise why acid house was the hype those days: it was the first time that people listened to 125 bpm, a novelty, something never heard before. I remember how entranced I felt when I listened to Phuture's Acid Trax beats. I think if a flying saucer landed before my eyes it wouldn't make me so stunned as when I heard the first high bpm track. :blink:

     

    It's definetly novel! I can never get over the whistles haha, but high bpm? Fullon Psytrance was my first introduction to electronic music so I immediately developed a love of the fast, 4-4 banging beat, one of the problems i've always had with House in general is that i've always found it too slow for my tastes, then again I love ambient but that's a different kettle of fish.

  6. I've been listening to Future Sound of London an awful lot lately and am time and again blown away by the atmospheres they create, so rich and vivid, and think this quality of music displays an intense psychedelic effect that you rarely get with more danceable music, however, I have faith in old school Goa and would like some suggestions of the most atmospheric tunes you can think of. My own example is Darshan, the tunes immediately set a strong mood and aura that continues and develops (hence why Darshan's one of my favourite artists).

     

    Sooo, go for it!

  7. I can only listen to Acid House when i'm in a really specific mood, the first time I heard it I was really dissapointed because i'd been listening to Solar Quest - Acid Air Raid and searched for more acidic stuff, Phuture - Acid Tracks came up and I was just baffled, I know they're different genres but still. It's nice and groovy but never for home listening for me.

  8. Very nice tune!

     

    I think there's an awful lot of good Psychill out there! Carbon Based Lifeforms of course, as well as Androcell, Cell, my current favourite Aes Dana, Abakus, Asura, Hypnagog (similarities to the tune you posted), Solar Fields, Distant System, Psyfactor did a nice ambient album, Entheogenic & Shpongle (my least prefered) and finally the masters of the genre: Future Sound of London.

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