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    X-dream, the best of

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Every album they did until Irritant is a masterpiece, subtle, hypnotic, rythmic, truly psychedelic without cheesy ethnic sitars, dark and relentless.

     

    But the best tune they ever did was surely this:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9t6N_7Tu8

     

    I once wrote this about it:

     

    "Lost in landscapes of distant streetlights, sparkles of illumination in industrial vistas and the deep purple night's sky. Cold as ice subtle melody, hypnotic x-dream style.. masterpiece."

    Underrated Artists

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Planet B.E.N was an utter genius of the era in my opinion and deserves to be ranked alongside Hallucinogen as one of the most psychedelic and influential producers of the 90s.

     

    Also:

     

    Spirallianz

    Gangnia

    Darshan

     

    And this one single track:

     

    California sunshine

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Voice of God

    Utopia

    Jajo

     

    And of course Rain.

     

    I have a soft spot for California Sunshine's euphoric brand of Goa; it's shameless and cheesy but doesn't care, and it achieves what it sets out to do which is but a tingle up your spine!

    Oliver Lieb making... techtrance?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    That track is banging. There is never enough Tech-Trance like this, looping and hypnotic, closer to Techno than Trance but with the energy of the latter. Oliver Lieb is great, and I can imagine this will get heavy rotation at the Berlin clubs, hopefully inspiring more stuff like it.

     

    5:07 ! Hits the fan.

    ECHOSPACE: Dub Techno or Tech House?

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    I love Deepchord Presents Echospace

     

    Some of it defies categorization, they released a bonus disc to Liumin which is completely beatless, just texture and sample and woven melody, it's absolutely incredible:

     

     

    As good as any ambient i've heard.

     

    And this video that accompanies the original release combined with the music is one of the greatest artistic experiences there is in my opinion (make sure it's in HD) :

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOgD4OybVMA

     

     

    In regards to your question, I do feel like the melodies are evocative of deep house, but still with more depth and melancholy, but the way they loop them and the percussion is a lot more techy. Some blend of the two, more reliant on a dub techno approach, with a large dose of whatever it is that only they can do!

    Old Electronic universe is very good

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    you guys make me laugh.

     

    Mdk

    Haha why?

     

     

    Anyway yeah his really old stuff is incredible. I wish artists were brave enough to make music that repetitive now, and i'm really not being sarcastic. Tracks like "One Love" and "Neutron Dance" are the hallmark of actual trance music that allows you to go higher and higher without the breakdowns and cheesy peaks of some modern music. He had an excellent ear for melody too, I mean, Portamento . . .

    ?604?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I think the story goes that some guy who was very high and in Goa stumbled into a warehouse with loads of sacks with rice (or somehing) in, and they were labelled 604, to his altered mind they all read GOA and the link was made!

    What ambient do you listen to?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Dude calm down, that's what I think of Psychill, don't take it personally. I'm not defining you (someone who I don't know whatsoever) in any way, I just can't stand that music. Don't attribute those comments about that style of music to who you are because that's not the intention. I can say I think music is shit without saying the person who listens to it is shit as well.

    What ambient do you listen to?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I do not listen to any "Psychill" such as Entheogenic or Shulman etc. I find it all pretty silly, corny and rather embarassing to listen to with all of its forced ethnic sounds and synthesized sitars.

     

    I very rarely listen to ambient with any beats, in fact I don't think true Ambient should have any beats whatsoever, but I absolutely adore drone ambient such as:

     

    Jefre Cantu - Ledesma

    Gas

    Tim Hecker

    Biosphere

    Fennesz

    William Basinski

     

     

    This is my favourite drone ambient track of all time:

     

     

    It's seriously divine, melancholy, textural, subtle, detailed in the foreground and background.

    THE most intense acidtrance climax?

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Very nice find! I have to agree that Acid Air Raid is basically the best that acid can get, but I know acouple of acid trance tracks that come close:

     

    Melodic with hard acid.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G5XWHndPiA

     

     

    At 5:00 this just might be the tightest acid i've ever heard, so intense.

     

     

     

    And this one is less "intense", but still has that genuine oldschool acid and some brutally euphoric acid Trance melodies.

     

    Highest quality Miranda tracks

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    The old Miranda tracks are the best, so acidic and analogue with incredible pump and energy: Step to the Stars, Gnocchi (especially the remix), Concorde.

     

    As for the track you mentioned, it is very downtempo and indeed beautiful but I don't believe she released anything else in that vein around that time.

    Drone Ambient

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    I've begun working through Thomas Koner's material, it's extraordinary, very unique and rich in sound design and atmosphere. And I got the Stars of the Lid album "The Tired Sounds", and it is excellent. Is Avec Laudenum much better?

    Also found an artist called Jefre Cantu Ledesma who's rapidly become one of my all time favourite artists. His album "Love is a Stream" is absolutely unbelievable, very textural and heavenly. I urge anyone interested in ambient and drone to check this out:

     

     

    Otherworldy in its beauty.

    What are you doing right now?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Me and my friend are going to do this thing with shots of beer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFbGMp5dnPw

    Me and about ten friends did a "centurion" one night, a shot of beer every minute for a 100 minutes. We had a bin in the middle for vomit and it was probably the most brutal experience of drinking i've had. It's not neccessarily the alcohol that gets you, but the fizziness of the beer that takes a massive toll on your stomach. One person reached shot 98 and projectile vomited across the room and another managed the centurion but at the cost of about two hours violent vomiting haha, so funny for the rest of us.

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