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    favorite Transwave track?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Cycles of Life, skin tinglingly euphoric.
    Zero Density, for its unexpected resurgence towards the end into hysterical intensity.
    Unmooged, a very old hardtrance track, quick as hell.

    The Rezwalker, spiralling acid lines and the classic Transwave kick.

    The crème de la crème of Tech-Trance

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Anyone who remembers Nuclear Ramjet?

    I've got their 1998 album, wouldn't quite call it pure TechTrance though, there's some minimalism in its stripped down rythmic sections that is, but also some very melodic peaks (still excellent though).

    Fave track off of Age of Aquarius would be:

     

     

    Very melodic.

     

    Is their later stuff TechTrance? Any good?

     

     

    i dont listen to it very often

     

    but when i do

     

     

    its

    X-Dream - Thorazin (masterpiece)

    Planet BEN - Schleiffer (also awesomeness)

    Agreed, excellent excellent tracks. Thorazin on full volume is some full power bom shankar shit.

    The crème de la crème of Tech-Trance

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    All above, plus two of my favorites:

     

    Eargear (specially Pegelreiter)

     

    and a masterpiece:

     

    Platform - Hypnoplant

     

     

    Edit: as you mentioned KURO in your post, I shamelessly promote a mix I made of his tracks, as KURO and CHARM, a tech-trance side project of KURO and JIN. Hope you like it, despite my lack of perfect transitions (which I don't care much):

     

    https://soundcloud.com/djprocyon/a-tribute-to-kuro-king-of

     

    Listening to Platform - Hypnoplant now, it's incredible! I feel like i've been looking for it since I first heard Spirallianz. Do you know anything else as heavy and techy as this?

    The crème de la crème of Tech-Trance

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Spirallianz - Blast Food

    Stereopark

     

    Midi Miliz - Antistat

    Passages

    Non Standards

     

    Children of Paradise - Urban Alien

     

    X-Dream - Irritant

     

    Igneous Sauria - Skint

     

    Noma - Navigator

     

    V/A - Flying Rhino: Seventh Flight, Elevation

     

    Snug as a bug - Imitate People

     

    Haldolium - Be Real

     

    S-Range - 2001

     

    Planet B.E.N - Silver

     

    Yumade - Danz Ego

     

     

    There are more, but these are my favourites.

    Do you consider these artists legendary?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    In my opinion none of those are "Ledgends".
    There are the big three: Etnica/Pleiadians, Hallucinogen and Astral Projection, and then I feel there is a second rung that consists of artists such as: Cosmosis, Transwave, X-Dream, MFG, Man With No Name, Total Eclipse, Electric Universe, Shakta, Green Nuns of the Revolution and perhaps a few others.

    For the record i've always felt Space Tribe were highly overrated.

    Do you remember your first 3 goa /psy tracks ?

    in General Psytrance

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    I'd heard some psytrance already, some euphoric Israeli like Vibe Tribe (which I still have a soft spot for even though if I discovered them now I'd probably reel at the sound), and then a mate said I should check out the "older stuff". Karan's torrent took me to these, which I adored and still rank in my favourite tunes:

     

    Hallucinogen - LSD

    Boris Blenn - Jeboa-Electrogarden

    Blue Planet Corporation - Overbloody Flood

    Olly's traditional art

    in Visual Promotion

    Posted

    Haha! I've got to admit it's a definite fad but I feel a bit seperate from those who take disposable images of themselves in abandoned houses wearing beanie hats; I travel by motorcycle for a number of hours to reach certain locations for the shots and have studied dark room photography at my local college.

    Anyway for those images I was really influenced by my favourite album cover at the moment:

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    Your top 10 Trance albums of all time

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    1. Etnica - Alien Protein

    2. Hallucinogen - Twisted

    3. Spirallianz - Blast Food

    4. Planet B.E.N - Trippy Future Garden

    5. Midi Miliz - Non Standards

    6. X-Dream - Trip to Trancesylvania

    7. X-Dream - Radio

    8. Astral Projection - Trust in Trance

    9. Pleiadians - Identified Flying Object

    10. Gangnia - It Came From the 4th Dimension

    The top three are in order, the rest are vaguely in order.



    The best kind of festival lineup for you?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    12:00 - 18: 00 - The highest quality Newschool Goa (Artha, Astrancer, Artifact303, Filteria etc)
    18:00 - 23:00 - Early 2000s TechTrance (Spirallianz, Midi Miliz, Snug as a Bug, Yumade etc)

    23:00 - 02:00 - Forest (Derango, Atriohm, Ghreg on Earth etc)

    02:00 - 05:00 - Iboga style Progressive

    5:00 - 12:00 - Old School Goa & Acid Trance Classix

    Rinse and repeat!

    Worst Etnica/Pleiadians album

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Chrome Nitrox Sharp really make me question if its even the same people involved programming the music. Only good track on the 3 albums is Photonic. Is there a different in chrome western edition?!?

     

    Well two members left, so it's not really the same group.

     

    I agree for the most part that Nitrox, Chrome and Sharp are significantly worse than their Goa albums, which are obviously masterpieces. There are a few TechTrancey tracks in these albums that I actually really like (as I adore minimal, early 2000s techtrance: Spirallianz, Snug as a Bug etc), but to hear them from "Etnica" makes it difficult to take them seriously when they're so much worse than their 90's output.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Olly's traditional art

    in Visual Promotion

    Posted

    May as well share!

     

    A lot of these are recent, within the last year, but the two self portraits are from high school.

     

    surreal_landscape_01_by_ollywithbeans-d5

     

    female_stufy_02_by_ollywithbeans-d5g240q

     

    female_study_01_by_ollywithbeans-d5fynkw

     

     

    Self_Portrait_003_by_ollywithbeans.jpg

    Self_Portrait_004_by_ollywithbeans.jpg

     

    landscape_01_by_ollywithbeans-d5fyojb.pn

     

    This last one is the most recent painting i've done, finished it last month, unfortunately its a poor quality image but it's by far the piece i'm most pleased with:


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    Forest Psy

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Yeah I love forest, it's so complex and rich, without relying on a bassline for impact. It can be melodic or simply textural; I think it's one of the subgenres with more integrity these days.

    But the big question is: Will Derango ever release a sequel to Tumult?

    Drone Ambient

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Does anyone else here listen to Drone Ambient? I know that Kosmiktentacles does but haven't seen him post in a while.

     

    A few of my favourite artists are:

     

    Tim Hecker

    Gas

    Robert Henke

    Stray Ghost

     

    I find I can lose myself completely in some of these atmospheres, appreciating the sheer richness and depth. The only issue I find with the genre is that it is very easily copied, and therefore difficult to discern the derivative from the masterful, sometimes i'm not sure whether to apply myself to a release, or sometimes if i'm looking too hard in a release that is simply not worthy of the time!

    Unfortunately Drone Ambient seems ot be a genre completely saturated with a huge amount of releases every month (yes, even more than fullon), so i'd appreciate anyone elses particular gems so that I can spend less time wading through the dross.

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