Jeff
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I've become quite a finicky customer over the years. Back in 1995 / 1997, I'd buy a CD with 3/10 good tracks, but now I only open my wallet for a minimum of 8/10 outstanding tunes. But don't forget that there were much less releases in the mid-90's !
Which leads to very few records for this year :
- Infected Mushroom : IM the supervisor
- The Misted Muppet : From the Legend
- Synsun : Symphonic Adventures
And planned before the end of the year :
- Talpa : The Art of being Non
- Filteria : Sky input
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Psy or Goa is just not the same with vocals with most, not all... but most psytrance and Goa because it distracts from where you want to go or your focus on something you are imagining or seeing.
May be or not. It depends on the focus you put on the music, as you pointed out lately in your post :
its the type of music you'll probably simply dance or drive to, not trip, zone out, or whatever else to.
Personally I deeply appreciate the sharp contrast emanating from spacey sound effects colliding with a standard human voice. In those cases, I must admit that my attention is absolutely not drawn by the meaning of the vocals, but entirely by this phenomenon. Intertwining real and surreal elements is an exercice Infected Mushroom are particularly good at by the way (I wouldn't say that they lately succeeded in it with their use of vocals though...). I do think this mixture is extremely powerful as far as psychedelia is concerned. As long as it is well made of course...
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Psychedelic trance is imo party music and it's purpose is to get people dancing all night, overcome mind&ego and make psychedelic and/or trance experiences.
That was the original purpose of "Goa Trance" indeed, that you can still find vivid today (fortunately !). Even though, I'd like to make some restrictions :
- the mystic flavour you mention is fading away nowadays. Lots of kids just wanna freak out to the max on crazy beats, and couldn't care less about "expanding their consciousness through the trance dance experience".
- there's definitely a line which can be drawn between party music and home-listening music in Psy. I'd say this line was less obvious a few years back. Personally I like both, but I agree with you that vocals on the dancefloor may be a bit disturbing, though perfectly fitting for a home experience. So...
A definite NO to singing psy trance tracks.
I'd add, as you imply : for the dancefloor.
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Total Eclipse for example is mentioned a lot less....but i think personally the contributed more for the kind of hyper-melodic style.
Indeed. Involved in the scene since early 90's, they were THE act around 1994-1995 in Europe. But for some obscure reasons, they are seldom mentioned as a key influence on the scene.
Back to the point : I don't appreciate Atmos, Hux Flux, Planet BEN and Cosma's music that much.
From a more general point of view, I have a hard time with any music deprived of melodies (like Techtrance or the noisy Scando sound) and Full-on which I find overall pretty boring (with lots of exceptions of course).
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Sorry for stating the obvious, but human voice is a very powerful instrument to convey so many feelings, I can't figure out why it bothers so many people when it is used in Psy Trance which IMO is precisely a very emotionally dense music !
I'm talking in general of course, but that is the perspective many use pertaining to that subject : "I don't like vocals in my Psy, period". A bit radical for me...
If it was made in a more specific way, like : "I don't like Duvdev singing in IM tracks, his voice doesn't fit with the songs", then I'd understand better.
Let the artists use every instrument they have at their disposal, no ?
J.
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'Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom' ofcourse
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What do you mean you say Andrea and Carlo were responsible for the music Pleiadians produced, and it was condemned from that day they left??? Did someone copy or steal someone else's idea's? Could you please ellaborate?
First off, I never sit at the table with those Fab Four. Anyway, from what I understood, reading here and there, they all had a more or less specific role in the band : Max was/is the leader, deciding in which direction the band should go. Carlo and Andrea were reportedly the melodic brains of the band, Carlo for the melodies and Andrea for the scales. As for Maurizio, he was in charge of arrangements.
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The latest piece of news (well, rather rumor) I heard was that Max and Maurizio definitely gave up the Pleiadians project.
Some say that Andrea and Carlo were responsible for the groundbreaking music Pleiadians produced on IFO and FOL, and that the project was condemned from the day both left the band anyway.
That said, they however made a track under the Pleiadians alias for the recently published "Fairy Tales" compilation, "Photonik Part 2".
If someone has sound news, I'd be interested.
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I bought it, and I'm listening to it in loop. And I still can't figure out why people keep saying this is pop music !
It's pure infected sound to my ears...
I'm wondering : is it all because of this clip story on Israel MTV ? Hey, a track is pop because it sounds pop, not because it appears on a pop channel, at least for me.
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how can there be a compilation refering to the history of Japanese psytrance and no word about Tsuyoshi Suzuki?????
Couldn't agree more. And it's a common feature for such "anniversary" comp, whatever the musical genre, to appear without the key figures. I wonder why : are the promising titles just a way of attracting customers ? Do the ol' masters refuse to appear on it ?
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Brainman - Brain Food (1995)
Never met anyone who likes this album, except supposedly the guy who exchanged it to me for Dementertainment !
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Well, well, well... I feel a bit annoyed here... To me, 3 or 4 tracks on this
comp sound much more Electronic World Music than Psy Ambient. I know guys, we
don't care about labelling music, but still... Anyway, two tracks stand out :
the GMS & 1300Mics, very varied, and the Shpongle one, which, as many comment,
sounds like a mix between Hallucinogen and Shpongle usual stuff. And the last
one : the Absolum track. I didn't like minimal style sofar, and this "fifth
Revelation" didn't make me change my mind... Psy Rating : 7/10. World Music
Rating : 9/10.
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The three songs I like here : Subsonic Overdrive, Casio Paya and Deeper and
Deeper. The point is that they aren't typical of their style, they sound very
old school. But I hate the guitar part on 380 Volt, doesn't sound Psychedelic
at all ! Nice use of guitar sounds can be found in Infected Mushroom or The
Delta. But here, yurk ! The other songs are a bit boring. 4/10
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Oh yeah ! 1,2,5 and 9 sound soooooooooo dark ! Very good stuff !! Very nice
melodies ! 7.5/10
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Great album, I realise I only bought reference releases by chance when I
discovered the Psy scene. Best tracks : 4,5,6,8 and 10, the ambient version of
Micronesia. 8/10
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Aside from the first track which I don't like at all, the songs sound all the
same...yet I love this album ! Very hard to explain. The dark bass is just so
powerful, BOM BOM BOM BOM, yeah ! Killers at parties or at home for the
neighbors hehe ! 8/10
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A great dark yet-not-too-much album. One of my first buy in the Psyshops. Best
tracks for me : Labyrinth, Phenomena and Concorde. hmm, only 8/10 because of
tracks 2 and 3 that I don't like at all.
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I like the first two songs pretty much, the rest is average, not uplifting
enough for me. 5/10
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The best Psy album I own so far. Great melodies, great distorted sounds.
Celaeno is the only bad track, they missed the chill-out one on this album,
but they made Seven Sisters on Family of light, so it's forgotten. The
production is a bit messy, too bad. Only 9/10 because of that.
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Far from being as powerful as Dropz... Far far far away from it.
Only Weird Monkey sounds good. 3/10.
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I bought this one after Classical, because I read all the wonderful reviews
here. And as usual when you do this, I was disappointed. This album is okay,
but not so innovative as Classical IMO. It's hard to find it interesting when
you have tasted their new sounds. Don't get me wrong : I'm not saying it's a
bad album, but I find it difficult to appreciate when you have heard
Classical. ?/10
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Distorted melodies, powerful and dark sound, that's why I love Psy Trance ! No
invention here, that's right, but what a trip if you want to freak out to full
throttle ! 8/10.
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Kox Box has a style of his own. I'm not particularly fond of it, yet I have to
recognize it's a very good album. I enjoyed the Stratosfear Remix a lot since
I didn't like the original version. To listen to this album at least once is
compulsory for every Psy Trance fan.
How many good tracks you need,...
in General Psytrance
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Do you mean my proposition should be reversed to more accurately reflect the downfall of Psy since the glorious heydays ?
Well, anyway, from a more down-to-earth point of view it is also linked to my personal money income... And I did succeed in finding 8 germs in the albums I mentioned. I know lots of people found those three pure crap, but hey, personal tastes...
J.