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Phototropic kind of exploded, no ?

Anyone is free to submit a review, it would be published. But I think nobody wants to dive into anything related to that individual.

Except a very few exceptions, I can say Goa artists are friendly people. Filteria, Crossing Mind, Mindsphere, Artifact303, Nebula Meltdown, E-Mantra, Ka-Sol, RA, Afgin, Radical Distortion, Agneton, PharaOm, Imba, InnerSpace, Ethereal, Talpa, Ephedra (met them at various times since 2004) are all cool, down to earth people! Merr0w (met in 2008 and later) is a shy guy, but nice too Shakta (several times since 2007) is a wonderful guy full of energy! Moonweed (2010) was cool too. Psyside (several times in 2002) were the typical new french kids on the block also very energetic. Toï Doï (2002) was a relaxed and precise guy, who like things done in a friendly but stright way. Tim Schuldt (2003) is a nice person, with lots of hindsight, which contrasts with his physical features I had somewhat a bad experience with Dimension 5 (2007)...enough said. Gilbert/Martin Cooper from Asia 2001 (met first time in 2003 ?) also used to be a chilled dude I remember spending some a little time with Toirès in 1998, but I can't recall what we said. Also met Erez from Infected in 99, twice I think. Nice guy. Logic Bomb (2002) were very firendly geeky guys enjoying a lot what they were doing. The Delta (Marcus, Arne, Wayan, 2004) too. UX (Krys and RX, in 2009) were weird but nice to talk to. Power Source, Mystica, Sandman (2009) were super friendly as well. Roy from Shidapu (2010?) was of course extremely nice. Aes Dana, Mahiane, Solar Fields, Asura, Cell (met several times since 2003) are all cool guys. I met Shift in 2000 or 2001, a super crazy and casual guy. Spoke with Psychaos a loooong time ago, nice too. Tegma (2002?) were fantastically friendly although we didn't know each other at all. Virtuart (2003) was OK, pretty cautious about what he was saying I think. The Etnica guys are cool too (I met Max in 99, Maurizio in 2012) Stéphane from Bamboo Forest (2009), Jaïa (2005), Silicon Sound (2003), also very nice dudes Blue Planet Corp (2005), Har-El (2010?), Antares (2011) and Goasia (2008) were more "reserved" persons Lost Buddha (several times between 2007 and 2012) was kind of an ass licker and proved to be a complete idiot. Tetraktys (2004) was very chilled too, despite his super dark music Phatmatix (2006) sounded quite speedy. Gregh On Earth (2006) was chilled Chromatone (2006) was kind of distant but still nice. Ocelot (2006) sounded completely out of his mind, but I heard several times later that he was a nice guy. I probably met him on the wrong day... I was told I'd met Zoo-B in 2002, but I don't remember any of it Of course there's Colin OOOD too, friendly being his second nature as everyone knows Ah there is also Polaris, I met him before he made music, somewhere in 1997...silent dude. Same thing for one of the guys of Gangguru / COP (the tall blond one) met shortly in 2000. Nothing much to say.

+1 totally Electro Sun - Higher Than Ever, ahah what a joke.

Reading a Psynews thread can make you slip in another dimension. That's a fact.

Héhé I remember a guy in costume & suit, dancing like mad at a Rhakti Dei Festival in 2003 or 2005, that was fun. Anoebis told me that when he played in Tokyo, he saw people arriving in costume, changing to fluo clothes before dancing all night. Well, there's a few people living for the music, with dreadlocks, dressing in fluoro clothes like Anoebis, but they are rare. Thinking that the whole scene is like that is cliché. When you think about it, going to a festival such as Boom is quite a budget (plane, bus, entrance, food...) and a significant % of the visitors actually have degrees and serious jobs. That's my case, I dress like anybody, have an engineer degree, (used to) work for a big ass coporation...and yet (used to) go to festivals and run a Goa label on the side... The perfect example used to be Burning Man: MANY of the attendees actually worked in the Silicon Valley.

If we didn't have the Balkans, there would be much less interesting Psy music these days. Look at Ten Spins Around The Sun: 6 out of the 9 tracks of CD1 are from there! And 5 out of 8 tracks of CD2 too. +1, definitely

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NO email or soundcloud notification from Radi or Radish(2) ever reached our mailbox. THAT is the truth. Radi, when exactly did you supposedly send us that promo? What is that supposed to mean? It's a construction of the mind, a fallacy. If it refers to us, it's complete bullshit. If anyone is doing that, he's an idiot, and if anyone said we did that, I want his name so I can discuss the matter with him. +1 There we are... Radi you are misinterpreting what I said and I fear you will bounce on our statements again and again till the thread goes <kaboom>. We don't want fast music. We want good music. By our standards (human ones). And we also know, from the comments and sales of our previous releases, what people may expect from us. No more no less. Your music is right inbetween uptempo and downtempo, therefore it's hard to find a slot for it. That's all. Now if I can give you an advice, it's to: keep on producing please yourself That way you will progress, refine your style and your music will end up finding its public. Nevermind. I'm honnest, 80% of the music we receive is less good than Radi's. A lot of promos are made by people who don't stand a chance to get released - ever -. Here, the flow is okay, the melodies are good (not so original but that's fine enough), and the mixing is decent. Remains to see if Radi would be able to renew himself after a few tracks. When selecting a compil I have 4 folders: "Good", "Average", "Nope" and "Wrong style". If I found these tracks in my mailbox they would end up in the "Average" folder. Tracks ending up there are never eventually selected but they are respectable nonetheless. Then I would only focus on the "Good" folder, so that would be it. As a non-producer, I tend to be respectful to those who actually create something, as opposed to those who only criticize (no I'm not talking about you in particular, I have someone else in mind).

OK I listened and I have to say this is pretty good. One of the tracks really sound like old Dragonfly music. But I undertsand why it doesn't get any success with labels : Radi's music is low bpm, trippy, partly repetitive. And nowadays people want straight stuff, fast, lots of energy... Radi ought to keep on sending his music to labels like Ovnimoon or Goalogique, he could well have a chance!

Thanks for the huge work! I'm happy 4 Suntrip releases are in the top 10, a little disappointed Cosmic Dimension and Nebula Meltdown didn't make it, but BlackStarFinale, Trinodia and The Call of Goa really deserved to be near the top too. @Paul Eye: for me Androcell was the bast, but like in every election, it shows the consensus.

I like your answer Imba. I never got Radi's promo, so I cannot express any opinion. But if the track wasn't selected it that means there was a reason. The most common are : the flow, the melodies, the mixing. @Radi, PM me with some link, I'll tell you what I think. In the past, we promised to reply to everyone sending a promo, but after what happend in 2013 and the fact we got more and more promos, it became much harder to keep up. I tried to answer to those who'd written to us in person, but I scarcely did it with soundcloud notifications or FB wall posts. Though I listened to EVERYTHING at least for a few seconds. When we selected "Ten Spins Around the Sun", we had to chose 27 tracks out of nearly 500. 200 were total crap, 200 were average, and 100 were good enough (imo). So we had to make hard choices. Some artists we really liked were put aside because their track didn't match the compilation's "flow". We didn't select others because we knew the artist would cause problems (drugs, alcohol, behavior...) And overall, every label A&R has a particular taste. We might not select you, another label might. We're human, yet sovereign on our labels.

VERY VERY VERY hard (impossible) to find CDs. There were not even pirated. That's what I call an extreme challenge here. Why don't you try to contact Ingmar Veeck ? Maybe he would have a contact to the guys of Vela Music ?

Yes. I'm talking about 2005-2011.

What are you on? I neither meant, nor wrote anything like that !

+1 If you look at Isratrance, the "neogoa" phrase was first used on April 3rd 2004. Back then only Kagdila was still releasing Goatrance. The term has been very scarcely used on Isratrance since (like 4 or 5 times in 10 years). If you look on the Psynews database, the term "neogoa" appeared first on June 13th 2005 here and the guys who used it the most are (by far) Cosmogenesis (ex-Metapsychic Records), The Journey Man Project (some guy in Goa if I remember correctly), one memeber of Aerosis, and Lost Buddha (also ex-Metapsychic). There's 950 posts with the phrase over 10 years !!! So it looks like the Metapsychic Records guys took a big part in making the term broadly used, followed by some individuals that were involved in the movement itself. I'm not surprised it's them, because I knew for sure it wasn't Suntrip. After that I remember hearing it a lot in Belgium where people have always stayed very informed on Goa music and kept inviting Goa acts...and it spread more like that.

Not a pro.

Again, this one has a bunch of tracklisting issues: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Psychedelic-Goa-Test/release/362958

No, it's Avangard, that's because the typeface is distorted that it looks like a "o" but it's actually a "d". I think it was even confirmed by the artists or the label.

900+ are Psychedelic & Ambient. Add 60 with my teenage stuff (Westbam, Prodigy, Scooter, 2-Unlimited...) Add 50 for those we own together with my wife That is a little more than 1000 in total.

Nowadays it's REALLY easy to "re-issue" anything on a real cd for a very low cost. Just get an original rare cd wavs, scan the cover, get a cheap press in eastern europe, sell on discogs. Money guaranteed.

Approx 2 cds/month, that is 25€ / month.

Maybe there's just too much crap released these days and people are deceived.

This one too: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Air-Born/release/3720 But these are only major typos. There's also one release with many weird things written. I think it's a mix but I can't remember now. Help anyone?

This one for example: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Filterd-Reality-Psychedelic-Tunes/release/207345