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    Goa/Psy in Weird Places..?

    in General Psytrance

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    A few years ago we stepped in a youth hostel recommended by our tourist guide, in Wellington, New Zealand. There was a thin guy in dreadlocks at the reception and some 145-bpm fullonish Oforia track playing really loud!

    With a smile I asked the guy whether he was Belgian or Dutch...he was Dutch.

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    Is a new Pleiadians GOA album possible?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Man, where do you guys get all of this information? I've only listened to Goa/Psy for 1-2 years now but man you guys seem to know lots of information that isn't just out there.

     

     

    i guess that just comes with 20 + years of pure passion.. you start to dig deeper after a while!

     

    Exactly. 18+ years into Psytrance, and counting.

    Is a new Pleiadians GOA album possible?

    in General Psytrance

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    even that shift was present on Equator album 5-6 years before/earlier.

     

    Equator was supposed to be the Sonic Safari album, yet another side-project of the 4 italians (check the lineup of SA2000).

    The Fluorophilipa album not being releasd, that seemed to be some kind of fallback to release it under the Etnica name.

    An analysis of why Hallucinogen - "Twisted" is so great

    in General Psytrance

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    There is something too about the way Simon ties it together with repeating melodic structures - "Alpha Centauri" and "Solstice" are good examples of this - they have these repeating thematic melodies that connect everything together - so much of the full-on and neo-goa just sort of goes from one thing to the next, there's no main thematic element that unites the track and makes it stand out in the listener's mind..

     

    Totally my thought. It's like LSD without taking LSD!

    But there's very good so-called NeoGoa albums too.

    Is a new Pleiadians GOA album possible?

    in General Psytrance

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    Maurizio used to be skilled and is still to some extent I hear, but without Carlo and Andrea, the Etnica/Pleiadians projects will never be the same again. For example, Carlo took a BIG part into the making of IFO.

     

    Since 1999 - for the past 15 years mind you- you cannot expect a Goa album from Etnica/Pleiadians. Forget it. Game over.

     

    There's still relief in the fact Aurizio accepts to do oldschool performances once in a while, that's all you'll be able to get in 2014.

    Still haven't heard Mind Rewind

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I still don't understand how this could happen. If I'm correct only about 300 copies were sold normally, the other ~300 stayed with those who made the whole thing happen. Who thought this was a good idea? Super-limited release of such a high quality compilation, that (IMO) everyone should be able to get a hold of. After probably over one year I found the opportunity to do a complicated three-party-trade to "only" have to invest ~60€ instead of the ~100€ that people asked on discogs. Then there is a reprint announced for that super-limited release, which probably pisses a lot of those people, who payed very much to get it, off.

     

    Not that I'm against a reprint, personally I'm all for it. Since I buy CDs to add them to my collection, without the intention to sell them at some point, I won't really lose anything if the CD loses resale value because of a reprint. I just think it was an unfortunate decision to limit the first release to 604 (effectively ~300 at normal price) CDs and give the impression that this was the only chance to get it, let prices skyrocket this badly and at the same time have so many people completely miss out on it...

     

    Whatever, I'm not trying to tell people how they should have done things, because lamenting about the past is pointless, I just want say how I would like to see it done in the future (if anyone cares)...

     

    I'm part of the MR team. Probably a number of guys from the team kept an extra copy "just in case" but most gave them away or sold the copies they got. I did, and I have one left: mine.

    There's also the copies sent to the artists. So overall I think 100 CDs were kept away and >500 copies ended up on the market.

     

    For such a release, 600 copies was a good idea at the time. With CD sales plummeting and the fact we wanted to give some money to the charity instead of losing some, we couldn't take many risks. But then the release sold out in a few days, which surprised us all. It's always easier to assess a situation afterwards than beforehand.

     

    MR2 got pressed a thousand copies and MR3 will probably too, meaning we learned from our mistakes.

     

    Some guys in the team want to repress MR1, it's still under discussion. I'm not sure the booklet will be as thick, or the case be the same, or whether there will be a special note somewhere or not. So it may be possible to tell which batch is a given copy.

    That's what we do at Suntrip for instance, we always change the artwork a very little bit, and update copyright dates too, before repressing.

     

    Wait and see...

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    Fullon vs others and what subgenre is the face of psy

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Well said Earwall and Acid Brain!

    Well, back in 2002, when FullOn surfaced, I was coming from the Goa times, where, indeed there were no rules and crazy buildups and melodies. I thought FullOn was way too empty.You know, that typical structure: boom boom 3minutes, uplifting break 1 minute, boom boom 3 minutes. No surpises, no dreams, only pure energy.

     

    It was sometimes pleasant for a short while at the end of a party of in a festival afternoon, but I went to some parties where it was 12 hours in a row in a crowded place! And it lasted until 2011 or so. Almost 10 years of FullOn, and it was only getting worse: ultrastereotyped stucture, the fattest kick+bass possible, and even some lyrics. Only a few artists managed, in my opinion, to tell a story in their tracks: Xerox & Illumination, Optokopler, The Misted Muppet, Silicon Sound, Sulima, and to some extent Chemical Drive and CPU... all the rest was the same receipe over and over again. Imo the worst was Eskimo, the Everest of what Acid Brain describes!

     

    Now I can understand that someone with a different music background may like it.

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