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Very likely.

Feeling like filling a review ?

Richpa, FB owes you an answer, so you have to insist. Play it straight: "ok something was maybe wrong, but i dont know what, so if you want me to avoid doing the same mistake again, please tell me exactly what content was wrong".

I found a gmail address and LinkedIn connection so far.

Hi It's very important: I'm looking for a way to contact the guys that used to run Saikosounds. Rob for example. I had the phone of their office but I doubt it still works since they're bankrupt. So I'd like a personal phone number or email. Anyone ? Thanks to PM me if you have such info.

LSD

Ethereal - Anima Mundi http://www.discogs.com/Ethereal-Anima-Mundi/master/379937 It's one of the spaciest albums ever! Chi A.D music http://www.discogs.com/artist/12977-Chi-AD Khetzal - Corolle http://www.discogs.com/Khetzal-Corolle/master/231050

I don't either, and I've been to countless parties in the past 20 years. It's no secret I tried hallucinogens back in 2002, and tried again in a festival in 2009. Had wonderful experiences that gave a lot of food for thought. But nothing since that, neither before nor inbetween, not even a joint. I have a kid, a serious work in which I need to be focussed, and If the music is good you've got to take off without any "help".

In the beginning she says promoters work with dealers so the drugs are "distributes" at the right moment... pure nonsense (or if it happens it's in parties I don't go to, and I've been to many). Then she confesses of course that she took a lot of drugs including LSD and she experienced all sorts of trips. Then she shifts to elves and magicians and other lifeforms and and the way to understand things through vortexes and telepathy! And of course it ends with the famous segregation between "those who know" and "the others", that basically normal people are disconnected from "the truth", jailed in their ego, that we'll never know what is true or not, etc... Diagnosis: WAY too much LSD. Well, I experienced all she experienced, and asked myself countless questions in the end. But that was an experiment. In her case she takes acid every week-end apparently. So basically her brain is fried and she cannot tell apart anymore what's inside from what's outside the trip, it's a form of schizophrenia. She may tell anything about other forms of life, no problem for me; but the way she connects eveything with drugs and, the way she sees the scene is obnoxious and I totally disapprove. I'm happy I'm not paying taxes in France anymore, cause that way I won't pay for her probable invalidity and unemployment.

Many believe FullOn was invented by Absolum and his "Colors" tracks (Indigo, Metalizer, Caramel, etc) back in 98. Many others believe GMS invented FullOn, and that would be in 99 with the album GMS vs Systembusters. Clearly back 2000-2001 in Paris, you could hear the sound "fullonizing" with, indeed, Talamasca, Nomad, Silicon Sound, Neuromotor, Psyside, etc. But the big wave came from Israel in 2002 with Alien Project (or whoever made his tracks), Atomic Pulse, Astrix, Safi Connection, plus others like GMS, Soundaholix, D-Tek, Polaris, Altöm, etc...

Here: https://web.archive.org/web/20021209033140/http://goatrance.free.fr/index2.htm

On January 11th 2000, exactly 14 years ago, a guy from Paris, "Children", started goatrance.free.fr as a replacement for the defunct TRiP UK site. It later became Psynews.org and is still alive today thanks to you The full story here.

Hmmm I think Goa was already known to Electronic music freaks at least one year earlier, in 1994. There's Har El, Cosmic Baby, Moog releases and the VA Hypnotic Trance 1, Psy-Harmonics Vol.1, and the first Trust In Trance compilation in 1994. Then the more you go back in time, the least you can tell if it's Trance or Goatrance: Juno Reactor - Transmissions or the Dragonfly compilation Project II Trance are both from 1993. The first Infinity Project EP is from 1992. There's an Electrotete EP and The Overlords' Sundown (one of the very first Goa tracks ever) in 1991. You can find MWNN EPs in 1990 but they are clearly Trance, not Goatrance !!!

This question has been asked before but it would be interesting to know from new members. For me it was the track "Hallucinogen - LSD" and the album "Hallucinogen - Twisted". I litterally fell on my knees and listened to it in a loop for months! It still blows my mind now. My testimony: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/30650-10-years-ago/ Damn that was 18 years ago, I didn't even have a degree, and now I have a kid that keeps saying "stop that music!" ahahah

Shift albums (almost all of them but especially "Excession" and "Byte Me") Twisted System albums (especially "The Dealers") Pitch Hikers albums (especially "Sting") Deliriant's first album The Midnight Storm series (3 and 4 are just brillant) They are not from ZA, but the style is similar, please also check: Wizack Twizack "Space No More" and "Dead End" Art of Existence EP Scorb "Ipso Fvcto" Trold "Time for..." albums Derango

Trold - Time for Solution Filteria - Lost in the Wild

Filteria - Lost in the Wild Cosmic Dimension - In a Special Kind of Space Nebula Meltdown - Stardust Chronicles Ovnimoon - Trancemutation of the Mind VA - The Call of Goa Mindwave - Insight Trinodia - Astral Clouds Lyctum - Vibrations of Life Loopstep - Coded Patterns Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness Akshan - The Rise of Atlantis Miktek - Elsewhere Static Movement - Circle of Life Trold - Time for Solution Crop Circles - Full Mental Jackpot CDS Crop Circles - Lunar Civilzation CDS Dimension 5 - Trans Addendum Dimension 5 - Trans Stellar

Big mistake from me, sorry. Actually I thought some recent TIPWorld EPs were on Vinyl, given the look of the covers http://www.tiprecords.com/promo/feeling_weird/ http://www.tiprecords.com/promo/1200mics/ http://www.tiprecords.com/promo/ooze/ but they were only digital, as Discogs says. My mistake.

Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_culture There is a § dedicated to the 21st century rise of audio K7. Theres is indeed some kind of hype related to amateur production, self distribution, as well as ultra creative sleeve design. @Padmapani: I can't split easily between genres, most is tagged "psychedelic" no matter whetehr it is prog or dark...I'm not feeling like flash-listening to 2185 releases today to count myself

I will try to get subgenres %, but it might take a while to compute. Yeah FullOn has faded already a couple of years ago. Seriously there are lots of tape releases. Audio-cassettes! For real. They've returned in force in the past 3 years! http://www.discogs.com/search/?type=release&title=&credit=&artist=&genre=Electronic&label=&style=Ambient&track=&country=&catno=&year=2013&barcode=&submitter=&anv=&contributor=&format=Cassette

Like last year a few stats over the Psytrance production. The only way to get these stats is to either rely on discogs, or count pirate mp3 groups pre's and add free netreleases (Ektoplazm, etc). Probably some are missing as (for example), I don't count applicable SoundShiva.net releases... Don't shoot me, that's only for informational purposes, I was doing it 12 years ago already, when the production was 10% of what it is today, and counting these nowadays is really hard. We could go much further, by splitting by genre etc, but unless you ask for it, let's keep it simple. Reminder: in 2012 there were: - 1095 albums/compilations in CD, LP, Tape and digital format - 908 EPs (99.8% of which were digital) = 2003 releases in total. Now, in 2013, so far we saw: - 979 albums/compilations in CD, LP, Tape and digital format - 1206 EPs (only 2 or 3 uptempo ones were actual vinyls...hi TIP World!) = 2185 releases in total. That is 15374 tracks, 255 GB of hi-quality mp3s, or 80 days of continuous music !!!! So we can see (similarly as between 2011 and 2012), a decrease in the number of full length albums/compils and an increase of EPs (1 to 6 tracks, less than 1 hour long), and an overall increase in the number of releases. Amongst the trends, I noticed: A major part of the releases are either Progressive or Darkpsy, the latter decreasing fast now. A LOT of the Progressive ones sound all the same, like Neelix (offbeat, etc), especially as this is the speciality of several very productive labels such as Spintwist, or "compilation-recyclers" such as YSE or Geomagnetic. (Neo)Goa, FullOn and Minimal remain marginal. Ambient/Drone/IDM/Darkambient account for a significant part of the releases, and they come from a huge nebula of very small labels or self-releases. BTW 100% of Tape releases are Ambient ones. If you have questions or require details over some styles or formats, just ask.

better not... Pretty rare comp btw.

Check these two: Optokoppler - Bugfix: http://www.discogs.com/Optokoppler-Bugfix/release/727770 The Misted Muppet - From The Legend: http://www.discogs.com/Misted-Muppet-From-The-Legend/release/292330 I don't think it has a specific name, we could say it's "melodic psytrance". If you like craziness, you can get the latest Filteria album too: Lost in the Wild: http://www.discogs.com/Filteria-Lost-In-The-Wild/release/5044853

Salut, I agree, they were good. I prefer the album to the LIVE, but the latter is very strong too! What happened? I'm not sure. Life probably: kids, work, etc... Though, one of them, Henrik Munch, seemed to be active until 2010 in more experimental genres: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Henrik+Munch#p=3&t=Credits_All

I had the chance to be close enough to Filteria to follow the genesis of "Lost In The Wild", so I'll give you my personal review and a few insider informations. So, "Daze Of Our Lives" was very entertaining, with much better production as "Sky Input" or "Heliopolis", though the tracks were sleeker. Similarly as "Domestic Modulator" in "Sky Input" which gave an insight on "Heliopolis", the last track Filteria had composed for "Daze" was "Earthrise", and, IMO, this gave a pretty appealing insight of what might come after. But Filteria was out of juice after "Daze", and he doubted he could ever make a 4th album. Yet there were hopes: the "Illogical Logic" track released later was full of energy and inventiveness. What decided him was...the crowd (especially in a party in Russia, and Japan too). I think he started with "Filteroid" and "Night@12AM" in 2011. I thought they were very good, trancy, along the lines of "Daze", totally worth a new album, but I kindof expected more punch at the time and I strongly believed the crowd shared that view. ...and it happened. I was at Filteria's place in april 2011 when he composed the track "Lost in the Wild". He was having fun with crazy music again! You can hear it's got all the features of the killer tracks of the album, and yet it's a little less well balanced...anyway it worked perfect on the dancefloors, and it was the start of something completely new! In 2012 I think he made "Dreams Are Under Construction" (eventually released on GlobalSect), and preview versions of "Food Demons" and "Dog Days Bliss". They were good, very good even, but both needed a little more work. So "Food Demons" was reworked and given that creepy feeling with these sort of weird voices. Overall an exhilarating electronic/fx show! "Dog Days Bliss" had a first half that didn't really match the second half (you can still find it on Filteria's Soundcloud), but Filteria couldn't find a solution for that (yet). In February 2013 he got a new SSL mixertable to replace his old Mackie. The mixing became much clearer and it opened a whole new field of possibilities. So in March 2013 he shifted gears again! On March 8th I received "36th February", almost final (it just had a longer ending). I was amazed. To me it was a track close to "Pleiadians - Electra" because you could hear it "breathe" with all the wooshes and its explosive structure. Soon after, I got "Life Never Sleeps" and was amazed again. What a fantastic structure, what a pack of psychedelia in just a few minutes, these grinding sounds in the first half, wow what a trip! Here again, a "breathing" track, almost alive, almost a snake swallowing you altogether! At that point we were totally confident and agreed with Filteria that the album would be completed on the end of August 2013 so we could release at the Autumn. Still, 1 or 2 tracks were missing, others needed reworks, and the summer season was approaching with little time for Filteria to spend in the studio. So I proposed Filteria to include the "Birds Lingva Franca" Live Mix he'd made around the same time as "Daze"...and guess what he did? He (re-)remixed it completely. Just for you! But since it was not a track espacially made in the scope of this new album, we decided it would be a bonus track. I think it's great because it keeps the spirit of the original whilst adding extra energy and neat production. In the end of spring 2013, he started with "The Lights of Shibuya" as a tribute to the wonderful people that had welcomed him in Japan. Roughly, the track was here, but the melodies were not bursting enough, and the last 2 minutes were missing. Later, he reworked it to make it more or less the track you know, but the ending was still missing! There, Filteria was giging or was busy and had little time to focus really on new music, so he decided to switch to the overall mixing of the album. So he reworked each track, roughly one week per track, a crazy work if you ask me. As I was stuck at the hospital (with WiFi), he would send me (and Ukiro) the tracks just after they were recorded so we could give extra comments, if any...some were really tricky to mix like "36th February" or "Life Never Sleeps" because they lost some energy without the "breathing". By the end of this excruciating session, he finally found a new first half for "Dog Days Bliss", which made it an immediate dancefloor killer. Yeah it sounds like Chakra in the second half but the first half is totally original and everything matches perfectly. We were really close to the deadline at this point (maybe beyond), and all of a sudden, the "Lights of Shibuya" situation just unblocked and the track was completed! Here again, you can admire the hectic features of the track, which remind of the relentless japanese life! Conclusion: To me this is the best Filteria album to date, a concentrate of wicked ideas, explosive melodies, impossible climaxes, crazy electronic fx...the tracks are more subtle than in "Sky Input" or "Heliopolis" and they completely blow your mind nonetheless. There's some hidden details everywhere. This is the kind of album you can listen to in several years and keep noticing things you'd never heard before. And the production is way better than any of the previous albums. To me, the best psychedelic album of the year, all substyles together. 10/10. I was surprised to be in the special thanks of the booklet. I only saw it on the day we sent the artwork to the press This gave extra strength in the difficult moments I was going through.