mars

You're being more annoying day after day bwhale. I respect everyone's opinion, but it would do no harm to be more polite and elaborate on your point instead of just denigrating. If you had worked already in your life to achieve something, such as a CD release, instead of spending days hidden behind your keyboard shitting on everyone, you would already show more respect, hindsight, and be more humble. That said, I know how much a label gets out of a cd, so I doubt the 4000 euros or so, that the release sale will produce will help much the cause. Better than nothing. Anyway, looking forward to hearing the music. Ah and by the way there is a specific forum for labels annoucements. Thank you.

Me too. Late gets 3 months off for public insult (and I'm kind here). It's not personal. It's to learn how to behave. By the way please people act better on this topic. This is not THE ONE thread for offtopicing. Else I'll close it and you won't be able to complain about moderation anymore. That's a predicament when you think about it

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How long did it take me to clean up this thread? Damn... 1) This is a review and as long as there is no review section for other electronica, this belongs here. Genres don't have a straight limit and are melting and intercommunicating. So there are releases like this one that relate to many genres. SHould it be here or not? Noone has the right answer. Still, I wouldn't like to see a Britney spears review here, ok? 2) If you want new sections in psynews, ask for it. There are dorect requests to the admin/mods, there are polls, there are normal threads, etc. 3) Review sections are not here for you alone. They are meant to inform others about a given release. You wanted to share your opinion? You want others to listen to your beloved album isn't it? You don't want them to read pages of crap and fights instead, right? 4) Murphythecat gets one month to read how to properly review, to train to keep a cold blood, to learn to factor his replies, and on top of all to understand point 3). Beware, next time is perm ban. 5) The Joker gets one month too to learn that reviews are not a place to make other members furious, neither to fight, and to undertsand point 3). Beware, next time is perm ban. 6) Penzoline gets away with it but it was close. 7) Topic closed.

I listened to Rama's Clockwork Knight and I reckon this is enthusiastic and euphoric Goa music, with indeed cool bass changes. Well done.

We tend to be really strict on quality and story telling so I dont really agree with you. I guess anyone into hardtechno would say all goatance tracks are cheesy so it's a matter of tastes. I listened to the tracks you mentioned and I don't find them cheesy although they don't satisfy me completely (and again I'm talking by my tastes). - Cube sounds nice but suffers from the "too mcuh in all directions" syndrom in the end. - Transmorgriphication has a greaaat flow but what's happening at 3.56 is too bad imo. It adds cheese whereas it's completely unneeded when you hear the marvels that happen after. Serious storytelling here. Same at 4.50. The keyhanges in the end are cool because they emphasize on the euphoric feelings. Overall the track is supersolid. I agree I would dance like mad on them in a party, but I wouldn't release them. Strange it's leeting me the same kind of feeling as a OmegaHertz track for example. It appears to confirm what you told about our tastes and what we release at Suntrip. I've been into psy for 14 years and electro for 18 or19 years so I think I know what I want. Fortunately we're 2 people at Suntrip (and sometimes more when we compile) which helps giving more fun in the compositions. I swear we'll overcome ourselves for our next compilation (2010) and I promise it will whip your ass!

Well, you didn't say anything. I asked 5 days ago if this cd sold on psyshop was a cd or a cdr. Had it been a real cd i'd have bought it on top of the limited edition I have. We had no answer, so we had to figure it out by ourselves. Keep cool, anyways I am NOT criticizing the fact it's on a cdr. What counts for me is the music. But I repeat, if it had been a cdr on psyshop, I'd have bought it because I know I can still play it in 30 years. Now about how long cdr can be read, it's highly variable depending on the type of the cd, how it was burnt, and the usage you make of it. I still have my first ever 1x burnt cdr from 1995 or 1996 and it plays. I have noname cdrs burnt last year at 52x, and I'm sure they won't play anymore next year. This is a long debate. I know the cds you burnt this compilation on, I burnt the RA promos on the exact same ones, and I'm sure they will last long enough.

Most of the time, blue landscapes and horizons.

Filteria might know too.

Ok I have the same. This is a CDR you have. The label owner hadn't answered my question, so I knew the answer already anyway. I'm not trying to despise the release. Pressing cds is expensive especially as the cd market is collapsing. I was just trying to know if it's worth for me to buy the release on psyshop iven the fact I already have the limited CDR.

Please refer to the Isratrance page: http://www.isratrance.com/interviews/filteria-i72.html

Mine is the CD-R version. The CD print clearly looks inkjet printed and the cd surface itself is a little green (like a cd-r, right). Does you look more professional? I've seen some CD-R of a special type that have a silver look with a much more proper quality and it's very hard to tell if it's a real one or not. Example: the Amithaba Buddha album. It diesn't look like but it's a CD-R. Now to be sure, just look at the silver face of the CD, around the central transparent part. With a real CD there should be a set of numbers or letters giving the name of the factory or the name of the distributor. If there aren't, then it's a CD-R.

Psy belongs to Psy, that's right, but I see no problem in that. It's like water. There are all kinds of waters but "water" is the term that implicitly describes flat-unsalted-mineral-water. So Psytrance is what gathers all styles of psychedelic techno music and it's also the most melodic music one could find between the Goa era and the FullOn era. One could call that EarlyFullOn-Goa if you want. But that's just semantic. There used to be a classification here, although I don't agree with all, but the image disappeared. I'll ask Anoebis to bring it back. http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=43845 Long ago we wanted to do do something really cool called psynews 2 (or 3). It had a whole set of categories of music, and we'd scrated our heads to categorize the music. We were really puzzled at the time on how to cateogrize Tales of the Inexpressible. The only solution was to allow several categories for a given release or for a given artist. For a day-to-day clasification on your harddisk, I agree this can be annoying. Personally I tend to stick to Goa, Minimal, Fullon, Prog, Dark, Ambient, Lounge, but I almost don't categorize on my computer. Too much work and I have better to do. I perfectly know what I want to listen to in the end and search for it. On my shelves I just split cds by psy albums, psy compils, ambient albums, ambient compils, others, and each alphabetically.

I would like to stress that this compil is awesome and deserves wider distribution. But I would like to know if the compilation sold on psyshop and others is ALSO CD-R's or real pressed CD's. If it's CD-R's, there is indeed no meaning in paying for a non-numbered supposedly limited release. I'm just trying to figure that out. Please the label respond.

Are you saying that what's for sale on psyshop are actually CDR's ?

Excellent track ! Someone please release this !!! (No we can't at the moment)

@psyhoe: wow that's one discovery. I always wondered how they's made it. @Laserflip: Sunkocreti's cover without a single explanation? And where does it come from please. Else, for Filteria's Daze of Our Lives, we purchased a license to Time Magazine for the experimental photos of Fritz Goro and his "Project Apollo".

I'm surprised, as I was told this was only some unofficial cd, so I bought the CDR version. I will have to buy the real cd version now if I don't want the cd to be unreadable in a few years. I'll have bought the cd twice in the end. Not so nice.

Great compil indeed, great !! Anyone a complete review in the dedicated forum ??? Primal Source and E-Mantra kick serious ass, and a special mention to Seti Project which is perfectible but spreads good vibes ! Agneton is also fit with his reputation, with a solid nitzo/goa track.

Glad to learn that. Actually I knew E-Mantra was amost finished, but I didn't know it was decided, all the more as I haven't heard the music yet. I need to synchronize with my ever-away-partner since he's the one in contact with E-Mantra. Well, I'll put Radical samples a few weeks after Afgin's release not to "mask" it.

I think key changes often make the music corny or nitzo. Look how many full on releases do it currently, and check how it sounds.

He's working

It belongs here. House music or Acid Techno belong to Other Electornica. Thank you.

Yeah, spam happens. I think someone (DP? Anoebis?) cleaned up the place, so I can't see from my own eyes. Problem is that spammers are faced with captchas, and if they want to enter places like this one, thay have to use...humans...that they pay extremely low for typing in captchas all day long. We can't do anything about this for the moment, for we're bound to the Invision Board captcha system which is strong enough. The only solution for us is to disable automatic email validation and go back to omanual validation. Then don't validate all "*forex*", "*viagra*" like names. But we will always let one pass from time to time. This is a problem over the whole intenet you know.

We are delighted to unveil Afgin's album this week: "Astral Experience". 2 Years after his first release Elad Afgin is finally here with his highly acclaimed debut album “Astral Experience”. Influenced by the sunrises on the numerous parties where Afgin played, this album is a tribute to the real Goa-trance masters from the mid-90’s! Back to the Future! The release is available in all usual shops: Suntrip: http://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD15/ Saikosounds: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=7962 Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sut/sut1cd015.html Beatspace: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=4960 Goastore: http://www.goastore.ch/product_info.php?products_id=3130 Israeli trance-veteran Elad Afgin is now producing music for many years, and got remarked by an Internet release from the Old is Gold group in 2006. This promo got so much attention that some tracks were soon released on compilations from Suntrip, and also labels like Kagdila and Shivlink released his music. Now, almost 3 years later, his debut album is finally there, filled with fresh tracks! This album truly reflects Afgin's inalterable joie de vivre, and completes our first half of 2009's triptych in time for the summer Expect 7 beautiful long emotional morning trance anthems filled with acid-303’s, heart-touching breaks and sunny melodies. Music that should be played on every open air festival or party for the euphoric sunrise experiences! Pure Goa trance 96-style with 2009 sound quality! To end this amazing album a slower track filled with prayers from Yemen will guide you back to reality. Like usual, this release was excellently mastered by Tim Schuldt. “From the Heart!”, that’s the message conveyed by Afgin through “Astral Experience”. Enjoy!