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Artist: Masada Date: 12-14-01 By: Mars Q: First of all, what is your musical background (studies, first compositions) ? A: We started making music long ago (Mathias in the early 90's and Torsten in the 80's). Mathias was into different styles. He started out making music with Soundtracker/Protracker in the Amiga era. He has also done soundtracks for radio and smaller films. Torsten started with synth/electron back in the 80's, turned into italio disco in the late 80's and then progressed into funk and ambient. He also did some tracks with Fasttracker 2 in the group Phluid. Q: How and when did you start to make psytrance, and why did you choose to make psytrance over any other medium of music ? A: Both Mathias and me started listening to different kind of psytrance. Back then it was stuff like Astral Projection, Man with no name, MFG and melodic stuff. We liked the atmosphere of psytrance. We thought it sounded fresh and inspiring. I remember that it reminded me of JM Jarre's old stuff at the double speed and with massive drums. Another thing that apealed to us was that you didn't need any vocals. Another thing is that we are both creative human beings, I think we have to be creative to feel good about ourselves. We are not the kind of person that sits around doing nothing. Q: Which other music styles do you like ? A: Besides psytrance Mathias listens to a lot of different music, mostly pop/rock (for example Spiritualized and a fantastic band from Iceland called Sigur Ros) but also electronic music like Air, Orbital and Underworld. Torsten is deep into detroit, ambient, some reggae and stuff like Air and Manu Chao. Q: What do you do in everyday-life except making music ? A: Mathias works in the telecom business with broadband communications and Torsten is a full time musician. Q: Do you project to release other tracks soon ? A: Our upcoming debut Oceanic will soon be out on Tsunami Productions. It's the first album in a serie of 4 albums. Most of the tracks on Oceanic and the 3 others are older and more melodic stuff than we make today. A better sample of our current sound is the upcoming 12" on Koyote Records with the tracks Bollen and Centralen. Q: Which of your own tracks do you like the best ? A: Torsten: Bhongo Bhonged, Bollen, Centralen, Population with large heads. Mathias: Invalid K-bytes, Population with large heads, Signal Degraded Q: Your favourite psychedelic Groups & Albums ? A: Torsten: Wizzy Noise - Cybermancy, Absolum - Wild, Logic Bomb - Headware, and some of SUN Project and The Delta. Mathias: Hux Flux - Cryptic Crunch, Power Source - Cosmic Waves, Wizzy Noise - Cybermancy, Son Kite and Logic Bomb. Q: Where does your inspiration come from when building a Track ? A: Torsten: It often starts when I hear something in a track that I like. Could be a sound, a bassline or just a mood. Going to psyparties is another huge source of inspiration. Mathias: I listen to a lot of music, not necessarily psytrance. It gives me a great feeling of creativity. If that doesn't work I usually log on the Internet and look at the incredible number of downloads and great feedback we've recieved on our mp3.com site, that's something that inspires me to make more music. If this doesn't work either, I drink a bucket of coffee... Q: What kind of equipment do you use to make your Tracks ? A: We used to be a Cubase/synthesizer act, but after discovering Vaz Modular and VSTi's we decided to go 100% software more or less. We have a couple of "hardware" synthesizers left, but we hardly use them anymore. Using software synths is a fast and easy way to write music and today's software sounds so good we don't feel like we need additional hardware. When we write music we do it seperately, we lives in different cities and collaboration is hard. Q: Future projects ? A: Keep on making good music with Masada and maybe collaborations with other artists. Q: Is there any artist you'd like to work with ? A: It would be great to something with Wizzy Noise for their hybrid of psytrance and techno with evil breakbeats. SUN Project is another band that makes real funky psytrance and working with them would be very nice and inspiring. Q: What kind of stuff do you play as DJ in parties ? A: We don't DJ (yet?) Q: Some tips for the beginners who make music ? A: Try listening to other artist and then exerimenting with your own gear and try to make something that sounds good. Imitation is often a good way to learn, but if you keep imitating others you won't progress. Q: When & where was your best party ? And your worst one ? Our best party was when we played at the same party as Astral Projection in Sweden. The audience was +1000 and the atmosphere was wild. People went bonkers when we entered the stage. The worst party was our first appearance at a party called Vampires. The organizers supplied us with one working speaker and a reciever as amplifier. The sound was so distorted that everyone in the audience left the room in 10 minutes and we ended up playing for ourselfes. Q: How do you think trance music will mutate in the future ? A: It would be great if psytrance and techno could come closer. We like hard and minimal stuff, but pure detroit techno can be dull after listening to it for hours. Maybe trance will be more influenced by electro. We think that there will always be a more melodic side and one monotonous side. Q: What do you think of the MP3 revolution ? A: MP3 is here to stay and we have mp3.com to thank for a lot of our success. It gave us a chance to share our music with the people without having to release an album first. We have recieved hundreds of letters from people listening to our music and that feedback kept us continue. Q: And what do you think of people downloading them without buying the stuff ? A: If it's possible to "steal" music or software, people will continue doing it. I think it's impossible to avoid that. The good thing with it is the posibility to "try before you buy" or listening to music you would never hear if it wasn't for mp3. I think it's all good and a natural development. Thanks for the interview and we wish you good luck for the future!! Big thanks to you too! Cheers!

Artist: Luminus (Amir Dvir) Date: 07-07-00 By: Anoebis Q: Hello Luminus and thanks for doing the interview... How, why & when did you start with producing music? A: Hey Anoebis and thanks for publishing this interview and contributing so much with the site. Actually, im dealling with music since i remember myself. the first time i picked my first guitar i was about 8-9 years old... and as i child i always liked heavy metal bands... started with Iron Maiden/Guns n' Roses/Metallica shit.... and later on much harder stuff as Sepultura/Cradle of Filth and shit... when i was about 12-13 years i bought my first computer and started checking out all these BBS (to whom which doesn't know - it was the early age of the internet) and downloading all these wierd music tracker files, back than it was S3M and shit like that... and i liked it!! so i decided to try it myself since i always was into music.. and i found out its pretty easy for me. so i made a few cheesy dancy pop tunes and went to some "Demo Contests" and participated. there i met Miki Litvak (ex-Shidapu to whom who remembers) and learned alot from this guy about all the programs and helped me with sounds and all the inpiration for starting my way as a trance artist....so finally i was about 15 when i made my first "trance" track . Q: Why do you make Goa-Trance and not other types of music? A: Well i guess i just like the vibes and the energies in this music... also, its much like heavy metal with the power and the energies in the music, a thing i like very much. Q: What do you think of the new, progressive Psychedelic Trance/Techno? A: After a few years of damn hard screaming and scratching psychedelic trance, people have come to conclusion that its time to chill out a little bit (for my opinion) and started to low down the BPMs and more deep stuff (e.g. scandivian new stuff, flying rhino and much more), and i can say that this wave has caught me too. Q: Why is there such a big difference between the European and Israeli Psychedelic Techno? A: This question has one simple answer - The Mentality. almost always you can feel by the act of the person how his music gonna sound. Israel is a country with alot of sun and alot of beaches means its much lighter.. for example germany is a cold country and thats why the music there is much darker. Q: How do you think that Psychedelic Trance will evolve in the future? A: People will dress like monkeys and eat bananas in the north beach of Pakistan.... now seriously.. i have no answer for that question cause psychedelic trance is a freestyle music (more or less). Q: What's your favourite Luminus Track? A: My favourite is "Diablo" that was released on the german label "Shiva Space Tech." and also on my album. Q: I've read on the cover of "Hypnotica" that your next album will be different from the Luminus albums, can you tell us more about that and what will be your new name?? A: Yah, thats true. i guess now it the time im supposed to reach out other level with my music. these days im working on few tracks with every one of them is a TOTALLY diffrent styles, i wouldn't recognize myself if i was hearing it for the first time so i guess im on my way to find a new style right now and im not really locked on anything. about the name... HELP ME PEOPLE!!! cant find anything yet. Q: What are your Top 5 Goa-Trance albums and artists? A: 1. Hallucinogen - All the Albums 2. Etnica - Alien Protein 3. Prana - Geomantik 4. Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Rock Bitch Mafia 5. M.F.G - The Prophecy Q: Where do you get your inspiration? A: I live in a beautiful and peacefull village in the center of israel where i shove all my inpiration from and also from my dog - Shetz that all the time im composing music sits near my legs and licks them. Q: What do you think about Free MP3 sites like Napster? A: Acutally, i just finished reading an article about Napster and that genious kid who invented all this shit, to tell you the truth i really dont like it as an artist but im sure that if i wasnt dealing with music i was doing the same stuff. Q: What kind of equipment do you use? A: My studio contains: Mackie 24*4 Mixer Akai s3000 Sampler Clavia Nord Lead Synth Roland SH-101 Synth Waldorf Pulse Synth Roland MC303 Shitty Synth Zoom 1204 Multi Effect Alesis Multi Effect Gina Sound Card DBX compressor Roland midi keyboard Event 20/20 monitors all running on pentiumII 450mhz. not too big... but enough for now. Q: What are your future projects/releases? A: As i said before no projects for now... chilling out a bit and trying other stuff after 2 albums. Thanks alot from the Goa-community and give us more great music as soon as possible! )) Thank you!! good luck with the website and keep contributing so much to the trance community. byebye.

Hello everyone ! We are sorry that the party stopped at 5.30. The cops came with the needed papers and they made us stop the music in the middle of Silicon Sounds' wonderful live act...shame ! Anyway we hope you had a wonderful time until 5.30 We are very sorry for this situation although we can only be disappointed by the cause of all this : at first we thought this was due to complaints with the noise, but there were also fights in the parking and the sum of both decided the cops to stop everything...extreme shame !!! That's all the more worse as we had done literally everything to secure that party. We had thought about every detail, we had told the owner 10 times : "you are aware, right ? Techno music, all night, boom-boom, until 9AM" And it was all right ! Sorry it ended up unexpectedly like that. So OK time for some to learn again what's PLUR : In order to make you forget this painful night more easily, there will be a FREE private "Suntrip" party soon. We'll tell later who/when/where, but as far as I know, it will be fully melodic and Anoebis that couldn't play this morning will be on the decks ! Watch for updates soon.

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And reminds me from Transit Festival 2004 in Spain Tetraktys was playing, opening the festival, and it was raining mad...and crash Aaah good festival times. I hope nobody got harmed this time either.

I am fully supporting this decision. I also veto'ed not to have the ban length lowered because enough is enough ! There is no reason to make a poll about that, even though I'm cohnfident about the result. Goazzz you may be sarcastic with your "put a smile" rule, but if you look at the rule, they say on the first line : Shall there be Peace/Love/Unity/Respect in ONE place in the world, do your best so that it's here. Once you are on Psynews, you are open, you accept its members, share with them, contribute in a positive way.. And later : - Of course, you may not like something and say it. You may agree or not on someone's point, and say it too. But be a gentleman/woman doing so. Be constructive !. I'm sorry but Cinos was very far from that, not to say the contrary !

Nobody knows. He disappeared in september 2003. I gave up trying to have him on the phone in july 2005.

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Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews. HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIEWS. NOT SIMPLE COMMENTS, NOT DISCUSSIONS, BUT REVIEWS ! 1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 2002 - 1998) then specify the release year in the thread title. 2. If you’re an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the “Promos” group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved. 3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews only! If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered “classics”, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!!! This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres only so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance. 4. BEFORE posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasn’t already been written. If it’s the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the “Search” function: type part or the whole album title and don’t forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in. If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc. 5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesn’t have any typos (or else the search function won’t work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the “Edit” button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos. 6. Please say WHY you like/dislike an album and don’t write childish one-phrase reviews like “This is a killer release!! 10/10!” or “This sucks. 0/10”. Reviews like that are not very informative and don’t do much except annoy others who are looking for full reviews … Also, if you have received an album as a promo directly from the artist/label try not to be an ass-licker in the review… most of the time it shows and it’s VERY annoying not to mention that in the long run your credibility as an objective reviewer will be tarnished. 7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them. 8. It would be nice that whenever someone opens a new thread for a review they start with the full album stats (pic of the cover, track names, label, release date, etc.). 9. We advise and ask you not to write reviews for samples of releases. It's best if you post in the Reviews section after having listened to the whole release. Happy reviewing and as always, suggestions are welcome (as long as you post them in this thread and don't open a new one)

Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews. HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIEWS. NOT SIMPLE COMMENTS, NOT DISCUSSIONS, BUT REVIEWS ! 1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 2002 - 1998) then specify the release year in the thread title. 2. If you’re an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the “Promos” group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved. 3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews only! If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered “classics”, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!!! This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres only so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance. 4. BEFORE posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasn’t already been written. If it’s the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the “Search” function: type part or the whole album title and don’t forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in. If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc. 5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesn’t have any typos (or else the search function won’t work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the “Edit” button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos. 6. Please say WHY you like/dislike an album and don’t write childish one-phrase reviews like “This is a killer release!! 10/10!” or “This sucks. 0/10”. Reviews like that are not very informative and don’t do much except annoy others who are looking for full reviews … Also, if you have received an album as a promo directly from the artist/label try not to be an ass-licker in the review… most of the time it shows and it’s VERY annoying not to mention that in the long run your credibility as an objective reviewer will be tarnished. 7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them. 8. It would be nice that whenever someone opens a new thread for a review they start with the full album stats (pic of the cover, track names, label, release date, etc.). 9. We advise and ask you not to write reviews for samples of releases. It's best if you post in the Reviews section after having listened to the whole release. Happy reviewing and as always, suggestions are welcome (as long as you post them in this thread and don't open a new one)

Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews. HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIEWS. NOT SIMPLE COMMENTS, NOT DISCUSSIONS, BUT REVIEWS ! 1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 2002 - 1998) then specify the release year in the thread title. 2. If you’re an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the “Promos” group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved. 3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews only! If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered “classics”, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!!! This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres only so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance. 4. BEFORE posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasn’t already been written. If it’s the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the “Search” function: type part or the whole album title and don’t forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in. If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc. 5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesn’t have any typos (or else the search function won’t work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the “Edit” button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos. 6. Please say WHY you like/dislike an album and don’t write childish one-phrase reviews like “This is a killer release!! 10/10!” or “This sucks. 0/10”. Reviews like that are not very informative and don’t do much except annoy others who are looking for full reviews … Also, if you have received an album as a promo directly from the artist/label try not to be an ass-licker in the review… most of the time it shows and it’s VERY annoying not to mention that in the long run your credibility as an objective reviewer will be tarnished. 7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them. 8. It would be nice that whenever someone opens a new thread for a review they start with the full album stats (pic of the cover, track names, label, release date, etc.). 9. We advise and ask you not to write reviews for samples of releases. It's best if you post in the Reviews section after having listened to the whole release. Happy reviewing and as always, suggestions are welcome (as long as you post them in this thread and don't open a new one)

Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews. HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIEWS. NOT SIMPLE COMMENTS, NOT DISCUSSIONS, BUT REVIEWS ! 1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 2002 - 1998) then specify the release year in the thread title. 2. If you’re an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the “Promos” group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved. 3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews only! If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered “classics”, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!!! This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres only so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance. 4. BEFORE posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasn’t already been written. If it’s the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the “Search” function: type part or the whole album title and don’t forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in. If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc. 5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesn’t have any typos (or else the search function won’t work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the “Edit” button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos. 6. Please say WHY you like/dislike an album and don’t write childish one-phrase reviews like “This is a killer release!! 10/10!” or “This sucks. 0/10”. Reviews like that are not very informative and don’t do much except annoy others who are looking for full reviews … Also, if you have received an album as a promo directly from the artist/label try not to be an ass-licker in the review… most of the time it shows and it’s VERY annoying not to mention that in the long run your credibility as an objective reviewer will be tarnished. 7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them. 8. It would be nice that whenever someone opens a new thread for a review they start with the full album stats (pic of the cover, track names, label, release date, etc.). 9. We advise and ask you not to write reviews for samples of releases. It's best if you post in the Reviews section after having listened to the whole release. Happy reviewing and as always, suggestions are welcome (as long as you post them in this thread and don't open a new one)

Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews. HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIEWS. NOT SIMPLE COMMENTS, NOT DISCUSSIONS, BUT REVIEWS ! 1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 2002 - 1998) then specify the release year in the thread title. 2. If you’re an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the “Promos” group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved. 3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews only! If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered “classics”, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!!! This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres only so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance. 4. BEFORE posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasn’t already been written. If it’s the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the “Search” function: type part or the whole album title and don’t forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in. If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc. 5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesn’t have any typos (or else the search function won’t work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the “Edit” button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos. 6. Please say WHY you like/dislike an album and don’t write childish one-phrase reviews like “This is a killer release!! 10/10!” or “This sucks. 0/10”. Reviews like that are not very informative and don’t do much except annoy others who are looking for full reviews … Also, if you have received an album as a promo directly from the artist/label try not to be an ass-licker in the review… most of the time it shows and it’s VERY annoying not to mention that in the long run your credibility as an objective reviewer will be tarnished. 7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them. 8. It would be nice that whenever someone opens a new thread for a review they start with the full album stats (pic of the cover, track names, label, release date, etc.). 9. We advise and ask you not to write reviews for samples of releases. It's best if you post in the Reviews section after having listened to the whole release. Happy reviewing and as always, suggestions are welcome (as long as you post them in this thread and don't open a new one)

Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews. HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REVIEWS. NOT SIMPLE COMMENTS, NOT DISCUSSIONS, BUT REVIEWS ! 1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 2002 - 1998) then specify the release year in the thread title. 2. If you’re an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the “Promos” group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved. 3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews only! If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered “classics”, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!!! This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres only so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance. 4. BEFORE posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasn’t already been written. If it’s the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the “Search” function: type part or the whole album title and don’t forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in. If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc. 5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesn’t have any typos (or else the search function won’t work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the “Edit” button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos. 6. Please say WHY you like/dislike an album and don’t write childish one-phrase reviews like “This is a killer release!! 10/10!” or “This sucks. 0/10”. Reviews like that are not very informative and don’t do much except annoy others who are looking for full reviews … Also, if you have received an album as a promo directly from the artist/label try not to be an ass-licker in the review… most of the time it shows and it’s VERY annoying not to mention that in the long run your credibility as an objective reviewer will be tarnished. 7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them. 8. It would be nice that whenever someone opens a new thread for a review they start with the full album stats (pic of the cover, track names, label, release date, etc.). 9. We advise and ask you not to write reviews for samples of releases. It's best if you post in the Reviews section after having listened to the whole release. Happy reviewing and as always, suggestions are welcome (as long as you post them in this thread and don't open a new one)

I created 10 forums, 2000+ threads and 18000+ posts in the database tonight. Looooots of work and programming. This is now done ! yet not publicly visible There are probably a few duplicate releases with the existing ones and the new ones, so there will be a few more days of "merging" before all is set visible to all members.

Hi We're injecting the 2000 releases and 18000 reviews from the old site back to this board tonight, so the forum's gonna be very slow during approx 30 minutes if everything goes ok. If you notice it, please refrain from posting as much as possible so as not to suffocate more the database. Thanks.

Aaaah the week is finished for me. I took my friday off so as to be well and alive tomorrow night. Taking the eurostar at 20.13, will be at SE1 at 22 !!!! The dancefloor's gonna burn ! Oh also i know Colin, Majoony and her man's faces, i'll try to find you guys.

KaSol full on ? My god, we're going to release Full on music in 2 months ! Hold me people i'm gonna faint !!!

Yeah ! Ah here is the final list of most active reviewers between 2000 and 2003 down to 30 reviews Thanks guys, you know who you are... 413 Seraphim 310 Freak51 226 Anoebis 207 Defbydelta... 192 Dieznyik 185 Children 180 Acidhive 165 Ubik 159 mars 139 rx7style 129 Stormbringer 125 Goa Spirit 116 DeathPosture 112 Davidtolsn 109 Lelotusbleu 108 Setsuko 107 Tequila 104 Baboon 99 Cnt97 97 Jeto 97 AlexG 96 MG 94 Shahar 88 Insejn 88 Mahoney 86 Moondancer 85 Dandoo Forest 79 Jason - Los Angeles, CA 76 Jon Cocco 76 Basilisk 75 Mescalinium 73 Infected Max 71 Diepeveen 69 GaySatanicHippie 69 Psylent Buddhi 68 AtomikElf 68 Slidingtrancer 66 Ehsanur 66 Pit-UFO 65 Mascok 65 Deku81 62 ChrisdeeACiD 59 slinker 55 smg 53 Quetzalgoatl 52 Mindbender 52 Stathis_gti 51 a_ozi 51 kadafi 50 Arthur 50 Ravemail10 50 Syre 48 PKS 48 Implant 48 Bomble 47 iNFiNiTi500 45 Mergi 45 Genetix 45 Tomvcarter 45 Dr G 44 jsbedard 44 moander[at]media[dot]mit[dot]edu 44 TRISTAN 43 Tchankov I.V. 41 Kindgok 40 Zoltar 40 Xymaths 39 Jalliuz 38 Rumz 38 gizmo 38 Antic 37 Ukiro 37 Las22 37 russ 37 smokeBuddha 36 Tatsu 36 khogg 36 Snow Dog 36 transphere 36 X - Dreamer in NYC 35 FelipeLemosBrasil 35 ArchNemesis 34 Max 33 Trancers303 33 Zaraknon 33 Smarthowie 33 Philip Xmen 31 mrsyed 31 clark_303 31 Isra-Alien 30 manicmagicmmushroomman[at]hotmail[dot]com 30 Ktaadn 30 Kuldipsidhu 30 niels_knigge[at]ofir[dot]dk

Ok result of the poll : One subforum for 1991-1994, then one / year from 1995.