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a friend and i are planning to go to denmark and sweden after chrismas, till january 2nd, something like that. so i want to know if there are good parties in DK or SW around the eve, and if one of you dares to welcome 2 freaks during ~3 nights in sweden, we'd be grateful !!

i presented my thesis this morning and now i've definitely finished my studies. although i've been working for one year, i had not the diploma yet... what has it to do with psytrance ? well i want to thank people who's been supporting me, eg the 2 freaks who are hanging out every evening in my appartment, and children who had the same examination one month ago. and i want to thank psytrance for having released enough cds for me to play while i was writing hundreds of pages....

cool answers. very useful my first name is Fabien

hey triplex, i said that too a few days ago http://www.onewayltd.com/psyforums/read.ph...i=29693&t=29693 Quel Cimetière is excellent and now i must add that i think X-Calibur is wonderful too ! >>> Tegma guys : an album soon? a live act somewhere in europe not too far from france soon ? pleaaassee !! hmm something else : in french it is "quel cimetière" and not "quel cimitiere" is it because of a spelling problem on the non toxic freqz compil or because of you ?

i removed the posts but i wonder why it wasnt moderated before........

this post shouldn't be in this forum, and i even think it shouldnt be anywhere here

i'm qute sure those samples come from a movie. as for the sci-fi sample, doesnt it come from a star trek episode ?

yes i'm charge of the site till the 16th, as i did in february. don't worry, but be careful to send your reviews to me, and not children during that time . thx

Akira : you're right, i had thought about this issue and i'm looking for a solution..it isnt easy at all

i like both styles with a preference to melodic/psy stuff actually i think some minimal tracks are as strong as some pure full on tracks, but they dont occur as oftenly...examples : spirallianz - onewayltd, midimiliz - cream, tegma - satanic wars, tegma - quel cimetière, tegma - x-calibur, some auricular tracks, and more...

debate closed

express review of the 13 skulls : Great Great Great Great Great especially for the "30% ambient - 70% psy" Shpongle track !!!

Thanks Bor ! eheheh! we are on http://www.psyhead.net/plur2/MVC-385F.JPG (me : gray tshirt; my friend : small guy aside) We met Anoebis, Isis, Bor, Lizzy, Psilo, and many people i had seen at the Senseblender festival. I think i saw Moondancer, but i'm not sure. By the way, we saw people from Strasbourg and Lille (FR). They were friendly, and they told me that they had known the party thanks to this site. Cool to hear that ! (if you read it, can you contact me please ?). They are on some of the photos too. As for the party, oldschool tracks like the ones we heard don't exist anymore in France. I enjoyed them a lot, especially when Joske played 'Vimana'. I really think it would have been a mistake not to go to this party !!....no dealers, no problems, cool and vast place, good vibes, Anoebis+Isis always smiling... We were 4 but one of our friends has ear problems and he had forgotten his earplugs (!!), so 2 of us stayed in the car....too bad for them. We left at 8AM, completely tired. Thanks Joske !

some tall blond man, living in bordeaux, in touch with some famous israeli people (!!!) told me that...he was told that...Ofer has an album ready. the problem for us is still the release date

Bio Tonic - Elektrik Colors Artist: Bio Tonic Title: Elektrik Colors Label: Solstice Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 06'57" The 3rd Link 02. 06'47" Stream 03. 07'43" Zoological 04. 07'30" Ayauesca 05. 08'04" Intersideral Meeting 06. 07'09" The Ghost Show 07. 07'29" Sanctuary 08. 08'13" The Ultimate 09. 06'54" Peacefull Perception Review: The 3rd Link(1) starts quickly, progresses nicely, on a psy style. It kicks and drives you high directly, but it's not exhausting. the breaks are pleasant, the psy touches are ok. there are voices at the end while the tracks rolls a lot to reach the end. it seems it's too short while its ~7 minutes! Stream(2) is a kicking track that grown nicely and drives you to dance. Hard, and happy on a dancefloor. Zoological(3) sounds like rhythm and bits of psy sounds around. not various enough. Ayauesca(4) pumps while small sounds behind try to excite your brain. There are also drums. nice work, but not enough. Intersideral Meeting(5) takes a moment to start but it peppers you with some little notes. After the break there is no real change but the track is ok. The Ghost Show(6) is dark and inventive. I'm not sure but i think people would really love it on a dancefloor. there are several breaks and touches of darkness and guitar that make it enjoyable! Sanctuary(7) is a bit industrial, a bit psychedelic, a bit whatever, but it seems it never really starts, never catches the listener. Too bad, this could have been a bomb. It's ok but....once again there is a small thing missing here! The Ultimate(8) is a downtempo track. It's very linear but it gives a break. nice synth lines. Peaceful Perception(9) is another calm track. the rhythmic is more dubbed. it drives you during a cool moment, with evanescent notes, voices, and it becomes a bit more psychedelic with more smooth acid loops at the end. Overall this is a good quite good album, better than many this year, BUT with a big flaw. Biotonic guys -while very good technically- have concentrated too much on the rhythmic to such an extent that many tracks sound the same (imagine gms minus the psychedelia or darksoho minus the wild guitar parts...). A kick and a bassline don't make it anymore, because it's too common. Anyway i think many of those tracks are valuable on a dancefloor....With more work it could have been far better........6.5/10.

Actually it is a good revival because the tracks are well chosen. For people newly involved into psytrance, this is a good summary of what israeli artists are able of. For the others (who own most of these tracks), there is far less interest in owning this compil.

I found those tracks boring while i had loved the previos tracks from Walhalla. It seems those have been done in a hurry. too bad coz the potential is here! Something around 5/10.

The review above sais everything but here are my comments: 1-very good. seems GMS remix everything they hear 2-should have been called Reload remix2...is it a joke ? ayway its a very danceable track. 3-this one is very good, typical GMS overtwisted style. only one remark: they should have put less RajaRam gossip within. 4-well, good one 5-funny one, well engineered...it must be listened to because its hard to imagine what's some cowboy-psytrance 6-To the limit of cheese...but efficient...and twisted. 7-awesome track with all the imagination and style of LB. poerful & smooth. 8-Serge delivers us a masterpiece of psy-modern-TE-like-trance 9-grooaaaaarrhh what a track !! It will steal your soul. Now Deedrah knows how to make minimal crazyness. Definitely THE compil of the year so far !

This album is really too cheesy for me.

Snug As A Bug - Imitate People Artist: Snug As A Bug Title: Imitate People Label: Hadshot Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. Couple Of These 02. Flat Freddy 03. Free Haze 04. Imitate People 05. Piphonic 06. Beware Of The Baboons 07. Second Level 08. Fools On Fancy Dress 09. Big Block (Rmx) 10. Smuggling Beat Review: Fools on Fancy Dress is a dark piece of music, fast and industrial. the bassline is very good and some voices seems to cross the music sometimes. There are touches of psychedelia thru very dark sounds. the breaks are in the good place. I think this is intelligent minimal psy. Beware of the Baboons attacks very hard from the begining. It sounds like some Auricular stuff. It's linear in the rhythmic but the rest changes a lot and tends to evolve in some scary sound association. Ouargh it doesn't let you take a breath until the middle of the track. What strange sounds they use! Big Block Remix looks like some track of Authentik...like a run in a thriller. Then it becomes more basic with a great play on bassline and drums. then it becomes more psychedelic with two more layers of plastic notes and drums. Yet it's very basic and should be played in the middle of the night. Second Level is very linear, still full of industrial sounds...quite jumpy but may be boring at the end. Couple of these is fast and full of bass. I guess people would dance on this one with energy. Yet it has little stops and additions of dark sounds along the track. After a big break it restarts aggressively and one more line of bass gives more depth to the track along with small sounds that seem happy compared to the rest. There is a really beautiful play with the basslines near the end. Wonderful track. Free Haze gives you the feeling you are in a medic laboratory in an asylum beacause the sounds are weird. After the intro, a layer of growly dark sounds and a layer with a calm smooth melody is added to the rhythm. After a break, it becomes more mental, very fast bassline, indus sounds...at the end its really spooky, but not noisy. Perfect music for an horror movie! Piphonic uses the same receipe as before. The rhythmic rolls a lot, but the sounds seem to give it a funky touch. A few notes and the reverb are well used to give more depth. After the middle of the track it's more aggressive but the content remains the same. I wonder how they did the ghost-voices... Smuggling Beat is very minimal, with a big beat and terror sounds again. Some little plastic notes take place progressively and your atention is caught by a big snare. It is really very industrial but the rhythmic makes it very groovy. too bad it becomes a bit rough and boring near the end. Overall don't forget your strait-jacket before listening to that album. It's a very good one. I'm not a minimal expert but i'd give it at least 8/10.

i think this is noise...oh actually yes this is very good in THE party with THE sound and THE djs...but at home...damn!! this is noise.

The Antidote - Antidotcom Artist: The Antidote Title: Antidotcom Label: Solstice Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 07'54" Geometric 02. 08'04" Altiplanos 03. 08'10" Forbidden Planet 04. 07'21" Have A Drink 05. 07'47" Narco Airlines 06. 07'42" Antidotcom 07. 08'26" Balearic 08. 09'14" Transylvania 09. 07'29" We Come In Peace Review: Serge / Total Eclipse and his girlfriend didn't stay idle in Ibiza: in this hard moment for psychedelia, they prepared one of those albums that stay in people's memories. let's go: Geometric (1) uses the sounds that you liked in TE tracks, except that there are less melodies. after 3 minutes there is a high rate of psychedelic sounds. Then this psy-sequence remains and is melted with the rest of the music. At 6', there's another big rise of psychedelia! It's excellent, it's a killer, you have to listen to it! Altiplanos (2) has also those oldschool little twisted melodies everywhere over a big fat rhythmic. there are a few breaks but it remains the same all along. Yet it's still very good. Forbidden Planet (3) has this kind of different 'breakbeat' rhythmic GMS use all the time. Over that, there are several loops with small strange and amazing sounds that make you think about an ambulance siren...some sounds come over the others just before a psychedelic melody comes at 5' and makes you happy! Nevertheless it is a repetitive psychedelic track: it's only made of small changes all along the track while the ambulance passes! Have a Drink (4) has an enormous bassline and seems very flat at first, but some fat psysounds come after 3'...at 3'30 there is a break and the track degenerates from there : a little swwet melody...you want to dance...the rhythmic becomes more and more present...you start to move...the psysounds come back and climb into psychedelia several times, while the tiny melody comes back too! this track is like a fight of Good vs Evil. Narco Airlines (5) is very linear. the bassline rolls over and over, and that's all. There are cool breaks mixed with a few psy, but that's not that amazing. At 5' it becomes better, with a typical TE melody. Antidotcom (6) is based on the same model as the others : good rhythmic, small twisted repetitive melodies coming and quitting all the time. However this track is good and makes you move for sure! Balearic (7) also reminds me of the golden age of TE int he begining..this is a pleasant trip thru acid-treated sounds...at 3'30 there is only a light layer of cool sounds above the kick...just when needed (5') there is a psychedelic rise, just as if the cool sounds had degenerated all of a sudden...then it becomes very light again...and at 7'+ there is a big psychedelic moment that will make you all dance like hell ! wow! Just at the end it still manages to get higher out of psysounds. This track is full of surprises! Transylvania (7) is a big fast-trip into Serge's inimitable sounds. It's had to describe but it follow the same recipe as the other tracks. there are mainly 2 layers: the rhythmic one and the melodies all ove the track. It could be a morning song and make you smile a lot. We Came in peace (8) is very calm with sounds that trigger your brain sometimes...a bit like Deedrah does sometimes. This track seems to have been put there to make you calm down and appreciate the end of the album. Globally this album has no defect. It's really good and up-to-date as it mixes oldschool psychedelic melodies with the modern -more agressive- mood. This album is for sure a big hit of 2001...Yet there is one issue : it's really hard to find..I had to order it at Saikosounds (Hong Kong)! I hope it will be correctly distributed in the world very soon...or maybe it'll become one of those mystic killer albums that only a happy-few have. Someone told me Atomic would redistribute it. I Really hope for that, for you !!! 9/10

this albim was released a long time after but you're right, those are very old tracks, before the ones above.

maybe also Transmissions / Juno Reactor (NovaMute 93)

I don't think this is so bad. This can be listened to when you are relaxed, and it works fine there. Honestly some tracks are good journeys. The problem is that it's not psytrance, not ambient, just something hybrid. The begining of the album is not my cup of tea, but from track nr 6 it gets really better. It may deserve a try for those who like experimental psyweirdstuff. 6/10