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Plus you have to keep in mind that in the summertime there aren't that many parties... Most people flee to Germany (or Italy, or Spain, or Belgium, or wherever) because of a total lack of trance-festivals... Well, there is one (@ruigoord) called Solstice and if it happens to be when you're around, don't miss it!
and yeah, it is weird, the sites shouldve been called psytrance.nl and .net but what can you do? people are used to it...
remind me again of this when you're nearly leaving, we might have some surprises!
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Oldschool Goa in Amsterdam is a contradictio in terminis, my friend. You'll most probably find full on and more full on.
But, there's good parties over there too! Most of em you can find @ the databases of www.goatrance.nl and www.goatrance.net
good luck!
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Damn!
Hehehe, congrats to the winners!
Vibrasphere is indeed a good choice, if I may say so, and I would've probably chosen it myself. The Yeti-doubleceedee-thingie is also a good one, although I have it already. Ah wait, I forgot... I can't choose! Not fair!! Hehehehe, well, another big 'thank you!' to faze for such an enormously cool contest.
Nuff respect!
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Hey faze,
I think it's really sweet that you're even defending yourself, that you haven't played any of the cd's. Frankly, I think it's the gesture that's very cool already, if they were played cd's, I'd be just as happy!
Anyway, I'm thinking of winning either Vibrasphere or maybe CBL or Tripswitch? Hmmm... this is making me greedy...
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Alright, alright... I was thinking of competing too, but since I've only written small reviews for personal use, I didn't know if it would turn out alright.
But then I saw that one of my favorite chill-albums of last year wasn't in the review-section, I decided to do it anyway.
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1 Eat Static - UFO over Trenchtown
"Suppose that flying saucer, or whatever it was, had anything to do with this?" Imagine what you'd get when you put Eat Static somewhere in a government yard. Exactly. Deep, alienesc dub, trippy sounds, spacey percussion: as dub is meant to sound. This'll lift your mood immediately and will make your head bounce. Great track!
2 Gaudi vs. Tripswitch - Subdown
Personally I expected more of this collaboration. The atmosphere is indeed floating and warm, but the song doesnt seem to head anywhere in particular. It's okay, but not something that would stand out if it were played in the chillout.
3 Kaya Project - From Raag to Ragga
Maybe it's an overkill of ethnic influences, maybe I've been overexposed or maybe it's just not my style. I know a lot of people are really into Kaya Project, but the Hindi singing becomes too much, as do all of the other worldmusic sounds. It doesn't chill me down, which it should!
4 Alex Theory - Voodoo Dub
This song starts off with good old reggae guitar sounds, after which the percussion hits and the altogether dubvibe is created. Echoeing sounds all over, a mystic lady singing something like (and I know when you write down it sounds silly but I'ma do it anyway) "woooohaaaahoohoohooooo..." which makes you hate yourself for not lying on a sunny brazilian beach, drinking cocktails and listening to this from underneath a coconut-tree. A really spacey and dubby vibe, not totally dub, but indeed totally chill. Good emotional floating song. I like it!
5 Liquid Stranger - Liquid Stranger On The Run
"Liquid stranger on the run!" Come down my selecta, this is hardcoredancehalldub! And yes, I mean that in a really positive way. Somewhat aggresive dub, making you nod your head and move your feet. The music comes up slow and when it hits, you think: yes! Very groovy and reggae-ish track, I'm not really a fan of vocals (let alone rap) and this shouldnt be any exception, but it does work. I guess the floating flutey sounds make up for that. Really catchy flute-melody that sticks in your head a long while after the sing has finished.
6 Blowbag - Legion of Green Men
This one starts with a sort of fat crunchy broken beat , which gets filled by a real spacey organ-like sound. This melody haunts from underneath that fat groovey broken beat and its again something different. A lot of starship-like sounds in here, followed by cosy trumpets, while the background is filled with lots of freaky dubby sounds. Cool and warm at the same time, you get well imagine yourself lying at the beach of an extrastellar Bounty Island. The song ends with some out-of-this-world beautiful space-transmitted vocals. Very varied, this. Wow!
7 Eiji - Digimunk
Very melodic opening, funky beat and percussions, a brazilian chick singing over laidback reggae-basses; lovely! Sweet piano-tunes, some african tribal singing. A lot of these classifications would make me spin this song, but it works surprisingly well. Nice groovy and rolling basses, plings and ploings everywhere, sweet melodies make this another 'thumbs up' from me!
8 Peyote Sound System - Aqua Dub
Another straight-up dubby one, and yeah... somehow it has a water feel to it. Maybe its the sound of drops falling, that does the trick? A nice driving chilled 4/4 underneath this, makes it a nice deep dub track. The second half of the song explores even darker territories, reminds me of Swedish forests. Trippy!
9 Mauxuam - Ulezak
Was it Damion-Psyreviews that said this song has an Ott-feel to it? I concur! It has those spaced-out floating melodies and overall feeling you'd expect from Ott. Had this been on Blumenkraft, I wouldn't've noticed... But that wouldn't do Mauxuam justice; this is just a very well crafted, deeply moving, beautfilly put together space-dub that I would definitely play in a chillout-set. Wonderful track, one of the best on this album!
10 Erik the Viking vs Odo - Its not Buddha
Pitched-off bazaar-music! Sounds kinda trippy and it gets the edge of the 'too-worldly-music'-vibe, which seems to annoy me a little more than it should. Same goes for the ethnic chanting. Not a bad track, but not totally my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
11 Lunchbox - Jellyfish Roll
A really really chilled out jazzy tune to finish the album. Warm atmosphere, extremely laidback, but it's over before you know it.
Overall:
I had been awaiting this album very anxiously already, had heard great stories about it, and they all proved true. A very varied album, with nothing but head-nodding, dubby, warm and psychedelic vibes. Everything I'm looking for in a chillout-compilation without sounding too generic or cheesy. One of my fav's!
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Can we generalize a bit and say that any artist that puts his own face on the front of an album, makes it immediately 'stupid' ?
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I really like Organic's artwork, but the one I thought of first, was the tsunami benefit album and that was a little too minimal for my taste.
But, I must be honest: the other examples are really original and nice! Not too generic-mandala-fluo-tribe-kinda-shit but still psychedelic in a way.
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hmmm.. true that! but the cover of 'Lime Structure' doesnt look anything like this one. And I still like the styleyness of it... But maybe that's just me.
Also, the Chicago cover is probably the worst i've seen. That's just terrible. The Opposite one on the other hand is kinda nice. Doesn't belong in this section.
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hehehe, if anyone could know, it's Trip, believe me.
Talking about groupies... there you have it!
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i think that Lemon Strike cover is pretty cool, nice 'n arty farty
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Since I'm not really that much of an expert (but a lover, though) may I draw your attention to the following (11 pages!!) thread @ goatrance.nl , the main dutch psytrance site ... ?
Take a look here, I think its mostly in english, a LOT OF names are being mentioned!
[edit] sorry, i see most of it is in dutch, but artists are artists and you can recognize when good names are being mentioned. otherwise just ask me (or any other dutchspeaking member...enjoy! [/edit]
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is this lawrance taylor personality´s sole purpose just to disagree with everyone that knows of something critical to say? get a life, you spoof!
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holy shit! i've never even realised this music was possible. listening to a lot of warp records, you think you've heard it all.
this is being played as the only song in my playlist, on repeat, and i can't seem to get tired of it. what is this? does it change every time i listen to it?
anyhow, i like what you did to the guitar-strings, totally freaky!
am i the only one that thinks it can be the new summer 2006 ambient hit? after this has been released, i think famous producers wanting to remix this will stand in line.
madness!!!
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if anything,
the Grateful Dead,
for incorporating not only music but also the whole other spectrum of psychedelic influences (random sound, noize, strobes, etc. etc.)
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I mostly agree with Pr0fane's report, nicely put dude
The first day I wanted to buy long papers from some Israeli shop (5 euros! terrible fake-ass capitalist pseudo-hippies
) Other than that, this festival was really amazing. Lovely weather, after the sun- and monday I mean. The collapse of the main stage was really sad but I couldnt help laughing, because I had been told by a lot of people already that it looked way too fragile. And indeed it did; trusses were bent almost 180 degrees, everything look so totally destroyed that it was utterly funny to me. And well, in most cases I think its better to laugh than to be sad. First morning I got woken up by the lovely soudns of Absolum (didnt know his music) and since we were camped on the hills right behind the second stage, I only needed to pull on some pants, jump out of my sleep and my tent and I was on the dancefloor! Woohoo! That's what I love about festivals!
Saw a half hour of his set and really liked it and to my great surprise I had warmed up for RINKADINK! YEAH! That was a bigass surprise, the sun was coming up and I was dancing barefeet, meeting a lot of people already. Just perfect.
Great set, followed by a pretty live set from Hydrophonic; also nice, but not quite morning music, if you ask me.
Other great sets I heard were from Hallucinogen of course ( I WANNA HAVE BIG TITS! ), Andromeda (really nice! especially since i missed chromsome! btw; i think there was way too much night-time-stuff and not enough melodic psy, but that's another note), Antidote I think, Liquid Soul were also great!, Freq was nice, D-Nox too [though a bit cheesy], Hilight Tribe were awesome for a change and the only really really LIVE act!
I also liked Grapes of Wrath and Haltya although both were absolutely non-live, in which case i get disappointed a little bit... and I was. even though i had a nice dance to both.
Talking about disappointments: Infected Mushroom were by far the worst act of the whole festival. It didnt really sound special to begin with, but then when the bald dude (which of the two is he?) start 'rapping' to Cities of the Future, I really didnt know which way to turn or how hard to start laughing. Before they started, we tried to create a yell by screaming "No Vocals! No Vocals!" but I guess unfortunately it didnt quite help...
Midimiliz&Spirillianz were strangely enough totally miscasted, their set didnt really do it for the crowd.
Unfortunately HuxFlux didnt show up, I was really erally anxious for their set! Missed; Protoculture, Son Kite (damn! because of the messy line up I got up just after their set... Vibrasphere wasnt too special, imo)
I saw almost 2 hours of Simon's Shpongle-set; magnificent! It might have helped a little bit that we had had german acid-laced jägermeister, but wooooow! A totally full chillout with everybody dancing; it really was a great set! My finnish neighbour remarked that if you put Shpongle at the main stage at midnight everybody wouldve gone totally insane and I agree! Would love to see that happen!
Really colorful set with a lot of feaks in cool costumes and weird outfits. Fantastic show!Despite every single shop being somewhat of a ripoff (meals werent enough to satisfy anyone's hunger) and beers were extremely expensive too, no even to start about the supermarket, this was one of the best festivals i've been too.
Not so many fucked up people, a lot of love and a brilliant atmosphere. I've realised that Japanese people rock big time (and so did everyone i met). This was truly an international festival! Very much so!
I also realised that 7 days of trance is a tad too much for me. I wouldnt have minded more variation and things to do, but what the heck.
Thanks to everyone, including the organisation. Also the Turkish people, because they're probably the friendlist i've met sofar!
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well.. couldnt have said it better myself. that about sums up what i feel about it. and thats more than i could say... i just wonder what people like Overdose think?Okay, here is my opinion on this:
Cinos was probably getting something from being all negative here (you know, there are people that feel good when they think they're special and Cinos was here in his way by being negative ... so in a way because of him being so asocial in normal life he had the psychological urge to gain attention - which he got here by pretending to be the negative one, get what I mean?). Thus all what he said is true to only a third or so. He himself admitted that once. However, since such behaviour is indeed childish and immature and because all the constant negativity was getting boring and predictable and just not making this place a better one in any way I would certainly not have disagreed to ban him another time. Indeed, who wants an always negative person around - me not. You need a bigger picture and light things also from the positive side! Cinos lacked balance. And he was also kinda arsing us ... because in his posts I could read that some of it was not really honest and just put in to frantically keep his oh so negative image ... and thus a certain slap in the face would do him good. Maybe some time off the computer will do him good indeed!
But I'd never ever have banned him for a full year. I'd have probably agreed for three months. Three months is a nice time. Much can happen in three months. Cinos would make some time off and then the summer would be coming anyway. That would be quite nice. If he would be an asshole again when he came back then I'd agree to ban him for a year, because you see it's nothing good and that he will not change, so next chance he'd have in another year. But not now. Three months ban would be justified in my eyes all the way - but not more! If anybody would ban me here for one year I'd never come back, I'd find so much other things and other forums. And I also think Cinos wouldn't come back. I strongly disagree with one year. I would not have been for it - if somebody would have asked *rolling eyes*
But I can't change it. So I just sigh and move out of this thread.
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Colin, I bought your album, can we be friends now? I also downloaded it first, after having read Damions review. Then I deleted the downloaded album because it took up space @ my computer and I got the original one, now.
I for one think it's way cooler to have original albums, must be the collecter in me. Plus they sound so much better than mp3s.
But I admit (and theres no argument against this, because it refers to ME) that I have downloaded stuff. Not all of that I have paid for.
Btw, anyone remember Boom! records? They put out quite a few albums but after a while they quit, because people were downloading A LOT but not buying shit. That's the sad part about this. But, well, for me downloading helps a lot. And no, its not the same listening to lo-bit saikosounds samples...
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so, when did Trash leave? At the same point the Orb became shabby?Dr. Alex my ass. He's got a great line in wacky samples but the defining element of this album is the input of Kris Weston aka Thrash. The Orb were not the same after Thrash left; the guy is an utter genius - if a little unstable according to a mutual friend (who is himself a little unstable!).
This period saw the Orb's finest work and this album itself is an absolute essential purchase.
And yes, July 1992.
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Most of the songs are deep heavy dubby stuff, and pretty psychedelic indeed! Haven't they released other albums under Children of the Bong? It's also a pretty damn good name for a group, I must add
I've bought this only recently, maybe in 2004, and like many ambient-albums (fsol, orb anyone?) from around that time, they almost don't sound dated at all. Excellent stuff, to say the least! I think my favourites are 4, 5 and 6, but that's if I recall correctly. The more dubby songs, that is!
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still, the DJ has to react to stimuli.. that's the art and the magic of it. that's why it's a DJ and not a jukebox. psytrance isn't really techno where it's all about mixing (done very much live, afaik), here most people won't notice if you fade every track, it's the music that counts, the energy and direction of the tracks. and IMHO, 'live' DJing has a much higher vibrational potential than anything prepped.
amen! as you could read in a previous thread, i just started dj-ing and really only do ambient/chilled out stuff. which is kinda hard to mix, since the bpms differ so much. but i've NEVER (all 4 times i played!
) prepared anything. i just write down what songs are my favorites and then when the moment comes to choose another song i just franctically flip back and forth in my cdmap to pick one... thats whats been working best for me. if the crowd seems to go too much with the flow... then i'll just put on something surprising, hehehe, just to fuck with em a little bit. you can't tell me you can do that with a pre-fabricated set. its just not possible.
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I've always been convinced that while Blumenkraft does indeed mean Flower Power in German, its derived from RA Wilsons 'Illuminati Trilogy' in which 'ewige Slangenkraft und ewige Blumenkraft' were the main slogans for the evil Illuminati. Correct me if I'm wrong... maybe it's just as cheesy as a hippie-saying...
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Looking for Psy party in Amsterdam
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To be exact, it is an abandoned town, which has been squatted in its entirety. In wintertime they do a lot of parties in the main church. It's a really nice place, next to the water and also next to Schiphol (amsterdam airport). Last year it was REALLY trippy dancing and seeing all those planes flying over your head. And I mean a lot of planes... COol stuuf, though it must be annoying when you live there...
Anyway: cultural freestate does indeed mean kind of a home for arty farty hippies, there's a lot of cultural stuff happening there, a lot of art, poetry, music and whatnot. If there's anything happening: be sure to check it out!