[Heavy, Pounding Minimal Psy]

Gagalsm, happy to hear you found some things worth buying from those lists. D.I.M.O was never that popular back then but I always had a soft spot for his music.

Re. Der Dritte Raum, definitely check out :

- Wellenbad (has the classic Trommelmaschine which is still up there with the best tribal trance... was caned at many parties here)

- Raumgleiter (too groovy & uplifting for style of this thread but the whole album is a magnificent journey through funky techno & has the classic 'Hale Bopp'... another fave album for sure)

 

You can totally see where Son Kite got their sound from with this artist.

[I am sorry but...]

The first full on I can remember is stuff like the 3D vision double cd comp - Psychedelic, along with stuff like Tandu/Oforia & especially GMS... this was all around 1998.

 

Re: Logic Bomb, they were always more prog/minimal/darker... when Headware came out it was a crossover into a style that was already developing.

 

 

Only full on album that I reckon had some legs was Altom - Hologram.

 

I remember learning to avoid full on parties as 12 hours of similar baselines was turture.

 

Worst full-on memory was a sunrise 4 hour Talamasca set that seemed like the same song until lunchtime.

(sorry to any 'tala' fans...but pretty sure he was miming on a nord lead that wasnt plugged in also lol)

[Heavy, Pounding Minimal Psy]

Ok ripped more cds last few nights and have a few more suggestions...

Some you may know, some might be 'left of field style' than your list above, & some are exactly on the OP's 'looking for' tip.

 

Baluns Records (Swedish label run by Son Kite) Check v.a-Otherwise & Pope of Gegga album

Quarz - S02 (pumping minimal german style?!)

Bandit - Looking for the Element (Israeli artist with Atmos/Scando influence... 2-3 good tracks on this one)

Aeon Records - v.a Refresh

Lish - Dejavoodoo (first album... more pounding & minimal & less progressive than what he became)

Candyflip records (v.a Candy (Igneous Sauria influences throughout), Drone- Drastic Plastic CD-EP, Phacelift-Path of Pathos)

Electro Psychedelic Trance vol.2 (old POF comp with one of all timefave minimal tracks - Moksha-Iteration rmx)

D.I.M.O - self titled album... good stuff here & still sounds fresh

Metal Spark - Corrosive ( metallic)... also check Sibilant - Proper Filth (same artist)... minimal 4x4 break trance

Digital Structures Label - Early releases 2000-02 are techy/deeper/minimal & less housy... also heaps of obscure vinyl eps worth chasing down

Flow Records - Early v.a's like Change, Flowin, Filtered Beats, Non Toxic Frequencies, Blue & Motion Generator

Groove Zone Records - Magnetic Storm v.a (only comp from this label to go in this direction)

v.a - Progress Chapter one (froggle records)

Cybersnack - rebels from the Source (older 99' release that has some good chill and slower 4x4 minimal)

Flying Rhino - 3rd Flight through to 8th Flight compils

Igneous - Skip Insect (more banging version of Igneous Sauria, though nothing will beat the first I.S. album on Creamcrop)

Three Point Turn - By any Meeans Necessary (hard groovy music... hard to describe also)

Interzone Records - Interzone 1 & 2 comps (first is very minimal indeed)

Innersound Records - Perfect Evolution compil (similar to Undefined Emotional Freqs style)

Behind Blue Eyes - CPH (first cd only.... good Beat Bizarre style and what Iboga records should have stuck at to keep my business)

Manta Records - One Point Perspective (good NZ comp.... the second one 'Subduction' is pretty good also)

Disko Slickers - Slick of it all (album by the guys from Intact Instinct in a similar style)

Nerve - No Foco (rare & very good cd ep from the guys from M.O.S... deep & rocking)

Cosmopolite - The Second Step (Israeli compil with great tracks from Bitmonx & Dooper Doopler)

Stiimulus Vol.1 (first v.a from Nervine recs... only one in this minimal style)

Shaman - Foretaste (Plusquam recs... has some good deep scando trance onthis one)

Charasmatix - Abracadabra (heavy minimal and pounding but in a good way... first track kills & prefer to Soma Agents)

 

You already have some of my favorites listed like Zerotonine, Igneous Sauria, Haldolium-Deagua era, XV Kilist (early singles 100%!)

There is still more but I think that should be enough to offer a load of tangents to go off into, and i get tired of using keyboards that don't have black keys :-)

 

Quick O.T rant - I looked on Ektoplazm.com recently and was shocked to see a style called 'Zenonesque'... this style was around for years before Tim started his label in various forms.

Originators would be X-Dream, Tarsis, Moksha, Planet B.E.N, Atmos, Reefer Decree, Der Dritte Raum etc... labels like Spiral Trax (Progress in Trance), Flying Rhino (3rd Flight), Iboga (Ethnobotany) & Creamcrop. Full props to Zenon for their dedication & prolific releases but I guess I like seeing credit go where credit is due.

 

Peace!

[Heavy, Pounding Minimal Psy]

Hi all... first post but long time psy listener & collector.

I left a few reviews on this site 10-12 yrs ago when it went by a different name.

After a few years off on other tangents I have been ripping all my old cds to Itunes and can easily add some suggestions to your 'pounding minimal' search

 

- Early ZMA records (World Techno Alliance, Zmart, Wizzy Noise-Cybermancy, Paps-2000 hands) for later releases check Connected vol's 1 & 2!

- Old Antix releases - Search fora anything between 2000-2003

- Uphonic Records (Rolling Synthochords, Frequent Flyer)

- Tristan - Audiodrome (classic album from 1999)

- Etic - Touchups (first album from Etay is much more edgy and night influenced than his later stuff)

- Orichalcum & the Deviant - (fave old-school release... has some tracks with minimal melodies)

- Trimada - Devilish (techy minimal pounding with phat production)

- Tatsu Records - Dragon Tales 1 & 2 compils

- Magnetrixx - 1st 2 albums

- Submachine Records - Intra Muros, Lighten, Travel Pack, & Chrome Compils... also Tetraktys & Lunaspice albums have techy & minimal elements

- Prisoners of the Sun - Are you scientific enough? (another classic minimal release from back in the day)

- SBK - Treibstoff (first & only essential album from this project which is evolution from...

- Tarsis - Vacuum (minimal from back in 1998)

- Shiva Chandra - Positive (1998) & Luna Spice (99) + the next two albums he released... much of Auricular's sound you will recognise here

- Etnica - Nitrox & their next two albums are very pumping and minimal (except for the chill tracks)

- South Africa 2000 - the first cd has some good minimal + you get a really great chill cd

- Deviant Species - 2nd & 3rd albums definitely minimal & pounding!

- also check Serious Porn Collector for more 'groovy' version of Deviant Species...

- Tromesa - Pseudomental

- Spiral trax - Only between 2000 - end of 2001... went a bit soft after that.

- Psychedelic Electronics - vol. 2 & especially 3

- Celebral Storm (compil) - has a classic old Tantrumz track

(thinking of Tantrumz.. I have about 30gig of old unreleased minimal on a HD somewhere from the soulseek & napster days... lots of talented artists that never got releases)

- Oxygen (compil) from a little US label

- Noisy Implant (renoise recs)... very 'noisy' creamcrop/uphonic style on this one

- Parabola (compil) - had some good minimal & my favourite Orion track.... ymmv tho.

- Neurobiotic records - Check their second 2 comps - 9 Pills & Fast Forward - recommended!

- Lush (compil) - Nanobeat recs ... this is one of my fave releases for this sound. 4-5 good tracks

- Old Medium v.a releases like Mahasuka, Stereoide, Neighborhood, Floor all have much of this sound.

 

Thats a few off the top of my head.... there are loads more as I was an avid collector of everything progressive/minimal from between 98-06 but thats enough for one post.