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Moved to general.

Maybe it's allready too cheesy for you but have you tried Burn In Noise - Broken MP3? Samples a Saikosounds.

Got this from the bargain bin at my local psyshop: v/A - Backroom Beats Vol. 2 http://www.discogs.com/release/220135 Listening to it right now, very nice music to get stoned to.

There were several responses set invisible, mainly because there's no need for off topic talk in the review section. At least there you should stay on topic, means only reviews about the album and that's it.

Wrong imho, Emo music is rather melancholic while morning full-on is more uplifting, at least Yahel is. Try again!!

It's not new but I really like the Benza - Retrofuturism album, very psychedelic and melodic but it stands clearly out against the common full-on or prog releases.

Got two new albums from a trade with Technossomy: Man With No Name - Interstate Highway http://www.discogs.com/release/165938 v/A - Spiritual Moves http://www.discogs.com/release/316490

Liveset by Goe

Synsun - Spiritual Healing

Younger Brother - The Receptive

Benza - Depth Perception

This thread is so much fun I just have to come up with some more tracks! Tiesto - Lethal Industry Like so many others I was into trance before I knew psy (but unless most of the others I still love my trance and continue to buy trance records too) and also went to trance parties before I went to goa festivals. A track that really moved it when I heard it first is Lethal Industry. I went to a small and rather underground party and heard this song, even bought a CD-R with a DJ mix from one of the DJs playing there and found the tune again. The melody is just awesome, even slightly psychedelic imho. A bit later I found out the name of the track, now the vinly is mine. Time Lock - Inner Brigth I guess it's not only about old tracks but also about new stuff you've fallen in love with at the first sight. This track is for sure the track of the year 2006 for me. Heard it first at the Geometrix party in the live set of Time Lock while flying away on acid. The track itself would be mediocre but the vocals are just too good to be true. Again it took me several months to find out what the track is and buy it but thanks to a DJ who played the track I was able to find it. Sesto Sento - People Heard the trac,k at the same party as the Inner Bright song. As I've said I was high on acid and all the music sounded just awesome. The melody and especially the vocals of this track reminded me of the Danger Mouse song (from the cartoon, don't know if anybody knows it, it's rather old) and thanks to a trade I also own it now. Funny thing the music (not only this track but also the other stuff) sounded way different on the acid than it does now. The whole Time Lock set didn't sound like the stuff on their CD at all. Even when my ex who was with me at the party recognised a lot of stuff on the album. Kinda funny... Edit: just read the first post again and the thread is actually only about stuff that got you into trance. Well, let the post stay here anyway.

Benza - Isis And Osiris

Have you checked the Principles Of Flight album?

1200 Mics - E=MC2

Just in case you haven't nocited we were able to add a new interview, done by Cosmogenensisj (thanks man! ). Here's the link: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=44581

Q/First of all, can you introduce yourself in a few words, give us some personal indications about you, for the people who don't know you? ((Name, age, nationality, studies or profession, particular interests, …) A/My name is Jim Granlund, I’m 30 years old and live in a town called Gävle some 20 kilometres north of Stockholm in Sweden. I have a background in the computer business but since 2004 I’m trying to educate myself in other areas. Currently I take classes in history and archaeology at the university. My interests cover a lot of things but I enjoy technology to some extent, science, current events, politics, history, archaeology, music, movies, books and more. Anything that can stimulate the intellect is welcome ! Q/Let's start to talk about your musical career and, more precisely, about your first steps on the trance scene. Your first track was released on Lyrical Robot Records , back in 1997. When did you start exactly hearing about the goa music, and then producing this kind of sound? Which were the motivations that pushed you, at that time, to choose goa trance instead of another genre? A/Well, this is a rather long story that needs some background information but I’ll try to cut it a bit shorter. I came into contact with electronic music at the age 10 when I got Depeche Mode and Nitzer Ebb on cassettes for my birthday and instantly got hooked on electronic music. Around 1988 house- and acid music started flowing into the stores, and me and my friends started buying vinyl records and sat at home thinking this was great stuff. Later on German techno etc also came in my path. In the beginning of the 1990’s I discovered bands like Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Die Krupps and other industrial bands and got really really into that for several years. This is when I started thinking about making music of my own and I also came into contact with Noise Tracker on the Commodore Amiga. From there I went to real synthesizers and started building my studio. I discovered trance music in 1993-94 through compilations and I liked the sound and kept listening to that besides industrial/EBM. In late 1995 I was listening to a Swedish radio show called P3 Dans and they played Starship 101 with Etnica and it totally blew my mind. It was like being electrified with sound. I immediately started collecting Goa records and took my first step trying to produce similar music in my own studio. It wasn’t only the music that appealed to me but the whole deal with the hindu imagery, mysticism and spirituality. It took a while to get the sound like I wanted it but in February 1997 I had three tracks ready to go and a good friend of mine had some label connections which resulted in the release on Lyrical Robot Records. The other two tracks that were completed at the same time ended up on Lord of Illusions later on. Q/You released, by the past, two brilliant and very original albums, "Lord of Illusions", & "Spiritual Heritage, respectively in 1998 & 2000, and also a few compilation tracks, on Tsunami Productions. How did happen the contact with this label? A/This also came into being through the same guy who got me the deal with LRR. He knew a DJ who had connections at Tsunami and he thought I should send them a demo. Said and done, I sent them the tracks for Lord of Illusions and they wanted to sign me. Q/It seems that your two albums can be distinguished by their own touch, since their general atmosphere and personal universe sound different for each of them. How do you describe personally your style for each of them? How much time did you spend to produce both ? A/I think the records pretty much reflect how I was feeling as a person during the time I produced them. LoI is more upbeat, energetic and positive. This was my first steps in the Goa scene and I was really passionate about everything and it was all new and exciting. It also had a huge influence from the artists I used to listen to early on as Astral Projection, Etnica, MWNN, Transwave etc. When Spiritual Heritage was in the making I had started to listen to a lot of industrial music again and that music tends to be a bit dark. I also experienced some personal losses and my life was in a big change and I think that’s why it got a heavier and more condensed sound altogether. I still think the production qualities of Spiritual are better than LoI even if the songwriting maybe isn’t. My production technique used to work the way that I did hundreds of sketches and then suddenly something just clicked and became a complete track. All my tracks on the records are made like this, and most of them took around 10-20 hours each. But since there was long time between these moments of creative explosions each record took me about a year in total. But they were recorded almost a year before release, both of them. I actually transferred all my original DAT-recordings to my computer a few months back and discovered that the originals are much better sounding than the CD’s. I’m afraid Tsunami did a half-ass job mastering them. Maybe they will become available online in some form in the future. Q/In the meantime, I'm curious to ask you where do you capture your very special inspiration? A/The main inspiration when I started out making my own music was music by others but everything I’ve collected in my head through the years has served me well as inspiration. It ranges from books to movies to personal experiences. Also all the partying and dancing, going to concerts, festivals and our own little basement parties we used to have in the mid 90’s. Q/Is there any particular meaning behind your first project's name, "Dreamweaver"? A/At the time I was starting out with the Goa stuff I was a true seeker. A soul searcher interested in new age, magic, spiritual things of all kinds. I guess that’s also one of the things that attracted me to the scene in general. I think I actually got the name from some new age magazine. I also thought it described my music pretty well - I was “weaving” dreams with sound. As I said, I was into heavy soul searching, ha ha. Q/Are you still in contact with former artists of tsunami ( Masada , Xervana or Tripticon for example)? Can you give us some fresh news about what they are doing now? A/Not really, and I never was in any real extensive contact with these guys either. I know that Masada produces some progressive music these days and I think he’s doing rather well. I have no idea what Xervana does but Tripticon is Ticon these days, big name in the progressive scene. Q/We will return now in the present. You have a track called "Penta", planned for the long-awaited "Fluorotronik" compilation, which is expected to be released soon on Tranceform records. Could give us some indications about the style of this track? A/Penta is actually my first and only real venture into the full-on sound. No worries, there are still Dreamweaver traces to be found in there. I’m quite happy with this track and think the production values are rather good. And the mastering from Tim Schuldt sure didn’t hurt either. Q/Ethereal members, Fredrik & Carl, already told us some words about the distribution issues that, it seems, is the main reason of the "Fluorotronik" release date's delay. But can you bring us, by chance, more light about what is happening now exactly with this VA/? Any chance to see it released for 2007? A/Well, there’s really only one person in the world who has the actual information about this and that’s Kalle. So you’d better ask him really since he’s the captain of that project. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for any 2007 release…. If you get any clarification let me know too. Q/What's your current situation as artist and also with Tranceform? Do you have future projects or tracks in the pipeline? Can your fans keep the hope of a possible comeback from your part on the trance scene? A/My relations with Tranceform these days only extend to Fluorotronik. No future projects have been discussed or asked for. I think Kalle is somewhat busy these days with his EBM/cybergoth club in Helsinki. Regarding future music from me there’s really no way of telling just now. I’ve been disconnected a lot from musicmaking the last 3-4 years but I’m actually starting to feel some urge again to make some tracks. I’ve always regretted I didn’t explore the Aquasphere-sound more for instance. There have also been some discussions regarding me participating on the new Ethereal record. The last couple of years I’ve got requests from different people about doing gigs and I receive mails from time to time from curious people and that’s given me some new lust for music so let’s see what the future has to bring. Q/What kind of equipment do you use for your productions? A/It’s varied through the years. I’ve owned loads of equipment in various forms and shapes. When I recorded LoI I had a Roland JV1080 with Vintage & Dance-expansions, Novation Drumstation, Control Synthesis Deep Bass Nine, Kurzweil K2000, some effect boxes, a small Soundcraft mixer, DAT-recorder and an Amiga 4000 running Music-X. Spiritual was done with JV1080, Yamaha AN1x, Emu ESI4000, Drumstation, effects, a large Spirit desk and the same DAT and computer. The remix I did for Ethereal and Penta was done in Logic Audio with it’s internal synthesizers, effects and a handful of other plugins, Aquasphere was done 100% in Reason. In the future I would like to use both hardware and software, as I think both have their strengths and weaknesses. Q/Have you any favourite psychedelic trance groups or tracks that you appreciate a lot or are fan of? Which artists or projects do you dream to collaborate with? A/Oh, there’s lot of good groups and producers. I like Astral Projection, Etnica, Koxbox, Transwave, MWNN, X-Dream, Juno Reactor, Wizzy Noise, Orion and many more. I also enjoy a lot of progressive stuff from bands like Ticon, Vibrasphere, Son Kite, Thomas Penton, RPO etc. I haven’t really had any aspirations to work with other artists. It’s such a “hit&miss” thing and could just be terrible in the end. Q/Excepted goa trance, what are the other kind of electronic /non-electronic music that you use to listen to? Any particular artist or musical genre? A/When it comes to electronic music I listen to industrial (FLA is the household name for sure), EBM, progressive trance and house, ambient and other kinds of dance music like Underworld, Leftfield, Lucky People Center, Fluke etc. I also enjoy metal music like Testament, Paradise Lost, Fear Factory and goth rock like Fields of the Nephilim and Sisters of Mercy. There’s so much good music to listen to. Q/Which were the best & worse parties you ever played? A/I haven’t played too many parties but one of the worst was at a local party here in 1999 when everyone but me was totally wasted on drugs. I got stranded in the bush for 24 hours with a bunch of wackos. Another time the same year when some crazy person decided to fall down on all of my equipment was failure too. But there have been some good parties, in some small places indoors and the gig I did for Tranceform in the woods in Finland 2003 was kind of nice too. Q/A classical question now: we are in 2007, ten years have passed since your first ages in the goa trance music; what's your opinion today about the actual trance scene? How do you characterize its evolution? Do you think that goa music is really dying or is only asleep? A/Firstly, I think that all music genres have to go through evolution or else they dry up. Some stages of the evolution in the trance scene have been good and some haven’t. At the moment, even if there are always exceptions, I think they release way too much music that’s really below the level of quality that should be present these days. And too many producers use the exact same equipment and same plugins so sometimes it can be very hard to actually hear if the same guys did 20 records or not. But I’m not willing to put down full-on totally since I think there are gems to be found there too. And sometimes a very special album comes around, like last years OOOD – that was really good stuff. Especially the track with OTT, he should really do a full length album in that and Hikikomori style. That would simply rock. Well, I don’t think Goa is dying, it’s still here isn’t it ? It’s just not the main focus in trance anymore, it used to be THE scene and now it’s more of a subscene. I don’t expect it to explode and become the great movement it once was, I think the interest in that is just too low. But I have respect for people who try to keep the vibe alive and keep on doing Goa-themed parties and releasing records. Q/ And the final question: for all the fans who are still hoping for better goa days, which message would you like to deliver to? A/Keep at it and stay positive ! The world today is in real need of positive vibes so just keep on rocking. Thanks a lot for all the explanations and interesting answers you bring to us in this interview. We wish you all the best for your future projects!

Westbam - Wizards Of The Sonic Ravetracks from Westbam, U96, Marusha and similar artists were my first encounter with electronical music (at least if you don't count synthesizer stuff from Jean-Michel Jarre and similar artists and new wave stuff). This is imho Westbam's best track, it was years later when I found out the melody is taken from a Sonic game from the Mega Drive (I even made a thread about it here...). Yahel - For The People A real dancefloor killer, the synthline is still giving me the chills when I hear it. I had only started to buy CDs and the Waves Of Sound album was one of my first buys (back then buying Goa Cds was somethign mystical since I got told they are so rare it's nearly impossible to find them. Well, that was bullshit obviously) and I was more than pleased that there were several songs on it that I've heard at parties and loved at the first sight (Last Man In The Universe, Waves Of Sound...). Psysex - Skywalker Remix I still remember when I first heard that tune: at an outdoor party in Mesocco in the remains of an old castle. Beautiful sunshine, people dancing, me being high on shrooms and Es... This was one of the first songs I just wanted to have, some weeks later I've hard it again at a party, found out it was by psysex and then I sent am email to the Hommega label owner Eyal Yankovich to ask him about the song since nobody I know could tell me the exact name. He even replied to my email and soon enough I was able to buy another CD. Infected Mushroom - Dracul Heard the track at the same party I've heard the Psysex track again (see above), this time people were immediately able to tell me by who it was. Another album to buy... I especially like the d monk-like singing and the medieval feeling of the whole track. Xerox - In My Brain Was at an indoor party, Eyal Yankovich playing one killer track after the other but this one moved me the most (well, besides the one that comes next... ). The track would have normally been a bit too monotone for me but the vocals were sending me over the edge. Infected Mushroom - Symphonatix Another track played by Eyal Yankovich, the best IM track ever maybe, killer synthline it has. You can imagine my astonishment when I found the track on vinyl some weeks later at the local psyshop. Still have it and will never sell it... As you can see I started to go to parties around 2000/2001 so even when I discovered amazing old-school stuff like Hallucinogen, GNOTR and so on later, the tracks I've heard at the parties where the ones that blew me away the most.

I vaguely remember an older thread in which people were talking (or complaining) about some online stores for downloadable music have changed their prices. Maybe the thread even was about Beatport, maybe the sales have gone bad since then? I'm not sure but the thread was by Nemo I think, maybe you wanna look for it?

I have the new album and also two of the old ones and I have to say I like them all. The older ones are very trancy (if I remember right, it's been some time since I gave them a listen) but I also like the new upflifting psy style. The tracks on the new album are all in the same style (upflifting with lots of climaxes) but still they don't sound too similar since he (or them?!) uses different effects and the melodies sound very nice to me. I also see some similarities to old goa stuff (before you freak out, yes I know it's not new-school goa don't worry), especially with the melodies. I'm rather curious in which direction Space Buddha will evolve in the future.

I can only agree about Transdimensional: it's one of the best goa albums ever. For me it's on the same level as the Hallucinogen stuff and easily better (and I like Pleiadians, just to make that sure!) IFO or Alien Protein. Btw. does anybody know for how much the Transdimensional vinyl would sell on ebay? I know the CD is very expensive all the times but I haven't heard much talk about the vinyl edition.

Yes, that's exactly the text I had in mind! Would be awesome if you could update it, even now it's an awesome read and it would be great to have it in wikipiedia.

Got these four goodies from a trade: Benza - Retrofuturism http://www.discogs.com/release/398785 v/a - Anti Phase - Plug n' Play Vol. 1 http://www.discogs.com/release/720567 Melicia - Running Out Of Time http://www.discogs.com/release/164564 Oforia - Off The Ground http://www.discogs.com/release/205753

Fettes Brot - Hallo Hip-Hop

Dimension 5 - Deep Space 5D