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oh. the mixed one was quite good though...

i think i remember this... my gf played in her car a few time... it was one of those mixed in album where the whole album was a mixed set (bit like orbital's brown album). if it is, yep 10/10.

funny, we/they were (have been?) saying this more than 10 years ago.

how's the squelching, sliding sound from knob-tweaking on analog synth?

great label (though i haven't looked into their recent stuff...). liked some releases back in late '90 with long steady build-up (cores' matabu, babylon, multica, etc.). some of theirs with sped-up housy feel i wasn't too keen on.

unfortunately, it's been subjected to the same extreme compression makeover like most of new cds. better than nothing, though.

yeah, and it gets really "psychedelic" when all those flashing blue lights starts to appear in your rearview mirror ;-)

That would qualify him as a geezer. ;-) Long live the acid house...

i have question for you peeps: for the releases that are out-of-print for several years, is it uncool to share copies with others? i have previously shared copies of the mystery of yeti (the first one) with coupla friends as they have been out of print for several years. it seems such a loss not to share amazing piece of musical work that TMOY is, and i would gladly point out where they could have gotten a copy excecpt that simply wasn't possible (i found out while back that TIPWorld re-released them so i got my friends legit copies). now, i very much disagree with those who feels it's ok to copy music for whatever reason, particularly in scene like psytrance where 20k copies sold are considered big "hit." but if they are out-of-print, and you know there are people who really, really want them, would it be so wrong to share them? (god, i live in america - RIAA's lawyers're gonna come after my ass...)

my favorite is head-spin. maybe it's about time that "old-school" come back in full swing - everyone seems to want it.

sun project 2000 - by 3am, you brain is orbiting somewhere around saturn, and then you see these three aliens emerge with huge buggy eyes, banging drum kit and guitar. every time the drum-smacking alien hits a hi-hat, green neon arrow shoots thru the entire side length of the warehouse. gotta get me one of them alien masks. met this super hot girl from ethiopia as well - ok, that's another story. ;-) djnemo: thanx for the description. damn, i missed out.

i meant quick cut-in/cut-out in the middle of the tune, that is...

i, in turn, disagree. perhaps you don't hear transition because it's so short/abrupt - many psy tunes don't have long intro/outro and transition is often usually pretty short. also, like you wrote, psy tunes have much more defined build-up/break-down structure (the melodic ones, anyways) that it's not suitable for quick cut-in-cut-out like techno tunes. if this is gimmick, then whole "djing" is a gimmick - it's basically playing buncha pre-recorded tunes together to make a larger set. and two technics should be good enough to turn out a good set, no matter what genre. if by "performer" you mean these "live acts," then we are comparing apples and oranges. but then, i sometimes see such "live acts" simply being the guy bringing loads of un-released tracks on a laptop (i.e., pre-recorded) and sticking it to pa system to play them. what's so special/live about that? yeah, some others actually bring racks of their gears and do bit of live mixing (mixdown), so that's bit more interesting. i agree that mixing style would be different for psy than others - no mystery there. and, of course, we are not talking about "facts" here. cheers.

i just wanted to plug Michael Liu from SF Bay Area, CA, USA. spins out some mean sets. while i love goa/psy trance tunes, the djs in the scene usually don't quite measure up to those in housse/prog/techno scenes.

Awesome oldie. The orange theme is such a classic acid trance. The sharp, arpegiated acid lines are laid out in a imperceptably smooth-progressing, soft melody. It demonstates the term "trance." Gee, this is such a snooty description. It's so good that it makes me type silly-sounding thing like this.

goa gill sure don't.

i want to add, though, i got to see them a month ago here in SF (US), and they were true to the form. an awesome night. it was such treat to hear "Let there be light". (big prop to the beautiful girl who dance whole night on the stage ;-) "And god said, 'Let there be light'..."

there aren't that many AP albums, even if you stretch back into their phonokol/TIT days when they recorded under SFX, and other pseudonyms. but i hear you. one element i very much miss is the semitic/arabic key/melody (i am thinking "electronic"). i'd like to see them add some more of that.

astral projection: astral files x-dream: radio distance to goa 4 mystery of yeti (1 & 2) tip: mystical experiences these are stuck in my mind cuz they got me into goa trance. i used to be into german/british/detroit stuff before: orbital: 2 (brown one) klf: chillout (plus endless remix releasese of their main tracks like wtil, 3am eternal, etc.) just about anything by oliver lieb early releases on noom, particularly Cores union jack/claudio gui-something (sorry :-) stuff vartious detroit stuff (the three kings, UR, etc.) i want to go back to '95-96. what happend to goa trance?!

Infected Mushroom. Theirs sound like they were all done with software synths and software effects. Very tinny sound. The melody is also very conventional - nothing wrong with that, except I look for different types of melodies/keys for goa/psy music. The jazz/classic infusion was fresh for a while, but after all this is psy, not pop jazz, right :-)

"thirst" by seeka? the description above brings to mind the comp "50th" by flying rhino, which has the tune mentioned above. others on the release are of similar ilk, though "thirst" is my favorite on it (hell of build-up track). but this the release is a few years old, and not sure it fits other criteria (don't recognize the tracks you listed, and i don't know half the stuff i have). the rumor a few years ago was that flying rhino was going out of business. wonder if that's what happened? that would be sad...

i didn't know absolum is the other half of transwave. i saw absolum's gig coupla weeks ago - the 3d vision sound (or perhaps absolum's sound) is, as you described, bit one-sided - it's the same baseline all the way thru. but entertaining night, nevertheless.

joof's version of mahadeva indeed is good. it's in sorta same spirit - the original was pretty cheesy, and the remix is also anthemic/cheesy, but very well done. agree that alien project's "people can fly" remix was disappointing. look forward to hearing the versions of "vision of nasca" and "let there be light," though (i haven't heard "ten" - i only have joof's mahadeva which is released separately by joof)

i only have a single with a mix of "kind of prayer." i'm more drawn to mixes of "maenad" on the b-side - hypnotic. the use of the sharp asian horn (don't know the name of instrument - this same horn sound is heard in music from korea to turkey) is genius.