Basilisk

This is the first I've heard of this and whoever these guys are, they're heroes!

It was a special time... I wish I had really appreciated it back then.

I nearly spit out my coffee reading that

Back in the day I sought this out just for Strange Thing, still one of my favourite downbeat Goa tunes of all times.

That is totally bizarre. I wonder though... any time I've posted a Neogoa release on my own page Facebook hasn't let me link to the Neogoa page itself. I always got a warning saying "this account has been flagged for spam" or something to that effect. This goes back at least a year or so. A clue?

This is absolutely fantastic from start to finish... highly polished, super musical, ranging through all sorts of different broken beat motifs... delicious!

Thank you for the warm words expressed here. I regret that I have not been as engaged in these forums as I once was. Ektoplazm owes a lot to the Psynews community and the many discussions that have taken place here! I will have to look that up again to be sure. When I was compiling the "best of" project I put absolutely everything into a single playlist and was astounded to see just how much music has passed through the site over the years. Another year or so has passed since I last looked so the total is even higher now... but I don't want to go throwing numbers around without being in the right ballpark So, the update... the best I can say right now is to watch the blog. I have been working behind the scenes since the campaign ended to do the things necessary to ensure the long-term survival of the site (and its transformation into something more modern). Now that the major perks from the crowdfunding campaign have been sent out I will be preparing a proper update explaining what is going on with 2.0 and what to expect in the future. I don't want anyone to think I've abandoned the project, however. In fact, my entire life is organized around making 2.0 possible. Absolutely. I never forget that I am simply an intermediary bridging the gap between content creators and consumers. Without the ingenuity of the labels and artists contributing music none of this would be possible. Anyway, the "best of" compilation is now available to the public; get your copy here http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/ektoplazms-greatest-trips

Glad to be of service and I apologize for it taking so long to get online. I'm happy to see this project reach fruition and I hope the Psynews community continues the tradition of contests now that the ball is rolling again congrats again to all the winners!

Thanks for the reviews, both good and not so good

EKTOPLAZM'S GREATEST TRIPS 01 - Brujo’s Bowl - Healing With Sound (80 BPM) 02 - SeaMoon - Tricky Transients (92 BPM) 03 - Sephira - Learning To Walk (120 BPM) 04 - Alic - Going Down In A Blaze Of Glory (130 BPM) 05 - Trevor McGregor (Kalumet) - Elephant And Castle (126 BPM) 06 - Anakoluth - Delphic Haze (133 BPM) 07 - Opsy - Her Ghost In The Fog (135 BPM) 08 - Excizen - Renesans 63 (136 BPM) 09 - Radioactive.Cake - Good Night (139 BPM) 10 - Kino Oko - Red Rose Flow (142 BPM) 11 - Re-Horakhty - Dungeon Keeper (145 BPM) 12 - DoHm - Sharange Varange (150 BPM) 13 - Cenotes - Gnomadelic (148 BPM) 14 - Farebi Jalebi - Who’s Who In The Zoo (148 BPM) 15 - Invid Mind - Woogygoo (158 BPM) 16 - Mubali - The Other Way Around (147 BPM) 17 - Dissociactive - Extrasensorica (145 BPM) 18 - Wizack Twizack - Expanding (145 BPM) 19 - The 1134 - Ghost Train (147 BPM) 20 - Cybernetika - Molecular Probe (153 BPM) 21 - Oxya - Mindhunter (Remastered) (145 BPM) 22 - Sienis - West Meets East (148 BPM) 23 - Escape Into - Ooze In My Eyes (145 BPM) 24 - Talpa - Unusual Chair (142 BPM) 25 - Faradize - Darknight Castle (145 BPM) 26 - Overdream - Land Of Carnivore Plants (146 BPM) 27 - Artha - Astral Body (143 BPM) 28 - Kadasarva - Cybermind (145 BPM) 29 - SubConsciousMind - iRemberem oGa (145 BPM) 30 - Screw Loose - From Fear To Eternity (144 BPM) 31 - Trinodia - Human History (141 BPM) 32 - Amygdala - Wintermute (140 BPM) 33 - Jikkenteki - Another Kick In The Head (Remastered) (145 BPM) 34 - Ekoplex - Twisted Root (Uncut) (146 BPM) 35 - Theobroma - Thinking Like Dolphins (138 BPM) 36 - Magic & Witchcraft - Spiral (138 BPM) 37 - Clone - Inside The Grove (135 BPM) 38 - M.E.E.O. - Wildebeest (Remastered) (135 BPM) 39 - Etnoscope - Odin’s Kraft (130 BPM) 40 - Maharishi - Call Of The Ancients (95 BPM) 41 - Perfect Blind - Syncope (Remastered) (95 BPM) 42 - Easily Embarrassed - Moon People (70 BPM) 43 - Radioactive Sandwich - Chongo (Remastered) (85 BPM) 44 - Globular - Squabbling Gods (88 BPM) 45 - S.E.T.H - Flight Of The Igloo (100 BPM) 46 - Wolfen Technologies - Caveman (91 BPM) 47 - Hypnagog - Tiny Little Pieces (120 BPM) 48 - Auma - A Collision Of Craniums (100 BPM) 49 - Hinkstep - Dreamland Dub (120 BPM) 50 - Pharoelidae - Vector Equilibriums (104 BPM) Ektoplazm’s Greatest Trips features 50 tracks and more than 6 hours of some of the finest music distributed through the Ektoplazm free music portal from 2008 to 2012. Compiled by Basilisk, Ektoplazm’s founder, this retrospective project showcases the immense diversity and creative vitality of the global psychedelic trance, techno, and downtempo movements. Prepare yourself for an unforgettable trip through sound as Ektoplazm’s audio alchemists bend time and space, probe at the membrane between worlds, and explore hypnotic, twisted, and sublime states of mind. Featuring artwork by Jonah K. Download it for free in MP3, FLAC, or WAV format: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/ektoplazms-greatest-trips

This video is blowing up everywhere. It's even huge on Reddit. I appreciate Loud's sense of humour and the points made therein... but to treat this as a serious, comprehensive survey of all the things that are wrong with psytrance today is to totally miss the joke. I don't think this deserves serious scrutiny and debate. LOL and move on, you know? Still, if I am to give my 2 cents, I would sum up their top ten list like this: psytrance is shit because producers are unoriginal hacks pumping out cookie cutter garbage with a high level of craftsmanship/technical skill but no real artistic value. But hey, it's dance music, and there's always a lot of that generic filler going around no matter what style or time period you examine so don't sweat it... just focus on what's good.

So good.

I haven't been watching this too closely... which is just as well. He's just up to his old tricks again, making problems and acting crazy. Like others I hope he gets the help he needs. I'm just glad I didn't get more involved when he approached me to start releasing again.

Yeah, he didn't respond to my email back then.

I am happy to see this gem get a little recognition... Hinkstep's debut is still among my favourite downtempo releases of the last few years. (And I'm not just saying that because, well, you know!)

I ditched all my CDs years ago. My collection is properly tagged and filed FLACs plus a sprawling bunch of style-specific crates filled with any single tracks I might want to use while mixing. I bounce MP3 copies of anything I feel like listening to on my phone and then delete that stuff at will since I have a master FLAC copy and multiply redundant backups (external HDs plus Backblaze, a cloud backup service I heartily recommend). If you handed me a CD today I wouldn't even have any way to listen to it. Neither of my laptops have CD drives. One never came with one, the other was ejected in favour of an extra HD caddy and now holds a terabyte of extremely well-sorted FLAC awesomeness... pretty close to every single Goa trance song I might ever want to play or listen to.

Now this is cool.

I support the idea of a free compilation to promote Psynews

Looks like someone beat me to the punch enjoy the album; it's been in the works for a long, long time!

I am not sure, Den just sent it my way so I jumped at the chance to put it up. UX is still one of my all-time favourites, how could I not? About the cover controversy, I happen to think it's totally fine. I see a cover like that and it immediately reminds me of the 1990s. Maybe some of the technical stuff isn't perfect but in terms of representing the release and what it's all about I'm all for it, cyberpunk girl and all.

Here's the announcement I promised: http://www.ektoplazm.com/blog/ektoplazm-metamorphosis-2012 A lot of work is going on behind the scenes I might not be so visible on forums and such for a while as I gear up to get things done... watch the blog for more announcements; there will be some big ones before long! Thanks again for all the support and help in making this dream a reality!

I remember discovering it on my vinyl copy of Alien Protein and intensely disliking it.

I've been griping about this travesty for years. It's embarrassing.

Looks like we made it with time to spare there's another 9 hours to the campaign if anyone would still like to contribute (the more the merrier). In the coming days I'll make a post about what happens next. Thanks again for everyone's support I'm excited to get to work!

I hope you're wrong too I certainly don't want it to become another mainstream portal... the goal here is simply to broaden the horizons to adjacent styles of electronic music. There's a lot of good stuff going on out there. I feel that limiting the offerings to a single style of electronic music is something of a suicide pact. Everything needs to grow and change in time. Reddit does a great job of supporting niche communities while appealing to a broad audience. I'd like to follow something a little like that...