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Lets all take the initiative and totally ignore bitching, as if it had never existed! Let the windbags blow their hot air. Let them vent their often adolescent emotions. Meanwhile, we'll be over here, smiling happily listening to the music that moves us!

IMO 1995 BCE. IMO as long as music has been around.

here's a yousendit link for those who don't want to go through the hassle of fucking with mixupload: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...5B031DC12CB0A99 MODS: This is in the wrong section! If you please, put it in the DJ promo section? (Or dont, its no problem to me!) Thanks!

Yay indeed. This is good news. I am happy.

NP: Technical Illusions-Unstable Elements From:

:D

Aphid Moon-Landed Morning, beachside, probably about 8 am. With a nice cool breeze coming off the water, and clouds passing over the sun now and then. Not a huge party but not a tiny one either. With some nice beach-appropriate deco.

Digital Talk-New Age Surf (didnt think it would be SO TRIPPY, but it was really good acid...) CPC-DOuble Bouble ANYTHING by Fractal Cowboys (though once again the acid was good... so trippy I couldnt even stand up let alone dance! Love you, Dylan and Quasar! ) any Tantrumm comp I have a feeling that Triac-Mean Between would work well! (album, not song) Led Zeppelin, songs like When The Levee Breaks...

NP: Zion Linguist-Subliminal Messages (MMD 2007) Nice stuff! Different but still SA!

NP: CPC-Double Bouble Track 2: Yamass "The energy of conscious self is being upgraded" (I think... )

So, by your logic all trance has to be melodic? If its not, then its not good? Many people who are into the 'dark' style do not even agree that it is indeed trance music. Its up to the individual listeners to decide for themselves. Keep in mind though that melodies are not everyone's top priorites. Its psychedelic music, and sometimes psychedelic noises have nothing to do with melodies. And sometimes melodies have nothing to do with psychedelia.

+1 So you don't like it. Wheeeee! Spread the love! Love for CHis and his differing tastes!

NP: VA-Peace for the Wicked (Tantrumm 2006) wacky wacky dookity doo! track 1: Psykovsky Cosmo-So Many Q (Engrish anyone?)

I downloaded LSG's free album, and a nice mix from Cyberwlf, and a nice breakbeat track from a Reno producer.

nice tracks! Lots of Japanese stuff. D/Ling now!

Im in! I use Synth1 all the time anyway. Should be fun working within set parameters! Will post results soon. Edit: Ok so I made a song but I forgot I had to use only those effects. I used the native FX in the program I use, Renoise... I only used Synth1, and the provided samples. Sounds ok to me so far. But, am I disqualified for using different FX?

My cd copy sounds fine, Basilisk. Its a really great one, at least twice as good as Ueber Den Angst. What track has the problem, or is it all of them?

its a possibility... (Unfortunately Im working, out on a remote minesite, 60 miles from the nearest girls, even more from the nearest HOT girls...) But really, it was just at first glance. Go to psyshop and maybe you'll see. Its right on the front page. In the little 120 or whatever pixel pic...

the sun, the reflection on the water.... Looks like a womans ass, nude... At least, thats what I thought it was at first, just seeing the little pic on psyshop.

Do you see the 4th woman? She's laying down without any pants on. *Hint: stand farther back from the monitor.*

NP: Isentropic-Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes [Namaha recs 2007] (Isentropic is Silent Horror and Gorump Peyya from India and Macedonia respectively, both great guys, whose styles have synergized into something neither Silent nor Gorump! ) Track 1: 32 to 400 Catch Me

I was at a couple parties already that she had to cancel or something... Whatever happened, she was on the lineup but didnt end up playing... But this time..... Im sure soon enough she'll be in Europe! Stay patient! Especially once the album makes the rounds...

After enjoying VA-Phenix I really had to buy this latest from the Phreex, who if Im not mistaken are Noise Gust and Silent Scream, those crazy Nipponese nighttime maestros. Crazy hairdos, the kind you can only pull off if you're from Japan. My impressions of these tracks: Track 1-Fatal Discord-Empty Notion-Nice intro, love the crazy voice speaking gibberish behind it all. Somewhat subdued bassline. Thats a good thing! I can hear what you mean by 'no soul'... Track 2-Fierce-Brutality in Silence-starts out with a deep throbbing bassline, very clean. Sounds like insect language swirl around, very atmospheric! This is a good one. Sounds like it would make a good night-psy-time starter... It builds in a very pleasant way! Almost subliminal sounds going on back there... Not totally full throttle, this ones a bit smoother, driving in a sort of subdued way. Track 3-Noise Gust-Biomechanical Brain-Always liked the Noise Gust tracks Ive heard on previous comps, especially Phenix. PRetty good so far, noises like messed up 8 bit video game sounds swirl around. In the back is a sort of chimes melody. Usual crazy noises all over the place. Sounds like they either used the sample from Triac (forget the track, sounds like electronic coughing) or made one similar, or they both used the sample from somewhere else. A nice atmospheric break, pretty short, then a voice-like line comes in, swirling around of course! Pretty good track, not the greatest, but Ive heard a lot worse. Track 4-Stigma-Killer Mind-Nice clean bass and a bit faster feeling than previous. Nice scratchy noises and swirly samples phased to hell abound. A sound of someone gagging, like Angry Kid. *Bluugh* A nice dark rhythm, nice squeaky noises, and a really round kick. Then back to the original kick! Always enjoy that kind of thing... Creepy horror-movie pads in a small break, then back to zombie land! Then the bass changes to what I can only describe as 'bendy', a la Alien Mental. This kind of thing sounds great at a party... 5 minutes in the screechy line comes back uniting with the horror pads, then the rhythm takes a nice turn with all sorts of clicky clacky stuff. This is a good one! Track 5-Nyarlathotep-Teratogen-A Teratogen is a chemical that causes birth defects or deformation, literally it means Monster Maker. Starts out with a similar bass to track 2 and some nice delayed percussion. Crazy manipulated voice samples! Love that kind of stuff. Crazy, almost discordant distorted synth plays around a bit. Nice rhythm, gives it a bit more energy, and of course that kind of percussion sounds great when the consciousness is altered. Ive heard mention of Nyarlathotep (the name comes from HP Lovecraft's fiction, he is the 'Crawling Chaos' bringing the end of... well HPL was never very clear...) and the fact that his stuff is good, and I can now say that indeed this stuff is good. That toilet-noise! I love shit like that... This one's a bit more minimal, long parts of the song without much percussion and just a few swirly synths. Nice LP filter sweep, that too is something Ive always liked. Ending is pretty good, nice energetic percussion. Would work well in the middle of a set. Track 6-Galaxy Madness-Chaos Theory-Another act from the Phenix VA. Starting out with a bassline which reminds me of Audiopathik, sorta. Nice. Strange metallo-liquid synths, high pitched analog-ish sprinkles behind it... "no pain, no gain!" Tasteful glitchy effects. Reminds me of a cross between Audiopathik and Zik. And a chipmunk dosed to the gills on various psychedelics. Track 7-Psycho Wizard-Tamatebako-More of that clean sound Ive come to associate with Nippon. different basslines change around, then in come the 16th notes! Up and down similar to certain parts of certain Metallaxis tunes. More horror movie style pads, and more crazy voices semi-intelligible in the back. Bubbly liquid synth comes in fading in and out and up and down. Nice chimes again. Another good one! (What does Tamatebako mean? Something about a box?) Track 8-Baal-No Window-Baal was one of the ancient pre Judaic gods of the Fertile Crescent region, and one of the big bad guys on Stargate SG-1 and Diablo 2 . Screechy metal on metal noises IE Tetsuo, those cracy Nipponese... This one is just madness! Some kind of flanged out verbed out... something, then some liquid perc and a liquid synth swirling. Cybernetic metallic noises then ensue. Not sure how fast this one is but its faster than the rest so far. I think... Cybernetic noises like this are one of my favorite thngs about this kinds of trance. Great one, maybe a bit fast but Im sure it sounds just as good at a lower BPM! Id say that this is my third favorite out of all of these. Track 9-Savage Scream-My Law Savage Scream has always impressed me, especially 'Midnight Temple' from Infernal Intuition. This song starts with a differnet style of bass than Ive heard previously from Savage. Of course its got those really big sounding acid screeches and scratches. Another somewhat minimal tune. Again with the different bass, more percussion comes in, then more scratches. A jack-in-the-box ish line, going at its own speed it seems, comes in behind it all. "Motherfuckerrrrrss!!" This has to be my second favorite on the cd. Track 10-Jun-Hitsumabushi-Something about a warrior, if I translate correctly, 'bushi' as in 'bushido'. This one doesnt waste any time picking up the pace, starts right off with the bass and percussion with a squidgelly line above it all. You can escort me to any party that plays stuff like this! Swirls and twickering, another fast paced song which Im not too sure the actual speed... More chipmunks here, sounds like the same ones from earlier, just tripping harder on more stuff! And it sounds like they brought a few of their birdy friends with them. Sorta ends with the same power it started. Nice. All in all this is a great second compo from the Phreex of Japan. The production quality compared to Phenix is really a whole step up. No complaints there. Sometimes the songs can be a bit familiar, a bit... usual. There are some real gems here, but truth be told there were more gems on Phenix. But that may have been because of the Terminator track, which IMO was worth buying the cd for just that. I could say, too that the Fierce and Savage Scream tracks are worth buying Japanhythm for. If you're into Japanese trance, or the crazier side of the night, this one won't disappoint. So far its a good sign for 2007 releases in this style. Favorites: 2, 5!, 8, & 9! all in all 8.4/10 Looking forward to more Phreex in the future!

Error Corrective is from the UK and relatively new I think. Their sound is pretty good from what Ive heard. Powerful twilight ish stuff but not the same as SA stuff. Scorb and RAM are supposed to have new albums soon, those guys aren't that new though... AMD (Aphid Moon and Dickster) just put out an album, neither of them are new but AMD is, I think? Im sure there are more...

damn... You really DO get all the good acts up there...