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LOL. I want you to tell that to the Detroit gang http://www.discogs.com/release/4675 That's one of the biggest techno tunes that broke out. And hey, it's 87! And don't get me started on Kraftwerk

This topic will have like 8 pages before this album will be released. I bet on December 2005. You?

I was bitch slapped by Jiga of Analog Pussy in Irish Pub in Chile.

And for some wierder reason it changed finally to the one i wanted.

For some reason i can't change my avatar. I even tried to delete the current avatar i have but in vain. Looks like Davy boy will be forever glued as my avatar... Damn, i should call my car.

Best: Shpongle Worse: Simon + Ott on a Trance tune. Hallucinogen - The Beatiful People. His worse tune ever. IMHO.

Talpa – The Art Of Being Non (Sundance Records) October 2004 1. First Ray Of Light 2. My Kingdom 3. Trust No Goblin 4. No Place To Hide 5. Dragon Tale 6. People Are Animals 7. Flybeereligion 8. The Moon 9. Rebirth 10. Back To Dreaming So i've been visiting my Psychiatrist lately. He's always been very kind to me and giving me the best medicine available to suit my musical craving. So he recommended me the new compilations from 3D Vision and Mind Control. I refused and told him that this stuff doesn't do it for me anymore. It softens the pain but it doesn't do anymore than that. I told him, stop giving me fluffy placeboes, i want the real stuff. I want something to remind me the old days, when i started to listen to Psy Trance. I want the madness of Infected Mushroom's Gathering, the twistedness of Hallucinogen's Lone Deranger and the melodies of Classical Mushroom. Last weeks he recommended me Misted Muppets and Synsun. It worked well, especially Synsun, but the comedown was painful. It still lacked the depth of the stuff that i was looking for. But today the Doc had a big grin on his face. He told me that he might have something that just might move some cells in my beaten brain. With quick yet determined move he pulled a CD from his “special patients” shelf and it had Talpa written over it. Who’s Talpa I asked the Doc. “Trust me man”, he replied. It will only do you good. And it did. This CD returned the smile to my face. It’s twisted, it’s melodic, it’s full of surprises and ever changing melodies, percussions, basslines and whatever. It’s evil, happy, dark, light and most of the time it oozes talent and unbelievable skills. Something you might expect from experienced and aged producer, but this is Talpa’s first album. The most surprising bit is that Talpa, Goran Juric, is from Serbia. Not really a place yet known for its Psy Trance artists, but I hope that Talpa paved a way for more Serbian talents. So, is this album any good? Yes, it is. This is true Psychedelic Trance, with capital P. This is by no means a copy of Infected Mushroom or Hallucinogen like some people tend to think. It does indeed borrows some influence from IM and Simon Posford, but it has plenty of fresh ideas inside. There is no point in going track by track review here, because I see this album as one big master piece. But if I would be asked what are my favorite tunes here I’d mention: 1,3,4,6 (starts off with amazing sample), 8!!! (One of the best vocal tunes this year. Really reminds me Fly Agaric – I see myself), 10!!

We had in Israel Newzeek magazine, which covered all the spectrum of electronic music that is popular in Israel, like Club Trance, Techno, Psy Trance and to some extent Hip-Hop and Break Beat. Because Psy is quite a big thing in Israel and generally because the staff of that mag was mostly into the genre, there was quite a lot Psy trance related material in there. Including interviews, CD reviews, and some bigger, featured articles. Unfortunatelly the magazine closed after i think 3 years of work. That was quite a loss. I still read the old issues, from time to time.

Damn those fools. It postpones all my on-line purchases. I hope that Juno Reactor will relieve my suffer for the next few weeks (years???) till it released already.

Ok, this is my top10 so far: In no particular order: ----Prometheus - Robot-o-chan (Twisted) This is an album that takes time to grow. ----Sub6 - Who Needs Love Songs (Hom-Mega) The Brothers worked it out. What a bomb. Best Full-on album of the year so far. ----BLT & Danny Makov - Everything You Want (Tokyo Dance) This one gets me highest emotional levels that a proggie album ever did. ----Human Blue - Electrolux (Spiral Trax) The Swedish cheesemaster done it again. Superb melodies and fat rhythms. ----Talpa - The Art of Being Non (Sundance) Huge Surprise. Totally out of nowhere. ----Bluetech - Elementary Particles & Prima Materia (Aleph Zero) Another wonderful surprise. Fat digital soundscapes and caressing melodies. ----Abakus - That Much Closer To The Sun (LSD) Most played album on my PC if winamp doesn't lie. For good reason. ----Synsun - Symphonic Adventures (Kagdila) Another surprise. From Ukraine with love. 2 albums i didn't hear yet but they would be on the list for sure: ----Juno Reactor - Labyrinth ----Unusual Suspects 2 No doubt they will rock my socks.

You might as well check: Gargoyles (Ott, Simon Posford, Nick Interchill, Michelle Adamson). 2 or 3 tracks released. Umberloid (Ott and George Barker???) one track on 13th moon compilation. Further info is here: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ott

Prodigy, back in 96. Hallucinogen/Ott/Shpongle Live in the beginning of the year. Ott this year @ OMNI And surprisingly Infected Mushroom gave me the bender last thursday.

I was not referring to you. 'ts ok.

Damn you ppl, some of you really slaughtering all the holy cows of psytrance. I mean, i can understand if someone doesn't like or understand 1 or 2 of the major psy trance artists like Simon Posford or IM or Juno, but i see that there are some ppl that hate them all. WTF are you listening to? Minimal Techno? And this anti Infected Mushroom thingie is a cliche. It's old and unoriginal. They are not sell outs. They just prefer to spend time and money on broadening their horizons, instead of doing same copy paste bullshit like everybody does nowadays. It's called development. After 3 masterpiece albums and multiple releases on all the major labels, if you would be a real artist, you would change your direction in music. For the record, i didn't like the last album as well. But guess what, i've been to their live show this thursday and i danced like i didn't danced the whole Boom festival with it's top notch underground artists (which rock as well, but on totally different scale than IM). And for a change, IM are among the only ones that actually make a live show. Not your average mega cool artist with laptop that plays with the cutoff effect of the lead sound. Now flame on!

They are (were???) distributed by EFA, a German mega distributor that lately has some financial problems. I know that it was the case with Prometheus album, but now i heard that they are distributed by Psy-Shop. So i guess that the reason for the delay is something else.

Now let's wait 2 years for the tracklisting to change and additional 3 years for it to actually get released.

Hope i am not forgetting any. My pick would go for Younger Brother.

There are lots of, so i'll mention only what i heard today Atmos - Fill The Hat Vibrasphere - Newport Son Kite - Sunset Street Ticon - Waiting 4 The Nights Cosma - Sleep Of Peace Human Blue - Dream Creator Reefer Decree - Curved Air Son Kite - On Air

I'm quite embarassed to mention that i never heard the IFO album. I have their second album and it's less than convincing. Those guys surely had better stuff on Vinyls. I voted Lone Deranger all the way.

I can't believe somebody actually recommends this album. It's not crap like his "collaboration" with Arian Project but it's just so inspireless it makes you wanna cry. The only good tune there for me is Metalizer. And i have all of his previous albums.

Please forgive me, i started with only five but i kinda carried away Psy: Infected Mushroom - The Gathering ( Infected's debut album took pretty much everybody by a surprise, such an energy ball. That was the point imho that full-on really emerged and cut loose from the original Goa sound) Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom (Infected shift the direction and explore new territories) Space Cat - Beam Me Up (This album for me is like All star game that takes place in NBA annually. Too bad it wasn't the deal with Space Cat's next albums) Hallucinogen - Lone Deranger (Timeless epic, no words to describe) Hallucinogen - Twisted (The legend begins) Younger Brother - Flock Of Bleeps (When 2 masterminds such as Simon and Benji meet, miracles emerge) BLT & Danny Makov - Everything You Want (Another huge surprise, one of the best albums that came out this year) Sub6 - Who Needs Love Songs (The brothers kept their promise and released a brilliant, powerful album) Cosmosis - Synergy (Bleeps frenzy and Goa melodies with funkiest basslines ever) Astral Projection - In The Mix (AP for me is clearly not albums group. Their collection of tracks show much more than you could learn from a single album) Everything else: Shpongle - Are You Shpongled/Tales of The Inexpressible (Can't separate them, it's a whole divided to two) Hallucinogen in Dub (Timeless piece of music) Leftfield - Leftism (So many musical genres owe that album their birth) Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Hypnotic, for those cold nights) Way Out West - Way Out West (Eternal Bliss) Faithless - Reverence (Inspite of what was expected to be a huge larger than life epic house album, it turned out to be small, intimate at it's most parts album) Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation (The album that i heard the most times, and it's quite a lot) Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (As Psychedelic as Skazi wouldn't ever be) BT - Movement in Still Life (Amazingly crafted piece of music, top notch production covered with emotional musical content) Rock: Radiohead - OK Computer (Saved Rock From Death in 90's) Mercury Rev - All is a Dream (Melancholic to the bone and remarkably produced) System Of A Down - Toxicity (It's Raw and it Rocks) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon (Discovered it only recently and can't get enough of it) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Amazing piece of work) Oasis - What's The Story, Morning Glory (I grew up on that stuff, forgive me) U2 - Achtung Baby (The highest point of those Irish lads, and they knew some high points) REM - The Singles 93-03 (I like this band and i'm not feeling ashamed about it!) Depeche Mode - Song Of Faith And Devotion (Highest point of their music and lowest point of their life. Dave Gahan almost lost his life during the records while OD'ing on Heroin and Cocaine coctail. Amazingly creepy album) Verve - Urban Hymns (Too bad they broke too early. One of the best albums for the winter time) I hope you didn't feel asleep

Twisted and HomMega the 2 only big sharks that left. And Digital Structures offcourse

I'd put X-Dream as well. Hugely overrated. Thought their latest 12" is da bomb. Most of the Full-on nowadays makes me wonder whether i'm in the right scene. Most of the Israeli output is same tune over again. Alien Project, Dynamic, and pretty much everything that is being released on Tip. World and Spun. All the tech-trance mafia is overrated, and that includes: MidiMiliz, Delta and stuff like that. They were cool some years back ago but now it's just noise. And Tristan also. Nothing personal but i can't find a tune by him that i actually like.