Charlie

No, I didn't mean that. People can listen to whatever they choose. Who am I to tell anyone what does and doesn't sound good to their ears? No one, that's who.

I can't get used to it. I can't get used to the lack of soul. I've tried, but I can't.

No, I'll sometimes play it twice, maybe 3 times in a row but that's my limit. After that I begin disliking it. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say.

Pity, as I quite enjoyed their last album, especially the Meteor remix.

Better? It should be illegal to say things like that.

Radi, you're fucking nuts. I could never play the same track repeatedly for 2 or 3 hours. No matter how good a tune it was I'd end up hating it for ever.

What's hardcore about it is it's all electronic music. That's dedication.

Wow, seraph, that's pretty hardcore.

Asking what progressive albums are essential is a bit like asking what diseases are worth contracting.

Bloody hell. You bag some good bargains. Did you get them on eBay? I've seen The Juggeling Alchemists sell for £60.

Good answer.

I was like that once, more fanatical maybe. For two, maybe three years, betwen 1995 and 1998, 90% of what I listened to was psy trance. I lovingly refer to them as the 'saturated years' as I was on lsd most nights. I didn't listen to psy for a good year after that though. I kinda OD'ed on it I think.

It's all relative and depends on how much pleasure you reap from the experience. I wouldn't spend millions of pounds on an original Picasso painting (even if I could) but who's to say those who do don't harvest millions of pounds worth of joy from having them in their homes?

I like the way you classed Pink Floyd as an individual genre.

You're all a bunch of electro-heads.

Good question, I'd say roughly: Psy trance/Ambient trance: 20% Folk: 20% 70's rock: 15% Classical: 15% Blues: 10% Contemporary Country/Bluegrass: 10% Jazz: 5% Indian/Arabic/African music: 5%

I suppose if one has listened to a great deal of recent psy it might comparatively be considered a 10/10. But really, if you compare it to all the great psy that has gone before then it's definately only a 7, at best. This, in my opinion, is the biggest problem facing the scene today. Most people seem to have all but forgotten how great psy used to be and consequently lap up today's monotonous, stagnant nonsense. Seriously, if people keep buying rubbish, artists will continue to produce rubbish.

Exactly.

Who needs non-psy-loving friends anyway? Dig a hole in the woods, take them there at night (tell them you left your wallet there or something), quick smack over the back of the head with a spade, push 'em in, cover them up, and Bob's your uncle. No more friends moaning about the music you play.

Ordered it last night. Better be fucking good or you'll all need to pool together and reimburse me £11.00.

I think that's probably mine too. So many memories.

I've played the CD a few times now but am not massively impressed. The Prometheus track is suberb and probably the best, Hallucinogen's is also very good and Eat Static's and Queens Park Derangers' are above average. The other's are pretty bog-standard, generic affairs or 'fillers' in my opinion. It is TIP's best release in some time but that's not saying much. It sounds quite Goa which is good, but it doesn't really do anything new or hold any surprises. Further proof the vast majority of modern psy has no soul? I think so. I'd give it a 6.5/10. Maybe 7.

Yeah, you tell him, reger.

It's just dropped through my letterbox. Can't wait to play it later.

What's it like?