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Pretty hollow victory, wasn't it.

Yeah, it's definately down to experience and also depends on what style of music one listens to. The dark, twisted stuff is best played at night while the more euphoric stuff is best played during the day.

It's a good album, no, a great album, a 10 out of 10, but I still feel it falls some way short of Posford's best. It's all subjective though. It all depends what images and emotions we enjoy reaping from music.

I'm not saying genres like folk, blues, jazz, rap and rock don't have compilations. I'm saying when you consider how small psy trance is, it has an awful lot of compilations. In fact, I'd wager 1 album in every 10 is a compilation. You don't see that in other genres and in my expereince only pop and opera come close.

I'm inclined to agree with you. Psy music has been rather stagnant for several years now and consequently I increasingly afford new artists and releases very little interest. As for who's the God, Posford's work has yet to be beaten (indeed none have come close) so I suppose he's still God in the same way Led Zeppelin are still Gods of psychedelic rock/psychedelic blues.

Psy trance has never reminded me of summer or the sun. For the first 5 years I was into psy, it was usually accompanied with lsd or mushrooms, dark forests, abandoned cottages, caves, sitting beside lakes in the moonlight, that sort of thing. As a result psy music usually reminds me of the night, of mythical beings, of space, of time, of extreme horrors and extreme beauties, of the depths of imagination. Definately not summer.

Not really a fan of compilations and much prefer artist albums. It's curious that so many psy compilations are produced, as besides pop and opera, relatively few are available in other genres.

What a nostalgic thread.

I didn't like it, I was expecting something akin to Accident in Paradise and The Harlequin, The Robot and The Ballet Dancer but it was nothing like those masterpieces. If memory serves me well I played it three, maybe four times, then sold it. I suppose that's the trouble with expectations, they are seldom realised.

Nice find.

Hey radster, I've sent you a little gift via PM. Enjoy.

If you mean www.recordstore.co.uk then no need to worry. Myself and many other members here have used them before and they're cool.

I appreciate your response, abasio, even if you have only confused me even more.

Nine hours and still no reply. Bastards.

They'll skin you alive for that.

I don't understand. When something is classed as 'sick', is it a good thing or a bad thing? I'm guessing it merely means crazy?

I quite like the sound of that. Might have to get myself a Derango CD and see what it's all about.

I agree. The last two IM albums were certainly disappointing but are in no way the worst examples of psy music ever created.

Well, Simon's more the Christian God in my eyes. It makes sense that he collaborate with an equal.

I'd like to see Simon Posford team up with Allah and maybe get the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, to play flute. Be quite the collaboration.

You'll be hard pressed to find a store that sells the older Dragonfly releases brand new.

I knew Skazi would get a mention. Poor fella.

Prometheus - O.K. Computer

I think probably Hallucinogen's The Herb Garden. I can't remember exactly how they go and I'm too lazy to put it on and find out, but it has something to do with forest shamans, the Yeti, Shiva, dreadlocks and alcoholic offerings.