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They are mainly around where I live! I might live in a megalopolis of 100 million people or more but there are still some great green places to be found (it's just people don't try to find them that makes them so much nicer) Cheers! Hope you liked the new batch

digital anger

the world's worst bus stop

There's too much of the dragon I know

Would be cool Who would hack Hallucinogen's site though? There is little to hate about Simon P

Some of the new ones will be hard to get in the future! I know I am still pissed off that I didn't pick up certain albums when I had the chance, back when they were new & cheap! It will be the same for some of these. 10 years down the line people will be paying through their noses for these. All the labels in our scene, even the big ones, are independent labels that wont be reprinting all their albums a thousand times or more so a lot of albums will become hard to find in the future I think. bwhank doesn't have the where-with-all to pick up on something so subtle as sarcasm! And yes I think it would suck to be it, eternally negative and giving nothing unkown a chance or just spending his days trolling a place where the vast majority can't stand it. Pretty sad when you think about it Pity it but don't listen to what it says!

Hallucinogen's old site was never on icetec! It's just a random homemade webpage site isn't? This is feathers' pointless humour, not a hack.

Someone has far too much time on his hands and no real outlets it seems! That's not really funny, clever, interesting or anything really or do I just not get the subtle wit involved?

Love Charles' sound! Will be looking forward to this one

Still about Charlie? I guess # UX - Ultimate Experience - Dragonfly Records # Shakta - Silicon Trip - Dragonfly Records # Pleiadians - I.F.O. (Identified Flying Object) - Dragonfly Records these have gone?

I like Tom Heasley! Does he count?

I just had my cheat day! Now waiting for the actual goods! But once I cheat, I feeling like cheating again and again and again until I am a big fat happy bastard with no money

To be honest I think it is like you said in the first post Lemmi, the music we first listened to when we first discovered what real music we liked just cannot be beat because we can never recreate that time. You're a teenager, all you've heard is pop and some stuff that your dad listens to but you don't give the time of day to because it must be "so uncool" then comes along some real music, nothing like you have heard before. It feels like magic in your ears and it seeps into your brain! Nothing will ever beat this. This is why our parents said what we loved was nothing compared to their music and it has happened to us! We have turned into old farts harping on about how much better the old days were. Kids getting into music these days have the same feeling about recent music as we did in the early 90's, come 2019 they'll be wondering why the music around then is not as good as the music being produced now. We will tell them they are both crap and it was the 90's that ruled! My sister will tell you the 80's my dad the 60's and I'm sure the old WW1 veterans still think the 1910's were the best time for music. I think highlighting this point is the track Optimum Creakage which I first heard at a party in 1995/6 and absolutely loved, but I never followed it up with repeat listens at home and I never heard it again until I bought dragonfly classics in 2000 sumat. Now all the other tunes like Hallucinogen's LSD, Genetic - Trancemission, Total Eclipse - Aliens etc I had on CD at home, listened to time & time again with my mates smoking weed & just having fun. When I heard these on Dragonfly Classics all the same feeling of Euphoria (just watered down) came back as happens when we listen to classics but I was disappointed by Optimum Creakage. I didn't understand at the time but now I think it is just that although it is a great Old School classic it just wasn't in my head as one so it never quite feels right. Like discovering old goatrance that you have not heard before, when you have 100s of classics already the new (old) discoveries are never as good! What we need is a mind eraser to wipe out ever having heard music so we could go through it all again

On Substance and phonokol. I have the Substance one, got it for $1 from amazon a couple of years ago. $20 in that link is not bad if it's a trustworthy seller!

I was sticking to uptempo! If there is time (long list) I might put in a downtempo/ambient list later edit: or maybe like others I didn't really read the first post and thought the thread was about just essential albums, not ones that need to be re-released I posted my list of things I hope would be re-released in another thread, I was being selfish though!

The quality is indeed shitty but I like the music, the chilled out D&B style always sits well with me

BOOM! It hits you just how great it is. For me this usually happens with, well just about every album. I buy it, I listen to it, I am generally unimpressed then I put it on the shelf. Months later I might try it again and suddenly it is great! How does it happen? Why didn't I hear the greatness before? Usually I think it is a question of mood, focus or the joint experience! I never liked Ishq - Orchid until I was sick with a fever, my then GF was out buying medicine for me & I was lying delerious in a darkened room with Orchid playing! I have never been so happy to be sick and now everytime I listen to the album I understand it in a way I never did before. Secede - Tryshasla was another album I bought tried and instantly thought was boring and uninspired, no matter how much I tried (I had heard good things). Then one day when in a more melancholic mood (bad things had happened) I gave it another sympathy spin and BOOM! It was the bomb. I absolutely loved it Rena Jones - Driftwood was just an average album for me until I took it down to Enoshima Island, sat out on the balcony of one of the bars, watched the sunset over Mount Fuji while reflecting off of the pacific ocean! It fit so well & its beauty just shone. I hated minimal for a while, I bought Planet BEN - Silver and thought what the fuck is this shit! Then when my brain was boxed in from some fun substances I could really explore the level of detail in it and it really opened the door for me to enjoy Minimal & Prog! In 2003 I bought VA - Wider Horizons, didn't like the remixes until just a few weeks ago when I got it out & played it back to back about 6 times. It was just amazing! Summer really makes that comp hit home nicely So what music have you initially disliked then grown to love? Do you remember a turning point or is it a special mood thing? I can add almost every ambient/prog/minimal album to the list. Some albums are still sitting on my shelf either ready to be understood or to remain relegated into the also rans!