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What you could have done is edited your original post to include you rnew thoughts instead of creating a new post to tell us your new thoughts then editing your old post into redundancy :drama:

Nice, I though Soul Sleeping was a very under appreciated album!

Is that a remix of Born In a Tropical Swamp?

To be fair that post has been edited. It was not originally three full stops but a negative comment on the album that was retracted by the author of the post, hence the 3 dots.

The problem we have when we are sitting here in our towers of superiority (and I don't mean us as Psy lovers specifically but music = art lovers everywhere) is that we have delved deep into our chosen styles & we have discover the art there. We have not looked deeply into other styles and then we judge them based on what we know, which is usually the mainstream apadptation of said styles. For example I don't like rock, I find it boring and shallow but I bet you that there is a lot of great rock out there that is intelligent & artistic. I just have not heard it, all the rock I have heard has been mainstream (pop) rock. Also, think of people who don't listen to Psy, if they have heard of it they have probably only heard Skazi and then they will judge from that, that Psytrance is shit! Who could blame them? But I am sure that a lot of us here are guilty of this concerning other genres (except modern Jazz, that is just shite )

Kaya Project - ...And So It Goes

Already put it on my saiko wishlist Should be getting it this month or early next month depending on finances

'tis a mix I made a while ago 1. Cymphonic - Scimerian Silence 2. Sense Project - Cimbalan 3. Senzar - The Red Water 4. Robert Davies - Dragonfly Hollow 5. Mathias Grassow - & Thomas Weiss - In 6. Spielerei & Mantacoup - Pigs Bay 7. Krill.Minima - The Sea Horse & The Soft Coral 8. The Circular Ruins - Immer Du 9. Trentmoller - Moan 10. Spielerei & Mantacoup - Sfunato 11. Minilogue - Six Arms One Leg 12. Lammergeyer - Atonement 13. Kwook - Lorikeet 14. Mystery Of The Yeti - A Welcome To All Extra Terrestrials 15. Orbit Constructors - Abandoned Tombs 16. Vataff Project - Kalitz 17. Nostalgia - The Plain Of Silence 18. Atrium Carceri - Victim 19. David Bickley & Tom Green - The Great March 20. Spheroid - Imbedded Neptune 21. The Circular Ruins - Standing In Violent Golds 22. Kettel - A French Composer 23. Vudim Hondurenk - Smoking Zone I 24. Cymphonic - Submersion 25. Legiac - Elvers 26. Jason Corder & Opium - Fade To Rust 27. Secede - Hospital Requiem 28. Matt Hiller - Diving Into Sun 29. Gus Till - Amber 30. Matt Coldrick - Base Red Patience 31. Ishq - Arc 32. Rena Jones - Firefly 33. Solar Fields - Nea 3 34. Cyscape - Elumina 35. Off The Sky - Geist Taxi 36. Ian Ion - We Could Be Housewives 37. Robert Davies - Hidden Colors Radiance 38. Spielerei - Restplace 39. Mathias Grassgow & Jiri Mazanek - Inner Path Part II 40. Blamstrain - Frame Math 41. Atrium Carceri - Crusted Neon 42. The Circular Ruins - A Forgotten Divinity 43. Lull - Just Below Wixford 44. Svartling - Afraid Of Silence 45. Off The Sky - Lite Raining 46. Netherworld - Kall Part 3 47. Hallucinogen - The Herb Garden 48. Amir Baghiri & The Wee Bandits - Mystic Lights 49. Solar Fields - Air Song (8am Version) 50. H.U.V.A. Network - Access To Long Fields 51. Hybrid Leisureland - Strawberry Planetarium 52. Sync24 - Biota 53. The Circular Ruins - A Little Different From Reality 54. Pete Namlook & Mix Master Morris - Hymn but only 2 hours long

Impatient Ambient

The problem is, while we see music as art, most people do not. They see it as just a bit of fun. If you are not viewing music as art then there is almost no way you are going to enjoy instrumental music. Singing is fun! I know, I love karaoke & can sing my heart out for five hours straight but there are not many songs I sing that I would consider art (Bob Dylan and a few more only) most are shallow (fun) pop songs. I never buy such music though as I really can appreciate the art in a 60 minute track with no beats at all. Not many people appreciate art in music so fun shallow music is always going to be the mainstream. One other point, does it annoy anyone else when people talk about psytrance songs? They're not bloody songs as there is no singing!!!

Yes, and Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland is the fourth

Cool! Nice one

With graphs & stats?

Good speakers or good headphones, both are good but I think good headphones are cheaper

who is doing the results?

Bluetech - Signs & Singularitites :posford:

The new release pages in the shop are indeed awesome. Great stuff :posford:

Weird, I started writing review for them & they didn't want detailed reviews, they wanted exactly what you write

Artist: Tetsu Inoue Title: Ambiant Otaku Label: Fax +49-69/450464 Released: 28 March 1994 Tracklist 1 Karmic Light (17:04) 2 Low Of Vibration (11:11) 3 Ambiant Otaku (10:49) 4 Holy Dance (15:36) 5 Magnetic Field (17:47) Ambiant Otaku by Tetsu Inoue is a classic in ambient. For me it embodies the early nineties ambient feel of long dreamy ambient made for eating stars. Any listen to this album always takes me into deep space. But not a cold void like we all imagine space to be but a warm bright space, like being close enough to a star to feel warm but not burnt, close enough that it lights up your emotions. Karmic Light takes me right to that place and holds me in its warm dreamy drones, the light of the other stars in the universe twinkling brightly in the canopy of black nothingness. Low Of Vibration feels to me like a spaceship passing by the sun I am trying to eat. The length of the ship is long and it vibrates roughly as it passes by, engines roaring and machine parts whirling incomprehensibly all the time, the stars still shine on my other side. The title Track Ambiant Otaku has a simple melody that repeats over and over and sounds very ominous. This feels darker than before but I still feel like I am wrapped up in my protective cocoon drifting through deep space. This track with all its repetitive yet hypnotizing sounds makes me feel like I am drifting for centuries through deep dark space in a small pod waiting for the light again. Holy Dance feels like I have reached somewhere, civilization. Right from the start there is a warmer more real feeling and the vocal choir gives that a more civilized touch. I can imagine I have landed on some alien planet; eternal warm night fills the whole landscape. More rhythmical with some pieces of bass, one very fat that rattles my head. Repetitive & hypnotic again, this track feels like some kind of ritual, on an alien world that I have the fortune to witness. We finish off this masterful journey with Magnetic Field a beautiful track to end on. It is melodic and much more terrestrial than the rest of the journey. I feel like deep space & alien worlds are all gone and I am back in the city with a sense of melancholy that my amazing journey is coming to an end. It is a very soft track, light and melodic like the first but it feels much more urban. In the background I can hear police sirens and the drones just have a soft, early morning in the city feel to them. A brilliant CD from start to finish, Ambiant Otaku is a must in any ambient lover’s collection. This has been out of print for a long time & even the re-release is hard to find, I was very luck to find this in a used record store very cheap, it just seemed to jump out at me. If you see it pick it up, even if you are not an ambient fan, you could make someone who is very happy.

Books would be good

Tetsu Inoue - Karmic Light would be perfect if I was eating this...

Nunc Stans - The Cerulean Suite

Solar Fields - Sky Trees here

Artist: Kaya Project Title: …And So It Goes Label: Interchill Released: 21 November 2008 Tracklist 1 Always Waiting 2 Jamming With Marco 3 Deep Kaya 4 Zema Lasu 5 The Source 6 Five Plus Eight 7 Saranghi Breaks 8 Hirajoshi 9 ...& So It Goes 10 Shifting Sands 11 Dark Roads 12 Obsidian Beats 13 Drift 14 Awaken 15 Bekhudi 16 Outside Looking In 17 Under The Spell Seb Taylor brings us the third studio album under the alias Kaya Project …And So It Goes. Anyone who is familiar with Seb’s previous work under Kaya Project will probably know what to expect. It is a very ethnic but very well produced album; there are lots of vocals in different languages. There is of course a blend of acoustic instruments, vocals & electronic production, the instruments, coming from a range of international musicians and the vocals mainly from Natasha Chamberlain the UK based vocalist who many might have heard on the Angel Tears’ albums. The result is a very colourful album, both serious & fun at the same time. I very much enjoy listening to this album on a sunny day, lying in the park looking up at the sky I can imagine I have been taken away to distant lands as I could with the other Kaya Project albums. The places this takes me too though are different, whereas the last album had an eastern feel to it this one in my mind gives me a feeling of being far south on the African continent. From the tribal beats to the warm colourful sounds and the vocals I get that feeling of savanna plains, jungles and vast expanses of nature. That I always imagine Africa to be sunny & hot goes in very well with the warm bright feeling of this album. Although the whole album is very coherent and paints a journey for us to enjoy as a whole each track is quite different from the rest, the tempo goes up and down creating a relaxed roller coaster ride. The different instruments & variety of vocalists make each track uniquely enjoyable. Seb’s production though brings all this uniqueness into one coherent journey that is incredible from start to finish. If you enjoyed the previous too albums then you shouldn’t be disappointed with this one. If you’d like a warm ethnic album that is masterfully produced by one of the scenes most consistent producers using a host of other high quality musicians and instruments then you will definitely like this album. I think the wonderful cover is a good reflection of the music, the vibrant colours and natural image with a warm yet slightly dark edge show up so often in my mind as I listen to this album. All the tracks here are great but for me even on a great album like this there are standouts. Randolph Matthews’ vocals on Zema Lasu, Shifting Sounds and Outside Looking In are absolutely fantastic, he has one of those voices that sound like silk when he sings and these vocals wrap me up in a warm sheet and never fail to sooth away any stress I have. His 3 tracks are probably my favourites on the album. Deeyah’s vocals in The Source are I think the total opposite to Matthew’s but no less pleasant. They are funkier like the rest of the track, more high pitched and upbeat with a strange quality not quite human. The title track for me sums up the album quite nicely; it is eclectic yet ordered so that all the elements come together in an orchestra of warm relaxed moods. The beats are very tribal with many sporadic elements underneath the main melody & bassline, a smattering of flutes & vocals that seem only to say “Hey” adds up to a strange yet very enjoyable track. Obsidian Beats is a wonderful mixture of earthy & ethereal sounds. I can picture in my minds eye an ancient tribal ritual summoning ancestor spirits from beyond the veil. The vocals sound to me very twisted and trippy, very nice. The last track Under The Spell really does put me under a spell, the most relaxed track on the album, it is very beautiful and Natasha’s vocals are entrancing. It’s perfect end to such a great album.