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This I don't understand. My girlfriend, pretty much like my previous girlfriends, is totally devoid of any logic. I am on the other hand far too logical. She's really creative though & can make anything if she puts her mind to it (she's really into animation & she's good at it). I think there are not that many women producing psy because there are not that many women that are really into psy! Whenever I go to a party it's mostly guys there & the women I do meet are there becasue of their boyfriends. Of course there are girls there who love psy but then again as lauryn illustrated the are women producing also. The percentage is smaller but I think it reflects the ratio of men:women that are really into psy! Personally I don't know any ladies into psy I'd love my bird to be really into it but she merely tolerates it

Enjoy the time you have left! It'll fly by Nice pics, I especially like the lights

A quality soundtrack, enjoy

Enigma - MCMXC a.D.

It's good? How does it compare to the 1st one?

Very nice I also like usually Ultimae have excellent covers though

Hope I'm still here in 6.5 Billion years to see that view

Younger Brother The Last Days of Gravity Twisted Records 2007 Tracklist 1 Happy Pills (8:48) 2 All I Want (9:04) 3 Elephant Machine (6:19) 4 Your Friends Are Scary (6:38) 5 I Am A Freak (8:58) 6 Ribbon On A Branch (7:46) 7 Sleepwalker Part One (6:16) 8 Sleepwalker Part Two (5:59) 9 Psychic Gibbon (7:30) Well, I didn't really like the first younger brother album. There was nothing in it that grabbed my attention. People described it as halfway between Hallucinogen & Shpongle but all I got from it was Simon Posford's disappointing recent output, boring with little real psychedelica just pseudo psy for kids. So my hope for this one were not too high, to be honest I've no idea why I bought it but I'm glad I did. This is more interesting than flock of crap but that's not saying much. There's some psychedelia but I'm surprised these two guys couldn't do better. Then again, in my opinion they haven't made much decent stuff in the last 10 years (except Prometheus' chilled stuff). This has some nice moments but too much of it sounds like rehashed stuff from yesteryear & I for one was not impressed. 1 Happy Pills What a great start. A nice chilled out melodic piece dripping with lovely psychedelic nuances. The beats are big but relaxed. Lots of space to move. The more intricate sub beats are nicer & an Indian melody gives way to a really nice 60's lounge melody. The whole track has the feel of a 60's smokers lounge just not crap. Good & well produced. Unfortunately I think they started the album to well & it might be all downhill from here. 2 All I Want Only the second track & it's started. A sample that really doesn't need to be there. Simon Posford's trade mark stamp is crap samples & right from the start of this we have one. Something about Paranoiacs but it's something that probably sound pretty cool when on acid or something but after a few sober listens just sounds annoyingly childish. The track itself is quite good. The singing is competent if not great & again it gives the atmosphere of 60's rock just more modern. 3 Elephant Machine Round & round, round & round the samples goes, at first I thought this was the shittiest thing I had ever heard. Ultra cheesy, samples that don't really add much & basically pretty much a pop track from yesteryear given a new coat of paint. But it grew on me, there are some nice touches in there. I think this fills the desire for pop music I have after starving myself of anything mainstream. Good pop! 4 Your Friends Are Scary Nice start kind of ambientish then with a melody thatcould be played on anything electronic. Good sounds that feel like they are building to something. The chords played give a melancholic feel which is continued with the guitars & odd psychedelic rain. It slowly builds a bit of energy but never does anything with it 5 I Am A Freak This track would be nice if it didn't repeat the sample I am a freak I am uniqueso much. The rest of the track is really good. Nice soft trippy weirdness with enough melody & structure to keep me happy but that crap sample (I guess Simon wanted that) fucks it all up. Even the use of guitars is great, the structure's great, the beats are nice & crunchy too. I think my memory of this track is worse than it actually is because I always remember the shit samples but they are not there that much, just the beginning and the end so the middle is pretty good. 6 Ribbon On A Branch What on Earth is this? Folk rock? For your average EDM listener this may be out there & innovative but for someone brought up on folk this is tired old stuff. It's not bad but still, there is nothing innovative about this, it's just introducing old folk music to new people in a less scary way. Fair enough I suppose but there is better stuff than this released all through the 60's. This reminds me of the pop covers in th 1990's when every song that sounded half decent was a cover from the 60's. I wouldn't be surprised if this was too. 7 Sleepwalker Part One This is very average mid BPM psytrance with a few influences from a few years ago. There is nothing really to report, nothing particularly good & nothing horrible. Pretty Pedestrian stuff. 8 Sleepwalker Part Two So why was this worth 2 tracks? Oh it wasn't. Once again this is okay I have no real problem with it but after it's over I can never remember it of have the desire to listen to it again. Dull! Is this really the best they could do? 9 Psychic Gibbon Finally a great track. After the greatness of the first track then the disappointment that followed I wasn't expecting this. This is exactly what I would have liked the whole album to be. Interesting & psychedelic without relying on crap samples from past movies. Instead it relies on melodies & structure. It builds it's way up to the vocal which (is not a sample) fits in naturally to the track. Very good stuff, the sort of track I replay after it's finished. Well, this album is not that good I'm afraid. Typical posford stuff. I wish Benji had put his foot down & said "NO Simon! There will be no crap samples from the TV show you watched last night, it just doesn't go" but he didn't. The samples ruin most of the tracks they are in. and I have no idea what the idea with the sleepwalkers are. Most of this album seems like it's going to reach a wider audience. It seems they have gone the same way as Infected Mushroom but without the horrible vocals from Dudev people haven't got the same scorn. Okay it's a little better done than IM did but still, it's the same direction. Happy pills & Psychic Gibbon are both fantastic tunes. The rest are not so good & sleepwalker 1 & 2 is a yawn fest.

younger brother - the last days of gravity I like this so much more than flock of beeps. So much more interesting.

Isn't pandemonium an american guy living in Yokosuka, Japan who visits this forum & has a passion for fun energetic music? I can't imagine him in this whole debacle! Or has someone stolen his name?

Artist either 1. get better 2. stay the same 3. get worse so when an artist who was shot years ago gets better, nobody checks out his music when an artist stays the same people say they have stagnated when an artist gets worse, everyone checks out there music hoping they can relive past glories. So the way to go is to check out artists you don't know or who you used to think were shit

-1 I'd have to put that in the worst covers thread

Sienis From A Nutter Perspective Gi'iwa Productions 2007 Tracklist 1 Nuttin' (0:59) (2) Sum=thing (7:08) 3 Watt Duh Hekk ?! (6:46) 4 Friggin' Box | Outside The... (6:29) 5 Phinary (7:06) 6 Memory Mechanix (3:44) 7 Digital Dealer (6:45) 8 Triangle Eye, Sir ? (5:07) 9 Re..member (7:21) 10 Me Against My Self (6:33) 11 Form Another Perspective (5:20) 12 Eye See The I Sea (7:45) 13 Earth Womb (7:12) Okay I only bought this album recently but it had an instant effect on me. This has reignited my love of high tempo music. I have focused more & more on chillout over the last year as there has been very few trance releases that have attracted my interest. This one however blew my socks off. The craziness, the randomness nicely ordered & the fantastic use of baselines. I wish all upbeat music was this good. Really this is my favourite up tempo release this year. It makes no sense & I have no idea if in the future it will get annoying but at the moment I just don't see that happening. All the weird crazy samples are fun yes but manage to not be annoying unlike a lot of releases have been. This guy must be a sample master. 1 Nuttin' A short intro with a big classical piano melody & a crazy cartoon vocal Sweet Freedom here I a..a.wa.wa..... Boy it's a good thing I'm leaving before I went nuts, goodbye sparkly elves (owls?) goodbyeeeeeeeeee A perfect sample summing up what you can expect from the rest of the album (2) Sum=thing Nuttin' was just the intro to this track. A nice melody played by the bassline, weird twisted & scratched vocals & a sci fi lady speaks of our entrapment in this small space. Crazy weirdness for sure. I love it. The other melody too played on what could be a harpsichord adds a middle age adventure feel to the track. hey, it's just weird enough to work perfectly. 3 Watt Duh Hekk?! The bom bom bom seems to have a resonance echo & the sounds shift from left to right in an off putting random way that makes you think your headphones are broken until the sounds fly around so much that they fill both sides. An incredibly infectious bassline which has made me look stupid at the train station trying to hold my desire to dance while waiting for the train. It's a small world after world is butchered by some weirdo freak in the breakdown before kicking back in with a completely different track. What the Hell happened? The Bizarreness is compounded by the return of the oscillating sounds from the right to the left randomly. Oh well 16% of the time it works everytime 4 Friggin' Box | Outside The... An anomalous violin melody starts us off before the beat smashes in & weird acidic sounds fly at us from every direction. Somehow the girl answering the phone is the perfect sample brilliantly timed. A nice squelchy synth plays well over the beat with little squelchy sounds underneath driving us somewhere. Not sure where we are going it's just nice to be insane. The natty little vocal towards the end feels like tiny little elves up to no good on a midsummer night's eve. 5 Phinary Another infectious melodious bassline which has made people stare at me on the train. I just can't help myself, I must dance even if it's just slight head nodding. The beats are crunchy too & the track screams for your potential energy to be released. This is a mix between normality & the craziness of Sienis with Sienis winning out in the end, as you would expect. As the track goes on it builds more energy & yu might get carried away with the dance but listen carefully while you dance & you mind will be separated from you body as you lose yourself in the building oddness. 6 Memory Mechanix Glitchy start with a strange feeling of running & when it out runs the glitch & enters the deep dark forest I think it's going to kick off at any moment everytime but then the long synth drones come in giving this a fucked up dark ambient on speed feel. Just as you're expecting them, the beats come in slowly & it really feels lost. I'm lost & the track has obviously lost it's mind. 7 Digital Dealer No idea. Another very up tempo track but this time the bassline is much more pedestrian & although I could dance to this on the dancefloor. It wouldn't make me dance. The best thing about this track is definitely the sample. Calm down, I didn't mean to scare you, why are we whispering, I wanted to see if you would whisper because I whispered, I think I would In my mind this sample sums up Sienis's sound. Completely & totally fucked up nonsense. The track picks up after the sample to but never really draws me in like the others. Gets better & better towards the end but just doesn't seem to stand out among the brilliance around it until the squeaky melody played in the last 2 minutes. That was pure genious. So it comes good in the end & has you looking forward in the build up on repeat listens. 8 Triangle Eye, Sir? Woooooo!!!! The start of this is....damn I don't know. Feels like something trying to escape some terrible hell! When it finally claws it's way out it encounters denial & logic (brilliant sample by the way) as well as mental incarceration & candy girl pop. Possibly the weirdest track on the album. Not sure but it is definitely up there in the what the hell is going on (?) stakes. 9 Re...member This is all so very ordinary, for a few minutes you can't help but feel disappointed that nothing has happened yet to make you say what the fuck? But after a few minutes the synths come in & they are fast & compliment the weird melody pretty well so before you even realise it, is crazy. The craziness though has been toned down a little in favour of trippiness that draws you in & takes you away. 10 Me Against My Self So....back to the crazy off the wall, what is going on sort of stuff but with the foot off the pedal. The pace is not so fast & there is more space for the music to breathe. The weirdness is here in spades & lots of samples like the angry at god sample is so out there it just makes so much sense. 11 Form Another Perspective Best track on the whole album. It all comes together. The grim fairy tale feel, the nuttiness, the ambience in the background & yes yes yes the bassline is so amazingly fantastic that when it comes in I can do anything else, I can't talk I can't walk straight I can't see. All I can do is smile & dance. Every part of me wants to move. Even when I'm sat down I can feel myself dancing! I think this is probably my favourite track of 2007. It's so infectious. I just want to listen to it again & again & again. I could probably have this on repeat at a party & be happy for hours I only wish it was longer. 12 Eye See The I Sea After the brilliance of Form Another Perspective this only very good track is disappointing. It's extremely trippy but lacks the craziness & the energy of the rest of the album. Nice melody that's subtle & refined & if you listen to this on it's own you'll thing it is weird but it just doesn't compare 13 Earth Womb We finish with a downbeat Indian themed number. It is a good track don't get me wrong but it is really out of place with the rest of the album. There is non of the crazy weirdness that came before it. It's a little clichéd and doesn't follow on from the think outside the box stuff that makes up this album. All in all this is one of the best albums I've heard in years. It's fun has lots of energy, crunches & is soooo psychedelic it makes my mind flip everytime I hear it. It has been a long time since I've heard anything that is so fucked up yet still musical. And yes so much of it makes me move. I haven't wanted to dance in ages but with this makes it impossible not to.

Blue Planet Corporation Blue Planet Flying Rhino Records 1999 Tracklist 1 Apex (7:30) 2 Crystal (8:43) 3 Alidade (10:48) 4 Micromega (6:56) 5 Atoll (7:33) 6 Dialect (6:47) 7 Open Sea (9:14) 8 Roma (6:39) 9 Arcana (10:28) I had heard a lot about this album a few years after it's release & really really wanted to here it. However I couldn't get my hands on it. I heard Micromega a number of times on various compilations & it just increased my desire to hear this album all the more. Still though, it was a bugger to get hold of. Finally I paid a lot of my hard earned for it but I never regretted it due to the pure quality of the tracks displayed here. I've heard many people call this unpsychedelic & I think this goes to show how subjective the term is. This might not be as melodic as old goa or as crazy as psy around this time but it creates beautiful soundscapes in my head & each track takes me on a miniature journey which is part of the long journey represented by the full album. It starts slow gets faster & faster then drops down again finally ending in an ambient masterpiece. 1 Apex A slow glitchy start leads into a trippy sci fi sample about mankind's unsuitability to handle an alien power source. The beats are crunchy & the sounds are laced with metallic spacey nuances. Melody comes in very slightly towards the end but it's subtle & hidden for the most part. Stick on a pair of headphones to hear it for the minute before the beats stop. 2 Crystal A crystalline melody carries between the two tracks, joining the 2 into one long track, carries on after the light pounding beat, the same sample from Apex & a deliciously delicate baseline. The simple repetitive melody is infectious & I like how it's played in different keys using different sounds. My favourite being the synth like melody falling in key like cascading waterfall. It amazing manages to twist & turn a lot while staying very focused. Great track. 3 Alidade A more obvious transition to this track with a sudden increase in BPM. Suddenly into more pounding driving music but this is probably the reason I can't drive. I would be unable to focus on the road while listening to the intricate layers beneath the beat. This is a perfect example of how good music can build & build & build. The increase is not obvious but but gradual. At over 10 minutes the smooth gentle build takes this up to the sky into hyperspace round the Pleiades a few times then back to Earth. My only gripe would be the slightly out of place vocals that come in in the last couple of minutes. They are quite subtle & almost unnoticeable when not paying close attention but when you are spending your time listening to the music instead of merely hearing it I feel they would have been left out. A minor floor though as they are brief. 4 Micromega This is the track that made it onto all those compilations. I heard it on Slipstream & Re:evolution & it just made me so angry that I didn't own this album. Another track that builds & builds into a journey. The turns are more obvious though with melodies coming & going & slight pitch changes. The Trance Dance sample may be a bit cheesy & I don't know what it's doing there but while not adding anything it doesn't detract either. 5 Atoll Bom Bom Bom right from the start with loads of acidic sounds dropping down. After a quick breakdown comes a driving synthline making this a very danceable track. But that's not all, this is not just a body track it still has all the brain food as a few layers down is a softer synth melody, lush female vocals, flutes and a light fluffy melody. When the beat leaves for a while you can suddenly hear these all a lot more prominently & when it pounds back in they are still there in the 1st layer. Very nice structure 6 Dialect Another high tempo track with lots of shuffling under-beats. A short but atmospheric drone comes in & out & I'm left waiting for it to reemerge. While I'm waiting I'm treated to nice soft oscillating synth work. The shuffles come back with a sample "we are out of control" that I'm not to sure about but I forgive it's presence as the rest of the track is sooooo good. That drone never came back though. 7 Open Sea A messy start clears when the synth line comes in. A nice one, not so driving but still energetic enough to make me want to dance. Another danceable track with a fantastic melody that once again manages to feel like a sky blue cascade of sound flowing all over me like a sonic waterfall. All the sounds here are much more in your face than any of the other tracks & there are a lot of sounds. It could have sounded cluttered but they have been expertly ordered by BPC with just a few slips where it sounds odd. Other than that it's a great crazy maximal track. 8 Roma A noticeable drop in pace from full on craziness of sound to this nice relaxed proggy number. The synths are more relaxed, the beat feels like it can breathe again and the melody dances in your head rather than your limbs. There is more ambience in the background that lift this track a lot and it really comes off as a treat for the mind. 9 Arcana We finish with a much more downbeat number. The beats while still quite hefty are slower. A melodious sound repeats through the start and the end of the track. It's definitely a focal point as it fills my head when it's there & when it's not. I wait for it to come back as I know it will. While I'm waiting though as I'm listening for it I pick up the other sounds all the more. I focus harder when I expect it to return. When it does it's just building to one of the nicest synths I've heard at one point they seem to fill my entire life. There is just the one sound but it feels like a million of them at once. Finally a sample that fits. It's just a drawn out male vocal but it goes in to the rest of the track very nicely. Well, this album could have been perfect. The only problem is that some of the samples are a little out of place & sound a bit too cheesy. Without them this would be a sublime journey into heaven with no bumps along the way but as it stands it's a sublime flight into the joyous afterlife but having to fly past dark clouds & mourning relatives. Not unpleasant, I'd just rather have the simpler ride. Quite rare right now so if you see this you should definitely buy it because it's not only rare it's also bloody good

It's monday I have the day off & this arrived

Bamboo Forest Revival MP Records 2005 Shite Tracklist 1 Voyager 7.19 2 Revival 6.33 3 Syncopations 7.16 4 Soft Limit 7.20 5 MP 7.13 6 Ipanema 6.54 7 Techno Logic 8.17 8 Simonal 6.38 9 Karmatic 7.02 How good was Bamboo Forest - Bamboo Forest ay? One of my favourite artists out with a new album. I didn't hear any hype about this so didn't have my hopes up. I just found it in a shop & instantly bought it. I thought this couldn't be bad. How wrong I was. This is probably the worst Psy-Trance album I have ever heard. Well it shouldn't be called Psy-Trance, this is cheesy eurobeat crap. Some advice, read this then don't buy this god awful garbage. 1 Voyager (Full on opener, Crap) Starts off with with an accented english sample which doesnt seem to offensive but has in the back ground a really irritating high pitch whining noise, urgh. The beat kicks in just after a minute and there are synth cords all over the place. It has set the tone for a full on album. The beat is very generic and you feel glad when it fades out at the end. Not the best opener for such a highly anticipated album. I'm feeling a little disappointed that I parted with my hard earned (well earned anyway) cash for full on. 2 Revival (Same as track 1) Starts with a much better beat which would have been cool if the track had continued in the same vien but instead of progressing the beat into something nice on 41 seconds the same full on beat as track 1 comes in and this track does have a very similar feel to the first. on 2 minutes the decent beat comes back but just for a few seconds, replaced swiftly by full on. There are some vocal samples but I cant quite make them out but it really does sound like "sell out sell out sell out". Some nice synths come in around 4 minutes which sound promising at first but aren't. The track ends in exactly the same way as the first. Better than the first track but marginally. 3 Syncopations (Good sample ruined) Starts off with a deep forest sample but it is slightly more distorted and in the back of you mind you can feel the full on beat coming which fades in after 50 seconds and the full on kicks in on 71. A spacey (well it wants to be) vocal sample says something about the cosmos and the Africany deep forest sample threads back in but even though you can tell it's the same sample (which I loved on deep forest's work (I'm pretty sure it's deep forest but if it not sorry)) it just sound tacky on this. This track sums up my feelings for the album so far, which is this - There are some nice ideas but the pretty poorly put together in full on style. 4 Soft Limit (better but boring) Starts with euro pop singing, a slightly better fullon beat kicks in on 40 seconds which is joined by a much nicer sub beat and bit later. Apart from the awful vocals this is a much better track than the previous 3. More subtle (not subtle but more subtle) sounds in it but there is just that f**king vocal that ruins everything. Well the track just keeps on going, no real progression and after five minutes starting to something would change but the whole tracks on a loop it seems. Slight cord changes don't cut it bamboo forest. Around 7 minutes a really nice floaty sound gives me a little hope but then the track ends. 5 MP (I make kiddie trance) Starts with a more tribal beat for the intro but you know whats coming yes on 40 seconds you have that full on beat again. A vocal that sounded okay the first time got irritating after 4 or 5 times and them some really awful kiddie trance vocals. This sounds like Sash or ATB or something your teenage sister listens to and thinks she's really cool because she doesn't listen to Britney Spears like all those sad c*nts at school. Sorry sister but this is just as bad. Quite nice industrial sounds which you can hear when the beat stops briefly but its not good enough to make up for the rest of the song (there are so many vocals I feel I can call it a song) 6 Ipanema (Cheesy gay Shit!) It has the best start to any track on the album, a slightly ethereal voice (SLIGHTLY) but soon a strange techhy sound comes in and 50 seconds in comes the same fullon beat. One and a half minutes in and you'll be pissing yourself laughing. The cheesiest sample I have heard since my university flatmates took me to saturday night at student union (it was actually advertised as more cheese than a safeway deli counter). It goes (imagine 80's boy band trying to sound really sexy to 12 year old girls) "wont you touch me touch me touch me". Really made me laugh in an oh my god what can come next kind of way. I had to ask, a slightly less gay voice but ultimately gayer (is that a word or is it more gay?) sample which goes something like "Take a look inside, Magic in your eyes" 7 Techno Logic (Complete rip off) Starts of kind of well with slow keyboard chords but the techno logic vocal comes in, I've heard that somewhere before. But where...? Bugger me with a fish fork this track is technologic by daft punk. Is this the same guy as in daft punk? if not can you just rip off a song that much? Now I know nystagmus' consciousness sounds 90% like Infected mushroom's Shen (I think Shen) but that's just the melody. This is almost an exact copy of daft punk just put into a really gay full on style (I thought the daft punk one was okay apart from the words). It even has the same name it just not one word, it's 2. That will keep the copyright laws at bay and Mr Bamboo forest if you are Daft Punk you should stick to that project. All that aside this is a bloody annoying tune. It was the worst on Human after all and amazingly the worst on this album too. Feeling pissed off that I own that track twice. 8 Simonal (Thank god it wasn't as bad as 7) Once again starts off fine and the beat this time kicks in deeper which a decent sub beat. Decent sounds and a sample actually complement this tune quite well. A few industrial/techhy sounds are quite good and a attempt a melody. This tarck is sounding okay but maybe Im just relieved it wasn't as bad as the previous track, oh god I'm reliving it, close to tears just thinking of it. No this is easily the best track on the album so far. It has better sounds and the arrangement if not good is not complete, total and utter crap. If I heard this on it's own I would just think generic and harmless but overall pretty shit. It keeps saying FUCKERS for no reason. 9 Karmatic (I wish the rest of the album was only this shit) Last track Hurray! Starts of saying T minus 1 minute and continues with a countdown. No this isn't a countdown to the end of the album (I'm not that lucky). No full on beat kicks in and I have to admit I'm kind of relieved. Finishing an album with a downbeat track may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's the only thing done even close to right on the whole album. I actually don't mind this track. Floaty lady voices, nice ethereal sounds in the background, a nicer beat. It is actually quite a pleasant end to the album but it gets you wondering why the rest of the album is such boring generic fullon or kiddie trance. To sum up the album then. Bamboo Forest - Revival has some nice ideas in it but the production is crap and for every nice idea there are 5 realllllllly bad ideas thrown on top of it. The last track is fine, track 7 is one of the most god awful things I've ever heard. Track 6 is one of the cheesiest things I have ever heard. The rest is just crap! You know how sometimes a movie is so bad it's good. This is not like that It's just bad. If you like cheesy euro pop then give this a sniff if not, don't bother. Even if you like fullon you probably wont like this. I like fullon myself I just hate generic shit fullon like most stuff so I'm not just saying this is bad because I don't like the style, it really is bad. I wont be playing this again. 7/10 hahahahaha just kidding 1/10 that's one for the last track and making me piss myself laughing.

Chances are nothing will go wrong & it'll all be fine but Psyshop just isn't good when something does go wrong!

3 of my all time favourites are from 2005

This is why I never use psyshop! They were crap when they fucked my order, never got it sorted out after months of trying. Maybe they thought they could fuck me over 'cause I was far away. But I tell you, the Japanese postal system is fantastic so it wasn't them that fucked is up no matter how much crapshop wanted to believe they did! Good luck

So does your hair np Jason Corder & Opium - Autunno

IMO the second one is much better than the first. More varied & much more interesting.

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