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Now that's an awesome find

No worries at all on the history lesson—it’s a great topic to dig into. But I’m not sold on the idea that Atmos had no Goa connection, or that Flying Rhino had “abandoned” Goa by 1997. While it’s true that Atmos helped define the progressive psy era, especially with Klein Aber Doctor onward, his earlier tracks and DJ sets still circulated heavily in late-phase Goa trance parties and compilations. He contributed to Flying Rhino during their transitional period, when they were fusing Goa's psychedelia with progressive structure—he was part of that arc, not outside of it. And yes, Airborne signaled a shift, but even that comp had tracks with Goa DNA—just more refined and minimal. To say Goa was “dead” in 1997 is overstating it a bit. Goa was evolving, not vanishing. There were still active scenes and labels well into the early 2000s, especially in Europe and Israel. Also worth noting: while Klein Aber Doctor isn’t traditional Goa, the atmosphere, psychedelia, and structure are clearly an evolution from it—not a total break. So I think Atmos and Flying Rhino both straddled the Goa→progressive shift, and that’s part of what made that era so rich.

If you have, then I have also. For ambient I have been listening more to ambient ambient: Steve Roach, Robert Rich etc. State Azure is a really nice ambient artist that sometimes has some similar textures and rhythms. I wouldn't compare them, except that State Azure is also always really good, like old Ultimate.

When I was younger I lived alone and I had music room, a place with my stereo, my decks, surround sound speakers, a listening chair (all on the cheap mind you, but damn was it good to have a room just for listening to music) and all my CDs organized/categorised and easy to browse and find. When I got married and moved house, my buzz kill of a wife did not want a music room (why did I marry this woman? A question for another thread) so all my CDs (I thought) got ripped and put in storage. Over the last 10 years I have listened to CDs less and less and FLAC more and more, I also started streaming music more. I have 2 apps on my phone for music. Bandcamp where I amassed a collection of 6000+ albums (you can stop buying CDs but the idiot that cannot stop buying new music will never be silenced) of mostly "name your price" of $1 albums (mostly just as good as the $20 offerings to be honest) and Ymusic which allows you to search and stream anything that is on any of the big hosting sites like YouTube or....their competitors, I'm sure their are some somewhere. Totally free and you can stream just the audio and it has everything you could really want outside of the really indie stuff that no one likes (and for that there's bandcamp). Anyway, I digress, over the years I found, like a lot of people I have been using my phone for more and more things. It replaced my camera, my music player, I stopped reading books because what's the point when you can doomscroll? 😲 It replaced my PC, my TV, my consoles, shit, everything. But as the saying goes, a phone is a jack of all trades, but a master of none and I have come to the realization over the last few years that smartphones suck at everything they do and having one device for everything is making everything just a bit crap. I even used it for email, basically meaning I never sent email (sorry mum 😭) or posted on forums (sorry Psynews 😢) So over the last few years I have been spending my hard earned on getting back the things I need (not a camera yet because I suck at photography anyway) I have a kobo e-reader and reading is so much more enjoyable than doomscrolling. I got a Miyoo mini retro handheld for games and playing all the old Gameboy, NES, SNES, Master system & Genesis games is so much more fun than whatever crappy mobile games are available. I got a portable music player again, then upgraded it to a hunky hunky slab of a well amped music player (Sony ZX707) with decent iems and headphones and put all my previously ripped music (see this thread is getting somewhere) on it. I stopped streaming, I bought a lot less new music and rediscovered all (wait for it) my old favourites. I even got a bigger tablet with a full(ish) sized keyboard to help me reconnect with the people that are not in my face every day. Back to the music, well I thought I was rediscovering ALL my old music, but I was clearly not. I have been re-reading the review threads here and today I came across Pleiadians - IFO remastered and 3CDs of extra goodies and I was like "Oh wow, how did I miss that???" I was then surprised again to read my review of it, as I had clearly bought it but had never ripped it (or lost said rip) so I went looking for it and in just the small section of my storage that I found that, I found 20 or more other old classics I had totally forgotten about. A load of Eat Static albums (I always did overplay Prepare Your Spirit but I did sometimes listen to the others) the later Order Odanata compilations, an album by Zen Lemonade and another by Green Oms. All forgotten about until today. I haven't ripped a CD in years, I need to find my old external CD drive and figure out what to do to get all this excellent stuff on my Walkman so I can listen to it again, properly, with decent headphones Is anyone else having a renaissance with their music? What have you recently re-discovered? Go over the review section and give you thoughts 10, 15 20 years later TL:DR? Screw you then Nah, Just read the last paragraph

I had completely forgotten about this, I didn't rip it to my digital library and I haven't played CDs for a while now. I need to look through my CD collection to find it and listen to it over and over again

Oh, it's been a while since I listened to Shaolin Wooden Men I loved them NP Chronos - Ants World from Earth Compilation

I feel you, while I think there are still decent releases since this album, the quality just hasn't been like it used to be. Ultimate used to be "instant buy" no previews needed, now everything that comes out needs to be vetted before I buy as there has been too many disappointing releases, something I never thought I would say about Ultimae

This is still a really enjoyable listen from @phobium A wonderful space Odyssey: close your eyes, listen on decent headphones and let your mind free

If you are going to post a link to Miranda's work, you surely need to tag @Radish6404who may or not be @radi6404but has a clear preference for Miranda Never seen either version of Radi in the reviews, so I am curious how he feels and articulates about other music from his favourite artist.

Thanks @RTP You're right that everyone has problems. One of my biggest is getting my wife to see perspective. I want her to understand that a sock, left on the floor, is not the end of the world, and yes, there has been socks left on the floor many many times, and it is annoying that a 10 year old cannot tidy up everything and always leaves a sock, or something else, but at the same time, it's just a sock left on the floor, so many people have problems 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000x worse: Food insecurity, war, domestic abuse, terminal diseases, to say but a few. While I really don't want to invalidate her feelings, I also don't want to support the idea, that a sock left on the floor needs the same reaction to having stabbed her friend at school (my daughter did both these things and the reaction was basically the same: full on judge dread) Anyway, sorry for the tangent but yeah, the internet has a lot to answer for. My wife doomscrolls constantly. It's always a joke when me and my daughter are out "what do you think mummy is doing? Lying on the sofa doomscrolling" and when we get back, she always is. I've cut out social media, Reddit and the like are just cesspits of negativity and I was so much better off for cutting them out of my life. My online presence now is hobbies and sport, and even sport can be frustrating, check out any BBC Sport/Football have your say and see just how many sad idiots there are complaining about everything from women being allowed to play football to brown people being allowed to play football. I love the internet, I hate the internet with equal measure. It should be the sum total of human knowledge at our fingertips, it should mean everyone is informed is informed and can easily know everything right? Absolutely not! More people than ever think that the Earth is flat and that Miranda - Mars Needs Women is quality GOA track.... 😬

I am now even more confused, but I am old, and I did not take care of my brain while I was younger, so it was always likely that I'd be confused about crypto currency and things like that. I am still mostly using cash every day and credit cards scare me as I spend more than I think because it's not real money

Atmos - 604 Now Twin Reaction (So Italo Mix) Lots of really nice melodic prog tracks on this album, but nothing that's overly memorable.

So glad seems to be working out better for you. I was away for a while and reading this thread is just a rollercoaster of emotions for RTP. Sorry to hear about your dad, but happy to hear he kept it together mentally to know he had become a grandpa. Very happy to hear that your daughter is doing well, that must have been a tortuous time for you, I can't even imagine. Enjoy your well earned holiday. I hope it is relaxing and fun 😊

Atmos did start in the Goa scene on Flying Rhino that was part of that, but his music helped define the shift away from classic Goa toward progressive psytrance (also seen on FRR). So while 604 as a title might nod to his roots, the album itself represents the refined, stripped-down evolution of that sound.

Does it read like a crazy woman wrote it? That description sounds like it's going to be less of a novel and more a series of rambling essays by a nut job. I must admit that a quick Google search makes me more inclined to go with my early prejudices. But if I am wrong, it looks like it could be a great read.

Very nice! The best thing I find about Sennheiser headphones is that they are often on sale. I got the HD560s at 75% off just before the Amazon prime day sales. I really want to support my local stores but 9,000 yen compared to 36,000 yen is too much of a difference. No they were not used nor did they even look like a return that had every been opened. I am happy with them.

I was wondering where my review for this was. I am sure I had one, then I realized I was thinking of Earthshine. But I have this, surely, I have bought everything that Solar Fields has ever made, but I can't find it in my collection. Did I dislike it and never ripped it? Sounds like a mission for the weekend.

I have this Yet I honestly cannot really remember listening to it. Maybe I listened to it once, distracted, or on crappy headphones, or worse some shitty speakers, and didn't appreciate it? Well that ends today, I just put it on, and the first track "Resign Riot" is already sounding better than the other Prog I listened to this week (Except for Head cleaner that I listened to on Tuesday, seriously can't think why I ignore this and 2nd Brigade in favour of Head cleaner and Almost & Friends) I guess I'll find out...

I can't wait for Shulman's next release....11 years later, nothing Did they release anything underground that I never heard of? Would love to hear more of their style. Each album was different and great.

I was listening to this the other day, it remains great. It doesn't however remain free in the above link "page not found" 😢 Still sounds futuristic (because the modern day suck archaic balls) and driving, energetic and fun. I was taking a 100 degree (now I use fahrenheit because triple figures sound cool) walk and it gave me the energy to sweat bucket loads while doing so. Where can you get it now? Not sure, I already have it. Do you?

Wow! Thanks for the first hand perspective. One thing that I have never understood, I just cannot get it through my head, and maybe it'd because I am not American, and from where I'm from, anyone that's "into" politics is a big loser that cannot get a girl to sit in the same room as him, and if a girl is into politics, she's a big loser who can't get a girl to sit in the same room as her So while it amazes me that Americans can be so into politicians that they go to rallies, and make their favourite political "star" a big part of their personality like a tween girl and her favourite boy band, I still cannot understand how people feel this way about Donald Trump, who has the charisma of a tax audit, a room temperature IQ (not fahrenheit) and hair that looks like pubes. Even if he's a big old racist that agrees with all the things your big old racists think, wouldn't they be more ashamed to be associated with such a human toilet brush? I've recently been reading about his trade deals, all these deals with short term benefits to the USA...him and his cronies I bet, feel like they're just going to push your trading partners away long term. Even when he's replaced long term, other countries aren't going to trust that 4 years later that replacement won't be replaced with Trump 2.0 For a while, other countries are going to suffer through this, but they'll open up more trade with India, China and African countries and the USA will become a minor world player, with a shit tonne of nukes, now there's a scary thought. What happens when the country is washed up and relying on foreign aid AND has all these nukes. War war war. I'm sure someone has written a book about this. Anyway back to books. The Bone Clocks that I am reading, the last chapter was pretty good because it involved who the story revolves around, Holly Sykes. The book started really well, as it focuses on her as a 16 year old. I was invested and read quite quickly. Then it moved to some story about someone really uninteresting and in the last part of his story he met Holly, then it was about her partner who was a war journalist and was not that interesting, now it's about another novelist who's life is intersecting with hers. It's just that all these people's stories are so boring, but hers sound interesting and I just want to get to that. Maybe I'm impatient, maybe David Mitchell just isn't a great writer.

I feel that a lot of the old acts that we loved back in the day, started making music that was more commercial and less to the tastes of us fuddy duddies, but recently a lot are pivoting back as the people they made the pop sound for are no longer interested, and they know that we are all stubborn and will be the ones paying to hear the old sounds 😁

Flying Rhino Freestyle - Carribean Eclipse Next up, Cornwall Eclipse Some of the best downtempo comps made.

When people say things like a movie remake has ruined the original or a change in music style has ruined an artist. Do they not understand that the originals are still there and unchanged? If the next AP album isn't too my liking, I can still listen to the old ones that I do like (not did, do)

I love grimdark fantasy and sci-fi How is everything over there for the normal folks? All I get to hear about sounds like hyperbole and I come away thinking it can't really be that bad, can it? Can it?