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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?

That sounds really interesting, I want to check her out. I'll put them on my reading list (although that's really long right now 🫠

This is still a great album, very Solar Fields, mature resounding but resonates nicely when you let it unfold.

A lot of Solar Fields music has aged very well. I love all of his output except for the recent Origin releases that never grabbed me. This though, this gets listened to still, 15 years late

No one else into the cheese fest that is Reverse Universe? I've seen some cheesy psy being pedalled recently, so maybe check this out too!

I remember loving this, I was sure I wrote a review, I guess not though. Going to give this another listen now...

I listened to this today, it is still amazing, every track plays in to a huge album. I always think that it's ended, then the ambient track comes on to round of the experience in style. Is there a moon in your window? Is Madness laughing? Is Madness laughing?