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Makyo - Nourah Heard of it? Like it?

I love this album. One of the best chill compilations I own I think. each track builds nicely, very nicely.

Puff Dragon - Sazanami Top banana

Puff Dragon Sazanami Dakini Records Tracklist Sazanami 9:29 Qi Gong 9:11 Chinese Radio (Beijing Taxi Version) 7:43 Marine Drive 7:35 Spacefunk 8:23 Skin as Soft (Soft as Silk remix) 8:16 Lava 6:17 Shimmer (Liquid Lounge Version) 8:10 I bought this mainly because I like the cover, the track names and because it was next to the Makyo album that I wanted to buy. I was REALLY impressed though I love this floaty, dreamy, occasionally funky album. 1. Sazanami Starts of with soft strings, not sure but it sounds like a plucked harp accompanied by the electric violin and acoustic guitar. Soft beat lies nicely behind it all. after about 2 and a half minutes The beat moves itself into the front and the violin gets more involved. It's a nice dreamy opener to the album. It has the same sounds all the way through but it progresses nicely and if worth the full 9 and a half minutes. 2. Qi Gong This one seems to come out of the mist. Plucked strings again and a dreamy background texture. Floating out of all this is a beautiful voice (by Keiku if anyone cares to know). A fat baseline perfectly compliments this voice which floats in an out. No words that I can tell just the voice as a proper instrument. It really works well with the beat, bass and strings. This is my Favourite track on the album and one of my top tracks of 2005. I only wish it was longer than nine minutes and 11 seconds. It's the kind of track I could put on repeat and listen to over and over. 3. Chinese Radio (Beijing Taxi Version) The start of this one kinds of breaks the mood just set by Qi Gong with static and a very prominent if laid back semi melody which continues through the track. Its a little quicker than the other two but after the slightly disturbing start it settles into a nice laid back track. Nice bassline and use of strings again, this one really does fell like being on the streets of Beijing. A nice Chinese flute is used but it's nice and subtle and not over used. Slightly out of place is an English sample repeating "reality, perception" but it's probably there to represent the amount of English you will find around asia. Nice track non the less but I'd take out that sample if I could. 4 Marine Drive This track is more technical sounding but still with a mystic air. Some backwards beats and drawn out computer like sounds, remind that the music is electronic but there are a lot of more natural sounds hidden in the background if you care to listen. There is another English sample "let it flow in slowly.... and out slowly" which sounds more at home in this one than the last. This is a nice track but the progression isn't as good as the previous 3 and it's maybe a minute too long for my taste. 5 Spacefunk Starts kind of tribal like with the beat but the other sounds used are more space aged. As the name suggests it's more funky than the previous tracks and it's busier too. I nice relaxed bassline leads into a more sporadic but deeper one. The beats get more complicated and all the dreaminess of the first few tracks is stepped into a more lucid dream. It's still quite floaty and nice but seems more intense and closer to the mind rather that the soul. Very nice subtle guitar hides behind it all towards the end. It's tribal, it's spacey. Space Tribe should have made music like this to live up to his name. 6. Skin as Soft (Soft as Silk Remix) Original track is on Makyo's album Swara Mandala but this remix fits in better with this album than the original would have, it's a little more colourful. The beat and the bass are a little faster like the last one but there are some nice vocals by Nona Kalra. They seem both prominent and background at the same time which gives them a mystical kind of quality. Once again the progression on this track is really nice. It's very patient. It doesn't try to do too much at once but waits for the right time to introduce each new element. By the end of the track it's sounding wonderful, could have been longer IMO. 7. Lava An even funkier bass line than Spacefunk. This track is instantly enjoyable. In the background in the beginning there is a sound like children playing. Cool beats underlie the bassline and although it's funky it's dreamy too. Some beautiful subtle melodies are played alongside the baseline and once again the progression of the track keeps it fresh throughout. 8 Shimmer (Liquid Lounge Version) Starts off shimmering, slow shimmering synths and soft drawn out beats a repetitive baseline and some bubbly sounds make way for clearer beats, the baseline recedes somewhat and a computerised voice floats in and out. I think it just says a long drawn out "I-----" This leads into more shimmering synths and strings and some cool watery beats. This is a very well named song and a great end to what I think is a great album. So to sum up, this is a really nice release. It's floaty and dreamy. The beats are really good throughout and each song's progression is patient. It never tries to do too much and so does so much more than some albums that try too hard. If you are a Dakini fan you will love this. If your not you might still love it. Because each song has a slow patient progression you might not like it from just hearing samples but I would recommend taking a risk if you like floating dream chill out music. My Favourites 1, 2!, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

Yes please do give us more information with an album but please don't rerelease your stuff with a new booklet and expect us to jump around and shout yippee!!

I have to agree on the subtle nuances. I first got into trance when I got dragonfly's project II trance around 93/94 and I loved it instantly. Then around 2001 I got planet ben's silver. I thought it was shit, but that was just because I didn't really listen to it and it sounded repetitive and boring. A few months later though I give it another try and this time I really listen to it. It was fucking fantastic, all the little things I just didn't notice the 1st time. even now when I listen to minimal or progressive I have to really Listen closely to fully appreciate it. I always think people who slag it off just haven't properly listened to it.

I think hallucinogen's best work was Shamanix. I must admit that I'm guilty of buying popular music. When khetzal won the poll for best album last year, I'd never heard of it. So I bought it to what all the hubub was about. It turned out to be a decent album but nothing special.

Gus Till - electric oceans interesting story based chill album it's fucking cold here. It was 20 degrees last week and 1 degree today. Thats just cruel, I though spring was on it's way but it took one look at me and crawled back into it's hole.

Various Artists JP Noir BPF Records Released August 2004 Tracklist 1. Charm - Dynamo Theory 7:06 2. KURO - Dracula 2000 6:27 3. Clade - Inclusion 7:08 4. Yamabikaya - Bingo! 8:40 5. Yamabikaya & DJ Bin - Paradox 7:51 6. Clutch - Set 7:12 7. Aze & Clutch - Azeton 6:46 8. Sativa - Clean Machine 7:02 1. Charm - Dynamo Theory It's dark, it's got a pulsating rhythm that never lets up and layers upon layers of sounds. I can here so much going on in the background, lots of little noises that I can barely make out and feel like they are coming out of nowhere. Good opening track sets a good tone for the rest of the album. 2. KURO - Dracula 2000 I love this guy, his tracks on the old flying rhino comps were fantastic and he doesn't disappoint here. More floaty at the start than the opening track but just as driven. Nice ethereal sounds mixed in with more Hi Tec industrial noises. Really intelligent beats do wonders for a track and thats what this has. Nice. 3. Clade - Inclusion This one has a similar feel as the last track but in Sci Fi. The sounds sound like they are coming from inside a spaceship with loads of crazy acid munching aliens aboard. 4. Yamabikaya - Bingo! Bit faster now, this track seems to BOING!! I feel like I'm bouncing on a pogo stick at night. Electric guitar noises in the background early on but they're subtle, short and don't hang around long. Kind of like this track. It's the kind of track that sounds the same all the way through if you're not listening properly but give it a thorough listen and you'll hear that it progresses very nicely. 5. Yamabikaya & DJ Bin - Paradox Back to Sci Fi now. Very computery noises accompany by the sort of sounds you might here in Sci Fi horror like Alien. I'm sure something's scuttling around and when the computer that sounds like it's dying, dies and the lights go off, somethings going to rip my throat out. A computerised voice seems to be saying something like "what was that?" and shit love what is it? 6. Clutch - Set A bit harder here from the start. The beats heavier and it sounds more industrial. The sort of track that invokes images of something being processed in a big machine. A different process at every turn but they all follow on from one another really well. 7. Aze & Clutch - Azeton Lighter now and sounds like telecommunications. A ringing sound precedes a muffled phone conversation in Japanese and whooshing sounds like a high speed connection. Electric guitar sounds are a little over used in the middle of the track for my liking but they don't ruin the track. Lots of nice little background sounds (you hear more of them if you listen on headphones) keep it interesting. 8. Sativa - Clean Machine The funkiest track on the album, nice baseline and lots of techy sounds in it. Has a really nice synth all the way through it that sounds like the movie Lawnmower Man when the virtual reality machine is ripped off line. Sounds a lot different from the other tracks but it also fits in nicely to the comp as a whole. So to sum up I think this is a really good compilation album. It's quite dark and Futuristic. Feels like a party a strange alien spaceship and your all invited. It's one of those albums that really needs to be listened to, better if you have some good headphones. Mine only gripes would be that at under an hour long it's a bit too short. I highly recommend this release. Favourites 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7

I went to Camden Market in London a While back and they had a store that was pretty close to all psy trance. It was called psychedelic dream temple or something like that. All trance and ambient but maybe a bit of reggae too. But there were other place in camden with decent stuff but you did have to search through a lot of crap.

OTT - Blumenkraft

But will you buy the boxed set just to get said leaflet? I do enjoy more information with my purchase but for me its the music that counts not the packaging.

I loved both the pleiadian's albums, not actually listened to much crop circles (didn't know it was the same team) and a lot of etnica stuff is quite bad. so.... PLEIADIANS

Makyo - Clarity (Melting Snow Mix)

Anyone that would be interested in the boxset probably has all 3 albums and so this is just a rip off. A blatant attempt to make money without delivering a product. The bonus CD will probably be pretty weak and who really wants a leaflet? Don't think I'll be getting this.

TIP has definately gone downhill but they can still surprise you. The Melovskys album on TIP NEW WORLD is quite good. Not sure about this comp though, looks boring.

Green Nuns of the Revolution - Atomic Armadillo "They have no word for fluffy!"

The back streets of tokyo. If you are prepared to spend hours rooting through mounds of crappy records and CDs you'll often find some great rarities!

Classic is something that has lasted. If years on you still love something then YOU should consider it a classic. If its still widely popular years on then its undoubtedly classic. Your opinion doesn't come into it. Mozart, classic yes? Elvis, classic yes? But who the fuck do you know who still listens to the spice girls? They sold a lot of records but their fans soon forgot them. In psytrance I still listen to Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom, Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh, Jaia - Blue Energy a lot so in my opinion these are classic. People are always talking about Hallucinogen, pleiadians and Shpongle so I reckon if they're still popular they are the closest to classic we have. Time will tell. I think an album needs time to be classic, who knows how it'll age. There is loads of stuff I used to love but now think is ordinary. I here "Is this a classic in the making" or similiar phrases. Only time will tell

Slum - Sneak, Beneath My Notice

Went to a club years ago when the beat got upto 360 bpm. That was fucking nuts. No idea what the tune was called but I think the DJ was Loftgroover. Don't know how fast music will get in psy trance, but if it's still good I don't mind.

oh! and how could I forget Savage Scream

Japan KURO Charm Clutch Yamabikawa Clade Makyo Masa

Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh and soon everyone at work will have to listen to it too. hahahahaaa they don't like good music. some biatch brought in avril lavign, usher and other such horrors. It was banned though TF

Orbital - Diversions Quality through and through