abasio

This was released on my 35th birthday and while I have vague memories of this, and I know I own it because of this review....I still cannot find it anywhere in my collection. I feel this is a metaphor for my life at 35, I have strong but vague memories of things but I'll be damned if I can actually remember what happened (for context my daughter would have been just born 2 months after this release, at the same time I was getting demoted at work and taking a huge payout, just in time for my new family member)

One of the last great Ultimate albums A really nice journey that unfolds so nicely with a quiet undistracted listen

This release, for me, is symbolic of the direction Ultimate took, or the direction I took. It sounds good, I like it, but it doesn't grab me. All recently Ultimate releases are like this, either their style just got stale, or I lost the ability to really focus on enjoy it. I still listen to a lot of drone ambient that can grab me, so I feel it's the former, but I hope it's the latter so later, when life calms its tits a bit, I can sit and maybe fully appreciate this and other later Ultimate releases.

Summer finally hit here. After a July of wonderful warm weather in the mid 30s, and having to endure people complain that it's "too hot" and ask them "what are you going to be like when it gets truly hot?" It's ramped up a fair bit now, pushing 40 in many places. I love summer, I can acclimatise, but gotta stay safe and stay hydrated.

Over the years I find a few compilations stand out from the rest Flying Rhino Records Black Rhino Singularity First Flight Third Flight Dragonfly A Voyage in to trance Order Odonata 3 Twisted Unusual Suspects Dementertainment Forgot the label Destination Goa - The First Chapter

You can get this for free on Bandcamp, or pay what you'd like https://anahatamusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-immaculate-perception I remember this being very good, worth a listen and worth buying.

I go this recently too. It's a really good buy. Honestly Seb Taylor is one of the best artists to follow on Bandcamp. He really knows how to sell his stuff. It's all reasonably priced and often comes with mixes and DJ sets included. He has released a lot of these collections and I have gotten them all.

Always loved Dog Days Bliss

@Radish6404so what is the reason you didn't use your old account? Did you forget your password? Isn't their a password recovery system? I'm also curious what you chose your new account name to be Radish, why use a name other users used to mock you with?

Isn't awesome discovering and old classics you never knew existed before?

Bringing Joy to my life Amazing some of the things we remember, and things we just totally forget. I'm listening to Eat Static - Dead Planet now, I wrote a glowing review about it, and forgot all about it. Enjoying rediscovering it. A nice mix of Old Eat Static and full on!

There is a surprising number of classic Goa albums I bet lots of us haven't heard before, just waiting to be (re)discovered. I love all the Trust in Trance albums, but this one is probably the culmination of the series. Recently listened to all 3 in a row. 10/10 would listen again.

Listening to this now, just finished the live set and it's amazing. Very glad that I read through all these reviews and realized I had one of the most amazing releases just not being listened to. No I will listen to it....more often 😉 Tell them you came & saw & looked into my eyes, & saw the shadow of the guard receding Thoughts in time & out of season The hitchhiker stood by the side of the road & levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason (and then a car passes) Why does my mind circle around you Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you All your soft wild promises were words Birds, endlessly in flight Your dog is still lost in the frozen woods or he would run to you How can he run to you Lunging w/blooded sickness on the snow He's still sniffing gates & searching Strangers for your smell which he remembers very well Is there a moon in your window Is madness laughing Can you still run down beach rocks bed below without him? - JIm Morrison

I found it in my CD storage and am listening to it now on nice open back headphones. Really really glad I did

Is it you I have to thank for that Masterpiece? Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had the main album on cassette but the CD had so much more and it is still in heavy rotation at Casa De' Basio

Trust In Trance is also my favourite. Love the more raw sounding stuff from them 💕

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