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Commercial music, essentially I'd say, is music that was consciously written and produced with the purpose of appealing to the biggest possible crowd, given the current 'hypes'. That's definetely not what Afgin was trying to do with his Trance output, he simply and wholeheartedly loves this type of music. Complexity, easy-listening, etc. has nothing to do with the question how commercial music is, afaik. Honestly the term is so biased and that's why I'd rather not see it written in the context of this artist. We can discuss about it of course, this is just my honest opinion.

Calling his newer work commercial is completely wrong. Melodic trance in the style of Afgin had a peak around the start of the 00ies but nowadays is way less popular than Psytrance. You're applying definitions of the term 'commercial' as used in 2002, not 2020. Secondly, to answer the OP, he doesn't produce as much anymore, but still plays sets quite often. Last year alone I saw him playing live in Beligum, Spain and Israel.

Ace Ventura is far from the worst example of this kind of minimal drop-infested culture. Go check the average Brazil psytrance-festival video on youtube for a truely horrific experience :p promo-videos posted by artists only feature the drop-points because that's the (only) part where people go wild. Example: Edit: Missing the times where drops were called climaxes.

Thanks to Discogs, this question got a lot easier to answer https://www.discogs.com/style/goa+trance According to the graphic, we're talking about more than 4.500 releases with Goa Trance released in the nineties (which could also mean CD's with only one Goa track, I suppose). Vinyls included. Case dismissed :p

There's a video circulating on FB that allegedly shows him playing on the party a few minutes before he got shot... he was playing his remix on Astral Projection - Let There Be Light

Alienapia plays in parties...will perform in the upcoming Connection festival afaik!

+1 for this topic I enjoy tracks with long teabreaks that build up towards a big momentum!

It's out NOW!!! Updated the first post... enjoy

A 4 EP CD and digital release, and it's out NOW All info here: http://www.beatspace.com/sitarep02-dance-of-the-kirlia.html Listen Previews: Support Shamosis:

This guy took it to the next level

Obvously answer is make meaning so msuc uyes. No yes.

very small scene I believe, mostly in small bars with crowds of 50-100 people max no? That seems to have been the ongoing situation in the greek scene for the last decade, but the fact it's still ongoing proves there's at least some real lovers of the genre around there which is nice.

Isn't this the documentary featuring the infamous "kyklous" dude? :p

New goa/nitzhogoa from our siberian friend Arkadii! Buy it now @ https://beatspacesita.bandcamp.com/album/varvar

Good tracks indeed, powerful melodic isra-goa. A relief to hear a new israeli producer making this style instead of all that boring progoa in the last few years. : p

Out now!!!! Edited the first post with the purchase link and a full lenght youtube rip!

Only recently bumped onto this belgian clubtrance classic from 1996. Can't believe it passed under my radar for so many years... Anyway, yeah..."normal" trance rocks! :))

Wow...he recently passed away, according to facebook. So here's a thread to mourn...

Just to clear things out for anybody (like me) who was in doubt: Nouveau message de : chixen4 (1,499) Hi, yes it's a CD-R. This Album was never released as a factory pressed CD. Picture no.5 already shows the back of the CD Many thanks & best regards

Sita records is proud to present "sands of time", the debut album of belgium based nitzhogoa artist Rayavana! Combining both old and modern sounds with dramatic melodies in a high velocity form, this album has everything for lovers of fast and energetic Nitzhogoa. OUT NOW!!!! Buy it here: http://www.beatspace.com/sitarcd015-sands-of-time.html --- Tracklist: 1 sands of time 2 atomic power 3 flight of yuri gagarin 4 scattered alien remains 5 rayavana's conquest of the holy land 6 chaos theory 7 extracting the mind 8 connected thought patterns 9 tesla's dreams

To make things even more messy, they actually did make a track called Midian remix, which is also definetely a remix of Midian!

Well I beg to differ ...this is exactly the sort of (goa) trance that sticks with me and mind you, i'm a big melody lover. The thing that mr. Castle absolutely nailed for me is the very particular groove and rhythmic aspect he integrates in his tracks, which is often overlooked in a lot of modern 4 on the floor goatrance. Also, his melodies, ideas and fx'es carry a clear "out-of-the-box" stamp and really tingle my senses! Recommended by all means!

What in the world do you mean by "caramel acid"?