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Nice review! Wasn't there, but definetely fun to hear some of the highlights! Wonder what went wrong during the James Monroe set, cause the concept sounds cool...was it the execution, or just a horrible choice of tracks? :/

Always enjoyed what this dude brought to the table, pretty straightforward melodies and pumping kickdrums, so yeah, I'll probably dig this!

Definetely my favorite as well, have been slipping it in my own sets over the last few months to hammer down the dancefloor!

Released!!! Updated initial post!

You won't be proven wrong since you have never liked the style in the first place. Don't know what you're expecting...

RELEASED! Buy it here: http://www.beatspace.com/10175/Sita+Records/AGRABAH/Pharaohs+Of+The+Galaxy/detail.aspx Or digitally: https://beatspacesita.bandcamp.com/album/pharaohs-of-the-galaxy-sitarcd014 Nitzhogoa in the style of Goalien, mostly... dancefloor-tested and approved in the outskirts of the israeli desert! :-) 1. Visitors 2. Pharaohs Of The Galaxy 3. Endless Sunshine 4. The Freeman 5. Destination Moon 6. Schrödinger's Camel 7. A Tale Of Blue And Orange 8. Inside The Magic Lamp (feat. Rayavana) 9. Cyclamen Full tracks on youtube here:

He DOES play livesets, but limits himself to the ones in his home country (Poland). For sets outside of Poland, you can book DJ Inada from Belgium, who plays DJ sets under the "Artha" name, consisting out of Artha material (with the consent of the real Artha) (that's a lot of Artha in one sentence).

Yup, heard it as well on ASOT a few weeks ago. Psy is literally gonna be THE hype in EDM for 2017-2018, as it seems. The 'regular' trance & EDM producers that are jumping the psy-bandwagon are everywhere. That's not all, even hardstyle producers are raving about psy since the end of 2016. Read: http://www.hardnews.nl/en/psytrance-the-newest-hype-within-the-hardstyle-scene/ This is what's going on. It's for real. And yeah, Vini Vici is the main reason, as far as I can tell his remix to Highlight Tribe really caused a huge ripple in mainstream EDM land. Amazing how hypes work, actually.

Yeahhh mate, Nitzho all the way listen to that big tracker-lead brought up there For something with the same VST's, same lead-sounds and same-ish scale, check this out, it's also "morning-Nitzho" however a lot slower (4th minute and further): Edit: the track is obviously not from Psycholoop as it has nothing to do with their style but from an unknown artist...the CD just messed up the tracktitles hence why it's called Psycholoop. My best guess is that it's a tune by Sadistic (https://www.discogs.com/artist/242148-Sadistic).

Always been a sucker for the mid-late nineties psybreak style, thanks for pointing this one out!

I prefer daytime parties! During the night I wanna sleep so I got all my energy left to party during the day while the sun is out, it's warm and I feel fresh and energized, hence I'll always be in favor of putting the best names during daytime... but this is definetely up to personal preference!

The word cheesy has become a "basket" word that is basically an easy excuse for folks with a self-acclaimed exquisite taste to condemn music that they don't like without having to further solidify their claims as to why they think it's bad music (it often boils down to taste and nothing else). Negative criticism is great. This forum lacks a lot of negative criticism, especially regarding (old) Goa Trance. But when it comes to these kinds of melodic fullon, every discussion is shut down by simply referring to it as "cheesy". Those kind of basket-words suffocate any real discussion. Edit: of course this is just my opinion, which I expressed as a PS in my last message...didn't wanna make a discussion out of it... : p

I love this stuff! In your face melodies, good harmonies and power... Moarrrrr Ananda Shake please!!! PS: Recursion Loop I think most of your examples aren't even extreme enough! PS2: can we for once and all agree on leaving the word "cheesy" behind? It has such a negative connotation

Wow wow wow the harsh comments some of you guys are putting out here...tainted souls, dicks, etc... Let's get this straight guys, you just don't like their music. Doesn't make their music bad and doesn't make them bad guys.

Melody after the 5:55 minute mark, that's a killer! Good job!

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Not visiting/ interacting frequently enough here to really have in-depth knowledge on the matter, but to be honest, SixZeroFou4, 75% of the times I see a post of yours, you're complaining about haters I dunno, I feel like your hate towards the Psynews-haters is more visible than the so-called hate of the Psynews-haters towards Psynews :p Just a little observation, I might be wrong...no need to take it too seriously anyway

Instabuy for me, Virtuart is one of my fav oldschool artists around!

I've noticed that as well actually, although I'm not very familiar with post-2010 trance (except for some stuff like Simon O'Shine etc. and the occasional ASOT show check).

I agree of course, however the kick/bass is undoubtly inspired on mainstream Prog-Psytrance (such as Undercover, Vini Vici, Blastoyz, etc...). Seems like that "lowest common denominator" is now finding its way in mainstream EDM productions, with mainstream EDM artists referring explicitly to the "Psytrance"-genre (see the title of the track).That's - according to my knowledge - a pretty new evolution. A lot of the other stuff that's been posted here is of course true but seems to be more generally referring to the underground - mainstream status-debate of the actual Psy and Goa-scene. Wasn't necessarily a discussion I intended to start, since it's a recurring topic in a lot of posts, but hey, why not!

I think it's still quite a leap from EDM mainstream festivals like Ultra or Tomorrowland with newspaper/TV/magazine/radio coverage to an "authentic" Psytrance festivals such as Ozora and the likes. Yes, those Psy fests also thrive on money, publicity, etc. but imho it's still very different from the 'real' commercial deal. Note that I'm not taking sides here (not deploring nor defending these developments), just observing

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I guess this must be a side effect of the Vini Vici hype that took over the Trance world by storm earlier this year. (the psytrance kbb is happening around 2:30) And there's this video from his set (note that it's not a Psytrance fest, just a regular EDM fest, that's the biggest difference with the Vini Vici hype which was still somewhat confined within Trance borders): https://www.facebook.com/timmytrumpet/videos/10154169629775943/ According to DJ mag top 100 he's the number 75 most popular DJ. On a sidenote, that's one funny artistname

Just realised the link to the interview in my initial post doesn't seem to work...here's the right one: http://www.spacesynth.net/interview/huibschippers... anyhow, just here to answer the question "who are we". It seems the interviewee was not only talking about himself but also his generation of electronic musicians and their endeavor to reach "hardness and coldness" with electronic sounds, "but always in vain" (quoting here), since, I assume, technology didn't allow that just yet. I felt this idea strongly connected with my own opinion about electronic music and the main reason I fell in love with it, i.e. the "cold" touch rather than the "warmth" of acoustic music. That's all. For the rest I definetely agree with your points of view and all the other arguments/ ideas that have been expressed in this topic so far

See topic title. This is, in my humble opinion, one of the more peculiar arguments 90ies lovers always bring up with regards to electronic music. I think nobody explained it better than Huib Schippers aka Trilithon, although he was talking about it in the context of 80ies synth music versus contemporary 'newschool' synth music, however the discussion boils down to the exact same thing. "Q: Some people thinks that the music of today doesn't have the same warm feeling as in the 80's, because of the software synths and that the musicians are using too much compression which makes it sound quite cold and hard. What do you think about the result ? A: Cold and warm is just a matter of harmonic content of a sound over time. Making things sound “warm” has always been the realm of uncontrolled processes. We have had a very hard time to finally get to the point that we could control every aspect of a sound over time and now we are longing for the uncontrolled factor in a sound again. I would say it would be wise not to hand over the control to processes that can’t be influenced. Instead I would create “warmness” by generating variations of the parameters you would like to be influenced. Cold and hard is what technology has finally achieved. Why regard it as something that is unwanted. It is the summit of exactness and thereby a statement in itself. A statement we could never make in the 80’s however hard we tried! Hardness and coldness is what we were looking for in the 80’s, but always in vain. What word does not fit in? Space - Technology – Science – Hard – Robotics – Synthetic – Artificial – Warm. I think I know the answer to that one ." (full interview: http://www.spacesynth.net/Interview/HuibSchippers) I put the essential lines in bold, 'cause that is exactly explaining my feeling about it all. I was primarily fascinated by electronic music because it was hard, artificial, alienating, spacey and totally devoid of anything "human" (and I suppose that was actually exactly the point of a lot of electronic music makers, also in the 80ies and 90ies). Therefore, it's actually surprising to see how quite some people nowadays are trying to reach the exact opposite of that by emphasizing how 90ies goa is much 'warmer', how the analog machines had their little flaws which caused unpredictable sound output etc. etc. and which ultimately puts the "human aspect" back in the music, so to speak. But wasn't that what we were trying to get rid off?