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    Day Time Goa

    in General Psytrance

    Posted · Edited by sidetrakkt
    added a couple songs

    Some music is perfect for the morning, when you've reached that point where the people who have been up all night dancing have hit their second wind and are not ready to stop, and the people who are just waking up have fresh energy, and it all comes together...

    Melodic uplifting music is what I think of... Maybe a little "lighter" but still powerful... Jaia is perfect for morning, old Protoculture when he was still making psy, Delirious Noon, Zorba (especially the track "The Deep"), Vibrasphere, Liquid Soul, etc.... If you are only talking about "Goa" Goa, a lot of melodic Goa sounds better suited to me in the late morning/daytime slot... Of the newer artists, off the top of my head, Somnesia has that "floaty" uplifting quality that suits day much better than night... 

    Space Cat - Kreak is perfect for the morning, and as a contrast for day/night - break out your old Infernal Machine 12" - I would say "The Loin Sleeps Tonight" is better for nighttime, and "Loin King" is a better suited for the day.

    And there is a reason why certain labels, such as Sundance and Suntrip, have "sun" as part of their name!

    My brain is tired, and my collection is not in front of me. I'm sure I can think of other examples later...

    (And some music can sound good in different timeslots, depending on the flow of the party!)

    WHO IS COMING TO SHPONGLES LAST EVER LIVE SHOW??

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Yes, I am referring to full band. 2001 was first full live band performance (although not quite the festival on stage like the newer shows!). They also did a full live band in Israel, and maybe another live show in Japan too... I know there were a few full band shows prior to 2008.

    Here is clip from the 2001 live show: 

    10 hours ago, Paul Eye said:

    I'm sure we all were referring to the full band live :)
    I know Simon and Raj had been doing a few shows as a duo before the 2008 Roundhouse gig.

     

    WHO IS COMING TO SHPONGLES LAST EVER LIVE SHOW??

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Actually the first Shpongle live show was in 2001, at the Solstice Festival at Mount Fuji, Japan...

    They put out a dvd of the festival, with an excerpt of Shpongle's performance: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Solstice-Music-Global-Trance-Festival-2000-2002/release/1302164

     

    On 5/10/2019 at 7:18 PM, Trunksan said:

    So lucky....

    I was at the first ever Shpongle live  (with the band, dancers etc) which was very good but it makes sense that after so many years their show is at a tottaly different level.

     

    On 5/10/2019 at 9:25 PM, Paul Eye said:

    Roundhouse, London in 2008? I was there too. It was a good show, even if it was actually quite weird to see them on stage as a full live band :lol:

     

    On 5/10/2019 at 10:52 PM, psytones said:

    2008 Halloween was the first ever live-show? Really? .. Why only in 2008? If so, I was also there. Was dressed up by a friend as Link. I loved the Juno Reactor djset, and the Darth Vader custome guy. Also handshaked MWNN there:) No wait .. 2009, I was there in 2009. Anyway, 2008, really? 

     

    Imba - First Encounter [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    I don't think cd sales depend on whether you can listen an album online or not. Especially in our music we buy for completely different reasons, are we not?

     

    I use Youtube quite a bit to preview samples before I buy albums. Then I can listen to better flow of the tracks and not just the "awesome raise your hands in the air build up" like on the 45-second online shop samples.

     

    In the past, I've bought cds based on short samples where I've been very disappointed because that turned out to be the only good part of the song, or the song had very awful parts that were not included in the sample. I've also missed out on cds because the short samples were not enough to provide the atmosphere and build-up that was required to appreciate the song or album...

     

    So having the whole album available to listen to online has actually increased my cd purchases, rather than the other way around... I very rarely listen to the whole album online before buying, but listen to lengthy samples at several points. Don't want to spoil my ears for the better quality cd version!

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    Slide - Wild Soul calling EP

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    I understand that it is impossible to know every single band name ever created, let alone every psytrance producer in the history of the world, but surely the original Slide is well known enough that this, uh, "oversight" should have never have happened by the artist or the label. He was pretty involved since the early days and not some one-hit wonder with just one obscure 7" or anything... Pete Martin deserves much more respect than that!!! I suggest you change the name immediately:

     

    Here are some suggestions:

     

    Slip and Slide

    Pslip and Pslyde

    Pslyde and the Family Stoned

    Sly-Ed (since we're stealing names anyway...)

    Remember the Slide

    When I Eat Too Much Chili, It Just SLIDEs Out and Runs Down My Legs!

    See Saw

    Merry Go Round

     

    Or you should give all the royalties directly to Pete, as I suspect many of the downloads will be 100% because they think it is him... It's the only reason I even clicked on this link...

     

     

     

    He already had the name Satori stolen from him a couple years ago too...

    Is it me or Darkpsy isn't really "dark"?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I know these albums wouldn't fit into the Darkpsy TM category, but when I think of "dark" - and I'm talking mood, not stupidly fast bpm or cheesy horror movie samples, these are some examples that come to mind:

    Cydonia - In Fear of a Red Planet
    Semsis - Letting Go

    Menis - Temporary Insanity

    v/a - Kiss the Future (Atomic Records)

    plus other releases from Tim Schuldt, Tortured Brain, some other earlier Atomic Records releases, etc.

    The Alien Jams - Live At The H.R. Giger Museum

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    Yeah, I came back to listening this last weekend and - after some time off - this sounds really awesome! Perhaps I had too high expectations for this in the beginning, but it really holds its own now as a great background music. I'd still appreciate some more variety within the tunes themselves, like some more sophisticated transitions, key-note changes, etc. but what's there is already pretty great. I know the tunes by heart now and love almost all of them, maybe except "Around the bend" which has this dark, menacing atmosphere that somehow doesn't click with me.

     

    I hope Cosmosis comes back with some new music soon - he's been silent since this release in late 2013 and since 2009 for a up-tempo trancey stuff.

    He did a couple collaborations recently with Hypnocoustics. One is on the new TIP comp "Avant Garden" and one is on the new Hypnocoustics album "Transformational Structures."

     

    New Cosmosis is always nice. One of my favorites :)

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