Paul Eye

That's a 2016 release.

On a side note, it's kinda funny how basically all psytrance with Michele Adamson singing is crap, and all downtempo with her singing is great :DD (with perhaps a few exceptions)

Okay, different interpretations of cheese. The singing doesn't bother me at all :)

They're also responsible for the best non-cheese fullon track ever made (I might have posted this before somewhere but I absolutely adore this one)

This: Not bad if you ask me. Keeps enough of the elements and atmosphere of the original, and doesn't turn into a cheesefest at any point :)

There's definitely something wrong if you can hear a difference between 2 lossless formats. The audio data in a FLAC is bitwise 100% identical to the WAV it was encoded from.

18 years old me would probably have disliked Cryptic Crunch back in 1999. 37 years old me thinks it's a fantastic album. RIP dude, I remember I had a briefly strange encounter with him on some Finnish festival some years ago... Yeah, Hux Flux doesn't get much better than this (and yes, I prefer this over the original version). Or this: Illuminus is nice too, btw

If their upcoming material is anything like this, I'll be at least a bit interested

There's already a thread on this: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/74310-subconsciousmind-symphonies-of-life-ektoplazm/

I saw the words "Cybered" and "techtrance" and thought to myself, "oh nice, this should be good". Well, it wasn't, especially with a lineup like that. More like mind numbingly boring, and what's this silly attempt at creating yet another psy micro genre? "Psydeeptrance", yeah, that sounds just fantastic doesn't it?

Yeah, I've seen the full live 4 or 5 times since Ozora 2009, and it's been getting progressively worse every time, with Boom 2014 being not much more than a joke; you could clearly see that the musicians on stage had no fucking idea what the others were doing and over all the whole gig just sounded like shit. I remember Ben Watkins stating somewhere that he "doesn't believe in rehearsing". Well that was more than apparent there. I'll stick to listening to the albums instead.

For this year's 420 Gathering I asked a friend of mine to play a B2B set with me, this is what we ended up with: an epic set with a bit over 4 hours of mishmashed downtempo Oh, and this one was recorded live at the event. Tracklist: Iacchus - Legion Synesthesics - Malfunction Easily Embarrassed - The Old Ways Nibana - Andaran Athish'an Tentura - Vivid Shpongle - Star Shpongled Banner (Brothomstates Remix) Cardamohm - A Seed (4bstr4ck3r Remix) Argaman - Honey I'm Home KiloWatts - Azure Vlastur & Thos Grol - @ Sophia's Home NSE vs EMS - Anti Spiral Ozric Tentacles - Sploosh! (Youth & Simon's Hydrophonic Decimation) Supersillyus - Interabang (Radioactive Sandwich Remix) M.E.E.O. - Cooper In The Woods Tentura vs Zymosis - Unity Of Cultures Umberloid - Neon Tetra Slackbaba - Perverting Mankind Toires - Menara (Arketype Project Remix) Ott - Mr. Balloon Hands Globular - LUCA Unfolding Scion - Ride Easily Embarrassed - Sylphesizer Zymosis - Make A Wish Naturelement - The Clocks Went Back In Time Easily Embarrassed - Little Match Sister Shpongle - ...And The Day Turned To Fright (Eat Static Remix) Shulman - Invention Bluetech - Laika Kaya Project - Vijaya (Bluetech Remix) Kurbeats - Phony Pony Suduaya - Over The Edge Radioactive Sandwich - Bhagwan Slackbaba - From The Ashes Synesthesics - Raptore Nimba - Nimba (The Offering Of Rice) Shpongle - Around The World In A Tea Daze Shpongle - Flute Fruit

They're not exactly obvious (I didn't even know that).

Inappropriate melodies? Maybe not, but sleazy lyrics and porn samples? Not my cup of tea. If you're going to use porn samples at least do it well, like this:

I don't listen to much techno but the Digital Family compilations have always been nice