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  1. If the previous track was a bit of a disaster, this one is a huge step up on pretty much all levels. Finished about 2 weeks after the previous track, this is definitely the breaking point in the evolution of my tracks. Still very much influenced by Transwave's album Helium, but at the same time throwing lots of my own ideas into the mix. Also, at 150 BPM, this is the fastest track in the collection.

     

  2. Next up, track 4. This one was finished in early October 1998, and I have to say that personally, I don't like this one at all and I almost left it off the collection. Definitely influenced by Transwave's album Helium (the first goa trance album I bought, apparently around the end of September 1998), I guess this was meant to be nothing more than a quick experiment. It didn't even have a title until I had to think of something for this collection (and naming it "untitled" would have been just meh). It does feature a little gimmick in that the kick (and by extension, the entire rhythm section) is on the offbeat, if it seems to you that there's something a bit off about this one. File this under "growing pains", there's much better material coming up :)

     

  3. Next up, track 3. This one is also from September 1998, and was finished just a day after the previous track (so I've probably been working on these somewhat simultaneously). It's very much a twin sister to the previous one in theme and structure. If you're wondering about the peculiar title, to quote Wikipedia it "is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish, and one of the brightest stars in the night sky". If you'd ask me where I found the name of this star, the only answer I can give is "I have absolutely no idea".

     

  4. Well well, it's time to open the history books. After literally years of procrastination and general uncertainty on my part, I'll finally be releasing a collection of my old Impulse Tracker tracks from way back in 1998/1999 later this spring. This one is the opening track, and it was actually made in December 2000 as a bit of a "retro" throwback to early 1998 (is at least my best guess at the reason why I made this one in the first place).
    The track is quite a laidback and straightforward intro for the collection, running at a moderate 130 BPM. I won't bore you here with the technical hoops I had to jump through to actually get the video and audio done in a way that I was satisfied with, but there's a geeky technical rundown in the video description you can read if you're interested.
    I'll be posting these videos once a week, 12 tracks all in all. The whole collection will be on my Bandcamp on May 18.

     

  5. 6 hours ago, Kriestof said:

    i think 2023 was a disappointing  year in psytrance / down tempo

    the new albums of down tempo acts like asura, cbl, aes dana, benji vaughn, .. were all ok, but certainly not as good as their older stuff...nothing really special that contributed somthing new to the genre

    up tempo: only 1 album that i really liked and will still like in 2034, and that was 

    morphic resonance - extrasensory perception

    the acid lines! the dark sound! the vibe! (= lets go motherfuckers! party time!) the rawness and pureness of his sound

     

    I kinda agree here. Nothing really special on the downtempo side of things (or maybe I just missed all the really good ones). I have to say especially the new CBL was pretty underwhelming.

    Now for the Morphic Resonance album, I kinda like it, but I just feel his sound got a bit too sparkly, even if the aggressiveness is still there. On the other hand, the Triquetra album is grit and dirt done absolutely right. It'll definitely be among my favourite goa trance albums from this decade.

  6. I didn't even get enough 2023 goa trance to fill a top 10 list lol. So this doesn't mean that I'd have fully enjoyed all of these.
    The downtempo list is also a top 10 only because that's basically all the 2023 released downtempo I got.
    Most of the music I got last year was something else.

    Uptempo:
    1. Triquetra - Myriad Vision - Suntrip Records
    2. Proxeeus - Weep From W
    ithin - Goa Madness Records
    3. Xenomorph - Negative Time - Suntrip Records
    4. Prana - Sense Of Unity - Matsuri Digital

    5. Profetia - Divergent Species - Self Released
    6. Morphic Resonance - Extrasensory Perception - Suntrip Records
    7. Triquetra - Access Denied - Suntrip Records
    8. Ephedra - Deep Nothingness EP - Goa Madness Records
    9. Veasna - Providence - Goa Madness Records

    Downtempo: (not in order yet)
    1. Children Of The Bong - (Not Sirius) - Disco Gecko
    2. Asura - Renaissance - N.L.E. Records
    3. Sundial Aeon - Regenesis - Impact Studio Records
    4. Seb Taylor - Collected Downtempo Vol. 5 - Tribal Shift Records
    5. Proxeeus - Cydathria EP - La Transe Insoumise
    6. Benji Vaughan - Eidolon - Twisted Records
    7. VA - Ethneomystica Vol. 11 - Mystic Sound Records
    8. Cosmic Trigger - Forager's Delight - Twisted Records
    9. VA - Save The Children - Ensancha El Alma Records
    10. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Seeker - Leftfield Records

    (added the Xenomorph EP, and assuming single releases are okay here, the Prana single, uptempo almost a top 10 now)

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  7. Here's my downtempo set from the latest Trip To Goa, played on October 6th at Kaivohuone, Helsinki. Features a selection of music mostly with a dub-influenced backbone. Not much ambient parts here, since my time slot was 23-00. This one was recorded live at the event.

    Tracklist:
    Spatialize - Zen In Frankfurt
    Bluetech - Prayers For Rain (Ott Remix)
    Key-G - Curled Up Dimensions (Geoglyph Remix)
    Globular & Geoglyph - Flight Stimulator
    Radioactive Sandwich - Homunculus
    Radioactive Sandwich - Melek Taus (Live Edit)
    Boucle Infinie - Escape (Cartoon Theory Remix)
    Eat Static - Persepolis (Shpongle Static Mix)
    Umberloid - Neon Tetra

     

  8. After quite some silence, and not much gig activity on my part, I was invited to play in Tampere, Finland last weekend. And I have to tell you, that was a blast. I really haven't had this much fun playing a DJ set in years, so this was really what I needed. I played the closing set*, so I set the intensity proper for a closing. Thanks @Penzoline for the invite, I'll come back whenever :)

    *actually we did play a completely improvised back2back set as the actual closing, but as this was decided on location, I treated mine as the closing when picking the tracks.

    Tracklist:
    Hallucinogen - Astral Pancakes
    Triquetra - Escape From The Withered Temple
    Morphic Resonance - Chronos (Hypnoxock Remix)
    Total Eclipse - Absolute Zero
    Veasna - Infrared
    Slinky Nuns - Caught In The Zipper
    Rhythmystec - Plutonica
    Proxeeus - Ephraim Waite
    UX - Chameleon (Pixelmorph Mix Reloaded)
    Pleiadians - Taygeta
    The World Beyond - The Sphere (Ascending Towards Star-Eaters To Become The One)
    Profetia - Chaos Theory

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, Otto Matta said:

    Music is fundamental. It's not about how crystalline our production is. Be angry. Be sad. Be punk. Be something. Don't make it about the technology. Make it about the music.

    Yeah, much of modern goa trance just sounds like fullon in a disguise, not that I really have anything against good fullon anyway. Styles keep merging and shifting, whether we like it or not. In any case, seems like the worst "let's just layer a ton of shit just because we can" mentality has faded, although I do admit that I haven't really been following the scene that much so in a broader sense I have no idea what's going on these days.
    Luckily we still have artist like Proxeeus* and Triquetra who both put out really nice albums this year, not exactly taking the super clean production route to get there. Morphic Resonance of course also released a new album this year, but somehow I think his production got a bit too clean and sparkly.

    * Non-Euclidean Geometry is still one of the best goa trance albums of the past decade and then some, tracks from it keep constantly finding their way into my (although very much fewer these days) DJ sets :)

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  10. On 5/9/2023 at 10:52 PM, Widar said:

    So, I took a quick listen (now that it's out) just to see (hear) if they fixed the "oops the ending of Demention is in mono" mistake, and unfortunately, they didn't. I definitely don't know if even Simon has a version without this error, and yes, I remember him stating somewhere years ago that it actually was a mistake he made when mixing down the tracks.
    I'd be curious to know what was the source audio for this remaster. I don't really know if I can justify to myself paying again for the digital version of these albums as I have the originals (which is the case of several remasters that have popped up in recent years in this remastering trend).

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  11. Continuing on the subject of remixes and Hallucinogen, here's how to COMPLETELY ruin the original track. If anything, this proves that you can't just take whichever track you want, strip out the original kick/bass and replace it with a modern polished fullon bass section and expect it to work. That, and sprinkling in random bits of the original and littering the remix with tired psytrance clichés.
    The original track (referring to part 2) is such an organic entity that trying to pick it apart just ends in failure. I mean, I don't recall hearing one single decent *trance remix so far (Ott's dub version is of course nice). You're welcome to prove me wrong.

     

  12. 16 hours ago, Dolmot said:

    In 2009, Tip Records released a remix of a 1969 Beatles song in some twist of their pseudo-relaunch...

    Oh, so that's the track I've heard Benji play in a few sets of his (can't remember if a Prometheus live or Younger Brother DJ set).

  13. 28 years:

    The Infinity Project - Feeling Weird (1993)

     

    Hypnoxock Remix (2021)

     

    Okay, so Feeling Very Weird came out in 1995 on the TIP Feeling Weird album, but it's pretty much the same track as the 1993 original.

  14. Sandman - Starfinder (1997)

     

    Emok & Martin Vice & Atmos Remix (2017)

     

    Thankfully the remix isn't your typical watered down psyprog remix, but a surprisingly good one. I've played it in a few sets of mine :)

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  15. On 6/24/2023 at 3:17 PM, Padmapani said:

    how do you all find out about new music now? when psynews was more active all important releases were discussed here. i find i'm missing lots of good releases now.

    Well, considering that around 90% of my email inbox traffic is from Bandcamp, there's your answer.

     

    On 6/23/2023 at 10:35 PM, Proxeeus said:

    I'm always lurking 

    On Yuggoth?

     

    But yeah, I check the forums roughly once or twice a week, often less than that too, sometimes more.
    I just feel I don't have much to say anymore.

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  16. 1 hour ago, Tsotsi said:

    You're missing out on the Global Sect VA Liquid Symphony.

    Two great Morphic and Proxeeus tracks but packed with others as well.

    Well, I'm not really sure if I'm "missing out" on anything since I barely even listen to any *trance anymore. I'll support some of my favourite artists of course, but that's as far as I care to go these days.

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