Paul Eye

Well I honestly fail to see how this is either goa or ambient. The original track is pure psychedelic/space rock, and this remix is quite faithful to the original with some added tweaks.

You mean this one? Discogs

When did you see him play? He was in Helsinki last march and he seemed quite into it when playing. Maybe I just didn't notice him smoking and going on and off the stage...

Was in my top 10 aswell. Nice oldschool vibes

Maybe my dancing/jamming on stage is basically because I like to play sets that I'd like to hear myself on the dancefloor, not because I'd seek attention, or because I'd have any urge to be a showman (actually, most of the time I plain and simply HATE being on stage, and lately it seems I suffer from more and more stage fright...). If someone catches on to that energy, good. But I know that many people go into themselves on the dancefloor (I do that too) so I'm not deliberately asking for reactions to what I do. I still need to work on my skills in reading the audience though...

Finnish (native) Swedish (native, although used less and less these days) English I know some Japanese, German and French but not on a level I'd call "being able to communicate"

Then I have to suggest Harax - Inly. I don't think there's one single acoustic instrument on the entire album. Beautiful music.

Or darkpsy.

Dance like nobody's watching. Old but gold.

Zeta Reticuli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3aAacL_hV0 Much much better than the Lazy Spiral Remix which is just too harsh to my ears. This on the other hand is smooooth and hits me in just the right spot.

Yep, one of the nicest downtempo/psybient/whatever albums in recent memory.

The honking is what really got on my nerves most of the time in India. I mean, in a huge city like Delhi and with the driving attitude of the people there it's kinda understandable, but in smaller places with very little traffic I think they're honking at you just because you happen to be a westerner. Or do they really think I'll be jumping in front of their car from across the road?

We didn't run into any particular trouble.

I found "Music Has The Right To Children" at a flea market for a ridiculously cheap price I think last year and it's kind of an OK album, but at times even a little bit pretentious. Favourites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcvG9BEZaGM How are their other albums? More of the same or something completely different? Kid For Today was nice, Nlogax is crap.

Well it's not really party season in Goa anymore, most of the better parties seem to be between about mid-january and mid-march give or take a few weeks in both ends. I was there (Chapora, Vagator, Anjuna) in december and all the parties were just mindnumbingly monotonous darkpsy with no melodies and some random but equally monotonous prog thrown into the mix. But yeah, what I hear from people is that Goa is as good as dead these days. Don't expect to hear any oldschool or even newschool goa anywhere, unless you happen to be lucky and in the right place at the right time And where in central India will you be anyway? Keep in mind that travelling in India at least by bus or train isn't exactly the fastest way of getting from one place to another (especially if you need to change trains or buses somewhere and the timetables leave huge gaps of loitering in the middle of nowhere). So if you're unlucky you'll need 2 days to go back and forth (unless you can continue from Goa to whereever you're going). And what do people do there? Spend time, in any which way they feel like.

Well to be completely honest, Etnica was never really THE bomb for me. There's something odd about their sound and melodies that doesn't always go in sync with me. Difficult to explain actually as it's a matter of personal taste. I mean, I'm not saying that they're crap by any means, but still not something I'd label best goa trance group ever either. Or maybe I just found them too late; my CD shopping 15 years ago was incredibly random and looking back, at times rather ill-judged so I missed lots of classics simply because I had no fucking clue which ones to pick from the hundreds of CDs available at those few local shops that sold GOA PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE (remember those stickers?). I bought Alien Protein in 2006 I think on a whim, a few years before my grand goa trance reawakening, so it got kind of lost in the sea of downtempo I'd immersed myself in after getting pissed off at the direction psytrance had taken around the turn of the millennium. I got Equator in 2011 it seems. Only a few months ago I finally managed to add the Pleiadians albums to my collection and those are good indeed (apart from Seven Sisters which is rather generic fullon, but a collector like me has to have them all..). So yeah, these things happen.

5. 100th Monkey - Spiritus ( Unreleased Mix ) | 1995 , Unreleased !!!

History

If he gets his ideas down better through Shpongle or anything not Hallucinogen then let him do it. I've never even expected there to be a 3rd Hallucinogen album anyway. There's no way he can top The Lone Deranger.

So a MIDI keyboard and a suitable mood is all you need to sound like Hallucinogen? Nah, I tried that a few years ago, doesn't work. Not that I tried to sound like someone in particular. I made my best (and practically only, mind you) tracks 15 years ago in highschool on a shitty computer and some more or less shitty samples using a free tracker software, my computer keyboard and my brain. Don't blame your tools. And to sound like Simon you need to be Simon, and have access to his studio, which clearly is a natural benefit of being Simon.

Who the fuck buys mp3s? If I pay for it it must be lossless. No exceptions.

In a DJ mix too? (not meaning to go offtopic here...)

Here we go, this was a tough one: Psynews Contest 1. Lapsus - Normality 2. Veracohr - Taste Of Life 3. Paul Eye & Olisan - Daikaisho 4. PhonoPhora - Phunnel v1.1 5. Deerob - Rusty Lips 6. Saluberrimae - Fl0ating 7. Dragon Twins - Kess Killya?! 8. Superoxide - Psy Kids 9. Exelization - Neurotrip 10. Radioactive Sandwich - Sound Vibration Technique

Count me into that core of people

Discogs for the oldschool stuff. Online shops for the new releases I need to get. Directly from labels what I can't get any other way, or if that's the more sensible option. Bandcamp for digital downloads. Beatport can go fuck itself with their ridiculous extra 1€ per track "WAV handling fees". Sometimes I hit the local record stores for anything else than goa/psy and flea markets for random cheap oddities.