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  1. CD ordered and also the new Joujouka single!

    Very nice compliation thanks a lot :)! Except track 1 everything is unreleased old school material from the artists, am I correct? (the Masa track seems to have been released in parallel in a longer version on the Son ov a Seed Album)

     

    The Graham Wood tracks are both very interesting - Seems like both have been produced around the time the TIP - Feeling weird Album was made?

  2. I'd say that Electra simply is very unique in terms of style and composition - I always think it would've been the perfect soundtrack for "the big bang" (not the sitcom of course :)).

    - Complete layer madness, a dramatic sound arrangement cumulating in a heavy climax! - When I heared it for the first time long ago, it was almost too much for me, but after some listens I got its full beauty.

    As already mentioned, there are still some other "high power" tracks out there but they all follow another direction (closest IMHO also would be "Howling at the moon", but this is more total acid insanity - which also deserves a big :wub:).

  3. Strange...I get loads of "suspicious position" errors on the last tracks of CD1 and CD3 - not just one or two but hundreds of them. However, the output files sounded perfectly fine on a quick listen with no audible skips or other artifacts. Maybe I should compare them against the official FLACs to see if anything really breaks. These aren't even particularly long CDs so that shouldn't be the reason.

     

    Does that pressing plant suck or what? I've got assorted errors on MR1, Live in Athens, and now this, all brand new and sealed. It shouldn't be that hard to produce a fully functional CD. It's a bit sad if download versions become a necessity to circumvent pressing errors.

     

    I think at least Analog Dreams, MR2, and all singles have been fine, though.

    I have played the CDs on various systems already and they all work perfectly. With EAC I did not get any errors when converting them to mp3s.

  4. Haha.. I second that, need to find some (very) old school experts! It's pretty damn awesome nonetheless!!! :D

     

    so far I only know:

     

    Koxbox - Pipfugl (min 12-19)

    Not sure if anyone is still interested in the tracklist of Yuta's mix CD, however, here are two more tracks:

     

    Track 7: Shiva Chandra - Libellula (Vinyl-only release)

    Track 8: Noma - Goons

     

    Both are tunes from the "transition phase" of classic goatrance to progressive trance - especially the Shiva Chandra track was way ahead of its time (1997!) & is a very unique tune (I feel it even has some detroit techno vibes).

     

    Regarding the rest I still need to look further when I find time, although I am sure that I have some of them in my collection (...they keep hiding from me :ph34r:) .

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  5. Celaripo, if you only knew how many top producers never released anything or very little, you'd be surprised. It's bizarre. I will do my best to release more top notch goa trance, I have a very long list of tracks i want to release that were never heard before, and thanks to the support of all the goa trancers out there, it might be possible.

    Mantis - The Mother Hive is a nice track, but I have better stuff to release :)

    Thanks for the feefback!

     

    If there is any chance someday to release some tracks from Interstellar Overdrive, well... this day should become national holiday :-)

  6. Reverse applies as well here - I don't understand this "I buy digital" logic, because I don't get anything tangible for my money... Yes, I'm old school. Or plain 'old' :)

    Same goes for me - still need my CD or Vinyl wrapped with a nice sleeve artwork. I am already too old to just have everything "in the cloud" ;)

     

    However, I could also live with CDRs (though CDs of course preferred), so Nervasystem 3 + 4 CDRs have been totally fine for me :-)

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  7. Substrata is definitely an outstanding, very unique album - still amazes me everytime I hear it.

    Autour de la lune is more a "drone experience"; very great & powerful in the right setting and mood (it helped me through a lot of night shifts during studies - use good headphones to enjoy the deeeeep basses :-))

  8. They are truly the Gods of Goa. They were ahead of their time. I mean Electra is 18 years old and to this day none track Goa or not has much its complexity and power.

     

    FOL is also vastly underrated because IMO it was the next step in Goa trance. It's the first and only album that took Goa to level 2. Unfortunately no one followed...

    Yesss +1! - Listening to Electra still is like experiencing an unfolding Supernova :-)

     

    FOL has a lot of great tracks to offer, Headspin, Modulation and the superb slowtrancer Seven Sisters will always remain among my favourites.

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    it's from 2000, so i slowly get the suspicion that i not only prefer oldschool goa to most newer psytrance, but also prefer oldschool techno to more modern variants ;)

     

     

    Yes, I also - in general - prefer techno released in the late 90s until begin of 2000s. More driving and less minimal than nowadays and tons of top-notch producers around (Beyer, Krome, Stoll, Parisio, Mills, Lekebusch, etc, etc)!

    However, I have to say I did not follow the techno scene for quite some years any more, maybe it is getting also more "oldschoolish" again?

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