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  1. Nice review from Antic! - I think this perfectly sums it all up.

     

    As stated above the tracks are all very organic and dont't follow the typical structures, at least not very obviously. A lot of fresh new sound creations and great attention to detail have made me listen a lot to this album. - All in all it provides a very deep psychedelic journey to the listener!

     

    So far this in one of my favourite albums in 2015, very happy to hear there are still artists that try out new paths and provide progression to the scene- However, this is definitely not typical goa trance, so better just summarize it more broadly under "psychedlic music".

  2. Regarding current releases I find myself much more interested in the Israeli and Japanese scene than in (mainly)European "newschool" sound: The sound is more raw and fresh, a little slower and more technoish.

     

    I think most "newschool" sounds a bit too polished and predictable for me, though there of course are quite some great exceptions (Nervasystem, older E-Mantra + Filteria tunes, etc, etc).

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  3. Somewhere I read the CD release was limited to 200 copies this time. - However I also don't think they've sold all within just 1 month.

     

    Btw.: I lik really like this release, very acidic and nice blend of goa and psytrance elements -> I think that Skizologic gets constantly better. - My favs are Anomaly, Robotized, Fusion 303 and the Nervasystem Remix of the title track. The latter combines sounds and elements of the Nervasystem 4 album so it adds quite some deep mood to it.

  4. I keep coming back listening to this release a lot - This is not the best AP release but still a great one with some really nice remixes. Happy to have the "good old" AP sound back, brings back lots of memories + still demonstrates their exceptional skills in making uplifting trance music :).

     

    AP managed it really well to keep up the spirit of the original tunes (even used some of the original synth sounds) so they seemed to have taken a lot of care during the composing process.

     

    Personal favs are "Mugen" (of course), "LSD" and "Midian".

  5. Uptempo:

    1: V/A - Moon Ritual (Amakusa)
    2: Astral Projection - Goa Classics Remixed (TIP)
    3: V/A - Analog Dreams (DAT)
    4: Psysutra ‎– Gamma Phoenicis (Cronomi Records)
    5: V/A - Three Ohm Three (Anjuna)
    6: Shakta - Retroscape (Suntrip)
    7: Moonweed - Voices of Jupiter (Anjuna)
    8: V/A - Flight 604 Chapter II (Zion 604)
    9: Virtuart – Sacred Drop EP (DAT)
    10: VA - Ten Spins Around The Sun (Suntrip Records)

  6. Personally I like the cover, and the music for that matter. I am very glad you guys decided to release a VA that doesn't necessarily contain killer old school tracks, but also some tracks that are valuable from a musical-historical point of view. This makes it very interesting.

     

    Needless to say, it still includes some monstermonstertracks like the Doof, Slinky Wizard and GNOTR tracks. Ring of Fire will always be one of the absolute classics in my book, and still causes spontaneous freak-out-ism inside my skull.

     

    Fully agree, I enjoy these more raw, less "over-stuffed" versions a lot, especially the darker, more percussive version of Funkus Munkus!

     

    And I love the green tray, really an eye-catcher :-)

     

    Btw.: The Etnica track is very interesting IMO, sounds like a first draft for their famous, hard-to-get Pleiadians - "Pleiadians" track. Though much slower, some different sounds and less powerful, the hihat sections and some of the sequences played are almost the same.

  7. Haven't listened to much of techno... but example this:

     

     

    Can't be boring :o

     

    Yeah, that's one of the great classics from Umek which rocked the dancefloors around 2000s - remember me dancing to this on many festivals at that time :-)

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