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  1. Honestly, it sounds like a short melody he composed himself.
  2. Very little collecting these days... however I was very happy to recently score the Color Box album and today I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Nerve's No Foco cd-maxi for sale on Discogs! It was last sold in 2011. One of the very best releases of the tech-era.
  3. Wanna hear the latest and indeed quite possibly the last of Sab Kuch Milegator project? This one was in the making for 6 months...
  4. Hey-hey. How's it? This is a bit of a large scale topic to tackle but I've been thinking about it every now and then. So the main question is - how's everything changed considering psytrance culture? What do you think? It's obviously a question that's intertwined with our technological/social/human progression. It's difficult to start making an analysis but to get things started... I'm arguing people are in collective terms less focused. This means what we "consume" needs to be easy and fast to digest. Any person needs to make a conscious effort to withhold a long attention span in the age is smart phones and social media. A shorter attention span is not the only thing - if you browse through endless amounts of data (phone/computer...), the creators of this data are in battle to win your attention. Your attention is money, straight and honest. It's views, likes and ad revenue. As you might have noticed, this battle is intense and ugly. It's almost like as if you've suddenly landed in this weird zoo with endless amount of monkeys hitting cymbals together. The loud and obscene run the show. Attention is also a drug like phenomenon, some people crave for it and are willing to take any measure to achieve it. And it certainly has been this way before the invention of internet, but nowadays you can't escape this toxic energy that easily. We're physically less in contact and digitally affected by behavior that we can easily classify sub standard. But isn't it so, that we've actually developed a skill to avoid the negative aspect of internet to some degree? That skill is indifference. People are far more indifferent than before. We just have to ignore a lot of things, because the amount of stimulus has significantly risen in the 10-15 years or so. In global terms the rise of indifference is great for the ones in control. But for the majority, for the planet, for the evolution of mankind... it's toxic. It creates a world of apathy and that's when things get dark when we run out of empathy and hopefulness. Let's see how the aforementioned, in my opinion, affects psytrance culture: 1) Drop of quality / When it's "fast-food" it means you only have to figure out a few things like production standards to achieve the pop-appeal. And sure, there's a place for easily digestible music and it can be fun too. But how about the very opposite? The ruthlessly difficult yet intelligent sound? The reason to do music, the idea behind it, has certainly changed for the worse. The big names are very clinical in their approach and pretty much create the same track over and over again. These days there's more ego & less Soul. 2) Drop of interest / People are less engaged. Less focus means we give each other, not to mention our art, less time and appreciation. We hardly stop to admire a great work even when we hear it. We don't write reviews. Those take time and who cares! Right? That's just the way cookie crumbles these days. 3) No more classics / There's no consensus on what's good and what's not. Just a few single opinions at most. There's no real indicators of quality and popularity these days neither, because views and stardom can be bought. We can all probably agree Hallucinogen's Twisted is a classic yes? But come to talk about anything from the last 10 years I wouldn't know. I couldn't know. 4) Less story-telling albums / ...and more digital singles! Because singles can be released more often therefore staying "active" as an artist/label. Activity is one of the key elements to gaining attention online. A full length album? Yesterday's antics.
  5. Seems they've recently also released expanded editions of Abduction, Implant and Children Of the Bong's Sirius Sounds!
  6. Oopie

    VA - Hoddmine

    Nice to have some feedback... can you imagine I feel the same way as you to a certain extent. It's tragicomical you make a 9 minute track and then think maybe it should've been just a tad longer! In all honesty, the project file for this track got somehow "corrupted" near the completion and I couldn't do any significant changes without crashing the DAW. That's the poor man's outdated, pirated FL studio charm for you.
  7. Oopie

    CD sale

    Condition of the items vg+/nm VA - Zep Tepi 30 Spectral - Celtic Alchemy 11 Shulman - Endless Rhythms Of The Beatless Heart 20 Entheogenic - Entheogenic (couple teeth missing from digipak but holds the CD) 9 Ishq - Orchid 13 Tim Schuldt - Retrospecter 7 Total Eclipse - Bordeaux Live 1997 12 Infinite Zen - Goa Generator 8 UX - Aud‡ssey (Live & Beyond) 24 Chromosome - The Genome Project 12 Eat Static - Dead Planet 36 Sundial Aeon - Wolfsberg 4 Igor Swamp - Metsä Vastaa, Kuuleeko Suomi 12 Various - 10 Years Of Randomness 7 paypal/bank transfer
  8. My track... it's a bit on the dark edge of things.
  9. I know! Like, there's no review of the album either? Hey buddy you're 100% correct - regardless when music was recorded, what matters is when it's actually released to the public. Many of these "old school" releases are legit 2021 (or 2022 at the time of writing) releases BUT Bypass Unit, I would know as it's my favorite Goa release, was first released in CD format back in 1999.
  10. Sab Kuch Milegator - Tajunnan Rajamaa.... early 2021! Could I pinpoint 'Bypass Unit - Drops of Obscure Eclipses' is in fact from 1999. Other than that, it's a good initiative.
  11. This has already been online for some time... an adventurous track that I did found a great match with my bro's video.
  12. There's 10 remaining copies of this album available on Bandcamp. Then they gone. https://sabkuchmilegator.bandcamp.com/album/surrounded-by-surreality
  13. Sample "saucer landing" reveals it's: Ubar Tmar - Flying Saucer Landing Can't say if a released version or not.
  14. Shoot me in the duck. Fight me towards the aircraft. If someone's selling Aeon - Transe Modulaire for 30 euros on discogs (all time low!) how could I sleep my nights if I slept on the opportunity? Wasn't actively searching for it because I thought chances of getting it for a good price were really slim but there you go...
  15. I know Mr. Lemilica from somewhere (I don't remember details) and asked him to upload my music years ago... and in fact he still does if I release anything.
  16. As I see it, "sab kuch milega" is used in India to mean "everything is possible" or "you get what you want". Obviously "Milegator" is just my own made up word. ps. I can't do a mainstream track it just wouldn't feel right...
  17. Although a decent percentage of neo Goa is in fact simpler than it tries to sound, Goa is still, essentially, psychedelic music. It thrives on complexity. The "big room" psytrance, from a popularity perspective, is always going to remain more consumed because it's easier to digest. Simply - people like simple. The big room sound took essentially what are the cliche, working "hooks" of classic psytrance and churned a McD version out of it. That's the money recipe! So yeah, Goa is never gonna be that much more popular unless people's minds were somehow altered to demand and appreciate more complex sound structures. The production quality talk, although a welcomed topic on its own, is somewhat futile in the end I reckon.
  18. Unfortunately I've got no extra material to use for this. It's been half a year since I produced any music
  19. But you were the layout designer for the Sab Ku... But, but, you were the... I don't know where I'm going with this. Or maybe I might... "Sab Kuch Milegator - Tajunnan Rajamaa (2021)" Not a lot of reviews just yet but listen to my main man he knows this stuff Lemme quote
  20. Okay so it's at least partially money related. I should've guessed! Money talks. Psytrance is a business too, for some. It's kinda funny though... as right now exposure doesn't really do much to give you gigs does it.
  21. Hey guys, I'm just wondering here! Look, if you type on Google "psytrance forum" then Psynews.org is the first forum in the search results. I don't even think there's another remotely working/alive forum out there these days? So you have this forum, leaning quite a lot on Goa-related info and news. Let's say a big label like Suntrip releases an artist album that's well received. So there's the ground setting: the only working psytrance forum & a big label in the scene with a well received release. Let's check out youtube? There we go. And?... 2000 views! That's an alright figure, given the exposure. Now one of the biggest hits of the scene ever, uploaded almost 10 years ago on youtube. That'd be 400k views. A nice amount and well deserved for sure. But then... ladies and gentlemen... what the fuck is this sorcery? Astrix with almost 53 million views! How? Where are the effin' millions of psytrance fans that listened to this? It boggles my mind. Also Astrix + Ace Ventura = Alpha Portal A track from a digital compilation I've never seen anyone mention anywhere. 10 million views. This stuff freezes my internal computer. Are the Israeli folk systematically buying views for their releases?
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