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Very nice selection. 'A New Name' is actually the only track on the album that I love so glad to see it was chosen.

Glad you like it Drew.

Sexual frustration. That's what I'm seeing in Radi's deepest core, on behaviour level this lack of affection in emotional life leads to trying to bond in social groups of own interest - in this particular case it just so happens to be goa trance related. Radi hear me out - we could go around all day you making new excuses for this behaviour of yours. But I'm telling you should admit to yourself it's sexual frustration. Be honest about it, you only ever live once and I'm telling you honesty is the only key so grab it. These long explanation stories here are not going to the point. Eventually life like this is gonna take you further into depression and frustration. It's not here you'll _ever_ see the results you really need to achieve calmness and happiness in life. Re-route your whole thought process (thoughts lead to words, words lead to action... and women love men of action) by first changing the physical activities you do in your daily life. Goa trance is NOTHING (sorry everybody). It should be a very minor thing and curiosity in your life, not a key thing which fills your time and concentration.

Suomi is such a broad genre, having such a variety of style, that I think you ought to investigate further... Hitech for sure is my opinion. Everything over ~155bpm is useless - that's because I've noticed music is attached to one's heart rate and when dancing it's normally around 130-150 bpm. Everything above that is just too fast really to connect to a beat - it becomes nothing more than a technical marathon on drugs.

Similarly great stuff has been done in my books, but it's by the usual suspects of the 90s we all know'n'worship so that's why I didn't mention anybody.

They made just a couple of these darker tracks. The magnitude of composition and well executed chopped saw-like synths are rarely met by other artists.

One of the best dark goa tracks ever. e: UPS! Sorry. On Radi-terms it seems to be one of the popular ones... I'll get my coat.

A new mix I made to celebrate my off-day from work. x) https://soundcloud.com/sab-kuch-milegator/dark-goa-full-on-forest-crossroads-mix Tracklist: 1. Logic Bomb - High Density (TIP.World 2002) 2. Midi Junkies - Galaktik Surfing (Geomagnetic.TV 2014) 3. Snag The Sunshepherd - Room Of Lighting (Psydonia Records 2010) 4. Astral Projection - Open Society (SynSun Rmx) (Trust In Trance Records 2010) 5. Rastaliens - Spaceshifter (Existence Rmx) (Ovnimoon Records 2014) 6. Hux Flux - Post 100 (Ianuaria Rmx) (Blue Hour Sounds 2012) 7. Braincell & Existence - Distant Galaxies (Ovnimoon Records 2014) 8. Hux Flux - Bring Your Own BIOS (Wizack Twizack Rmx) (AntiShanti Records 2010) 9. Toï Doï - Frogs Party (UAF 2011) 10. Tom Noise - Voluntary Servitude (Ektoplazm 2013)

Don't add the tree Tal... the 'Moonweed' graphic is awesome in its simplicity and as referance to the artist name.

Yeah a couple (like Paul Eye on this forum) but it's a minority.

I liked your post until this part which seems weird counting we're talking "music knowledge" and lack of it. In Etnica at least Andrea Rizzo was classically trained person. Transwave and AP also have made some of the most memorable tracks counting all electronic music... I don't know what would that "extra knowledge" you seem to miss in their sound.

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Cosmosis & Hallucinogen & Koxbox? All still active, tempting idea...

I don't say nut'n about the quality of video but sounds awesome otherwise.

1) That's very well said and I for one would like to think that when you run a goa trance label, you want to release the best possible art. I do happen to think goa trance as a musical form differs quite a bit from let's say, full-on. It has harmonic texture and is (at best) layered, colorful music like classical, both breathing and sounding the best when having a wide dynamic range. Ultimately one shouldn't try to master all the psytrance music the same way...:! 2) I do agree. Wonderful compositions but a bit flat sounding end result. I remember playing a track from the album after I just played one from Portamento's... the change of mood couldn't have been more obvious.

I think we ought to remind ourselves the best artists of the 90s have quite a decent mastering, something you can still play at festivals (like someone here pointed out - Hallucinogen for example). Having good dynamics is the key thing in my books. Loudness & overcompression are ridiculous "pop tricks" in mastering that quite often turn the music texture into plastic sounding result. I do think thou, that as of recent all the major goa labels have been quite successful with their final products - the situation is better than 5 years ago.

Awesome EP, finally an artist that I can safely say to sound like Pleiadians in their hey-days.

I have to disagree (only on the grading). It's a somewhat chaotic track by it's nature, but by all means there's no randomness in the notes, it's very carefully made. One of the best fast tracks Suntrip has ever released - I can see this one taking the whole dancefloor at the right moment.

Hux Flux - Weird, but honest guy having this dark scandinavian humour. I don't wanna say what he answered when I asked him about the reasons after all these years to do psytrance... Talpa - We had a good chat about music and he told me how ageing makes him want to do chillier stuff like prog and downtempo. Aavepyörä - Honest, friendly and creative personality easy to connect with.

Now when I gave it a go have to admit the new EU is horrible. It's very loud, compact and plastic - it's a shame as some of the tracks are really good ones. A prime example of "festival mastering for the large crowds" that holds zero value for home listening.

You're welcome mate, hope you enjoy it!

It must've been a whole genre-turning point when this came out... but nowadays I find that the tracks on Cryptic Crunch are a bit so-so. I feel something's missing and honestly this kind of sound have been taken on a whole different level the recent years so this doesn't have the impact it used to have.

You're both very welcome, enjoy.

I need to echo that Schuldt's mastering of Transdimensional was indeed loud and 'jammed' as Earwall put it. It's a tricky business when you're remastering old classics, but for example Colin OOOD has been doing great work for Mind Rewind series.