Aerosis

Here it is, the official news and update on what the Aerosis project is doing. The album will be called Leap of Faith. I'm being lenient with a completion date of lets say spring/summer 2008? 5 New tracks can be found on our myspace Our info is also updated. http://www.myspace.com/aerosis if you want a higher quality stream (I know you do) 2 of the tracks are available to download as 4 min teasers here and here - Bobby

Its very easy, I mean they're not trying to convince you to do anything, the album is here for you, its only a click away and the target audience is the world. But anyway as for the mp3 release, I will say "hold that thought" for right now, until we see what the release announcement is from the metapsychic crew. Oh and if its "mp3" that is turning you, I've mastered both mp3 and wav versions of the album, so a "wav" release will be nearly certain as well.

Previews of the mastered album are online! Download Here

Hallucinogen 3 Have faith the new material he's been playing around here has been stunning, there had to have been 4 unheard of tracks at a party he was playing at here in california on saturday. It sounded alot like this -> My impression is that the 3rd hallucinogen album is going to heavily remix and borrow elements from the first 2 albums. As for younger brother, the first album was AMAZING, but I'm not expecting the second one to sound like that. If you simply don't build expectations for yourself you won't be disappointed by quality music.

Oh my god... :D Last night... was AMAZING!

Some news: Mastering is complete and I've sent the album to the rest of the crew for some final listens to do some fine-tuning before everything is approved. 1-2 weeks and it should be out!

SATURDAY, JUNE 23rd Green Sector Solarbrates : SHPONGLE SOLSTICE Solstice Stage: HALLUCINOGEN – Live (Twisted Records, Coast II Coast ent.) UK SHPONGLE – Dj Set (Tip Records, Coast II Coast ent.) UK Djs TBA… Solar Stimuli: CYBERQUEST BLOOMING SAKURA SAPPHIRE DRAGON Sound Henge: MOBIUS TURBOSOUND Sun Dial: For Location & Directions: check www.greensector.com the week of the gathering SHPONGLE With over 80 years experience collectively Simon Posford and Raja Ram are more than qualified for the exploration into the unclassifiable music frontiers they have ventured into; ‘SHPONGLE’ is a new world of traditional sounds, acoustic guitars, Moroccan drums, Turkish operatic singing, cello, double bass, backing vocals and silver flute blended together with the computer wizardry of Simon Posford's studio production. Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) has long had a reputation as the, 'Hallucinogenius' a imitable pioneer in sound experimentation. Raja Ram, is the innovative sonic co-pilot producing alongside Simon and providing inspirational artwork for the album covers and the website as well as his unmistakable flute solo's in C Major. Shpongle has been a working project since the release of their 1998 album ”are you shpongled?” filtered out into the underground. www.shpongle.com HALLUCINOGEN Hallucinogen (live) aka Simon Posford is a pioneer of electronic music and founder of the psychedelic trance scene. With the release of his first album, "Twisted", which reached Number 27 in the French album charts, a genre was born. There are many words to describe modern electronic music but none that come close to the wealth of emotion and experience that comes from listening to a Posford tune. These days he is just as likely to be entrancing crowds around the globe with a throbbingly epic live set as he is to be dribbling ambient delectations in the Hallucinogen Soundlabs in the West Country. He is co-director of Twisted Records with Simon Holton, ex-label manager of Dragonfly Records. Their label is one of the hottest underground gatherings of talent this side of Mars. Hallucinogen's second album "The Lone Deranger" blew the lid off the musical scene that had built up around his influence. Not only did it have more of the killer musical riffs but also was a feat of clean production and professionalism previously seen with the likes of The Floyd, one of Simon's major influences. Another tune that influenced Simon was "The Age of Love" by Jam & Spoon and this can be heard in some of his earlier releases. More recently he has produced tracks with Benji Vaughan as their band Younger Brother, Simon Posford has completed new sounds with Dub 'Ott' & Hallucinogen and is currently collaborating with the Twisted Allstars and touring the world spreading his music to all sorts. GreenSector.com

Since the feedback is unanimous, me and jeremy will think about how to change the last couple of minutes of the track to live up to the rest of the track, if there are any suggestions in particular I would be glad to hear them, thank you all By my logic I'll be focusing on placing a strategic climax from 7 through 8 minutes, which is where I believe I am loosing people on the track. - Bobby

Ah now this is trully someone who knows how to look into and read music. Its hard for me to imagine how other people react to and hear the track, but in do see clearly now that my flavor can be a degree different from what people are expecting. Perhaps I can best shed light on what elements I like to emphasis in a track - for one I've been noting and keeping in mind things I didn't like in older classical tracks - namely repetition or predictable build ups. This is the formula for 90% of psy and goa tracks: 1 minute intro, 2 minute build up sequence introducing the main rythm and melodies, 1 minute break...like a "quit before the storm", or a "breath before the dive" (as I call it) section - rapid snares, kicks, fx, etc, a crash and then a 2 minute climax which is often the same as the first build up but with 1 more melody layer on top, followed by a quick getaway 1 minute outtro which builds down all the songs systems and then leaves you with 30 seconds of kicks and bullshit that I don't care to listen for, which everyone is used to but forget that is only there to make the music mixable for DJs. The other thing is repetition in melodies and basslines - these are one of the things that drive non-electronica people away from the genre, with Aerosis one of the visions I have is to offer a never ending flux of new sound, everything comes and goes and takes off - I don't build down so much as shift direction, I don't linger giving people a chance to catch their breath, instead I open their eyes and put them into a trance until they find themselves stomping again. These all ofcourse are ideals and whether its effective or not is up to the audience to decide - the track here, peyota quota, is structured in this way layered over 3 distinct sections of the track - a begginning, middle, and end of the journey. The linkds between, I want to give the impression that anything can happen...borrowing inspiration from the psychedelic vision I want to show people that their world [of sound] has no limit to what it can show you or where it can take you. By predicting what will happen with the track or what melodies will still be playing 4 minutes from now this effect is lost - the dynamic trance isn't maintained and instead people fall into a mechanistic trance - i.e. any "trance" you reach when listening to rythmic percussive music (modern psytrance) rather than melodic music. So depending on what kind of climax you are looking for, you all will have different responses. Some will hear a climax preceded by an intro at the conundrum of every new melody, others will be expecting that 2 minute jam of the same stuff as before + 1 more melody that is typical of the original goa tracks. Now I try to maintain this element none the less and it is there for the dancefloors, but overall predictability translates as boredom for me and all I can say is I try to keep my tracks moving at all times - you may dance as much as you like, its encouraged - but the trips the tracks will take you on are within your mind rather than upon the dancefloor. BTW, I do just want to say these are my 2 cents and some ideas on music theory - my goals here are revealed, but I am neither saying which is right or wrong nor saying "if you listen to my music this is what you must listen for" - you all have the freedom to dislike this as much as you want for straying from that classical formula - at the same time I have noted that this is not something I can escape if I still wish to stay in the genre and will brainstorm accordingly about how I could bring this out more effectively to let people enjoy the idea of goa trance they have as well as the idea of goa trance I have. The other thing is that I'm feeling pretty good about some of the things people are saying here - Jeremy has a hefty tallent (which surpasses mine) to weave melodies - its up to me to make the final production and stretch 3-4 minutes into 7-9, but jeremy has masterminded the basic feel to each track through inventing the melodies - I simply am the one that breaths life into them and decides the journey they will go upon. Some of the newer material Jeremy has put out should appeal much more to people - they truelly are dynamic melodic stories - on myspace you can sample a sketch from one track , here lies everland to get an idea of what I'm talking about. The last thing is ofcourse..Thank you all so much for promptly leasing your ear out and giving me some timely feedback and suggestions - its never until this stage that I can complete how I feel about a track and note which elements I should focus on bettering for the next one.

The following track is something myself and Jeremy have poured lots of effort and energy into and in return gotten alot of thrilling new sounds. We've worked on the track in spurts, the first concept of which originated in late January, more or less the last two weeks I've been completing the track. Peyota Quota is an auditory landscape the I think breaks alot of ground, the track is basically done and polished and ready for release, but since there isn't a goa trance compilation due in the near future - I've got some time and so I'll put this up for a while to get some feedback - gives me an opportunity to polish the track 110% Here it is Aerosis - Peyota Quota 142BPM, an exotically flavored fully layered mystical goa track. Headphones recommended for full stereo experience :drama: The track is not yet mastered and has yet to see its final high quality version (but that copy, will be saved for the labels ) Tell me what you think of it!

Hehe, you have my personal word that you shouldn't all have to wait that long...I'm just as excited for Ali's music as anyone here, it is absolutely mind blowing and everything you could ask for of an exotic, oriental style goa.

I'd watch where you step from now on if I were you...

Ahhhh, the sudden upsurge in interest are always so random Well about Aercraft...this track had a superb beginning but the 6 minutes after that became a very abstract ride and now after giving this plenty of time to sink in I'm not happy with it, this track is one of the things I'm least happy with yet one of the things that has the biggest potential when its finished. As I explained in other posts, the two elements I was trying to blend didn't work. Let me give you abit of background story - Aercraft is a track that was inspired by a direction taken out of Peyota Quota, I originally had the concept for this track in Peyota Quota but realized it was out of place and decided to make a track around it. Thus I did but found it incredibly hard to blend this style with any kind of format, be it goa or psytrance - yet the psytrance format is what I took because it worked best. This I did and the beginning of the track was flawless, the part with the actual breakthrough however was soiled due to an issue of "trying too hard" and also a conflict of flow which kills the track. The song also overwhelmingly has this feeling like its about to end but never does as well. Sometimes you can follow the rules but things still won't work out, and this is the case here. I will likely revisit this into two tracks - one is the breakthrough with the deleted peyota quota climax, the other is the begining of Aercraft which was some magical melodic psy. I'll post both here but unfortunately I'm back to having unfinished tracks of this and I again will only show a few minutes of extract The other thing is this psytrance Aerosis style is likely a bad move before I've established solidly the project as Goa. You will see some more music in that sense soon, it actualyl comes down to me finishing it really and am a little swamped with work and things keeping me out of the studio. So here is the concept I was most proud of that lead to this track - not sure what to call it so it remains what it really is: Peyota Quota's Expirament And here is the excerpt from what worked in the result and what is now a more representative version of what this track will become: Aercraft v2 Peyota Quota itself has been revisited many times and is nearly done and I am sure every goa-head here will LOVE it, if there are no immediate plans for a V/A release of this track I'll put it up here for everyone. For now there is a teaser on the myspace for those interested: http://www.myspace.com/aerosis There is some dryness though, some layers are still to be done. Future track releases will be concentrating the goa style people have continuously been glimpsing from us, we're aiming for a promo album of sorts by the end of the summer! Thanks for the interest and participation Jon, hope you enjoy those - Bobby, Aerosis

Smell the love? Well this album helps us take a step or two closer, doesn't it?

Thats what I notice, it seems everyone has a little something to release now Much much better than 2004 or 2005. We'll just release our own music and have our own fun...why not??

...Thank you Its been so long!... :D

Is this forum really gonna let this pass up unnoticed? I really enjoyed this, you combined some interesting elements with the samples and fx..I always appreciate expiramentors, its so much more fun to listen to! - Bobby

Dropping by for a quick teaser, Just want to let you guys know we've put 2 new pieces of music up on the myspace Here Lies Everland - a floaty melodic goa track thats sure to put you in a dream. Delerious - Aggressive electric hard goa - sure to send a shock down your spine! Aiming to please the pure goa fans, boom! Much love to all our supporters and promoters, 2008 will be the year of the Eros! http://www.myspace.com/aerosis

On a side note, its not very common to make critique about mastering for an album but Jos/Fab, the mastering has the open hat in Contorsion pushed up quite higher than intended (which also indirectly lowers the volume/impact of the hihats going in 16ths) , its at about 2/3rds that volume on my release copy I sent, compared to the original its emphasized enough to draw attention away from the dynamic parts of the song, particularly the bass is more defined as that was by a small amount the loudest part playing of the track and what you rythmically follow as its something that is neither full on nor prog in style which is the rythmic styles of bass being used now, and was what I'd liked to have had emphasized strongest on the track. But thats not to say I don't understand what you were intending to do with the chance, with more emphasis on repetition via the hat you seem to slow the track down (seemingly) and make it more of a "follower" style track rather than a groover...be it that in this way it fits better as an intro or starting up track to serve as the rythm initiatior and psychedelic landscape. But...when the open hats (doof....tss....doof....tss ) sound louder than the bass they naturally are what people unconsciously listen to to set the rythm, which there is expressed as 4/4ths temp, when the bassline and hihats (doof t t t doof t t t ) drive the groove of the track at 16/16ths tempo which is most notably/impressively heard in the bit from 3:45 to 4:25 Its the trivialest of trivial nitpicky artist details that don't matter at all almost, but just enough to get pointed out Hehehe, peace bros.

One thing that I can't give enough credit to is just exactly how well Suntrip has flowed the tracks through eachother. It is by all means seamless as a mix that plays the entirety of intros and outtros in the showcased tracks. Cosmic Silence's track ends with a pad that plays the very same note that Aerosis starts with. Contorsion ends in the very same bouncy plucky melody waves that Red Gravity's track starts on, AGAIIN having the track start on the same root note the previous track [contorsion] ends with. Talpa continues the psychedelia and starts the first "trip" in the track, then bringing it back to the dancefloor with Merrow's Utopian Society continueing off what Red Gravity has started. Khetzal makes the bridge betwen Merrow's full sound and KOB's psychedelic climax. Afgin sooths you and then lifts you up from the.."night time", and Ra carries you into the clouds. A dream sequences twisted like no other I really think the flow in this VA is a major accomplishment.

This is great news! This is a very exciting time for goa, suntrip has my faith Way to go Anoebis =]

Nice! I was pleasantly surprised when I play this to hear that its...100% Goa! You've got it man, keep it up. If I find more time I'll try and give a more indepth review, but from what I hear you have the foundations correct with a more modern sound. There is ofcourse room to expand and room to explore but this is promising enough for me to seek out your future tracks to see what can show us. Lets hear more!

So, the consensus I've been gathering from the feedback so far from various people I've talked to, is that the part from 5:30 to maybe 8:30 drags for too long and is a little aimless? I actually can understand that.. you know, what kills when you are spending so much time on a track, its gone through so many different versions that you have no "first impression" sense anymore, and it becomes alot harder to anticipate the feeling a certain part of a track has since you are already so used to it too much. That climax in particular, when it was first made was amazing and flowed perfectly, just the right amount. I think I didn't even realize how much its been jacked with over time and that its feeling has become different, and longer than it originally was (now that i compare it with an older draft I notice this). Its true it is missing some things and even feels a little sloppy. Well, I am happy Because these are things I can't notice anymore since my first impression sense doesn't work from hearing the track so many times while working on it. These are the things I need to hear to fix issues of style like this and prevent them in the future. I don't think that part in Aercraft is completely wrong and when I change it, it would only be in flow and duration, and I think this is correct what you guys are saying, it has alot of melodic content, but feeble direction! You see how important some feedback can be If anyone still has a word or two to share, please feel free to say what you think worked or didn't work for you, I'll pass off this expirament as not working out the way I desired (atleast in its entirety) due to just attempting to do too much with the melodies and layers. Eh its not too shabby It also really is one of those tracks that you will like with more listens That being said... the intervals between Aerosis tracks should be less and less in the future, you should be seeing more promo style tracks like this each attempting something different, followed by me asking the listeners to probe their feelings for what they like and didn't like in the music... in the long run that will help Aerosis shape the style of goa to keep our sights on. BTW, DJs! Try mixing Aercraft into the end of a mix before introducing some prog psy. The last 45 seconds intend to make this sort of transition very rewarding to both the ear and the dancefloor , similar to how the ending of contorsion flows to setup the intro/transition into a darkpsy set. A concept I am toying with in my music is to offer a little more dynamics in intros and outtros so that the music, goa, the style of which sounds extremely out of place next to psytrance, prog, or darkpsy, has better fluidity and compatibility in mixes. Or so thats what I'm attempting whether its working or not I don't know yet but I do believe in order for the music to take a hold in the modern scene it first needs to open its arms to it and realize that if you want to play goa at a party and have people feel the groove and stay in their trance without abruptly changing moods, you gotta find a place to put it I wonder if its a good idea if you have the end of a typical mix deviate with tracks that are new or less common in style, and then have their outtro setup the next style of music to be played... almost like blending two colors of paint, change the mood and set up the vibe for a different style to pick up and continue. I don't know, thats just my ramblings and ideas I think would be neat to try out. Perhaps in the end it all really doesn't matter and perhaps it looks as if I think the details through too much. But perhaps...thats true Thank you amphiton, digitoxin, and TechNology for satisfying my impatience in such a timely manner, haha!

Why not just use http://psytunes.info/ ?

Hehe this is true there are still places in this track that need some work, and overall the mixing and mastering can be done better - the pads are too loud in some parts though I run into conflicts where toning them down removes their intended effect, similar with other parts of the track but at this point these are small details and I've already had headache after headache trying to make it better, I relenquish this is to the best of my ability currently - though yes a more proffesional release of this track should the day come for it, will see through it that everything is done better, its gone through so many versions already that I will probably ruin more things than fix them if I open up the track again, hehehe