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JESUS CHRIST Gurning Point is good! Miranda's pounding kick, modulated snares, and beautiful acid lines after beautiful acid line......... I'm in Goa Heaven

True that, but if we are talking about tracks that mix really well, that's a slightly different proposition. AP - Nilaya is a really nice choice.

It's a good documentary, great to see Simon， Astral Projection and others in their youth. The Roland part is interesting as are the juxtapositions between Japanese business culture, orthodox Israeli culture and Goa culture. Not sure about the showing of Gaza and war footage, maybe at the time they hoped that trance was the key to changing the hearts of people all around the world. Perhaps it has changed a lot of hearts but sadly the scene didn't grow to meet the huge early promise. It also reminded me of the reason why I love goa: it's the fusion of high-tech and spirituality. That's what the modern world needs.

Yeah that sounds like smart police to me. Just let people enjoy themselves!

Plot idea for a film or novel: in the future, the media hires people to commit heinous crimes just so they can be the first to exclusivity report on them. When a more honest media organization discovers this conspiracy and plans to report it, the evil media conglomerate ensures that the director and journalists of that paper are personally disgraced and the information is suppressed. But all these crimes and subsequent uncovering were themselves secretly commissioned by yet another media figure, who reports the full story and uses the public outcry to secure his own fortune and power.

Mars's review is hilarious. Relistening to this one yet another time right now. Wonderful release from start to finish.

Love it!

My favourite album by Biosphere is Polar Sequences which he did with H.I.A. It's even more special than Substrata IMO. Absolutely beautiful. People who dig Biosphere should check out Irezumi.

Great recommendation. I'm a big fan of that hypnotic Italian sound. Sabatini got a lot of play on the techno circuit a few years back with this: Also, the Zooloft label is full of stellar releases.

Maybe you refer to something like this classic: Great recommendation there, I really like that track!

Come on, show me some harsher acid than Arsonik!

That's why I mentioned Regis, not Surgeon. I'm a big fan of Regis's early work and as I recall even he said in interviews that he was putting everything through an amplifier and aiming for the most uncompromising sound possible. Sure in his later work particularly with Sandwell District there is a more psychedelic air but it's still far from the psychedelic synths of artists like Orphx and Rrose. Exactly, the Birmingham sound influenced the Berlin sound, but in other respects they are quite different. That is why I chose this broad title for the thread. If I called it simply "Birmingham Techno" or "Berghain Techno" most of the tracks I posted wouldn't fit, whereas if I called it just "Techno" that would be far too broad and people would be posting Detroit stuff. I don't find debating genre boundaries particularly interesting or enlightening so why don't we go on recommending tracks? In fact if I had to choose a different thread title it might be "Stroboscopic Artefacts", the label which is pushing this sound the most. Excellent releases all around.

Good point, pretty much any Koxbox track deserves to be here.

Thanks a lot for the input Cybernetika. @ulmehagen I'm fully aware that this isn't an official genre, but if you listen to the Orphx track and others I posted you'll find it is an apt description. You claim that the essence of techno is very psychedelic and industrial, which is simply false. Techno is a broad church. For instance, lots of techno is inspired by IDM or is very minimal, without psychedelic elements at all. The Birmingham sound is not a suitable description, since artists like Regis aren't focussing on being psychedelic but on being raw and banging. Most of the artists I listed have more to do with the Berlin scene than the Birmingham one.

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Sorry, if I had the choice I'd rather listen to Magnetic Activity or Maya Moon than Mahadeva

Haha, I first joined this forum in 2008 when there was more activity and lurked for years. There's not much activity these days but people here are so open-minded and awesome, plus obviously I love goa, so I've become fairly addicted to posting here this past week. I definitely am a happy mushroom. I was surprised to learn you had been into this music for just 1 1/2 years, but you have already done a lot more for the goa scene than I have

Thumbs up for Brummie rap! Grime music is very popular amongst my friends in South East London at the moment: It is English, but is full of South London colloquialisms and culture. I strongly suspect that Anu won't like it

Yeah, AP are the kings of using samples

What exactly do you mean by that?

Now I know where Oforia got his inspiration.

Hahaha prepare to be crucified! Nah, actually it seems that many people on Psynews aren't huge fans of AP. Including me. That said, my favourite track by them is Flying Into a Star. It's their most twisted MFG-like track, without too many sickening melodies

Yes, good point, the tech-psy sound also loosely comes under this banner. I love all these interrelated genres. I think my favourite tech-psy track is X-Dream's Peter's Hoover from the Irritant album. That Spirallianz track is also nice. It's been ages since I listened to The Delta, so thanks for reminding me to relisten to their discography.

To anyone who has not already read them, I would like to refer you to the user reviews of BotFB's latest album. This guy is still making music as edgy, unusual and as challenging as his oldschool goa.

Haha Oopie that is definitely the worst goa track ever. Cross-post to Lost Tracks and prepare to be surprised by the artist