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    How much is your discogs.com collection worth?

    in General Psytrance

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    Yeah, I love Bandcamp as well but a) it has much narrower selection of music, B) I'm always afraid with services like that they'll vanish someday along with my collection (which won't likely happen to Google :))

    We were thinking about adding complete Neogoa discography on Bandcamp just for the sake of people who actually got some of our releases in their collection (of course, it should be added as 'name your price' option), but in long term it will limit our download traffic allowed on Bandcamp per month. However, Bandcamp is becoming a number one spot for Goa trance music no matter is it physical or digital since all relevant labels tend to have their account (or publish via their root distribution company) there.

     

    -R

    History and the uprising of goa trance

    in General Psytrance

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    Yes I know there is a lot more great artists and names to mention but back than I tried to sum up some of personal favorites and of course when it comes to making some lists it's always subjective. However, I hope one day I will have more time to work on this one and to include all relevant names back than. You can always post some suggestions or informations in this topic, it's all about sharing in the end.

    -R

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    VA - Svemirski Hod

    in 2016

    Posted

    I seriously would have guessed the Ezoterica track to be 1997-1998

    There is so much great stuff by them, their liveset on Balkan Goa Fanatics and on Neogoa label party in Zagreb was so delicious, I'm sure the upcoming stuff will find it's place among people who prefer more oldschool oriented Goa production :)

    VA - Svemirski Hod

    in 2016

    Posted

    Thanks, now I see. Perhaps, the Boney-M song is also built on that melody, somehow reworked, to give it some "Slavonic" flavour.

     

    Btw, this song translates back to Balkan music fairly well (sorry for going severely OT)

     

    Rasputin is well known song, or at least the melody so it's not hard to see many people doing their reworks, covers, tributes, etc. (Vatrogasci or translated to english - Firefighters are known to make parodies of well known songs, but I never actually liked their work or lyrics. On the other hand, Anadolka theme is more on emotional side, not that much slavic per se, but it got nice ethno vibe, typical for sevdah music. Since it's traditional song, this version is one of my personal favorites (now when we're discussing that particular song from compilation) :) I hope Mirza (Arronax) will give his view about the influences :)

     

    YouTube link.

    VA - Svemirski Hod

    in 2016

    Posted

    Thanks for your reviews guys, keep them coming :)

     

     

    Great track, indeed, but the main melody has uncanny similarity to Boney-M - Rasputin :unsure:

     

    Yes, it has some similarities, but as far as I know, Dive Into Merak was very much inspired by traditional Bosnian sevdah music and Anadolka melos (and I think it's a bit older than Boney-M). You can hear clean example right here -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevdalinka#Examples

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    VA - Svemirski Hod

    in 2016

    Posted

    Hey Aspartic, thank you very much for this nice review, it was pleasure reading it. I hope you will have time to check downtempo numbers once again, Dive Into Merak shouldn't be missed, trust me :)

    China

    in Off Topic

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    If a country decides to drop the dollar we find a reason to flex our absolutely insane military that could crush the entire world combined.

    Sad but true. Even in recent times all US geopolitical (or how they like to call it - national) interests are happening under the banner of NATO, because it doesn't look good if you invade and make agression towards weaker country just by yourself. It's easy to demonize the certain regime/goverment, to finance the opposition, to bomb the infrastructure and after the change of regime rebuild it and make profit. The difference nowdays is that (no matter how long will phenomenon of petrodolar last), the US isn't world policeman anymore, the other players such as China or Russia accepted the idea of capitalism but now they defend their own spheres of influence and 'national' interests and the difference between (let's say) Lybia or Iraq and China or Russia is that US can't do shit about it. They can demonize the goverment or impose some sanctions with their puppet states in EU but in long term they can't do anything. East is becoming a new west and a lot of financial markets on west are slowly starting the long term plans to jump on the bandwagon and become a part of new sources of profit. I don't want to sound like I'm rooting for certain side, actually I'm only rooting for multipolar world and that will happen only when west (led by US) starts to focus more on it self rather on others (and unfortunaley, they have a lot more problems in their backyard).

     

    In short terms Russia now needs China, but in long terms it needs Europe more. China at some point will have to expand it's population on other territory and probably the unhabited wast Russian land and central Asia will be one of the first picks, especially if new silk road project happen in some near future. In best scenario, EU should form better ties now between the 27 countries in union, form it's own military and get rid of NATO and US influence, it will give more room to expand better trading deals with other countries without being harrased by US through UK and it will become a bumper between Russia and US and it could have much more benefits in that way instead of being the first in line to get nuked because of US military presence in Europe. It will also give more resources to US to focus more on their own problems back at home and to deal with China in south-east Asia/Pacific region, and that will happen in the future if there won't be any agreement between regional players.

     

    I hope, I'm not offtopic too much :)

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    GoaD - Galactic Aviator

    in 2016

    Posted

    I know many of you are waiting for the actual Ektoplazm release, so in the upcoming days I will probably have enough of time to prepare the relase and hopefully this and Veasna (shorter edition) will pop up there soon ;) I will keep topics in ANAA updated :)

    -R

    EURO 2016

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    This time I will go for Portugal, I know they don't play some exciting football, but obviously they know how to get needed score. Even they're not like Greece in 2004 it will be much more exciting final game I believe. France seems stronger on paper and if Portugal starts game with open-guard I think they will end up like Iceland. Mourinho-style first half, and hopefully some counter-attack or Ronaldo's magic will happen till the end.

    GoaD - Galactic Aviator

    in 2016

    Posted

    Seems like "acidic" is cool again, and it seems to be the gimmick of this album. That being said, this is unfortunately not one of my favourites from the Neogoa catalog. The overall sound is oddly flat and parts of the sounds are (unintentionally?) distorted. Especially "Outer Passage", initially I had it in a recent DJ set but had to drop it because it just didn't fit in even with a bunch of oldschool tracks.

    Not really a fan of the artwork either. Sorry guys, this just didn't do it for me :(

    Your option is much respected, especially because you've been following our music since the early days. We will keep all suggestions and feedback from people who listened this album for the next release(s).

     

    Thanks :)

    Veasna - Energy

    in 2016

    Posted

    Thanks for the review!

    Energy will pop-up sometime soon in shortened format for download in WAV/FLAC for all people who are not interested to have it on limited physical format. However, it's available on YouTube for stream in full-lenght:

    Albums you like, but the reviews say otherwise

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Infected Mushroom's The Legend Of The Black Shawarma



    Actually, Project 100 and Franks are probably one of the best written and arranged tracks by IM in years. It got everything, interesting storytelling, exciting guitar riffs, crystal clear production and enough of playfullness. I know Duvdevina can be annoying but on this album I don't have problems with that, oh and as bonus, there is no dubstep, which is cool.
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    Goa's Second Golden Age?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Golden or not, new breed of Goa trance is in some weird, but very good state at the moment - it went out from underground shadows, but it hasn't become mainstream either. That kind of balance is something I hoped for 10 years ago.

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    EURO 2016

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I wouldn't put my money on France tho, they look though but they didn't have any 'strong' opponent so far. Germany on the other hand has been consistent, even against Italy (and to beat Italy you gotta have great team and mentallity to win) on big competition. Portugal v Germany finals, but who knows, we will see :P:D

    EURO 2016

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Germany got the best defence (afaik, so far no one scored against them), but the fact is that they never won against Italy on big competition, just like Italy never won against Croatia :P

    Regarding the style and gameplay, yeah Belgium and Croatia had really good shows, but it's notihing without good result in the end.

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