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This is the first, and in my opinion best, Proxeeus album. I like it best because it drips with spirit juice and is true to Goa trance.
After this album Proxeeus' albums are best described as neo-Goa, and whilst "Weird Tales" and "Non-Euclidian Geometry" are both quite good, they are a bit hectic for their own good, a bit too laden with layers - almost as thought they are trying to outdo each other, instead of embracing the simpler powers of harmony and structure. By the time of "Perversion & Insanity", Proxeeus has abandoned Goa and embraced psytrance and that album, probably the darkest so far, has galloping horse and machine gun basslines galore - I personally struggle to listen to more than a few tracks in a row as a result.
But back to "At the Mountains of Madness": I like it that this album has the direct simplicity of original Goa - it does not try to achieve too much, using economical means to summon up a mysterious, slightly ominous atmosphere. It is not nearly as dark as Xenomorph, but there is some eeriness on offer here - appropriately for an artist obviously influenced by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft with his cosmic materialism and great old ones - ancient beings and elemental forces, many of them malevolent. There is a certain minimalism in this album that appeals to me. One of the things that particularly strikes me about this album is that there do not seem to be any weak tracks. That is a very good thing, obviously. However, by the same token, there aren't really any obvious stand-out hits either. This record seems to be more about the plateau than about the peak. Nevertheless, I think that probably my favourite track on the album is the closer "The Sea of Tranquility" - tranquil, sure, but with a hint of the sinister about it.
I think this album and "Celephais", a psychill album, are the best of Proxeeus - at least so far. We wait to see what the future will bring (along with the great old ones, that is...). ~*~
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On 2/7/2023 at 2:55 PM, acid being said:
It's awesome to find someone to talk to about this, thanks man.
I've been looking too but it's harder for me because I only really like the more ambient kinds of metal and it's a genre I've hardly bothered to explore at all (Anette Olzon is the only suggestion I found so far but I haven't had time to listen to any of her stuff at all yet).
No idea if you'll feel the same or if anyone else here agrees, but my other favorite female vocalist is Toni Halliday. I don't know if it counts as metal really, but check out the album: Curve - Gift. Her vocals on Hung Up are amazing. It sounds dark and really trippy. It sounds like layers of 303s, but it could be some really ingenious guitar effects. The track has a lot in common with Leftfield - Original which she also sang beautifully on.
The only other music I've found so far with similar feelings to the above gets classed as trip hop. A couple of tracks on Crustation - Bloom aren't too bad.
Definitely let me know if you find anything yourself though.
Check out Anathema - especially the later albums are gothic doom with ethereal female vocals and some electronics.
But my highest suggestions are fantasy/symphonic/ethereal black metal with darkwave aspects:
Midnight Odyssey
The Ruins of Beverast "Exuvia" (very trancey) & " The Thule Grimoires"
Summoning (Tolkien influenced)
Emyn Muil (Also Tolkien fantasy influenced)
And then of course there's dungeon synth:
Old Sorcery
Druadan Forest etc
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I love the concept and some of the Danny Elfmanesque orchestral sounds and atmosphere, but as others here have pointed out the beats and rhythms are really lacking and that is a cardinal sin in dance or dance-orientated music I'm afraid. I also feel that this album is so derivative of Classical Mushroom that its own identity is limited, not that I usually care soo much about originality. Unfortunately, try as I might, I am too annoyed by some of the drums and bass and knees up moments to be able to listen to this repeatedly. ~*~
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7 hours ago, Widar said:
I'd guess on more expensive manufacturing than thought.
Press prices are going up. One good thing that comes with it is shorter turnaround times. A year ago they where 6-9 months, now i hear 3-4 months.
Yes, I was guessing money too. The usual
And yes, there are more and more new pressing machines being manufactured, including some very good quality Canadian ones. According to the manufacturer, these new presses do not really improve on the best of the old ones, but they apparently have lower defect rates, which is good news.
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20 hours ago, Widar said:
Just got the news from Norman Records that this release was cancelled!
"We've just heard from the distributor of Abduction that the record label cancelled the release, but didn't tell anyone until after all the orders went in. We can only apologise, but this was completely out of our hands (we know this doesn't make it any less annoying, though!)."
Very disappointing; I wonder what the reason was?
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Yeah, City of Moons is a contemporary Ultimate Experience; both albums are awesome. I sometimes think that whereas Ultimate Experience puts you on Mars, City of Moons puts you in a ruined megalopolis on Mars. I can't help but think that Jules Villeneuve missed a trick by not edging out some Hans Zimmer and putting a track from City of Moons at an appropriate point or two in Bladerunner 2049. The vaulting arpeggios on this album would really put the audience's hearts in their mouths and spin their heads with some of the imagery from this film.
But I'm wandering away from Astral Projection. I'm not sure if you heard this, but if further proof were needed (which it ain't), that Astral Projection still have "it", this came out last year. Some dissed it, on this forum and elsewhere, for being fluffy and simple. I couldn't disagree more: listen with an open mind and heart and this is so deep, so harmonic, so beautiful, such a wonderful blend of form and content, so inevitable, that all barriers, expectations, criticisms, melt into insignificance. Truly eternity now:
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On 1/26/2023 at 3:51 AM, Tsotsi said:
Filteria and Morphic just seem like the least subtle artists in the genre and aren't known for their delicate touch.
Thanks for your comment Tsotsi; I tend to agree with you that Filteria and Morphic Resonance are not the most subtle of artists (which is not to say that subtlety is automatically good or that being upfront is necessarily bad). For me they tend to over-indulge in maximalism at times, what I think of as manic layerism - just a bit too busy, which can become tiring. Nevertheless, I do think that the first two Filteria albums are mostly very good and Morphic Resonance's City of Moons is a neo-Goa classic in my estimation, with a particularly evocative dirty apocalypse kind of atmosphere.
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Moon Beasts – Unexpected Turn Of Events
2022
Alexandre Cohen & Jerome Lesterps
Real Externality
La Petite Porte
Escaping The Plague
Walking A Tightrope Towards The Unknown
A silvery ray of darker Goa from Moon Beasts (I'm not too convinced by this name), which features Jerome Lesterps of Proxeeus. The mastering and pressing are solid on this white vinyl issue and the sound is generally excellent (unsurprising since the mastering is from Tim Schuldt). I'm tempted to pronounce some pretentious nonsense about this ep being appropriate to our darker times, but I will avoid that (largely).
Real ExternalityThere's Goa psychedelia on offer in the storming track "Real Externality", which has enough sawtooth and 303 madness to get any dancefloor moving to its screeching hectic intensity. Good track. Make that a very good track. I appreciated the vocal sample from Lovecraft, which really set the mood.
La Petite Porte
"La Petite Porte" has a stomping techno beat and some spooky synth lines; there's a bit of haunted forest flavour in this track, which again features some 303 madness towards the end. A darker track, though it is a bit spoilt by the knees-up faster beat at the very end - it seems that the musicians did not know how to progress or end this track. Basically, I thought it a good track that should carry on for another few minutes and found it ended prematurely.
Escaping The Plague
The darker vibes continue on "Escaping the Plague", which may be a reference to coronavirus? This track features wailing siren synth work which works well, but again I feel that this track could have been developed further and gone on for longer. Nevertheless, I enjoy the crossover with darkpsy and darkwave/ebm in this track, which does succeed in conjuring an apocalyptic ambience and feeling.
Walking A Tightrope Towards The Unknown
The last track "Walking a Tightrope Towards the Unknown" is downtempo and has a head-nodding beat that is infectious. There's a "Bladerunner" style moody Moog ripping sound that gives a dystopian quality to this track, but yet again it seems still-born and ends too quickly. Super track nevertheless, probably my favourite on the ep.
My take away: one dancefloor stormer and three good tracks that seem unfinished to me. What this suggests is that I was really enjoying the tracks and didn't want them to end! A promising ep and it would be great to see more by these guys, especially if pressed to vinyl, not to mention Proxeeus on vinyl - I would love to see Proxeeus on vinyl! ~*~-
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I'm grateful to Tsotsi for alerting me to this new psychill album from Suduaya, an artist I haven't listened to before. This is certainly thoughtfully arranged music, with carefully crafted mellower and slightly more intense sections. I particularly appreciated some of the twitchy guitar and the clicky percussion. I may, however, be one of those curmudgeonly heavy metal types that Tsotsi wants to recite the Bhagavad Gita to as he lectures them on their shrivelled hearts and overly analytical craniality because my cheese alert, admittedly often on high alert, goes into the red on this album - most notably when the sax utters its nasal sonorities on track two or when the predictable vapourous silky synth textures float by on nearly every track. Yep, I was thinking Cafe Del Mar, Buddha Bar, Om Lounge level cheesecore - lay it on thick - quattro formaggio. There's barely a minor chord on the whole album and the melodies are often nursery rhymeish. Call me a Scrooge if you wish, but to me a soul quest that does not involve facing, if not delving deeply into, the dark side barely merits the title Soul Quest. Indeed, for me a work of art needs to have salt and pepper, light and dark. The pitch black is as banal, uninteresting, and lonely as the purely light; it is contrast that makes for energy, propulsion, and intrigue. Even leaving aside this persnickety criticism, which I freely admit may be my bias, I do not think this stacks up with the classics of our beloved genre. It comes off as lightweight and superficial compared to anything by Shpongle, Entheogenic, OTT, Androcell, Carbon Based Lifeforms, etc.
This is music for the yoga studio, the incense and crystal shops, the airport, and the lift in a Dubai skyscraper. As such, it is a triumph. ~*~
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+1 for Roy Sason, Youth and Ovnimoon.
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A good accompaniment to reading Edgar Allan Poe on perversion and Howard Philips Lovecraft on hermeneutic uncertainty and alien horror.
Poe's theory of perversion was prophetic and only now are we beginning as a species to grasp its full import as we begin to reap the cruel crop of our bad seeds and benighted sowings. Far from patent leather and whips, Poe basically said that we all have the potential for perverse self-destructiveness, often planted in us in childhood by the constant "no" we heard and had to hear from our parents and peers (you know, kids want to probe everything and stick everything up their orifices...). Plain old ornery self-destructiveness shades into perversion when we go so far into it that the only way to achieve redemption is via full self-slaughter of some variety. That dark turning point is when our addictions, gamblings, lies, cheats, thievings, evasions, procrastinations, etc begin to seriously harm others. No way out but forward go into self-annihilation you might say is Poe's theory. But here comes the kicker: Poe theorised that this dark turning point is programmed into us by the desire of all matter to return to undifferentiation in his proto-science disquisition Eureka! - a work of genius in which he conjoined science and emotional psychology. Once we have messed up our karma, so to speak, by harming others, our body requires cleansing and expiation and the only way to achieve this is by returning to undifferentiation, ie God, ie the whole, which our bodies remember. We need to dismember ourselves to remember unity, and this operates at a subconscious, preconscious, physical level. In other words, it is our bodies which judge us - a classic inversion of our usual cranial narcissism. If we consider rightly of this remarkable and unique deconstruction of our narcissism, we can see that Poe has given us the tool to understand the repeatedly dumbfoundingly inexplicably stupid self-destructiveness of humans - from the mundane level of tail-gating on the highway when it is clearly foolhardy, or procrastinating on that term essay, to spending all our family's savings on gambling, or unleashing appalling orgies of xenophic mass slaughter via weapons of mass destruction. Very few such tools exist in the world and I hail you Edgar Allan Poe for being honest and clever enough to provide us with one. This tool is a key for self-liberation at the deepest level; as another literary genius, Oscar Wilde, put it: "learning to love yourself is the beginning of a life-long romance".
If you've managed to read this far, I'm sure you will be glad to hear that I will not be embarking on an exhaustive disquisition about and analysis of H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic materialism, suffice it to say that Lovecraft was influenced by Poe and that reading him is required if you are to explore the full horror of what Proxeeus unleashes on the listener here. If you're a sick puppy like me, you will also need to become intimately acquainted with the scribblings of possessed demons like Clarke Ashton Smith, Aleister Crowley and so on, not to mention the black metal abominations of bands like The Great Old Ones and countless others.
Leaving aside the background reading and listening that any researcher into arcane horrors needs to undertake in order to fully understand this latest Proxeeus album, I am left with an aesthetic question by this inheritor of Xenomorph's dark legacy: is this intense darkpsy album more grimly effective than the Goan horrortrance of At the Mountains of Madness or the black psydub of Celephais? To ask the same question another way, is Proxeeus a multiply talented multigenre artist, or is his true metier in one of the genres? For sure he leaves both psydub and Goa behind on this latest more full on album, which has galloping horse and machine gun basslines (the weakest aspect of the album to my ears). Which of these genres is he best at? I leave you with that question. ~*~
PS - My favourite Proxeeus albums by far are At the Mountains of Madness and Celephais. The other albums lose some of the spirit in going a bit too busy.
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Humble apologies for raining on anyone's parade, but Equilibrium is a compilation of previously released tracks:
Tracks 1,2, 3 & 7 were originally released on "Transparent" on CD and vinyl on Plusquam Records in 2001
Tracks 4 & 5 were originally released on vinyl on Spirit Zone Recordings in 2002
Tracks 6 & 8 were originally released on vinyl on Spiral Trax International in 2001
Remastered and compiled in 2020
All tracks © and ℗ Steve Good 2020The good news is that I have all these tracks on vinyl and I can attest to their phenomenal quality. I still rate Double Dragon's first album Continuum as Steve Good's best album (it is for sure the most psychedelic and most Goan), but Transparent is also great, albeit more on the progressive tip. One of the remarkable things about this second album is the superb production and recording quality, something which also stands out in the equally fine "Tin Drum" and "Cabin Fever" eps from that same time. Seriously good quality releases these - favourites for me for many years and sounding unbelievably good on a quality hifi. ~*~
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Howard Philips Lovecraft:
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. (“The Call of Cthulhu”)
Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and the local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown - the shadow-haunted Outside - we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold. (Selected Letters 11. 150)
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3 hours ago, Magus Knight said:
@DoktorGSpeaking of vinyls as you reviewed this EP in the vinyl format, I read yesterday in the news that 2022 was a record year for vinyl sales in the United States. Even higher sales than in the early 90s. I wonder if this has been reflected in the sales of Goa/Psy vinyls as well? Perhaps all the Goa/Psy vinyl collectors and labels who continued to push the format were actually ahead of the curve rather than backwards-striving?
What should we push next, maybe a Minidisc or DAT-revival? 
The thing about physical media is that it is just so much more memorable, not to mention literally tangible, than the anonymity of the giant digital akashic library in cyberspace. Yes, it is less green, but if it is good art that is being pressed, then that is not such a problem. What we don't need is trees being cut down for airport novels, if you catch my drift. I personally prefer the sound of analogue, even if the original recording is digital - it has a visceral warmth that speaks to my body directly. Goa trance sounds amazing on vinyl, provided you have a top hifi - mo psychedelic!
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Haha Tsotsi, you cracked me up with this classic line: "Goa is the best thing this bunch of self-assured incompetent primates have ever created". Nice one geezer!
Great stuff from Global Sect again, this time on an Astral Projection kind of trip. Lovely dreamy cosmic vibes and production skills that show that the works of Astral Projection were studied in detail; Centavra Project present us with audiophile sound without harshness or screaming leads. The production is quite restrained in a tasteful way, but with plenty of detail and texture. The result is a very good sound with an impressive amount of detail on offer - a sonic scape with endless fractals hovering in multiple dimensions.
Overall the feeling from the album is quite positive and ecstatic, very different from the drone trance of Katedra on the same label. There is no shying away from minor chords or psychedelia, but this is generally an uplifting album in a spacey kind of way. The space theme is consistent throughout and the melodies reflect that in having a floating or flying quality.
Let us not forget that the 90s that birthed light-hearted Goa trance was a decade rife with environmental devastation, plague, war, nationalism, authoritarian tyranny, paranoia, media frenzy, and conspiracy theory. Could it be that such appalling contexts create a powerful need for escape and transcendence. This can lead to a sense of transhuman, transcorporeal, intergalactic belonging. This is what we have seen over and over in our often baleful history. As James Joyce had Stephen Dedalus say in Ulysses, "history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awake".
Welcome Centavra Project to the pantheon of Goa trance! This album deserves to be ranked alongside Artifact 303's Back to Space as a worthy inheritor of the Astral Projection sound. Congratulations to all the artists involved! ~*~
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Various – Suntrip Classix Vol. 1 - Titan
Suntrip Records – SUNCDLP04
Country:Belgium
Released:Oct 1, 2022
Tracklist
A1 Psylent Buddhi – Moksha Written-By, Producer – Kasper Weensgaard 11:49
A2 Triquetra – Forget About The Earth Written-By, Producer – Elric Reinartz, Jurian Reinart 7:01
B1 Ra – Crossing Planet Written-By, Producer – Christer Borge-Lunde, Lars W. Lind 11:09
B2 Clementz – Spirit Dance Written-By, Producer – Hans Henrik Clementz 6:14
C1 Shakta – It Was Not Human Written-By, Producer – Seb Taylor 7:38
C2 Celestial Intelligence – Celestial Beings Written-By, Producer – Branislav Dimkovski, Dalibor Anastasovski 8:55
D1 Goasia – Love & Peace Written-By, Producer – Balint Tihamer, Vladislav Radulovic 8:16
D2 Mindsphere – Tears Of Goddess Written-By, Producer – Ali Akgun 8:10
A1 Psylent Buddhi – Moksha
Quite an intense and busy track with very good production values - sounds stunning on vinyl with pan-potted sounds flying around the room. There is a super rhythmic sensibility in this track and it builds and builds. Decent track that does not stay static for long and has good story telling structure but feels a little short and could have more melodic interest.
A2 Triquetra – Forget About The Earth
I love Triquetra's old school acid and fun sensibility; very retro and reminds us not to take our genre too siriously. Kinda Eat Static outlook. This track is typical of their style and features an acid bass 303 that sounds very reminiscent of Josh Wink's classic "Higher State of Consciousness" from 1995. Fun, bouncy, silly, delightful, what is not to like? I don't like this track so much when I'm grumpy - it is a bit too repetitive and simplistic in its "aving it" rave attitude, but could kick up some dust on the dancefloors. Not my favourite Triquetra track, but fun all the same.
B1 Ra – Crossing Planet
Ra is one of my favourite Goa artists and I freely admit that I am not very objective about his work; I love it all! Is there a more floaty artist than Ra, better able to summon up transcendental Kailash feelings? Maybe Martin Cooper aka Asia 2001 (rip
)? This track does not deviate from Ra's transcendental vibe and does not disappoint this listener. I read some nit-pickers going on about how Ra's high hats are too linear - pffft! Forget about the nay-sayers, this is pure luxury in aural form. Those delicate psy synths and minor key Eastern melodies - delicious! A 9/10 track for me - I'm only subtracting a point because it stopped when I wanted it to carry on forever.
B2 Clementz – Spirit Dance
Clementz comes with another floating, bubbling track with uplifting vibe courtesy of Hindu-style vocals. This track has an hypnotic simple bassline that I really like and overall the synth work is super with fairy tale melodies and a gentle feeling. Very, very nice. My only criticism is that it is rather short and could have been further developed. 8 out of 10 from this listener.
C1 Shakta – It Was Not Human
Shakta breaks the gentle upliftment with his signature breakbeats. Slam dunk da funk - Shakta is another one of my all time favourite artists and he brings the acid funk here full of rattling percussion, gurning attitude, and alien gonzo whackiness. Predictably good stuff, I love it that Shakta has not changed his style at all; this track could easily be from Silicon Trip.
C2 Celestial Intelligence – Celestial Beings
We return to gentler vibes with Celestial Intelligence and this track meanders along pleasingly, but lacks distinction and memorability.
D1 Goasia – Love & Peace
Goasia's "Love & Peace" is a bit tougher and features some big ascending arpeggios that uplift us beyond the head-nodding stomping rhythm. Good stuff.
D2 Mindsphere – Tears Of Goddess
Suntrip saved the best for last - a stunning track from Mindsphere closes out the compilation. "Tears of Goddess" walks the proverbial Razor's Edge between driving rhythm, acidic heaviness and fragile beauty. Spiritual bliss - excellent work.
So is this compilation of "Goa Classix" Titanic, or does it sink? Well, needless to say, it hardly ends up at the bottom of the ocean in a hubristic disaster. Nevertheless, for me it is not as successful as the excellent Gamma Draconis because it doesn't have as many great tracks on it. Ra and Mindsphere bring the magic here; Shakta, Clementz and Goasia are good; the other tracks are not quite in the same league. I also have a question about the flow of the album; I'm not sure that the acidic Triquetra and Shakta tracks fit in amongst the more ethereal tracks of the rest of the album, not that I think that a compilation has to be uniform at all. Nevertheless, a worthy compilation that is highly enjoyable and sounds fabulous on vinyl - Tim Schuldt's masterful mastering is as reliable as ever. Chalk up another success to the ever-reliable Suntrip Records. ~*~
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Astral Projection Let There Be Light
(12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP) SUNCDEP02
Tracks:
Filteria–Filtertraces (Astral Projection Remix)10:08
Astral Projection–Let There Be Light (Filteria Remix)8:55
Astral Projection–Enlightened Evolution (Morphic Resonance Remix)10:21
Astral Projection–Another World (2017 Remix)9:21
I'm reviewing the vinyl 12" edition of this fine ep. Really excellent sound on this 12" courtesy of the masterful mastering of Tim Schuldt. A good quality pressing.
Filteria–Filtertraces (Astral Projection Remix)10:08
Astral Projection's remix of Filteria's "Filtertraces" sounds so classically AP that Filteria seems neither here nor there - a very sweet epic track that hovers on the edge of the saccharine towards the end, but in the right mood is a bomb. The masters of melody do not fail to deliver.
Astral Projection–Let There Be Light (Filteria Remix)8:55
Filteria returns the favour with a remix of "Let There be Light": this is altogether tougher and faster with the bigger bass of nu skool Goa. The lead melody is perhaps a bit forward in the mix, making it strident - this spoils part of this remix, which I can't fully rate.
Astral Projection–Enlightened Evolution (Morphic Resonance Remix)10:21
The Morphic Resonance remix of AP's "Enlightened Evolution" doesn't have shrill leads or cheesy modulations, but it can't really be said to add much, if anything, to the original, which I prefer. Two not such great remixes from the nu skool guys then. I notice that neither of them has the perfect sound that Astral manage; their production is just not as subtle.
Astral Projection–Another World (2017 Remix)9:21
Then it is the turn of Astral to remix their own track "Another World" from the album of that name. Ahhh, sweet bliss. This is almost indescribably awesome: pure spirituality in aural form. I felt my body dissolving into a sea of pulsating pixels to this track. For me "Dancing Galaxy" and "Another World" are their best albums, and that this track seems to attain another level of beauty in this remix seems miraculous to me. Wow!
I'm afraid I have no choice but to conclude that the old school masters showed these Johnny-come-latelies a thing or two. I am not suggesting at all that Filteria and Morphic Resonance are less than very good, but I am suggesting that Astral Projection's production values are on another level of mind-bending subtlety. Two great remixes from Astral Projection, the other two are not as memorable. ~*~-
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21 hours ago, Magus Knight said:
I looked around in the 2017 section but did not see this one:
https://www.discogs.com/release/10836071-Astral-Projection-Let-There-Be-Light
Surely every other Astral Projection release ever has a review here? I would like to request a review of this one. If no one makes one I'll might've to do it myself.
Two tracks shouldn't take too long to listen to and write what springs to mind.
Here is what I wrote on Discogs. Maybe I should revise my review and post it in the reviews section?
Doctorg Jul 23, 2021
referencing Let There Be Light (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP) SUNCDEP02
Really excellent sound on this 12". Good mastering and pressing.
Astral Projection's remix of Filteria's "Filtertraces" sounds so classically AP that Filteria seems neither here nor there - a very sweet epic track that hovers on the edge of the saccharine towards the end, but in the right mood is a bomb. The masters of melody do not fail to deliver.
Filteria returns the favour with a remix of "Let There be Light": this is altogether tougher and faster with the bigger bass of nu skool Goa. The lead melody is perhaps a bit forward in the mix, making it strident - this spoils part of this remix, which I can't fully rate.
The Morphic Resonance remix of AP's "Enlightened Evolution" doesn't have shrill leads or cheesy modulations, but it can't really be said to add much, if anything, to the original, which I prefer. Two not such great remixes from the nu skool guys. I notice that neither of them has the perfect sound that Astral manage; their production is just not as subtle.
Then it is the turn of Astral to remix their own track "Another World" from the album of that name. Ahhh, sweet bliss. This is almost indescribably awesome: pure spirituality in aural form. I felt my body dissolving into a sea of pulsating pixels to this track. For me "Dancing Galaxy" and "Another World" are their best albums, and that this track seems to attain another level of beauty in this remix seems miraculous to me. Wow!
I'm afraid I have no choice but to conclude that the old school masters showed these Johnny come latelies a thing or two. Two great remixes from AP, forget about the other two. ~*~-
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On 12/20/2022 at 5:46 PM, Widar said:
Sliced soup vinyl print? Just a print? No discs? Or am I getting that wrong?
Can Kali Earth please explain what these are?
I can't speak for Kali Earth, but this is what is on their page:
oCeLoT - Sliced Soup [The Dust Album] XxX x VINYL Prints
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
More info coming soon as soon as it is clear
Includes unlimited streaming of Sliced Soup [The Dust Album] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 30 days
Buy Record/Vinyl €300 EUR or more
This is on Discogs about this album:
Artwork – Erland Yildiz, Ida*, Due*
Compiled By [Track Arrangement] – psytones
Mastered By [Levelling Mastering] – Dr. Spook
Written-By, Producer, Mastered By [Original Mastering] – Aaron Peacock
Notes
Ocelot's unreleased material with production years ranging from 1997 til 2007; made into 1 album-ride by 'psytones' who used about 2 years in all shapes & forms with short and long breaks to truly complete the track arrangement.
---Production years:
1997/98/99: Tracks 24, 25
2000: Track 1, 30
2001: Track 29
2002: Tracks 3, 8, 20, 21, 23
2003: Tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14,
2004: Tracks 15, 16, 17, 18
2005: Tracks 19, 28
2006: Tracks 2, 10, 22, 26, 27
2007: Track 12 -
Just to let you know that Kali Earth records has a couple of vinyl titles at, erm, bracing prices. I personally won't be buying these on principle, let alone wallet, but I'm just the messenger:
Escaping Escapism EP – The White Whisper
Record/Vinyl €50 EUR
Sliced Soup [The Dust Album] – oCeLoT
Record/Vinyl €300 EUR
https://kaliearth.bandcamp.com/merch
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For S.U.N. Project fans, this is new 12" on Suntrip is quite exciting because it is unreleased mixes on dat discovered by Matthias Rumoeller. It includes one of their best tracks "Crazy Stories" - I have the original 1996 12" of this on Spirit Zone and the problem with with this track, indeed the whole ep, is that the recording and/or mastering has quite dull and compressed sound. That is likely to change with this Suntrip release which has a 41 seconds longer remix of "Crazy Stories". It sounds a lot less dull online, but I will only know for sure when I play the two vinyls back to back. Here's the cover:
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If the gimmick is good, it will become highly collectible in time.
New Order had a sort of similar thing with the first vinyl edition of "Low Life" where there was a kind of waxy grease-proof paper folded over the cover - not removable but sorta similar.
I wondered if the removable section could not be like a lyric sheet or suchlike which could be stored inside the sleeve and not thrown away - I dunno, just a thought.
"slowly slowly better better" - I like that. Evolution is nature's way.
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20 hours ago, psytones said:
Hei u kinky vinyl guys & gals. This isn't an actual Vinyl release, yet .. Maybe never. But I'd anyway here like to share an idea that I would really want to complete one day .. So read me out:
I want you to think about The Velvet Underground LP with the peel-off banana design. Now transfer that base idea on to this, where the paper left-overs can be peeled off to get the 'clean cover-art design'. I'm thinking on the vinyl-coverart a laminate, able to be peeeled off. Like the plastic covering your smart-phone comes with when it's new. So when on, it looks like the img. attached. When it's peeled off, all the "grey" paper trail will be removed leaving only the Yamabikaya font, LP title, and drawing of the ppl laying around the plant. -clean design.
Did I manage to pain you a mental image of my idea for turning this release into a special vinyl edition? Hope so:) I know places that do per order deals, but smth special like this I assume would demand a high print amount, and too much money upfront. If you know where this peel-off design could be made possible, plz let me or KER know! Thnx
Thanks for sharing your idea. Gimmick covers and so on have been a part of the visceral appeal of vinyl all along. I think of the infamous Rolling Stones zip cover, or the reverse direction play of the Younger Brother 12". This, similarly, is a nice gimmick idea - but what will be done with the peeled off covering? Not very green just to throw it away...
Nervasystem - 'Underground Culture' Double Vinyl Album Crowd Funder.
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I'm licking my lips at those excerpts - the clear sound, hard metallic percussion, and uncompromising acid that we know and love from Nervasystem. Reminds me of one big reason to love Goa trance - very few acts sounded the same. I can't wait for my copy! Good luck with the rest of the production process. ~*~