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A bit of remastered Ultrabeat nostalgia. Most of the track is OK, but it is all about that melody and breakdown from around the 6 minute mark! I actually think the original sounds better than the remaster though to be honest: https://www.psynews.org/files/misc/Ultrabeat/Sensphere & Loose Id - Amplitude EP (Web).zip

As you might have guessed I have never been involved with any labels, but I do know that most labels will have a certain genre, subgenre or range of subgenres in mind for their releases, which may be one reason why a lot of well known artists will release some music on a different label to other music. I am thinking for example of RA releasing Unearthly on Altar Records which is mainly a psychill label, when their other music before that was all Goa trance. So I guess it would be a more a question of, if you manage to attract the interest of a label, would your future music fit within the boundaries of what they prefer to release? Sorry if I am stating the obvious!

It sounds like Another World part 2 to me and the music would be almost as good as that album if it wasn't for that mastering. I love Another World though which counts in this album's favor.

I can't stop listening to this. It's so intricate and smooth and beautiful that there is no sign of it ever getting old or boring a bit like how I would never get bored of a beautiful mountainous natural scene.

https://beatspace-boom.bandcamp.com/album/battle-of-the-future-buddhas-twin-sharkfins-boom-records I am liking their music more and more lately.

Oh, I love that cover art by the way.

I will let you know which are my favorite tracks when I get around to giving it another listen.

Ufomatka - Off The Beaten Track Of The Universe Cronomi Records – CRONOMI CD 011 1. Transition To Hyperspace 08:15 2. The City Of Acid Trips 08:19 3. Sliders 09:06 4. Space Chronicles 07:30 5. USS Enterprise 10:00 6. Nebula 10:37 7. Drifting Across The Universe 08:35 8. Voyager-1 (Leaving The Solar System) 10:04 This is a great and quite unusual Goa trance album with a space sci fi theme. The melodies are very funky and compared to your average Goa the vibe is a little laid back, which works well with the hints of space ambient it has. One way I thought about it is if you took MFG's Project Genisis and made it less chaotic, more coherent and smoother, you wouldn't be many Astronomical Units away from this sound. Rather than adding loads and loads of layers, Off The Beaten Track Of The Universe often achieves more with a little less. I have enjoyed listening to this quite a few times already. My favorite tracks are 2, 3, 4, 7. I like the track titles a lot too complete with Star Trek reference and I swear one of the sound effects sounded just like a photon torpedo launch! Do Cronomi a favor in their last days and BUY IT NOW: https://cronomi.bandcamp.com/album/ufomatka-off-the-beaten-track-of-the-universe If you don't they will actually destroy the CDs! No joke: 7.5/10

Yeah I get that they did it to earn money, but that doesn't help me to enjoy the music, unfortunately. I love most of MFG's music, but this one just is not to my taste, although one or two bits sounded good.

OK firstly, the music is pretty lovely. About harshness though, when I heard the first track I was going to say any harshness was a marginal thing, maybe hidden by my tinnitus. But I heard the second track and I started to notice it more. It is not the worst ever, but it is enough to notice, and enough that if I crank the volume my ears will start to get tired after a couple tracks or so. Across the whole album though, some tracks are more tolerable in that regard than others because they don't all flood the upper mids all the time. I wonder if it is just due to the fashion of cranking up the upper mids to increase perceived loudness, which isn't such a great idea for Goa because most Goa fans won't want to feel like someone is hammering metallic objects right into their ear drums, well IMHO anyway. Maybe we just need a cassette version AP! Good album.

I am listening to it right now and, honestly, not really enjoying it, sorry. The whole thing sounds kind of sterile and a bit tinny to me which I guess is the mastering. And yeah it is Goa but I feel like this has gone too far in the direction of modern psytrance. Not enough melody. My favorite MFG stuff is when they go quite dark and have some monstrous bassy synths whereas I feel like they were trying to go for a more hopeful mood in this album but it just feels kind of flat to me, but maybe that's just me. I am listening to Enlightenment right now and that one is a bit more melodic and a bit better. I will come back and listen to it another day because sometimes I just don't get some of this music on the first listen. Or maybe I won't.

It is only as empty as we make it. I will not talk about F***book but I love talking, or writing about Goa trance. I have been listening to MFG a lot lately. Wanna talk about Project Genesis or Pure Energy? Message From God I haven't really listened to yet but I will let you know what I think of it.

Track 2 of Dawn, Broken Bass is a total ear worm. It has such a catchy melody and rhythm. I was getting bored of some of the other stuff I was listening to today and this track came into my head. I love it! It is a great vibe because it is smooth and mellow yet deeply trippy at the same time. https://suntriprecords.bandcamp.com/track/broken-bass

As Cronomi is unfortunately about to disappear off the face of the Earth I am listening to, and yeah in many cases purchasing, their various releases. I will try to do some mini reviews of some of the ones I have missed. Portamento - The Portal Cronomi Records – CRONOMI005CD 1. White Dwarf 08:41 2. 48 Hours 08:05 3. The Portal 08:07 4. Monkshroom 08:41 5. Injected Spawn 08:17 6. Biosphere 09:24 7. Vitamin E 07:56 8. A Grain Of Sand 07:33 9. Controlled Experiment 09:12 This is such a cool album because it really nails the sound of early Goa, with tons of croaky acid, highly resonant synths and classic sawtooth basslines. It is incredibly old skool and yet the sound production sounds a lot more clean and modern. It manages to be highly energetic, highly melodic and highly acidic all at the same time. Very, very good. Do Cronomi a favor in their last days and BUY IT NOW: https://cronomi.bandcamp.com/album/the-portal If you don't they will actually destroy the CDs! No joke: 8/10

I have listened to the whole thing since I wrote that review and it is all well made but at this stage I think I prefer the Dawn CD to the Dusk one, which is probably not too surprising as I like their later stuff a bit better than Twin Sharkfins. I found this really interesting about the production in the bandcamp writeup: That's quite impressive there is no compression in the mixing stage at all. To my ears it doesn't sound like the sound suffers as a result of that.