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Interesting stuff, this. There are other theories that could support consciousness carrying on, even if they're right about the universe ending up in heat death / Big Freeze. Look up Boltzmann brains. The idea is that if the universe remains in existence for eternity then eventually random quantum fluctuations in the vacuum of space will spontaneously create a thinking brain. I don't think many physicists believe in the theory but it does illustrate that eternity is long enough for all sorts of really strange things to possibly start happening, so maybe our current understanding of the universe will cease to apply. Roger Penrose also came up with a model where (as I understand it) a new universe is born from each heat death, called Conformal cyclic cosmology or CCC.

I wish him well. His mental health is more important. As you said, if he can afford now to make music for the love of it with a reduced need to make money from it, so much the better, I think. I enjoyed Flux and Contemplation, by the way.

Hope it's OK to wake old threads up here. I was a lurker when I read this one. I'd classify this track more as experimental / noise than psytrance but LSD Nikon by Jam & Spoon has distorted jazz or blues samples throughout along with a camera shutter sound and some weird stereo effects.

It's very hard to pick only one and it's always going to be difficult to quantify talent and weigh that above favouritism - the appreciation of music is always fairly subjective (which makes it weird that within a genre there's often so much agreement on who's best). Back in the day I'd have said Posford without question. Hallucinogen was pretty much my introduction to psytrance (I know some classify it as Goa trance. Really his work almost made its own genre). More recently I too have been highly impressed with the works of Christer Borge-Lunde (RA, Dimension 5, etc.) and he just seems to get better and better. Shift from Unearthly is now one of my all-time favorite tracks - exquisitely layered with an amazing memorable melody and barking 303 notes. For the most talented recent artist I have to mention Rita Raga. She's also hugely underrated. Her Mystic Melodies album is a lovely mixture of mellow downtempo and intense fullon remixes. She sings beautifully on her tracks often with deeply inspiring lyrics and she plays multiple instruments as well.