mephistopheles

for the moment i am listening a lot to the latest suntrip releases of Antares, E-Mantra and Artifact303 .... this neogoa is going in the right direction .... :-)

Also have yet to discover Loud ... it seems people on this forum here are pretty wild about them for some years now ... on topic: ordered it and looking forward to some new Talpa!!! Samples sound great so i expect another great release by him!! if you are reading: thanks!!! :-)

Filteria remix and E-Mantra remix ..... sounds yummie and looking forward to hear it soon .... :-)

The full moon parties on Ko Phangan have little to do with "Goa" or "Psytrance" parties I am afraid ... yes, you will hear some Darkpsy and mostly very commercial sounding (Israeli ) full on but some good psytrance or goa .... haven't heard that there yet .... it is supposed to be true that those dark moon parties are better...but that I can't confirm yet ....

in my mind ...

Psyshop, Beatspace, Discogs or the label itself (e.g. Ultimae) In the past there were some excellent "Goa" shops (Taboo Records and Kairoo) in Antwerp but they all vanished into thin air .... :-(

oh, I don't believe Decoy has been mentioned yet .... maybe a bit older now but still worth while and also something differebnt than the usual prog formula ...

Don't forget about the 2 Tetrameth albums!!! (Zenon records, last one dates from 2010/2011 so pretty recent) If you do, you'll miss out on something progressively special ;-)

By accident indeed .... had never heard about music called "Goa" or "Universal Psychedelic Trance" .... the only electronic music I was into were those first Dance Opera compilations, which were great by the way .... I truly found the music and the mystery of it all pretty exciting and fascinating .... well, that is to say back then .... I remember going to my first party, I belief it was a Dance-A-Delic party in a manége somewhere with Electric Universe playing there!! Waw .... it's also there I bought some more cd's like Green Nuns and Black and White Rhino ....if I remember correct .... Back then there was little info to be found about this strange and mysterious style of trance ... yep, those were the days!

That must be in the holy year of 1996 ... After a festival (Pukkelpop), where I discovered a still young and unknown band called Placebo (yes I listened to rock and metal back then ... to this day actually but less ...), I went off to the local Virgin Megastore to find something from ... Placebo ... I found the cd but stopped at at the electronic music section (I was beginning to appreciate electronic music, e.g. The Prodigy, Leftfield, Dance Opera, ..) ... There I picked up a strange cd called Traveling with a sticker on it that said "Universal Psychedelic Trance" ....Allthough I did not recognize any of the artists my curiosity was awoken and I decided to listen to the cd at the counter ....After I pressed play I listened to the whole thing in one time at the counter .... I was struck by lightning!! This was what I was looking for in electronic music!! Hooked since then....I bought the cd and came back the next day in search for more.... which I found with Distance to Goa 2 and 3 .... then I started to look at the tracklist of those compilations and started to search for full albums of those artists ...back then you could still find them in your local shop (with some luck) so I found Twisted, Sonic Mandala, Phototropic ....have been collecting them for 15 years now ....damn!! .... Anyway, my first track was Rainbow Spirit feat. DJ Sangeet - Sirius Shuttle .... :-)

Personally I use the term "Psychedelic Trance" as an umbrella .... underneath are to be found subgenres as Goa, Psytrance, Full on, DarkPsy, Proggressive Psytrance, Forest, .... But that's just me ....

60% Goa (40 % older stuff - 20 % neo, although 2011 was a great year for neo with Antares, Artha, E-Mantra and Artifact303 ...!!) 20% Chill out (Aleph Zero, Interchill, Ultimae, Dakini, ...) 10% Psytrance 5% Prog 5% Full on 0% DarkPsy

New Shulman album: ALive :-)

So far for me (but I have a lot of catching up to do so ...) Some really really good Suntrips this year for me (thank you!): Antares - Exodus E- Mantra - Pathfinder Artifact303 - Back to space VA - Mind rewind :-) Juno Reactor - Inside the reactor Still have to check out the new Talpa, Logic Bomb, CBL, Solar Fields, PortaMento and some others so I'll be kept busy ... hehe

Try Behind Blue Eyes: one half of Beat Bizarre ;-)

AKD - Proggressing... SunControlSpecies - ii Behind Blue Eyes (one half of Beat Bizarre!!!) also, both albums of Tetrameth :-)

Full on: Domestic - Art making machine // Commercial hippies - If you can't stand the heat ... // Psy: Prometheus' first 2 albums // PoF - Nighttime lullebies // Logic Bomb - Unlimited + Sonic algebra // Goa: Antares - Exodus (?) (still in exploration phase but ... :-D ) // Talpa - The art of being non // Progg: Jaïa - Fiction // AKD - Progressing... // probably incorrect but for the moment it will do ....

one more :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLR8VIw2Gg&playnext=1&list=PLB16553C46A0F7DDC

Violet Vision - First sign of communication Hallucinogen - Twisted

Ma Faiza & Veet Sandeh - Liquid dreams (Masti Music - 2006)

Uptempo: 1: Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom (BNE - 2000) 2: Talpa - The art of being non (Sundance - 2004) 3: Nystagmus - The immaculate perception (Sundance - 2005) 4: Khetzal - Corolle (Suntrip - 2004) 5: Logic Bomb - Unlimited (TIP - 2002) 6: Atmos - Headcleaner (Spiral Trax - 2000) 7: Ocelot - Dream selector (Vertigo - 2006) 8: Beat Bizarre - Lewd (Iboga - 2001) 9: Jaïa - Fiction (Digital Structures - 2005) 10: Principles of Flight - Night time lullabies (Boom - 2007) Some that din't make it on the list today: VA - The mystery of the 13 crystal skulls (TIP World - 2001) Tegma - Around the world in 80 minutes (Tribal Vision - 2006) RA - 9th (Suntrip - 2008) Solar Fields - Earthshine (Ultimae - 2007) Yamabikaya - The arrival (Shiva Space Technology - 2000) VA - Israeliens 2: Bizarro (Hommega - 2000) Crop Circles - Tetrahedron (DAT Records - 2008) Crossing Mind - The holographic paradigm (DAT Records - 2010) AKD - Progressing ... (Soulectro Music - 2008) Downtempo: 1: Shulman - In search of a meaningful moment (Aleph Zero - 2003) 2: Shpongle - Tales of the inexpressible (Twisted - 2001) 3: Tripswitch - Rewired (LSD - 2007) 4: Cell - Phonic peace (Indica - 2005) 5: Ott - Blumenkraft (Twisted - 2002) 6: Solar Fields - Leaving home (Ultimae - 2005) 7: Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of sleepers (Ultimae - 2006) 8: Younger Brother - The last days of gravity (Twisted - 2007) 9: Toires - Sanati (Backroom Beats - 2002) 10: VA - Natural born chillers (Aleph Zero - 2004) Some others that didn't make it on the list today: Shulman - Endless ... Entheogenic - Dialogue of the speakers Asura - Life² VA - Vajra Kaya Project - Walking through Androcell - Efflorescence Hallucinogen - In dub ... No DAT Records release included for obvious reasons... (however great they are!) My copie of Koxbox - The great Unknown also states 2000 as release date...? Does this one count or not because some say it was released in 1999?

Have this one on a compilation somewhere ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKaJ3GrgW4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOqI15csjw That's what I remember him from (mostly, big hit back then.... :-) )

In no particular order: Albums: Ticon - Zero six after Atmos - Headcleaner Tegma - Around the world ... Beat Bizarre - Lewd AKD - Progressing ... Decoy - Not responding to light Tetrameth - Psychological pyrotechnics Jaïa - Fiction Son Kite - Colours Vibrasphere - Archipelago Tracks: Atmos - Jimmy the plate Beat Bizarre - Monochrome Beat Bizarre - Brain drain remix POTS - Candy from the strange side Tegma - One night in Caïro

VA - Ether Artha - Influencing dreams VA - People walk funny Crossing Mind - Holographiic Paradigm VA - Temple of one Trold - Time of illusion Pleiadians - Seven sisters Tetrameth - The eclectic benevolence Alienapia - Goapocalipsis Kaya Project - Desert phase remixes