Manuser

Context is important, back in 2005 the genre was not clearly defined as it is today. Ka-Sol was one of the pioneer but you can hear the old Ka-Sol tracks sound totally different to today's forest psytrance. Anyway you can see from the first responses on this thread that some (me included) probably never heard of the term forest psytrance and were trying to pick music that is dark and deep, and reminiscent of some kind of forest. Derango's album came out 3 months after this thread.

You are right, there is a touch of goa but it is definitely a mix of several genres (psytrance or melodic progressive). I wish the melody during the break down at the 11th minute could last a bit longer or come back later in the track.

I listened to the Yamabikaya album a while ago and really did not like it much. Was a disappointment for me but I guess it's worth buying it if you are a collector.

Not utterly psychedelic as the sound is more morning, long track but nice progression and a superb second half. Very trancy stuff. The first Qiujan album released in 2015 already showed great signs of talent.

Liquid Neon Sky is a well known track, beautiful classic, but Black Light is seriously underrated, it has a sweet entrancing bassline unique in its own way, one of the best tracks Chi-A.D. ever composed in my opinion.

Gnocchi's kickdrum is a bit too loud for my taste. I am a big fan of this kind of kickline (Oforia - Maximiser), quite typical but very frank and perfect harmony with the rest of the track:

Third track is awesome! (nice old school artwork)

Ofer's favorite track is Life on Mars, well it is the AP track that sounds the most like Oforia great track indeed.

Interesting article > http://www.stack.com/a/is-cutting-dairy-from-your-diet-worth-it

It depends on people but it's not easy to digest, also I know it's hard to believe what we can read on the Internet nowadays but I heard about so many famous sportsmen who stopped drinking cow milk and felt better afterwards. To be honest I felt a difference too, even though I still drink once in a while, but not everyday like I used to.

In my case, I think I ate meat or fish for a total of perhaps 5 times in the last 3 years, so that should make me a vegetarian. Eat eggs several times a week, cheese very rarely, cow milk sometimes but mostly go for soy milk. Rest of the diet is a lot of nuts, oats, vegetables and fruits, pasta or rice, tofu, beans. Sometimes beer or wine of course

Never listened to his down tempo sound, but among his uptempo albums I found this one to be the least interesting. I guess coming last (to date) did not do it much favor. As usual with E-Mantra, if you isolate one random track from the album, you'll find it very impressive. If you listen to the whole album, you'll find it very linear. Still cannot rate it mediocre as objectively his sound is one of the best, I rate it 5/7 because I was expecting more surprises.

I had a listen on Youtube, I understand those not willing to spend $22 on this album. It find it much less interesting than Ubarpedia (which was a triple CD but still had more interesting tracks in all three CDs). I still like this album, but to be honest there is no track that really caught my attention.

I uploaded the first track on Youtube years ago but sadly never got any reply. It may be unreleased, because usually a track from 1997 should be easy to identity.

Excellent: