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  1. bedroom off the computer with ancient boxy yamahas bookshelf size living room with polk speakers and onkyo amp on the road with ipod
  2. three cheers for Mr Bungle, empty space. that cd was definitely getting daily play around my apartment for a while. Now... i mostly listen to my music playlist on random shuffle, so i don't listen to any one thing more than others. but... i can say i've been listening to ishq, ozric tentacles, and the saafi brothers a good deal lately.
  3. amazingly, you can buy/download this at www.emusic.com. so far... sounds like maybe a combo of banco de gaia and early fluke??? it's definitely "old-school" but that doesn't bother me at all.
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    Jaïa - Blue Energy

    Until recently you could get Dakini's 2cd rerelease of this from their webshop, which i partook of last year. Dunno if it's still in stock. really glad I did, it's sooo good. some moments remind me of lighter progressive trance, but then other times (like mai mai!) it's pure "goa." One of the top trance cds i own.
  5. http://www.touchsamadhi.com for psy happenings on the east coast.
  6. I downloaded this song off mp3.com, back in its heyday, from a page put up by SST. Btw, in the beginning of the song you can hear Terence Mckenna talking, his voice is very twisted and stretched, but I think he says something like: "use your voice to make an object, that is what the psychedelic experience is all about."
  7. it'd be cool to merge all the current reviews back into the database when such a thing finally comes.
  8. kiwa, texas faggott, and definitely brothomstates! brothomstates are not "psy" per se, but they make some really awesome IDM on Warp and Merck records.
  9. well, as long as we can agree to disagree... I think that Shulman's In Search of a Meaningful Moment is an utterly amazing piece of work, so deeply psychedelic. in some ways, perhaps even better than Shpongle; it's a very special disc to me and I only pull it out on certain occasions. Bluetech's prima materia was good, and from what i've heard of it, elementary particles was even better. this guy makes pretty good solid innovative chill. Entheogenic is unfortunately not so good. Their tracks may have a plastic-ey sheen of nice sounds, but I found it to be on the whole quite formulaic and not particularly deep. Some people like this for some reason, but I think they should listen more carefully. They use all the same sample cd's as shpongle and ott, etc.
  10. oh yes, g5 powerbook will happen eventually. this year is possible
  11. "hikikomori" means "withdraw from society," and it basically refers to introverted japanese youth who live perpetually indoors and online. i really wanna hear that eat static/simon p collab....
  12. "beautiful place out in the country" is the one for me.
  13. this is so geeky, but i love this track. works very well with downtempo!
  14. don't expect it many to be anywhere near the fastest mac ever (that'd be the dual 2.5ghz g5, drool), but still, so small and cute and affordable!
  15. mystery of the yeti - tribal gathering
  16. Wow, Uni looks like they have a pretty dynamic live setup... looks exciting
  17. try some jaia or vibrasphere for subdued proggy melodies... phi and alien project for slightly cheesy in-your-face melodies... hallucinogen and talpa for twisted melodies uhh, maybe old total eclipse for oldskool goa melodies? I think saikosounds has their 2nd cd violent relaxation in stock.
  18. the orb - a mile long lump of lard, a huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the center of the ultraworld, we're pastie to be grill you ott - spannered in pilton amon tobin - four ton mantis, get your snack on, golfer vs boxer, Ten Piece Metric Wrench Set, Hot Korean Moms atmos - cable enable, average beverage, random landlord mr bungle - none of them knew they were robots, the air conditioned nightmare tortoise - "in sarah, menken, christ and bethoven there were women and men," along the banks of rivers underworld - mmm skyskraper i love you amorphous androgynous/fsol - she sells electric ego, among myselves, Go Tell It To The Trees Egghead, Her Tongue is Like a Jellyfish, High Tide on the Sea of Flesh padmasana - holistic resonance, be where now
  19. argh, this one has been teetering on my wishlist for months, the sounds sound samples are pretty nice, but i can't tell if it will stand up to repeated listenings... please tell me, basilisk, if it's as much of a diamond as it could be.
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    The Orb - Orblivion

    seraph, if you just don't listen to the vocal tracks, I think Cydonia sounds about as good as any other orb album. mile long lump of lard and especially terminus are nice tracks. anyways, it seems it was just a momentary digression into popmusicland, because the newest orb album, Bicycles and Tricycles, is pretty good.
  21. another worthwhile mention: http://www.ambient.us Only for ambient and chillout, but really nice selection. Run by the owner of Spiralight records, if memory serves me. Ultimae, Interchill, and Candyflip all well represented, as well as a number of interesting independent ambient releases I've never previously heard of. I've bought from Ambient.us, EDMDigital, and Beatport, and all were a pleasant experience. I tried clickatrack, as I liked their selection (lots of prog-psy), but the website interface was a little unprofessional compared to the others, and they never sent my account activation email. Let's hope they get their act back together and get back online (with higher bitrate please?), as they definitely had potential; most all the other online download sites are focused on the progressive and house scenes, but clickatrack had more prog-psy than anybody.
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    The Orb - Orblivion

    For me, this album signified a turning towards the "new" orb style: less long drawn out ambiences, and more focused on trippy sounds and solid dubby beats. It might not be quite as spacey as the old stuff, but a band's gotta evolve sooner or later. super plus for S.A.L.T., with awesome paranoid conspiracy theorist vocal sample.
  23. this has a very sci-fi "in-space" kinda feel to it; the samples about HAL from the 2001 movie really help this. as i remember it, for the most part it's not overly aggressive or dark... you just kinda drift in space past alien planets. I've not heard Spheres 1, but this along with the Synaesthesia albums was part of my early "ambient education."
  24. old delerium = not cheesy at all new delerium = sickeningly cheesy they've changed a lot over the years. semantic spaces was a good balance for me. synaesthesia was always different than delerium anyway i guess, with out without the cheese.
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