Brandon

Mine would have to be: Floating Universe/Plastic I just hope that someday if I become an astronaut and I'm out orbiting Jupiter and the damn computer controlling the ship locks me out, and I get pulled along behind this strange black obelisk to the center of the universe. God I hope that song is playing when it happens.

I used to order there all the time. Never had problems.

Too bad he feels that way. This guy basically introduced me to the scene! ..Chemical Eclipse.. Camaro Kanitou.. Ahhh memories.. Would some such as he really have a hard time selling??

I know Belgians everywhere!! (We've gotta stop 'em!!)

Ka Sol! Ypsilon5! Filteria! I had the chance to buy chi-a.d. albums years ago but didn't and later wished I had. Then last week I found all of 'em in one night!

just ordered: flying rhino - third flight slipstream tip - beyond colour tip - movers & groovers at the temple of dawn last week received apsara chi-a.d. -virtual spirit chi-a.d. -anno domini chi-a.d. -infinitism electric universe -cosmic exp.

Amen. Glad to hear some positive words on this album. I ordered it two weeks ago & looking forward getting home to give it a listen.

Tomoyasu Hotei - Electric Samurai & younger brother

only prob is a lot of the "red rating" albums are a little old & thus hard to get. Jaia, Filteria, Shakta's early stuff if you can find Ypsilon5, Talamasca, Fractal Glider

I have a hard time deciding between three. Navras I think overall. Although if it wasn't for that screaming witch in Zwara I think I'd pick it. I always find myself laughing to myself and yelling at her to calm down. Angels and Men is fantastic too, compelling, sort of casts everything into black & white, God & satan. I love it. Conquistador I find myself listening to the most though, produces an interesting mood.

Parasite is great, although almost a little too crazy at times. Well Mezmorized in particular, almost gives this feeling of being on some crazy sickening carnival ride. Psychedelic certainly. Gotta be in the right mood for this album. I really don't have anything in my entire collection that really compares with this album. Miranda maybe..but the vibe this album gives is I haven't found the like yet. Digital Mandala on the other hand I really hasn't really caught with me yet. I'm not sure why, but it seems a little more muted, subtle. Kind of smoothed out with a hint of prog. It'll grow on me. The thing I find amazing is that this guy is always crapped on whenever I see him mentioned. I think he's brilliant. Anyone know anything on next release? Fractal glider kicks ass! wish I'd thought of this poll first Moni favs: *Colonization (esp @1:20 feels like the mind control beam has been turned on) Telementary Language of Silence Witch Doctor *track 8, not the printing screw up on some copies which had it as witch doctor.

For me it depends on the weather/my mood/geography. I travel constantly for my job, so I have a lot of time to really absorb whatever I'm listening to. All I do is travel coast-to-coast in the U.S. For the open desert, Arizona, California, it's usually progressive. The first time I listened to Ypsilon5 was in this incredible midwest lightning storm. Absolutely amazing! The dark sky kept flashing purple & bright white. The album I always come back to though - Alien Protein. Screaming Butterfly is great for just starting out a trip. Really intense stuff like Filteria, Pleiadians, Scatterbrain I find great for tearing through the night city at high speed. Especially with an energy drink. When I'm not listening to Psy, I switch between Mp3s and satellite radio. Is XM available in Europe?

www.psy-shop.com www.trance-shop.com www.psysale.com www.saikosounds.com www.chaosexistence.net to name a few.. spend wisely

It comes from the intro to the old TV show "The Outer Limits".

Wow I never thought I'd see Sisters of Mercy as a topic of discussion on this site. lol Speaking of absurd sampling, now you've got me craving a downtempo mix of "driven like the snow". pfffft!

Double Dragon - Continuum (vinyl) I finally found this one! One problem, no turntable!

Oh I forgot! This one cracks me up every time. "How am I supposed to hallucinate with all these swirling colors distracting me?" Fractal Glider - Colonization (Witch Doctor on some albums)

Rinkadink - anyone seen Bender? "Who built you?" and "I have always been". "So if God thinks in binary, that means.." Futurama Season 4 "Godfellas" Chi - A.D. - Biocandy !! 'Can you take this ecological systems that has evolved on a planetary scale and stick them in such an incredibly small container with disproportion in amounts of atmosphere and soil and water and ocean and have the same principles basically functioning.' 'We can take these animals and systems and fit them into an incredibly small container and it still works.' From National Geographic channel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes! I love that one. I think some of the old "cheese" quotes like that are what fascinated me about the genre. That may be one of the first goa tracks I had ever heard, along with Talamasca - Sinai. Question: When I saw LOTR II (the two towers), Gandalf gives this description of his experience with death. Right when I heard it, I thought this sample is going to be done everywhere, but I've never heard it! I know its out there. Can anyone help?

Good list Seraph! Someone finally mentioned Thievery Corporation (love Facing East!). Phi - Phinalizer Etnica - The Juggling Alchemist Under the Blacklight Cosmosis - Synergy Juno Reactor - Labyrinth Fractal Glider - Parasite Kox Box - Forever After Pleiadians - IFO Kox Box - Dragon Tales MFG - The Prophecy Toi Doi - Technologic Filteria - Sky Input Ypsilon5 - Binary Sky Space Monkey - Psychotic Episode Hallucinogen - Twisted Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Us & them!) Jim Morrison - An American Prayer William Orbit - Strange Cargo I, II, III Radiohead - Hail to the Thief The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland Radiohead - OK Computer Tool - Undertow The Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster (joking!) Bach - All Brahms - All Vangelis - Heaven and Hell, Bladerunner, Opera Sauvage, 1492 Conquest of Paradise Hans Zimmer - Gladiator

Dark Nebula Miraculix Does anyone know where I can get Scatterabrain - Mexican Jesus??

Trance-shop & psyshop both deliver to the US. There used to be a shop in Portland, OR - Chaosexistence -.net? -.com? but they went strictly mailorder about a year ago. There were a couple in the San Fernando valley, are they still active??

First of all, I don't think I would recognize a britney spears song if I heard one. Does this make me a bad American? hmm... What inspired such an abomination I can't understand, but I don't think there is much to worry about. Who would run out to buy it!?!! I don't mean to impugn Toxic's talent, just their judgment. On one hand its a sad commentary, but on the other I think its gotta be a prank. Please God. lol

aaaaarg! 19 more days... 19 more days

Dasa, My thoughts exactly, but I don't see why not. I can't see how anyone is wronged in the process in the case of out of print stuff. If its available I'm willing and happy to support the artist/label etc... So what are you looking for? I've got KoxBox - Dragon Tales Cosma - Nonstop -available @ trance-shop.com KoxBox - Forever After Colorbox - Train to Chroma City Dimension 5 - Second Phaze Pigs In Space etc & some others, I guess I didn't realize some of those were getting scarce.. The ones I have a bitch finding are Cosmology - Synergy IFO scatterbrain too everybodys out of stock

Good Question Insejn, I think that a lot of us, myself included have been wondering this for a long time, and for some reason the decline in theme/concept based albums seemed to coincide the decline of melodic psy. For the most part at least. To me the minimal sound was inherently dark, and after a while theres only so much you can do with the "dark" feel. Concept based albums were one of the biggest things that attracted me to the scene. Take Colorbox - Train to Chroma City for example, an older one with an interesting concept. The album works like a relentless hypnotic train trip through a series of cities, each city a different color and the tracks correspond to the color, the only time I've seen this theme structure but with a lot of potential I think. Anyway, I don't think someone can dispute that this genre has some of the most compelling ideas and music anywhere, its always felt like the music to an unknown sci-fi to me. Pick up almost any Psy album and you're gonna find a few tracks at least, based on some really fascinating concepts, as well as some kick ass music. Samples I think are the difficult thing. I think they're looked as giving a less mature sound, which may be true, but . Anyone can slap together some random "cool sounding samples" and thus a sloppy sounding album, but trying to make something with a cohesive feel is harder. I don't get why a concept album would be hard to understand though?? Melodic is slowy on the rise with an even more polished sound, and I think with it more good ideas.