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    What new music did you get today?

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    ^ The last thing we'll ever see from Spirit Zone...  :(

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    just ordered:

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    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.

    Ka-sol - Scraqp

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    Cut it mate. Where's the respect?

    Everyone's allowed to listen whatever they want and not feel guilty about it. The purpose of music is to give something to you... it doesn't matter what kind of music it is that delivers you emotions and feelings.

     

    :)

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    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.

    your favourite track in "Labyrinth" album by Juno?

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    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.

    Fractal Glider

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    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.

    what is the best driving psytrance?

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    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?

    Coolest sample ever

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    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.

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    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?

    Perfect album?

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    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

    Psy in the US

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    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??

    Full-on has reached a new low...

    in General Psytrance

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    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

    CD's that seems to be impossible to find

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    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

    More concept CDs

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    Why isn't more concept cds released? I mean like 'VA - Mystery of the 13 crystal skulls' where all the tracks have a certain feeling/theme to them. It's kinda hard to explain but if you listen to that cd you'll hear that there is a main theme throughout the whole cd. 'VA - Broken' is another example (maybe not a good example but still) of an excellent concept cd where a more dnb/breakbeat sound is the main theme. Another example is the 'VA - Twelve' cd. I would love to see more of that kind of releases. It's not that hard to come up with ideas. I mean, take some famous artists and let them make a really scary track, viola, we have a dark concept cd :) Imagine artists like Hallucinongen, Logic Bomb, Ticon, Psysex for example making something they otherwise shouldn't. It would be very cool to hear that. Make an artists make a sound they usually wouldn't make. I'm really sick of the regular VA cd released almost every single day.

     

    Your thoughts?

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    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.

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