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When the party is over, it is what you have done with your tunes that counts and not how have you done it. It is always amazing to hear a DJ cut 'n' paste with enough skill as though the needles from the records players were mere extensions of his hands, but if the music sucks, there is no rescue...

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+1 Malevol3nt, coming from Croatia, there are XYZ releases which pretty much fit your description floating all over Zagreb for virtually next to nothing I remember once listening to a CD consisting exclusively of sounds of waves clashing against each other, dolphins, etc... It was a painful experience. No wonder I barely get a kick out of ambient music. Yawnish yawns all over the place.

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W - O - W - ! - ! - ! I will repeat: WOW! Having these items is already a miracle on its own, parting with them is a luxury of unprecedented proportions. Rarely do I openly write it, but I envy you. I really do.

An entire slew of The Prodigy tracks and D Shake's Techno Trance (Paradise Is Now).

Khetzal's "Corolle" was really a sonical mind expanding experience. It was, and still is, considered an instant classic in my ears. It is very rare that a release hits it on the nail from so many corners. It successfully covers a wide spectrum of styles and emotions.

I don't. Your threads are a direct denial of the entire concept of being ridiculous. By percieveing foreign information and recommendation as spam, you unwillingly perform that blasphemous act in a thread you gave birth to. Ergo, you are commiting a crime you thought you were speaking out against. By blindly refusing to see the light kind members are trying to provide you with here, you sink deep into a steep tunnel, way off the highways of Bulgaria. Have no fear, don't be injured with doubt, I gotta let go of the beer, but could not live without.

A perfect trader. Joseph really reached out and helped me with getting a release I'd otherwise have trouble getting here in Croatia. Friendly, reliable and communicative- delivery was fast and safe, with the discs being exactly as described. Great guy! Highly recommended.

I'm not really optimistic about the future in general, let alone psytrance... :drama:

I would adore to know how much copies of "aLive" were actually sold. I adore that album. I seriously do. It is not often brought up when essential old school classics are discussed, but in my opinion their debut belongs in any discussion of the type. But yeah, a few years back I recall reading somewhere that due to distribution issue the release was a commercial flop Going back to mars well thought out and detailed post, I must say I more or less agree with it all, but... Just like mars, myself or most probably any other forum user here, we all use to get allowances from our parents, we all use to count every coin we had and we were all sometimes torn apart between getting drunk out with our friends or buying a new CD/t-shirt/computer game/whatever. I was never rich, but didn't have to eat one meal a day either. See, I use to buy CDs when I was a kid. Not often, but I use to do it. Made me happy and it felt good going out and buying albums by The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Underworld and other big acts of the era. Then, as today, youngsters were always the music industry's primary target. To my knowledge, p2p programs were not yet around, and even if they were, I had no internet at home. My point is, if one has the habit of buying music, if one is ready to make a sacrifice for it, then money will be no issue. Of coarse it is hard to make ends meet in a manner of being able to go out, regularly visit the cinema, taking your girlfriend out for a few drinks, paying entrance fees at club entrances, and then buying CDs to top it all off. Nobody says it is easy, but it isn't hard for anybody to spend money on what he really likes. Spending money on what really satisfies you is never really a problem, and very few individuals regret it. If you really like music, if you do consider yourself to be a big music fan, then you will go out and buy a CD. You might have to miss a movie at the cinema, but it's a sacrifice you volontarily and consciously made- people do it every day all over the globe. Sacrifice is made at one end to make something at the other work out. People who like the music and respect the artists will buy the albums. I'm not saying that if you like music you have to necessarily go out and purchase 3000 CDs during a ten year time span, but when a release truly interests you, the cinema, the new clothes, the beer busts at your local bar will all take a seat and wait their turn. Or they won't? The piracy issue, in my humble opinion, is ruining the music industry in general not because of the sake of people just "stealing" anything they can, but because the industry itself is having a wrong approach. The entire global musical scene revolves around mass production, there are labels and artists literary popping out of every crack in the wall. The listeners are bombed from all four corners of the globe with enough music that if they could have it all for free they'd never be able to finish listening to it all. So downloading is hard to resist. You wanna chip in, and hear as many albums as you can. Buying them all is out of the question, because for 95% of the population, spending so much money on round, shiny pieces of plastic is insane. The average listener today does not even know where to begin. He can hardly pick out what really interests him, let alone knowing what to buy. Some people just download so much, that with all the confusion created in their heads, they cannot even remember how well do certain releases fare in their heads... "Did I like this album?", "Who is this artist?", "Do I wanna buy this one?", "Oh wait! When did I get this?", "Hey, I didn't even know I had this guy's album on my HD!!!"...

I missed dropping a comment on this one... It somehow managed to slip my mind... This is indeed quite an entertaining piece of work. I never quite thought each track is a masterpiece, but they all deliver a little something to make the album come across as a more enjoyable entity. I still get the most out of "Free Range" when playing it start to finish. There are certain tracks, such as Smoke A Lot (Ricochet Mix) and Marijuajuana, which don't say much to me on their own, but within the context of the full album, quality listening is guaranteed. But then there are simply beautiful toons like the title track, Free Range, which sets new standards in positively charged electronic music, if some exaggeration is allowed. It is so mind opening, so honest in its intention to lift an entire dance crowd up to the moon- the last few minutes of it are simply beyond words. They won't suffice. Oh My (Good Golly Me) and Rock My Soul (Joker Vs. Operator Mix) don't fall far behind, as both are highly original, top of the line party numbers, while successfully flirting with vocal snippets/humorous samples, without sounding tiresome or dull. In fact, as quite a few reviewrs stated before me, a vast majority of the album tends not to take itself too seriously, but it's done in a way that its maturity and credibility don't get compromised. It's fun all the way sure, but hard work, lots of effort and skill drip out of every one of its pores! "Free Range" won't ignite any revolutions or alter the way I percieve music, but God forbid a world where every musical album had to. Thus far it has provided me with a fair dosage of listening sessions, and I hope it continues to do so. In my own little private world, O.O.O.D.'s third output does not reach the insanely high standars created by the previous two, but honestly, comparing is out of the question here. Those were some other times and listeners had different demands and criteria. Nonetheless, they crafted a great album here. No more, no less. Home listeners or feet stomping party freaks should be impressed alike. "Free Range" has enough treats to go around and satisfy everyone.

1. Do you download music from the web? Any kind of music. How much? How often? I stopped. Maybe I would if I had more time. Actually, I do have spare time, and yes some of it is spent on the internet, but I prefer chatting on MSN, reading interesting movie/sport/music related articles. If exchanging tracks with some forum members here is piracy and considered crime, then I got no other option but to plead guilty. But then, those trades consist of rips from original releases, so the music was payed for, thus ensuring the artist and label in question got their piece of the pie. 2. Do you download specifically Psytrance releases? I use to. In fact, it is thanks to all those p2p software that I became aware of my favorite acts. The main difference is that, unlike many, I gave back to the artists as much as I could by buying the original CDs. So I guess I reedemed myself if any harm was done back in the day. 3. Do you think that downloading (and any other forms of piracy) really hurt the music industry? Yes and no. Some artists got world wide recognition and hit superstardom because of their music getting freely spreaded all over the world, reaching the most isolated corners of the globe, where otherwise it most probably would have never come... On the other hand, some artists are having sudden lossess in sales. Labels are collapsing. Distributors are out of ideas on how to opress the piracy trend... All in all, as every complex issue, this is a damn vicious cycle... 4. Do you think that downloading (and any other forms of piracy) really hurt the Psytrance industry? Tough one. On a personal level I know barely any people who are really involved in the scene. There are people way more competent than I am who have way more expertise to nicely answer this one. But, following my own logical thread from the previous question, I suppose that if this issue negatively affects the music industry as a whole, then to a certain extent it also makes sense that it equally affect all of its sub categories, genres, styles and branches. Naturally, I could be wrong. 5. Would you like a world that every new album/comp would be released only in the web? Nah, just looking at some of those CDs/12" on my shelf makes my blood pressure higher. It feels good being, in a certain way, a part of history of a musical genre you've venerated for years. I feel great looking at original albums from my favourite artists. I feel like I contributed a little something to the masterpieces those people provided the music world with. And that is a feeling no web site, or on-line music shop can take away.

+ 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 My picks: Orion- Futuristic poetry (1997) (Symbiosis Records) Orichalcum & The Deviant- s/f (1997) (T.I.P. Reocrds) Technossomy- Synthetic flesh (1997) (Flying Rhino Records) Planet B.E.N.- Trippy future garden (1996) (Polytox Records) ^^ ...mind bending stuff... ^^

I wasn't refering to new toons. I was talking about Flying Rhino Records back catalogue: if one is not happy or complains about the 128kbps MP3s on their web site, then head to eBay and discogs and buy the originals... Why rant about the WAVs which you are not likely to get?

There is a still sealed copy on discogs going for 22 euros, and that is relatively accessible for an album of this magnitude, IMHO, but if you have never listened to the album before, I might even suggest giving it a listen first, let alone buying the Avatar version. I'm sorry I can't be of some more help, but since I've had both copies (and sold 'em), I haven't really been looking for that album a whole lot, but I see it pop up pretty often for circa 20 euros, which is not a rip off for a timeless '97 X-Dream classic...

http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50273

Not crap, but the album is re-recorded in reeeeeeally low volume. It appears that the recording volume is lowered a whole lot on the Avatar version. Luckily, though, the original Tunnel Records release is still available ALL over the place for fairly accessible prices. I had both versions and sold 'em. I'm happy with the WAVs...

I gotta chip into this discussion. Unlike most people, I tend to like "Transmissions" more than any other subsequent, and generally considered more groundbreaking and experimental, Juno Reactor release. Their debut just sprinkles that old school madness and acid all over the place. It may their most simple and "conventional" album, but is by far the catchiest and memorable in my opinion that is.

IMHO "Fiction" was a spectacular album. Its true beauty and value will only get fully revealed as time passes by. In my ears, it was an instant classic, and I'm certain that in a few years many listeners will feel the same.

Now don't be greedy, man. If you want top notch sound quality, you have discogs and eBay, and your own money to spend . Be happy with what you get...

+1 It's a tough call, but this just might be my pick for X-Dream's finest release evargh. Simply marvellous music.

I agree, but his seminal classic "Are am eye" will forever stay a life altering track in my ears