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Merlin is a nice track but doesn't even remotely come close to The Gathering, Disco Mushroom, Virtual Voyage, Return Of The Shadows, Symphonatic, Dracul, B.P.Empire, Release Me, Bust A Move...all of them better than that track ( for me )...

Have you heard their first album Deagua ? Pretty dark atmosphere... Huh ?

I agree about Pete Martin, I wanted to put him there too but I estimated that 2 albums he made aren't enough to be the true master of the genre, even though he did made Master Of The Universe... But, in the end, you are right, he is king of chaos...

I feel exactly the same... I feel happy when I listen something dark, mean and quality, not scared at all... What scares me is folk and disco music....Shivering uglyness...

Battle Of The Future Buddhas Ka Sol Xenomorph The Delta Midi Milliz Haldolium all for forest listening at night...

Well, I like listening to it in various situations, but you are right Ormion, the best would be listening by yourself somewhere out. I do enjoy dark psy at home as well, being drugged like crazy, sitting with friends, playing with their minds...

Then, I don't have all of the albums...but I am sure that it will be worth bying nevertheless...it's Monolake...

MONOLAKE rocks ! I have all of their albums and they are all crystal clear liquid electronic ambient at its best....

Light hearted guy...

There are very rarely psy breaks made in psy trance these days... Maybe they should move onto new genre : full on breaks...Blaaah...

There are very ralerewly psy breaks made in psy trance these days... Maybe they should move onto new genre : full on breaks...Blaaah....

Ummm, yeah, how could I forget about him ? You are right...The guy released heaps of stuff and is very influential in french scene... You are right about them, I completely missed german progressive artists... I mentioned Merv Pepler in beginning, surely has... I agreed about Graham Wood...not Raja Ram....

PLASTIKMAN - CLOSER 2003 MUTE 1. ASK YOURSELF 2. MIND ENCODE 3. LOST 4. DISCONNECT 5. SLOW POKE ( TWILIGHT ZONE MIX ) 6. HEADCASE 7. PING PONG 8. MIND IN REWIND 9. I NO 10. I DON'T KNOW After 5 years of waiting, here is the fourth album by famous techno DJ, Richie Hawtin. And you could expect a little bit more effort after 5 years of waiting and many years of experience. You would expect that after brilliant CONSUMED he would make a blast now, going further down the stream, and instead he is loosing himself in explanation, non sense sounds and noises and just a little bit manical approach towards music making. His first song ASK YOURSELF is a dark intro, having pretty sick sample through the track, having very ambiental structure and tripped out atmosphere. I like this track. It sounds like an intro to some weird movie. Next track MIND ENCODE is pretty nice song. It has similar feel like on Consumed having minimal structure and ominous feel. LOST is almost classical piece with its gentle, soothing melodies that really make you feel lost somewhere. It is one of the most thought through tracks here and it is even so short...it should have been longer actually. DISCONNECT continues in the style of the first track, again with sickening vocal that tells you the 'urban visdom'. It could have been better track, he misses something, it just sounds too minimal and without any specific meaning. SLOW POKE is another minimal track wihtout any basic point, just random thrown sounds and effects, it seems he didn't put so much effort into making this album. HEADCASE already sounds more interesting and like Consumed brother, but he again fails into creating detached and bleaked atmosphere as he used to. Either he moved onto crack and completely lost his inspiration or something CLOSING happend to him. PING PONG is one of the most interesting songs on the album...he finally added some kick and actually take you somewhere instead of non sense random music making like on the rest of the album. MIND IN REWIND is maybe the best track here. His old 303 sounds are here and much varied arrangement. It moves slowly but it does take you somewhere, but still drags. I NO is short interval between last track and next one and it sounds as pretty good intermezzo. I DON'T KNOW is the longest one here and one of the better ones as well...it is also liquid and with distinctive rhythm. it reminds the most on his previous works. Instead of making whole album like that he only made 2 tracks with some sense. Unfortunately I like this album the least by this ambient master. It seems he lost some of ideas, decided to make literally CLOSED album for coming down on heroin or any kind of twisted opiate cause that is how it sounds, way too minimal and closed. 6/10 Unfortunately...

SASHA - AIRDRAWNDAGGER 2002 BMG INTERNATIONAL 1. DREAMPELS 2. MR. TIDDLES 3. MAGNETIC NORTH 4. CLOUD CUCKOO 5. IMMORTAL 6. FUNDAMENTAL 7. BOILEROOM 8. BLOODLOCK 9. REQUIEM 10. GOLDEN ARM 11. WAVY GRAVY Here is the first album by famous international DJ Sasha and comparing to his playing, this is completely different turn, he decided to make pretty tame, gentle album for chilling rather than dancing. This is pure home listening music. To me, this is masterpiece. It sounds like perfect mix between Earth Nation and Speedy J. He made that kind of album, in similar vein to Terra Incognita and G Spot, and while those 2 are from 1995, this one is from 2002 and production is very good and liquid. He made more of a freestyle album than course one. It starts with very cute intro DREAMSPELS that is very gentle intro, brilliantly followed by MR. TIDDLES, very dreamy, ambient perfection. This song alone with few more is worth the whole album with its cute melodies and gentle pads. It is perfect song for chilling. After which comes MAGNETIC NORTH which is also pretty dreamy track with some beat added and more distinctive atmosphere with of course trancey sounds and melody in ambient manner. Next comes CLOUD CUCKOO, faster and more energetic piece. It moves smooth and concrete and has also various trancey melodies to spice it up for better journey. After this comes one of the best on the album IMMORTAL. Huh, this song reminds me so much on early Harthouse music. It is ambient trance at its best. It reminds me a little bit on Orbital with its musical structure. Perfect song...After that comes second best one FUNDAMENTAL. Now, this is faster track, darker, and is done like a breakbeat, with lots of changing moods and melodies. He is really the atmosphere man, setting the mood right, preparing you for something, but not taking you there completely. BOILEROOM is in similar vein to Fundamental with its dark, breakbeat mood. It goes very good after previous one, making nice continuation. BLOODLOCK is first trance song here, sounds like a crossover between trance and progressive house. Very good track that is followed by ultimate ambient piece REQUIEM. Now this one is also one of the better ones here; very gentle, celestial sounds and melodies makes this track most easy to listen. It is the best track for coming down on some hard drug. It is very lyrical in its structure and should have been put as last one. Next one is housey GOLDEN ARM, pretty good track that would perfectly go after Bloodlock. It is entirely done like a club track and wouldn't be bad playing it at a club. It is very bouncey and clubby and completely different than the rest of the album. WAVY GRAVY closes the album and it is very good track...a little bit melancholic, yet very focused and concrete with lots of emotional melodies all around. All in all, this is very good effort by famous dj, and it is very stylish and personal album, especially for his first one...Very good...9/10

Eternal Basement - Mind Out Talking Souls - Place On Earth X-Frame - Distorted Reality

Interesting suggestions.... I would add Talamasca - Halloween ( Toi Doi Rmx )

You are right, but that dear little boy is disliking almost everything except Shpongle and Juno and is rather provocing for fun, so I don't mind if someone feels threatened by his 'supreme' taste...

OMG ! Definitely better one... I have one more : Faithless - God Is A DJ ( Astral Projection Rmx )...also better than original...

Stunning news ! Summer ambience on its way...

Hey Gnome, man, don't insulted by Cinos almost deliberate provocations, he already addmited that he is doing provocation no matter cause of his poor taste...just let him be as I did and you'll see that he is unfixable...He really likes to bitch...little fellow...

Yeah, he sucks as a dj so much ! That is why I didn't count him, he lost it...he became demented in a way, sorry to say that, 2 times I saw him djing he seemed very deranged, without focus, like some crazy kid, fooling around. I had huge respect towards him until I saw him live... Yeah, I always wondered what was his part in The Infinity Project. Except of fooling around with voice samples and crazy parts, I don't think he contributed by any means or there or in Shpongle...But he has full respect of having nice ideas and putting great albums/compilations together...

I want it !

Fluke - Atom Bomb ( FSOL Rmx ) FSOL - My Kingdom ( The Orb Rmx ) The Orb - Toxygene ( FSOL Rmx ) Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy ( Boards Of Canada Rmx ) Underworld - Born Slippy ( Chemical Brothers Rmx ) Chemical Brothers - Electrobank ( Prodigy Rmx ) Prodigy - Breathe ( Massive Attack Rmx ) Massive Attack - Karmacoma ( Shpongle Rmx ) Coldcut - Eine Kleine Hedmusick ( Eat Static Rmx ) Tricky - Hell is Round The Corner ( Dino Psaras Rmx ) Prodigy - Narayan ( Juno Reactor Rmx ) Plastikman - Consumed ( X-Dream Rmx ) Juno Reactor - War Dogs ( Tim Schuldt Rmx ) Tristan - Reptile Mind ( Hallucinogen Rmx ) Tandu - Visually Distorted ( Psychaos Rmx ) Total Eclipse - The Furnace ( Cydonia Rmx ) Cydonia - Freakshow ( Total Eclipse Rmx )

You are absolutely right about Leiner and Biosphere. I forgot about Orichalcum but they made one album only and few singles, right ? Can you tell me what happend to them back then and why they stopped making more music all of a sudden ?

What ? No one is interested to talk about people that are behind all this ? I was sure I will find someone to talk with about this thing...