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    "Concept" albums

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    SVEN VATH/RALF HILDENBEUTEL - THE HARLEQUIN, THE ROBOT & THE BALLET DANCER

     

    Has strong musical and journey concept, very serious music and entrancing atmospheres.

     

    PLASTIKMAN - CONSUMED

     

    The very essential concept of minimal music.

     

    MURCOF

    - MARTES

    - UTOPIA

    - REMEMBRANZA

    - COSMOS

     

    Follow the pattern ? He is making a tribute to himself, first letters of each album will give in the end MURCOF.

     

    Not to mention very delicious and strong musical concept that connects all these albums. Mesmerising electronic stuff.

    Who's released the most "strong" albums?

    in General Psytrance

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    ETNICA/PLEIADIANS

     

    JUGGLING ALCHEMIST UNDER THE BLACK LIGHT

    ALIEN PROTEIN

    EQUATOR

    IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

    FAMILY OF LIGHT

     

     

    X-DREAM/DELTA

     

    TRIP TO TRANCESYLVANIA

    WE CREATED OUR OWN HAPPINESS

    SCIZZOEFFECTIVE

    RADIO

     

     

    MIDI MILIZ/SPIRALLIANZ

     

    ANTISTAT

    PASSAGES

    NON STANDARDS

    BLAST FOOD

    STEREOPARK

     

     

    JUNO REACTOR

     

    TRANSMISSIONS

    BEYOND THE INFINITE

    BIBLE OF DREAMS

    SHANGO

    LABYRINTH

     

     

    CHI-A.D.

     

    VIRTUAL SPIRIT

    ANNO DOMINI

    INFINITISM

    EARTH CROSSING

     

     

    ASTRAL PROJECTION

     

    TRUST IN TRANCE

    ASTRAL FILES

    DANCING GALAXY

    ANOTHER WORLD

     

     

    MFG

     

    THE PROPHECY

    NEW KIND OF WORLD

    PROJECT GENESIS

    THE MESSAGE

     

     

    TRANSWAVE

     

    HYPNORHYTHM

    HELIUM

    PHOTOTROPIC

    Gabber, Hardcore...

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Believe it or not, but the first CDs i bought (back when i was 10 years old) were some Thunderdome hardcore compilations.

    Haha, me too actually, back in 93 and 94, when I was really young, and it was fun. But I've overcome that music very soon, cause it is repetitive, at some stages boring, uninspiring and leads you nowhere. But it was a lot of fun when I was younger. I can't understand mature people making a religion out of it and even dressing peculiar for its happenings. I believe that you do need hell of a lot of drugs to get through the whole trip at the party, but it does nothing for me nowadays and can't even imagine myself doing drugs for that madness. :D

    Crop Circles - Tetrahedron (DAT Records) *Etnica&Lotus Omega !*

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    Am I the only one who thinks the tracks are not *THAT* good? Of course they are good, but I think the best ones are released and these ones are good, but nothing more...? Maybe too maximal for me...?

    Of course they are maximal when there are 6 guys involved, plus whole concept Of Pleiadians/Crop Circles music was absolutely maximal.

     

    The thing is THE TASTE, and as u are entitled to your own opinion, you don't find them so exciting which is reasonable. I find it very exciting releasing this album and music after 10 years of spending in ether, so no matter cause they have released their best tracks already, this is still good call to resurrect brilliant old school psychedelia and give them new special mastering touch, ouch. :D

    Biosphere

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    MICROGRAVITY ( 1991 ) Geir's first album and it sounds like early trance, not such crisp production but quality album and music anyways.

     

    PATASHNIK ( 1994 ) He slowed it down compared to Microgravity, but still remained trippy and atmospheric. Another quality album.

     

    SUBSTRATA ( 1997 ) Pure ambient, no trance, only soundscapes and atmospheres. Really nice and varied trips.

     

    INSOMNIA ( 1997 ) The soundtrack for a film, but so brilliant. Experimental, weird ambiental work, very filmic.

     

    CIRQUE ( 2000 ) Now this is diverse one. Ambient, funk, dub, breakbeat. Blended together into interesting concept.

    Complaints about Moderation.

    in Psynews.ORG

    Posted

    Hah, crazy converse... As a moderator, I actually didn't even know frozen dream was banned, how did that happen ? Beside his usual nonsense posts, has he insulted or bashed anyone ? I can't believe that random nonsense is punished. For me, even nonsense has some sense, and cannot be dissmissed, no matter how crazy or idiotic may sound. It MADE sense in poster's brain at the moment he was posting. For me, nonsense is not a valid ban. Can someone explain what he did, beside speaking in tongues ? Nemo ?

    Crop Circles - Tetrahedron (DAT Records) *Etnica&Lotus Omega !*

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    Thanks to all! Xpandoz thanks for commenting the samples.. i was starting to wonder if anyone listened or liked them at all :)

    soon there will be samples on psyshop and saikosounds too (which are gonna be longer ehe)

    i am VERY happy of the remastering job that Tim Schuldt did: loads and loads of elements emerged on the tracks and they sound really crsip and fantastic in my opinion, i didn't imagine such a facelift :)

    hooray!

    I didn't want to add anything else except finally, that is why I haven't commented on the samples.

     

    But they do sound crisp and top notch. Tim Schuldt mastering is always brilliant.

     

    I can hardly wait to get my hands on this. When is it going to be released finally ? :D

    Prodigy

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    You said it all Ormion, no need to get further into detail.

     

    My vote goes to MUSIC FOR THE JILTED GENERATION as their best album, followed with FAT OF THE LAND and then EXPERIENCE.

     

    ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, NEVER OUTGUNNED actually sounds good when they are doing live, but listening to it at home makes me yawn. I've heard them live 3 times by now and they still didn't get old. The only problem I have with Prodigy is that they are not as productive as other groups from their era : UNDERWORLD, CHEMICAL BROTHERS, FLUKE... With 4 albums up their sleeves and various singles during 17 years is not such various production. :ph34r:

    Extrawelt - SchÖne Neue Extrawelt

    in 2008

    Posted

    EXTRAWELT - SCHÖNE NEUE EXTRAWELT

     

    COCOON RECORDS 2008

     

    Posted Image

     

    01. One Tree Hill

    02. Dark Side Of My Room

    03. Wippsteert

    04. Messy Machinery

    05. Must Attack

    06. Trummerfeld

    07. Wolkenbruch

    08. Added Planet

    09. Kurt Curtain

    10. Daten Raten

    11. Lost In Willaura

    12. Homing

     

     

    So, finally long awaited album. Very high expectations. And so, they pleased high expectations. But there is something missing. Melodies ?

    Ugh, yeah. But even without those melodies, this is one very delicious dark album. This album is pretty dark and very primal. Such variety of styles, subversive approach, and not an easy listening.

     

    This album is not a crowd pleaser, it rather confronts you with your fears and miscalculations. It is unpredictable and diabolic. It sets you on a very private journey. Not at all clubbing music. Introspective home listening bomb. Especially with good headphones. This album is full of sounds, various glitches, noises, it is on borderline between IDM, breakbeat, electro and minimal techno. Very subversive approach as I have already mentioned. Sounds rather post apocalyptic, cyber melancholic.

     

    Maybe it is not as engaging on the first listen, but on the second one it started growing on me. You can clearly hear strong Midi Miliz influences on this one, cause Extrawelt haven't been this dark before. They've decided to change the course, wheter it's better or for worse, they still managed to pull it, those guys are surely experienced sound designers. I don't need to mention that production is impeccable and their sonic manipulations are very satisfying.

     

    All in all, very good album, with Minilogue - Animals, my favourite album from this year for sure. This new minimalistic style trance producers approached is much more engaging than any of the new trance releases. This album might become a bomb, we will see, its underground feel may even make it unoticeable, but for sure it will stay very long in every listeners mind. 9/10

    Ishq - Timelapse in Mercury

    in 2008

    Posted

    9 Seraphim (7:30)

     

    9. Seraphim

    This certainly has an angelic feel to it as it's sounds soar above what we have previously witnessed in this journey. Still we are in space but it seems like the sounds are entering a higher dimension. A dimension of light and sound unlike anything we are used to. Much higher pitched and not all together pleasant. The light sounds for me are too light and the pitch is too high in a way that verges on annoying. It's not that annoying for long though and gets better towards the end but still it's not one for high volume on good speakers or headphones. Especially not headphones.

    ^_^-_-

    Track of the day

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - Dark Side of the Moog IX - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Mother, Part 1

     

    :P

    Nice straight to the point POINT. :P

     

    My curent Track of the day : SASHA - COMA

     

    OMFG ! Such tripped out, serious track !

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