[What Album Defines GOA for you?]

actually i was gonna say that.

but then i thought, hey it's cinos the only reason he's posting this is to get a reaction so...

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No, the :3 smiley means it was a tongue-in-cheek statement, possibly to the time where I actually did that.

[So, I've decided to only buy *masterpieces*]

Trentemoller should be in your collection then.

 

You can get it off Amazon.

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I didn't like it enough.

 

Examples of true masterpieces, IMO:

 

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?

Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes

Tool - Lateralus

Mystery Of The Yeti - S/T

Chicane - Far From The Maddening Crowds & Behind The Sun

BT - ESCM

 

and so on.

[So, I've decided to only buy *masterpieces*]

As in, no "good" CDs. Nothing to get me even more material possessions I never use.

 

This has the added consequence that I'm weeding out everything that doesn't classify as a masterpiece from my collection - and that's about 90%.

 

Including ifo, green nuns, rainbirds etc. Once I'm getting back to Sale/Trade those all go.

 

Anyway. Isn't it a good idea to only keep physical copies of the very best ones? Yes, I know it is.

[What Album Defines GOA for you?]

Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy probably.

 

Whatever the case, not any of the ones you people have mentioned. :3

[FSOL/Amorphous Androgynous]

First of all: I think no one here said Orbital weren't good. They rock ass! However, do not compare 'em to FSOL. It's just not fair.

And ehm: maybe you meant: the girl with the sun in her head?

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Why not compare them to FSOL? They're just as good.

[FSOL/Amorphous Androgynous]

Lifeforms & Ephidrina are the best.

 

Also, whoever said Orbital weren't as good - The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair, Halcyon & On & On, Remind, Lush 3-1, etc.

[BT - The Binary Universe]

Can't be worse than Emotional Techhnology, right?

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Not, not at all. It's certainly more musically accomplished. Glitch-ambient or something. I just don't like it, it inspires no emotion in me.

[BT - The Binary Universe]

I had huge expectations of this. Alas, it's mediocre. BT focuses so much on the technical aspects that he forgets the emotional one.

[This weeks stupid covers]

I actually like the Insomnia one. It's very tongue-in-cheek.

[cd trading has it ever gone wrong]

Hm hm.

 

All my experiences here have been good. Except some people forgetting to mention that the discs have been raped by little rabbits repeatedly and are almost cracking naturally.

 

Otherwise good. Hope I can continue this trend once I'm allowed back in sale/trade.

[Songs about beasts, animals, primal aspects]

Lyckantropen Themes is actually rather nice.

 

Sounds very nocturnal and calm.

[Songs about beasts, animals, primal aspects]

While trance has a hard time telling stories, not having any lyrics, it sometimes manages to. I'm looking for a lycanthropic or just primal theme to them.

 

For what more beautiful that leaving thought and humanity behind?

 

Know any?

[And then you suddenly GET it.]

Eh, I don't think I completely get it.

Is it the FIRST time you where moved by goa?

I mean is it the first time you completely lose yourself in the music?

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Pretty much, for goa. It's just good music usually.

[psy?]

there in no, psynina she is a scam....

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Well, SOMEBODY using that alias exists, AND she releases music. On commercial compliations. Joke or not doesn't matter.

[psy?]

 

There is no Psynina.

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Yes, there is. She(?) has even released several tracks. I have a commercial compliation with her featuring.

[OTT new album?]

He said he is an interview a while ago, but that he works very, very slowly.

[psy?]

btw. Psychaos wins.

[psy?]

Psynina fails in both categories.

[And then you suddenly GET it.]

Track in case: Astral Projection - Utopia

 

So I walk my daily trek through college territory as usual. Music idly playing, headphones tightly on ears to avoid hearing the nerve-grating babble of all the people there, gaze on road to avoid seeing them either, which I also experience as nerve-grating.

 

So, I'm not really paying any attention to the music at all. The previous track was The Feelings of the same disk, but while very decent it didn't have any effect.

 

I didn't even notice when the track changed in my grey workday-haze. But then suddenly the track rises to a peak. You know, that acid-ish climax there.

 

(yay now some retard bald arse is sitting besides me talking loud as fuck, but I'm going to carry on describing)

 

Yeah. So the climax. All of a sudden, my eyes go wide. All the fucking lines blend together, revealing a bigger image. Think those 3d-eye images. Stereoscopic things. Goa, apparently, is like that. By shifting your focus you hear the whole image. Every part of it makes sense. I get "how" it describes some utopia. I get what the music means.

 

And poof, then the moment is gone. The track is normal again when I focus on it. But for a moment I was really into it.

[This weeks stupid covers]

Sexy producers can put themselves on the cover IMO. <.< The rest, nah.

 

Also, sorry for the lack of remakes of that one, but... too busy.

[This weeks stupid covers]

Satire on psytrance covers is not off topic, bring on the remakes.

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I'm not risking anything unless a mod or Mars OK's it.

[This weeks stupid covers]

I would do remakes but they'd be offtopic (not music discussion) which I'm not allowed to

 

So I'll just note that it really is horrible.

[The best goa nowadays is free.]

Check this out: VA - No Possible Soundz released @ 6D-Soundz and Salakavala - Fractal Fishing @ Faerie Dragon

 

They all have got mikseri.net accounts, they were all released @ Antiscarp before, but listen to it! Much better production, better distribution, they'll get more attention. Free is not bad, but your statement is wrong.

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Commercial CERTAINLY isn't better either. I can settle for "as good".

[The best goa nowadays is free.]

well AVP[aavepoyra](spelling??)] have released 2 albums, in 2005 & 2006..

but generally yes..

AVP

 

Nanoportation

 

Intriga

 

great music

of the above i think only AVP have got 2 albums released... Goddess Guerilla and Electro Fluoro Punx..

I have 2 promo albums from Troll Scientists.. nice music, not exactly goa maybe some goa elements now and then.

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Yes, exactly those two. The ones I thought of. Intriga especially.

[The best goa nowadays is free.]

I dont know what the situation is for "goa" music, because I dont buy nor do I download any of that music. For the more techy trance scene (also called progressive) I think that the stuff you can buy has a lot better quality than the netstuff that I find. There are som stars out there though, that are really kickin ass!

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Yeah, but they aren't the kind of free hippie music that goa is supposed to be, either.