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Got some assorted stuff yesterday, both CD and vinyl - nothing spectacular, but fills a few gaps in the collection... Various - Trancelucent - Uplifting Trance Shaolin Wooden Men - Ohar - CD5" version, already had the vinyl Hunter Club Analyze - A Man And A Drum - More weird X-Dream side project stuff =) Various - Orbis Various - From Dusk Till Dawn - Label Compilation Vol. 1 Various - Signs Of Life - Already had this on CD and a vinyl promo, but now I also have the full retail vinyl version. Sunkings - Soul Sleeping Quirk - Machina Electrica & Fornax Chemica - Another step closer to a complete matsuri vinyl collection. Ololiuqui - Voltage Various - Elastic - Working on completing this label... There was some more vinyl, but I'm at work and can't remember it all.

Sounds about fair, let me just peer down into my wallet and I'll get back to you =)

4)::v/a Sound of Gaia Party:: 12):: v/a GOACORE Vol. 1:: I'd like to have these - let me know how much you'd want.

Crying over music obviously requires the mood to be set prior to listening. The album "( )" by sigur rós has sent me to tears several times, due to the emotions I have associated with that album and due to my overall lifesituation back when it was released. But this isn't trance, ofcourse... I doubt I could cry to trance music no matter what. It stirs up different emotions in me.

Autechre - "Vletrmx21" ...and lots of stuff by Björk. Never shed a tear to psy/goa though, that I can think of at least.

Disclaimer: I'm super-biased since Michael is a friend of mine, and I've even helped him with his live sets on occasion. But yeah, this is one of the best trance records of all time, in my opinion. It just grows and grows! This is sheer class.

Some new vinyl today: Tribute - Acid Intermed - Trans'Pact 080 Various - Dazed EP - Peyote 07 Hunter Club Analyze - Braindamage - Tunnel Records 027 (This is actually X-Dream in disguise!) 2 Puissance 30 - Le Trou Normand EP - Step 2 House 0020 (Virtuart from Underhead under a different name) Solar Quest / Choci - Mesmerised - Choci's Chewns 014 (mmm, red vinyl =)

Hey, I need to check this out... I even have the original Sisters Of Mercy vinyl release from 1983 =) Amazing track.

As for converting the tape to MP3 - you'll need to record it to your harddrive first ofcourse. Just get the appropriate cable to plug a cassette deck to line in on your sound card and record to WAV in the program of your choice. Then cut out the stuff you don't need, and save as MP3. If the audio editing program won't support MP3, save as WAV and convert with a 3rd party MP3 encoder like LAME. You might find useful (free) software here: http://ftp.sunet.se/nonags/auedit.html

Arcturus - "1000 Planets", it's from 1994, released here: http://www.discogs.com/release/50425

Today's parcel: Various - Infinity Hz Various - Tokyo Tekno Tribe 2 still waiting for a few bigger ones...

Some nice ones there, but I personally think Infected Mushroom sounds very childish - Battle Of The Future Buddhas is a much better name for the tongue-in-cheek category. I love "Total Eclipse" since it fit's the music so extremely well. Also, it might be because I love all their tracks, but Underhead is very cool as well. Browsed my collection for a while and found some others nice ones: Deviant Electronics Eat Static Growling Mad Scientists Infernal Machine Midi Miliz Mindfield Psyko Disko Quirk Slinky Wizard Stress Assassin

Earlier Darshan just kills, "Beast" came when they had already calmed down a bit (!). Try Mind Merge, Ephemeral or Windchime.

That's not at all what I was saying - rather, I mean that someone who's heard 10000 tracks has a better chance of finding stuff similar to this ubar tmar album than someone who's heard 1000 tracks. Wouldn't you agree? Here it's more a matter of taste - and obviously my statements are my opinion and not facts set in stone. I even pointed this out several times. If you enjoy it, thats great for you! However, to my ears it seems that the uniqueness of this album is in equal parts due to his musical ideas and to their poor execution. It's not a horrible album, not at all, thats not what I'm saying. But I don't think it deserves the praise from fugpuggler, for example. If you've only heard Astral Projection, then that review makes sense, but it's not really all that amazing and not even as totally unique as some people appear to claim. So when people here appeared to be stoked about it I wanted to point out that it's not some totally amazing forgotten treasure - it's a goa trance album. Some neat ideas and it doesn't sound excactly like everything else, but then there were very many such albums.

Just this one today, but I'm waiting for some bigger parcels that should arrive this week. But with todays delivery from the mailman I'm just missing one oldschool x-dream vinyl (Rain, on Tunnel), as well as "The 1st" but that's not oldschool so it won't count for me =)

This gets a bit off topic, but I felt a lot of it was directed directly at me, so I'll reply here anywhere. You are prefectly entitled to you opinion, but I don't think this is as original as you say. The production leaves a lot to be desired technically as well, hence my opinion that it's a mediocre album. While this may be meant in a broader context and not specifically diercted at me, you look sort of silly saying this in a reply to me. I assure you that my record collection goes far beyond the ordinary in terms of diversity, both sonically and emotionally. I may be a goa collector, but I'm no one-trick pony. My statement about this particular album is certainly not based on some naive idea that there is only one "proper" path of goa trance and that this deviated from it too much. It's based on over 10 years of listening to this type of music and having a fairly huge collection - against that background I can safely say that from my perspective this album fails to deliver on its emotional promises and that it's technically flawed to the point where I found that the production (into which I count the sounds chosen, etc) was a distraction at some points. Again, I beg to differ. It's certainly not standard-formula goa trance, but to me, this seems to be just as much the result of lacking skills as of an alternative musical vision of behalf of the composer. And in terms of it's emotional content - while I have no way of knowing for sure what you find in this album, to me it is not nearly as unique as you seem to think. Either we hear different things, or you haevn't heard as much of this music as I have. OK, here's one for you: Koxbox - "Dragon Tales". Differents sounds, but keys, structures and song arrangements are not that different if you pay attention. And in later albums, Ubar Tmar had a much clearer "vision" and better technical execution (especially in terms of the mathematical aspects of his music), so I'm not saying he's a talentless piece of crap - it's just that this, his first album, sounds a bit immature to me. If you or anyone else find it rewarding then thats great, but if people are hunting this just because it's rare I think they'll be disappointed, and thats why I posted here in the first place.

Have you guys even heard it? It's really not that good. Not that I'm selling mine, but still... It's fairly mediocre.

Not really, if you're familiar with Juno Reactor's past discography. And imagination isn't everything. But sure, Labyrinth was more of an evolutionary step than Sky Input, I'll give you that. But then again the goal of each artist is quite different, so comparing them in this regard would be unfair. You don't go to a Woody Allen movie and complain about the lack of stunts and CGI effects, do you?

There's an infamous guy called Koma (!) that can be spotted at the most secret underground parties in Sweden - I've just seen him 3 times or something, but it's really quite something. He looks like the last person you'd like to meet in a dark alley and he MARCHES back and forth, stomping his feet really hard and waving his arms like propellers, long heavy metal hair flying all over from headbanging, and one of the most insane stares I've ever seen (really, those eye's aren't human) - usually all combined with a big, sinister grin =) And he just goes on and on and on and on, there is NO stopping him - he's like a machine, howling and roaring, waving those arms like crazy while plowing back and forth over the dancefloor. I've been told he can go on for DAYS (which I don't doubt), and he's apparantly very known in the Örebro scene. Back when the venue called Docklands still existed here in Stockholm, there was this amazon woman (although not that tall, but the look, you know) that always showed up, no matter what music was on the schedule. She had her red aerobics-style outfit (sixpack abs in plain view) and usually glowsticks (something I normally dislike) and then took a spot where the sound was good and went to work. She had this super-focused look on her face and just danced FOREVER. You could come back 8 hours later and she was still going, just as hard as she was at the beginning. She looked incredibly fit, and she was totally relentless, hardly even stopping to drink water. I doubt she was ever tripping (unlike mr Koma, mentioned above) and apparantly being a fitness nut, I've seen her out running a few times, always with that steel look on her face and big headphones on. I guess there are no parties that go on long enough for her around here anymore.

As I said I disagree with this, and unlike most of you, I have the collection to back this up. Everyone's entitled to an opinion ofcourse, and this is mine.

I work in a web agency as a web developer. It pays ok, but certainly nothing exceptional - Stockholm is an expensive city to live in. But I spend EVERYTHING on records - no expensive clothes, cheap food (no restaurants), no cigarettes or alcohol, not much travelling, etc... So I buy maybe 20-40 records each month. With that pace you can build a very big collection quite fast.

No. I'm a completist collector and as such I want complete series from all labels within my field of collecting, regardless of the musical quality. So I don't sell anything even remotely trance-oriented unless I have multiple copies. My goal is to build a complete archive of the evolution of this genre during the nineties, and that would ofcourse also include the less enjoyable stuff, just as a history book mentions both positive and negative moments in history.

I heard Procs live last night... none of his released tracks do that shit justice... because BLOODY. FUCKING. HELL. that was a mindfucking 90 minutes! It was completely amazing - hard (!!!), fast (well, below 155-ish at least...), mindboggling and so mersmerizingly organic I couldn't believe it. Look out for his album this summer, and book him =) Really, he's made some crazy progress lately.

I disagree. While I don't have everything ever released, I have a LOT of old stuff, even the bad ones - and the average release there has higher musical qualities than the average release of today, in my opinion.

Back on topic... I downloaded this right when it was posted here, but only got around to listening today. All in all, pretty much perfect progression, mix technique and track selection. Truly impressive! Given the genre and theme, I don't think there's much room for improvement, but there were a few tracks early on that didn't do much for me - they were excellent choices in this context, but just didn't have much of an effect on me personally. I really need to get back to recording mixes myself, but my lack of CD decks is holding me back - for every concievable mix theme, there is at least one crucial track that I only have on CD...