staffan Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 1991-93: Eat Static, the ep´s on Alien Records are amazing. 1994-95: Hallucinogen, LSD in 94 and Twisted in 95. Perfection. 1996: I can´t choose one here. Too many great records from this year. Chakra & Edi Mis, Doof, Brainman, MFG, Total Eclipse, Evolution, Transwave, Man With No Name and of course Psychonauts - Return to Earth 12". And I bought my first goa record this year, Asia 2001 - Strange World 1997: Easy one, Koxbox. Sorry Hallucinogen but Dragon Tales has to be the one this year... 1998: Sandman, his first album is one of the best ever. Even if I listened more, much more to Va - Morning in Space and Va - Karahana that year. 1999: It started with Holymen - C4, but the Last Universe was too much for me. I was tired of the victory music, then something happened. I herd Atmos live and... 2000: Koxbox again. The Great Unknown released in late 1999 lasted through this year. I have to mention Process - One Drop or Two and one of the best tracks this century Tortured Brain - The Dealer. 2001: Two tracks stands out this year. Tim Schuldt - Pale and Doof - The Second Revelation. Prometheus, The Antidote and Vatos Locos also released great records this year. 2002: The Unusual Suspects!!! And The Antidote again. 2003: Eat Static & Man Made Man - Regen, that track is amazing. Younger Brother of course. 2004: Prometheus - Robot-O-Chan 2005: The Unusual Suspects 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 Comprehensive, illuminating list. Nice one! Seraph and I agree for years 1993 to 1997... those are pretty much the artists I would have picked for that time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Matta Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 i second that it was all rhino that year 611069[/snapback] Yeah, a great year for Flying Rhino, but none of those albums are considered the best ever. 2002: Astrix (ok, maybe not the best act around, but definitely the most hyped act at the time) 2004: Son Kite (I guess everyone remember their 4 releases in the "Colours" concept that year) 611074[/snapback] I thought this was supposed to be an unpersonalized, unbiased list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Matta Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 2000: Koxbox again. The Great Unknown released in late 1999 lasted through this year. 611398[/snapback] No way! Good album (not great), musically diverse and popular, but not nearly as groundbreaking as other albums from the same year. One example: Vibrasphere came out with what could be considered the first dub/progressive tracks on Echo, and that style is huge now. And let's not forget Logic Bomb, The Delta, and Atmos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 2004: The year when Filteria entered our lives and three South African friends released an album under their team project... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffan Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 No way! Good album (not great), musically diverse and popular, but not nearly as groundbreaking as other albums from the same year. One example: Vibrasphere came out with what could be considered the first dub/progressive tracks on Echo, and that style is huge now. And let's not forget Logic Bomb, The Delta, and Atmos. 611431[/snapback] The Delta - Scizoeffective was released in 1999. Good album, nothing more. With Atmos you´re right. Headcleaner is one of the best albums that year. When I herd him live (as I mentioned in my previous post) in 1999, that was something special. I´ve always disliked the prog/minimal style but Atmos is one of the artists that I do like, no, I love his music. Vibrasphere and Logic Bomb disappeared in the masses of Intact Instinct, Haldolium(1999), Son Kite, Shiva Chandra and all the others. Koxbox on the other hand. The Great Unknown is a groundbreaking album, even if no artist tried to make the same music. Nobody in the goa/psy-scene sounded like that, still nobody today. It was a huge hit back then. IMO it´s the best album of this century. BTW first progg-track must be one of Planet BEN or X-Dream, maybe Der Dritte Raum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jivamukti Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Funnily enough, I was just listening to the samples of this new VA at Psyshop which is very much like the early 00's minimal: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ewo/ewo1cd001.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolsk Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 The Delta - Scizoeffective was released in 1999. Good album, nothing more. With Atmos you´re right. Headcleaner is one of the best albums that year. When I herd him live (as I mentioned in my previous post) in 1999, that was something special. I´ve always disliked the prog/minimal style but Atmos is one of the artists that I do like, no, I love his music. Vibrasphere and Logic Bomb disappeared in the masses of Intact Instinct, Haldolium(1999), Son Kite, Shiva Chandra and all the others. Koxbox on the other hand. The Great Unknown is a groundbreaking album, even if no artist tried to make the same music. Nobody in the goa/psy-scene sounded like that, still nobody today. It was a huge hit back then. IMO it´s the best album of this century. 611464[/snapback] The Delta album was released in late late december 1999 so it's just as much a 2000 release as The Great Unknown (TGU). TGU was/is indeed a great album, but it is, IMO, not as important as The Delta's Scizoeffective album. Delta's debut started a new style but the same can't be said about TGU. You might find that TGU is the better album but Scizoeffective is the most important of the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 The Delta - Scizoeffective was released in 1999. Good album, nothing more. 611464[/snapback] Now that was really nice humble opinion of the album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Matta Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Truth be told, although I think Scizoeffective is more important (and just flat out better, in my opinion), than The Great Unknown, I think X-Dream's Radio, released in 1998, is more important than Scizoeffective for that sub-genre. In other words, it seems to me that Radio opened up the door for Scizoeffective. In which case, although an incredible album, the latter may not qualify for "The Year of..." award. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Truth be told, although I think Scizoeffective is more important (and just flat out better, in my opinion), than The Great Unknown, I think X-Dream's Radio, released in 1998, is more important than Scizoeffective for that sub-genre. In other words, it seems to me that Radio opened up the door for Scizoeffective. In which case, although an incredible album, the latter may not qualify for "The Year of..." award. 611713[/snapback] I agree, RADIO is the foundation of what we call nowadays tech trance. Absolute brilliance ! But I still find Scizoeffective darker and more insane... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffan Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 The Delta album was released in late late december 1999 so it's just as much a 2000 release as The Great Unknown (TGU). 611584[/snapback] It was?? Ok, my memory faild me. Now that was really nice humble opinion of the album. 611706[/snapback] It´s just my opinion. I know it´s popular and all that, but I don´t like it that much. I think X-Dream's Radio, released in 1998, is more important than Scizoeffective for that sub-genre. In other words, it seems to me that Radio opened up the door for Scizoeffective. In which case, although an incredible album, the latter may not qualify for "The Year of..." award. 611713[/snapback] I agree. Let´s not forget Planet B.E.N - Trippy Future Garden and Der Dritte Raum - Wellenbad released in 1996. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunksan Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I think we have all forgoten Skazi.... I mean look at the Hype behind the guy that past 2-3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 i second that it was all rhino that year 611069[/snapback] Yeah, a great year for Flying Rhino, but none of those albums are considered the best ever. 611427[/snapback] Well I think Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh & Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Rock Bitch Mafia are some of the best ever music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergroover Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Funnily enough, I was just listening to the samples of this new VA at Psyshop which is very much like the early 00's minimal: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ewo/ewo1cd001.html i thought the same actually.. just listened to it.. omg what a boring album.. thats the reason why i didnt like progressive at first. i dont hope its going back in that direction.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergroover Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 oh ... and to stay on topic.. does anyone care to make a summary of the results? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 So what do you think 2006 will be the year of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergroover Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 did we not forget cosma some where along the line? i mean his first album was kick ass.. but his second was brilliant.. and the third one.. oh man.. we can only guess... *reminds himself to play cosma- non stop next gig soooo 2003 = cosma.. anyone disagree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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