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My list updates from time to time, so I thought I'd see where everyone else's list is right now.. This list changes for me - "The Gathering" has moved up quite a ways, for instance - I didn't like it much at all until about a year ago.. "Cryptic Crunch" has held the top spot for a long time though, that album is just out of this world, nothing else is like it... Sandman "Psychotoones" is a very underrated piece of work IMO, proper psychedelic music.. "The Immaculate Perception" holds the 10th spot, but may not keep it - there are several others in very close competition..

 

The following, which are in order of most favorite on down, are as follows:

 

1. Hux Flux – Cryptic Crunch

 

2. Koxbox – Dragon Tales

 

3. X- Dream – Radio

 

4. Infected Mushroom – Classical Mushroom

 

5. Infected Mushroom – The Gathering

 

6. Midimiliz – Non Standards

 

7. Hallucinogen – Twisted

 

8. Sandman - Psychotoons

 

9. Koxbox – The Great Unknown

 

10. Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger

 

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I'd been thinking about this because, recently, I have been listening to some of the classics, and am just blown away by them - the creativity and originality of some of the older psytrance albums is on another level from most all what I've heard these past few years..

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My list updates from time to time, so I thought I'd see where everyone else's list is right now.. This list changes for me - "The Gathering" has moved up quite a ways, for instance - I didn't like it much at all until about a year ago.. "Cryptic Crunch" has held the top spot for a long time though, that album is just out of this world, nothing else is like it... Sandman "Psychotoones" is a very underrated piece of work IMO, proper psychedelic music.. "The Immaculate Perception" holds the 10th spot, but may not keep it - there are several others in very close competition..

 

The following, which are in order of most favorite on down, are as follows:

 

1. Hux Flux – Cryptic Crunch

 

2. Koxbox – Dragon Tales

 

3. X- Dream – Radio

 

4. Infected Mushroom – Classical Mushroom

 

5. Sandman – Psychotoones

 

6. Infected Mushroom – The Gathering

 

7. Midimiliz – Non Standards

 

8. Hallucinogen – Twisted

 

9. Koxbox – The Great Unknown

 

10. Nystagmus – The Immaculate Perception

 

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I'd been thinking about this because, recently, I have been listening to some of the classics, and am just blown away by them - the creativity and originality of some of the older psytrance albums is on another level from most all what I've heard these past few years..

I just have to say that's one beautifully written post.

 

Very sincere and nice.

 

Thank you.

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My list updates from time to time, so I thought I'd see where everyone else's list is right now.. This list changes for me - "The Gathering" has moved up quite a ways, for instance - I didn't like it much at all until about a year ago.. "Cryptic Crunch" has held the top spot for a long time though, that album is just out of this world, nothing else is like it... Sandman "Psychotoones" is a very underrated piece of work IMO, proper psychedelic music.. "The Immaculate Perception" holds the 10th spot, but may not keep it - there are several others in very close competition..

 

The following, which are in order of most favorite on down, are as follows:

 

1. Hux Flux – Cryptic Crunch

 

2. Koxbox – Dragon Tales

 

3. X- Dream – Radio

 

4. Infected Mushroom – Classical Mushroom

 

5. Sandman – Psychotoones

 

6. Infected Mushroom – The Gathering

 

7. Midimiliz – Non Standards

 

8. Hallucinogen – Twisted

 

9. Koxbox – The Great Unknown

 

10. Nystagmus – The Immaculate Perception

 

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I'd been thinking about this because, recently, I have been listening to some of the classics, and am just blown away by them - the creativity and originality of some of the older psytrance albums is on another level from most all what I've heard these past few years..

I would have to disagree with putting Nystagmus – The Immaculate Perception on the list and not Hallucinogen - Lone Deranger, Koxbox - Forever After, Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet, Dimension 5 - Transdimensional, probably Transwave albums. MWNN and so many others

 

I would also put The Delta - Schizzoeffective before Nonstandards there.

I'm also assuming you are excluding ambient and downtempo otherwise titles like Mystical Experiences and Are You Shpongled deserve to be mentioned.

Other than that your list looks pretty nice :)

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Hey there, thx for the kind words Ga2pir!

 

Visine - you may be right about having The Immaculate Perception up there before some others - those ones you mentioned are very good though I haven't heard the Blue Planet corp, Transwave, or Dimension 5 albums... I have Schizoaffective though haven't been able to get into it too much, will give it another try.. There are a lot of really good albums out there, once I get past my top 10 or so it becomes hard to rate them.. And yea, the list excludes the downtempo albums...

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2. hallucinogen - twisted

hallucinogen - the lone deranger

transwave - backfire

shiva chandra - spicy moments

3. koxbox - dragon tales

x-dream - radio

ubar tmar - fusion

1. texas faggott - petoman's peflett

pleiadians - family of light

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I always enjoy a good old "best of" topic :)

 

Just as in healium's case, my list tends to fluctuate like the dow jones average, but from what I've realized throughout the years, my top 5 is quite constant:

 

Pleiadians- Family of light (1999) (Dragonfly Records)

Prana- Geomantik (1997) (Matsuri Productions)

Planet B.E.N.- Trippy future garden (1996) (Polytox Records)

Pleiadians- Identified flying object (1997) (Dragonfly Records)

Tandu- Multimoods (1997) (Phonokol)

 

××××××××××

The honorable mention top 5 would look a little something like this:

 

Jaia- Blue energy/Blue synergy (2000) (Yellow Feather Records)

Etnica- The juggeling alchemists under the black light (1995) (High Society)

O.O.O.D.- A live (1996) (Completely Cabbaged)

Koxbox- Forever after (1995) (Harthouse)

Man With No Name- Teleportation (2000) (Dragonfly Records)

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1.Pleiadians - IFO

2.Hallucinogen - Twisted

3.Deviant Electronics - Brainwashing is Childs Play

4.Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation

5.Cosmosis - Cosmology

6.Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger

7.Dimension 5 - Transdimensional

8.Transwave - Helium

9.Eat Static - Abduction

10.Juno Reactor - Transmissions

 

That's how it looks right now.

 

But albums are not as important as tracks for me.

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Ok, I'm a little bit drunk when I write this but something like this:

 

1. Astral Projection - Another World

2. Infected Mushroom - The Gathering

3. Loud - Some Kind of Creativity

4. Artifakt - Artifakts II

5. Artifakt - The Magus

6. Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom

7. Deviant Electronics - Blunt Instruments

8. Hux Flux - Cryptic Crunch

9. X-Dream - Radio

10. Hallucinogen - Lone Deranger

11. Logic Bomb

12. Shift

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Ok, I'm a little bit drunk when I write this but something like this:

 

1. Astral Projection - Another World

2. Infected Mushroom - The Gathering

3. Loud - Some Kind of Creativity

4. Artifakt - Artifakts II

5. Artifakt - The Magus

6. Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom

7. Deviant Electronics - Blunt Instruments

8. Hux Flux - Cryptic Crunch

9. X-Dream - Radio

10. Hallucinogen - Lone Deranger

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11. Logic Bomb

12. Shift

I will have to assume this is the alcohol talking....er typing. :lol:

 

Mdk

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Hehe, Trance2Moveyou - I wondered the same thing, but about the vote for that AP album in 1st(!) I haven't heard Another World in a long time though, maybe I'll give it another spin..

 

I just checked out samples of "Transdimensional" and the Loud album and was very impressed with both - I am going to have to order them here soon I think - I'm dissapointed with most recent offerings in this scene, so I want to know what other people think the true classics are, and I'll add those to my collection..

 

Otto Matta - sadly the Cryptic Crunch and TLD albums you sent me were among those stolen when my car got broke into - fortunately I have copies though..

 

So that everyone knows, Otto Matta/EA is the person who turned me on to Goa/Psytrance - I was reading through Amazon.com reviews for mainstream Paul Okenfold type trance several years ago, and some asshole had wrote a review totally trashing one of the artists (maybe it was Okenfold) I liked, and saying that if we wanted real trance to check out a bunch of these artists I'd never heard of and some genre called "psytrance" - I was like, WTF?! So I emailed this guy and he sent me a bunch of Juno Reactor, Logic Bomb, and other goa/psytrance CD's - and I've never looked back - thanks Otto!!

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1. Pleiadians - IFO

2. Colorbox - Train to Chroma City

3. The Delta - Scizoeffective

4. Juno Reactor - Transmissions

5. Astral Projection - Trust in Trance 3

6. Pleiadians - Family of Light

7. Spirallianz - Blast Food

8. Multistate - Collaborating with Machines

9. Battle of the Future Buddhas - Twin Sharkfins

10. Shakta - Enlightened Ape

 

Something like that.

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1.Pleiadians-IFO

2.Astral Projection-Trust In Trance 3

3.Filteria-Sky Input

4.Twisted System-The Dealers

5.Twisted System-Core

6.Astral Projection-The Astral Files

7.Shift-Excession

8.Infected Mushroom-The Gathering

9.Psygone-Optimystique

10.Tandu-Multimoods

 

although it changes all the time they all deserve to be in my Top 10

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I'm not gonna order them, just name drop.

 

 

Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom

Infected Mushroom - BP Empire

Astral Projection - Another World

Astral projection - The Astral Files

Jaia - Blue Energy

The Delta - Send in send back

The Delta - Scizoeffective

Tandu - Multimoods

X-dream - radio

Cosma - Nonstop

KoxBox - Dragon Tales

Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger

 

 

More than 10 I think....

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1. infected mushroom ~ bp empire

2. midi miliz ~ passages

3. infected mushroom ~ the gathering

4. hallucinogen ~ twisted

5. deviant species ~ in the hands of the randomiser

6. parasense ~ avangaro

7. droidlock ~ elefantronika

8. psykovsky ~ debut

9. scozbor ~ mountain lord

10. va ~ predecessor

 

wouldve looked a tad different if i added psytek though

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Hmm. I think the list is currently like this

 

Pleiadians - IFO

Hallucinogen - Twisted

Krumelur - Minimal Animal

Koxbox - Dragon Tales

Psychopod - Headlines EP

Filteria - Sky Input

Etnica - Alien Protein

Eat Static - Science Of The Gods

Dimension 5 - Transdimensional

Planet Ben - Trippy Future Garden

 

 

But sometimes some of these pop on the list too:

 

Juno Reactor - Bible Of Dreams

Mandalavandalz - Hong Kong Knightlife

Double Dragon - Continuum

Son Kite - Perspectives Of...

Beat Bizarre - Lewd

Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet

Electric Universe - One Love

Etnica - The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Blacklight

Ubar Tmar - Macrometasomakosmos

Ra - To Sirius

Tandu - Multimoods

Xenomorph - Qlippoth

X-Dream - We Created Our Own Happiness

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my top 10 would look like this

 

 

Sandman - Withcraft

Process - One drop or two?

Ubar Tmar - Fusion

Eat Static - Abduction

Son Kite - Perspectives of

Talamasca - Beyond the mask

Cosmosis - Synergy

Sensient - Blue Neevus

Slide - Unstable

Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy

Tandu - Multimoods.

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Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Rock Bitch Mafia

Hallucinogen - Twisted

Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger

X-Dream - Trip To Trancesylvania

X-Dream - We Created Our Own Happiness

The Delta - Scizoeffective

The Delta - Send In Send Back

Midimiliz - Non Standards

 

:drama:

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all right so my top ten album was hard to do do but here it is: Hallucinogen is having IMO the most talkative sound, intriguing melodies, crazy transition. it's just brillant. X-Dream-radio on third

Then it was hard, unlimited is the shit, but scorb is really near for psychedelics insanity!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

1. Hallucinogen-the lone deranger (1997)

2. Hallucinogen-twisted (1995)

 

alone unreachable!!!!!!:)

 

3.X-Dream-radio(1998)

 

4.logic bomb-unlimited (2002)

5.Infected-Mushroom-B.P. Empire (2001)

6Infected Mushroom-The Gathering(1999)

7.scorb-scorb (2003)

8.nystagmus-The Immaculate Perception(2005)

9.Talpa-The Art of being non(2004)

10.younger brother-flock of bleeps(2003)

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1. Astral Projection - Trust in Trance 2

2. Pleiadians - I.F.O.

3. Dimension 5 - Transdimensional

4. Goa Syndrome - The Finest of Psychedelic Trance

5. 1200 Mics - Live in Brazil (2005)

6. Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet

7. Man With No Name - Earth Moving The Sun

8. Tandu - Multimoods

9. Chi-A.D. - Virtual Spirit

10. Synsun - Unstoppable

 

This changes often. But currently this is my TOP10. =D

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Texas Faggott - Petoman's Peflett

Logic Bomb - Sonic Algebra

Psykovsky - Debut

Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Rock Bitch Mafia

Hallucinogen - Twisted

Psykovsky - Da Budet

Kindzadza - Waves From Inner Space

Ocelot - Psymatix

Derango - Tumult

Deja Vu Fabrique - Fabrique

 

in random order.

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