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Ah...2009 has been a good year for psytrance / psychedelic trance and goatrance lovers, at least imho. While many people in the corresponding forums on the net certainly would not agree, I couldn't care less. There will always be people complaining that "back then" everything was better than it is nowadays. Even if that would be true, it is of no use to live in the past like that, because there is the possibility of missing out on nowadays awesome tracks / albums.


SynSUN has released a new album, called The Full Power of Goa. Well, actually it is not _that_ new. Truth is, the tracks have already been around for almost a decade, but they were never been officially released. So, according to a kind of flamewar on a forum, the freshly released album, (re-)mastered by Digitoxin, has been partially remastered from "bad quality" mp3s, not the original wavs, as they might have been lost. Honestly, again, I could not care less, as I am utterly grateful that nine gems of goatrance have found their way onto a CD-R, released by Phototropic.

While all tracks are really good, I especially like Deep, which certainly lives up to its title. All in all, this is one of the best releases of 2009. Does that say anything about "the scene" nowadays, as the tracks are already 10 years old? No, because "The Full Power Of Goa" is _among_ the best releases, with Filteria's Daze Of Our Lives, Merr0w's Born Underwater, Radical Distortion's Psychedelic Dreams, the compilation Nitz-ho-Goa!, as well as the new albums by Atma and Bitkit, just to name a few.

You see, not all is lost :)

Eyeless Observatory



Filteria is easily one of the best new-school producers!
Probably the most intense two and a half minutes in Psytrance music, imho. 4:33 - end is an acid thunderstorm, which resonates as pure bliss in my ears. Somebody please buy me an audiostrobe, so that I can thoroughly acidize my synapses.

My favorite artists by genre. Just making this so later on I can see how my taste has changed. At least 2 artists per genre, no more than 10. Artists can appear more than once if they work with many genres.


Ambient:

1. Solar Fields
2. Carbon Based Lifeforms
3. Banco de Gaia
4. Solar Quest
5. Cell
6. Aes Dana
7. Yagya
8. Hol Baumann
9. Adham Shaikh
10. Asura

General Chillout:

1. Adham Shaikh
2. Kaya Project
3. Moby
3. Angel Tears
4. Chicane
5. Enigma
6. SnakeStyle
7. Gaudi

Classical:

1 .Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Antonio Vivaldi
3. Johann Sebastian Bach
4. Frédéric Chopin

Dubstep:

1. Burial
2. Boxcutter

Hip- Hop:

1. Kaliber 44
2. Paktofonika
3. O.S.T.R.
4. Cannibal Ox
5. Coolio

IDM:

1. Kettel
2. Secede
3. Hibernation
4. Nalepa

Metal (all sub-genres included):

1. Iron Maiden
2. Falkenbach
3. Summoning
4. Arkona (Pol)
5. Korpiklaani
6. Blind Guardian
7. Burzum
8. Ensiferum

Neofolk:

1. Current 93
2. Blood Axis
3. Of the Wand and the Moon
4. Nature and Organisation
5. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
6. Death in June

Psychill and Psydub:

1. Shpongle
2. Ott
3. Androcell / Distant System
4. Slackbaba
5. Phutureprimitive
6. Puff Dragon
7. Aural Planet
8. Celtic Cross
9. The Peaking Goddess Collective
10. Tripswitch

Punk:

1. Misfits
2. Dezerter
3. Kazik
4. The Analogs
5. KSU

Rock:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Dire Straits
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Guns N' Roses
6. The Doors
7. Kult / Kazik
8. The Who
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. Queen

Singer-Songwriter kind of thing (I don't like this tag, but it works well here):

1. Bob Dylan
2. Lou Reed
3. Cat Stevens
4. Leonard Cohen
5. Iggy Pop

Sung Poetry:

1. Stare Dobre Małżeństwo
2. Raz Dwa, Trzy
3. Wolna Grupa Bukowina
4. Pod Budą
5. Grzegorz Turnau

Non-psychedelic Trance:

1. Art of Trance
2. Union Jack
3. L.S.G.
4. Cygnus X
5. Underworld
6. Orbital
7. Cosmic Baby

Psychedelic Trance (including goa, psytrance etc.):

1. Hallucinogen
2. Dimension 5
3. Blue Planet Corporation
4. Cosmosis
5. X-Dream
6. Filteria
7. Transwave
8. Jaïa
9. Man With No Name
10. Khetzal

Genre......................: Electronic
Style.........................: Psychill; Deep Ambient
Compilation Date.: 11-Feb-2009
Playtime..................: 73:31
Quality.....................: CBR 320k (LAME 3.97) 44.1khz Joint Stereo

Brief info:

Silence here. This set is dedicated to a Friend of mine, that passed away 26th january. It's all about inner resonance, when at once sudden powers met and collapsed at the very same moment. You will hear sounds of grief and depth. May such sounds appear less frequently in our lives.

Rest In Peace, Dear RIM.


Tracklist:
01. Harax & Sol - Leaves
02. Easily Embarrassed - Illusions Within Ourselves
03. Sundial Aeon - Mysanthia (Chaser Remix)
04. Will-O'-The-Wisp - Divided & Conquered
05. Side Liner - My Guardian Angel
06. Liquid Soul - The Ritual
07. Filteria - Cloud Kingdom (Solar Fields Remix)
08. Asura - The Prophecy
09. Aes Dana - Haze
10. Between Interval - Field and Void

Download link: http://rghost.ru/572194

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So, finally got around to recording a new big set after much procrastination and fiddling about with the tracklist. This time, I went through my records and harddrives to compile a 3 hour showcase of just how much electronic music can mess with people's heads. Not for the faint hearted, and not exactly a mix of the subtle kind, but still a lot of fun if you're into the whole oldschool goa/acid thing.

The Black Sun 280908

Musgrove & Mcgrath - Freakout
Memoplay - She Drive Me
Eli Clement - Downwind
DegreeZero - Denmark
The Nebula - Temperal Distortion
Moka DJ - Fuerza Nueva (Ambient Mix)
Liquid Overdose - Pure Glide
Michel van Tune - Yawning Me
Braincell - Absorb (Grindvik Remix)
Tan-Ru - Changeling
Hypnose - Catharis
Xyrex - Breed Fighters
Blue Planet Corporation - Crystal
Total Eclipse - Blade Runner
North Central Positronics - The Great Bear
Man With No Name - Teleport (Acceleration Mix)
Talking Souls - Karma 209
Dimension 5 - Harmonic Convergeance
Filteria - Galactic Rays
Pleiadians - Electra
Doof - Double Dragons (Crystal Insurance Mix)
Juan & Domi & Jörg - Spiritual Healing (Remix)
Slinky Wizard - Wizard
The Pollinator - Clone III
Bus - Something's Always Out There
Hexagone - Burning Trash Floor
Miss Yetti - La Femme Longue
Ongaku - Mihon #3
Walker - Shark II
Plastikman - Helikopter
Acid Jesus - Fear
Steve Mason - Double Wobble Trouble
Weathermen - Thunderflash
Overrider - Time Bomb
A+E Dept. - The Rabbit's Name Was... (Kris Needs' Kek Detonator Mix)
Fly by Wire - Alkaline 3dh
Atomu Shinzo - Track 23
Woody McBride - When Good Times Turn Sour
Virtus - Psychaos
Solar Quest - Acid Air Raid (George's Allnighter)
substanz-t - Beyond Infinity
Belborn & Rose Rovine e Amanti - Kriemhild's Rache
Dr. Macabre - Pain

Download here

Enjoy. Feedback is much appreciated, as always.

Entheogenic - Dialogue of the Speakers

Filteria - Heliopolis (This isn't added, for some reason.)

Filteria - Sky Input

Drudkh - Estrangement

The first three are psytrance albums, all quite amazing in their own right. Filteria also has a track on the Opus Iridium psytrance compilation that's beyond words.

The last album is Black Metal of the highest caliber, in my opinion. Drudkh, as always, delivers true quality.

Hi everyone,
I decided to go ahead and take all
these
taste
tests.

ambient chillout downtempo electronic electronica goa idm minimal progressive trance psychedelic psychedelic trance psytrance techno trance trip-hop

How Eclectic is Your Musical Style?

"If your score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80), then you have an eclectic musical preference."




The 79 related artists for my profile are 1200 Micrograms Abakus AFX (2) Air Alex Under Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Antix Aphex Twin (2) Astral Projection Autechre (3) Bluetech (2) Booka Shade Butane Cell Celtic Cross Chi-A.D. Cujorius One Curtis Mayfield Deaf Center Dominik Eulberg Doof Drum Druid Echotek Entheogenic (5) Etnica Femi Kuti Filteria Four Tet FREq (2) Hallucinogen (2) Helios Human Blue Inaqui Marin Infected Mushroom Ishq James Reipas Jaumetic Julien Neto Kaya Project Kiwa Koxbox (2) Lemon Slide Mandalavandalz (2) Marek Hemmann Marsen Jules Mathew Jonson MFG Nada Nathan Fake Ott (2) Plaid Praecox Puoskari (2) Ricardo Villalobos Sensient Shadow Fx SHIWA 2000 Shpongle (2) Shulman Solar Fields Son Kite Squaremeat (2) Squarepusher (3) Sun Control Species Tegma (2) The Infinity Project The Meters Ticon Tony Allen Total Eclipse Transwave Tripswitch Tristan United States of Love Venetian Snares Yasume Yotopia Younger Brother (2) µ-Ziq


Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter result
djfilitico's top artists:

• 1 - Alex Smoke: 2% mainstream
• 2 - Vibrasphere: 2% mainstream
• 3 - Eraser vs Yöjalka: 0% mainstream
• 4 - Eat Static: 1% mainstream
• 5 - Tripswitch: 1% mainstream
• 6 - Kumba Mela Experiment: 0% mainstream
• 7 - Prometheus: 1% mainstream
• 8 - Fela Kuti: 4% mainstream
• 9 - Boards of Canada: 33% mainstream
• 10 - Doctor Rockit Aka Matthew Herbert: 0% mainstream
• 11 - Hallucinogen: 4% mainstream
• 12 - Soul Surfer: 0% mainstream
• 13 - Luomuhappo: 0% mainstream
• 14 - Younger Brother: 1% mainstream
• 15 - Pleiadians: 0% mainstream
• 16 - Venetian Snares: 8% mainstream
• 17 - Tetrameth: 0% mainstream
• 18 - Pablo Bolivar: 0% mainstream
• 19 - µ-Ziq: 4% mainstream
• 20 - Xela: 2% mainstream
• 21 - Digital Mystery Tour: 0% mainstream
• 22 - Troy Pierce: 1% mainstream
• 23 - Nightmares on Wax: 15% mainstream
• 24 - Bonobo: 12% mainstream
• 25 - Ticon: 1% mainstream
• 26 - Shpongle: 8% mainstream
• 27 - Son Kite: 1% mainstream
• 28 - Infected Mushroom: 13% mainstream
• 29 - Wagon Christ: 6% mainstream
• 30 - Gui Boratto: 2% mainstream

djfilitico is 3.90 % mainstream

mainstream.vincentahrend.com




Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are

12 Moons 1200 Micrograms Alien Project Antix Atmos Bamboo Forest Celtic Cross Chi-A.D. Cosma Cosmic Tone Cosmosis Deedrah Derango Doof Echotek Electric Universe Electrypnose Entheogenic Etnica FREq GMS Jaia Koxbox Lish Logic Bomb MFG Man With No Name ManMadeMan Oforia Ott Penta Protoculture Psysex S-Range Safi Connection Sensient Sesto Sento Shakta Shiva Chandra Shulman Silicon Sound Space Cat Space Tribe Sub6 Talamasca The Infinity Project Tikal Total Eclipse Tristan Wizzy Noise

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