Random musings on music I just listened to.
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 :)