Daizy - Aramat is too cheerful to be trip hop… but it's pretty sweet.

Anjuna to Assam is shamelessly fun and dancy modern goa/psytrance.

Original and catchy; I've listened to it from start to end on repeat several times, which doesn't happen often for me.

Download it at Ektoplazm

Yonderboi and Messer für Frau Müller are pretty close. Yonderboi's more ambient/meditative though, while MFFM are a bit more playful/experimental. but both have a lot of resampling of old records, a nostalgia for the vinyl of the soviet era.

Sat 24 Oct – Answer to the Universe was quite excellent.

Couple of videos…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7oV_J0X0gg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0QmLpXrdF8

And Also The Trees reminds me simultaneously of The Alan Parsons Project and The Nits. Just a note, if you like one of them, you might like the other two.

Found The Real Tuesday Weld from the videos for Bathtime in Clerkenwell and Last Time in Clerkenwell by a russian animator Alex Budovsky. Videos are brilliant, music, so far, hasn't caught my attention completely, not so good without the visuals.

The music at Burning Man and Symbiosis rekindled my interest in electronica and psy-trance.

Recently received albums:

* Flow One has some interesting tracks. Not sure how I found it.

I've had Vicious Delicious for a few months, and it's finally starting to grow on me; at first I did not like it at all (I still think their best stuff was the second disc of Converting Vegetarians, which might rightly be called more experimental than trance or psy, as I understand it).

Symbiosis lineup led me to

* Bassnectar has some excellent tracks, as does Bluetech. I…

Talamasca's new psytrance album Obsessive Dream is available for free download from his label's homepage: http://www.mindcontrolrecords.com/free.html

Went and saw Gotan Project with aiko334 last night…

The Warfield is not good for dancing, it was extremely hot an hour into the show, and the theatre's sound people should be shot for pumping the volume up to the level where you could barely hear the melody on some songs. That having been said, the band was good. They played for just under two hours, with two encores. Semi-abstract video footage flashing over the large projection screen behind the band, on the white costumes of the band members, on the white piano drew attention away from the players and…

Listening to "Where's Neil When You Need Him?" - a compilation album tribute to Neil Gaiman (got it because of the Mr. Punch track). Some tracks are so-so, but quite a few are very interesting. Definitely going to get some albums from Rasputina, Future Bible Heroes, Hungry Lucy based on the impressions from their tracks here. Maybe Joachim Witt and Azam Ali as well.