Psytrance / Goa

Because that's all it is: marketing. You need to understand the 'scene' is very different in Israel than to how it is in the rest of the world... You have people like IM and Skazi etc appearing in Pepsi commercials and basically whoring themselves out = antithesis of what trance is about. There are still some very good underground crews doing 'proper' parties and some amazing producers in Israel but all the commercial trance coming out of there is labelling itself as psy when it's nothing of the sort. It's cocaine, xtc music not lsd, mushroom music and there's big $$$$ involved with all that...
Example:

Trance (proper british illegal stylee)


Not Trance (IM)


I'll let the jury make their own minds up...


Aaaaaaaaaannnnyway the IM thing has been done to death on every psytrance forum evargghhh and it's not worth arguing about any more. They make cheesy music videos, dress up like clowns and sell fizzy drinks to teenage 'arsim'. They may be talented and wrote some good tracks in the past but they are no longer psytrance by any stretch of the imagination...



Back on to the topic of psychedelic trance....

Great release this year is Sounds Cool by Sattel Battle on Gi'wa Prods - Young israeli producer, sounds almost finnish in style and goes all over the place but has some fresh ideas and isn't just poppadom poppadom poppadom all the way through...

Also liking the new Rastaliens release on Pharpsyde Records, the new Logic Bomb on Solstice and the new Eat Static also on Solstice (absolute blinder)...

 

here comes the first goa trance album from turkey:

mindsphere - inner cyclone [metapsychic records]

preview download

for those who long for real goa
enjoy!

namaste...

 

"It’s not enough just to elevate your own frequency and the frequency of the people around you - you need to do it in tune with the earth. And if you do that, then it gets really interesting. So I'm hoping for an evolution in the trance culture, that we will move towards large solar sound systems and explicitly bringing in these consciousness keys into the music and you are seeing it in the visuals and the backdrops. Everyone is wearing sacred symbols, everyone is tuning into sacred geometry and it’s happening! So, I think there is an enormous potential and it’s just one step away from something, which is really transformative. And not just for people who are involved - for the planet!"

Mark Heley

 

http://www.duversity.org/archives/rave.html

 

from a dude that live's in israel. IM is not Goa what so ever, even the people here call it Psy-Trance and not goa.

and my favorites artists in the scene are:
Hallucinogen
Cosma
The Infinity Project
Ra
California Sunshine
Tandu \ Pigs In Space
GappeQ

and i'm sure i forgot an artist or two
good day

 

The more I listen psytrance/goa, the more I really start to love it...

arty:

 

hmmm..... i can recomand to you all guy's on a team that is coming back now to the scene (with lamy music, but in 98 it wasn't like that), check out the metirials of "Power Source". katchy melody's, ibiza wave of sound and most of all awsome tracks!

 

Some recomendations C: ..

Astral Projection
Astrix
Atomic Pulse
Audiopathik
Bizzare Contact
Cosma
Cosmic Tone
Cosmosis
CPU
D-Tek
Dali
PTH
Dark Soho
Delirious
Delysid
Derango
Dino Psaras
DNA
Domestic
X-Noise
Pixel
Dynamic
Eskimo
Ecliptic
Electric Universe
Electro Sun
Brain Damage
Quantic Fusion
Electrypnose
Highko
Ferbi Boys
Gataka
Aquatika
Rinkadink
Fatali
Ziki
GMS
Psysex
Space Cat
Space Tribe
Wrecked Machines
Goa Gil
Growling Machines
Hypersonic
Illumination
Ultravoice
Kindzadza
Melicia
Menog
Neuromotor
Oforia
Time Lock
Painkiller
Mekkanikka
Paranormal Attack
Perplex
Phanatic
Pop Stream
Psychotic Micro
Psycraft
Slider
Rica Amaral
Rinkadink
Freakulizer
Protoculture
Sesto Sento
Paradigma
Sharigrama
Symphonix
Xibalba
System Nipel
Talamasca
Total Sickness
Vaktun
Visual Paradox
Void
X-Dream
Xerox & Illumination
Zik Matutero
1200 Mics


=D

 

as for dark psytrance check out Faxi Nadu

and anyone into terrorcore?
so intense

 

Yeah! I seen him here in Ireland at Life Festival. He blew my mind. I couldn't believe the shit that he was pumping! WOW. He did about a 10min warped, messed up, head fuck of a remix of the South Park theme. Everyone was in stitches laughing at how good and genius it was. The acid helped too.

Also at Life Festival (and AfterLife, the smaller sister festival), I seen Talamasca, John Phantasm lots more.

@Eshu: Thanks for posting the list of Dark Psy artists.

 

gotta be psywalker,menog,dark nebula,shift,aum project,skazi,infected mushroom,azax syndrom,electric universe,mr.peculiar,CPU,GMS,rastaliens,E.S.P.,inner action,safi connection,scorb,bon,abomination,geko

 

Goa Gill

 

all Full-On psychedelic is the best !!!

 

www.myspace.com/raggamuffinsounds

 

I usually prefer listening to these artists:
Darker stuff: Kindzadza, oCeLoT, C-P-C, Para Halu, Parasense/Deja Vu Project
Fullon/melodic/morning music: Koxbox, Shift, Pitch Hikers, Tea Chairz
Chill: Carbon Based Lifeforms (hmm, I don't know many psychill music, do you know any bands that similar to CBL?)

I also listen to oldskool goa, but I'm not really into progressive psy, but I don't have a problem with it.

 

some favs of the moment:

dark elf
blisargon demagorgon
kiriyama
LAB
witch
pondscum
enichkin
noized
distorted goblin
norwindia

 

Astrix, Infected Mushroom,GMS and Bamboo Forrest Those are my favs but i love all psytrance

 

www.triplag.com

YES TURN IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

fuck the commercial shit.

go out to some desert gatherings

BUAHAHAHA

 

wow tomorrow night I will be dancing with blisargon demogorgon.
better sleep now and save my energy for tomorrow

though I'm so totally in love with my sweeeet and precious goa and long times of exposure to dark psy tends to bore into my soul and tire me, still it shall be interesting; I've heard some pretty good (in a pretty dark way of "good", hahah) things about his music.

mmm, we'll see...