Not so long ago, I stated, that the Russians just do it best at the moment. While that was not exactly true, as Alienapia are Ukrainians to be precise, I'll extend that statement to Eastern Europe :)

Artists like Manifold, Sulima, Alienapia, Samadhi, Luminexia, Psykovsky, Furious - to only name a few, have been responsible for some very high quality releases in recent times. Russian project Dissociactive is no exception and it's 2010 album, called Total Transformation is an awesome piece of psytrance music.

Label info text:

Sun Station Total Transformation
DISSOCIACTIVE
(Digipack CD)…

I posted this elsewhere, too, so I'll just c+p here.

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Alienapia - Goapocalipsis

Release date: 2010.02.12
Label: Space Baby Records
id#: SBCD 005
Tracks: 10
All tracks composed & produced by: Dmitry Likhachev & Grigory Sobinov
Artwork: Pollen
Mastering: Kodzu

Tracklist:

01. Alienapia - Distinctive Perception (1:23)
02. Alienapia - Dharmakaya (7:31)
03. Alienapia - Estimate Of Standing Crop (7:42)
04. Alienapia - High Visual Philosophy (7:20)
05. Alienapia - Inner Poison (8:06)
06. Alienapia - Magic Magnification (7:17)
07. Alienapia vs. Psy-H - Fear And Anger (8:17)
08. RA - Reign Of Madness (Alienapia rmx)(7:42)
09. Alienapia vs.…

So I was browsing Ektoplazm the other day, and by accident I discovered a project called "Cybernetika", based in Cologne, Germany. Cybernetika is Lars, a (still?) 20-year-old music producer, whose release list already features 5 albums, none of which I heard of - until that day. While that doesn't have to mean anything (I don't hear of a lot of things :)), in this case, however, it would have been a shame to miss out on the works of this obviously hugely talented guy.

So far I've listened to 3 albums, the 2006 promo, the 2008 album called
Nanospheric,…

New year, new recommendations.

Over the liquid waves of space, floating towards some distant constellation, we have discovered a tale of ancient sounds, secret to mankind so far. Two space travellers will meet you with a magic story of time and space, and take you on a journey through the higher states of Goa trance.

2009 has already been a good year for some newschool psytrance/goatrance sounds, one of the protagonists being Filteria, whose album Daze Of Our Lives has already been a massive hit with the "scene". Now, as the year nears its end, Jannis decided to grace us with another output called Remixes & Unreleaseds.

Most of the tracks on this album date back to 2006 and one can hear that, but, nevertheless we've got some killer tunes here, again. Some of them unheard, others remixed, and finally some tracks by Filteria's side project, K.O.B. (Kind Of Behavior).

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1. Operation…

Wow! Just recently I discovered an awesome artist by accident. I was listening to a radio stream on the web the other day, and there was such an unbelievable track playing at one moment, that completely blew me away. It was the mix "Oneness" by the PsyborX DJ Team, but I couldn't get hold of the tracklist, so I posted on several psytrance forums on the net, in order to find out the producer name/track name. Eventually I succeeded! The track was called Tinnitus by the South African producer called Tickets.

I've been into SA Psytrance for quite some…

Woah! What a great day. Today I received the new Wildthings Records release, the album called Another Reality by one of my favorite acts, RealityGrid (or Reality Grid, based in the UK. RealityGrid used to be the project of both Alex Diplock and Leon Kane, also known as Avalon. After Avalon left for Nano Records, Diplock continued the project on his own, besides his other project, E.V.P.

The label homepage states the following:

Alex has completed the next chapter of the RealityGrid project, his 4th album release and this now his solo project presents the 2nd album…

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…

It's been quite a while since I listened to Black Metal, but after reading some rave reviews about White Tomb by Altar Of Plagues, I was curious if the music could live up to the reviews. To shorten things, it definetely could.

"White Tomb" is the fourth release of the Irish trio, "First Plague" and "Through The Cracks Of The Earth" being their demos and Sol their already much respected EP. So what does "White Tomb" sound like?

The label homepage says:

If bands like WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM conjure scenes of epic nature, massive cascading waterfalls and…

Eyeless Observatory

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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.