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yiannis

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  1. Thanks for the heads up Phaze47. Will definitely give this a listen. Your last EP was sublime.
  2. I'm really liking this. Spacey atmospheres over experimental beats.
  3. Sure, and that's expected, but having only three categories to browse through makes it easier. If I want to vote for an album I'll just look there, not search for possible genres. Also this allows for potentially more exposure for artists who have released only EPs or albums in a year. A large number of releases inevitably leads to a lengthy poll, there's no way around that. The fact that last year's poll organiser gave us a tick option was very helpful, and much better than me looking through my collection, bandcamp and YouTube for stuff that was released that year and then deciding what to go for.
  4. This is from a couple of years ago but I've just discovered it. Genuinely relaxing and beautiful.
  5. It depends. I don't use it for "healing", at least not consciously. I do enjoy a combination of cannabis and a bit of alcohol, but I often find myself wanting to listen to metal stoned. Psybient works wonders when I'm in a calm state of mind or very tired, sober in both cases. Sometimes it also works as accompaniment for my power walks. In a live setting I prefer the alcohol/cannabis combo, which has often given me a feeling that approximates my appreciation of music on acid (or what I remember of that - it's been a very, very long time since my last trip). I reckon it's quite likely that eventually I won't feel the desire for ganja at all and the music will carry me on its own.
  6. I would definitely not bother with a poll that has me browsing a million things. For me the album/EP/compilation separation is enough. Further genre fragmentation takes it too far IMO, plus in many cases genre placement is arbitrary, especially with artists who have a wide spectrum of sound on a single album or even EP. Also, I think 100 places is enough too. Personally speaking, I'm unlikely to bother with artists outside the first 50 to be honest.
  7. Cheers for that kind sir. Listening to it now.
  8. Still doesn't work my end. No worries though, thanks for the effort.
  9. yiannis

    Planet Dog

    Not so much Maya, but LTtL a bit more. I liked the Very Extended Ambient Version and the AstroPilot Remix of the title track quite a lot. The problem with Banco de Gaia is that there are so many remixes of his tunes that I tend to lose track. Tripswitch made a superb remix of Acquiescence on the Apollo Remixed album too. Generally speaking I prefer Maya over LTtL, but the title track of the latter is my fave Banco de Gaia track. I like some of his later albums a quite a bit too, like Big Men Cry, Farewell Ferengistan and Apollo. Did you ever go to a Megadog event Jatab? I wish I had but I found out about them too late.
  10. I get "This video is unavailable". Pity because I've never even heard of the name.
  11. My favourite Koan release, and I've just remembered why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfv9HM-Rrfo
  12. Ganja Beats is the Jake Stephenson project I like the least. On the dub side of things I prefer his Dr. Psychedelic album. Overall I'd probably go for either Alien Mutation or Colourform with Matt Hillier, though those are more on the ambient side of things.
  13. Very good EP, I like all three tracks. Lovely variety, from downtempo to a bit more uptempo to a very subtle slow beat, all wrapped up in beautiful atmospheres. Doesn't break new ground, even for the artist himself, but that doesn't bother me at all. It may prove to be excellent after I've given it a few more listens.
  14. I'll second Sounds from the Ground, whose first album came out in 1995. Yes, psydub from 20 years ago! Not as much emphasis on bass as today's psydub I should add, though obviously you do get those walking basslines that are peculiar to all forms of dub. I'd go for the American version of their second album, Terra Firma, or alternatively 2010's The Maze. There are great tunes on all their releases, although their last few albums are a bit hit-and-miss for me. It might be noteworthy that Bluetech did a great remix of their track Triangle - retitled Triangle (Retriangulated) - on his Prima Materia album. Sorry about recommending old releases but those are the ones that have grown with me and have stood the test of time IMO.
  15. Erm, not particularly, sorry. It might be more interesting if it were slower and a bit more layered, although it gets better in the second half. It might work better if I were out of my mind though, that often seems to help. I like SeaMoon a lot, his darker vibe works really well for my tastes. He always offers a very personal sound I find and has made no boring tracks so far for me.
  16. I agree about Vlastur. Great Etnica cover, but I don't like the dubstep elements either. I've had the chance to see him a couple of times but I've been reluctant so far, especially considering I'd have had to travel for a good 5 hours to and fro for that. I reckon I'll only see him either if he plays at a party with others I want to see more than him, or a festival here that I happen to attend. Having said that, it would be cool if he proved me wrong and were awesome.
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    Planet Dog

    Any Planet Dog Records fans among us? I certainly am. They put out some top quality releases in their time IMO - and that was very early on. In the early 90s they released some proro-psybient tunes and albums/EPs before any other label. They were years ahead of their time. Personal faves are: Artist releases: Eat Static - Abduction, Lost in Time EP and especially Implant, as well as their best-of singles compilation Revisitation Children of The Bong - Sirius Sounds Banco de Gaia - Maya, Last Train to Lhasa EP and Live at Glastonbury Timeshard - Crystal Oscillations and Zero (Ouroboros) EP Compilations: Feed Your Head vols 1-3 Quadruped Beyond Planet Dub and especially Voyage to Planet Dog and Peel Your Head:The Peel Sessions which are in fact the two releases that got me into psychedelic downtempo in the first place. They are now defunct as far as new releases are concerned but they still sell some of their stuff on their website.
  18. Right, here's 20 in alphabetical order: Bluetech - The Divine Invasion Bombay Dub Orchestra - Tales from the Grand Bazaar Cosmic Replicant - Mission Infinity Crystal Vibe - Change Is the Only Constant Dhamika - Digital Human Hallucinogen - In Dub Ishq - Sama Koan - Argonautica Lab's Cloud - Imminent Awakening Makyo - Shringara Miktek - Elsewhere Open Canvas - Nomadic Impressions Padmasana self titled Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment Solar Fields - Leaving Home Tengri - Icaros Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker Yarn - Yarnia Zero Cult - Dreams in Stereo For today at least.
  19. Apart from the fact that this is a very tough question I think that albums that came in the early days of the genre got played more by people who were there at the time simply because the internet wasn't as developed and the market wasn't nearly as saturated as it's become today. I for one played Posford's downtempo albums, The Infinity Project's Mystical Experiences, Solar Field's Leaving Home, Entheogenic's Spontaneous Illumination, Phutureprimitive's Sub Conscious and Bluetech's Pima Materia/Elementary Particles because that was all I knew and I had access to in the early to mid 00s. But are they my favourites? Maybe Are You Shpongled? and Leaving Home, but not the others anymore. I will have a think about it and try to write a more meaningful post soonish though.
  20. I'll have to agree about that too. A bit less psychedelic but quite blissful and emotional. A kind of early experimental psydub album I find pretty interesting to listen to from time to time is Dub Trees - Nature Never Did Betray the Heart that Loved Her, an album masterminded by Youth and Greg Hunter with some pretty well-known collaborators, Ott, Posford and Suns of Arqa's Wadada being the most familiar to me. Another similarly experimental album by some of the same people, but a bit more on the ethnic side is The Kumba Mela Experiment - East of the River Ganges. Both these albums were released by the aforementioned LSD, whose compilations are top-notch.
  21. +1 for Slackbaba. I too like ...And the Beat Goes Om... and his early compilation tunes more than his later stuff, but I think his latest album is a step in what I consider the right direction.
  22. He's better known for his psy/goa trance tunes, but this EP is pretty cool downtempo IMO. Nothing really groundbreaking, but quite well done. You can tell he does trance too from many of the sounds he uses.
  23. He he maybe you are older. I'll be 39 in September. You are right though, my attitude has probably more to do with my personality, rather than my age. I know what you mean about getting picky with age too. I have periods when I'm like "been there, heard that" relatively often. To counter balance them I try to get to the mood of, "how does it make me feel?" rather than wanting music to be innovative. I was very much into metal as a teenager and in my early 20s, then I got into classic heavy rock, then space rock and goa trance and finally around 2002 into psybient, usually leaving previous genres behind for some time each time my tastes shifted. Nowadays I find it almost impossible to listen to any kind of rock besides space rock, but I often listen to the other genres. I think it's unlikely I'll expand my tastes anymore, but I do enjoy sampling different aspects of psychedelic downtempo. Lots of variety there.
  24. Excellent! I'll look forward to that, and of course I'll be grateful for the time and effort you'll put into this snowdrop. And I agree that it'll add value to the forum too.
  25. Happy birthday psybient.org! I'll say it here since that's my only suggestion: It would be more user-friendly if the releases/reviews section were done chronologically I reckon. Also, I'm a review junkie; not to write, I'm not good at that, just to read. So if there were a team of reviewers here, it'd be the first place I'd go to when I want to read about a new release. I know I might be asking too much, especially with the latter, that's why I haven't said anything so far. But since you guys asked... Apart from that I'm pretty happy with the content and presentation of the site.
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