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2003
A pretty good year, when you look back. CD's were selling well (you could even still get vinyl) and there was a buoyancy in both the music and the amount of releases that were coming out.
Neo-fullon was where it's at: Melicia's single Experience was everywhere, as was material from Silicon Sound, Astrix's Eye To Eye... even Transient got in on the Neo bandwagon, and who could forget Natural Waves Of Sound from the then-very-promising Compact?
Samothraki happened for the last time, characterised by the presence of pigs and of 1200 mics' Acid For Nothing. Ott released Blumenkraft and changed chillout forever. Infected's Converting Vegetarians started schisming their fans (whatever); and with Ticon's Aero sitting alongside Vibrasphere's Lime Structure, your prog shelf looked - and sounded - healthy. You could even fill it with releases from Spiral Trax. Sniff.
Meanwhile, Psyreviews disappeared for six months, as "happens" -- this time the mail server went bellyup bigstyle.
The marks, out of five, were as-they-were-given-when-they-came-out. Funny how tastes, and expectations, change...
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2010
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2008
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2009
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2007
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2006
( 113 items )
Psyreviews from 2006.
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2005
( 153 items )
2005
Skazi broke, Infected started playing that live show at festivals, TipWorld started being good again and Cosmosis' cover of Blue Monday was sodding everywhere.
Cunt of the year: Tikal, for the cover of Sweet Child O Mine. If you haven't heard it: don't.
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2004
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2004
George Bush got re-elected, Psyreviews fled to Australia, they finished a stadium in Athens in time for the Olympics, and England did pretty shit in Euro 2004.
It was also a less-than-entirely-classic year for psytrance. The pearls on the horizon were progressive: who can forget hearing Son Kite's Colours and Freq's Strange Attractors everywhere? If only we knew that these two albums would - to a greater or lesser extent - end up having an effect on parties, dancefloors and ageing dullard DJ's years into the future. Peh.
These reviews are from 2004, where we shifted from giving marks out of five, to marks out of ten. In fact, in 2004 we were giving albums a score of glasses of soy milk -- one being shit, five being brilliant. We also allocated vegan flapjacks based on innovation and general proper-job, how's-your-father trippiness.
What crazy oiks!!!
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2001
( 12 items )
2001
Reviews coming soon.
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