wow, you should like the new one then. It's striking how many people say To Now Knows When sounds like DMT.
Tanetsveta is also my favourite though. That album is probably the closest musical approximation of an acid trip I've heard. Aura Leta is one of the finest bits of trance ever recorded.
ha! i've tripped to it...saw visions of me creating line-by-line old items out of my childhood, most vividly my first ever tape player which i haven't even thought about since i broke it about age 7 or so. the various licks and layers of Tanetsveta kind of directed the data which brought these things back to mind. hard to describe, but great trip!
I uploaded Aura Leta almost 8 years ago with the description:
one of the greatest moments in trance. - tho' had to cut out the Joy Division closure as back then youtube had 10-minute limits.
we're on the same page, i think! Call of Beauty is Aura Leta's spiritual successor, replete with lush vocals in the 2nd-half:
Similar story to you as far as raving goes, I think. Used to go to Escape from Samsara once in a while, love the '90's trance sound, Eve Records, Noom etc. Then got into acid techno and the traveller/squat scene, used to play at that sort of do for a few years. A bunch of my mates are/were travellers and used to put on parties.
who knows, we maybe bumped into each other, my Brixton time was 99-02ish before a massive crackdown, then we did our own thing in Hackney's Joiners Arms, then squat parties for a couple of years, like you i was involved a bit in setting up and playing. all had its moments like but was never the same thing as that old trance magic, K didn't help the vibes to be honest.
Never got into psy/goa so much, in fact, an awful lot of it does my nut in and I struggle with a whole night of it. There's a few stand out artists like Vasily, Simon Posford, Bigwigs, Doof and w few others, but heaps and heaps of bad music. Went to goa parties in Ko Phangan late '90's early 2000's and spent months there, but could never really get into it like I could with acid techno or schranz.
i get a bit mixed up with the term Schranz...i'm a big fan of what I call lock-groove techno, but some have called this Schranz, which I associate more with really hard filthy distorted techno. Here's 3 favourite techno tracks and all i'd put under the lock-groove (like a locked groove in vinyl) umbrella. The Reck track might be borderline Schranz...makes me lose actual control, it's got a brilliant youtube comment:
"4:05 onwards it's time to check your graveyards"
i enjoy old-school goa, still love darkpsy/forest, also some full-on, but not so much standard psy-trance (progressive psy is as boring as Berlin minimal techno). Love me some Juno Reactor.
Here's a couple of goa-ish tracks which you might enjoy as they're not typical:
