Filteria - Heliopolis

[samer]

After an astonishing debut album back in 2004, Filteria is back with a new album Heliopolis. A Melodical fast psychedelic album that would surely get you off flying in a space of melodies and beats...

The tracks on this album will take us in a journey into psy and Goa sounds in a very emotional trip in a time where most psy productions tend to lean over the prog side. A Great comeback for the melodic side of this hyper energetic style that keeps on capturing the hearts and minds of more fans all around the globe!

Heliopolis is a new chapter in the melodic psy book of every psyloving trancer.. be sure to check it out and see you on the next flight!

Tracklist:
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01. unfiltered (moon rmx) -- 08:28
02. speech module (feat. red gravity) -- 09:16
03. reflected -- 10:02
04. mind expansion (short version) -- 10:43
05. pyrogen -- 08:58
06. rotate to vibrate -- 08:43
07. lunar civilization (filterias higher remix) --10:06
08. cloud kingdom (solar fields rmx) -- 10:32

[DIONYSOS]

[Genesis]

Not my thing at all

Very melodic, no bassline work at all - untwisted beats & no teasing elements.
That's trippy psy not in shape.

[samer]

[DIONYSOS]

May I have the honor of killing him myself Sam?

God I've missed that old Goa sound that got me introduced to PsyTrance back in the days! I had still been listening to Filteria's debut album Sky Input ever since its 2004 release, because ever since then (and although there have been some decent psy releases) nothing had that unique melodic sound to it... but with Heliopolis it seems that my copy of Sky Input will finally be archived to be replaced by this new priceless gem. A score of 10 out of 10 for every single track off the album!

May God bless Suntrip Records who adopted Filteria's sound. The label was started by psynews.org godfathers Fabien "Mars" & Anoebis (also a famous Belgian DJ and party organiser) and is dedicated to bringing melodic GoaTrance back into the scene.

[Genesis]

What Goa sound?! Is THAT Goa sound? Have you not listened to the old
Cosmosis, X-Dream & Hallucinogen? You call this album goa? A pack of
melodies thrown on stable beats (there's not even basslines!) without even
FX is supposed to be Goa? Goa is much melodies, ok. But where's the
bassline? Where're some teasing beats?

Soft, quiet, and an ''uneventful'' album with its tunes. This album would be the last I'd ever listen to.

[samer]

ya well.. i myself got pretty bored with the same monotonous psy sound that most psy productions do sound these days.. especially with the fact that most psy tracks are based on random melodies and effects, so if there's no decent melody to lead the track, and with all the same bassline that has been used lately, i dont c the point of producing such psy anymore!!

i think this melodic GOA sound should be produced more (whether Gen likes it or not )

[Genesis]

Could somebody absorb this?
Yes, monotonous and uncreative. Fine. But psy was not made melodic. Stop
rubbing this ''there's no melody'' in my face everytime we had a psy thing to
talk about. It doesn't have melodies that are the base of the tune. Whomever
begs for melodies then.. New flash: Psy is not for you. There are so many
melodic-infested tunes out there you can listen to and unfortunately: psy not
one of them. That's how psy is: effects and random melodies. The base of
the tune is the mystic effects and loud beats and basslines. They should be
more creative with the basslines, but don't stick much melodies in it - not on
the beats account at least.

[samer]

^ well from what i know, Psy can be Progg or Melodic.. and if you go check the earlier psy productions around 2000 and before (it was all more melodic..) and if you keep on checking IM, Astrix, AP and a few other producers u'll see they still produced till that day this sort of Psy..

Psy is not only 1 style, Psy in not only 1 way!
wanna agree or not, this is my own point of view and sorry if it'll disturb your peace almight Gen

[DIONYSOS]

PsyTrance has evolved from a sub-genre of Trance to what can perhaps be considered a genre by its own right, since it now counts a total of sub-genres: Ambient, Progg, Morning, FullOn, Dark, Trippy, and Goa (correct me if I'm mistaken Gen), so that's as many sub-genres as Trance itself counts! Most psy produced in the past and today is non-melodic, but that's most and not all. Now most hardcore psy listeners favor this "most psy" that is non-melodic and disfavor other sub-genres of Trance partly because these other sub-genres are too melodic for them, while the others favor psy that has not-so-minimal melodies in it, and these tend to consider the other Trance sub-genres as their sound since they dig melodies; Gen (and most psy listeners) is from the first group, Sam and I are from the second - that's all there is to it.

As for Heliopolis, well Filteria may not have Goa beats as praise-worthy as those of Astral Projection or Man With No Name, but he does produce melodies as praise-worthy as those of Etnica and Pleiadians. At least he's attempting to deliver something different, to revive the old Goa sound. Perhaps he's more melodic than he should be, but (from my limited knowledge in this particular sub-genre) he is the only one working to resurrect the explicit melodies that used to be found in the classic Goa sound, and this was the sound that got me into PsyTrance way back during the stone age which is why I got nostalgic over Filteria's two albums. They're different, and when a good deal (but not all) of today's psy is imitation-based and lacking innovation, Filteria is a breath of fresh air.

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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