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listened to the whole shebang in two sessions, nice job on the technical side of things, heard a few uneven mixes but generally u kept a good continuous flow throughout some six hours.
on the selection... the new goa stuff... some of it is absolutely wicked, dont get me wrong, but it's a bit like listening to your average drumnbass set these days... everyone is using the same production techniques, and so it all kind of sounds samey and - to me - a bit boring after a while. i feel it couldnt begin to capture the edginess and freshness that the old goa sound used to have... and still has really. most of the production is awesome, but technically and also in terms of the ideas the stuff is all just a tad too similar for me. no different with the progpsy and fullon sets, although it's quite a bit worse in those corners imo... they've been a bit 'stuck' for a while now. :/
the psybient set was great (like many of your mixes in that style), but the real gem in here is the suomi mix! wow... some of those tunes are just jaw-droppingly amazing, and the variety in sounds and influences is wicked, and while i dont think the style is anything new (the term 'suomi trance' i hadnt heard before, but the 'crazy' was done by the danes before the finns, the 'glitch' by ppl like infected, the 'mad sinister' by ppl like psyko disko, and the melodies are obviously goa-styled), it is refreshing because the suomi 'genre' doesnt seem to want to limit its output stylistically so that the only real common factor i can discern is a certain non-conformity. that's what goa used to do back in the day, and it's something which has been veeeery long overdue in psytrance! so yes, great stuff in that mix, some artists in there that i'll definitely be looking up in the future, thanks for that! 
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