The Cynic Says……

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but Wizzy Noise is fucking amazing. They’re a goa/psy trance band from Greece and they just plain kick ass. First off, I love electronica of all kinds but I really love the dark and spacy sounding stuff. Wizzy Noise has that down to a T. Generally speaking, their stuff is very well-produced and multi-layered just like I like it. I have most of the stuff they’ve put out so far and I have yet to hear anything I haven’t liked. The song that actually got me hooked on them was “Acid Level 33″, which I heard on Philosomatika. Philosomatika is basically the only goa/psy streaming station I’ve found so far and it’s played a large part in me finding all kinds of new music to download. Nothing like some hard driving goa to go to sleep to. Wizzy Noise’s new CD is called “Stereo Electric” and it’s probably their best one to date. Not to take anything away from their other releases, which are all quite amazing in their own right, but the new one just blew me away. I’ve listened to it a few times here and there but I listened to it while riding home tonight and needless to say, I was amazed. Every single track on the CD is phenomenal and the flow from track to track is excellent. I have to say it’d make great exercise/workout music since it’s so upbeat and hard-driving. It’s kind of a shame that they’re one of the few really good goa acts left that are still putting out grade-A music these days. Infected Mushroom was one of my favorites but their last couple of releases have been quite lackluster to say the least. I’m not saying that every goa/psy artist should sound like them by any stretch of the imagination; that would make the genre incredibly boring. However, I would like to see more releases of the same quality that Wizzy Noise has been putting out the past few years. So much for the best psytrance coming out of Israel! Israel has nothing on Greece in this case, that’s for sure. Now… if only these guys would come to the US within a reasonable distance of me. I’d absolutely jump at the chance to see them live. Oh, well… such is life.

On a side note, I’m loving my 6mbit cable upgrade. I’m downloading Sun Solaris 10 ISO’s @ 750KB/sec. That makes really short work of 500MB downloads to say the least. The 768kbit upstream isn’t too shabby either! Sending files to friends takes half the time and people who download off my on soulseek get stuff a lot more quickly too. Gotta love Comcast and their constant speed upgrades. In just about a year and a half I’ve gone from 256/1500 to 256/3000 to 384/4000 ($10 extra) and now to 768/6000 for that same $10 extra. The base package is now 384/4000 by default which utterly smokes anything else available in my area. Knology is still stuck at 256/3000 and Bellsouth is stuck at their three-tiered system of 128/256 (lite), 256/1500 (Ultra), and 384/3000 (Xtreme)… The only thing BS DSL offers over Comcast is a static IP. No big deal, I just use DynDNS to solve that problem. Comcast owns when it comes to speed… ’nuff said!