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It’s no secret that the psytrance scene is populated almost exclusively by ex-metal heads and we are all familiar with the guitar (psytar for the DI brigade) tracks littering the scene. Even the best examples are pretty much bollocks, and talented players such as ex-Megadeth axeman Marty Friedman can’t even turn in a decent psytrance guitar performance instead resorting to the type of retarded power chords that we thought were cool when we were in our first band at 14 and had been learning our instruments for about a week. Remember this is a world where Asher Swissa can become a guitar god so there is no hope.

Apart maybe from this chap on youtube who thought he’d have a bash at Posford’s LSD on a Jackson. Does a pretty good job.

Is the credit crunch and rocketing fuel bills and cost of living eating into your tunes budget? Perhaps not if you are an off grid living (or trust funded) smelly psy-hippie, but for the rest of us it’s great to find sites like Ektoplasm with it’s huge list of free to download legal trance albums.

There is so much quality stuff on there it’s difficult to know where to begin, but I’ve had a go and you can hear the results in my latest mix exclusively on mmRadio.

Gawd bless the internet!

A bit late but it’s time for another top ten pop pickers. Here are the most downloaded sets from MonkeyDo.org for the month of May 2008. If you want the full list of available downloadable dj mixes check out the Monkey do and Friends megapost. If you just wnat good mixsets then here is what other people are choosing to listen to.