Musician: Fernando Arquines
Country: US
Style: Goa Trance, Psy-Trance
1 – Extraterrestrial Life Form 8:35
December 23, 1999 / Source: The artist / Info: “e.l.f. is my musical interpretation of the abduction experience. This is my best work yet, and took me over a month to complete. I even used my brand new midi sax to create some of the melodies. Since, I’m a sax player, it’s easier for me to create melodies with a sax in hand. It helped a lot and it shows in the very cool melodies I came up with. This is my last release until the year 2000. Enjoy“.
2 – Gateway Consciousness 7:36
August 22, 1999 / Source: Once available on Altered Perception / Info: “My third release, and it’s pumping’; mixing elements of psytrance with a progressive mentality. If you like this track, email me and/or vote for it on www.alteredperception.com or www.traxinspace.com. This way I will know how to improve. Thanks for listening. =) […] Recorded at : olmec studios (my bedroom)“
3 – Gnana (Cosmic Oneness) 7:42
November 20, 1999 / Source: The artist / Info: “I wanted to make a more spiritual song, with beautiful melodic lines, trance-inducing drum programming, and diverse musical style. I think this is a huge success. It’s called “gnana” because the Sanskrit root means “knowing”. Gnana is the path of yoga which seeks realization through the pursuit of philosophical knowledge. unswerving centering of the mind upon cosmic oneness. This song is also heavily Israeli inspired, but with a sprinkling of my sort of strangeness“.
4 – Mindmachines 6:04
October 10, 1999 / Source: Still available for download as .IT file in the Mod Archives
5 – The Plague (Infected Mix) 8:24
February 2000 / Source: The artist / Info: “Here’s something that’s a little different. A little dark, a little psychedelic. It’s like some kind of weird journey. Whatever it is, I like it. I was sorta inspired by infected mushroom and some tracks off of Shiva space technology“.
6 – Time Becomes A Loop (Remix) 9:54
1999 / Source: Once available on Tracker sites / Info: “This is my first tracked release. And it’s the fist mod I’ve ever written using impulse tracker. For the past year and a half I’ve only tracked on my Amiga 2000 using octamed :). But I finally have a PC and can enjoy good multi-track songs. I just learned impulse like a week and a half ago, so I think this is a damn good feat for me 🙂“.
7 – Zen 8:48
July 29, 1999 / Source: Still available as .it file / Info: “Well, this is my second release ever. Having learned impulse tracker just this month. Every time I track new ideas I learn so much more. For this track alone, I just learned all the surround sound, panning and volume envelopes and instruments instead of samples. I think I put these new techniques to good use. […] Btw, this is the best song I’ve tracked so far…(I’ve also tracked stuff on my Amiga, but never released any of it. I started out tracking on my Amiga 2000. just recently i got this PC)“.
Notes
• All tracks except ‘Time Becomes A Loop’ and ‘Mindmachines’ were also once available on Pr0teus’ MP3.com page.
• Post-2000 Psy-Trance track: 200X: ‘Savage Instinct’, 8:51
• Non Goa Tracks:
200X: ‘Pr0tocol Seven’, 8:15
200X: ‘Xanadu’, 5:03
• Original discogs page by Kwulf, updated by Cosmogenesis.
Contributors
• Info for ‘The Plague’; links by draeke
• Initial info/samples for all other tracks by Cosmogenesis