Global-Trance

Well I wouldn't be too upset about this season. They HAVE explained some good things... it's just they kinda stopped filling things in. Next episode better make up for it though. It's Richard's backstory!

Listened to all his stuff today in his memory today. R.I.P.

From the Battle.net D2 forums...

See this is where it gets complicated. I feel like at one point, the cold Christian Shephard we saw in Season 1 was the Smoke Monster in the form of Christian Shephard. Fast-forward a bit to the first time we see Christian in the cabin. Completely different person. I think he was possibly reanimated at some point by the Smoke Monster. Claire did say that she was hanging out with her father AND her friend. It seems like they're two different entities at this point though it is very likely that they were at one point the same. *_*

1.13 is the most underwhelming work in progress ever

Well, a straight forward episode, but a number of subtle details to note which stirs up speculation... 1.) Jack's appendix scar in Alternate 2004. He had it removed on the Island in the original timeline as well. This time he just doesn't seem to know it. Second mark on his body that Alternate Jack does not remember. 2.) Claire is the new Danielle. 3.) Shannon's inhaler and the caves. Oh hey the skeletons I've been wondering about for over five seasons. Jack found two rocks on them in season 1: one black, one white. I wonder if he still has them! 4.) The flash "sideways" explains the significance of "You have what it takes." Nicely tying together two timelines. 5.) Hurley can do whatever he pleases now at the Temple because he now claims to be a candidate. What authority do the candidates have once they acknowledge that title? 6.) The Lighthouse has yet another wheel. Assuming it can turn in a complete circle, there is likely to be 360 degrees, and thus potentially 360 candidates. Though the names in the cave are not 100% identical to that on the Lighthouse wheel, the important numbers are the same. Though missing from the cave, Kate Austen can be seen as 51 and currently not crossed out. 7.) The Lighthouse has 4 mirrors. Not 8 or even 15? Why not 16 or 23 or 42? Okay that's too many... 8.) Jacob mentions to Hurley to turn the Lighthouse to 108 degrees. The name associated with 108 is "Wallace"... either some important person in the not so future or it was just to get Hurley to show Jack what he needed to see. 9.) Speaking of things seen in the mirror, before Jack sees his house, we can see some very Asian styled buildings. It was shown while approaching 108 so there's speculation that the imagery of the Asian buildings belong to 108. Maybe. Who knows? I was personally hoping 108 would be Vincent the dog... but wait is someone really coming to the Island? Desmond? Widmore? They need to show up. 10.) Claire has been living with her father and her "friend" who is revealed to be the Smoke Monster / John Locke. She acknowledges that it is not John though. Team Smoke Monster now consists of at least Claire Littleton, Christian Shephard, and James Ford. 11.) Concerning Christian Shephard being on Team Smoke Monster, there could have been some totally intentional foreshadowing that this was the case during season 4. During one of Jack's flash forwards, Jack is staying late at work at the hospital. While he is busy working, A SMOKE ALARM goes off which brings Jack out to the lobby area where he turns off the alarm and then is startled by the vision of his father which sends him into a downward spiral of self destruction. SMOKE. ALARM. I remember making note about the smoke alarm during the airing of the episode and I felt it was linked to the Smoke Monster somehow but at the time I couldn't see Christian Shephard being the Smoke Monster except for the fact that he was dead. If the smoke alarm was an intentional yet subtle hint, I give them a lot of props for that. Now for some speculation! 1.) I get the feeling that Jack is going to be THE last candidate standing as the successor to Jacob. I mentioned to some people before all the time travel stuff started to happen (specifically before end of season 3 ) that Jack was possibly Jacob (at that time, Jacob was thought to be the entity in the cabin) that was trapped in time. How did I even bring in time travel before the end of season 3? I can't recall. 2.) Life = Possible Candidate for Jacob, Death = Possibly Claimed for Smoke Monster. 3.) Christian Shephard is to Smoke Monster as Richard is to Jacob. Maybe? Would be a nice opposition to the Jacob-Richard relationship... 4.) "Eternal Recurrence" - the whole "not remembering" mixed with deja vu vibes in the alternate 2004 timeline makes me think that the story of LOST is one rooted in the idea of "Eternal Recurrence" found in eastern religions (oh surprise surprise LOST references eastern religions all the time). Basically it's like Groundhog Day but cycling through your life over and over until true enlightenment. It's a karma thing. If they pull this, I wouldn't be surprised. Episode didn't reveal entirely too much, but it gets the gears turning. Apparently the next episode is SO EPIC that they couldn't even show the preview for it except for like two seconds. Get hype!

Terry O'Quinn is one of the best actors I've ever seen. Too good. And now for the stuff I obsessively paid attention too... I'll cut this one shorter... Hopefully. 1. Alternate 2004, John Locke plans to marry Helen... a much more fortunate alternative than when she walked away from him. 2. Randy, Locke's boss is still a major douchebag and fires him. 3. Smoke Monster/Nemesis's temptation to bring Richard and others along with him with the most likely false incentive of answers and freedom draws unsurprising parallels with the biblical Temptation of Christ. I've lost count of the Biblical and Eastern religious references at this point... 4. The Apparition of the Other Child... whoever this is knows about the rules between the battle between Jacob and his nemesis. His sudden appearance is similar to that of Walt in previous seasons. Apparently he claims that you can't truly kill Jacob... 5. Ilana takes Jacob's ashes. If the ashes are tied to him or even part of him, then he is almost like the mythical Phoenix. 6. Smoke Monster/Nemesis is said to be recruiting. Funny that before this episode, I was talking to my friend Christopher about the replay of last week's episode. When Dogen and Lennon tell Jack that Sayid has been "claimed" the pop-up notes oddly enough mention the part when Locke explains to Walt about the game of backgammon... one side is Light and the other, Dark. Putting 2 and 2 together, I felt it was like Jacob and his nemesis are picking teams or picking game pieces. I'm on the right track, but still not sure what this big game is about. 7. Sawyer references Steinbeck's " Of Mice and Men" for the second time. First time was during season 3 when he was conned by Ben on Hydra Island. 8. This is the first time the Monster specifically refers to itself as "trapped" and displays a much more human side. Makes it hard to decide who you want to root for now does it? 9. Ilana mentions Smoke Monster/Nemesis can't change his form anymore... peculiar! Not sure what that means. She knows more than it appears to be! Could it be because the Smoke Monster took the form of a "candidate"? 10. Ben comes clean at what appears to be the most emotional yet awkward eulogy ever. 11. Back in Alternate 2004, when John wakes up to his alarm, the alarm sounds much like the alarm in the Swan Hatch. Also the alarm goes off at 8:15. (Edit: An HD Rip shows the time as 6:15. I'm off by one on this one) 12. So there's a ladder on the side of the cliff that nobody's ever seen before? The cave on the cliffside has a scale... one side with a white rock and the other side a black rock. Is this Jacob's cave? Can we say that ladder is JACOB'S LADDER? LOL. Sorry I had to do it. 13. The names on the cave wall... the reason how they're all there. They just TOLD us? AWESOME. They're revealed as the candidates to be Jacob's successor... What are the perks? Is there a greater destiny in all this? Smoke Monster/Nemesis says it's all a joke (button pressing anyone?) and that there's nothing to the Island. Obviously this is a huge lie. There's a huge inheritance in all this... 14. The numbers reappear again on the wall with names. 4 - Locke (now crossed out) 8 - Reyes 15 - Ford 16 - Jarrah 23 - Shephard 42 - Kwon (Jin or Sun?) 15. Many of us have noticed... no Austin! 15. There are other numbers as well. The following are all crossed out. 31 - Rutherford (Shannon) 70 - Faraday (Daniel) 90 - Troup (This is the guy who got sucked into the engine during the season 1 pilot episode. He is also the author of the manuscript that Sawyer was reading which Jack quickly burned. You can actually order this book. Just look up "Bad Twin" by Gary Troup) 195 - Pace (Charlie) 226 - Carlyle (Boone) 313 - Littleton (Clair or Aaron?) Lostpedia, the Lost wiki, also mentions several names which I missed... such as Goodspeed, Cunningham, Pickett, Jones, etc.... which are all Others, though Goodspeed can also refer to Horace. They've given us more than just breadcrumbs this episode... a whole lot more information than I thought they'd ever give us. And yet the big picture is still hazy...

Wow that's really generous of you Bahamut! Maybe if I go to MAGFest next year I might be able to partake in such graciousness.

I'm patiently waiting on a particular VIP's track so I can air it as soon as he's done making it. Thanks for your postin, Jewb!

I've watched the episodes of Season 5 at least twice and there's no mention of wheel turning by Widmore. Looking into a handful of theories it seems that is only speculation and yet to be confirmed. Smoke Monster is definitely a lot of things... but whether it's Jack's father or not is in question. Perhaps at one point it was... in Season 1 the appearances of Jack's father on the online are cold and emotionless... however the way we see him now is much different. Different clothes, completely different personality. As for the bomb going off or not, I think that actually did happen. Remember in season 2 in the hatch there was a large thick cement wall separating people and a large source of magnetism. Sayid commented the last time he saw this much cement was in Chernobyl, most likely referencing the most devastating nuclear reactor disaster in the history of man. Most likely the bomb went off and everyone left just sealed it. The proximity to the energy is what sent Jack and co. to the present time. Also a number of the Others present were in fact survivors of the plane crash. The first few times we see Cindy the flight attendant with the Others it is implied that some joined with them. And funny some people mentioned Fringe similarities to Lost. There ARE Lost references in Fringe you know. Look at this plane ticket shown on Fringe:

First off the symbol in the guitar case is the Ankh. Has a lot of ties to immortality. Read up! Also below stuff I posted about on another forum. A lot of similarities to what has been posted but some not: I'd like to comment about not seeing Eko and Ana Lucia and such... they were in the tail section of the plane so arguably we didn't see them because we didn't get to see the back of the plane very much. I think they're going to pull a Chrono Cross here... There's something not quite right with the new Alternate 2004... things will play out as they should.

Xenoblade please have awesome music

I'm kinda loosely throwing out terms here but... Progressive refers to a style of music that builds upon itself slowly over time... as a song plays, elements are slowly and subtly added over the ones currently playing... the song starts out sounding one way and comes out something very different by the end. Trance refers to the the current trance genre which many don't really consider to be trance at all. However trance typically refers to electronic music often characterized by driving basslines, hypnotic and infectious melodies/hooks, sweeping filter effects, gating effects, sometimes ethereal vocals, etc. People often presume writing trance is easy but it's difficult to write an overly repeating melody that doesn't suck huge amounts of balls. Trance originated from house, techno, and minimalism (maybe a few other genres). Late 90s / very early 2000s trance often incorporated melodies that were inspired by classical music as well. As for uplifting... that's just one of the subgenre's of trance. Uplifting trance is trance music with melodies generally aimed at making one feel good, often through melodic emotional and euphoric highs in the breakdown. Breakdowns are often long and drawn out and nowadays sound like it was sampled from an epic orchestral movie soundtrack. The overly epic uplifting trance tracks are often written in Major key. Most trance (and electronic dance music in general) is written in minor. Maybe that clears things up?

Thanks to everyone posting for your thoughts and kind words. Also hey myf! Long time no see. I'm assuming you're doing well I hope!

Yea I've gotten a lot of messages about PA007 but it can all be summed up with "omg Poppiholla" Also keep an eye out for the next PA to feature a brand new original by bLiNd. GET HYPE.

yo sgx I'll be taking a peek around. Need some fresh names on my DJing spree. I like some of the stuff I'm hearing!

I'm doing this more often hopefully so send it my way. ;-;

Check the tags. Actually I'm totally backlogged on updating the photography on my site. Another project on my belt I think!

My break from DJing is over. You all should know the drill by now. But if not, here's some progressive and trance harmonically mixed for your listening pleasure. If it's not your thing, pass it along to someone who might like it! Just head over to my site, look around, and navigate yourself to the DJing section up top. Edit: I'm now encoding all sets from this point on to v0 VBR settings which may or may not mess with time settings if you scour through the mp3 on media players such as Winamp. The below tracklists ARE correct... just your media player might not think so because of the VBR settings. http://www.global-trance.com/ Global-Trance - Public Address 007 (Part 1) Tracklist ----------------------------------------------------- 01. Pryda - Melo (Original Mix) [00:00 - 07:41] 02. Rank 1 - L.E.D. Let There Be Light (Extended Mix) [07:41 - 11:50] 03. Jonathan Martin - Insidious (Original Mix) [11:50 - 18:18] 04. Filo and Peri featuring Eric Lumiere - Soul and the Sun (Original Mix) [18:18 - 22:20] 05. Empire of the Sun - We Are the People (Andy Moor and Ashley Wallbridge Bootleg) [22:20 - 27:49] 06. Markus Schulz presents Dakota - Koolhaus (Skytech Progressive Mix) [27:49 - 32:43] 07. Cressida - Two O Ten (Original Mix) [32:43 - 36:41] 08. Everlight - Colours (Original Mix) [36:41 - 42:33] 09. Gaia - Tuvan (Original Mix) [42:33 - 47:26] 10. Manvel Ter-Pogosyan featuring Jenni Perez - Fallen In Too Deep (Original Mix) [47:26 - 52:34] 11. Pryda - Pjanoo (Danilo Ercole Bootleg) [52:34 - 58:55] 12. Ben Gold - Sun Stroke (Original Mix) [58:55 - 64:45] Global-Trance - Public Address 007 (Part 2) Tracklist ----------------------------------------------------- 01. Chicane - Poppiholla (Original Mix) [00:00 - 07:46] 02. Dirty Vegas - Tonight (Above & Beyond Remix) [07:46 - 13:00] 03. Espen Gulbrandsen vs. DJ Julian Vincent featuring Maria Nayler - Perfect Sky (Original Mix) [13:00 - 18:28] 04. Steve Brian - Yaya (Original Mix) [18:28 - 23:12] 05. Flux Capacitor - Gone Away (Mango Remix) [23:12 - 27:41] 06. Reeves - Call of Loneliness (Original Mix) [27:41 - 33:40] 07. Heatbeat - Paradise Garage (Piano Mix) [33:40 - 40:17] 08. BT - Suddenly (Ferry Corsten Mix) [40:17 - 47:38] 09. Cosmic Gate featuring Emma Hewitt - Not Enough Time (Sied Van Riel Remix) [47:38 - 53:22] 10. Tiesto featuring Sneaky Sound System - I Will Be Here (Extended Mix) [53:22 - 60:00] Global-Trance - Public Address 007 (Part 3) Tracklist ----------------------------------------------------- 01. Giuseppe Ottaviani featuring Faith - Fallen (Original Mix) [00:00 - 07:11] 02. Sean Tyas - Melbourne (Original Mix) [07:11 - 13:37] 03. Sequentia - Infinite Horizon (Original Mix) [13:37 - 19:22] 04. Running Man - Fantastic Voyage (Original Mix) [19:22 - 25:35] 05. Daniel Kandi and Robert Nickson - Liberate (Original Mix) [25:35 - 30:25] 06. Pawel Meller - Escape (Underwater Remix) [30:25 - 36:51] 07. Reconceal and Andy Blueman - The World to Come (Andy Blueman Mix) [36:51 - 43:58] 08. Neptune Project - Aztec (Aly & Fila Remix) [43:58 - 51:40] 09. Android - STM 064 (Ronny K. Emotion Remix) [51:40 - 59:58] 10. Vast Vision - Luminosity (2 Year Anniversary Theme) [59:58 - 67:26] Maybe you'll see me next MAGFest?

At least someone wants me to go! Edit: LMAO Sailor Jewbei

I'm definitely going to try a little harder! :3

ok can i srsly dj next year (Glad ya'll had boat loads of fun)

Homecoming is a good game, but a terrible Silent Hill.

This is what I'm talking about it! Massive tune that all trance fans absolutely MUST NOT miss.