Cosma - this man could make some kick-ass music...

I have updated my Cool Links section with a link to the site of the late, great Avihen Livne (a.k.a. Cosma).
If you are into Psytrance or Goa Trance music, then you will know who Cosma was - a true genius of the genre in my opinion.

In all the time I have been a follower of trance music, I have yet to come across someone who can structure tracks as cleverly as did Cosma - each track being a stroke of genius and an awesome trip from beginning to end.

In case you were wondering, I keep referring to Cosma in the past tense, because he unfortunately passed away in a motorbike accident while holidaying in Goa, India in 2003. RIP.
His work will not be forgotten and will likely be the inspiration for many future artists of the genre.

Want to get a feel for his music? Click here for some video search results of his work, or click on one of the Amazon links below to download .
These are a few of my personal Cosma favourites:
- Land of Freedom
- We are the Same
- The Moon is a God
- People on Hold
- Unidentified Forms of Sound (VS. Domestic)

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Finally some updates :)

I have been meaning to add some more meaningful stuff to Nybbles and Bytes lately, and to start I have added some links to my sidebar:

Vibrasphere - an awesome Psychedelic / Melodic / Progressive Trance act from Sweden.
If this is your kind of thing, you need to hear some of their stuff. A lot of their music is inspired by the Scandanavian landscape, weather and landforms. The album cover below should give you an idea of what I mean.

Bas Rutten - a legendary (now retired) Dutch MMA fighter. He was the UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak (21 wins, 1 draw).
Look out for him on YouTube as well - his self-defence training videos can be quite a laugh!

Skeptical Science - "examining the science of global warming skepticism" is what the site description says - quite self explanatory! The site goes on to say "...this website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?..."
Basically a site dedicated to debunking the Global Warming denyers out there.

Bear Grylls  - he's the crazy guy from Ultimate Survival on the Discovery Channel. He jumps off crazy things, eats crazy things, goes to crazy places, and generally does some pretty crazy things. In spite of all his craziness, I think he is one hell of a brave guy. Vegetarians proceed with caution... this man will eat anything. Literally.

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