Jump to content

Leaderboard

Popular Content

Showing content with the highest reputation since 03/12/24 in all areas

  1. Hey-hey. How's it? This is a bit of a large scale topic to tackle but I've been thinking about it every now and then. So the main question is - how's everything changed considering psytrance culture? What do you think? It's obviously a question that's intertwined with our technological/social/human progression. It's difficult to start making an analysis but to get things started... I'm arguing people are in collective terms less focused. This means what we "consume" needs to be easy and fast to digest. Any person needs to make a conscious effort to withhold a long attention span in the age is smart phones and social media. A shorter attention span is not the only thing - if you browse through endless amounts of data (phone/computer...), the creators of this data are in battle to win your attention. Your attention is money, straight and honest. It's views, likes and ad revenue. As you might have noticed, this battle is intense and ugly. It's almost like as if you've suddenly landed in this weird zoo with endless amount of monkeys hitting cymbals together. The loud and obscene run the show. Attention is also a drug like phenomenon, some people crave for it and are willing to take any measure to achieve it. And it certainly has been this way before the invention of internet, but nowadays you can't escape this toxic energy that easily. We're physically less in contact and digitally affected by behavior that we can easily classify sub standard. But isn't it so, that we've actually developed a skill to avoid the negative aspect of internet to some degree? That skill is indifference. People are far more indifferent than before. We just have to ignore a lot of things, because the amount of stimulus has significantly risen in the 10-15 years or so. In global terms the rise of indifference is great for the ones in control. But for the majority, for the planet, for the evolution of mankind... it's toxic. It creates a world of apathy and that's when things get dark when we run out of empathy and hopefulness. Let's see how the aforementioned, in my opinion, affects psytrance culture: 1) Drop of quality / When it's "fast-food" it means you only have to figure out a few things like production standards to achieve the pop-appeal. And sure, there's a place for easily digestible music and it can be fun too. But how about the very opposite? The ruthlessly difficult yet intelligent sound? The reason to do music, the idea behind it, has certainly changed for the worse. The big names are very clinical in their approach and pretty much create the same track over and over again. These days there's more ego & less Soul. 2) Drop of interest / People are less engaged. Less focus means we give each other, not to mention our art, less time and appreciation. We hardly stop to admire a great work even when we hear it. We don't write reviews. Those take time and who cares! Right? That's just the way cookie crumbles these days. 3) No more classics / There's no consensus on what's good and what's not. Just a few single opinions at most. There's no real indicators of quality and popularity these days neither, because views and stardom can be bought. We can all probably agree Hallucinogen's Twisted is a classic yes? But come to talk about anything from the last 10 years I wouldn't know. I couldn't know. 4) Less story-telling albums / ...and more digital singles! Because singles can be released more often therefore staying "active" as an artist/label. Activity is one of the key elements to gaining attention online. A full length album? Yesterday's antics.
    1 point
  2. yes! they are! give it to the fans ffs. why holding it in like you have to go to the bathroom. okay, thanks for your opinion. whats happened to this place. everyone got a stick up their ass lately and takes everything so serious.. oh well, keep doing you
    1 point
  3. So, for you, artists who decide not to release THEIR music for one reason or another are assholes.. Why do i get the feeling that this is pathetic to say the least..
    1 point
  4. So I was recommended this new Goatrance podcast, perhaps created by the Destination Goa team? Not sure. Maybe someone here has more info? Anyways gonna take a listen, always nice with some Goatrance focused content. Two episodes so far, with Cosmosis. In the second part he discusses his new collaboration with Filteria: https://app.springcast.fm/podcast/destination-goatrance OVER DESTINATION GOATRANCE "A Podcast for lovers of Goa Trance. We are bringing in-depth interviews with artists, label people and organizers from the golden age of the 90’s to the modern era, collecting stories of legendary parties, inspirational psychedelic experiences and all the tricks of creating the magical tunes we love. You want to know about the origins of psychedelic festival culture? How was your favorite album recorded? The secret sauce of the biggest dancefloor hits? We are here to ask the movers and shakers of the scene to find out. The two hosts of the show are both avid collectors and passionate fans of the original Goa sound. Psymon Peter has been behind the decks as a DJ for 2 decades and Tibes has made his mark on the scene as an organizer. In each episode they bring you a selection of the most relevant tunes from the best artists in the genre and share why those tracks are so special. Join in for a journey through space, time and sound!"
    1 point
  5. Wow amazing thankyou, this is awsome!
    1 point
  6. Definitely confusing, and agreed, most likely a homage.
    1 point
  7. It still manages to be groovier than anything I've come up with so far! I enjoyed the sounds around 5:30 on as well.
    1 point
  8. The Destination Goa compilations were compiled by Robert Jarnroth, and sometimes with help from Peter Hartzell and DJ Anti. The podcast guys are not the same, so not related. Anyway, thanks for recommending the podcast, will listen to it.
    1 point
  9. 1 point
  10. Hey thanks! The waveform was just default saw waveform in Dune3, and default LP filter, nothing special at all. I imagine perhaps Sheyba just put a SH-101 or something through an Eventide or similar big type reverb and tweaked away. I wonder what the Dune default osc were modelled after? Maybe Nord Lead or Virus?
    1 point
  11. Nice work That sounds really close to the Sheyba lead - do you mind sharing what shape waveforms you used? It's a nice mystical feeling track.
    1 point
  12. @acid being try listening to the Sheyba type lead now, it's the first one at 0.26, the rest are more Mystica/Nitzhogoa type leads:
    1 point
  13. Store: https://www.beatport.com/release/the-great-infiltrator/4458763 Release Date: 2024-03-08 Label: Digital Shamans Records Catalog: DSR048 Genre: Psychedelic Artist: Inpsyde Out Title: The Great Infiltrator TrackList: 1. Inpsyde Out - The Great Escape 7:53 2. Inpsyde Out - Woozy Weastside 7:54 3. Inpsyde Out - Mr. Bollywood (Mr.Hollywood Rmx) 6:51 4. Inpsyde Out - Into The Wild 7:03
    1 point
  14. I can't help but comment on the cover art. A cartoon banger on chitty bang bang? What looks like a giant sausage is tied to the roof of a VW Beetle. And then a gaggle of aliens and freaks watching some Victorian gentleman wrapped in a saddhu's cloak presenting a chalkboard lecture next to a supposedly Hindu temple on "No karma, just physics"? But physics is karma; Newton's third law "action and reaction are equal and opposite" is as concise a statement of the law of karma as any. I thought hey maybe I'm being uncharitable so I took a brief listen to the first track - I'm afraid I didn't last more than about 15 seconds. Wtf that is some hilarious cover art and it seems the contents are equally dire🤣
    1 point
  15. I also hate Spotify and never use it. But the album is also available on youtube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbvoMC0zUvPL8vjswhLOSw) if you want to listen to the full tracks. And if you like it, the tracks can be bought from Beatport, or you check if the physical release is still available in the Infected Mushroom merch shop. Great album btw. The remakes sound (obviously...) more modern than the original versions but IM still managed to keep the original spirit of the tracks. I definitely hope for a second edition with more tracks...
    1 point
  16. whats the going rate to spam the forum with new releases? whats the hourly rate? and whos paying you? youre not doing anything wrong so by all means continue, but since youre the first one who does it, and have been doing it for a while now, i imagine youre getting paid for it. Maybe some extension to distrokid or something?
    1 point
×
×
  • Create New...