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Oh sad news.. He has been a cornerstone in the whole psy live scene for a long time. Very impressive that his music has been around so long, and managed to capture and amaze new festival goers every year. Hopefully as he says it will bring more quality time to produce music. I hope he surprises with some nice trippy music, like only he knows how to. And yeah I have no doubts about that.
I'll keep my eyes open for those precious few gigs he might make. Maybe he just had a bit too much of the scene and needs a rest. I still remember vividly how I found his website when the internet was a new thing, he really has evolved with the times and the technology. Would be cool if he makes more live gigs online from his studio, and also would be nice if he could share some of his studio wizardry online, he should do some Psytrance tutorials. To pass on the legacy.
I remember I read somewhere, maybe in a book about LSD/Psychedelics, how he and Raja Ram had a method of testing new Hallucinogen tracks. By letting Raja Ram listen to the newly made track or track in progress perhaps, in headphones on acid. So a real acid test so to speak. That always stuck with me as a very logical and funny thing to do, to make sure that the music passed the quality control, before any potential trippers purchased the music and used it, or experienced it live.
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On 9/10/2022 at 12:56 AM, Champalive said:
After all these years, we'd like to know, are there any black psy trance producers. well there is Priest from South Africa, but seriously, any one
*Edit it was a very old thread, and every imaginable angle was already discussed. So I don't see the point in resuscitating a thread from 2006.
To properly answer this question would require a master thesis in som fitting academic field. Since statistics are essential to see the full picture. The answer probably lies embedded in the same mechanisms that has made Psytrance, Techno and related genres more or less popular among producers in different countries/segments of populations. Trends, exposure, what music is popular to produce among your peers, technological progress and early adaption of home computers and internet infrastructure etc. Maybe the Hinduism/New Age aesthetic scared some people of? Techno in comparison is more neutral in it's visual presentation in that aspect.
However these types of discussions tend to always become divisive and polarizing by nature. So I think we should avoid this on Psynews, as there is already plenty of that on other platforms. And skimming through this thread reminded me of how toxic this forum used to be at times, and this thread was probably cleaned up by mods at some point. So yeah let it RIP, 2006 was a looong time ago.
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Reminds me of Gandalf.
He should make a Goa project with Raja Ram and Goa Gil. Deck Wizards. 
https://www.discogs.com/release/223951-Goa-Gil-Deck-Wizards-Kosmokrator
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On 9/1/2022 at 3:25 AM, acid-brain said:
I always thought this album was a drop in quality compared to the first 3 classics by MFG.
But I've been listening to it more recently and think it has some really great tracks. For me Dark Waters is the standout with a beautiful and emotional progression. There's melancholy in this track which isn't really felt elsewhere in MFG's work.
When I think of all goa artists, MFG probably are my favourite. Every album is different and their production is so atmospheric and unique. And rather than seeing The Message as the end, I now see it as being the final step of MFG's development, perhaps not as stunning as earlier work but still strong and still experimental in its own way.
Well put and I agree wholeheartedly. I’m always struck by how contemplative the works of MFG are. Their music is very introspective, mysterious and also of course dark. But in a good way I think, like the universe itself. Vast and dark but also full of colorful and brightly shining stars. Riddles of the cosmos.
To me MFG are like Ridley Scott’s Alien and Prometheus movies equivalent of Goa/Psytrance. Their works are both characterized by a very particular sense for details and atmosphere. I think I need to revisit MFG’s discography again! It’s definitely that time of the year, a very dark autum and winter awaits.(In a lot of bad ways). We are closer by the day, to the dark cybernetic future I envision when listening to MFG’s dark scifi music.
Perhaps this new dark era of mankind that we’ve entered makes this music feel more relevant than ever? MFG’s music and a couple of other of the old era, always had a strong message (to my ears atleast). I hope to find a similarly intriguing type of Psytrance some day, but I think it’s a rare thing these days.
When I first heard this type of music it felt as if I had glimpsed into the future, it felt organic, synthetic, alien and weird. As if the music had a life of its own.
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Listening to The Lord of the Rings audio book.
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9 hours ago, artifact303 said:
Yes, I created all kicks carefully with Sonic Academy Kick 2 plugin. Kick and bass are very important for trance IMO, so a lot of care is put in to them.
Thanks! I need to buy this plugin.
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Very nice with som background/insight into the process.
Keep experimenting, we look forwards to hearing the results. You have a very good balance of light/dark, older inspirations and newer ones.
Your music sure has progressed a lot since the Trip To The Sun and The Ancestors era. Nice tracks as well, obviously not as advanced production-wise compared to your later works.
Btw you always had quite a distinct kick drum, very AP-Dancing Galaxy typeish, or Miranda-ish. Very big and knocky. Do you create your kick drums from scratch?
Cheers!
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Whenever I think of the truly inspirational and powerful upcoming NHJO album, I’m reminded of these Eminem lyrics:
https://genius.com/Eminem-and-steve-berman-steve-berman-skit-2000-lyrics
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Oh subtle are your ways great NHJO. This 15-year long PSYOP has mindfucked us all, some suspected Pavel from The Mossad to be the mastermind behind it. I’m leaning more and more towards the possibility of Psychedelic Superbish.
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On a bit of a Alien/Predator/AvP mania lately. Prometheus and Alien Covenant gets better over time for me. The monster, vehicle and environment designs, are just incredible. Aesthetics to die for. Ridley Scott’s sense for details just makes my jaw drop every time, those shifts to microscopic view on the Engineer’s DNA helix is just so pretty.
The sound design is very nice and crisp as well.
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https://americasgottalentauditions.com
https://www.discogs.com/label/141889-PsyNina-Productions
https://www.tomorrowland.com/en/festival/welcome
If you ever start a NHJO-tology cult let me know, I’ll be the first to join.
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I think this albums strong suit is that it mixes the styles up a bit. That variation makes it so that both more hardcore goa heads and those like yourself, who are more in the prog/modern psytrance camp. Can both find something interesting here.
I think this album finds a good middle ground between classic goa, clubby goa and the slightly proggy/modern psy side of things.
It would be interesting to hear from Artifact303 himself, what his main inspirations and themes were for this album.
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2 hours ago, RTP said:
We could arrange a wedding for them. Maybe they show up?
We should hijack the main-stage of some festival.
A surprise live performance by the enigmatic Psynina, I’m sure quite a few would enjoy that.
The other option would be to arrange it digitally somehow. Maybe unbanning Psychedelic Superbeast, he could be the wedding priest.
Don’t be shy NHJO & Psynina, you are Psynews eternal unicorn couple.
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This wedding is gonna be soo epic. Looking forwards to the lineup for the afterparty, heard rumours about BTS and Bieber doing a collaborative live performance.
Any possibility we could hear some Psy-Rap? Maybe a collab between the Illuminati grandmaster NHJO and the Beyonce of Psytrance, Queen Psynina?
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On 8/2/2022 at 9:40 AM, NHJO__HYENNRO said:
The Dark Unicorn of Psynews.
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Infected Mushroom, lately a bit too much on the EDM-side for my personal preference. But their entire catalog has a rich variation of styles and themes, to make a custom selection from.
Very good at creating interesting and unexpected twists in their tracks. And plenty of memorable hooks and unique details. My dream would be that they someday make a super dark themed album, or at least somekind of parodical dark twist. Perhaps a collab with Talpa or something, maybe Röyksopp.
A Classical Mushroom II is high on my wish list. Would really like to hear how they would interpret that style with their new studio tech/experience. And certainly the vocal manipulation they now use/created far surpasses anything available in 1999. So that alone would make for some interesting results.
Hallucinogen is undeniable as well of course, also a lot of variety if one counts his many projects. But comparing just his Hallucinogen moniker’s output to the Infected one I’d say IM has a greater overall variety. Hallucinogen’s style however is still unsurpassed, I just wish he made more of it.
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K-Pop and Psytrance? Bro that’s pure evil mastermind right there. Those suckas will not even know what hit em. NJHO is like the Justin Bieber of the Psytrance scene.
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On 3/27/2022 at 6:14 PM, NHJO__HYENNRO said:
HALLO.
I want to meet my track FAR AWAY to Computer graphic or Music Video.
We will win.
If you are great music video or computer graphic artist.
please contact to me.
If you want make music video or computer graphic.
email to me. I will send to you wav file.
NHJO surprises with yet another excellent anthemic-juggernaut-eurotrance-psydance-banger. Channeled straight from the outermost reaches of our universe. It hits harder than a DMT-vape on your local rave party. And surely the twerking DMT-elves can’t wait to grab this freshly baked masterpiece. So that they can use it, in order to sing new shiny alien toys into existence, to construct a new hypermatrix dimension.
Well and if that sounds like a bunch of crackpipe fairytales, just wait for upcoming killer album, which according to persistent Psynews rumours will drop on the legendary label Twisted Records.
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@RTPYou are definitely on to something. I watched a short clip about how the music to the classic snes game, Donkey Kong Country was composed. They really worked with the limitations and had to invent creative solutions to working with such a small hardware memory footprint.
This puts emphasis on something, namely that a good composition/melodies could be timeless. When a song end up becoming a tech demo of sorts with hundreds of layers for no reason more than because it’s now technically possible. One might ask if the creative energy is distributed evenly where it really matters? The best songs for me will always be those that have a melody/chords which can be played back on a piano or guitar.
Of course this is not applicable nor relevant on more minimal and experimental types of genres. It’s just a general preference of mine (a sucker for melodies.)
And yes Silent Hill, Classic! I would love to find some creepy darker music which capture a similar vibe/atmosphere.
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@DoktorG I love shroomy music (mushic)
gonna take a listen to the shrooms this Doktor prescribed.
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@technosomy you can’t go wrong with The Lone Deranger. Gonna take a listen to that one to now, and watching the new Netflix docuseries about psychedelics: ”How To Change Your Mind” (Good docuseries btw, I only wish they would’ve expanded some on the horrible MK-ULTRA segment of the Psychedelic history). And this docuseries certainly ties in to the evolution of the Psytrance music as well. Even if they didn’t show any of that infortunately, only its precursor, with the advent of the hippies in the counterculture of the 1960s.
To me Simon Posford is like the Jimi Hendrix of the Psytrance classics. His synth riffs are still the best to this day. Dark, twisted and very geometric. I love the bubbly squidgy sounds! The main riff in Trancepotter is crazy.
@Filteria, always nice with some technical production insights/background into tracks. Good to see some goa heads here again.
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Do you take Crypto currency? I have a lot of ”invaluable” Onecoin’s.
I wanna see an epic NHJO birthday cake.
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9 hours ago, psychedelic chipmunk said:
While I acknowledge there has been change to psytrance, I don't agree with it being "evolution". To me evolution means becoming "more superior" to previous versions.
More like ..involution
A lot of newer composition is weird. As if to say "psytrance is only about the kick". It's not. If you have a hardass kick/bassline and barely any melody then that's not psy. God damn it, it's in the word - PSYCHEDELIC. Make me trip, not feel like I have a concussion.
Obviously things change, but not always for the better. If they called themselves whatever else and not psytrance, I wouldn't care in the least. But because they DO call themselves psytrance, I am extremely hurt in the anus.
I certainly believe and share the notion that there can be a retrograde in developments of different artforms. I’m not claiming that’s the case with todays Psytrance though. Although I’m not entirely in agreement with all of it and the general trayectory it is currently taking. I’m still hopeful to find and explore new fantastic creative music. The really good stuff is rare, but that’s what makes it worth the hunt IMO. The true gems.
One only has take couple of examples from history and art to reach some satisfying conclusions regarding different pinnacles in aesthetic achievements. We modern humans still look in awe at some of the surviving archeological artifacts. And every new generation continues to be mesmerized by the rich litterature and music of times gone by.
Komet Bernhard = drinking buddy for Raja Ram
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I agree.