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  1. I agree with pretty much all of your acute observations. And yeah it's both fascinating and kinda uninspiring at the same time, the trajectory of this genre. It's constantly changing/morphing, not always for the best of everyones preferences of course, but ultimately it's the commercial success of the front-runners that will shape a large portion of what will define the style. Anyways as with all other genres. And as you've pointed out, the change of mediums/platforms and ways in which people consume and distribute music always have a huge impact on the shape of the music itself. As we can see right now due to TikTok and Instagram, with electronic music getting shorter tracks, due to the song lenght limits on those platforms. And yeah probably due to shorter attentions spans too. I hope that the underground aspects of Psytrance always will continue to work, as a counter-balance to the genres most commercial aspirations. So that it doesn't completely lose it's original message and unique identity. Because sadly much of what I originally fell in love with in this genre, has changed quite drastically. Buy yeah it goes back and forth, some trends come and go, there's always somekind of new revivalist movement on the not too far away horizon, when people get bored. And start to look back in time for inspiration.
  2. @RTP I'm thinking that the most logical thing to do, would be to create a poll. With the options you suggested, kinda like: Keep the forum, close the forum, archive it etc. The participation rate to such a poll, would in itself give an idea as to if the forum is game over. (As if the statistics RTP mentioned, weren't enough of an indication.) The way I see it, if there's less then 10 active forum members, then perhaps it's nothing more than a little chat group. And as such, a forum with all it's associated costs to run it, perhaps becomes quite a bit redundant? The forum is stagnating any way one chooses to view it, the grumpy old male energy is quite noticeable. And that is obviously what happens, when there's no active female forum members. Either way, the forum had a good long run. And as all good things, they have to end sometime. What originally constituted the forum, I.E the users/potential new members, have gone with their favorite labels to the other platforms obviously. And the labels gained the most from that, they cut the middle-man so to speak. Anyways I miss the good old days, when Psytrance and Goa was all one would get in places like this forum, the Isratrance forum and other places. The new platforms obviously offer a lot more unrelated noise, and not enough quality content to be engaging for Psy/Goa for me. The labels own dedicated groups on facebook, I think suffer from a bit of a too narrow scope. And yeah it's mostly just links to music on youtube, and neverending praises. It becomes a bit fanboyish/cult-like. And not much in terms of nuanced discussions, or anything near the in-depth reviews that once flourished on Psynews and similar forums/portals. Maybe people still do that on Bandcamp? I don't feel like investing in that platform tho, it feels like the next myspace, to fade away. On the other hand, this trend with artists/labels having their own dedicated channels, was somewhat starting back in the days too, particularly with Infected Mushroom's and Hallucinogen's own forums. My two cents.
  3. @Penzoline So after evaluating the changes we made to the forum structure, for a while now. I think it's safe to conclude, that it didn't change much, in terms of activity in the reviews section. So I suggest we try putting the: "Latest Topics" section which is at the bottom now to the top, and restore everything else to how it was before. Since the most popular section seems to be the news section. And it was kinda on the top before if I remember correctly, so I suggest putting the news section high up, under the lastest topics tab or something. Let's hear what everybody else thinks/have for suggestions. As for the rest I think it's good, people probably check the news section first, then scroll down to the general section or so, and see the promotional sections while doing so. So those sections get their share of exposure, which is good I think.
  4. Maybe who knows, the whole world seems bipolar/depressed atm. But yeah sometimes or probably very often, good music comes from such states of minds. Kinda like Vinnie Paz. Eminem's music always seemed like that to me as well, you know either really dark or very very too much happy/manic. But yeah difficult to know what's what, with the excessive substance abuse issues Eminem had. Could be the psychedelic influence or the MDMA. Btw Erez had a side project/alias called I-Zen. I think maybe only one track made under that alias, but very nice nonetheless, "Into the Matrix" maybe it was Duvdev ft I-Zen, have to check later. *found it:
  5. I mean you never know, but my guess would be that's just his personality style. Since he is like that in every studio blog I've seen. Not that one thing excludes another so to say, but yeah speaking from my own experience, I am like that too. I speak very fast,think fast, move fast. Maybe that is the secret Ying and Yang recipe of Infected Mushroom? Erez seems very calm in comparison.
  6. Thanks for clarifying! Since they use the same or at least similar font, as the DG-compilations I assumed some relationship. Besides the name of the podcast as well, anyways a little hommage perhaps?
  7. 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?
  8. @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:
  9. An interview with Duvdev from Infected in a podcast format, not about the new album per se, since the interview is from 2021, still it's very nice. It goes into his musical background and how he first came into contact with Heavy Metal in the 70s, New Wave and Acid music etc in the 80s etc. Always welcome with a new perspective, can give some context/understanding for the new album as well. Since it's based on the Classical Mushroom era after all. And he discusses the Gathering and Classical Mushroom albums. I really enjoyed the segment were he talks about the early Nitzhonot era. https://podcasts.nu/avsnitt/midierror-meets/midierror-meets-infected-mushroom-ep27-psy-trance-pioneers-TQ79sqXw2W
  10. 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!"
  11. @Jotinha You are doing a great thing for the forum, paid or not. I for one find it refreshing to see a lot of new releases this way. The way I see it, your contribution can draw some new users or lurkers here to get some info on new releases/events. And besides that I think it's only good if this forum is still somehow deemed relevant, for paid or unpaid participation. Either way it benefits the forum one way or another. And when I've been reflecting at times on what this forum would need to be re-ignited, I have always thought about the idea of the forum having a front page, like a Psynews blog, with curated daily updates/videos/festival news/interviews etc. Something in the vein of what Ektoplazm had back in the day. Which nowadays obviously could be done by integrating some AI-service with RSS feeds etc or paid promotion from labels. So yeah this is not far from such an idea of a more regular flow of updates. Cheers!
  12. Ah sorry, the first video was only mobile cam of the intro, the last was entire track(mp3) with leads etc, the intro only had like what you could call "pad leads/hooks" I played around and changed the kick drum today from a regular goa kick to a more Mystica/Shiva Shidapu/Nitzhonot one. Huge kick. So gonna need some tweaking to re-adjust the levels around it. I'll upload the mp3 when the mix is more final, it sounded better in the headphones than on the iphone. So back to the drawing board.
  13. I mean this video I link i would be categorized as an interview per se, but it's Psytrance related atleast and funny, more funny then the video in the original post, which I just find to be a regular normal interview. Mars and Filteria seem down to earth and, and yeah nice to see artists and label owners speak some about their art/passion. Interviewing people and beeing interviewed is not easy either, you know shyness is a thing right. I would love to see more interviews, not for some cringe, but to get some insights. If they are funny, that could be a plus. A laugh is always nice, as long as it's with the glimpse in the eye. This video is hilarious though, Duvdev is very funny I think. He seems to have a lot of hyperactive energy. (ADHD)? The drunk fan?/dude in the video sure is a bit cringey right?
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