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  1. I have bored of our usual smilies so I made some new ones myself.

    They represent some of our beloved members.

    For example:

     

    Rotwang: Posted Image

     

    Caff: Posted Image

     

    Abasio: Posted Image (melted from the ambient)

     

    Anoebis: Posted Image

     

    Bahamut: Posted Image

     

    Buzzman: Posted Image

     

    Christos: Posted Image

     

    Mars, after he closed off topic: Posted Image

     

    Prio: Posted Image

     

    Radi: Posted Image

     

    Snowball: Posted Image

     

    Billy: Posted Image

     

    VIP

     

    Lemminwinks: ;)

    Reger: :)

    (no need to change something)

  2. This is some of the coolest progressive I've heard in several years, except for single tracks here and there... Quality dancefloor tracks, and good psychedelic moods... I'm especially in love with the Suntree remix of Dimension... Awesome stuff

  3. 1: Aliens

    2:Terminator 2 (and T1)

    3:Starwars series

    4:Alien

    5the mist (Why didn't you put that on the list? ) :lol:

     

     

    I've never had the chance to watch Bladerunner, which i know is concidered one of the best sci-fi's ever, so I guess I would place that on the list if I'd seen it :)

  4. Posted Image

     

    1 - Downturn

    2 - Are We Done Yet?

    3 - Robot Poetry

    4 - Jingle Bells

    5 - Pumpkin

    6 - Feeling Faster

    7 - We're From The Future

    8 - Wonderful Feeling

    9 - Ibiza Calling (Azorsky Remix)

     

    I'm gonna be honest, that's the only Penta album I own.

    I'm gonna be even more honest, I've never really liked Penta that much. Yeah, I've listened to many compilations tracks and I really liked them all, but none of them got me really excited.

    After that useless infos let's go to the review.

     

    You want the short version? Here it is.

    You know when someone bitches that darkpsy is basically random sounds over a bassline? Well in this case that's true!

    I'm not gonna write a track by track description, because all of them fall under that same rule.

     

    We get bass, kick, hats etc. and on top of that just random sounds flying left and right. Sometimes there are some nice melodies that after a few seconds dissapear back to the void.

    I know what you're thinking. This isn't the first time a darkpsy album uses random noises. Midnight's Shared Blossom has many tracks with hundreds of effects come and go, Psykovsky's Da Budet too and more.

    Well it's not the same. Those albums/compilations create a certain mood and atmosphere and what appears as a random-sounds-onslaught is a perfect creation of chaos (that doesn't make musch sense, does it?)

    This is not the case with this album.

     

    Everything in here sounds so unrelated, so random, without any purspose. The only tracks which seem like complete tracks are We're From The Future and the last one which is a psychedelic version of an electro track, not my style.

     

    Ok now time for the good stuff.

    The production is beyond belief! Crystal clear all the way.

    The several effects are amazingly well done, from weird robot bleeps to lazers, everything is here and it sounds perfect.

    The more spacey approach. It would really work in an open air festival.

    The basslines are really moving, although it needs some key changes.

     

    See? It's not all bad.

     

    Yet it's not a very good album. Production-wise is top notch, musically is mediocre.

     

    Samples: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/aqr/aqr1cd006.html

    http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=7911

    Couldn't agree with you more.

     

    After Funnraiser came Horn Please, which IMO is a great album, it keeps up that "holeness" or "completeness" that you talk about this new album lacks. Yet it is darker and more blasting than the previous albums. Very good!,. Then came Portuguese abduction, which has the same problems as this album. At first I was blown away by the production quality and the awesome little passages, but as a hole, it wasn't doing anything for me.

     

    This album is exactly the same. The music is uninspirational and dull, eventhough it, at first, sounds like really good music. Like you say the quality is top notch, and the use of samples has allways been a talent of Mr. Penta, but he isn't going in the direction I wanted him to.... It's getting commercialized and dancefloor oriented.

    i dont know i just imagined something that really sparkles up the trips colours and feel. i havent heard the samples and I own his Funraiser album and i like its power, for me hes like deedrah of ,,darj psy" or smth. He knows crystal clubbing.

    Hey Psytones, the album couldn't be further from Funnraiser, sadly. If you heard Portuguese abduction, you should know what to expect fom this.
  5. wooow Gliese 581d take my mind trow a pretty rainbow journey ,very melodic emotional chillout

    This track remind me on AesDana , H.U.V.A Network ,Asura and Solar Fields,tnx for sharing this

    btw: is the track finished ??

    Hey Anub1s, glad you liked it :) I still need to tweak some stuff, and I'm thinking about changing the bright melody a little bit, to make it more alive. I will let you know when something happens!
  6. The Wrestler

    Uninspirering peace of chiche's, I'm surprised to see it have a 8.3 rating on IMDB. It was a nice story, some good acting by Rourke, but thats it.

     

    The bad relationship towards his daughter.. Seen so many times before. The relationship to the stripper because he don't have anybody ells... Ohh I so feel for that poor schmock, or do I? When he asked her to dance in the bar, to make a "crazy" atmosphere, all seen before.

     

    6,75/10

  7. This is a great sounding track, buzz. I'm impressed.

     

    It sucks that people don't seem to take the initiative to comment in the music promo section as much as they used to.

    Yeah I have noticed that, it's a real shame... Used to get good constructive critique here...

     

    But thank you for your comment, I'm glad you liked it symphoid :)

  8. I gave up. Couldn't figure out how to split apart the sections into loops of the right length using Cubase. <_<

    Just convert the FLAC files to WAV (like Kino Oko wrote) and drag them into your open sequencer in cubase... Then a window will pop up and ask you how to import the file. The default settings should be fine. If not, you want a single stereo channel. Then you should be able to see the waveforms in the given channel in the sequencer.

     

    You do that with all the (FLAC->)WAV files(kick, bass, melody, percussion ect), so you have them all in individual channels.

     

    Now, you can cut, move around, put effects on, and build your own track out of it.

  9. Haven't read much in my life, so not sure if I'm on the right track here

     

    But I don't understand the way they overdescripe everything in the older literature I've read... Was reading some older danish novels, where they used several PAGES to descripe the scenery, that made little or no purpose at all in contrast to the storyline.... Several pages about how the savanah looked like, they could have put it down to 20 words like abasio said.

     

    Come to think about it, the book was written before television was invented (or at least before it was owned by the majority of people) so i guess what the writer intented was, to descripe a scenery (in this case, the african savannah) as detailed as possible, so the everyday-danish person could imagine how it looked like. Caus in the 30's, no danish guy would know how it looked like, unless you had been to africa.. Today, even a 10 year old child knows what the savannah looks like, from Disney movies or Animal Planet.

  10. you folks aware of the term: method to the madness?

    I think that's the perfect descriptor for really great pshhheeekedelic music.

    You ned the madness, you need the extra-sensorial overdose, yes by all means... but you (well, I actually) need some method; a guiding light... something to make sense of the mess to pull it all together. Do you folks see a clear (or slightly blurry) method to this madness? It's been a while since I heard this for the last time, but last time I checked it was missing for me. Maybe I need to look a bit deeper next time, maybe not.

    Just grab a hold on the bassline and enjoy the flight :P
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