Yard Hippie

I really do need to become more active on here... this mix almost totally passed me by. Looking forward to hearing it

Definately a subculture sure, but it's not so clear cut as many. I know people who go to Psy raves regularly because they love the atmosphere and it's uniqueness to other vibes generated elsewhere BUT at the same time they don't actually like the music one bit and in fact get impressively annoyed at it when they're outside of the rave environment. And it can't even be said that they all only go for the alternative substances since a few of them opt to only drink alcohol. I think that a lot of it can be seen as a fragmentation of our lives recently with a seperation of the spheres of our influence. When we go to work that's one fragmentation, when we go out that's another and when we chill and perhaps listen to music at home it can easily be entirely different, the spheres very rarely come together. Someone mentioned the rock scene earlier and it's another good example because you get a lot of people into the culture with the clothes and attitude but who are overwhelmed with the people that just incorporate it into their lieves as a very seperate influence. In fact as I remember it the modern day sociological outlook into these things has pretty much abandoned the idea of subculture and sided strongly for something called 'neo-tribes', which is something I studied far too long ago to remember well.

I hate that my brother has bought this game on his paper-round money and I still have to wait two weeks before I can afford the bloody thing. Magnus' music shone through on the demo and I just want to get stuck in there. V much looking forward.

The day before Kulu Castle... Count me in Should be quite a weekend... I hope that the first DJ on doesn't kill the vibe like the first on last time though. Sorry to say it but he just really did not work for me. No idea which of them it was at the time but there was just absolutely no variation whatsoever and it was all just very bleh... IMO of course. Looking forward all the same

Agreed. It's an awesome track. It switches so often between different styles but for some reason manages to not be annoying whilst doing it.

You wont be dissapointed

There's a place I go to that hosts a few different raves, one of them being a psy night (which is the only one I go to) and the rest being other styles and I never ever came accross violence... then I decided to try out one of the others they hosted. In the queue waiting to get into the place there was a chav coked up to the eyeballs picking a fight with someone in the line, but he was that fucked that he couldn't figure out who it was so he just kept storming into the queue, being shoved/yanked away, then storming back again, lunging at someone else each time. The night just got progressively worse. I've found since that even though at psy raves everyone is totally screwed on whatever they can get their hands on, their tends to be something else other than the macho thing of 'boshing' ten pills at once or whatever. It's probably the same thing acting in both cases, the atmosphere, but I guess they're just very different to one another. Even when I have chatted and danced and been happy with the chavs that do frequent psy events they're just happy people the same as the rest. There is also far less of an obsession with the guys slapping the girls arses and whathaveyou... Just generally less testosterone perhaps? It's probably very much linked to irritating things like mdma being more popular and it's effect of making their penises shrink as well as just 'the vibe' though.

They have printed more, that's why we're suddenly talking about it again as though it's just come out It can be found here

Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible I could have sworn that this CD was available just last week Anyone able to help me out here? I wouldn't be able to actually purchase it until the 28th of this month (1 week this Tuesday) but thought I'd ask in advance. Was just getting together a list of CDs to buy with my next pay packet Am willing to pay £15 (xe says that's 19 euros/25 US dollars) for a VG+ upwards copy though the price is negotiable Will also pay shipping costs. I live in the UK. Paypal is preferable. This is the first time I have posted in this section so if I've done anything stupid/unreasonable let me know and I shall alter it accordingly.

she is actually, racism aside. It's actually stupidly annoying because I find that I have to almost ignore the racist undertones if I want to live and work around these people, there being next to no people in this area that are not hugely racist. I have tried to argue with them and force them to see how absolutely bastard-like and shitty and completely uncalled for their racism tends to be but it's so deeply ingrained it's almost a knee jerk reaction. She did sortof apologise in a roundabout way later when we were analysing the reasons she may have come out with such garbage though. A very old friend who has supposedly finished a sound enginering course was round my house the other day and he simply wont give it the time of day. He calls it 'boom boom headache music' and when I try to explain to him that a lot of the stuff that isn't commercial is not at all just boom boom boom and actually more like flowing pieces of art etc etc he just shut off Generally I find that my friends have a certain perception of what psy (or even just electronic music in general) is and cut themselves off from being able to enjoy it. Perhaps it's because they usually hear it at clubs with the volume pumped all the way up to ground shuddering proportions. Plus I think many are obsessed with the idea that listenable music has to have lyrics to really be called music.

I'm liking it too. Arrived in the post yesterday and have played it also about four times. I'm not getting the 'weirdness' that Abasio describes in 'Time Circles' though maybe I'm just not as astute with me being so very new to this style. In any case it's an awesome addition to my collection.

Heh, I just noticed these replies Earlier this week I was playing Hol Baumann's '[Human]' ('Radio Bombay' with the ethnic female samples) to one of them who was puzzled anyone would want to spend so much on music. She promptly shouted 'This is Paki music!' and stormed out of the room when the vocals started up

I have to agree... It may take an aeon to load and it may be stupidly OTT, but it looks very nice

My initial reaction to Hol Baumann's '[Human]' is very positive. Will take a few listens to really cement it up there but it's beautiful stuff. Then again I have another six or so releases from Ultimae I still havn't got round to listening to me sitting right here so who knows

+10 It moves me in ways a lot of music fails to achieve Also yeah!

Was just about to recommend that one

I sometimes order from Amazon because yeah, like you say, they can be dirt cheap But then again Amazon marketplace offers work from sellers such as Twisted so I guess you're still supporting the smaller outlets when you order.

Heh, that's brilliant. The only time we had anything even slightly similar was when we were living with the same guy I mentioned earlier and a deathmetal enthusiast (no idea what kind of music he was meant to be studying) at the same time. When I lived in halls though there was a Japanese dude who used to sing his heart out (bless his soul) and play awful sax music. He was awesome

Like I said, I'm very undecided. I listened to 'Back To Earth' again last night and enjoyed it so... I dunno Think it's just a piece that tunes into a specific mood to me that I need to be in to enjoy it. The jazzy riffs do it for me some times whilst others I can't stand them for very long. Never really immersed myself in the world of Jazz though so maybe that is something to do with it? Perhaps I should at some point off topic: I once lived with a guy that was very into space jazz. He used to lock himself in his room and play it very quietly from his speakers then come storming out to shout at us periodically for talking too loud in the middle of the day.

I've shoved it back in for a quick spin before I go off to work and... I dunno. Still undecided. I think certain tracks just reeaalllly annoy me, and it brings down the entire album unfortunately. Especially epoch calypso which is way too in my face with the whole carnival thing it has going on. Like I said though, undecided.

I can't decide with Eat static whether I love or loathe 'back to earth'. In some parts it's fantastic while in others it's very, well... brown leather armchairs and syrup coated eyeballs. Sortof sickly sweet jazz. I need to give it a few more listens I think.

DNA - Analayzer

Musik is just gobsmakkingly awesome. Play it now and be amazed