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    Clementz- Kretslop

    in 2020

    Posted

    I very much enjoyed most of the the album till Voices of helium. All of the tracks before it had great interesting ideas and executions, unfortunately the latter sounded more fillerish to me and I had a hard time enjoying any of the melody work.

    On a high note: Spirit Dance is incredible. Amazing celestial mindsphere type melody that trancends you into heavens. It's surprising the widely used sample he used didn't even bother me. It was all so well executed.

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    Your first contact with goa-trance?

    in General Psytrance

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    "September 2007, I watched Matrix Reloaded again, the highway scene was on and I remembered I was supposed to search for the artist's other work a long time ago. I finally closed down my DVD player on my computer, opened firefox and searched for it. Didn't take me long to get a hold of Labyrinth and taking a listen."

    "Soon after I had done listening this, I needed more. I didn't know where to start looking, and as my friend had told me earlier of Last.fm's software where you put an artist's name and it would give similar results to it, I decided to go that way(The results were like mostly Infected Mushroom, Astrix, 1200 micrograms and other full-on.). And of course that eventually led me to listening Filteria - Sky Input at some point and getting completely hooked. That's when I knew there wasn't going back. This is what I love."

     

    Something I wrote on the Juno Reactor labyrinth thread a decade ago. :p

     

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    Psylent Buddhi - Secrets of the Atom

    in 2019

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    2 hours ago, AstralSphinx said:

    Totally missed this one, extremely curious to listen to it. The album artwork alone was what sparked my interest. It's a really beautiful cover! Which according to discogs is made by gasolin3 which I think is a member here?

    Yes thats me. :P

    Absolutely adore this music. Was great hearing moksha live when Anoebis visited Finland last time.

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    Covid-19 Online events and parties thread

    in General Psytrance

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    Since we are currently living in this alternate most bizarre timeline of trump and bat disease, I thought I'd start a thread for psytrance events that are held online.

    Post events with their respective links, dates and psytrance styles below and I'll update this first post notifying our fellow psytrance community of upcoming online events since nobody can attend actual events.

    I'll start

     

    GOATRANCE

    April 18th
    21:00-02:00 GMT+2 Shamantrala - Finnish DJ's playing goatrance
    https://www.facebook.com/events/243903383466946/

    May 16th
    Suntrip records presents Sunstream event
    https://www.facebook.com/events/232929337782620

     

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    Quaratine?

    in Off Topic

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    20 hours ago, RTP said:

    uh, thanks for clarifying ... I indeed missed something there then about the Cytokine storms :( ... sounds not good at all

    YES! I am no doctor but I would agree ... an awful lot of this sickness reminds me of my pneumonia in Peru which was in high altitude, symptoms are similar ... only the blood was not there back then. The doctors who checked me saw no damaged lungs, but I have trouble getting enough air - there definitely is not enough oxygen passing into the bloodstream I would say! Bronchodilatadors help a little with this, fortunately...

    Please everybody stay safe!! All the best!!

    Man please get to a respirator if you have even worse trouble breathing. :s I hope it gets better.

    Quaratine?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Shit man hopefully that thing clears out :(

    I read about those breathing machines yesterday that some people have to use and everything about them sounds horrifying.

    Site questions / Requests

    in Psynews.ORG

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    17 minutes ago, Diaks said:

    Thanks :) I can now finally create a new forum avatar, the one I had uploaded or linked to in the 2000's is long gone. I actually think I had it hosted on my old site, so url was dead since long. Either that or the avatars died when you migrated forum servers or updated the forum software? Time to get the creative juices flowing in photoshop!

    They died when the board updated.

    Site questions / Requests

    in Psynews.ORG

    Posted

    On 3/27/2020 at 5:41 PM, Diaks said:

    I'm having major issues trying to upload/link a forum signature picture. I get the following error message, which makes no sense. Since that size restriction makes it impossible to upload any normally sized forum signature. Is there some kind of size limitation implemented globally on the site, due to spam/forum violations before? I've tried pasting url links to various image sharing hosts where I've uploaded the avatar, and also tried to uploading the image directly to the forum to no avail. 

     

    Error message reads as follows:

    "Signature Restrictions

    Please ensure your signature complies with the following restrictions:

     

     Maximum of 1 image

     

     Images up to 800 x 100 pixels

     

     Maximum of 1 URL

     

     Maximum of 10 lines

     

    Your chosen signature does not meet the guidelines."

     

     

    I missed this earlier. It's now changed to 800x250, 4 URLS and 15 lines.

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    Custom Member Title

    in Psynews.ORG

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    And it just hit me that of the around 1000 to 1500 people who I think attended, probably no one is an active member here. So that's around 1000 people right there, who are invested in the psy-culture, be it superficially, or as a lifestyle. That aren't participating here. That's such a wasted potential I think, and that's just one out of many parties. So I've been testing some different scenarios in my mind, I thought about what the essence of this forum is, and came to the conclusion, that on the surface it's the review section. 

    It's always been the review section, definitely, however people these days don't really care to make more.

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    But as we noticed, the real essence to some was the spam-fest/trolling in the offtopic section prior to its closing some time ago, which apparently killed off much of the activity here? Which I think was a good thing in a way, a clean house to start over. This forum needs creative people, who likes to write reviews and contribute in other ways. 

    Yes it was, unfortunately it made the place miserable for a lot of users.

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    Which leads us to the next bulletpoint in my brainstorming session. Which is a point we've already discussed before, the thing about where people hang out online nowadays. With facebook beeing the main one, I'm thinking that a review section on facebook doesn't really work with the style of participation/engagement/business model of the facebook platform. 

    So what options are there then? My impression is that the parts of psynews that would work best on facebook are the news section and the party announcement sections, as well as the promotion of your own music section. And the general section of course, thouse combined is what facebook activity feeds look like. Would it be possible to synchronize those sections with facebook somehow? So that when a thread is made here or atleast when a thread is approved by a mod/admin, that it's published on facebook then?

    This is the thing that sucks with facebook, the total control over content is somewhat lost, and has to be adapted to their rules/guidelines etc. Would be cool if there were some kind of integration between these type of bulletin board type forums with facebook. Which there proably isn't hence why facebook has cannibalized on all other social media platforms. And because the platform is rather gated, by means of strict rules on what passes in and out. (except if it generates money to facebook, then it's all good in the hood :P) Facebook should change name to Fakenewsbook. 

    The other thing I'm thinking about is how this forum can be promoted, to reach a wider/new audience. Two things struck me then, one would be ads on facebook, those are targeted really good to a custom target audience based on interests. I see a potential there for psynews to become a behemot on facebook. By using the platforms full potential and adapting to it. Perhaps reshape the concept of what psynews is, the reviews could perhaps be kept here like now, and if the psynews group grows, people could be encouraged to register here and participate. But I don't think that's a realistic scenario unfortunately, as it fragments the user base between platforms. 

    The cons as I see it with facebook, is that when looking at other big communities on there, there isn't much substance. It's mostly people spamming links/self-promoting their music/dj-sets/parties. And heated debates, facebook has pretty much dumbified a whole generation lol. That is something which I think sets psynews apart, the review section is a good place to analyze and compare music. And also to get other peoples perspetives. But on the other hand, I see and participate in lots of other forums like psynews, that is, forums outside of facebook, but which focus on other topics than psytrance.  So I don't think that regular forums are a thing of the past (yet). Plenty of activity on the other forums I frequent, which focus mainly on music production etc. And who knows what comes after facebook.

     

    The problem with facebook and psynews is that those groups are much more specific and already have a following. We'd be trying to squeeze ourselves into a space that's already taken. However facebook is a good platform to promote the forum, the problem is we need people who are willing to spend the time to update the page, which we really don't have right now.

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    Another idea I had, which you might already have done in the past/or might be doing already now. Is to distribute psynews flyers at rave parties. 

    This would require printing flyers and spreading them out all over the world, this is logistically very hard. This would work better if psynews as a platform was like what goabase etc. are, which is having a dedicated proper party calendar. I think it would get a lot more people looking and participating at the site, but we'd have to do huge overhauls and hire someone to do coding and information gathering for that. I don't really know how goabase gets all their information on parties. Maybe promoters submit it themselves?

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    So in conclusion, there's still hope and lots of potential. The psy/goa/all other psy subgenres scene is as big and popular as ever, not into the mainstream as in the 90's of perhaps or... hmm (Infected Mushroom).  But still probably a much wider reach nowadays. People travel all over the world to go to the biggest events, and people here in Sweden and elsewere have a huge selection of underground parties to choose from every week, prior to, and hopefully after corona as well.

    I agree there is a lot of people and potential. Psytrance festivals are huge.

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    I think psynews would thrive on facebook if it was hosted as a part of a big label there, but that might be against facebooks rules? For example Suntrip Records label page on facebook and it's separate community group has way more followers/active users than the psynews facebook page.

    Psynews is considered very neutral, affiliating ourselves with a commercial platform is not really feasible in my eyes.

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    Unfortunately if I have understood the situation correctly, Suntrip owner Mars isn't as involved in psynews as before? Because if I would have been the owner of this forum and Suntrip, I would have merged them somehow.  But hey that's just me. I don't know who owns what on this forum today, so I'm just guessing here. Maybe he wasn't owner before either? What the hell do I know. 

    Mars gave psynews to the current administration years ago. I actually don't know why the platform wasn't merged with the label.  I guess because the forum is dedicated to psytrance as a whole. For example the suntrip FB community naturally grows because the label releases goatrance people want and consume. There's a natural growing following. psynews doesn't actually release anything, our content is made by the members, if we don't have members creating content, we don't have much to give and get excited about. It's kind of a catch-22. Again with some ideas to make participating more exciting, interesting and/or rewarding this course could be corrected better.

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    btw this post should earn me 922 posts, so that I reach the 2000 posts mark for custom member title. Because I spent more time on writing it than I've spent on psynews overall since joining the forums.

    :P

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    Custom Member Title

    in Psynews.ORG

    Posted

    On 4/9/2020 at 11:43 PM, Diaks said:

    Hmm I don't know what I would put either, btw some of the admins/mods or just veteran users have the same title in green like "mad old ones" referencing the cthulhu mythos. Is that like a psynews private group, or automatic when beeing member for x amount of years? :)

    In rebellion to that we could put "mad young ones" but I'll probably be around 80 years by the time I reach 2000 posts. Soo mad old ones would be a better fit :P

    They were assigned some years ago to some members for their contributions to the forum or the fact they were here from the very beginning. Tbh I'm up for anything that might help psynews activity. Now that I have very little else to do. :P

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    MFG - Pure Energy

    in 2019

    Posted

    On 4/4/2020 at 3:40 AM, Trance2MoveU said:

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    I mean, I know I'm supposed to like it and I really want it to be a stunning release, but...

    Let's be honest unless your have a Trump supporter-esque level of sycophancy this release isn't gonna make it on most people's top ten.  Hell it's not even the best in their own catalog.  It's good, but not Etnica out of retirement good.  Or D5 good.  IMHO it lacks depth, doesn't have the explosive power that a lot of releases today have, and it really seems to be a stripped down version of what they used to do.

    Good, but not great.  I definitely expected more.

    Unfortunately, I agree. I understand now why anjuna didn't release this one. The title track "Pure energy" definitely deserved to be released, but the new mixes are abundant and simple. I much rather have Project Genesis remastered than to hear these stripped down versions of classics. I do appreciate Maya Moon and Inspiration getting remastering, but eh, those already sounded good. I don't want to sound too negative, but honestly, some of these tracks just let down. I guess from a historical standpoint it's a nice and for the fans, but as a whole, it just doesn't cut it. Maybe in due time I can appreciate it more, but I guess I was expecting something more full-blown, like brand new tracks.

     

    Pure Energy is really, really sweet though. One of their more interesting tracks with quirky segments and fantastic flow. Wonder why it was never released.

    Proxeeus - Non-Euclidean Geometry [Goa Madness Records]

    in 2018

    Posted

    This album is comparable to Sky Input with its swirly and epic in-your-face melodies that bend the cosmic space. Hell, even some of the melody work is almost exactly like what you'd find in the afromentioned release with their bright forceful cosmic synths. The difference is that it's atmosphere reeks of malevolence and the composition is much more mischevious. Absolutely a king release of 2018 and one of my all time favourites of the new age of goa.

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