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krelmatrix

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  1. Good news for all the fans of Seb Taylor's funkier side (and psy-breaks in general)... It looks like Seb is back in action with his Digitalis project!! He has at least one release schedule in the next few months on the UK-based breaks label Sinister Recordings (one of my favorite labels for the last 4 years - home of Introspective, IMO the best breaks artist today). I saw a Digitalis track listed in a tracklist for Sinister's weekly radio show (The Melting Pot) and confirmed with the guy who did the show that it is indeed Seb Taylor. The track is called "The Ride". Fortunately the show is archived on the broadcasting site for one week. http://www.ibreaks.co.uk/index.html Enter the site, go to the section for archived shows, then download the archive for the "Sinister Records Show" listed under Tuesdays. Grab it quick, because the mix will probably be replaced with a new one in the next few days. The first track in the mix is the Digitalis track. It's very dirty & tekky (in the Sinister Rec. style), and very, very SEB. And according to the guy with the label, he's got more up his sleeve, so this shouldn't be the last of it.
  2. Great, so it's another Infected Mushroom rip-off?
  3. ACDC is still going strong, so I assume that Spiral Trax still has some life left in it. Spiral Trax is being distributed by Two Hands Distrib. (same company that handles Digital Structures, Iboga, Flow, Plusquam, etc...), so they are in good hands, so to speak. I think if anything, the Cosmophilia bust only set them back temporarily. I'm broke at the moment, so I hope that it's still a couple months before they release anything worth buying. The new Atmos album is going to be full-on anyways, so it doesn't matter.
  4. Oh, you are so tricky with your words. Yes, Skazi will never be played in your house...I believe you. But I never said that this closet was in your house. Nor did I say that you were alone in your ilicit Skazi listening. You see, I have actual photographic evidence that the the closet in question is actually in Kristian's house!!!!!!!
  5. Old age and secretly listening to Skazi CDs on headphones at top volume in the back of a dark closet has obviously affected your hearing!
  6. Yep, totally agree. The 2 songs that get me choked up are "Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness" by Shpongle and "Tesco Siesta" by Deviant Electronics. I don't find them particularly emotional on their own, but my wife and I used these songs as the beginning and ending songs in our wedding, so they will always remind me of it.
  7. Extrawelt falls more in the minimal-tech scene than in the psy-tech-trance sound like midimiliz. More mellow, more subtle, deeper, slower, elegant.... They still have that somewhat raw tech sound swimming about their tunes, but it's a lot more restrained and mature.
  8. With my ears. I think I just heard those tracks sooooooooo much when they first came out (and for months afterwards), they never had that initial "wow" factor for me, so they got really old really quickly for me. But they have impressed me with everything they have put out since then, and I still eagerly search out any new releases or remixes from those guys. They make damned tasty tunes. :superskazikillarghemoticon:
  9. Despite all the hype surrounding it, I found their debut Border Community release boring/annoying as hell. But everything they have done since then is just fantastic.
  10. Nope, he's definitely gay. The Brazilian was a tranny. I've also heard that Simon occasionally likes to have a good time with farm animals....on the receiving end. Anyways, the next Hallucinogen album will definitely be pop-full-on. He's co-producing it with Yahel (his current gay lover) and they are going to call it: Yahellucinogen Get ready for teh killargghh!
  11. I'll think of some....probably coming from both sides of the spectrum (since I've both dealt with bitchy DJs as an organizer and dodgy organizers as a DJ ), more having to do with the smaller events. Try to give me a day or two if possible. I just got back from week spent mostly out of town and I have to go home and start preparing food for about 10-12 people for a pre-semifinal feast tomorrow afternoon. Although I do have to sit and "babysit" a bunch of students in a lab class for 4 hours tomorrow afternoon, so I'm always looking for ways to kill time during that time. It'll be fun to sit and think of probing questions that I'd ask to anybody who has pissed me off over the years in this scene.
  12. Which I do agree with....just not anonymous. The anonymous nature of the internet is one of its greatest downfalls, IMO, since anybody can spew bullshit and nobody will know who they are.
  13. No offense Kris, but I honestly think you should work on the questions a bit before you shoot them off to a bunch of people. Reading through the questions you wrote for the 3 categories (artists, organizers and labels), it comes off in a somewhat accusative way towards the organizers and labels, and is asking the artists mostly about the ways they've been victimized or dicked over by organizers/labels. It reads a bit like a political questionaire on Foxnews. I actually think your general idea is a good one - it's a really good idea to have open dialogue between the artists and the people who book them or sign their tracks (and also educational to the people who see it all from the outside), but IMO it should really be more balanced. There are times when organizers and labels have to deal with a lot of crap from unprofessional artists. Ask about those as well. (I would recommend some questions myself, but I have to run off in about 7 minutes ) Do people on the dancefloor really care about being "educated"? People go to the university for an education. People go to a party to dance, have fun, do drugs...whatever else. Labels? Most of them (excluding TIPWorld & Chemical Crew, naturally ) are so busy trying to stay afloat that it's hard for them to do much more than release music they think is cool. I had a long post half-written for you original "I'm Angry" thread, but didn't have the chance to finish before the topic was already kind of done..... But the point of it was that if you are really looking for a genuine drive for creativity, you are going to have to give up on the big parties/festivals and big labels. I'm not going to generalize to say that they are all greedy, but money does figure in much more when the venture is larger. Which means they have to be more concerned with "mass appeal" rather than trying something new. Which means creativity often goes out the window. I'd personally love to book somebody like Voice of Cod in a party in my city - and I think they would be well accepted - but the parties are too damn small to not lose a bundle on their travel and fees. It's both a benefit and a curse to be involved with smaller parties with a more adventurous and open crowd - you can more or less try whatever the hell you want, but you don't have the money to try much of anything.
  14. Honestly, I think this could be a bad idea unless you: 1. Make it *not* anonymous 2. Require comments/justification for any sort of negative feedback The reason I say this is because there are a lot of reasons why a particular DJ/artist might dislike an organizer that would not be a true reflection on anything actually having to do with their value/honesty as an organizer. I've had DJs get bitchy with me when I've asked them to provide a demo CD. Not world-famous superstah DJs, mind you, but "Johnny no-names" who contacted me through or website, who I've never heard of before, and who I would like to get an idea of what they sound like before I even consider booking them. I've had local DJs talk shit behind my back because they didn't think I was booking them enough. The same thing happened to a friend of mine who also organized parties, except that one particular DJ took it a step further and enlisted all of his friends and even his damn wife to constantly harass my friend (and his wife also) too book him. I've had unbooked DJs who have tried to force their way into the lineup (also often using their friends to exert added pressure) that we've had to deal with in less than polite ways (nothing violent). I've had video/projection artists show up at the entrance with their projector and several friends, with no previous contact, expecting not only to be let in for free, but for us to let them set up their gear simply because they are friends of one of the DJs. OK, this only happened once, but the guy was rather pissed when I wouldn't let him in. There have been times where we have had to make last-minute changes to the lineup due to DJs not showing up as a result of sickness, arrest, car accidents or general flakiness, and a DJ in the lineup was unhappy with the unavoidable change. I've had DJs who for whatever reason had to miss a gig and instead of notifying me of their absence (even if they know long in advance), send a friend of theirs to take their place without warning to me. I've seen live acts or DJs who play both uptempo and chill, were booked on the chill stage for a particular party under the original agreement to play a chill set, then decide at the last minute to play uptempo (against the very clear original agreement) to show the organizer that they should have been booked on the main stage anyways. The list goes on....all of these things are incidents that have happened either to myself or one good friend of mine (who organized parties in a nearby city) over the course of 8-10 years of organizing events. I keep it to my group and this guy's group since we always made it a point to be 100% professional with anybody we booked, whether they were world-famous DJ Superstah or our buddy driving up from another city a couple hours away. We always made financial/travel/technical arrangments with any DJ at the time of booking and stuck with it 100%. We booked diverse, creative lineups and made it a point to change up the DJs from party to party. These weren't even mega-events - mostly small 50-400 person events (in only one case 1000+). I'm sure that anybody who organizes larger events on any sort of regular basis has to deal with this sort of shit much more than we ever did. But still, in the course of it all, you deal with DJs or artists with their heads so far up their asses and their egoes so far in the sky that they will find some fault with you even for no reason whatsoever. Would these people go onto some sort of forum and anonymously write unwarranted shit about a organizer who really did nothing wrong except not play to their ego? Quite probably so. The point of it..... Don't make it anonymous - make them give their DJ/artist name. If people have a legitimate complaint, then they don't have to hide behind the veil of anonymity.
  15. Man, I've been hearing people compain that the scene is "going" down the drain since I first got into it nearly 10 years ago. At what point is it actually down the drain? There have been dodgy, uncreative, non-risk-taking organizers since the beginning. There have been dishonest labels since the beginning. There have been uncaring, unappreciative fans since the very beginning. IMO, declaring that the scene is going to the shitter is just a rationalization for somebody who has grown to a place where it does not fit them anymore, and is not willing to admit that the difference probably lies in them, but is still for some reason desperately hanging on to the yesteryears.. This isn't specifically directed at you RTP or to EP - I've just seen this attitude for as long as I've been into goa/psy music from people who have been around it longer than is good for them. IE, jaded old-schoolers. To EP: If you are looking for responsible & professional organizers and labels, I think it should have become obvious years and years ago that you should look outside of the psy scene. That shouldn't be a shocking realization. If you are looking for an audience full of "responsible" fans who always support the artists and organizers that are doing good, creative work instead of whatever is easy and popular, then you are shit outta luck, no matter what scene you are in. Any scene has "problems" with music downloading. Any scene has a large number of the fans of the sheep mentality, running with whatever is the latest fad or well-marketed/hyped thing. Seriously man, don't get so negative about things that are blatantly obvious. You make some cool tunes - make the music for yourself, send it to the labels that you feel fit your idea of a good label (musically and ethically). You don't want to deal with labels anymore? Create your own label, release stuff on Beatport and other digital stores. If you really care about something but are unhappy about it, give yourself maximum 10 minutes to complain about it, then start looking for some sort of solution.
  16. He seems to be incorporating Ableton into his live setup now, so it at least flows as a beatmatched set. That Voov 2004 set was really enjoyable musically, but the breaks between the tracks really kept the energy from taking off. I heard him last summer at Tshitraka and it was a far better set than what I heard at Voov. Oh, and nothing beats "Cable Enable". Nothing. Period.
  17. Hey Alex, what are you doing this weekend? (I promise no bitchy doormen in Leipzig ) Man, what is it about this track? I absolutely love it, but I have no fucking idea why. It's sultry & kind of eery, and there's really not that much more to it. But something about it.... BTW, it's released a little more than a year ago on Moodmusic. See here: http://www.discogs.com/release/420498
  18. I'm involved with doing quite a few things in here in Leipzig in the eastern half of Germany (only a short skip from the UK ). Gimme a shout. krelmatrix [at] gmail dot com
  19. It all depends on the wind patterns and the terrain. Even though Bulgaria might not have gotten a big initial dose, the ultra-step mountains act as a trap that keep the radi-ation in and cause a slow buildup over the years so that the envrionment is actually quite toxic. Who would have thought that the step mountains were really a death trap! No really, I'm serious! Here is the secret map that they never show you: Yeah, and look how the Germans and the Danish turned out! Mutants if I ever saw 'em!
  20. Tanzstern Galaktika meets Psytrancecamp May 20, 2006 Goa /Psytrance-Floor Solarsound Network *live* (dresden) The Evil Dr.Krelm (psytrancecamp, leipzig) Shiv-A-Chim (elfentanz, magdeburg) Psykaholiks (chromanova, berlin) Deko Goa-Floor: www.psytrancecamp.de Electro / Minimal / UK Progressive- Floor Christianphillip (cortexsound) Feenstaub (philtermusic) Fuchser (zollschuppen) Deko Electro-Floor: www.tanzsterngalaktika.de Location: "ALTE DAMENHANDSCHUHFABRIK", Klingenstr.20, Leipzig-Plagwitz (closest stop - Bus #60, Siemenstr.) Begins: 11pm Entrance: 5 Euro This party is celebrating the 5th year birthday of Psytrancecamp. To celebrate, we're pulling out all the stops on deco, and we've also made sure to get an absolutely perfect sound system (for anybody who remembers the mainfloor sound at the Mindsweeper party in March, get ready for it again ). websites: www.psytrancecamp.de www.tanzsterngalaktika.de www.cortex-sound.net www.feenstaubmusic.de www.krelmatrix.com
  21. How can you say it's been a bad year in trance when we've just had this masterpiece released??
  22. Hmmm....you should copyright that term or it will be the title of the next Yellow Sunshine Explosion compilation. Thus born too close to Chernobyl, eh? Um....foot fetish anyone? The superstar worship in this thread sickens me. First people are talking about collecting dreds from their favorite hippieshamansuperstars, now some are admitting to plucking those fallen pubes from the urinal after they find themselves standing behind one of them in the loo, and now delars is getting all excited over the lengths of their toes. Where will it end!!
  23. Agreed. Some artists just want everybody to buy their albums and think they are awesome. Some artists actually care about getting constructive criticism (or even just criticism in general). Obviously it is nicer as a reviewer to write about albums you like, and it is nice as an artist to read mostly good reviews of your work, but those artists that complain when somebody gives their album a poor review (see the recent God Save the Machine thread) need to check their egos and think again why they make this music. And a well-written bad review can be hilarious. The review of the latest Future Prophecy album that somebody wrote (I forget who) had me in stitches. The same goes for DJs. When I give a friend a mixed CD or after I've finished playing a set, I really want to receive criticism (in addition to adoring compliments, of course ) and usually ask my friends "please point out something you didn't like!". I remember one friend several years back was putting together a mixed CD and gave out initial versions to people for criticism. But one of her "stipulations" was that she was 100% set on the tracklist and didn't want to hear any comments about the track selection or order. So nobody gave any. When she finally was giving out the finished mix several weeks later, one person commented that they didn't like the flow of tracks and she forever wrote off this person as having a valid opinion (despite the fact that they were a relatively successful DJ). In any artistic endeavor, criticism is your best friend for improvement.
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