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  1. Hmmm...

     

    What about New Age?

    I classify New Age as ambient music - and it's not psychedelic.

    Same with medieval ambient, nordic atmosphere music and dark ambient - however dark ambient can already be psychedelic, so I'm rather not talking about the "dark ambient" that people know on here, but rather about dark depressive music ... also spheric dark ambient ... but well, that's already on the border and a question of definition...

  2. Milky Way Records ... lol, I was there some weeks ago :D ... well, the CD section is not too big, just two shelves (it's actually a clothing store too and this one's bigger :) ) ... but you can find some nice stuff there.

    Meanwhile they must have got a restock (especially prog AFAIK), the guy told me he'd get one but I had not enough days in Stockholm to await it :P

    Be careful about the prices though, a CD there costs 199 Kronas, that is relatively expensive...

     

    I too can recommend a little second hand CD store in the "Slussen" Subway station area ... I forgot the fucking name of the lane, but it's when you go up one of the staircases up the hill at Slussen (you can't miss that) and behind the first row of houses there should be that lane if I remember correctly, if not it might be the second, but it's not far away of the staircases ... that store is chock full with CDs (you can find everything there, psy included, I heard he should have an even better vinyl section, but I didn't check it out) and the guy has a sellout (at least he had one as I was there :P ), you can find many good CDs for a cheap price there!

  3. Is there any sampling rate? Tapes use magnetic storage -> electric charge for storing the data sound..

    I'm no tape expert btw :)

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    well, that's the point...

    I can't see either why a tape should have such thing as a "sampling rate" ... I say it's like vinyl, only magnetic and not mechanic! A continuous stream, no sampling. Sampling is digital. Cassette tapes are analog - like vinyl...

    Detailed info would be appreciated though...

    I don't expect any tape experts here - music nowadays isn't on tapes anymore, it's CD and Vinyl...

     

     

    Yes, Cinos ... we all know that dusty vinyls don't play well, that is because the signal is represented in physical state - tiny engravings on the record ... dust alters the physical way the needle goes - therefore the sound gets worse with time...

    CDs don't have that ... but the sampling rate isn't high and therefore you don't have the original frequencies!

    Vinyl have theoretically the real frequencies!

  4. Shpongle uses production to make the listener go "what the fuck was that".  The mood of Shpongle isn't as relaxingly peaceful as Entheogenic but more psychedelic and interesting because you never know what's going to happen next.

    Wow, this is extremely well put.

    I had to quote that. That's the essence for me. And that's also what I don't like about Shpongle and why I like Entheogenic much better...

  5. ENTHEOGENIC.

     

    My mind doesn't get Shpongle ... it's true. And Shulman is similar to it and ... urk, I can't stand that, sorry ... but I like Shulman more than Shpongle at least.

    Entheogenic all the way for me. Spontaneous Illumination is a great album!

  6. Okaay ... now here comes a big question:

     

    Many of you surely have heard of the discussion Vinyl versus CD, that CDs have a bad sampling rate and only vinyls actually reprodruce the true original sound because they don't have a sampling rate/it's infinitely big.

    (people who are not familiar with this might be interested to look here: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm )

     

    However, my question: what "sampling rate" do cassette tapes have? Do they actually have any at all? I mean, the information is stored in magnetical way and such ... but how is it represented? Are the values of certain frequencies transmitted magnetically? I don't think so. In fact, I really become more and more of the opinion hat it would be logical that the cassette tapes present information in a way similar to vinyl - only not mechanically, but magnetical, thus I come to the conclusion that they too have an infinitely big sampling rate?

    Anybody can enlighten me?

     

    DON'T tell me what pwnz more, I know tapes might be lame because they lose quality fast and such yadda yadda, but I just wanna know about the sampling rate - if tere is any...

    please...

  7. I think Lish did it better with their second album.

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    I do not know Etic so well, only one track from a compilation ... but judging from its sound and the fact that rain described it as "fullon with progressive elements" it's IMHO not appropriate to compare Lish with Etic.

    Lish's Free Fall is completely progressive to me ... good progressive indeed, but it's not like Etic. Not at all...

  8. Awww...

    Spirit Zone biting the dust?

    That's one of the least things I expected ... I first thought it's a joke, that's why I never looked in here ... come on, they were a big label and had some nice artists ... Shiva Chandra, SUN Project, Ooze ... and their Global Psychedelic Trance series was even avaliable in commercial stores where you can find Bravo Hits and shit ... how come that they go down?

    *shakes head*

     

    ah btw ... where can I still get such sellout CDs ... anybody knows? :ph34r:

  9. The only minimal stuff I enjoy is MOS, Entropy and Sensient.

     

    okaaay ... if you define MOS as minimal then my vote clearly goes to minimal - because even MOS sound quite maximal to me at times...

     

    Mmmh ... actually something in between is okay too ... maybe even some maximal at times for special high energy moments ... but overall seen I'm more on the minimal side ;)

  10. personally i am not much into beatless ambient. i find it too simple for the brain, easy to produce, boring, sometimes longish and annoying.

    maybe i just don't get it?

     

    so here are my questions:

     

    why do you like it?

    do you like it when sober or when stoned or both?

     

    so please, feel free to praise beatless ambient, describe it with your own words, tell me what effects it has on you (body and brain), maybe even give me your favourite beatless ambient tune.

     

    You probably "just don't get it" as you say it.

     

    Seriously. My favourite tune - well ,this is already beyond favourite as this tune is so magical I find it totally impossible to put my feelings to words as I heard this first and still I can feel this wonderful magical feeling when hearing it - is SMIRI SE by Matenda and that's actually nothing other than beatless ambient for it has not a single kick nor a single bassline bit. Just floating. Yes, that's it ... the beatlessness makes it sound floating, like if I was flying or if there was energy flowing ... gently, steadily flowing flowing, no harsh breaks or any beat, nothing, just the flow of energy, just this great flow of energy which will forever go on and on ... the cycle of life actually ... and ... well, I'm going too far already...

     

    You just don't get it...

  11. I don't get it...

     

    What's all the fuss about rockmusic and heavy metal??

     

    I've never understood the sound from an electric guitar.

     

    I just saw a whole Iron Maiden concert on the telli. I really, really tried to understand why so many loves this sound.

     

    ...I don't get it...

     

    It sounds so fu..in premature... It is heavy metal... Heavy?? Where? Show me...

     

    The guitarsolos sounds horrible.. I can't enjoy anything in this music, not a single sound, not even a hi hat (the drumset sounds also horrible by the way).

     

    Any psyact will have a much heavier and fatter sound. Compare the Pleiadians sounds (from which I adore) to a guitar sound...

     

    But why is it so? Why do I hate the sound from heavy metal and the instruments they uses?

     

    Anyone out there who had the same thoughts and knows the answer to that question?

    PS. Why do all heavy metal fans look retarded? I mean they can't even jump synchronized to the beats... Too much headbanging caused brain damage?

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    Oh yes, believe me, three years ago I was thinking exactly like you now, hehe...

    Meanwhile I like metal music really much.

    Something triggered in my brain. Something important. And I love both metal and psy now :)

     

    However, man ... you must start to see it from a different point of view ... you complain about metallers dancing bad - well, that's because metal isn't for dancing! Metal and psy are two totally different energy patterns if you know what I mean. Just like Brighter Death Now would appear to you like a stupid annoying ten minute noise (at least that's the case with me) other people hear incredible things in it. It's just ... a different sound. Some people like it, some not. That's it :)

  12. *auch nach schweden will* ;)

    was zahlt ihr denn für interrail ?

     

    We pay 285 EUR for the Interrail ticket ... we had to take two zones, because only when we take two zones we will have the ticket for 22 days (otherwise it's just 16 days and that's too few!). But because of that we dropped the idea with the flight (too expensive anyway after all) and will go up there by train as we took the denmark-germany zone! Yes. By train. All the way. We will take about 25 hours on the train just to get to the southern border of Sweden.

    Sounds fun, ey?

    Phew ... I already see it, it will be like two years ago (it was exactly the same two years ago except that we didn't have a sweden zone and weren't there much :P ) ... and we will be totally fed up. Totally.

    Wonderful ... haha :D

     

    Many thanks for the tips, Ukiro :)

     

    For spectacular scando-style nature, norway is the most accessible, but northern sweden is utterly amazing too. But it takes a LONG time to go up there by train...

     

    Yes. Yes. It will be a very very long ride. I already see it coming. We want to go up until Kiruna (actually Hammerfest and Nordkap might probably be too far up - we need to go down again and we don't just wanna sit in a train, you know) and then go back down on the norwegian side. That might be a cool trip, but it will be looong (and there's also the fact that we will be hyper fed up with trains as we go up there and down there by them (stop laughing, we can't afford flying)...

     

    Concerning the weather I guess I better take some smaller parts with me (longsleeves) than big stuff (fat pullover and big jacket) ... I can always put on more...

  13. Hello

    (this is actually related to my post in the OT section ... I was an idiot ... sorry mods if I have now two threads *blushes*)...

     

     

    So ... I want to go to Sweden. And Norway. And maybe Finland too. I'll go by Interrail, with a friend ... leaving maybe sunday or monday...

     

    So ... has anybody any tips for me (as there are many scandinavians around here)?

    Good places to visit (nature and cities) / cheap stores (metal and psy welcome ... any "flea markets" maybe?) / good cheap restaurants, bars / general tips / areas where we shouldn't go / clothing tips (climate)?

    Anything serious welcome!

     

    (I don't plan to go to parties BTW!)

  14. I now see it as promotion to get gigs and not as a release to make sales.

     

    That's the point. Many artists nowadays try to get their money from live gigs because there isn't much potential in albums anymore because of the p2p networks.

    But on the other hand this is the argument of the p2p downloaders. "They make their money with live gigs anyway..."

  15. $570 for an album is very little for releasing an album ideed, but many releases nowadays have problem selling even 1000 copies, and then it's not much more than that you can expect.

     

    :blink:

     

    Come on, that can't be true. $570 for an album ... that's ... a joke! You can't even pay the amount of Red Bull drunk during producing the album with that.It's ridiculous! I don't care about Michele's music, but hey, that's a really bad rip off from Agitato. Think of the time and money invested into the project!

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