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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...

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...

ask him what he thinks the scene is developing to ... and if he thinks that it's a good thing... and ask him where he sees the world of psytrance in 5 years...

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?

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

would be cool ... I'd really be interested in what you would think of Smiri Se for example

Koxbox for me. They are ... just my wavelength. They have so much experimenting and such a cool forever changing sound... Hallucinogen n all that other stuff is so psycho to me ... Koxbox not, maybe a bit, but it's much better than with the rest...

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...

Nhjo, please tell us what you are on

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

Rainstick is not bad. But my favourite Antix track is Can't Quit. This "Daaaaaaaaa-Daaa-Daaa-Daaaaaaaaaaa" in the background got me ... damnit, I can't quit!

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 ) ... and we will be totally fed up. Totally. Wonderful ... haha Many thanks for the tips, Ukiro 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...

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!)

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..."

Crackers. Not hackers. You both refer to crackers.

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!

I rarely listen to anything while I'm driving myself, except on the autobahn I sometimes turn on the radio to be warned of traffic jams. But when I'm in the car and somebody else's driving I quite like to listen to some music. Mostly trancy stuff, it shouldn't get too psychedelic. Something like Human Blue, Matenda, Lish, Vibrasphere or maybe Setherian is good...

Reminds me of the saying "It's not a bug, it's a feature" Anyway, nice pics! Must have been a cool show

I store them in the cupboard, in the glass virtine part. I find that very lovely and better than any rack. Actually I think the glass vitrine in such cupboards is normally reserved for glasses or liquors or whatever, but I think it's also perfect for CDs, because this way the covers won't get dusty

oh gosh, listen to the song, haha ... it's as "original" as the dudes posts are... funny

Oh lol ... so I can vote too Thanks for clearing that up

Oh yeeeah... That's the best news this week Just FUCK the music industry!

My favourite is not on your list: Transformation. NOT the remix! Well ... it's the one on Goa-Head 13 ... I dunno if it's the remix anyway and they just forgot to label it, but I don't think so (would be glad if anybody could tell me BTW )... The reason why is, that it was one of the first goa tracks that I heard. And loved. Gosh, those were the times where I still loved mental travels while just lying in bed to this kind of music ... need to do that again some day.....

funny For me in the real psychedelic songs often happens too much That's why I like the prog stuff much more. And there happens enough in them - you just have to listen. Hehe... I have a funny thought: Maybe the psychedelic listeners have a totally different brain or a totally different way to percieve/hear things than the progheads? Maybe all the psy people have altogether different brains than the people who like to listen to other music? I always believed that this kind of stuff is inherited. I believe I inherited my love to psy music from my mum ... she never had heard it before and liked it instantly as I played it to her once... strange

exactly I liked Psydrop quite much some time ago ... it surprises me that the guy behind it gets ultra commercial shit so suddenly