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    the same samples again and again

    in General Psytrance

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    Fortunately this doesn't occur much to me, but oh yes, I hate it.

    The equal Entheogenic - We Are One and Ott - Smoked Glass And Chome sample is a bliss killer ... though Entheogenic distort it upwards, but I still recognized it and it's just shit. It's one of the reasons why I don't like Glass And Chrome as much as it deserves ... because I already knew the sample.

     

    The best would be when artists make their OWN samples!

    Yes, their own.

    Recording their voice (or the voice of a friend) and repeating it then through vocoder or something like that.

    By doing it like that we wouldn't have many similar samples anymore ... except when you take it out of a film, but then it's intended that people know the sample already.

    Do you appreciate the little extras included when

    in General Psytrance

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    Booklets ... oh yeah ...

    If psy cds had bigger booklets I'd certainly buy more. Because I love looking through the booklet when I listen to the music.

    And as psy doesn't have many lyrics I'd say the utmost ultimate killer best would be a booklet with A PICTURE (of course as big as a page) for each track (good metal albums have a page with lyrics for each track ... so in psy I want a pic on each page for each track ... and one that fits!)! Damn, nobody is doing that....

    ATMA & R'TUR new track !

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Well, i never heard about this guy from Austria. And this is strange because i had lots of connections with trance sceen from Austria. I was also booked to play in there. 

      I am original from Transylvania, and i play under Atma name since 1996. Also my first release under name Atma was in '97.  Starting 2001 i played together with R'TUR, an Dj and ambient producer, under the name ATMA & R'TUR. Togheter we released on labels as: Roton, Skills Rec, ov silence rec. and Dreamtime rec.

     

      I'll check on interenet...maybe i will fine more about him !

     

      OHH MY GODDD!!! I WAS CLONED !!!!  :P

     

    You have connections to austrian scene?

     

    Well, I guess our Atma is not too well known, also rather new to the scene ... I don't even know if I already have seen him djing or not. Actually he called himself Atekk but a friend of him proposed the name Atma at the end of 2003 or so ... dunno why...

    He's a member of Soundwerft prod (party organizer). Check for that if you wanna know more...

    Most intense Killer Kick Drum Ever thread

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    If you want killar kickdrums (based on Ukiros definition, I confess I haven't heard that expression before) then I'd say Etnoscope.

     

    They have mostly deep and pounding kickdrums, very deep. I love that. Very earthly feeling if you know what I mean ... like ... if nature had a kickdrum it would be a deeeep and pounding one. One that doesn't sound synthetic to me (and a deep one ("poum!") does sound less synthetic than a "bam!" one I' say ... or is that just me).

    Though I love the "bam!" ones too sometimes :wub:

    Duh.

    But Etnoscope have good ones :)

    the evolution of trance discussion

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    Maybe the problem with some people is that they listen only to one style of music at a time and sooner or later they get bored with it and have to move on.

     

    Yes. This is IMHO also the reason why new styles and hypes are "born" every few years. Trance and psy and all that is a music that needs to evolve and evolve and it can't stay the same, because after a certain period of time the things get boring because the music is in itself a more or less simple conglomerate of sounds and basslines and one day you simply have enough of "always the same shit".

     

    I'm with delars concerning prog and scando forecasts. Except that some prog will merge more and more into house directions (listen to Vision & Canedy - Privileged, then you know what I mean) ... in fact it has merged quite a bit already ... Acan for example, a resident DJ on the vienna Suntribe psy gatherings is more and more spinning in "ordinary" house clubs ... and the whole suntribe psy style is moving more to prog/house, contrary of fullon if you know what I mean. Bleh, I can't project local developments in my town on the whole globe, but still, you know...

    And yeah, Astrix, Skazi, Yahel and IM will soon scratch the popular surface and will become "stars" (if you know what I mean) and their music will storm the charts and clubs and in the end we'll have a bunch of brainamputated idiots in our clubs jacking off to sk4zi and all those killargh clones and we won't go out much anymore.........

    lol, hope it won't be like that :P

    Black lung - coming of the dark age

    in General Psytrance

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    Okay, now I got curious and checked the samples.

     

    It's definitely not something I would like to listen to often. But sometimes maybe ... when I'm in this special mood.

    It's not that messed up as it sounds.

    Unikos has put it well:

    "noise that makes sense"

     

     

    If you want something really fucked up, then check out noise ... Brighter Death Now for example ... :ph34r:

    Breakbeat Industrial needed

    in General Psytrance

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    Tunes I've found so far are Cubanate - Hinterland / Front Line Assembly - Backlash... But I want to know if there are artists devoted to this kind of style, cause it really rocks. You know any? Thanks in advance!

     

    I don't know "Backlash" ... but I was going to recommend Frontline Assembly. Check out more of them :)

    You could also check out Front 242 ... especially Front 242 - Headhunter 2000 (Frontline Assembly Remix), I think that's a fucking great track (brought me to Frontline Assembly (and the whole style at all)).

    Maybe Project Pitchfork could also be something for you ... but I don't know much of them, that's definitely not one of the main recommendations I would give...

     

    Hope you find what you're searching for :)

    Headphones again

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Hm well ... I guess I had pre-listened those earplugs you talk about at a friend once ... and yes, they were the only ones that didn't fall out :)

    It's good that I now know the model number, but ... hehe, it's too late.

    I already bought headphones.

     

    And for those who want to know which ones: it's neither the philips hp460 nor the neckband ones ... the philips weren't avaliable and the neckband ones I didn't want.

    I got totally different ones: the Sony MDR-V150.

    Some people might also know the MDR-300 ones, the 150 ones are exactly the same except that they are not foldable and that the colour is black. I didn't buy the foldable ones as I break them anyway (I know me ;) ) and because the 150 ones were just 25 Euros (30 Euros cheaper than the 300 and they have the same sound ... this world is fucked up).

    Yeah and I can say so far that I'm really satisfied with them. The sound is incredibly good, even better than on my previous philips hp550 ... sometimes I even hear more synths in a track than before which makes everything a whole new listening experience! And the bass is really nice too (not phat, but nice!) as the speakers are placed closer to the ears than it's the case with the philips hp400 (the specs don't show so much differences!). I already tried them out with several types of music (tribal psy, scando trance, ambient, dark ambient, black metal) and they always had the same good sound (at least for the money I paid for them it's marvellous sound!) ... I'm really satisfied.

    And sweat is not really an issue as the Sony have a same dense spereating material between speaker and ear like the philips hp550 have, so if I sweat really much or when I clean them with wet paper towels there should be no danger that the speakers get wet inside due to the dense material!

    Headphones again

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    For the gym and/or running I use a pair of philips "behind-the-neck" headphones.

     

    You could buy pro-level in-ear plugs perhaps, if you spend 50-60 euro you will get VERY good ones that stay put and deliver excellent bass. I have never been able to enjoy plugs though, so I stick with headphones of various sorts.

     

    Oh no, no earpluggies please, I can't wear those, they always fall out of my ears! Really, my ears seem to be somehow misformed for that type of listening experience, no matter what I try, all earplugs fall out after a short time ... and having to put them in again every few steps is annoying, I already had this problem :P

     

    The behind-the-neck ones sound like an okay alternative ... I must say that I never really thought about buying those yet as I was always of the opinion that the bass support wouldn't be too great with those, but I looked them up at the Philips site and the specs seem okay.

    The good thing is, that I've been checking and they are avaliable in the same shop where the HP460 are, so I can try out both before buying :)

     

     

    I have a pair of these and I'm very satisfied:

     

    http://www.decks.co.uk/products/headphones/technics/rpdj1200

     

    Never used them for doing sports but when I wear them for a long time or outside when it's hot I've never faced any problem with sweaty ears or anything.

     

    The Technics ones are one of my wet dreams, but they cost over 100 Euro ... I'd in no way be able to afford those ... as I said above, quality begins at the double amount of money I am able to spend :(

    Plus I would not use them for running. If I paid so much money for headphones I don't want to make them all sweaty and that ... I sweat more than a normal person, so when others say they don't sweat much it doesn't mean the same for me :)

     

    <EDIT>:

    the leather-like earpads are probably more sweaty that the ones made of some kind of soft material

    That's true, but if I buy headphones with soft material the sweat will probably be sucked up by it like a sponge ... by that they are likely to start to reek earlier than the ones with the leatherlike earpads - there the sweat isn't sucked up so much, it just rinses down. Plus I already tried the HP400 ones for running (they have the same earpad material) and the fit was perfect (crap was only the sound, you know)...

    Headphones again

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    Yes, this is another topic about headphones.

     

    I need new ones.

    Seriously. Because I'm running with them all the time and they get all sweaty and meanwhile they reek already (don't tell me now to clean them, I fucking bathed them already in water several times, it still gets worse and worse, I'm having them for about three years already ;) ) ... and they aren't suitable for high summer temperatures as my ears get soo hot with them on ... I want new ones.

     

    PHILIPS SBC HP550, that's the model I have. I can't find it anywhere to buy anymore ... but I don't want new HP550 ones anyway, they're too hot for the summer.

    I already bought another model - Philips SBC HP400, light ones and actually not even so bad for running (they fit well, I wasn't sweating so much with them and all that), but the sound, it was worse than crap. Bass support about beyond zero, synths so overdriven that they hurt my ear (I turned it up real loud 'cos I wanted bass!)! No, that's nothing for me. I mean, the sound wasn't even that bad for other music that does not focus so much on basslines, like metal or so, but I want the headphones for running and for running I need psy!

    So I sold them again and spent the money on beer.

    But that didn't solve my problem in the end. I'm now still searching for good, cheap, quality headphones.

     

    The point is that they should not be expensive and still they should deliver a good sound. And a fairly comfortable fit for my head ... but they may not fall off while running, my god! I don't expect the bass as phat as with the HP550 ones as I want some that don't press on the ears so much to have ventilation and not to sweat too much under them, but they should deliver a good, heavy bass-supported sound (I don't want Etnoscope drums to sound like somebody is knocking on the outside of the headphone speaker :P )...

     

    I already thought about buying the Philips SBC HP460 ones:

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    Specs: 15-28.000 Hz, Neodym drivers, powerful sound.

    Anybody has experiences with those? Good/bad? Or does anybody know a better model (nothing above 50 Euro please, I have no money (the prob is, that real quality begins probably at the double amount of money, eh he :P ))...

    Best goa/psy compilation ever...

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Earthtrance.

    That might not be the most brillant one, but it was the first goa compilation - actually the first goa CD at all that I bought. Got it for two euros (no joke) in a box with dumping-prize-items at Libromania (that store doesn't exist anymore). That CD has a very special meaning to me, therefore I say it's the "best" IMHO ... it was my first encounter with the Man With No Name, Banco De Gaia, Eat Static and several other tracks which are nowadays reagrded as classics :)

    What kind of old school trance you like ?

    in General Psytrance

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    Well ... back then I was mostly into the early Dream Dance compilation series ... with artists like Sven Väth, The Visions Of Shiva (How Much Can You Take?), Energy 52, Oasis, Disco Citizens, Paul Van Dyk, CJ Stone (Tower Of Naphatali), Chicane...

    A bit later I had a Dance To Trance and DJ Quicksilver period ... which then led into trance music of nowadays until end of 2001 as I discovered psy - fortunately...

    Feuerhake - Ecxess all areas

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    As for the 4 track promo i just recieved from him I dont think it live up to what he usedd to do...far from  There's even a remix of a Analog Pussy track and a Feuerhake vs. Analog Pussy track...  Not my cup of tea. :(

     

    Oh...

    Does that mean we lost another artist to Fullon?

    That's really a pity as the Feuerhake sound was always very unique and original :(

    Most comical mislabeling of an MP3 you've seen?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Also it's good if there is some ripper group's name in every file, like this for example:

    10-talpa_-_back_to_dreaming-mycel.mp3

     

    I don't download much anymore, but ripper groups are nowadays the only way to go, because with those files you can be 95% sure that it's no fake...

    And BTW, the stuff I search for is only avaliable through ripper groups anyway...

    Melodies that made you cry

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Well, I never really cried to music (I mean that I burst into tears) ... that can only do films to me, but I got wet eyes because of wonderful melodies already some times:

     

    Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden ... that's made my eyes wet more than once at the first listen (and still)...

    S-Range - 2001 ... the track, not the album (though it's brilliant, but it doesn't make me cry) ... as I heard this "I'm convinced that there must be many, many higher civilizations ... blahblah"-sample together with this wonderful synth that drags itself through nearly the whole track I really was stunned...

    Noma - Another Time ... mmh yes ... although this sounds already melancholic to me, but well...

    Energy Dancing

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I can go completely nuts on the dancefloor too.

    I had several burn scars of the cigarettes and joints I kicked out of people's faces with my arms (smoking on the dancefloor isn't a good idea, lol) :lol:

     

    And I'm like Seraph - I can't understand how people can stand still to this music.

    Once I was in a club where the security was posted in front of the emercency exit doors at the side of the hall - and the securitys (all black guys ... that looked SO cool, hehe) were standing like statues. They did not move. And I just didn't get it ... I mean, how can they stand completely still? The walls were shaking, the vibe was incredible - but they did not move. Not even tap their toes a little. Crazy...

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