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Dude, your name is "van der Heijden"? You are not by any means related to Harold van der Heijden - or Eric van der Heijden? Both of them ring a bell and I am remembering an old recording that was called "From Hull to Leeds" by Ron Boots and Harold van der Hejden - nice ambient piece in old style ... can't be found anywhere on Youtube though, a pity. I would think that there are not so many "van der Heijdens" in the Netherlands that also tweak aound with Synthesizers, no? Or am I wrong?

I think I understand where these "winter tourism profit worries" stem from ... there is indeed lots of money involved in the success of tourism ... did you by any chance see the last "Am Schauplatz" in ORF - I don't watch much ORF as I think it's brainwash TV, but I think that is a pretty good format (at least when they don't portrait quarreling neighbors all the time) - there they explained the real estate business in the Alps and it works like this: a rich person (it's called an investor) buys a luxury Chalet in the Alps for 3 to 5 million, then they rent these out to wealthy tourists and also have the right to stay 2 weeks there on their own ... the tourists pay back that investment over the years ... well, if these tourists don't come, not only do all these ski lift operators have nothing to do, it will also be that there will be no rent earned on the appartments (Chalets), meaning all the rich have panic for their money or these projects will even go bust. I predict there's going to be a load of these luxury villas on sale next summer - if we don't get winter tourism. If we get it, all will stay the same. Tons of money involved. The problem is: us ordinary people will suffer too when they get bust, because let's be honest: the politicians don't care about us, they care about these rich ones and do everything for them - all the amenities we currently have are for these rich ones - if these people go elsewhere, it will get pretty dark and grim here pretty soon. I did not watch that documentary you mentioned, but with me it was like everything tasted sour. Like, my mum brought me a soup as I was sick (bless her, that was really nice from her!) and I thought she must have done something wrong with it because it tasted sour. I called her, but she confirmed that soup was totally alright. Also had this with other food - I couldn't trust my senses if it was okay. But I didn't know that I had Covid back then, so I didn't make that connection... What stayed after the sickness is a greater aversion towards perfumes or other strong smells ... I didn't have this before to that extent. Nowadays when I go out, I can smell some people's perfumes even if they are long gone and I don't like that! Well I try to be responsible, but it's not possible to avoid people all the time ... so let's just hope I'm doing enough. As for the vaccine, please read this - here is the trick how they claim to be 90% effective: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4347/rr-4 Let's face it, the guys from Biontech were just lucky that more people got infected in the control group. Everybody was (and still is) playing Roulette - the company with the most infected in their control group wins the jackpot. There is just ONE of two things a vaccine can be: fast OR safe. You can't be fast AND safe. It is not possible. I will only get that vaccine if lots and lots of people have received it and some time has passed - if this thing for example kills everybody after one year, nobody would yet know Simple question: I have heard that the vaccine injects a gene sequence that acts as a constrction plan for the body's immune cells to produce a specific antigen. That's fine - but how do the cells stop producing it if the threat is over OR if the body needs other stuff to be prioritized in production? I imagined a funny thing as I thought that question through: that the body does not stop the production of the antigen anymore and is in the long run poisoning itself with these self-constructed antigens that were triggered by the alien gene sequence from the vaccine

I'm glad that you liked these! Yes, you are right, these indeed are made of at least partly the same elements that also psytrance has - and this is exactly why I like them so much. It's projects like these that I am more after than actual psytrance these days. There's one more artist that's very dear to me and is way underrated at the same time in my opinion - it's Strangezero and the reason why I got into them was because their (early) sound reminded me of Carbon Based Lifeforms, but it has become just so much more: This playlist contains everything noteworthy from them on YouTube video-wise: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt-j8Op3VdjSNoM9gwGAEFSJBJ3SNRjqY

Fair enough. I have no experience with the AAs. I am "lucky enough" that I get terribly sick when I drink too much. Way worse than what people call a hangover. I _have to_ keep my intake low, there is no other way. That's the reason why I have not yet developed an addiction. There's a drug that you can take which will invoke the same symptoms: it'll make you sick when you drink alcohol. Is that a possibility for you? Best of luck that you beat it either way.

Huh okay so I was a bit in a wrong direction to waht you wanted there However, if you throw in X-Dream's Radio there, I'd say Hux Flux - Cryptic Crunch? Has equal amount of "personality" - let's call it that - in my opinion. Not genreless though, but X-Dream isn't either Son Kite - Prisma comes to mind. THAT is quite out of the box thinking in my opinion. Especially their last album is the farthest out there I'd say - previous works I prefer though, because that was good old progressive as we know it - even though Colors was quite modern already

If you are bored by psy, you should go look at the genre boundaries or maybe also go across them. A feeling like this I have long not felt, because I stay ever-hungry for music. You can find so good stuff out there that's just waiting to be discovered Check out This Morn' Omina. They're way underrated in my opinion... If that was nothing for you, maybe you are more the tribal type and like this: And if that's also a no, here's my last ... you could open an ambient set to this imo:

Hey ... don't know if this helps, but maybe try doing something you want to get done for just two minutes a day (or even just two minutes a week)? I read that this helps ... important is that you do it for two minutes though. It tricks one's brain and often you end up doing it longer - or if not, then it's nothing for you anyway because your brain doesn't feel like doing it...

Jep - welcome to Austria, the country with the "quite highest" rates of positive tests ... but we don't need to worry because the news are declaring the situation already to "relax" They probably will open for xmas because "economy" ... and they we'll be in the same spot in January At least my throat relaxed and the taste is gone. Hope it stays that way. Well, I can't really see my GF in these times because she does not live in Vienna. Even though the Lockdown is a joke and I could visit her, we are both not doing that ... especially not right now ... thus I don't feel so much better off. But I second that "dating" or going out trying to talk to girls is practically not doable in Corona times ... maybe just pass the time with a nice computer game or two and then get going when the days get longer and brighter again. (And if you don't game, then paint or write or learn a language or work for whatever other goal you have ) I think girls must feel the same way though. Corona doesn't erase people's wishes... That was really horrible to read about ... I hope you are OK mate. 3.3 is absolutely off the top and I hope you won't do that again - but I imagine it to be super hard if you try it on your own ... have you got some help or support from the AA or from Doctors? Hope so.

When I think of the 90s, the first things that come to my mind are Paul Van Dyk and Love Parade Here's both: ... but the 90s had so many other great stuff. Utah Saints ... I didn't know them in the 90s, shame on me, but that doesn't matter, just am an even bigger fan now: But being totally honest, in the early 90ies I neither knew Paul Van Dyk, nor any other trance artist ... this shit is what we listened to because it was played on our radio. and be honest: it's not good, but I say it is so off the charts that it's already good again ... compared to this even Texas Faggot isn't that mad Most what I did know in the 90s of trance and techno was on Dream Dance compilations and Future Trance, although that was even later. This one stuck especially: But my REAL techno and trance obsession started with Mauro Picotto, in the early 00s ... which is not part of this thread anymore...

So it's 4 months later since the last post in this thread now -- and unfortunately almost everything has changed for the worse here. AUSTRIA is the country with the 5th highest infection rate per 100k people (positive return rate per 100k tests) _worldwide_ right now ... that's right: USA, India - all behind us. Not many people on this forum will live in a country with higher positive test return rates. We are in second "lockdown" - which is a joke though, you can go out and even get Coffee to Go, nobody will say anything. And top of all: I woke up in the middle of last night with a very peculiar metallic blood taste at the back of my throat which reminds me very much of the shit I went through in March... You can imagine how happy I was about it ... I panicked so hard I couldn't sleep for a long time after that. The metallic taste is gone, but I have a strange feeling of a foreign object in my throat that does not go away no matter how hard I swallow. It's nothing I panic over right now, but I think it will be different in the night if it doesn't get better, I assure you of that... That thing with the metallic taste is especially significant because: it apparently is FINALLY talked out loud that hemoptysis alone can be a symptom of Covid-19 - has not reached mainstream doctors, but first publications are available: https://bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12890-020-01312-6 I strongly believe that what they write about here is the same manifestation of Covid that befell me in March, alhough I was fortunate enough not to catch it so severely that they had to put me in hospital - and I "fortunately" had a positive swab test, otherwise we'd be none the wiser until this day! Chaos all over... Sounds weird, but: I hope you did what you wanted to do in this life. I don't think good times will roll so soon again for us all... Did I do what I wanted to do in life? Well, fairly yes - I maybe should have written more (wanted to become a writer) and it was stupid of me to be lazy and give up blacklight painting, talking french (lost that ability) and maybe I should have travelled more, but travel was fairly okay with approximately one trip each year. Had I known it would come to this, I'd have done more, but I didn't know. Partying was fine - purists may give a weird look and say "what, so little?", but I don't care because I feel fine - that is most important ... I also feel fine about my video game consumption. No regrets. Friends? Fairly okay, but I could have done a bit more in this department, calling people more up, keeping in contact more. Girls? Not fine at all! But I am enough of a realist that I say I'd be as timid or stupid next time I'd come into those "girl situations" again ... just isn't my thing. Maybe I knew I needed my capacity for something else instead of messing with girls - i.e. having my kind of fun. I'm not unhappy about it. Career decisions may have not been optimal, but are meaningless to me - best was to give up the second university study and focus on having the last bit of a good time in life! What about you? Edit (so this doesn't come across as a total depressant): don't worry I have not lost motivation and I think I will (or should) also make a post stating the goals / outlooks I still have, even despite the current situation. Oh and I have a GF right now, so I don't wanna say "Girls = all went bad" ... could have been better (lots better) in my youth though

It might not help you much ... but there's the Trump Rising track - which is ... at least electronic https://soundcloud.com/user-571754012/skeletone-trump-rising (not gonna put a huge banner on your eyes for this, that's probably not worth it)

Today I found this one just lying around on Prex' official Soundcloud account - unreleased to my knowledge ... did you know about this? and its awesome

that reminds me of:

and I feel like a fool openly said: I registered there because I wanted to get in touch with an artist (not S-Range this time, fortunately not ) ... he said to me he'd be on FB rather than on Soundcloud and I kindly ignored that at first, because I loathe FB ... I had an account with a friend in the past, called "Daswhiskeyglas" - "careful" documentation of the adventures of a Whisky tumbler, stunning pictures - and these damn fools from Facebook apparently killed that account off, it's no more, making me furious because I have no backup of the photos ... well, I loathed Facebook, loathe it to this day - but at the same time I need to get in touch with people ... so now that I kicked off this RTP RECORDS thing, I'd be a fool ignoring a direction to contact people ... so I registered there well duh, first strike to the face: you need to be ppls friend to message them ... great, would you approve a newly created account with zer0 followers? I would not = we throw out spammers on Psynews practically every few days so I tried anyways, got through in one instance - and I immediately feel like a fool because I wrote into my first chat message "cheers RTP from Psynews.org" - the software translating "Psynews.org" into a link with a huge ass banner ... well great, now I'll be probably flagged for spamming by the person I am trying to contact or maybe the chat message that contains a link, how evil, will not even go through ... at least I can understand everybody ditching a first chat message that contains a huge ass link... anyway, people, this is my site ... feel free to add me because I feel like a fool without any connections on fb https://www.facebook.com/bernd.masterman.1 cheers

So the first single (I'd call it an EP) is out: We are on Spotify, itunes (Apple Music), Amazon, Google (YouTube Music), Deezer, Insta, Napster and even Twitch ... and more This is awesome!!! This first release was mainly a test how it works - but now that I know the workings: I can safely say RTP RECORDS is "open for business" - plan is to buy single tracks from psy artists and release them this way under "Artist = RTP RECORDS" ... of course all that must be agreed upon. Cool thing though: I can literally release singular tracks. Small steps. Meaning: I'll just have a look out now to go buy my first one. And then another one. And so on. All chill and no stress and I don't have to lay out all the money for a compilation beforehand... Let's see what I can come up with Gonna update this if anything noteworthy is developing

Thanks ... let's see how this develops Regarding genres ... I would make an emphasis on the psy genre (otherwise I wouldn't post here), but I won't say it'll be exclusively that ... maybe make it a little broader and say that I would like to emphasize on "electronic".

2020-11-11 = RTP RECORDS has gone live (in fact, it really just has ) I have been often thinking about launching a label of my own. Well, these days I thought "no one lives forever" and "what am I waiting for" - so I decided: I'll just jump into it and get going. I got myself an account at a distributor to release stuff to online platforms - and yes, collect royalties. I can collect royalties. That last part wasn't even my plan, honestly, I wanted to do FREE STUFF ... but I have been writing to various companies and there seems to be NO FREE WAY how to get stuff on Spotify and all the other services - at least I never got any answers from anybody who would release anything for free - so I thought, well, "shove it" I'm gonna do it anyways and so I came up with a plan. The distibutor account costs money anyway, so I might as well use royalties to cover these expenses, it'll probably not even buy me a beer... ...nevertheless, here's the concept that I am making up in my head: I am BUYING IN TRACKS from artists - paying them with my own money. The sums must be agreed beforehand and fixed with a contract. Either I pay beforehand or we split up the royalties that trickle in - or a combination of both - as you please. These terms apply: Track must be provided - readily mastered. MP3 or WAV is possible. More formats on inquiry. Artwork can either be provided or will be done by me - consider yourself warned, I am not a good image editor RTP RECORDS is registered as an ARTIST and will release all acquired material under ONE ARTIST = RTP RECORDS Your artist name will be attempted to be packed into the song title ... it will look like: RTP RECORDS - Skeletone _ NPNK --> "RTP RECORDS" is the release institution, "Skeletone" is the artist, "NPNK" is the title. There is NO GUARANTEE you can have the titles your way The song writer of all material will always be BERND MASTERMAN - which is me. You can request being added as a songwriter and I will do that if possible, but Bernd Masterman will always be in it. That is to assure consistency. First release coming up: SKELETONE - NPNK // Absyyyyynth EP https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rtprecords/skeletone--npnk--absyyyyynth I am doing this mainly as a test to see how it looks like - and to promote the project Skeletone If you got anything you think that is worthy of being released in this project, drop me a line. There is no website or anything yet other than this distributor thing.

In 71 days this track is likely to be history ... listen to it before it's gone Some say that they are already waiting for it to be gone ... is it really that bad of a track or do they mean the person that the title is about? Then the motto may be "Biden Rising" - but it won't be, because I don't think we ever will make political tracks anymore...

I have a remark about his "stuck in mobile version" thing. Turns out I was too (at least I think)! But I was able to zoom so far out that I practically didn't notice - only recently I realized that the navigation links at the top didn't work anmyore ... drove me mad ... almost wanted to post a bug report for myself ... then I found out that Penzo did a new default skin "Penzonews" and to that one I switched now and that fixed it So: thanks @Penzoline ... and I'm now on the default skin aswell

Hej NHJO do you also do nicknames or character names for (online) games?

Merged the double posts for you, bro ... cheers By the way. Why do you have no Wikipedia article? I didn't find one about you

Hiya ... you seem to have slow internet over there as you make double posts ... I merged them for you

naaah dude please don't drink this, it's foul stuff, seriously ... it almost made me hate Whisky, because we used to binge drink that as we were teens and I thought all Whisky would be like this stuff -- it needed a (near) miracle to convince me otherwise and really made me realize what a wonderful liquid Whisky is ... and I am not talking about binging it, rather: drink less of it, but more quality... Ah, where are my manners. To each their own. I'm not judging you. But let me just say, if Whisky was a sports car, you are currently sitting at the side of the road in idle Playing a track for you now: Ticon - It Breakz My Heart

I think NHJO is an AI ... now devoted to artist names ... but what intrigued me the most in this thread: Which "Whiskey" did you drink?

Heh, I don't have any VR equipment either - I'd get motion sick with that ... but it's an endlessly cool feeling if you watch a cool vido and suddenly you realize, wait, you can turn the screen (with the mouse). thanks for the suggestion - exactly waht I'm looking for