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yeah, but who's gonna start ... it's like artists sitting on a cliff like basejumpers on their first jump, everybody looking at each other and saying "you go first"

Hello people Psynews is already around for a long time and we already have two compilations in the name of this forum afaik ... but it has not yet occurred to me that we have a Psynews track!! There was a VERY honorable attempt by some of our members to create one: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/53712-the-psynews-track ... but this was damn 10 YEARS AGO!!! And the outcome is GONE from the net ... all links dead. So, can we make a second try? We have a number of very talented psy music creators on this forum here. I am sure you can do something, don't you think? I offer my contribution (or rather Skeletone's contribution - more precisely, I'd ask my mate if we together want to so something on the track ) aswell if we need some more ppl for it. But let's see who's with the idea. Anyone? PS: anyone's got the old files?

merged these two.... cheers

I see potential ... to me, it gets quite good around the three minute mark, I say more of that please I confess that I find the first half a tad repetitive though. There is this sound, above the bassline (but still seeming to belong to the bassline) that always stays the same; if you gave that more variation, it would do good. Just my opinion. My greetings go to Sweden

That is good! Do you have any more?

sounds exactly like that to me https://www.goabase.net

Hey, thanks for confirming my impression! I wonder whether it's a good thing, these ringing ears after club visits. It's definitely getting worse... Good point about the graphs ... I do think these images don't do the sound justice anymore... I agree it's just the evolution of technology and habits ... music evolves into becoming louder and our hearing evolves into adapting to "this must sound like that". But there exactly is the point. It's a vicious circle! Who will be the first to take a step back in loudness? It will sound weak! And the first one who does it will get flamed for doing so. That's pityful Only escape is fleeing into other genres? I guess so. I won't flee though ... oh and +1

Hello together today I had an argument at work and I'm curious what you people say about it: I recently thought, at a psy party, "man this music has gotten loud." Really. Louder than before! I had a pretty "spot on" comparison because I visited a location where I was at a few parties many years ago ... the place hasn't changed much ... same walls, same dark smelly curtains - meaning, the way the sounds travel are more or less the same. But boy, was it loud! Much louder than I remembered. Psytrance never was so loud before, in my opinion. At least not at that venue. I always put something in my ears on parties ... but it was so loud I felt I had nothing in my ears at all. It never was like that in the past. So, my argument was and still is: Music has gotten louder. Specifically: the level people play psytrance at parties has become louder. My colleagues said no: The music stayed the same level. Our ears have become more sensitive because we are getting older. (My colleagues have no clue about psytrance though.) What is true? I am throwing in, for my side of the argument, a video done by "Eric C" called "the loudness wars" ... he's basically saying that music is getting louder indeed - it's not our ears, it's the mastering that make the recordings louder. That video is not about psytrance - but I think it's the same in our scene, maybe even more because we are relying on digital production techniques even more and it's these techniques that are "making the music louder" ... or not? (it's 18 minutes ... if you don't have the time, comparisons are from 5:00 onwards) If that goes on in our scene, which I believe it does, then that would make it logical, that psytrance in 2019 on the same PA system and at the same venue sounds considerably louder than in 2010 maybe ... doesn't it? What do you think?

Thumbs up for Cybernetika Started as a poster here, became an artist, got ripped off by Wirikuta ... yet still managed to get around... On topic, just a side remark: I think that the "big PAs", which are mentioned up there only briefly, play a bigger role aswell .. the sound becomes shaped to sound good on these, so they influence our sound quite a lot imo. Was at a party at a "psy trance historic location" (I'd say for myself) the other day ... lo and behold, I didn't recognize the sound much anymore ... it was much louder and much more polished than I ever heard it there. Not bad, but different. If you'd ask me right there on the spot, I'd tell you that a lot has changed since 2016 for example ... yes, it kinda was a similar sound, but the refinement is much more in detail now... And the noise level was another thing. Boy oh boy, that was loud. Never registered before to that extent. My car made no noise as I started it afterwads, didn't hear the engine, had to look at the rev counter all the time...

OK dear readers ... I get no replies on Soundcloud anymore, neither from Magnetrixx nor S-Range... I am willing to bring out a 12" and will talk to the two artists as soon as possible if the communication flows again, that is my plan. But for the jubilee of psynews I think we need to do something slightly different - I will open a new thread for that. Updates on this project will continue to flow in this thread here

omg ... okay, not my taste at all, sry but I got a genre name for it: NightTECH ... or NIGHTECH ... Hitech + Pop = NIGHTECH ... you know, from nightcore to nightstep to NIGHTECH although the voice needs to be pitched a little higher to really qualify ok guys, I don't like this music, but for the sake of creating a new genre, I think the project #Skeletone shall attempt to make one too ... I at least will suggest ... who's with us?

Hehehe, yeah, I have been at the release party of that book... ... and the real burner is, that I forgot whether I really was there or not and had to look it up on psynews myself: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/60389-goa-20-years-of-psychedelic-trance/ ... turns out: I was, because as I read through my post there I remember it all again... Interestingly, I do have to admit that my views have changed. Nowadays I do welcome the book and the DVD and the video on youtube being a "nostalgic input from the time I went to parties a lot". That is noteworthy, since I expressed a slightly different opinion there in that thread...

Well, if you analyze the songs that I posted ... it's not about the text (since I do not understand a word of what they say) ... but it's a combination of the other elements: - music and sound effects - structure of beat and melody - the singer's voice itself and the different sounds uttered - body language ... in Tatarin for example you can hear her smile - and finally the video itself and the story it presents to the viewer

Not goa, but something new: ... giving birth to the idea in my head: mixing goatrance and synthwave -> this could be good srsly first track could easily be psychill if you just lower the tempo ... 25% slower is probably already too much though

dude I think you should put them there definitely, I see your texts are good quality and people who search for reviews of these records in some months or even years time would not find the texts in this thread unless deeply searching the forum - and who does that) I leave it up to you though... I'd like to hear the story why CD2 of Total Eclipse got lost

hi, great news, thanks for sharing ... they indeed have a cool new site I can't wait to see a new AP album However, I have become a realist and will believe it only when it's finally out ... already been through this "new album next year" they should call it "Astral Projection Forever" ... before the Duke Nukem Forever joke gets completely forgotten

I do not have these problems at all ... mainly because of 3 reasons: - my collection of physical releases is fairly small compared to yours - I might have just a hundred or a bit more goa CDs and just maybe 200 in total - I have the policy to file a disc into my rack only when I have listened to it at least once - I have a car that's still got a CD player so I can listen when I go with the car My only worry are the two dozen metal tapes that I still have and my tape deck blew and I only had a radio with tape deck in my old car which is no more

hey man good idea ... and well written = this text could easily go in the review section

Dear Lemmiwinks, I hereby exhume this thread because PRYDA is a real gem of an artist, I have got to love him so much over time, I can't believe I found ERIC PRYDZ to be commercial and "bad" in the past and scoffed at him ... it's downright brilliant what this man does, almost everything at least (I much prefer PRYDA to Eric Prydz though ) Here's a PRYDAAAARGH playlist ... 83 songs cheers RTP

Dude .... it's NOT from MY country but I have found really good stuff I'd say ... I have a fascination for songs in languages that I do not speak ... here is some: Here is a playlist ... these are all from there but there's more: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt-j8Op3VdjRn2umdmELRa8W0BZYYGQpT I collect sh*t like that ... if you got some killargh rap in foreign language: post it here and I might add ^^

hehehe ... it's a good mix though, thanks for sharing

oh man I feel so reminded of my beginnings on Tranceaddict right now ... used to roam that forum and listen to stuff that "sounded alike" many years back ...until I went to my first goa party and a good soul directed me to Psynews here - will be forever thankful good recommendadtion but it's not valerian tea to me. Caron Based Lifeforms is valerian tea. Or at least it used to be...

Ummm kinda interesting definition of "recently" in my opinion, the video says it's been uploaded in 2017 time flies?

Long time no update, well I've been busy, but here's the status: I ditch the compilation, I will make a 12" definitely. Currently I concentrate on Magnetrixx and S-Range ... Etnoscope would be nice but I want to have those 2 on board 100%. Flight's not gonna take off without S-Range or Magnetrixx. Want them both! However, it's a bit tough to get a hold of them, let's put it that way. Anthony said he'd send me a track but it seems to take longer ... Magnetrixx doesn't answer lately. I have written to the guys at austrovinyl to negotiate a pressing, unfortunately the guy does not answer... seems to be 100 pieces minimum. But I will not worry! I either have Magentrixx or S-Range or the 12" will not happen. It will be a private thing for the 100 pieces, I will not found a company for that. I'll just send them out via mail. As soon as have the tracks and the artist's OKs, the pricing and the timeline, I will post it here publicly and hope that people recognize, so I will not keep sitting on too many of them that don't sell. IF it goes well, I will NOT make it a "main thing" for the jubilee, but it IS a theme. Let me count, if we can do 300 EUR for the tracks, 400 for the pressing (don't know yet!), 300 for Psysurfeur ... and 100 EUR for rest of expenses (label printing on the cardboard ), maybe including a bottle o' whisky for the guy that does the mastering if necessary - we'd be at 10 EUR per piece without tax n shipping. Doable I'd say? If we sell 70 we're even and all above is a gift. ... ? cheers RTP

That may sound weird now, but you may tell her I think of her nickname every time Look Mum No Computer sings "Janet are you ready?" on his track Living In the Paper she's the only person named Janet that I've ever known