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Hmmm ... well, I didn't exactly expect that, but it's not so bad news as you might have imagined. I do think, however, that these tracks that you posted first ... well, Midival Punditz I know and the other one is ... hmmm, I don't percieve it as good, but it might be easy to drop some distorted dubstep sequences in it and then call it psystep I guess? Not for me though... Nah, I miss these uplifting melodies, you know, that floating feeling ... I think it's that what I am after... The trouble in the Attic is quite good though ... and I will give the last one a good listen, it seems promising.
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You don't, by any chance, remember any artist or track names? I'd be up for a digging session on my end. This stuff is great and I'd be interesting to hear more of it
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I am more humble these days, not mentioning albums anymore but rather "tracks that blew me away" ... across all styles ... feel free to ignore my ramblings if you are after albums only, but here's my 2 cents: ...in 2021, Atmos vs. S-Range - Lords of 16th was such a track - fabulous one that I enjoyed in many festival sets before and I couldn't wait and was very happy it finally came out. ...and Banco de Gaia - Obsidian (Framewerk Full On Mix) genuinely blew me away, it even inspired me to that 2o22 predition thread, it's very awesome, you can almost FEEL the breeze of fresh air on your skin that this brings to our sound, I swear... ...and as a third one, I'd even mention Go_A - ШУМ ("SHUM") even though it's commerecial (I mean the not totally commercial version though, the one where they dance in protective suits in the video), but not only is the band title a brilliant play of words for our forum (made a thread anyway ) but it also is representative for this kind of trend where old folk vocals are integrated into electronic tracks ... this became a bit more known or, say, common, in that last year I think - or maybe it's just the algorithm recommending me the stuff, I cannot tell...
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Well said. I think the scene is in a form of canyon, surrounded by walls ... we must stop walking and start flying again if we wanna discover the beauty around us again; we somehow have forgotten how to do that, I'm afraid. And with "we" I mean "the scene". If it just continues like that, there may be a dead end somewhere further down this road... ...but we are NOT there yet and I do believe that this summer, the whole Covid thing will be "declared over" = we don't know if it's really over or not, but media and people will slowly have enough of it and reopen everything, including venues and festivals. And this "reopening" can also be a chance for GOOD difference to manifest, new structures to form ... I have hopes that, after a big exuberant start (which will no doubt happen) and maybe also some excesses we will then, in the collective hangover that follows, have the formation of more humble ways and those may be less energetic, but longer lasting... In any way, the "spirit" will have the chance to come back for the one or for the other and maybe it even does both, making both kind of people happy in the long term Until then, I'll just continue looking elsewhere. I have already said before that I am scouting for new good stuff that "blows my mind" across many genres ... it will only continue like that. Heard of Charlie Sparks? This guy has pretty much everything in his set ... psytrance, borderline hitech, churning techno, industrial ... I do not like all of it, but I believe this is the way. Genre borders are broken and watered down and I do think it's a good thing. This will continue.
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Well, the sickness itself had me for easily six weeks (I don't know how long exactly though, because I was previously ill and then caught it, but there are also opinions, that it was all Covid from the start ... then it's maybe eight weeks), the period with the gasping for air in the night was a week or two ... from the positive test on, it didn't take that long till I felt better ... but that was thanks to a bronchodilatator -- interestingly, these only caught on "big time" some months after that where the media was full of articles about these, I remember that well because I was always smiling when seeing these articles, because I already got that months ago. After the six weeks of sickness in total, the symptoms were subdued and got better, but I can not say I percieve them fully gone after that. It kinda came back in waves, so to say ... maybe flashbacks is the better term? It's very difficult to explain. I do not feel like I got "long covid", thank god, but I fully understand it when people say they have it. I think I might have a little taste of that mechanism, but it didn't break out... I have the theory that these flashbacks are recurring contact with the pathogen ... "micro reinfections" ... my system knows how to deal with it, but it's a kind of alert signal or a perception, that the production of antibodies is commencing again. Can it be? I don't know. It doesn't sound that illogical, because the body normally doesn't make them, levels drop after exposition - maybe that's what it is. It still has me every now and then that I get anxious. The sickness is only half of my story though, here's more - most of which I spared you as the debate about vaccines was so heated up everywhere, but I think now is a good time to tell it: I got vaccinated twice after that - one Pfizer dose for immunity (instead of two for people who haven't had Covid before), one booster just recently with Novavax. The Pfizer fucked me up pretty good. My face went numb, it was hard to speak, I could not form the mouth to speak the words. My mother wanted to call the emergency services, but I resisted with all mental force that I had, fearing that exposition to real Covid in the Hospital would kill me because vax and real germs at the same time are overkill... I swore NEVER to get Pfizer again! I had to promise it to something that I hallucinated while lying in these feverish dreams after the vaccination, I dreamt that something visited me and said to me "ok I will make it go away but you must NEVER do that again" ... well, so it was. My doctor only reassured me follwing this plan, because he practically shrugged off the shit I went through and said it was all "fairly normal adverse effects, nothing to worry about" and "he only vaccinates with Pfizer and I have to go elsewhere if I want a different one". After that talk, I realized I had to do it on my own anyway and promptly extended that promise to "no mRNA ever again"... Problem is, that the government or whoever responsible took so extraordinarily long to make an alternative for Pfizer! There's plenty from Sinovac, but they are not authorized here ... and not just diffamed by the press, but real doctors dying from Covid who got vaxxed with it ... it's no good for me, I figured. What else is there? VALNEVA, my favourite, is still NOT released. The only other non-MRNA candidate, Novavax, was promised already last year, but took AGES until it came to Austria. There was delays with the delivery. I even wrote to the health minister about it, because I feared the end of my "vaccinated" status, but never got a reply until now (now we have a different health minister)... Well, guess what, the fuckers in the government did NOT speed up the Novavax delivery, but instead cancelled my green pass so I became officially UNVAXXED at the start of Febuary and could not leave the house except for groceries and this is no joke. I was so furious. In addition to that, my employer made it mandatory that you only can work when having a green pass. It was all just a slap in the face after all I've been through... I was not posting much in that time, in fact I was absent a lot. I fled my home, didn't care about my girlfriend, I couldn't take it mentally anymore, I took refuge in a student accommodation charging me 750 EUR a month for a 20 square meter box full of white furniture, that made the room glow in bright sunlight with its white walls as the morning sun rose over the Vienna Prater = a huge park that we have in this town ... view was spectacular from the large full wall-size window, there were no buildings in front of my window up to the horizon. I only had an old notebook with me which I promised not to use for internet, but to write the crap out of it in my spare time (I want to write a little novel, but it's all in German). The main achievement is, however, that I made nobody at work notice it and only my parents knew. Those were the only people I visited in that time. This way I got through two months, but the price was just ridiculous, so I moved out of there after these two months. But with March, better times came. The Novavax vaccine became available, I got it after a few days, thinking I'd avoid the crowds, but nobody was giving a fuck anyway. The doctor who made the pre-vaccination check felt to me like the first sane doctor ever (besides my lung specialist - he is the best) ... he said yes, he has heard about these effects with Pfizer, he warned me though that what I was about to do was off-label and they wouldn't be responsible for any damage. I didn't care, the Novavax came in - while the guy giving me the vaccine happily admitting that he's still waiting for Valneva ... I said "that's great buddy, I'll see ya then at the Valneva Booster!", sat for 20 minutes and immediately afterwards took an e-scooter who stood there at the back exit of the vax center, just like the Universe had placed it for me and I drove away pointlessly into the canyons in between the skyscrapers, because what would lay ahead for me, I pictured, could only be bright future- Well, not completely, because I ditched the scooter somewhere as the credit ran out and I had to walk to the subway and BOY did I became dizzy during that walk, it felt like my heart was really badly working ... and so it did, for about three more days and I got a fever and had to lie down and felt super bad. Got novavax'd on Saturday, Sunday was completely TILT, Monday was a complete blur, I think I sat in some work meetings from HO, hunched over the keyboard and puking threads of saliva into a bucket below me because I was really really bad ... but nowhere near as bad as Pfizer, I kept saying to myself. And so came Tuesday where I could move about again and then it got better. And what a cool coincidence that my playlist now is at Eric Prydz - Generate because after this wall of text I just feel like this song, so relieved and well, I thanbk you all if you read this far, you are awesome Lots of <3 and cheers RTP
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this There is a more or less constant bot wave and I am trying to check every one who registers ... that's why there also can be some false positives ... I might have downtuned one or the other who was not a bot and sorry if I did
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My condolences
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@Penzoline I wish you all the best and get well soon! If you are worried, try to get a friend to buy you an oximeter. These are very useful. My doctor said, if it falls below 90, call a medic and talk to them what to do. I still have it and it was a good investment, it can also measure pulse. A Zinc supplement (Zinc bisglycinate) together with Vitamin C and also a Vitamin D supplement has helped me a lot too (just dose it wisely). Other than that, just stay calm, drink lots of fluids and it should be alright very likely, fingers crossed! Several people in my extended contacts have caught Omicron, cases are going crazy here in Austria ... but fortunately none of them who got sick (with symptoms) have had significant problems, the worst being fever and cough and a general hammered-ness just as you mention. I had Alpha, which was shit. I have never coughed up blood in my life ever before - and also (fortunately) not again till now. I don't wish that to anyone. Apart from that ... I have learned: it is generally seems to be less dangerous if the media talks about it - than when the media does NOT talk about it Cases going through the roof in my country since they stopped talking about it extensively. Coincidence? Yet they opened All Everything here recently ... clubs, bars, restaurants ... I don't know if it will be so good ... but I predict: summer will be better. No one knows what autumn will bring...
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Well ... back to mad, I'd say: If anybody knows anything similar, please, speak up, I beg you
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Here's a jolly good one: "Welcome to London boiiiz"
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I appreciate that you answered that, but I'd like to say that I think, that the very thing that you avoided actually makes its charm ... I do love to go back in time and look at old stuff I wrote in reviews ... or when somebody exhumes a thread. It's golden, because I also see how I was thinking and sometimes recognize where I maybe was wrong, because nowadays I experience music differently ... it's a good insight and can help you get better not only concerning music, but also maybe in your whole life - because it would be naive to assume, that you will not feel the same in maybe 10 to 20 years time about the posts you publish now ... at least for me it is, I'm very sure of it That said, you can't escape from the archive.org where all the old stuff is archived anyways What you practically did was comparable to "deleting a video from a goa party in the eraly '00s" (and a well made one - because I think your reviews were well made) ... it's almost a borderline sacrilege (in my opinion); because this content can never be repeated again... ...but in last consequence, everybody must stay the master of his/her content here and I will forever keep it that way if I can. So if you want it like this, go on, with still my best wishes
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From the site: "Originally launched in 2008, it is now undergoing an extensive rewrite for 2020." I haven't asked him, but I think he underestimated all what happened and this might take longer
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I would appreciate that - also because I wanna know if the viewer and likes count stays if you unlock it again...
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I meant this thread here on our forum: ... is that not you?
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I bet you like Tengger Cavalry
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NEW PROJECT: Old School Goa Trance live videos
RTP replied to RTP's topic in Psynews Projects discussion
I admit: I don't update it often ... but I try to do it casually ... to give the YT algorithm the impression that there's more often coming somehting new... Some already got removed again by the algorithm ... it informed me that six vids were gone Lost In Time they are, I'm afraid. But we still got enough to make the list a joy to watch -
I dig this lately. As one comment puts it ... "for every one thousand stoner rock albums there emerges a gem from an ocean of derivative bong water"
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Yes, I feel so too ... especially "like to see others fail" -- that aspect has risen quite a bit in many people I would say ... it has grown during that pandemic and everybody wanna think they are right in their individual way - vaxxed / non-vaxxed and all that... It's a pity. But it makes me happy to still know how it used to be ... I guess? I don't give up hope that it will return though and then we'll have a good time again. In Austria they apparently want to cease all these strict rules by March 5th ... from then on you can practically do everything when you got a negative PCR and you don't even need it for many things ... clubs can be attended without any restriction for example ... except in Vienna ... but I reckon that here people will just "flee to the country" to have their parties... Although it CAN be a huge pump as soon as all restrictions fall ... has the potential to become like Springbreak, some people already theorize ... we'll see ... potential is there.
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where is the DOGE meme? ...although, the situation is not that funny I'm afraid, at least not here... Honest feedback? In AUSTRIA: godawful. You find more cheer in a graveyard. I know that the parties are gone into the illegal space, but I have not followed. On the legal side, there is almost nothing ... and the ones that are listed do not contain any info. International? Not that bad, even though some big festivals have been postponed on and on ... Shankra Festival Sri Lanka for example, now postponed to 2023... However, usually the international community is not as buttoned up as in Austria and maybe in Germany too ... they still do stuff. Here, they don't. I hope it will get better in summer.
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I may wanna ask... .. is there any Psychedelic LIQUID DnB? I only know this: ...and the one I posted in the other thread, but it's from Framewerk aswell.
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I don't know anything about Jim Kirkwood's bio ... just the sound That suggestion I didn't know ... The Ruins of Beverast? But I wouldn't rate it as industrial in any way... I would say that this one here is more on topic, even though it's not exactly on topic: Oorchach is an awesome artist though You might like it when you're into Steinklang stuff...
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That Old Sorcery sounds like Jim Kirkwood in some parts ... and with Jim I had the feeling that it sounded like old Edgar Froese or Klaus Schulze ... so, yes, I absolutely agree with you Magnetrixx is a master of progressive ... his first album Trittschall and also the second were very good and with Wired, he helped shape the sound of psytrance back then. Wired was a seriously good album, in my opinion. I heard that story about the "melting vinyls", but I did not know the DJ that it was attribued to was Sven Väth ... interesting. I do believe it ... if you leave them in searing heat in the sun, I can imagine it will get pretty hot and that can be enough to distort the fine etchings or make the disc a little wobbly... I'll spread the word about my "vinyl project" if I have any word to spread ... I think I'm gonna make it fully transparent and not profit-oriented, then I may be able to pull it off to fund it together with other people and not worry about money much. First I need to get the tracks though...
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I just realized: there is no thread. Anybody listens to this? Dungeon Synth / Dungeon Music, as it was called back in the days ... primarily it may be stuff that fits to dungeon expeditions in your imagination, that's most likely where it got the name from ... but it's more than that, I'd say. To me it's storytelling music that dwells in those canyons and cracks between Psybient, old Ambient, Black Metal and Folk... I am loving it since years. I am "on board" since old Mortiis releases: This stuff is where my love for Dungeon Synth comes from (I know he did Fodt Til A Herske before that, which is bloody awesome, but I find this is even better). Since then, there's been a lot of changes ... Mortiis has switched to Trent Reznor NIN style stuff, which is brilliant, but has no place in this thread ... but other artists were discovered. I dived down into the abyss that was Cold Meat Industry ... or rather, what this label had to offer. It was mostly dark Ambient and some Industrioal / Noise ... I found several artists I appreciated ... but also a few gems, that crossed the bridge over that abyss, connecting me back into fantasy territory. Arcana, for example: It's still good to this day. And with Arcana, I found my love of stuff like that, with vocals, choirs ... and this gothic atmosphere. Funnily, for me this was fairly recently ... such as two or so years ago. What intrigues me, is the similarity that it can have to old "general" Synth music ... like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze ... Jim Kirkwood for example, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if somebody told me that this was some unreleased old Edgar Froese: Anyway, there's so much more. Secret Stairways, Hole Dweller, Sequestered Keep ... I have checking out many. This channel, the Dungeon Synth Archives ... they are pretty much my library for Dungeon Synth: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmm356a5qe1luUsoatAgjA and it'll be years until I will be through, there is so much... It's interesting though how many possibilities this genre has. I may wanna colclude this post with 'some of the better Dungeon Music stuff that I know to this day' ... it's far away from the dark cellars and rather settled in a colorful medieval world: I think that last record can easily serve as a comedown for a bad trip maybe? Or if you ever have enough of all the Psychedelia... cheers
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Great input right here @DoktorG -- we do not yet have a Dungeon Synth thread. I'm gonna make one! This stuff interests me aswell ... and yes, 100% agree on the similar vibe of early electronic artists. Gonna elaborate it more in the other thread Edit: thread created https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/77132-dungeon-synth-thread/ As for the vinyl remark ... you know, I had the idea (and I am still sticking to it, it's still alive) to make an EP release of new music ... stuff that never made it to pressing ... and I already had spotted the first track by Magnetrixx. But luck left us - he pretty much vanished and I can't contact him anymore (and I mean, I really tried, contacted his company and whatnot ... I guess if I do any more I become a stalker and that wouldn't be good) ... anyway, I'll still stick to that idea, I want an EP If you dig Finntroll, let me know ... I had a pretty in-depth expedition into metal to find similar stuff, I love the humppa vibe. Nothing comes close to them though. I am from Vienna. The lower mountains are just an hour's drive away though (well, maybe make it two hours if you stay legal) ... mountains are awesome ... and I like Austria a lot, it's a beautiful country, but the minds of people tend to be a bit narrow - and sometimes also simple - around here, if I wanna be honest. It is not necessarily always bad though, there is a connection to nature and the "old ways" present that can be healthy and even comforting or heartwarming - and fortunately that is the case sometimes. Lagavulin 16 is my favourite, although I am rather enjoying the cheaper ones for monetary reasons - Laphroaig mostly. I'm also an Ardbeg fan, I used to smuggle that stuff in on Goa parties and also on Metal concerts ... the taste reminds me of good times But Bunnahabhain is good aswell. I have not had any bad Islay'er yet. Even the cheaper stuff from there is top (Finlaggan for example). A nice day to you too!
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Nice ... I'm a big fan of Summoning. I think the only one I like more are Finntroll -- different style, I know... Just curious ... do you have a connection to Austria? Because the two labels you mentioned are from there aswell ... as are Summoning... I do like vinyl a lot, but I am not buying metal records ... if I ever start with that, there won't be no end ... I am now in a phase where I rather tend to reduce my stash and although I'll keep my vinyl, I try to buy less. Of that "viking tribal stuff" (that's what I call it, the Heilung / Wardruna corner) I can also strongly recommend Danheim, Heldom and Skald and also Munknörr ... and if you go further down that road, you will eventually reach the borderline territory where it blends into folk with for example Ochelie Soroki and also such as Hedningarna ... but if you are after industrial vibes, that is completely the other end of the spectrum as I would say -- I think these bands don't even use synth anymore at all. That was pretty much my distilled version of a month-long expedition into these realms ... only thing that's left is I could recommend you more poppy stuff, but tell me if you'd like that... ...speaking of distilling ... where have you been hiding, I know pretty much nobody on here who ever used the word "sherry bomb" in a single posting ... nevertheless, my heart belongs to the Islay drams, the smokier the better