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Ha, see, that's the reason why I can't complain like you! How many CDs did you buy in total? You listed 4 plus "the rest of Yabai records" plus "a few other CD's" ... well, let's say it was 10 CDs. Or was it more? Anyway. I recently bought 2 CDs, carefully selected ... they are both awesome releases and I'm very satisfied with my purchase. I don't have the money for more and will buy my next load in some months. But I will never complain. For I can only afford really good releases, I just practically can't buy one that I find bad since I select the candidates for a purchase long before I do buy it and I listen to samples, read reviews and so on. Bad releases - or, let's say "not absolutely good releases" - get filtered out long before they even reach my shopping cart... It's funny, because now it's apparently the case that the fact that I alway considered a bummer - that I can't afford most of the music - turns out to be an advantage in the end because it saves me from buying releases that are not good and thus saving me from becoming a complaining grumpy old man like most of you here "One day the last one will be the first one." ... oh yes. It feels really good to be the last one now But why do you have to buy so much music? Why can't you do it like me?

I don't know why you obviously just now had a sudden wakeup, Mars. The thing with the overexaggerated promo texts is going on like this for years already, no, it already has become an integrated pillar of our scene! I have been growing up with it, so to say - well, at least since I stopped downloading and really buy CDs I see texts like this almost everywhere. I don't really know other promo texts than these ones and I can't remember having read anything not exaggerated. I'm already expecting this kind of promo text so to say... What really can the text say? If it was objective, like "another fullon release of known producer Skazi with the same formula as his previous works, go buy it" then nobody would feel like to check out the release. A text has to be positive, it has to encourage people to check out the music and the artist and that's exactly what the exaggerated texts do! What's so bad about them? Everybody knows that all what matters in the end is the music and people who buy albums only because of promo texts deserve to spend their money on crap anyway. And it's likely that the texts (at least not the engrish ones ) are written by people who are trained and know how to write these types of texts. In a professional label it's common that somebody visited a crash course in this.

Dedicating compilations to the compiler? What an idiotic crap! This has nothing to do with the DISCOGraphieS of artists! Except if the compiler produced all tracks on the compilation by himself. Which makes the compilation an album

So many horrible ones: Bitkit Tube Central Processing Unit Vaishiyas Freq Lish Ott Prex I Awake Jaia Pixel Rocky Phanatic Perplex Delysid Slider True Lies Ski Fi Jey & Ex Nizzel Ix-Lam-At Trancemission Klopfgeister Day Din V-Tunes Brisker & Magitman Nok Krama ... So many more... But the music is not necessarily bad. Klopfgeister for example - I like the Klopfies! But the name is horrible. To an english speaking person it might not sound like that, but to me it does. If I imagine Klopfgeister to be an english word though, with no meaning, then I actually find it cool...

Check his EarthShine album then, I'm sure you'll like

Oh man, I can't order there, the COD fees are insane They want 14 Euros COD fee PLUS shiping costs extra! That's more than a complete CD! This is why I didn't order there. I'd like the shirt, but beh, COD And now I got my stuff already elsewhere anyway and have no money anymore

OH MAN, I finally, finally, FINALLY have this one! It was about damn time. I loved Audiomatrixx from the first minute I heard Stefan play a track of the new project live already years ago, so I'm damn happy I finally got my copy of this album It was a long road till I got the money ... First it went for an Ipod, then for a Shisha and for other stuff. But now I finally had it and ordered it - actually I ordered it thursday and it already arrived, so cool, seems like the album couldn't wait to finally get to me The music is fantastic! I had kinda known this before, since I practically ate the clips on myspace, but boy, this is awesome. This is how music must be - fresh, happy, dynamic, innovative, groovy and positive all over! Very good And you know what's funny? The CD text on the disc in Winamp says "Magnetrixx" ... seriously, just put it in your PC! It's funny because obviously that piece is indeed the long awaited next chapter in the Magnetrixx book (I always thought Audiomatrixx should be looked at seperately) and thus can be regarded as the real successor to Wired (at least for me)... Great, great, great! We need more like this

Oh gosh, how could I forget that! Makyo is brilliant! Sheesh... Although if I really think about it ... maybe Makyo is not that suitable for Morrowind. I mean, the music is absolutely breathtaking, but I'd get mad if some Dremora asshole or whoever (those goddamn huge birds for example, them I hate the most!) would come and attack me in the middle of Vismaya or just before this wonderful peaceful climax of Suzhou River comes in ... argh, no, that would really ruin the atmosphere. Then again, I wouldn't listen to CBL's The Path anywhere in Vvardenfell either, so well, maybe the Chillseeker will enjoy it nevertheless. Don't go into dangerous areas when listening to long songs though...

That's my opinion aswell. The sound of The Path is warmer and actually more psychedelic as the rest of their works. Really good stuff! You should still get Hydroponic Garden though, it's a masterpiece aswell. For me The Path and Hydroponic Garden come before World of Sleepers...

I'm not a big fan of Penta, but this isn't even so bad. If he dropped the Penta twists - they fit better in his dark project - and would make the thing a bit more structured with a little more house in it I'd even like it

Oh yes, man, you got the spirit The good thing about Morrowind was that its in-game music was in mp3 format and you could put all of your own mp3 files in the game music folders, even synced to exproring pace or battle pace! That was the BEST ever! I doubt I'd have played it so much if there were only these five songs that ship with the game - they are nice, but after 50 hours they get boring. Oblivion I'm now playing on PS3, so there's no mp3 folder anymore ... well, fortunately I got an ipod so I can still listen to my own music The only thing is, I don't listen to that much psychill when playing. I've got a master mixture of psychill, new age, medieval ambient and lotr soundtrack pieces. My own secret Morrowind recipe so to say However, there's one song I must recommend: Shiva Chandra - Chilli Out ... it's beatless, but sooo good! It feels like it's made for these Telvanni towers on the northeastern coast of Morrowind. I remember having put the song into the music folder and then I was in Tel Branora and this piece kicked in for the first time. Nothing better than that! I levitated up to the tower to fly around it just because the music was so great I bet you'll like that one as well.

interesting suggestion, thanks

That's what I heard aswell. I also heard H.U.V.A. Network will get a reprint aswell. But I'd like to know two things. First, when will these babies be released? And second, will the covers look different to the first print? Anybody knows anything?

The site is great! It really kinda represents some of the glitchy sound visually. Cool...

If I ever went alone to a party? Man, I almost always go alone! Yes, that's right ... I'm there almost always alone. If I can recommend it? Well, yes of course, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this for six years now Why I'm almost always going alone? Well, at the beginning nobody wanted to come with me (I ain't got any friends who are into this stuff). But I was curious still, wanted to see the artists and such and I can take care of myself, so I went anyway. And that's just how it was. Prior to a party I asked if anybody would want to come with me and many people said no and those who didn't say no didn't want to pay so much entry fee for a music they don't know. And well, that's how it went at the beginning. And after some time I didn't even ask people anymore, I was just going. Why I don't have friends in the scene that go with me? Well, I don't talk to many people at parties because first it's too loud and second I'm not that social and third I'm not keen on making friends with many of them anyway. "Peace, bro, but leave me in peace" so to say. I really don't care that much. My motives why I am there are probably different. They just want to have fun, I see it totally different, kinda. I'm there because of the music and only because of the music. I don't take any psychedelic substances either. And over the last six years my habits shifted altogether. I don't "party" anymore, I come to see "live" sets. I check the timetables. I meet with friends, then when the liveact is scheduled to play I leave them and go to the party. It varies, but the general setting of my psy party life is like that meanwhile. And soon after the act I wanted to see has played I mostly leave, because I'm not interested in the generic fullon the DJs play today ... except if the DJ was good, then I stay longer, but that's the case not so often. Overall I can say I go when I want to go and see what I want to see. Quick and efficient. The social factor gets ranked down anyway if you see it from that point. Of course I already took some people with me and it even was fun (though I feel like a complete idiot when I'm there with somebody who doesn't know the scene and I gotta explain things and get surprised looks, it feels alien). But they are of the kind that goes to small parties with little entry with DJs playing and such, they'd never spend much money on it, they aren't interested in the stuff so to say! And I'm not doing this kind of stuff anymore, I went to these kinds of little parties three years ago. I'm not doing this to "party" anymore, I have the parties elsewhere with friends, I'm just in it for the live sets and personal appearances of artists nowadays. I do my thing. And since I'm a horribly egocentric person it only is better that I do this alone, this way I just get the most out of it! And Ormion, just do it, man You can do it if you are nice to people, don't take any drugs and don't drink too much. At least that's how I do it. And tell somebody where you are going ... really, do it, last time I was at a location in some dark and really spooky park area near the river, doubt anybody would have found my corpse within a week if anybody would have thrown me into the water ... I'll never forget that. I'll always tell where I'm going from now on. That festival, I'm sure it will be nice. Have a nice time there

I never thought that this was Glitch. I thought Glitch was a very incoherent, deranged and unstructured style - a style with "glitches" so to say. It's fun that I actually already like it despite not knowing what it is, haha... I checked that Frame song out ... and well, it sounds not bad. I'd have classified that as ordinary ambient though if I didn't knew now that it was Glitch... I'll use this term with a total different perspective to it in the future

Hey, this is good stuff! Despite the name indeed suggests "fart too loud", but well

I always have wondered what this is. Is Fennesz Glitch?

Cool that you own something of him, it's good to see he's not that unknown I felt similar about the noise parts at first - especially about the real noisy parts, the crackling sounds or low hums I always regarded as ambient from the start. And that was exactly what made me curious to see him live, I wanted to know if the noise came across as strange as on the songs I heard so far. And well, it somehow doesn't, not at all. It feels quite perfectly in place about 90 percent of the time! That's because the noise itself is of a completely different kind, not something that feels out of place but something that comes at you, grabs you, surrounds you - and I could never have that at home because my neighbours would want to kick my ass already if I played it half as loud. And the noise builds a wonderful symbiosis with the ambient sound, it's what gives the energy, intensity and essence to it. It makes the ambient alive! I'm sure that without the noise the experience would have been quite dull despite the ambient synth sounds are excellent... The Flashbulb is indeed good music (will remember that one), but I really don't feel a sililar vibe. Fennesz is beatless noise, so compared to him the sound of Flashbulb feels overloaded. Four Tet feels better though...

Oh man ... I just came back from a concert of the third kind! It was so awesome I'm still sweating... Does anybody by any chance know Fennesz? He's a a viennish-french composer of noise ambient. Doesn't sound spectacular, but it actually is ... the sound is so full of warmth, energy, majesty and sentimentality it almost makes you cry. Noise combined with ambient, well, actually ambient noise, noisy ambient! A guitar involved aswell. And altogether it's ambient at its purest energetic level - well, at least to me it feels like this... The concert was absolutely awesome! It was almost more noise than ambient, but on the whole you can't compare it I guess. I stood there in the middle of the room and - in psynewsish expression - my hair was becoming punkies all over my body! It was fucking amazing, I never have experienced anything like this before. The sound was stroking me! I even had this feeling of hairs becoming punkies inside my brain! And the sound so loud and rich that the whole room was oscillating, my pants were oscillating, damn, everything was oscillating! It was beyond something I can express, it's no feeling, it's a state of being, kinda. I never thought this would be possible. I don't even own a single release of Fennesz, I just heard this stuff at a friend's (who isn't even so much into it, he wasn't there) and got curious and then I saw that this guy was giving a concert and just went there ... but this was incredible! It felt so loud, so rich, so passionate, so burning, so touching, so energetic, so alive and actually so psychedelic as a whole, these sound waves coming at you, surrounding you, caressing you, blissful, majestic and beautiful and soothing and free. For the first time I felt music with my stomach and body so to say than with my ears. Damn, this was awesome! Although my ears are half-deaf now despite I actually had paper in them, but that was damn worth it, it was so worth it! Incredible... Point is, just yesterday I was at a psy party. And even though I liked it there, this thing today was giving me like ten times more energy and feeling like I had it yesterday. I know it's actually not comparable, but I still do it. The energy, it's about the energy! Against this today the energy on the psy party yesterday was like me in deep sleep. Mental level zero. Kinda. I don't know, but I want this energy again, I must have this again, it's incredible, undescribable and awesome! I think I might become a noisehead in the future ... today I already had my defloration ... and it felt goddamn awesome! Check Fennesz' stuff out: http://www.myspace.com/fennesz And if this guy ever plays near you, go there! Do it! The sounds on the web don't do justice to the music at all.

interesting... So obviously IDM isn't as bad as I always thought.

I'm kind of surprised to see Ulrich Schnauss recommended in this thread. Isn't he producing Shoegaze and not IDM? Or is that IDM aswell? Because I like the stuff I heard of Ulrich Schnauss, but rather don't like IDM that much ... the weird sounds and that...

I can't really say that because there are so many great tracks out there. And my style is to find something ULTRA MEGA SUPER, like that I'd want to tatoo it on my forehead, back, legs, arms, scream it out ... and then 3 weeks later the feeling has sedated and I find something else ULTRA MEGA SUPER... It's my style, guys! I can't change that. So I can't really name a favourite. but ... Makyo - Suzhou River maybe

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Favourite albums: S-RANGE - SPACE Matenda - Natural Development 12 Moons - Solid State Etnoscope - Drums From The Dawn of Time Son Kite - Colours Favourite comps: Bakkelit (Spiral Trax) (not more ... I'm really eagerly waiting for Bakkelit 2.1 though!) Morning Songs/Albums: S-Range - 2001 Sonic Cube - Last Jedi Massimo Santucci - Al Dente (album) Matenda - Baraba Element - Willkommen Killargh dancefloor Tracks/Albums: Shiva Chandra - Auricular (album) Magnetrixx - Wired (album) Ticon - Some Simple Sounds Chris Pointdexter - Darkness Etnoscope - Screamer Slice YEAAARRRGH! Love that one!