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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

Get: Chilling Matenda ... guaranteed free of indian cheese samples! Or go Ultimae!

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!

great video! finally somebody explains how it's done! appreciate that ... never heard of Pitch Black before, but checking them out right now...

I could never bring myself to really like Shpongle. It was always too strange for me. Had downloaded a few of their tracks, some of them not that bad, but never got to really like them. And then I remember there was a sort of hype about Beija Flor, a track released on a compilation before their third album came out. And well, I got curious of the praise and downloaded it. It's not even that bad of a track, but in the second half I really hated the "uaioue"-kind of lyrical performace, a totally unnecessary thing that ruins the atmophere ... and the samba samples I hated aswell. Horrible. Atmosphere gone! What is this? This is not nice, not comfy, beh, I don't want that. The Ott Remix of "Around the World in a Tea Daze", that one is awesome! That's how Shongle should be! And then I downloaded the original and it was a sorta let down again...

I'm damn sure I did! Didn't I?

Whoa ... and now, almost 3 years after I voted I'm still the only one who voted for the dancefloor killer ... kinda cool

Voted for morning ... that's as close as it gets to the nice scando trance style I like. I can listen to dark too though, but I like morning far more, thus I didn't vote for both.

The second one is quite beautiful. 25 Euro is really too low for it (I'd immediately take it at that price though ), considering it's handpainted...

A few more: 12 Moons - Solid State Matenda - Natural Development Healer - Higher Grounds Shiva Chandra - Auricular

Yes. Invasion of the "Krocha" (the new species of chavs, the ones with the fluo hats, we call 'em here like that), it's happening. "Terrible" is a word far too harmless for this utmost horrific latest outburst of chavness. I find myself rambling about the spoiled youth of nowadays like a grumpy ol' pop lately, it's funny. But it's horrible to watch. If they are coming to a psy party, which they are now, it means stress, unfriendlyness and generally bad vibes. And they are starting to infest them nowadays ... and it's going to get worse, I have it in the urine... Fortunately last time, as S-Range was playing, there people said there were so many of these Krochaz, but I was not noticing any of them, was too busy dancing and hurrying to toilet for water and not looking left and right. And I'm so happy about that ... because Krochaz and S-Range, if I saw that I'd have hanged myself right there from a lamp on the toilets, I swear! But it wasn't the case. And now I can die in peace, peace, peace ... because I had one tremendous intense time, the best time of my life Actually now that I touched the peak it's actually sad it was the peak. And it was the peak, because I almost collapsed that evening, more is not possible, not physically, not psychologically. I touched the peak! Well, but that's the thing that makes me a bit sad now, because from the peak you can only descend anymore, there is nowhere higher to go. And I somehow have it in the urine that in the future i'll focus more on other things than psytrance. I'll probably get my diploma, a girlfriend, a job ... I'll not have time for this anymore. I'm growing up... Well, of course, I can not let go of it, never ... but it will decrease, I'll be less on parties, less after new releases, more focus on other things. But I'm so glad it went so good till now. And that I touched the peak. I had such great times in this scene. And that's what I'll probably treasure until I'm dead (gosh, I'm speaking like if this was the end ... I assure you it's not )

That's a Saiko-Pod quote... I know, it's the same guys, but to Saiko-Pod I connect it more. Koxbox stands for me for the "Stay Psychedelic..." saying.

I have Poem and I find it very good I think the real destiny of Delerium is to be like it's now - new age-ish, poppy ... that's what makes Bill Leeb such a genius IMO, on one side he's got the industrial and noisy stuff and then there's Delerium, which is actually pop. That's such a contrast. It's wonderful. It shouldn't be different.

AFAIK you can't download the videos from Youtube - that's the concept of that site, that people can promote their videos, but not enabling everybody to download and thus owning the works (at least not per se, so if anybody manages to download with tricks, that doesn't count!). And if artists don't like it when people put their songs on Youtube they can request the videos being taken off the servers. So it's all cool. Therefore I think it's legal, the Youtube stuff...

Well, S-Range for sure could be something you like. Morning trance is his second surname ... the earlier the stuff the more in the progressive direction the style gets, I'm sure you'll find something. However, there's also much other stuff: Great that this album gets some recognisation ... indeed, Matenda's latest piece is some of the best morning trance ever. 12 Moons - Solid State would be another one for the list. There's a better morning song by Etnoscope than the one recommended though: Silent Agreement! And BE SURE to check out their remix of Sound Field's "Second Step Above The Sun"!!! And there also is this "morning progressive" (I call it like that, because I mostly listen to it in the morning) album out by Massimo Santucci...

Materia Debut album went out end of March. I think this guy will come out bigger and bigger. And he's not that bad Haven't got the album, but saw him live... Check it out!

thanks ... so I voted for the Y2K remix