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oh no, your collection is even smaller than mine! damn, so I don't have the smallest...

46 Euros is a blasphemy! Fortunately I have found out that there are some vouchers from ticketing organisations and stuff ... so I could get the tickets for 38 Euros. 38 Euros is still not few though. I'll think about it. Apparently I'll be working in July anyway, so I can afford it...

Ah, interesting ... they will come here in July and I was already thinking about going ... but the ticket price makes me wanna shit my pants. 46 Euro! And just Chemical Brothers, no support. That's what I normally expect to pay for a festival lasting for several days! I really am tempted to go, but the price I'll think about it. How long were they playing, Seraph?

Okay, first of all I think I might have the SMALLEST music collection of you all! At least concerning psy! And I'm going to check this thread frequently to confirm that... (1.: ) The TOTAL number of releases (CDs+vinyls+tapes) I own is: 220. (2.: ) 62 releases are PSY - 42 CDs, 19 vinyls and 1 is a tape (3.: ) The total number of CDs I possess is 135. (4.: ) I have 42 psy CDs. (5.: ) The first psy release I bought was Goa-Head 13. That was at the end of 2001. Bought it at a CD flea market, but it was still not that cheap... (6.: ) Difficult. Very difficult. I have some that I like a really big lot despite it's such a small collection. That's the point: I try to only buy releases that are really promising or sounding good to me. I can't really answer that question. Seriously. (7.: ) Again, hard to answer. But that could probably be VA - Earthtrance because it made me so happy back then that I got this gem so cheap and it has great songs on it that I listened relatively often to (it was my second psy CD), so I already connect memories to it (8.: ) That must be the Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger (Promo) ... or the Shiva Chandra - Spicy Moments tape ... but I think the promo is more rare... (9.: ) I have 19 compilations. The rest are albums or vinyl singles. (10.: ) Not really. When local acts are good I support them by maybe going to their gigs ... but I don't have a single album of a local act.

That's difficult as I don't know any song similar to this one. It was quite an original try from Klopfgeister to use a bagpipe as an instrument for one of their tracks ... I don't know of any other artist who did that too... Banco De Gaia used a similar instrument (not precisely a bagpipe, but something where you have a kind of bellow with which you mechanically put air into the bagpipe and don't use your lungs) on his song "Drunk As A Monk" ... that song sounds completely different (also the bagpipe) though and has not a real oriental feel to it (despite being good)...

I also wonder what's up with them, I like MOS a lot Haven't heard anything from them for a long time ... their last released track I was aware of was Fire on Goa-Head 18 and it was an absolute monster (and it is their last released track according to Discogs...)... their website also hasn't been updated since 2 years (that's even quite exact)... I hope they didn't stop

indeed, somehow... I mean, sorry, how can somebody sue the owner of a forum when a member slandered somebody? How stupid is that? Why not sueing the member who was slandering instead? That would at least make a bit of sense... bureaucracy lawsuit head shot

that's exactly what I meant with the term "etching machine"

Yep, I second that. At least concerning the Sky Input album ... actually all songs on it sound damn energetic to me so that it fits the description of flying through the universe at insane speeds... I am not too big of a fan of these in-your-face energy blasts though. It's a good treatment when you got headache (Filteria's first album has now officially gained the status for being THE headache killer for me), but under normal conditions this is nuking my brain, it's too intense. While dancing I am a fan of intense sounds, but at home I prefer a more subtle way that things should go... Older Matenda is a perfect example of how I like things when it comes to the term "energetic". While at first listen these songs are nothing that special there reveals a deeper, constant energy flow, a kind of gentle but steady pressure behins everything, something energetic yet subtle ... something actually very genious. It lies in the bassline. I guess the bassline actually defines the energy level for a song for me... Other, different (un-subtle ) examples of really damn energetic songs are Atmos - So Nice You Name It Twice and Space Buddha - Acid Prophecy (the most energetic fullon song I know - and I like it!)...

see? soon prices will be down at 10 Euro and then it's my time to get my hands on them

Well, concerning really different types of music (not ambient or anything electronic, something totally different) I listen to Metal ... all kinds of styles from Iced Earth to Summoning - and you can even count some medieval ambient into that - but with a peculiar special preference of crazy finnish Humppa Metal such as Finntroll, Korpiklaani and Trollfest. And there's also some New Age among my other musical preferences ... such as Gandalf of Mike Oldfield ... but I count that to world music ... just as Xavier Rudd. So I voted for Metal and World Music Oh, it just came to my mind I could have voted "Other" too ... for the Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise side of me! Damn Count 1 more on "Other" please if you want to be exact

Nah, I can't really enjoy music when it's too fast. I can't mentally synchronize to it. The Morax track "Morthor Spede" is just a joke to me. I can't listen to that (I quite like the sample of the Fragetrollet track on the same compilation though )... Generally music tends to sound funny and unserious when it gets too fast. And the greater the bpm speed the lesser room for cool things such as melodies or other stuff you have. It's all just "bambambambambam-break-bambambambambam..." and that gets mindnumbingly uninnovative after time. Oh and yes, the three ones Fosku mentioned ... they are horrible aswell... It's not that I don't like faster stuff every now and then. There is some good fast and dark stuff out there. But it doesn't go over 160 bpm ... and when I listen to those fast tracks here now then I also understand why...

My mama - she's 65 now - likes Etnoscope ... but anything on the progressing side will do - not too many melodies, she doesn't like that "whining" as she calls that synthie stuff... I once played Noma - Tube to her and she loved it But she'd just as well like Mauro Picotto ... my mama just likes anything with a lot of bass in it My dad doesn't like much electronic music. Except old stuff like Jean Michel Jarre he despises that kind of modern sound...

gone is he from here ... quite some time ago already...

there are etching machines ... but they are quite expensive and the records you etch with them don't last forever... in a vinyl shop they might be able to do it aswell and it's not as expensive as getting an etching machine for yourself... but the best would still be to burn it on CD ... mp3 has not perfect sound quality anyway, so you wouldn't gain any sound quality if you etched it onto vinyl...

ETNOSCOPE you can try almost all tracks they produced ... using tribal drums is a key element of them

NOMA - SOON some more of the moment: SONIC CUBE - LAST JEDI ATMOS - BAD 2 THE BONE MATENDA - WELCOME SUNSHINE

Absolutely same here, I'm still waiting for new Atmos, Audiomatrixx debut, new Matenda, new Aes Dana, Solar Fields trance album and another one that I have mentioned already so often I won't do it again here (grrr...)

Dimension 5 - Transformation Ra - Astral Flight Organic Noise - The Vacuum Banco De Gaia - Kincajou (Wild Monkey Fever Remix) Hallucinogen - Shamanix Saiko Pod - Tron

That must be Penta - Neurotic Call... but I don't think he's looking for that one...

My favourite betaless ambient piece is Matenda - Smiri Se. But that one is not really suitable for sleeping to it...

yes, same here cheesy full on is on top of my hate list - although I don't hate all full on, thre is some good out there, but most of it today is cheesy and crap although today I got reminded that there's some darkpsy out there that can also get very monotonous and dull over time ... but still, I prefer the dull darkpsy a hundred times over cheese full on...

my weapons of choice: primary weapon: SONY MDR-V150 They offer quite good sound for low price (the twice as expensive foldable successor (in silver) uses same speakers!) ... it's not brilliant, but really quite good and has power. I love them. They are handy for everything: going for a walk, going shopping, going running, listening at home in front of the pc, fitting for all kinds of styles of music ... the perfect allround weapon! secondary weapon: AKG K-55 The heavier weapon. Has much better sound than the small Sony's, but they are quite bulky and the cable is far too long to carry them around handy. I like to use them for evening ambient listening sessions on my stereo. But they are good for all kinds of music. AKG quality. Not as superior as their more expensive models, but I love them. Have 'em probably already 6 years. Very reliable. The good old heavy cannon for home sound battles. backup weapon: PHILIPS SBCHP550 My favourite weapon, but I have overused with running and the foam has gotten sweaty and worn and old. They fit tight and that makes you sweat much under them which makes them not handy for sports. But the sound was very good for sports - rich in bass, good deep frequencies. Not that good for highs or ambient though. But perfect for the right music. These have become my ETNOSCOPE headphones! They really are good for this deep warm earthly kick and bass. A good and reliable weapon for the right moments.

I was into Eurotrance back then as well! Cool This music is officially classified as RETRO for me now. Memories

Well, honestly, I prefer it like it is nowadays. There's much more diversity. Of course there's some really perfect oldschool goa out there, but if there was just this goa trance I'd be bored aswell. If you dig a bit nowadays then you can find some really good music in all kinds of styles - and thats what I prefer. Because I am actually quite seldom in the mood for this classic oldschool goa trance...