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"Bayo" ... checking out right now ... it's good, also the Playmaker dub (that is even better than the original)! I guess I'll check out that Playmaker project then... The Darkness remix is the best Ticon according to you? I don't know so much from Ticon, but there's stuff from them that I like better ... Some Simple Sounds for example...

You mean the Tribal Thing/Tuf Tuf/Tiger Inside vinyl, huh? I checked samples of that ... I like the sound of Tribal Thing best ... is the piece worth getting? I like the original version of Darkness better than the Ticon remix because the Ticon remix is too trancy and sounds too stressed to me, you know ... the original has a sort of deeper progression and clubby feeling to it, which is what I like so much in that song and which is not present in the remix...

aw, come on nobody here knows Chris Pointdexter? damn where shall I ask then?

I own this track already for some time, but only recently I discovered again how good it actually is! (And I mean the original, the Ticon remix is not as good.) I love this nice moderate but steady progression and the club feeling that it has to it... Is there anything similar out there? Where can I find such stuff? Is this already beyond the traditional psy scene?

Hello

nice track from Austria, you say? I have heard of a Psysoth guy from Austria. is that you?

yeah, you're right... forget about that CBL, Ale, will ya? it's nothing for you...

CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS. go. listen. relax. bliss. stop ranting.

You know what's funny? Always when some mate wants me to listen to a song on his discman/mp3-player and gives me the earphones, I always have to say that he has to turn the volume down, I can't take it so loud! I mean, I then always imagine that he listens to the music when he's alone at that volume ... I really think that isn't good for the ears, but I don't say anything, I'm not his nanny, you know. And always when I give people my stuff to listen they go: "louder, dude, I can't hear shit!" So obviously I'm listening to rather lower volumes ... but I really don't percieve them as low, I percieve them just at the right volume! Once I turned the volume up to the level I just find acceptable, anything more and it would be uncomfortable ... and then I gave my mate the headphones and he was like "??? ... that's pretty low volume, you know..." I mean, at which levels do you listen, people, it is damaging your ears! In the subway I sometimes sit next to people that have turned up the volume on their earphones so lout IT'S TOO LOUD FOR ME EVEN THOUGH I SIT NEXT TO HIM and don't have the plugs in the ears! How DEAF will people become? It's insane. PROTECT YOUR EARS! This night, at the Human Blue gig I forgot my earplugs. I entered the dancefloor room and backed off, so loud the music was to me. I thought I'd go deaf, then I had the idea for rescue: I hurried to the toilets, grabbed some of the tissues there (as long as there still are some, because after some time it's just a mess there) and rolled myself custom earplugs. I spent like 10 minutes just rolling them, adapting them to the right size and right thickness to let just the right amount of sound through. And it helped. I walked home today without the "biiiiiiiiiiiiii-" noise in the ears and even the cars passing by I could hear like they really were next to me and not some miles away. PROTECT YOUR EARS!

Aaaah, this *beeep* tone when you hear too loud music is already a prequel to permanent tinnitus! If you are listening often at that level your chances of permanent hearing damage are sky high... For god's sake, people, care for your ears and use EARPLUGS while DJing! Then the sound of the speakers won't bother you so much and you hear the headphones at an ear-friendly level. Try it and experiment with different earplugs ... there are some who block too much & some who block too little... (pro ear filters are too expensive, that's why I can't say anything about them) And also while partying out, protect your ears! I remember this girl in my class who was a DJ and always wore earplugs both while mixing or just partying out. The risk of ear damage is just too high.

"Fuckin' A, it's I.F.B. ..." I'll check that out

don't forget GOA-HEAD, my favourite compilation I still love the title despite it's not goa anymore what they put on their discs. But Goa-Head is the best example of how well a compilation series that started with goa trance back in the days has dynamically developed with the scene and thus nowadays still manages to surprise me with some awesome psytrance tunes. And I also like it because they have it in the pun in their title ... "goahead, goa head", you know ... it's a message for people like you, Ale, that always bitch about nowadays and glorify the old days but forget that there is something brilliant out there today aswell. I agree that todays psytrance shouldn't be called goa trance anymore. Goa trance for me is somehow the oldschool stuff ... thus I agree with Ale on that point. And in the scene here we already knew that long ago and use the specific genre terms such as prog or fullon. But the non-knowing people out there, they still call it goa ... if I tell people I'm going to a prog-psy party they all make strange faces, but if I just say "oh, I'm going to a goa festy" everybody knows instantly. I only use the term for communication outside the scene anymore, because out there many people know about goa, but hardly anybod knows about psy. And a reason for that is also the mass-marketing of this goa spirit and symbols by big commercial labels such as YSE ... in Saturn (an electronic market) I can see loads of YSE "goa trance" (the shelf section is called like that!) CDs nowadays! It just is like that...

np: Silicon Sound - Strange Planet...

I pay 10 Euros for it and this is no joke, I mean it (because I wanna boyct those fkin' price-drivers!) my offer is still valid anybody wanna sell?

... Cinos ... isn't he on SecondLife aswell? He mentioned that somewhere ... he might even have been there at that virtual party But I'd never ever try to even remotely compare that virtual crap to the real experience. I mean, come on ... if a screen image and sound from your computer speakers can give you the real experience of a psy party then your psy party experiences must have been pretty shallow. Admit it. Just the special smell of cig smoke, fog fluid, weed and incense sticks is one thing I can't have the virtual way and still wouldn't wanna miss at any cost. And the loud music that makes even the little hair on your arms move in rhythm ... and the cool people, the interactions with the world ... and this wonderful feeling of really being there. You never could have that virtually. I personally find it sad and pathetic to attempt to try adapting this to the real thing. Sure, it is some form of gathering and communication, nothing against that ... for people that can't go out much and such ... can even be nice ... but it's not the real deal, that's a fact. You can't say you have been on a psy party when having attended such a virtual gathering. No way.

That's not really bad news that the live has been cancelled ... this way I save a lot of money Next time they hopefully still perform a live somewhere in Europe ... at best somewhere in eastern Europe, then it will be cheap...

yep, same here

Silicon Sound - The Jaguar and I have to think of Cinos... I didn't intend to ... I just had to...

Oh... Well, yes, you're quite right ... although there are some tracks which I remember having heard way more than once. Back in the days it was S-Range's "Test Tones" ... and as I finally had the track I was going "aaah, now THAT is this one I like so much " And also nowadays I recognize some songs played more than once. Magnetrixx' "Zipfel" was one of them. And also some other fullon ones ... I recognize them because of the samples.

On Goabase my nick is Incensum ... but my activity there is mostly limited to just using my partytimer (and occasionally rating a party with a review that nobody read anyway, so I also gave that up...)

Do you mean hearing a tune twice on the same evening? On the same evening I actually wouldn't want to hear any tune twice. What has been played, has been played - no need to hear it again, give me something new instead! And fortunately until now I never have heard a tune twice on one evening. A tune played twice on two seperate evenings I have nothing against. But on the same evening it's a no for me...

DRESSCODE for GOA parties? RIOT! RIOT! RIOT!

MASSIMO SANTUCCI!!! not one single mention of that dude on here ... but it's good music ... morning progressive, I like

new S-RANGE new MATENDA new AES DANA that's what I'm looking forward to as of now... and the new Tegma and new Vibrasphere are good news aswell

I still plan to go see them in March. Despite everybody says they suck lately. I even bet they will suck. But I should have seen them already TWICE here in Vienna and they didn't come BOTH TIMES! So I want to finally say I have seen them at least once in my life! So I'll go if I can afford the tickets... But if they suck and I'm in the right mood I'll go straight up to these guys afterwards and ask them why they have developed from the old school goa trance gods to boring fullon clones...