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Don't worry, it was good to read - and it also comforted me a little, that I'm not alone in this mess I think you are right - I also do feel that people in society tend to become more stupid - where "stupid" means not having a low IQ (well, it is a factor, but not the only one because that would be a discrimination for people with low IQ ), but rather having the illusion that you know things better than you actually do ... a lack of reflexion ... this, together with the rise of "persecution / hate towards people who think differently" (which has its roots in the same corner imo - because people with other opinions rather should make you reflect) is one of the two main worrying trends I think we have a crisis on three sides here ... "the triangle of evil": - Health crisis ... such as people getting sick real bad on Covid-19 - Economic crisis ... such as businesses closing, money printing ... where should this all go? - A crisis of the personal side of society ... such as people getting more stupid, more full of hate, more caught in their filter bubbles... It's not gonna end well if we are not careful

That's actually right! I'm not OK with it either when it comes to endangering others. The protesters that go demonstrating in masses without masks and the who people actively break the rules - all of them worry me a lot I had this Covid shit already and I'm quite anxious to get it again, I really _really_ don't need that - also for the well being of my family and all people dear to me. I just hope that we all will never lose the ability to talk about things and also accept different opinions and treat each other with respect. I feel this behaviour kind of waning in the last months and even years already, but it has definitely accelerated... And it's difficult for me though to experience this feeling of "being torn", to actually stand on what I would percieve as "the other side"/"the side of law and order" ... I used to describe myself as NOT the one that goes with the masses and these "systems" - now I do? I was the one to say to my friends that they should slap me if I ever said to run with the pack. Yet now I do? The reason why I am scared by it is NOT the current situation. It rather is a fear, that if one of the things that I thought to be fundamental is waning (which is happening right here), then what reason is there for me to believe that the rest of them is not gonna wane?...

I have to admit, I thought about this one a lot. The trigger why I entered that train of thought was not the conspiracy theory per se, which I had not heard at that time yet, but a personal experience: as I laid there sick in March 2020, I listened to an Anthony Rother track on my playlist that contains this line "... the funny way: I'm human made" (the track is conveniently called "Human Made") - and it just triggered something in me ... my thoughts were: wouldn't this really be indeed " a funny way" if I lied here in bed with something in me tryin' to kill me that was human made...? And that line "you got no world, because of me..." - wasn't that true too? Creepy, isnt' it? Well, it sure was. Damn... Before you shrug it off as a complete oddity, I'd also like to tell you that I had very strange nightmares in my sleep (in the little what I could find); most of these were taking place in China in one form or another. Either it were chinese people chasing me or it took place in a chinese hospital, where I was lying on a bed and I still remember these huge metal doors from the ward ... and these yellow trash bags that were piling up in corridors ... really strange stuff it was to me - well, some time later I get the result that I'm infected with a virus that originally came from China ... I'm just asking, could it be that this thing somehow carried an energetic signature from China inside and my body cells recognized that signature and, since I already have been to China more than once, "decoded" its origin location, thus playing to my mind these chinese nightmares? Oddly enough, these chinese nightmares I never had before ... they only started with my Covid infection! But while that last sentence is indeed true (and I indeed find it a little strange), it could also have been that the YouTube was on the whole time, autoplaying Covid news from China (which vere VERY much trending at that time) and I was just laying there in bed in half-sleep not realizing it and thus these images found their ways into my dreams...? I have a dilemma with these creepy stories ... on the one hand, I am passionate about telling them and find it interesting to find explanations why this and that occured - explanations that make sense to me - but on the other hand I shit my pants thinking about them. Maybe conspiracy theorists probably just spin this train of thought further that I don't dare to. Is it healthy? No, can't be. But on the other hand their existence may be a good sign - it signals, that the fundamental pillars of freedom in our society still work. You can be a total nutter and it's OK! (As long as you don't harrass anybody.) What worries me to an extent is, that this nuttery is often attacked these days, not tolerated. THAT is what we should be afraid of. Because of course, first it may be these conspiracists which you actually don't like yourself and you'll be happy when they're gone, but what then? It will get closer - until it's at YOUR doorstep! Yes, you! You freak, listening to Psytrance ... that's not acceptable!... Get me?

But it creates ad revenue - and even though that is only a tiny bit per ad, everything counts in large amounts 17 987 039 streams ... think 1 Satoshi per stream, that's 0,17 BTC - in fiat, that currently would be about $ 6000.

I would say slightly better at the moment - but I "just" had a bad period at Christmas, so we'll see. I did a Covid test though (twice - one by myself at xmas and now I again went to an official one) and that was negative so at least there's likely no active infection going on. Oh and thanks for asking Bad to hear about the vaccine chaos, but it's Austria, that's how it is here

Yes ... I don't know how it is with you, but here in Austria we will sit in Lockdown till Febuary 7th - and bars and venues will not open till March, this has already been communicated officially. Everybody now panics because of the B1.1.7 virus mutation... Yet even though if the country reopened in March, it will be a long way until we are back to normal ... and maybe we will not even reach true normality as we know it anymore, according to some pessimistic voices out there... But in the short run, they will be right. Just picture a psytrance party in 2 months for example (if it were possible) ... would you be as "careless" as you were prior to the crisis? I know I wouldn't. For example I would not hug people - and I'd probably not even go very near most of them. There will be a "shadow" remaining - and be it just a slight worry in people's minds ... it will take some time for that to go away. It's the same when it comes to bar visits ... I'd be quite careful, way more and different to what was before... There's a post on here that advertises the Shankra Festival 2022 - and I actually think about going, because I am of the opinion that the crisis should be over by then finally ... well, at least the next winter is what will make it count - this one (the winter) you can forget already anyways, it's already in the bin...

Good topic! I haven't yet looked at it this much - but this is VERY interesting. It's a fact however that once a video passes a certain "activity point", it gets recommended by the algorithm in people's sidebars and becomes kinda a self-runner because more and more people click on the thing when it's in their recommendations. The key ingredient for the "get popular" formula is to get a video recognized by the algorithm. To achieve this, you can buy views and even likes. There are several platforms to order these things ... but the algorithm meanwhile is intelligent enough to distinguish "bot views" from real human ones. That's why you can also actively buy human views. You can even buy comments and subscriptions. Everything can be bought! Why do I know it - well, I had the identical questions myself on the Soundcloud platform ... for the "Skeletone" project ... however, you can tell from our player and follower count that I did not use any of these methods ... point is though, this has taught me a lot about how these platforms work. It's crazy... With this I do NOT imply that any of these mentioned (or not mentioned) artists may have bought views, but hey, everything is possible, isn't it? We could actually start an experiment! Let's create a completely new project on YouTube with a blank account and then post a (real and completely legal) track (which is ideally newly-composed exactly for this project and purpose) and let's buys some views, likes and subscribers for it and see how far this goes ... hee hee Anybody up for donating a track? EDIT: By the way, I am not intending to convince anybody that it is a good idea to buy views or anything ... it's against the rules of Youtube and it can get you banned there ... don't wanna sound paranoid, but the Google Algorithm reads this forum here and it hereby knows what we're up to ... just gonna say that if such an experiment was done, it'd be a completely fun thing with no commercial intention whatsoever and just for science

thank you ... I oversaw that

Maybe it helps if more people filed a report at Bandcamp ... I'd say: don't hesitate to do so if you read this thread. Cheers for pointing it out.

Thanks. Yes, I do - the system is from my mate's studio, which he decommissioned. It's bloody brilliant. I can now re-listen to almost every track I ever heard and discover something new. Only have to be careful that the neighbors don't come over - but the fun is, my thinking now reverted from "how can I block the neighbours out with sound dampening" towards "how can I dampen my own sound" ... and that's cool. Plus I thought I'd better invest a bit in good gear than to have the money lying around and inflation take it (I had reserved it for a compilation project which didn't take place and is not going to in that form anyways). I have to say, the sub is pure overkill for what I'm doing here. I frankly don't need it for the home setup at all - in fact, I turn the volume so low it doesn't even activate sometimes. But then there's this stupid idea that I have which will involve a borrowed generator and some other equipment ... and for that it's gonna be useful. If I find no releases I can buy for that peculiar project which I had in mind earlier, I'll be probably trying that idea out...

Hi ... so here's an update: I now have both of the ways that you suggested to me I have decided to upgrade my computer's audio with the active speakers ... so there's now the old amp in the other room with the traditional HiFi system and the active speakers on the PC. It's a pair of Behringer Truth B2031A and an M-Audio BX10s woofer. Not cheap, but first I bought them used and second I decided to invest a chunk of the money I had reserved for the compilation project - which is currently not happening anyways. The active system is brilliant. I never heard a sound this clear on any audio system I owned previously. Only "problem" I have with it is: I am now at 12% volume and the walls shake. You can bet the neighbors gonna come over in no time if I continue like that

Brilliant one - thanks for posting, I'd have missed that

Found this guy recently ... good old progressive mixes That's exactly like I had it in the days, proper and good ... people were not standing around on the floor, but dancing - there were no video walls or laser-lit decorations but plain good fluoro backdrops and maybe a bit of flashing spotlights somewhere ... people were often happy, mostly friendly and almost always relaxed - I felt comfortable to just let everything else be for a few hours, dance my butt off and have fun - didn't even drink much because mostly I was already tanked from a prior evening with friends in the city, switched to water some time through the night, went home some time in the morning, birds chirping and - the best: the music continued in my head after I went out, it went on as I went home, sometimes it went on for hours in my head, in a few cases even for more than a day. New tracks manifested in my sleep - stuff that never was heard by anyone but by me who made it up in my head ... it felt good, natural - I thought for sometime even that that is the purpose of this music! Nowadays there's so many breaks and pauses in the tracks that this feeling does not grow inside me anymore. But maybe the breaks are needed for the teenies to shoot some selfies - "uh look friends how cool I am I am going to a Goa Party" - gimme a break ... oh no, there's another one. At least the decos are nice, far more than the amateurish paintings of the past - attractive to look at, but at the same time I don't really know what to make of it, the "cozy" atmosphere of the paintings feels kinda gone... The alternative? Go to the Hitech floor - where the visuals at least meet my memories (dark room, backdrops, people moving) - but the sound is so fast, I become just irritated, giddiness begins, I laugh hysterically and have to sod off, it's unbearable for me to be there any longer than a few minutes ... and the only fun thing afterwards is how slow the music on the mainfloor sounds after I was in there... Well. Somebody give the scene a handclap. It was better. It's not just ramblings. It really was. Gosh, I remember ... in the past the "second floor" was the chill floor. Where people socialized, relaxed, slept ... awesome. Gone now Old Progressive please don't die

I think it's mostly somethimes just good inspiration from the artist ... not necessarily from taking any substances. Sometimes, it can be ... but it's nothing else than a painter getting his / her inspiration - some do it with substances, some are just having an idea in their heads - and some may feel inspired by the art of others... Could not resist posting this imo amazing cover art here by the way

Funny, I didn't want to gloss over it ... the Happy Mistakes to me has more Raja Ram vibe so I mentioned the other

I'm excited, but at the same time I'm reminded of all the Deja-Vus I already had of artists that announced a new album on the horizon (it's the fifth?) ... @astralprojection has put it kinda well ... we had this quite a few times arelady - here are my Deja-Vus: S>RANGE ... no new album out till now, even if you count in that illegally released one several years back it's waaay overdue that something new comes out. And yes I am aware of the collab one with Arkamena, which is not bad, but it's chill and doesn't hit the vein I am after. (And yes I also know that a new one is now closer at hand than ever, but I have to say until this moment it still is not out.) Etnoscope ... if it were not for @Basilisk and the Ektoplazm platform we'd still be stuck with their first one - but even if you count in Way Over Deadline a new one is overdue, I would say - knowing that many tracks are ready - and this has also been communicated in their own posts on Soundcloud and fb ... apparently they are still looking for a label...? Astral Projection ... don't get me started on this ... they should call it "Astral Projection Forever" in a hint at Duke Nukem - and they should do it fast, before that catchphrase also gets out of style completely... Silicon Sound by the way - jep ... but it ain't coming I'm afraid ... at least we didn't get baited too much on that one... I think the whole community has been waiting for a new Hallucinogen album since ... well, since I joined there's these talks. Nevertheless I celebrate that new track that @Penzoline posted I'll just sit back and don't be too excited though, because many times I was in the past, it didn't turn out so fruitious...

Hehe, thanks ... I leave the System 7 in there too as long as I don't find a better one... That is highly interesting! Even though I found out (thanks to comments) that at least one of the "live" videos is made by combining audio from a different sources ... I have mixed feelings about this, because it's un-tellable to the non-knowing and I want the content to be most authentic - however, what's better: an original but crappy audio or a comparable but good audio with tracks from that exact era ... but fact is some videos are really good and I'll just surf through and include them, we only have a finite number of the old ones anyway...

Hmmm ... so the account is back apparently, after I gave them all my data, cellphone number and such ... but I am now super careful there ... apparently it can happen out of nowhere that I get banned again. Which would be really bad. I don't think facebook likes profiles like mine...

I have (unfortunately) not experienced this exact scenario myself, but I can very much relate to it mentally ... interestingly, in a prducing act = mate n me acually wanted to make "good" psytrance but then got so bored while making it, we lost it completely and made a tune like NPNK: https://soundcloud.com/user-571754012/skeletone-npnk-feat-lord-g (happy if you clicked on that for good measure ) Sometimes you just gotta throw these boundaries and frames in your head over board and the result is better than what you'd have achieved when sticking to them. May be valid as a producer as well as a listener. In the past I was kinda genre-focused, but with every year that passes, my boders dilute ... I feel like a universe ... expanding...

Finnish people = most "metal" people I met in my life (my favourite metal band comes from Finland also btw) even some don't know that music ... and they've got lots of Sisu - some of them especially while driving, many of the world's best Rally drivers are Finns... Finnish people are good at drinking and driving - but hopefully not at the same time I hope to visit Finland again one day.

Yep, that's a truly good video you did there and I appreciate to watch it again. It takes some skill to make the subject come to life without letting it drift off and I think you are doing that very well cheers

It's best described as a slight feeling of being sick ... but it's definitely without fever or elevated temperature, I checked multiple times. Depending how I feel I can also have uneasiness or elevated heart rate (which then is toxic for getting a night's rest) - I believe these are just results and not causes though. I got my heart checked pretty soon after the infection and it was all good. I don't know what to make of it and had slight hopes a lab test might bring a bit more clearance into the picture. Thanks for the feedback regarding vaccination If I do a lab test, I'll just put an antibody check on top, even if the doctor doesn't order it for me ... I'm just curious whether I still have any - and if yes, I won't vaccinate.

... and nice plot twist: I'm banned on facebook already I don't know why. They say it was due to violation of community guidelines. Maybe that "first chat message with link to Psynews.org" was indeed reported as SPAM I don't think it was anything else. I certainly didn't piss on anybody's lawn. At least not more than here. I filled out their forms, but I don't think I'll get that account back ... and even if I do, I'll be super careful with it from now on - have to be, because what happened is odd I'll edit my previous post because all that rambling isn't so relevant anymore now that the account is locked. That was quite fast tbh. A pity... I new facebook would be shit. I just knew.

hi @psytones -- the project name actually stems from my initial idea to release a real physical 12" (and to be honest, not only one!) ... that's actually a load of spoilers now but I don't care ... there you have it: I wanted a 12" vinyl with at least one S-RANGE track (of course) and the B side would have on it "what I could get my hands on" ... I actually was already in talk with Magnetrixx and actually was the closest to release anything but I can't seem to get a hold of him anymore, which is unfortunate because I know what the track sounds like and I would like it a lot - and I'm actually even a tad worried he's alright - but maybe he just forgot, you know ... "creativity" ... and my backup plan actually was Etnoscope but I can't seem to get in touch with any of them yet, I only had the "hint" to try it on fb ... but anyway, I will continue to try it and even have to go for a different plan maybe or maybe I'll be lucky with a different artist ... we'll see what I can come up with, the plan for the 12" is still live in my head and then I'll have earned the name At the moment I don't even have a single track I hope nobody of these guys is mad at me for talking details, I don't want to talk inferior of anybody - such projects are very casual (they can only be casual for me, I'm an absolute beginner) and are ony "done when they're done" I guess Also I can't change the name "RTP Records" anymore otherwise I'll have to register a different artist And that first release was from the project "Skeletone" I did with a friend who's the producing mastermind and I just have put it out there to see how these releases look like and to be able to show ppl "ok, if you give me a track, I'm gonna release it like that" - I actually wanted to have it FREE but it's not even an option, the distro service does just put a price on it automatically - at least there's something to learn https://open.spotify.com/album/5g4GqUlMkdQIX43DDY6Mx1 ... if you know any people who want their tracks on Spotify, I can deliver with this method. The payment must be agreed upon though... PS: ad ultimo: if there's nothing else to be achieved, at least you'll be able to listen to Skeletone on Spotify this way

Ah so they just change the delivery method of the RNA into cells, I see. I'm not entirely sure that this is a good thing though... Your mentioning of autoimmune responses to Covid-19 got me thinking. I found this article, quite good in my opinion: https://theconversation.com/an-autoimmune-like-antibody-response-is-linked-with-severe-covid-19-146255 I feel like that explains to me a bit why I felt so crap as I had it - it probably was this immune response I had to deal with and I was actually fortunate enough that it didn't turn out severe. The only one thing that worries me personally is this sentence: "Would an ongoing autoreactive response help explain instances of “lingering” COVID-19 even after the viral infection has cleared?" Could there still be a (low-key) autoimmune response active inside of me and that's the reason for these occasional "bad nights" as I put it? I keep having these - nothing too severe, but it makes me think. What lab tests would I need to do to find these blood cells responsible for autoimmune responses ... we have this thing called "large hemogram" ("Großes Blutbild" in German) - would that suffice? And I assume I must do one when I feel the effects, not when I feel totally fine, right? And on a second note: would that vaccine even help me when I had the sickness already and my immune cells therefore should know the virus already (obviously they do, because otherwise I would be dead long ago - said the doctor to me) or is it just pointless increase of risk if I took it?