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oh crap Electric Universe will come here in autumn... but if their recent stuff is fullon I dunno wheter I'll be at that gig or not. anyway... My favourite oldschool artists are: Dimension 5 Ra Astral Projection Man With No Name Koxbox

I once listened to 99% trance music. DJ Tiesto and his companions. Was pretty fanatic back then as well and damned every other music genre to hell without even knowing it. Luckily one day I got the bigger picture Now I hate trance for it reminds me of that phase back then

first and second ones are very nice and the last one looks interesting

wow, that's quite an interesting variety! 15% classical? cool

Interesting Some people say 70% psy ... man, that's quite a lot...

I'd just like to know, I'm curious. Name what musical genres (roughly, no subgenres) you listen to and especially their percentage of the total amount of music that you put into your player! Me: Psy : 45% Ambient/Chill : 25% Metal: 15% Dark Ambient: 10% Misc/rest: 5%

that's exactly what I meant Make them really stoned and then put on ambient stuff! They'll dig it! that's true, I have yet to meet somebody who does not at least partly like it ... but Thievery Corporation is not psy

What I can play to my non-psy friends: Chicane (everything) Chilling Matenda - Lucky Smile Makyo - Soar Angelic Puff Dragon - Sazanami You know what's funny? As I was in Amsterdam with friends I bought Aes Dana - Memory Shell & Solar Fields - Leaving Home ... and I put in those albums as we were all completely stoned on one evening - AND THEY FOUND IT AMAZING! BOTH ALBUMS! The music that they normally utterly hate was pure bliss to them! It was the right stuff, all of their music would just have made us feel bad (you know, that was really strong stuff ... some good pie and some good weed and some good shit ... uuuh yeah ... I thought I was dead again, but at least they enjoyed it )...

Yes, they do deserve respect for the things they have done. I totally agree. But just because somebody has done good things in the past it doesn't mean that it will continue like that. And when the output they produce now isn't worth anything I don't see any reason to still support them! What benefit do all their good tunes in the past have when I see them performing only shit when I go see them live now? Yes, respect to the past, absolutely, but when the artist has detached himself from the own past and is producing crap now I don't see why I still should give him any respect. It's quasi a different artist. They should have changed their name, then people wouldn't bitch. But of course Astral Projection was already famous, so they continued with that name ... just as IM.

No! I would never pay money for interviews. Never. And neither do I want to foster this in any remotely possible way. Charging money for interviews, that's something this scene really does not need IMO! If we reached that point it won't be far until "pay twenty Euros and I sign your CD"...

Dude, the new psytrance is supposed to sound different to the oldschool stuff. And it's good IMO. Very good. I am not talking about fullon, I hate fullon, but the prog stuff coming out nowadays is very cool shite. Old School is retro to me - it invokes somewhat similar feelings in me that you describe ... but in today's music I don't even want to hear that anymore! It's GONE. It's PAST. It belongs into the past - and not into the present. Nowadays there's something different. And it's good like that, because when I listen to oldschool nowadays I get reminded of the past and that it was good. That is the essential point for me

They're nice But I wouldn't consider 'em "sick"? lol...

Absolutely Feuerhake and Klangstrahler Projekt ... it can't get more summer for me than that Matenda is also somewhat summerish to me in general. I mean, there are some tracks which are an exception, but overall it's rather summer stuff - no matter if it's his chill music or the more psy material. Maybe this is the case because I always used to listen to that stuff on nice summer evenings... Atmos too ... this stuff I don't listen much to in winter. Many tunes from Headcleaner remind me of running through the park in summer Also Etnoscope is rather summerish to me. But I listen to that in winter too. And hehe ... Ticon - The Cozy Cactus, that piece also reminds me of summer evenings... Oh and BTW, Son Kite - Colours is ideal spring music for me

hahahahahaha, of course not you, my dear I meant that you should post that "Thread closed, user banned" line on the forum where this ridiculous piece of crap was posted You don't seem to be very familiar with psynews offtopic habits?

Absolutely. 10am is not a real problem. Two Espresso and you're up. I did that as I went to see Magnetrixx & Morganixx on a Sunday night. Monday I had school at 8:45 ... well, I came there at ten (come on, I don't wanna get up at half past seven, I was so deaf anyway that I didn't hear the alarm). Just the time you have to be there too. No problem at all. I guess if I were you I'd have gone there and on the next day I'd have showed all my colleagues the finger ... like "ha, ha, I was there and you not, you boring wet sandbag"

Hahahahahahahahahahaha Oh man ... gimme a break ... lol, this is so stupid. Wayne is a mass murderer .. I pray every day that this murdering Ku Klux Klansman is in jail for life for mass murder and worldwide contravening of anti-terrorism .. I'm a good girl .. I'm not a dilettante like all y'all .. murder at trance gatherings is BLASPHEMY .. See, she even knows that Wayne is the murderer! Even though she hasn't even been to the festival! She must have supernatural powers... Wherever you saw that thing, Goannes ... "Thread closed, user banned", please Hey, it wouldn't even be tha bad if the government would shut down that "killer music". Finally, the end of fullon! That would be even cool!

and I want a Radi604 one

"sonic structures" ... well, kinda like that... You know, the structure that I can find in programmed tracks is something I can not find in Ozric songs and that's putting me into an irregular, nervous state ... in a way. And I don't quite like that...

Maybe that is the reason why I don't like them. Honestly, I once downloaded a few of their tracks because I heard people talking about how great they are and such ... I didn't like the stuff. It appears too irregular for me, you know. Freestyleish and floating and irregular. No "programmed boom boom patterns". And I guess that's what I'm missing. I need the programmed stuff, it's more structured and it's not irregular. I need structure.

indeed ... I guess they thought of making Psychedelic Chill a series like Goa Head, but obviously the sales of the first volume weren't good enough so they let it be ... which is a pity, because that compilation was really great

naaah ... I'd agree that this is not an outstanding masterpiece, but it'd never be in my bottom 5. Never. That's because Aiwana is on it ... AIWANA! ... man, I love this tune, even asked for similar tracks in kinda this style once years ago on the old forum ... it's years old and I still love it. Besides that, Clockwise and Driveshaft are good too. It's a mediocre album - at worst. IMHO Anyway, I don't even have a bottom 5. I don't have any so bad albums At least cocnerning psy ... I mean, concerning trance I still have some of the old crap lying around and could rant about that, but I guess that doesn't really count, does it?

SECONDED!!! Although IMHO the best tune by Klangstrahler Projekt is Rising ... that's not real ambient in itself though, but it has a wonderful and looong ambient intro and outro, in fact the best intro/outro I know in a track ... pure awesomeness! Everybody, get it haha dude it's not that which people have to chuckle at ... this Shpongle track is just far from unknown lemme guess ... you have the "Psychedelic Chill" compilation, don't you? That one is a damn great compilation btw ... can recommend it to everyone, there are many, many good tracks on there! I also agree with the dude that mentioned Enigma / Deep Forest. It's great stuff ... but I wouldn't say it's underrated, Enigma gets enough attention, the stuff is even played on the radio... Other than that, I'd say the marvellous uplifting beatless ambient piece Matenda - Smiri Se is DAMN underrated In fact the whole Chilling Matenda stuff is somewhat underrated IMHO...

indeed, this track comes really, really good when it's late at night, the air smells of incense, the smoke burns in the eyes and the hand holding a brush is painting weird ornaments on the canvas... However, I rather disagree with those. I hate Ambience. 12000 Suns or Ambient Galaxy are worlds better... And Doof - Sunshrine is good, but not that extraordinary...

"shitty 6GB download limit?????" dude... I have a friend who has 1 GB download limit. He's happy with it. I have practically a flatrate. I pay half a fortune for it and it's decent. However, the provider's terms of use say that you must obey the FAIR USE principle and that you MAY NOT DOWNLOAD EXCESSIVELY. They have inofficially limited the downloading to 8 or so GB I think. Rumors say it's even less. You see, not even a flatrate saves you sometimes. I never had problems though. With 6GB you can download/stream/whatever plenty of stuff. I think I use 1,5 GB a month or so...

oh yes ... and that's just the beginning! I think it will get even worse during the next few months. But I think one day people will wake up. Skazi's days are numbered. And also the days of his clones and all the other fullon junkies. It's just a phase. It will pass one day - certainly not now, now it will get only worse ... also surely not this year, not likely in the next, I don't think in the year after, probably maybe in the year after the year after that ... or even later ... but one day the commercial wave will be over, that's what I firmly believe in. And what will be left of the scene will be the true lovers of the music - no moneymakers or anything anymore, in fact it will be very underground again after that and you everybody - not only the artists, but also the fans and everybody - gotta invest time and money for themselves again to keep it alive. But these days will be pretty cool again I think The only question that is left is: do you have the musical endurance to survive the coming onslaught or will you leave in terror and sadness at the sight of how the powermongers and commercial hippies and gabba kids and chavs will rape, kill and burn all that was good in this scene?