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    Do you protect your digital music files' integrity?

    in Off Topic

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    Most major file formats have analysis tools available for debugging purposes. Not sure if there is any reasonable way to manipulate a data encoding. You would have to have knowledge of the format specifications. Presumably, if there was something wrong with an encoded file that was not caused by something externally such as hard drive corruption then it would have to be a bug in the encoder which is entirely possible. However, they are not complicated pieces of software.

    "V/A - Celestial Transvibrations"

    in 2014

    Posted

    I've been listening to Mighty Sun a lot since this album dropped. I think I am addicted to that percussion! In general I felt very inspired listening to these tracks because there are so many different, unique ideas from these artists. Celestial Transvibration really lives up to its promise to show us a different side of goa trance. Favorite tracks on here include Ritual Algorhythm, Mission Atlantis, one of Arronax's best Wings Of Laniakea and Mighty Sun.

     

    Oh and Jiggle of the Meganeura. :)

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    Philosophy of Music

    in General Psytrance

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    Thanks for the response! :)

     

    I guess I was not really clear in my original post. I suppose I am looking for esoteric philosophical ideas about music in general not just psytrance, what it means, how we understand it, why we enjoy it, and so on. I could start from the wikipedia page for Philosophy of Music but it seems a bit sparse and I am not really sure where to look from there.

    Philosophy of Music

    in General Psytrance

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    I was not sure where to put this in the forums since we don't really have a generic music subforum, so mods feel free to move to where you feel it may be appropriate. I am looking for books or discussions on the philosophy of music, aesthetics, or theories. I was listening to a podcast yesterday and was struck with a desire to understand more about these sorts of topics so I am wondering if anyone has any good recommendations. If not I'll just have to do my own research. :)

    Astral Projection new album

    in General Psytrance

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    There must be 50+ more releases of oldschool Goa so far in the past few years. AP is hardly pioneering anything new with this.

     

    Really? I mean we've had some releases from older artists of their previously unreleased songs, but has anyone really released a remix album of old tracks like this?

    Astral Projection new album

    in General Psytrance

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    Yea I would have to agree with everyone else about the volume of the final master. Naturally, I went straight to the LSD remix, listening to it through headphones for the first time. I got to about the final third of the song when it began to sound really harsh and brittle. I turned the volume down and it didn't help. I turned it down even more and it still didn't help. Oh well. I'll still give it some more listens. I'm interested in the rest of the tracks because it's AP, duh. I was just unexpectedly put off by the harshness.

     

    It's kind of remarkable that such an album was even made to be honest though. These original tracks date almost 20 years and yet someone thought it would be commercially viable to do it.

    Astral prjection ambient

    in General Psytrance

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    Well, the best non-remix AP ambient track is easily Electronic. The bassline on that track... and those tom fills... mmmm. I also really enjoy Still on Mars. Honestly though their ambient stuff is not very compelling. It's just their goa tracks at a slower BPM, a broken beat, and half the musical ideas cut out of the original. And the less we talk about Ambience the better.

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