johnb820

The new game from Frictional Games, SOMA, comes out in a couple weeks. The soundtrack composer made a cool video about the music production of the game.

Just watched Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Great movie!

Finished downloading. I will have to give it a listen soon.

Oh yea absolutely! I know you know what you want from Suntrip releases and so it makes sense to me that the style is immediately obvious to you. I find myself doing the same thing sometimes. I can turn on a track and within like 30 seconds, somewhere in the middle of the track, I can generally tell whether it is worth listening to the whole thing or not based on my mood. In other words, it's what you are looking for in tracks that you end up engaging with. I could listen to one track from a compilation over and over and over if it's what is interesting me at the moment. With that in mind, I could always listen to just about anything and engage with it on a purely intellectual level. You kind of have to when you've listened to so much of a particular genre. In that case I listen to the production ideas, maybe I even dance, but the truly enigmatic tracks that I hold tight I end up listening to way more often. I ask myself, does this track have the potential to build an emotional connection with me? It's like a girlfriend. You start off as a teenager and you are attracted to every girl. Then your preferences are refined when you get older until you realize that 90% of the girls out there you will never have a deep intimate relationship with. You briefly get to know a girl and right off the bat you know whether they are worth your time. And this continues until finally you find the right one. You spend all your time with that one girl (track) and you listen to it (her) over and over and over. You have "special" moments together and then you realize you want to give birth to tracks of your own. And then those tracks (children) have a life of their own and maybe they too will have that emotional connection to someone someday.

More than you know.

It's no secret. Master Imba has been cooking up some sweet new goa tracks and rumor has it that Suntrip is going to release an album with him. So let's speculate what the album will be like. Will it feature nothing but 8 tracks of collaborations? Will it have any terrence mckenna samples in it? Maybe the album cover will be made by Imba and feature more penises than the goa overdose 2 cover! Maybe it will come out on Christmas day and each cd will feature a little dime bag inside of it and a message from Master Imba himself, spreading peace and goodwill to all men and women. By the way, in case it's not obvious, I am just joking around. I really am genuinely excited to hear what Imba has been up to. If any of you have listened to any of his sets recently, what kind of stuff does it sound like?

Now this is a conspiracy theory I can really believe in!

Well I admit, it certainly does seem like a stretch sometimes. I would love to know who all these "melodic surgeons" are. I just have a hard time imagining there are that many people out there producing darkpsy. If it really was so hard to make, and required the patience that I imagine, then there wouldn't be the sheer amount of darkpsy that there is today. And if there is anything I have learned over the years, it is not to underestimate the power of computers. Depending on the complexity of the music, it is, from a computer science point of view, a perfectly computable problem. In other words, music is not so complex that a computer program is unable to make it.

I'm talking there literally aren't darkpsy producers. Someone runs an actual computer program written in C or Java or something and out spits a new compilation album complete with artist names, titles, etc. I mean think about... really think about it. Randomly pick a base note, randomly pick a BPM, and then the program would go through and construct randomized patterns for each block of music. Have it randomize modulation of a few effects, reverb, delay, etc and occasionally work in key changes. There are no melodies so musically there is nothing worry about to have to get right. The key would be to continually develop the software, adding new samples, new production ideas, etc.

Darkpsy is actually written by a computer program isn't it. I mean... shit. Where do all of these darkpsy artists come from? I should make a game which is to determine which of the artist names is real. Can you spot the fake ones? Coretexiphan Fytogeist Sadiscotech Dugga Doug Smokey The Bare Cinder Vomit Walpurgisnacht Projekt Dr. Mambo Swammy Demoniac Insomniac Human beings could not possibly have had the patience to write hours upon hours of the stuff. There is enough darkpsy to last a lifetime. It wouldn't even be all that hard to write computer software to make it.

https://clyp.it/npju2n0l https://clyp.it/pijmuzhi https://clyp.it/iglikzzr https://clyp.it/dmtgkn3l

Here are a few off the top of my head. Do you all see the little flash music players here or do they not display/work? https://clyp.it/pijmuzhi.mp3 https://clyp.it/npju2n0l.mp3 https://clyp.it/dmtgkn3l.mp3 https://clyp.it/iglikzzr.mp3

I bought Entheogenic's new album A Singularity Encoded the other day. http://entheogenic-usr.bandcamp.com/

A good, well thought out melody is always catchy no matter what it's surrounded by.

Here is a pretty nice track from 2003 I caught the other day. And another from 2002. Sure there is the vocal breakdown I guess, but the track does not feel cheesy at all. Just kind of soft, dreamy, affectionate, ethereal like I love my trance.

Here are a couple of my project files for anyone interested. Goa Trance Ruby Plexus - Emergent Technology Downtempo Ruby Plexus - Summer Rain Both of these should be compatible using the standard samples, plugins, etc. Thanks! I derive much pleasure from taking a highly skilled genre of music and fucking it all up.

Hi there Alek! I use LMMS for everything I "produce". https://soundcloud.com/ruby_plexus I do not have experience with setting up a MIDI keyboard, but if you have any other questions about LMMS I might be able to answer them for you. I've been using it for probably 7+ years now and have seen enormous improvements over the years. While I completely understand that for most artists LMMS is probably no where near powerful enough, I find it extremely easy to use with a good variety of samples and plugins. And of course it's free. Also, if you are interested I would gladly share some of my project files.

This just became so much more appropriate. https://soundcloud.com/afginelad/afgin-remix-to-above-beyond-thing-called-love

Really solid downtempo compilation, for my taste anyways. http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/low-tide