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    Can psytrance produce an altered state of consciousness?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Everytime I produce something and I am really into it, deeply enjoying sounds and psychedelia of it I got lost, just partly there in chair. I am not very aware of surrounding, feels like im in many places and then when I take a break it's hard to come together for some 10-15 mins ahaha

     

    I am not sure if it's what you asked but it is very pleasent experience and then all these inspiration and ideas come, then next day 'how da fuck did I made this?' :lol:

     

    All I need to do is to get the right sound to trigger that experience :)

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    Katedra - We Are Not Alone (Global Sect Music, 2019)

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    4 hours ago, antic604 said:

    Well, the problem was bass and reverb was stereo all the way down to the lowest of frequencies - this is just something you don't do, regardless of aesthetic choices or style. And it was possible to be fixed in mastering (unless it'd introduce some weird phasing / cancellation issues, but there are ways around it as well).

    Sevilla In Trance had delay and reverb on bassline, say no more... :lol:

    Katedra - We Are Not Alone (Global Sect Music, 2019)

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

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    I guess most of you are mistaked. It's about mixing not the mastering. Katedra himself has always had this style of mixing: bassy, muddy, industrial. I know because we collaborated long ago on 'Magic Science & Imba - Ghost Town' where he was part of Magic Science, and you can hear his style in the track.

    Even if I am not, nor personaly nor professionaly for it/this style of mixing, I support and respect his ideas and presentation of his music. And important thing is freedom which not many labels give you these days but Global Sect does which is amazing. In most cases when I finish and send premasters to label they say 'It's too clean', 'It's more Fullon than Goa', or it's not clean enough or buyers prefer more this or that bla bla bla... here Katedra had complete freedom to express himself musical and production wise.

     

    Just relax and enjoy in what he delivers to you as his own Goa Trance without genre/style rules and boundaries :)

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    What's wrong with the German Trance scene?

    in General Psytrance

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    20 hours ago, Mallenaut said:

    but for me, who got in contact with this music in Israel, it is hard to enjoy Trance parties in Germany.

    Anyone else can relate?

    90% of music played there is much worse than that Offbeat which have some sense, musicaly + production wise.

     

    Believe or not this is the main thing there:

     

    Ear-bleeding ultra sharp kicks, same bass paterns over and over, few note 'melodies' and often oriental vocals that doesn't make any sense. There is no sense in any of it at all but it's as you can see, what crowd wants...

    Module Virus RIP

    in General Psytrance

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    I see nobody posted it here yet...

     

    Another amazing Psytrance producer has lost the battle against cancer and passed away 21th february 

    Bruno Isidro, better known as Module Virus, part of Bom Shanka and Sangoma Records died too young, he was only 34... Influental producer, always positive and constructive with his advices and support to others in Psytrance community.

     

    One of his last posts, 8 days before he passed away was: 'All I wish is to write new music' 

     

     

    Rest in peace, have a safe journey to the biggest festival ever!

    Fly High Bruno, Thank You! 

     

     

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    How to do a compilation?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    On 2/11/2019 at 1:14 AM, mars said:

    1) FB messenger or SC. Have a friendly text ready presenting yourself and your project.

    2) Harvest tracks, listen on and on, build a < 80min story. Artists ask between 0 and 1000€/track. In the Goa genre we're between 0 and 200, most of the time 75-150€.

    3) Anything is possible regarding advances and/or %.  At suntrip we don't like generating sales statements regularly and paperwork so we offer a fixed amount. But in some cases we gave some %. ...over nearly nothing in terms of sales (cds: plummeting, digital: a joke). Another aspect is the rights: who keeps the rights? We try to get them for 5-10 years in case we need to repress. Some artists want to keep them, I always say "OK", whatever.

    I know my answers are not very specific but after 15 years I still consider myself a beginner of the matter. Contact me on FB messenger for specific questions, I rarely come here.

     

    What she said! 

     

    Percentage thing won't work first because it never happens. I had something lik 10 contracts like that, you know how much $ I got from that sales % shit? Zero! Happens to others too, so they don't really believe in that shit anymore.

     

    A lot of factors are in there: is it cd or digital, how and how much you pay, how much that artist spend on that track... if it's months for sure he will ask for good money. Some of them love that track so much so they won't give it just like that. Would they like your idea of compilation itself? Some of them are living from music so they don't care for free music.

     

    Some of them will give you for free and ask for few copies, some will ask money and 10-20 copies, some will ask to fix them booking in your country for such amount of money if they give you track. Some of them don't like selling rights because at some labels it get's re-released over and over on 'VA - Top of Bullshit Trance' compilations without even being asked or announced.

     

    Some of them will simply reject you because you are new/unknown for them and they don't trust you or don't trust you can promote their music enough. I don't want to scare you, just be prepared that your dream artist wont give you or simply dont have any unsigned tracks for you. From personal experience I reject digital compilations always, I prefer or CD or free download. As for digital EPs have more impact and promotion for artist.

    First thing first is set up your budget and know how much money you have for pressing, mastering, cover art, sponsoring, shippings and taxes to online shops and artists. It will probably take couple of years to get that money back/be at 0.

     

    Back in the days when I ran UAF Records everything was for free download, everyone gave music for free and even did coverarts and mastering for free, ofcourse not so professional but label served for promoting new artists and it really did that.

     

    Let's say you do free download compilation and you get tracks for free you will still need around 500 euro for professional mastering and cover art design. Make good story and approach to your dream team and you will see where it takes you. Good luck :)

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    Imba - First Encounter (Suntrip Records)

    in 2016

    Posted

    On 12/24/2018 at 3:27 PM, Aspartic said:

    I can confirm that Imba's tracks set the trancefloor on fire! Without mercy, Imba, amongst others, pushed the limits of our dancing endurance.
    His set at Dreamwaves II (Belgium) on 22/12/18 was amazing. I think the whole album was presented to us. The beats and rollercoasters took us to another world. His b2b with Ephedra was the cherry on the cake.
    Well done, Imba! And nice talking to you and Ephedra outside. :D

     

    I am glad you enjoyed and that we finally met!

    Not really whole album but half at least, and I played unreleased music from my upcoming EP and some more older stuff. There were no plans, I choosed tracks and transitions in very last moments, it was interesting :D And I was softer than usual :P

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    The State of Psy Parties

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Sadly in Serbia Techno took over and its so huge and everyone listening to it suddenly and DJs moved to that scene because there is $$$$$

    But there is still hyper production IMO, contracts signed with biggest labels and agencies and organizers bringing their artists someetimes twice a year. Goa was couple times per year, now it's coming back with new people and ideas but still remain small 300-400 people max. 3-4 years ago we made parties with 1000+ 

    Kids want modern sound and with Goa we can't offer them that enough...

    Kick & Bass same note or different - thoughts?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    Rarely, hard to control it that way imo

    I would go for perfect fifth which is mostly the less used note, so there is enough space to kick push it trough. Yet I do it by ear, fine tuning until I think that's it. Remembering Tristan's tips for kicks... he said kick should stand out as wall of sound for itself but should fit into track too which is tricky but you will understand once you made it :D

    Here is what he means:

     

     

    How I do it following some of his tips: Kick lenght around 1/8 (till the beggining of the offbeat or second note of classic psy bass pattern) which means I need to make good sidechain and phasing with tail of kick and the first bass note. And yes, low cut the bassline with -12dB or -24dB slope, linear phase! 

     

    It is all so simple, just need patience and fine tuning.

    I like my drums and percs dominant, to be present all time and pushing through all the melodies and sounds which means I tune in less used note or some off the scale. Just imagine all these drums, percs, pads, melodies and fx in same root key...  15 channels, 15 different things fighting for same space in same time? Chaos! Haaaaard to control that. Moving by few hertzs can do a lot!

     

     

    Ephedra - What the Future Brings

    in 2018

    Posted

    Thanks for nice feedback.

     

    Regarding our track, well it's done after my last gig in Belgium and visit to Ephedra studio which became routine, everytime I come to Belgium I visit him for studio sessions. We wanted something a bit different from our usual styles and we joked a lot. We said let's make Vini Vici triplets and chants but in Goa way, so we did that. Ephedra himself recorded chants, he used vocoder for effect, we sampled elephants, gongs, buddhist chants, tribal drums, random stuff. He got some new hardware so we used it, most of track is actualy hardware: TB-03, Virus Ti, Microbrute, Nord Lead, JP8000 and some more... it was really funny and we enjoyed a lot!

    Here is video from the making of... with our stupid tired faces :lol:

     

     

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