JonCrow
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Placed order:
Artifakt - The Magus - CD
Filteria - Daze Of Our Lives
Galaxy - Science Of Ecstasy
Gus Till - Best of the Rhino Years Vol 1
Gus Till - Best Of The Rhino Years Vol.2
Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger
Hallucinogen - Twisted
Hux Flux - Cryptic Crunch
Indoor - Progressive Trance
Koxbox - Dragon Tales
Logic Bomb - Unlimited
Merr0w - Born Underwater
Mfg - New Kind Of World
Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception
Sandman - Witchcraft
Total Eclipse - Delta Aquarids
X-Dream - We Created Our Own Happiness
X-Dream - Radio
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Just letting anyone who's interested know that this is now available for purchase.
Label: Cartesian Binary
Jon
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Right now, as in, today thus far:
Morning
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Now if there ever was a great Bluetech release, this is the one!
Yo,
Yah. I gave some tracks from this album a few youtube(
) listens a couple of months ago and to be honest I wasn't overly impressed. I think it just seemed a bit too clean at the time. It's been about 3 months now with about 6-8 hours a day of listening to various other artists and feel am ready to give this guy a go again. Listened a little to his work recently and my ear had changed. As you said this is a great release both in terms of value and supposedly in terms of quality(Sines, Divine etc don't get anywhere near as universal praise) so I'm starting here and if I get into it, I'll grab some more of his material including the shite under his other alias. Jon
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The Orb: U.F.Orb (re-purchase)
Trentemoller: The Last Resort
Biosphere: Shenzhou
Sundial Aeon: Apotheosis
Human Blue: Discovery Channel
Human Blue: Electroluex
Perfect Stranger: Free Cloud
Perfect Stranger: Changed
Perfect Stranger: Learning = Change
Kino Oko: Alphabetically Divided Highway
Lish: Free Fall
Matenda: Natural Development
Bluetech: Elementary Particles And Prima Materia
Kuba: Through A Lense
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Say what?!
Yeah this version is out now. Same one I picked up yesterday.
Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld has also been remastered.
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Where did you download it from?
I forgot where I put it
At your forum. In the mixes section, on page 4 I think.
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with sll the books out there, i have a prejudice about reading the same book twice, im studying in letters(in french tough) and really, even if i would love a book that much, i woudnt read it twice
This.
I used to work in one of the largest antique/second-hand bookstores (over a million books!) in our country and came in contact with alot of varied material from the past few hundred years.
I amassed a sizeable collection and new reference points and would find it fairly difficult to re-read a title. Unless it was to increase understanding or relation that I lacked the first or second time through(Philosophical/Metaphysical/Scientific/Spiritual/Mechanical/blah blah many other works etc). There are just so many great varied and enriching books to read out there! Way too much to read in one lifetime even if all one did was sit and read while eating on the toilet in bed. With that said, such a practice of re-reading can really be enriching at different stages of development or life because aspects of the title can really take on a new meaning/relation due to changes in the readers mind/life.
I guess it can be fun to relive a ficticious or constructed atmosphere (like with music) if it's particularly good. But I'd feel a bit guilty doing so.
Another point I'd like to add to this is that rather than having to read a book to evoke these feelings(wonder, mystery, excitment, power, well-being etc etc etc) I'd rather work on having them come about naturally in my own life than living vicariously through a ficticious or temporary unfulfilling medium. Drug use to inspire feelings, moods and mind states is a bit similar here. They can be used as tools for inspiration or if development is imbalanced or insufficient but I feel they aren't the true way. The mind itself behind it all can be.
I generally get a bit guilty or bored reading fiction(unless it's really good literature or particularly atmospheric Sci-Fi/super-natural/mystical/fantasy stuff) nowadays. If the art piece or book is not inspired by a good/great/well-developed/inspired/artistic mind then it can feel about as productive as gossiping about other people's lives while they're not there.
Sorry, I don't(do) mean to tangent, ramble, jump all over the place, share some life feelings and generally come across as an elitist bastard.
Carry on with your discussion as though I were not here.
Jon
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Bah! Old news!
I downloaded this and a few others weeks ago.
Still ain't listened due to environmental logistics obstacles, though it's stored for safe-keeping.
Thanks
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I just "happened" to be walking past the same shop again today and figured it must somehow be tied in with my ultimate destiny.
Who am I to question such things!
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Some of the new ones will be hard to get in the future! I know I am still pissed off that I didn't pick up certain albums when I had the chance, back when they were new & cheap! It will be the same for some of these. 10 years down the line people will be paying through their noses for these. All the labels in our scene, even the big ones, are independent labels that wont be reprinting all their albums a thousand times or more so a lot of albums will become hard to find in the future I think.
This is what partially drives my purchasing insanity. It also feels good to support these labels to keep the sound coming.
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The Orb - Orbus Terrarum CD
My second copy!
Recently I got the remastered double CD version of Orbus Terrarum
I was very close to picking this up just yesterday. I was specifically looking for it at the shop I was in and had it in my hands. I exercised some self-discipline and walked out of there, quickly (without the CD
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Very cool! I like it.
Was the background always that colour? And just out of curiosity.....
Do you think it looks/feels better during the day or at night? Or any particular time of day? Does it make the room feel smaller or larger?
Jon
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I've only listened to this 1.5(hate half listens!) times, but it seems like a great piece.
It really is designed to be listened to as a whole. It has a definite progression, style or journey that is built up and really focuses melodically at track 6. You're almost hypnotically drawn into it's style of sound at this point. Feeling like you've been sonically prepared for it's true appreciation through the previous tracks. It wouldn't be the same if you just skipped to that point. The next track(7) maintains the peak resonance of the previous track at a nice balanced plateau. The very last track is there for re-entry from the trip. Kaleidoscopic, warping, varied and smooth, but unified in it's transitions.
Sorry I can't go into more detail, but I'm lazy(sometimes), and I've only listened to this once properly without the full intent to review.
Jon
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Troll what?
Half these threads are full of people saying "different tastes" so I figure we should just discuss it here.
People understand and will agree with what you're saying but there's a way to say it and there is not. The way you've done so above is abrasive/denigrating and you've put yourself on a pedestal above others.
Sure there are different degrees of intelligence and perception which some may exhibit more or less than others. But there are also different styles and categories of intelligence and perception. Environmental factors also play a role. These can lead to different modes and capacities of and for appreciation and/or understanding.
Jon
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I'm going on a diet. I'll be purchasing less Cd's in the coming weeks as I had a $1500 car repair bill today.
There is a bit of a problem though as I have a 15 CD psyshop order that I'm bound to indulge upon in a moment of inevitable future weakness. Any diet has to have a cheat day here and there, right?
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Please have pity on me and instruct me in your wise ways o mighty master of all that is worth knowing so that I may be lifted from sin and ignorance and perhaps one day be as equal to a speck of dust which rests upon the bottom of your shoe........
*crawls out of room*
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To be fair the OP was referring to classics that are hard to get.
Some of these newer ones being mentioned, while great, are pretty easy to get your hands on.
Jon
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"can I just make a comment about the statements that I read from people about; 'when I'm not into the genre, ie. R'n'B it will all sound the same to me'
This might sound like bragging or smth not so nice, but I just wanted to state that no matter music genre, quality or what ever, I am perfectly able to hear all variations and sound and feelings. Be it jazz, rap, hip-hop, soul, fink or dunk. I am not able to not hear everything in a track. And I blame psy for this super human power of mine
I've always loved sounds and tones since I was little, but when I got introduced to the psychedelic experience and the psytrance sounds around my ear got a massive tune up, I became much more avare of the details in e piece of music. I know I'm writing like a crow now and maybe for some it will be hard to understand or swallow what I mean, but I suspect some of you will understand perfectly what I mean.
yo"
I understand what you mean.
But yeah, you better watch your back from now on. 
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Just noticed I went from Pitch Black to Colourform of artists there.
Not a bad little yin-yang. *cough*
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Colourform - Visions of Surya
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Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals
Saw it for cheap today in a shop when I was doing a poster drop-off. Asked the guy at the counter for another 5 bucks off and he said yes.
Anyway, listened to it for a bit on the way home and wasn't very into it. Rap-esque (not about bitches and killing at least) vocals on the second track.
It had tough contrasting competition though as I'd been listening to Electrypnose - Subliminial Melancholies just before I put this new one on.
Not sure if this album is representative of Pitch Black's best work either. I've not heard Futureproof or Electronomicon(aside from samples) yet.
Jon
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man, were you pirating your music before or you were just introduced to this genre(s)?
you got a good collection dude, ENJOY :clapping:
Hey,
Nah, I can't stand listening to pirated mp3's, the listening experience just isn't the same. I don't give it the same attention for one thing.
Also if I had spent months and months creating something it would irritate me if some selfish person assumed they were entitled to it for nothing at the simple click of a few buttons.
Sort of just introduced myself to the genre. I've always particularly loved electronica(among other genre's of course). When I was younger listened to heaps of the Orb(UFOrb was one of my first electronic CD's at around 15 yrs old), Leftfield, The prodigy, Industrial, heap of 90's trance(particularly non-vocal anthems) and Thunderdome hardcore/happy hardcore
. I somehow missed out on psytrance though. I'm so glad I did because now I've got this huge library of stuff to get into at a more mature age when I was starving for something new. I purchased just a few of these albums on emusic before buying the CD's. But most of them I purchase fairly blindly by reading on here(best of polls and old threads) and a few other places a heap and correlating others opinions. Maybe listening to a few samples. But trusting that if something is liked (by intelligent/artistically minded people etc) there is no reason why it couldn't be enjoyed.
And yeah, I love my collection. I work in a job where I can listen to it pretty much all day. :drama:
I like this very much - good choice!
Yah me too! Vibrasphere and this CD is easily one of my favourites.
I'd love to get my hands on a physical copy of Archipelago.
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Yah yah, double post.
Another side to this effect is it's partial shadow, that being the ambient/experimental genre.
"When's this track gunna start man, where's the kick?"
People who listen within the electronic genre may be turned off ambient pieces. Closing off their minds almost instantly because it lacks an element they firmly associate with the genre. Obviously ambient is not going to be for everyone, but some don't give it time to settle and digest because it lacks "boom-boom" or pattern they are habitually used to associating with their enjoyment.
Jon
Worst samples ever?
in General Psytrance
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I think I immunised myself against bad samples after a couple of years of Thunderdome/happy hardcore abuse back in the late 90's.
I've still got 10 of the Thunderdome CD's sitting around. Ahhh memories.
Generally I enjoy samples if they are there and appreciate their absence if they're not. Don't even mind the old cliched cheese here and there.
A sample that comes to mind that I'm not too fond of is the rippling, quavering "Feeling very Shpongle" line in Tales of the Inexpressible. I know they used it to pull the listener out etc, but I find it interrupts in the wrong way for my listening experience. Sometimes I don't mind or notice it in this manner.