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    Downtempo 2008!

    in General Psytrance

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    How did you guys like RND - Ask the Dust (Celestial Dragon, 2008) and Mauxuam - Viceversa (Interchill, 2008)? I'm looking for something dubby, but more future-sounding and less default ethno-influenced, with real instruments though at least not laptop stuff. Any thoughts? If you come over something like I described - write here pls :)

    I bought the AKG K701's!

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    I need to get something comfy like that, my hd25 are not very comfortable in the long run and the sound ain't that great either, they are just good battle headphones for the road. I do love my in-ear UE's but they are not that conformable, after wearing for long sessions my earhole will hurt , i need to pamper my ears with something that has it all... <_<

    maybe for x-mas, we'll see

    Tell me your budget and I'll try to make an advice (I've been reading different reviews and other info on phones for the last year or so). Also check head-fi.org for, well, everything you need, actually :)

     

    HD25 are great for djing or using as portables if you travel or move a lot - built like tank, I'd definitely get them If I was playing more. Technics :wank: at this area :) Though the price bites compared to them. They sound tight and focused so it's a great tool to turn knobs and press buttons with a smart facial expression :) but I never enjoyed this kind of phones for home listening, never worked longer than 30-60min. So I think you should try circumaural headphones with fat pads :)

     

    Some decent reviews and info here also: http://www.headphonereviews.org/ , but don't take their top10 seriously, it doesn't represent anything, just an average score from user-comments - some have 1 good/bad comment and some have balanced mark with 15 comments, it's a bit out of date too.

     

    Head-Fi's slogan is "Welcome to Head-Fi... and sorry about your wallet!" :) Have fun.

    Headphones or speakers

    in General Psytrance

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    Headphones for me since I bought them 3 weeks ago, I dreamed about them for a year or two and one day I walk to a shop and there they are 60% from the original price here in Ukraine. Listened to most loved old albums and I can't express how they sounds :) To get the same quality speaker sound system I'd need much more money. Now looking for a decent amp, as there phones reveal flaws of my system. They'll shine :)

    I bought the AKG K701's!

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    The original post is a year old, still tho thx. I'm still lovin' them, but the dark blue ones look so tempting.. :)

    Hehe, I'm late :) Well, the color doesn't matter, it's a tool so what matters except it's pro qualities is comfort. Personally I'm happy with my phones, some say it's old in design and some other brands look more stylish... <_< Who cares, I can listen to music for 6 hours and forget I'm wearing them :)

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I also can't stand music-specified parties and go to sleep early. As a part of a promo group, we always have different styles - prog / dark prog / some faster psytrance / deep night stuff / forest trance and goa in the morning followed by suomi. You can't put everything in, of course, but diversity is needed.

    the official since 2008 outstanding melodic 140+bpm releases topic

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I've enjoyed those, right in that order :)

     

    VA - Opus Iridium (Suntrip Records)

    Ra - 9th (Suntrip Records)

    Braincell - Frequency Evolution (Glowing Flame Records)

    Human Blue - Base Basket Buffet (Transient Records)

    M.E.E.O. - Highlight Me Please (Demon Tea Recordings)

    Artax - 8 Bits Of Bliss (Sundance Records)

    OOOD - Fourthought (Phar Psyde Records)

    VA - Little Worlds (Glowing Flame Records)

    VA - Divine Interventions (Liquid Records)

    Early comments on your last cds

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Perfect Stranger - Free Cloud (Iboga, 2008)

     

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    Yuli goes minimal. Nice try, but the über long tracks get monotonous and boring. I don't get this idea for dance tunes, the dj has to play half of the track with so little going on? I mean I love long tracks, but the deep trancey ones, not progressive house / trance / techno / minimal. Just when you think "ok, enough of this" he tweaks the knobs and the sound changes. Not sure about it's dancefloor capabilities, so I find this a home-listening album, at least works fine as background music for working.

     

    I may be wrong, will give it more listens (I've heard it 5 times already).

     

    Also, there are some interesting neo-trance ideas among minimal artists, I really hope some of these psyprog->minimal guys follow that path, it should really be something.

     

    PS Again. What about making this thread sticky?

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    ... you have an incredible number of talentless kids making random aggressive noises without any intelligence whatsoever. All that stuff gives "darkpsy" (a stupid term) a bad name. Same with full-on, right? There is a lot of cheesy garbage out there but also some real gems. Sort of like all the mindlessly derivative minimal techno you might hear... or pointless new school Goa tributes... and so on.

    Just what I said and I completely agree with the rest.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Darkpsy is infected, just like full on. There is cheesy, primitive kind of full on and schranz, 160bpm terror music with blood and corpse on their covers. These things should be differentiated.

     

    My point is, it's great we have them and much more above all this. You can't deny there still are marvelous albums, brilliant producers, understanding organizators and people who give a damn about what they are listening to, what they want and what parties/festivals they are going to. I'd even say that the quality is much higher now. Utopia is utopia, this is reality and new people have their influence on psy pscene, but you still can get everything you want, can't you?

     

    Personally, what I get exceeds my expectations :) So thanks for everyone involved!

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    The people.

     

    Artists are free to create whatever they want. Only people define trends and stuff, as a result we are given low-quality music in more quantities (not to use the s-word). Ethno? Liquid sounds? Posford? Minimal? No melodies? - Who cares if it's interesting, musical and future-sounding? You can't stand still for 20 years producing, releasing and listening to the same music over and over and over again, psytrance is evolving and it's magnificent! I love goa trance, but I tend to enjoy new albums more than 50% of the old stuff :)

    Early comments on your last cds

    in General Psytrance

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    Hibernation - Some Things Never Change (Aleph Zero)

     

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    Not what I expected (hoped something like Hibernation - Spatial Needs [Max.Chillroom, 2008]), wanted to write a review but can't find words :) The sound is glitchy, dubby, jazzy, funky, chilly, full of real instruments with IDMish click and cuts over it. Lots of details you notice after every listen. Just see the promo text: "We asked Seb to go places he never went to before, and he came back with Some Things Never Change, Hibernation’s debut album. It is a mix of downtempo electronica touching many genres and styles. Seb mixes here Lounge, Glitch, IDM, Psychill, Breaks, Ambient and more". Mission accomplished.

     

    BTW good thread, lets stick it to the top?

    Recommend me some Dub/Darkstep

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    I'm into dubstep a bit too, but I can't stand slowed down technical dnb kind of dubstep, more organic with deep textured bass and complex drum structures does it for me. I also like dub techno and it's sometimes difficult to differentiate dubstep from dub and dub techno and I noticed it's everything at a time in good albums. Can't recommend much yet, but I'm exploring and will come up with something.

     

    But check Burial in the first place (his second album, which is more complete work compared to the first). Some review stated that Burial is contemporary urban folk and after listening I also got this kind of associations. Some say he writes music with Sound Forge only and it does actually sound like he didn't use a ruler. Oh, and it's pretty dark... in a good way.

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