Geostigma
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Oh here's a few ripoffs...
90% of all full-on tracks .... Cough *clearing my throat*
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FL is a very nice starter tool for people to get to know what a DAW can do. Thing is, FL covers a lot basics... but it's missing a lot of flexibility. It's hard to change to another DAW, but download some demo versions and try them out for a couple of days to make sure which one suits you better. I myself am using ableton, and it takes a lot of effort to get to learn it, but when you've mastered the learning part... you will be getting SO much out of it. Possibilities become endless so to speak.
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The lack of women in psytrance isn't just a problem that this scene has, IMHO, it has to do with the social climate around electronic music in general. Psytrance artists came out of the techno and synthpop scenes, and those are super male dominated (there are exceptions, like Anne Dudley and Anne Clark). Also, a lot of artists started off as DJs, and record collecting has been a typically male pasttime. Musical and technical knowledge would be shared and passed down among groups of close friends, almost always guys, so you had that extra hurdle if you were female and wanted to learn how to DJ vinyl or worse, make electronic music, which was a LOT harder back in the days of analog hardware. In short, the more you're around other people who're into the same thing as you, the more involved you get in a scene.
Going further back, there's a tendency to think of musical performance as a form of courtship; the rocker or the DJ is the guy who gets the groupies/makes female bodies move on the floor. Western culture has these deep rooted notions of females as body-oriented and males as technically skilled and mind-oriented, and it's a belief that dogs us to this day.
My hero in this scene is Ree.K. Why? She makes music with no outside input, and if you compare what she makes to the music of her husband Masa, it's colder, more aggressive, and more introverted than his. It breaks all the stereotypes of what a female musician is supposed to sound like. She is the Riot Grrl of goa.
Someone else who innovated and pushed the scene forward is Sonya Bailey - one half of Manmademan, which was one of the best old school artists. And there have been a couple of all-female psy acts, though they're obscure: D.P.O.D. and B(if)tek.
I would personally like to see more girl geeks with a real passion for the music, and less would be pop singers... what encourages me is that it's a LOT less difficult to get involved in production now, so we'll see what happens!
seems pretty reasonable actually. I guess you're right about most of the stuff you wrote
Passion is key! And those without passion for the music, but merely egocentric and fame-whoring will reveal themselves anyway within a short period time.
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So yeah, Basically I'm curious to why there are no female psy-artist i'm known of, even though I've been listening to psytrance for years. I think a Female touch to a genre is important because they paint the musical picture with even more interesting sounds that could be implemented in a genre. A different perspective is neat for equilibrium I mean.
If you know of any, Please share! I'd be quite interested in that.
Best psy rip-offs?
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Oh and the 15 sec sync thing... it's amazing how similar they are ! I mean, not only the melodies and effects... But they both have breaks, peaks and melodic parts at the exact same time.