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  1. Ofcourse, but I don´t know if the cd was a handmade cd or a burned copy of a released record. The medium itself is burned.

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    I can send you the album as mp3 if you want to, you would jsut have to tell me how I should do it.

     

    So why didn´t you reply here Mars so we can identify that album?

     

    Sorry, I was working on soemthing else and forgot to subscribe to this thread.

     

    So, definitely a homebrewed compil.

    Cyan Galactica has been released in 2001, and judging from the descriptions, probabaly every track is from between 98 and 2000. that's the window to look into.

     

    Yes I would like to have the track to identify in a good quality mp3. My brain cannot identify it, BUT I'm working on some (moderately secret) psytrance tracks identification project that might.

    So I'l be probably idle for a while and one day, maybe, I'll come back to you with the track identification.

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  2. I don't think I ever heard it. It's somewhere between Goa and Nitzo, so probably from Israël or Greece. I'd bet for Israël.

     

    Since when have you had this CD ? Analog Pussy - Infinity is from MP3 release 01, self-released in 2000. So we can assume your CD is from that period.

    Would it be possible to get the complete tracklist of the CD, so we an narrow the period down ?

  3. But even then, WHY do people chose to download and NOT spend money on music. Because, Cinema's are doing just fine, even if you can simply download too :P

     

    Movies grabbed with a cam from inside a movie theater are terrible, so for all those who want to enjoy a movie in HD, they have to EITHER go and see the movie, OR wait 4+ months till the BluRay rip comes out. Time is a serious incentive in that case.

  4. Well, I had the same issue as d.leerium when I arrived in Paris 16 years ago. I partied alone for quite some time.

     

    - Find forums with people in the same area, contribute. Or the FB event page, works too. Sooner or later, someone will propose to meet somewhere before the party or a meeting in real life. Or maybe some people will ask for a ride to the party: respond to that!

    - Talk to people when not on the dancefloor, like near the shops or at the bar: clink bottles with random people like Mergi said. Once, then another time at the next party, etc.

    - Propose to clean up after the party, simple as that. You'll be an instant friend to the organizers and you'll have some time to talk in a quieter environment!

     

    In short: get to know the local party scene little by little until one invites you for a pre-party drink at his place, and from then on, things will go faster and faster.

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  5. I was expecting beards and wheelchairs!

    We're only 35 and 37 but seen my condition, it could have been...

     

    Cool! Was the CD a wedding gift? It'd be a great wedding gift. :)

    No, Skytrancer has them all, as well as the SFX ones.

     

    is there a story behind the cd??

    No, but Skytrancer is the Astral Projection fan number one! Of course, one AP track was played during the party afterwards :)

     

    Mars always carrying an AP cd in his pocket.

    No, but always in my smartphone.

     

    Congrats! Did you meet each other before?

    Many, many times. When Skytrancer settled in Paris, he landed 3 blocks away from my appartment, back in the beginnings of Psynews, and we used to go partying together.

  6. Ableton is widely misused.

     

    99% artists just drop pre-recorded and studio-mastered tracks in Ableton in the order they want and press play.

    So it's exactly the same as using Winamp with auto-crossfade (ie worse than djing)...but, if I may be sarcastic, the upside with Ableton is that if someone takes a photograph from behind, at least it looks like some elaborated sound production software is running on the laptop... so yes we can talk about a scam wrt the "live performance". Most are just waiting for the music to unwind and have nothing to do except smoke a cigarette or drink a beer or wave their hands.

     

    Though, there's 2 sorts of artists within this first category:

    - Those who play released tracks...why do they even show up you might ask? Those are the only ones to really blame imo.

    - Those who play unreleased or remixed music, that is, did a substantial effort at making the performance remarkable upfront. Seen the amount of work, most would probably play completely live if they could, but it's not easily doable if they still use analogic synths or compose with other software. Working that way is fair imo. Also a lot of them are production quality maniacs, so working that way enables them to studio-mastered music. Okay.

     

    The second category of artists add a synth or a few fx on top. They're very few. These have some use for their hands once in a while.

     

    The third category of artists, which are extremely scarce, play really LIVE using Ableton (ie: individual layers and loops played and mixed at will during the performance to produce something entirely new, ephemeral and unique).

     

     

    From my experience, the most an artist plays, the less time he has to spend on preparing live performances. Also, the bigger the parties, the less artists will take risks (computer hanging, bad mixing/sound quality), so they will rather play something static but which is guaranteed to have a good sound quality as it was mastered in a studio.

     

    In any case, let's not be too harsh. All these guys have spent countless hours producing their tracks in their studio with complex tools. So using Ableton for the purpose it was designed would really be no problem. Yet as I said above, they might not be able to play in the same conditions as in their studio, and also, many (really MANY) are nerds who are paralyzed at the prospect of playing their music in front of actual people (or they're drunks), so they choose the easiest/safest way that guarantees no fuckups.

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