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Audiogalaxy is a great app, been out for a while. You need a data connection (3G/Edge or Wifi). I mean an affordable one with some bandwidth Then basially it makes it possible for your PC at home to be a music server for your music player (sorry, your phone)

Nothing new. Kagdila has had a bad reputation for years and it's partly justified. The whole scene knows that. On the one hand we always made good deals with Shuki, so I won't be too hard. On the other hand, Afgin never got anything out of his participation from Pure Planet 3. Reason was Arabesque held the stocks, so Kagdila coudln't even give cds to the artists. Further reason was Kagdila had debts with Arabesque and they sold PP3 on their own to pay themselves back. Yet another dirty psytrance affair behind the scenes. Nothing new I'm telling you. You just need to take some precautions with some people in the scene. Kagdila and IT Records shop are amongst them... I told Chakras right in the eye during Heron festival 2009, that he needed to take some precautions, that all the responsibilities from Kagdila were shifting to him besides the money. I also told him he had to pay closer attention to his budgets (parties and releases)...but he wouldn't listen. He was in another world. He put himself in a crazy bad personal financial situation because he wouldn't listen to anyone. And he wouldn't stop even when he'd seen what was going on. There are reasons for that too... Nothing new in a world of parasitic and irresponsible people. Whether the Dimensional CDs are legit or not, well it depends who signed what and who got the signed copies. If the agreements are with "Kagdila" and Shuki has a signed copy of them, Dimensional may be in trouble (assuming Kagdila Belgium never legally existed and Kagdila US does). If Timo Chakras kept the copies, he can agree with the artists whatever he wants behind Kagdila's back. If the contracts were between the artists and Chakras, then Kagdila may be in trouble. Chakras may be anywhere now, between being potentially able to sue Shuki and make distributors cease Kagdila's latest records...or being in a totally illegal situation despite what he believes. Nothing new in the dirty affairs of psytrance: not enough money for suing to happen, enough for crazy stories, bad words, and a sticky bad image. Now he's understood after everyone else, Chakras started his own label, and I respect that, but I hope he won't just jumpstart on a dispute and believe he can refund himself by selling reissues of cds all Goa fans already have. Now he needs to start over a new leaf and put something new out! Anything new? Or just the same old "Money, Drugs and Psytrance" ?

RIght I should ba taking care of that...lots of sorting and sql statements ahead...

Merry Christmas. I searched to add a video, but I found out that neither Skazi nor Eskimo nor GMS nor any full on star dared to remix jingle bells....yet.

Psykovski, Freaks United, Cycle of Secrets, definitely.

Hello The vote is over Insejn: 35 Sunstation: 1 RTP: 12 The next Psynews.org admin will be Insejn. Let's wish him good luck. I'll spend some time with him in the next days to explain him the basics and attempt to have a smooth transition

Right, agreed too, but in a few days from now 'll leave the keys of the house to one person, and that person will be totally entitled to hire or join forces with anyone he pleases.

Well, that's why I gave a link to the other topic. It's not formal but you get the idea. And if you're a regular member you know what these guys are up to. I don't want this process to be too bureaucratic.

This is the poll to know who will be the next admin of Psynews, The ful story is there. We have 4 applicants: - Insejn (Swedish member from the first hour) - Sunstation (Russian member, and multiple label owner) - RTP (Austrian, long time member of the community) - eiko/bwhale (Canadian, long time troll) For obvious reasons, you'll only be enabled to vote for the first 3 ones. The new admin shall take care of the community, the board, the development of the platform. This is extremely important so every vote counts. The vote closes on december 18th 00:00. mars.

OK right, I think we've let enough time. Let's recall all proposals: Admin: Insejn sunstation (the russian label owner) RTP eiko/bwhale (come on...) Mods: elizabeths @reyu ziptnf Goa-Head Drosophila (not much time) anoebis (music sections) ouroboros technossomy Help: Ormion (non technical) Imba (non technical) Go-Goa Trancer (non technical) rotwang (money) Senobyte (1-2h/day) Technical: BlackStarrFinale (infrastructure) sunstation (the russian label owner) Let's proceed with a vote now: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/60327-vote-for-the-next-psynews-admin/ And continue discussing on that other topic. I'll merge them in the end.

You need people present daily and untouchable to enforce rules. I mean, you'd need people 24-7 dedicated to the OT. That was not what we did, as our moderators were Psy lovers, not really board-havoc-lovers.

To blame for a lot of drama, fights and eventually the presence of lame people exploiting weaknesses of the board to bring it down out of childish frustration.

Judging by the incredible nuùber of orders we got from the reissue of his album, you're not alone to think that. And personally I couldn't agree more Matthieu, je sais que tu nous lis, c'est vrai.

- approve new accounts or not (everyday a few minutes) - update the board with patches when needed (once every 2/3 months, 15 minutes) - clean up the mess and fights (depends on weeks, between no time and shitloads of time) - answer to all sorts of requests (change email/nickname, complaints, publich interviews, merging conversations, members, 0-2 hours/week) - keeping bwhale from coming back (perpetual attention) As you see this is quite automatic. I believe what's most needed here is some willpower to start over a new leaf and make the site live, grow. OK now this thread has been going on for 2 weeks, I think we should organize a vote or something.

This is REALLY an excellent compilation. Killer music, no need to review, just listen to it. It's fresh-goatrance-from-inspired-producers, it rocks! Great artwork too, reminds me of the Psycehelic Goa Core ones. I wish there was a better mastering, that's all. It sounds "heavy" in my soundsystem here. You know this one would easily deserve to be pressed on cd? That's fearsome to say but that's true: we have a professional release for fee here!!! Cheers to Neogoa.tk

Wow that's excellent !

I still have the old pages and the content. But you don't wanna reuse them. You wanna build something new that looks like it. That was oldschool html... Well, http://community.invisionpower.com/

Once in a while I try to remotivate him, but I don't know anymore which words to use. He has a mountain of talent. For your information he's involved in another group of music with French people, that's vocal music but it's actually very good. Maybe this takes also alot of time he no longer uses to produce psytrance.

Well, that was actually the point for a long time. The real story is, there was noone anymore to update the "real" site with all the dedicated pages after Children's departure. So my only choice back in 2003 was to let the forum become the frontpage, try to let the site live on its own, the time for me to develop a new site that would be less a hassle to maintain. I never found enough time for it, I regret it. In the meantime, the forum evolved, was upgraded, and became what it is now. Not much choice sometimes with software you depend on. So this board could deserve a new skin, already, to make it "oldschool" in a cool manner. And then about the OffTopic, I disapprove of it, because I do remember what it was like when on the other side of the mirror, but if you guys decide to reopen it once I'm gone, then I won't say anything, and you'll just have to deal with the consequences. And last but not least, there could/should be indeed a new frontpage, provided we have enough motivated developers working on it. And that would be just great.

There is a misundertsanding. I wanna retire from Psynews to focus on other things. I don't want Psynews to freeze, neither die. On the contrary: Psynews needs new ideas, new dedication and time, I don't have them now. So new people are likely to give Psynews a new youth !! And I won't have a word to say about it.

Why are you still there? Nevermind.

OK Taking note of Insejn and Ormion's shy proposals. Someone else made a proposal to be moderator. That's building up.

Which track ? Any from the Odball EP ?

Currently not much. Validationg new accounts daily, upgrading the board whever a new version arrives (~every 3 months), and fixing a few discrepancies here and there with some account (password forgotten, merging accounts, etc). That's for the forums. But it could be good to have some people launching initiatives too with a real frontpage, as it used to be. But that's about building a team of motivated people.

Cambridge Azur 540A amplifier (excellent, 300€) + Jamo loudspeakers (300€ too). I've had them for 9 years. A friend of mine has the same aplifier and Triangle louspeakers, and they're better, but mine are already very good. AKG K240 MKII headphones, just perfect (150€). Philips SHE 9700 earplugs, really good (50€?).