mars

This thread will decide of the future of Psynews It's been almost 11 years Psynews exist. And for almost 11 years I've been part of it. I'm 33, during one third of my life I've been dealing with it with more or less attention. A lot of other people have been working on psynews too, countless hours. For reviews, on the website, on the moderation, the contests, bestof, etc. I would like to thank them all. However, everytime there's a difficult situation with some member, everytime the server crashes, everytime all mods got demotivated, someone has to be there to deal with the situation. Since Children left us in 2003, I was compelled to BE THERE, daily, for any situation, I was supposed to be available, would it be for 30 seconds or 3 hours. And did that with faith, then less faith, then on autopilot. I saw it with great sadness. I had great plans for Psynews, but one can't move mountains alone. Well, time passed. I'm no longer aware of every release, every party, every gossip. I have a wife, lots of (real) work, plus Suntrip, and priorites are changing. What happens when one makes plans for the future and there's no room for Psynews anymore? So I'm looking forward to letting Psynews go. There are countless ways of doing that: - shutting it down - letting it open in read only - resell the domain name and board license and turn a blind eye to it - hand it over to another team on this same server - hand the whole data over to another team - etc... I hope you'll agree with me that Psynews is a great place to find infos on Psytrance in general, and its archive is very valuable. So I'd prefer handing handing it over. But Psynews is mostly about the past now. In order to have a future, Psynews needs a new impulse, some fresh blood. Having that in mind, my decison became obvious. But now I need a bunch of white knights. Well, over the years I've seen many people interested in participating to one aspect or another, dozens of moderators, with the greatest intentions, and each of them got bored. After one day or five years they eventually abandoned. No blame with that, dealing with a known website, not that big however, neither very active, is a daily and demanding thing. And everyone has his studies, jobs, affairs, right? And anyway it's much more fun to use a site than managing it and being taken for a punching ball. At the light of this experience, if I want to hand Psynews over, how can I find a team motivated enough? How can I believe that motivation will last enough? How can I guarantee my "white knights" will not let the site to die after a while? I can't. And yet I have to find someone; the site cannot die like that, can it ? Maybe you're reading this and are thinking you're the man/woman for the job. Fine, but let me warn you once again. It's a joy, and also a burden. And don't think you'll manage alone, you'll need a team. In my opinion, to handle Psynews in the long run you must be: - 100000% in love wth Psytrance - Have a lot of time, like 1-2 hours/day if you want to make it live seriously - Pretend to be extremely wise, impartial, open, communicative - Be ready to work with other people - And yet be a leader, democracy doesn't work well on the internet - Have some tehnical background - Be ready to spend some money with it (domain name, server) - Never-never-never give up as Churchill said - But be ready to hand over the site yourself when life catches you in turn. I don't have all of these qualities myself, for instance I never was a team player, but we used to work like a charm Children and I. Having some hindsight and finding the complimentary person is sometimes sufficient. So who wants to take Psynews over ? mars.

Any hint on what this is about ?

At first I thought there would be nothing above Artha this year, then came Crossing Mind...and I'm a fan of Etnica-esque music If we stick to albums, my choice goes to Crossing Mind and Artha close after.

I cheked and thought and I REALLY don't understand how it works. Almost looks random.

Drake, what's this Etched EP ? As for me: most: Infinity Hz: 40 or 50 eur least: Indoor album: 2,5 euro

Protoculture used to be in some other music than Psytrance before. NOw he must have sen enough and is going yet again another direction. He did a lot to the movement in its darkest hours. Let's wish him good luck !

I've searched, it's nowhere else.

Click on the psynews.org logo at the top, scroll, and you will find this.

I tried to listen to this "thing" and I think this is a joke and also a test. A test to see how many people buy it and thus, how dumb people can be. Musically speaking this is so bad you could cry.

Seen the files were uploaded 1 month ago, let's assume Bliss knows what he's doing, so there's no problem sharing this link.

+1

Never heard of anyone from Detroit here. There are Psy scenes everywhere though. If there is one in Detroit, maybe it's not very active (compated to the other techno scenes), or more simply, its people go and party in Toronto (it's 240 miles, I know) Maybe ask Basilisk, he's a Toronto figure and he probably knows something about the senes surrounding his ?!

Give me 28 hours / day and I'll manage to de-stack it from Suntrip's todolist.

So it's either "The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance" or "GOA – 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance". Based on previous definitions, I'd say it's the firts of the two. but these 2 books are for sale, no direct link here.

GODDAMIT ! Ahahah and the promo text is a real confession: Our DJ´s are getting booked to play retro Goa sets. Up on chats on facebook etc we discovered that there is a bit of a revival in the early sounds that defined a genre and a lifestyle for hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. And almost no one can compile an album of these early Goa Trance party classics like Tip Records can. I don't quite agree on the last part cause we all know these tracks, but, hey, we can always point them at a bunch of good artists if they're willing to release more fresh Goa on TIP ahaha

No hesitations: Pleiadians - Electra

OK I repeat: - what was approximately the size of the file ? - was it scanned (pages were scans of the paper) or really the e-book (pages were real text) ? - did you find it on some music related website or was it just a direct link ? - do you remember what was the software(s) used in the courses? - were there photos, was it in color, etc ?

Please try to answer all my questions.

I'd like that, but we have an issue with copyrights. In the end free books would be available, and the others just referenced (or only the covers for instance). I wonder what's the ratio between free and non-free books?

Hmm yeah but that's more or less the only book I could find which described a few electronic music concepts in the beginning then shifted to music production course as you descirbed. So I tried my luck. Have you seen the ToC ? Sure that's not that one ? Was your book more than 173 pages anyway ? More questions: - what was approximately the size of the file ? - was it scanned (pages were scans of the paper) or really the e-book (pages were real text) ? - did you find it on some music related website or was it just a direct link ? - do you remember what was the software(s) used in the courses? - were there photos, was it in color, etc ? Really, ANY detail you remember may be used. There's also a possibility: since this forum has a 10-year archive, maybe someone else mentioned it in the past. Did you perfoorm some query here?

Please download this extract. Is that it ?

And was it <cough> downloaded <cough> from the internet ? Torrent ? Newsgroups ? When approximately ?

Maybe you remember all or part of the title ? Of the editor ? Of the author ? Of the language used ? Of how the cover looked like ? I'm sure I can find it, but please give as many details as you have.

HMmm the answer to this question usually changes after some time. For me I think the best was Total Eclipse, in Bordeaux, in 96 or 97. And following very close were Etnica in Paris, 1999. And followng very close were one of the first live acts of Infected Mushroom also in Paris, 1999. A Logic Bomb performance, still in Paris, in 2000 blew me away, and KoxBox at Samothraki 2002 too. I should point out that usually memory makes things better than what they actually were, so let's pay attention. More recently I think only Filteria, Antares and Andromeda made me fly like in the good old days

I have the mag. The article is pages 128-132. Very interesting, esepcially for those who would be interested in starting with newschool goa music production. I'd like to know who wrote the article. Obviously someone close to that scene. I'd bet some Phototropic artist Anyway it's good to see that. It feels like 1997 ahah