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    Morphic Resonance - The City of Moons [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    Or maybe you need to change your audio equipment. Who knows? 99% of what's sold nowadays is too bassy.

    No. We give Tim Schuldt precise instructions, and, once the album is released, you'll be entitled to show us all your dynamic range graphs, and naturally explain us all how good a sound engineer you could be.

    Until that blissful moment happens, let's just talk about what we know. And what we know is: it's killer music!
    Long samples here: http://www.suntriprecords.com/release/cat/SUNCD41/

    Music reviews

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    People are all very busy, lots of time spent on social networks, psynews comes on top...

    Reviewing times may be over.

    Look at what they do on IMBD which is an old platform : just a mark / 10

    Look at what they do on RottenTomatoes which is a more recent platfom: good/bad + 3 lines of review.

     

    Maybe that's what we should do. And integrate in in facebook or soemthing.

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    Psynews "Best of 2015" Results

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Congrats to the willers. Seen the number of releases in 2015, we can say these 75+49 albums are the top 8% everyone ought to listen to.

     

     

    I'm deceived by the ranking of Celestial Intelligence, which IMO remains one of the best Suntrip albums ever. Maybe it's due to the fact it was released at the start of the year and thus has already faded in people's memories.

    Most amazing LIVE experience, goa/psy

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Too many good memories.

     

    One huge party in Paris with killer live acts one after the other (TE, AP, X&F, Oforia, Hallucinogen, Space Cat, XD, Psychaos...) all of them being stellar. Absolum in 97. Talamasca in 98. Logic Bomb when they were unknown. Kox Box at Samothraki 2002. Filteria a couple of times. One of the best was Infected when they were still unknown. So many good moments...

     

    But two topped all that, and left me totally stunned:

    - Total Eclipse in october 1996 in Bordeaux.

    - Solar Fields / HUVA network at Aurora 2009

     

    The kind of moments after which you think "Incredible...incredible...can't top that...impossible...maybe I should stop listening to that kind of music, cause everything will be less good now". Fortunately such thoughts only last a short moment :)

    Mindsphere - Mental Triplex - Presence

    in 2016

    Posted

    I have to say I am baffled by how great this music is. I was in awe, the first time I heard the promo.

     

    This music is both sensitive and fully danceable. Joy. Bliss. A complete enlightenment throughout the album.

     

    We're completely not into the stereotypes of newschool music. Listening to this one is like watching a firework whilst seated in a cocoon!

     

    A 10/10 for me.

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    Rules & guidelines for reviewing

    in 2016

    Posted

    Please read and respect these rules/guidelines before posting new reviews.

     

    1. Please use the appropriate release year before posting . If you're posting in a "multiple year" thread (ie. 1990-1994) then specify the release year in the thread title.

     

    2. If youre an artist / label that wants to promote a new release please use the Promos group and not this one! ANY promos found in the reviews section will be moved and the one responsible for it warned.

     

    3. This section is for psytrance reviews and psytrance related genres reviews. If you want to discuss the best releases this year, what albums should be considered classics, the reviews section layout, the quality of reviews, the latest Tool release, want to request a review, etc. etc., then please use the General or Off-Topic sections of the forum!

     

    This is intended for psytrance music and subgenres so no reviews of parties or other music genres. A bigger tolerance will be allowed for old stuff (stuff released before 96) since back then there wasn't an "official definition" of psytrance.

     

    Also chillout/ambient genres are allowed as per usual.

     

    4. Before posting a new review, check if a review of the album hasnt already been written. If its the case then write your review in the already existing thread and do NOT open a new one! Finding older topics should be easy, use the Search function: type part or the whole album title and dont forget to limit the search to the subforum of the year you want to post in.

     

    If you're starting a new thread for a compilation then you should ALWAYS write the title under the format : "V/A - Name of comp". So that all the compilations will be easier to find. So do NOT start a topic with "VA" (no "/" between the V and the A) or "V/A :" (":" instead of "-"), "VA Name of Comp" (no "-" between the V/A and the name) etc.

     

    5. When opening a new thread put the name of the album and artist in the topic title and make sure it doesnt have any typos (or else the search function wont work). If you made a mistake, you can easily re-edit the title by using the Edit button at the end of your post, if that function is not working, then use the report function and report your topic to moderators asking to correct the typos.

     

    6. The new psynews staff has decided that first review, or first post, should always be longer than normal. This doesn't mean an essay by any means. A nice example of a short but still informative review would be this which is around 400 words long without release details. People come here to read about the release, to get some information how it is and stuff like "this release is killagrgrhrhrg" won't tell them anything. After the first post you can post mini-reviews and discussion if you so wish, but no derailing of a thread is allowed. If you feel so strongly about something that does not generally have much to do with the release, please make a thread in an appropriate section and stop posting in the review thread.

     

    7. Personal grudges against artists or reviewers are not welcomed and will be deleted and might lead to moderation so try to use your brain before posting. If you have anything to say to the artist or another reviewer you can always PM (Private Message) or e-mail them.

     

    8. When you open a thread please include Cover Art, Tracklist(preferably with track lengths), release date, label etc. relevant information regarding the album you are reviewing. Also it might be a good idea to include links to shops that are selling the release.

     

    9. For color or size codes please do not over-do with them and remember this forum has 2 skins so the color white won't show up on another and color black won't on the other. Also remember to clean up font formatting that may be carried over when copying your review from one site to another. For Image usage, it is allowed to post images or gifs in reviews but for images try to keep them relatively small so it won't make the review look cluttered and cause problems for readers.

     

    Here is a few well made reviews that should give the general idea on how a review should look.

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    Happy reviewing! :)

    E-Mantra is back... Night Hex - Viziuni Nocturne! (SuncdEP01)

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    Bought CD and the Mp3 d/load came as 250-260 k instead of 320 k.

    Why?

    OK Joseph, I see you ordered from our shop. The process of exploding the master and encoding it to flac/mp3/etc is entirely automatic and the command line is lame -V0 since the very begining. Our mp3s have always been VBR best quality, not 320kbps. VBR actually average around 260kbps, each chunk being somewhere between 32kbps and 320kbps depending on the frequencies requirmeents.

     

    Just to be extra sure, I checked with Denshi Danshi and Aurora Sidera and this is the same thing: VBR.

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