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Hahahahahahaha. Right. Sorry, I don't even want to post an argument. Just want to point my finger and say "HA! HA!"

The chat requieres Java Runtime Environment? Forget it then... too bad.

you mean 'talig' of course

Rephrase? Nothing is everything. Everything is nothing. All is true. None is true. Nothing is. Everything is. Etc. Not that dangerous now, are they? Jazzy hiphop would do just fine for me... no need to invent yet another name for a relatively small subgenre. Not so sure I'd even call it a subgenre, but what the hell. Jazz influenced hiphop. Do you know Jazzmatazz? I think I liked the second album best...

Everything.

Oh wait. Somehow I forgot to mention Jazzmatazz. Hehe. Guru at it again.

Jazz Hop? Terrible name. But yeah, Digable Planets kick ass. Other jazz influenced hiphop... De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr (DJ Premier!), Camp Lo... hmmm, there's gotta be more out there.

My thoughts exactly.

^ Is that a psytrance cover? Oh my. And that Banco de Gaia one is completely creepy. Is that serious?

Damn.

The singing... it's ripped off of some Dead Can Dance track, methinks

Thanks Ormster! Downloaded and watched the whole thing the same day you recommended it... fucking unbelieveable. Really incredible. Watch with Tommy Wiseau (writer/director/main character) and you'll see that it's for real. Man oh man... all these scenes that have nothing to do with the main plot (but as I understood from some interviews I read online, the dude wanted to 'tackle' some issues; hence the random drugs scene, the breast cancer, the whatnotever other bullshit subjects). The sex scenes that made me crazy. The acting. The filming (the dude really has an unsteady hand at times). The football throwing. And most importantly: his laughter. By god. Nothing made any sense at all. "I DID NAAHT HIIIT HER. I DID NAAAAAAAHT!! Oh hi Mark"

Well, to be honest, at least he doesn't pretend. Oh wait, he did. But I mean: there are probably more 'press play' artists than ones doing something really live... Eat Static being my number 1 hero.

It's an actual photo I took during Soulsurfer's set. Sad innit?

Trunksie: how come you missed the Orb? In the original lineup they were scheduled to play around 5 at night, and this didn't change much ... in fact they only played half an hour later or so. Still: very weird time. Weird, strange, sick, twisted evil stuff... THE FUCKING ORB! Was very happy to see 'em. But full camping? You've obviously never been to a - let's say - German festival... I loved the amount of space. Plenty of shade for everyone as far as I could tell. Dunno what happened to Simon B. either... when we got there, some dude was playing Dubstep, waaaaay too loud. That was another strange thing; at moments the sound in the chillout was phenomenal, at other times it was an affront to my ears. Painful, even at the far ends of the chillout. Anyhoo, am curious to hear other people's experiences. Heva still out there? Suntrippers? Did Drosophila make it? Cray3?

Hmmm... quite vague. The same sample is in FSOL's Papua New Guinea by the way, and there are enormous amounts of remixes of that track, so it could be one of those, although I have to admit this particular one doesn't really ring a bell.

Ok, there are usually no reviews of festivals, but since this was my first time in Greece, and thus my first time on a Greek festival, and I had quite a good time, I feel I had to share some of my opinions - or whatever you call them. Impressions. Experiences. I think I've never danced this little. Partly because the chillout lineup was outstanding, partly because I usually sleep at night and during the day it's too hot to dance (for me at least) and also partly because I was physically not too able to dance. Met mars briefly and Anoebis a little less briefly, and since I didn't bother to go online on my holidays I had no clue of whether there was gonna be a Psynews meetup, which didn't happen. Anyhoo... nice place for a festival. Quality camping as far as I was concerned, our tent was in the shade almost all day, enough room for lotsa hammocks, the best part being all these old guys that stayed on the camping the whole time. Some people had their home (caravan) right next to the stage, and I can't imagine they really enjoyed themselves, but they wouldn't budge either. Gave a nice surrealistic touch to the surroundings. One of the first acts I wanted to see was Banco de Gaia, but unfortunately something was wrong with the lows, so I had to plug my ears, and couldn't really hear anything other than bass and kick. Nice visualshow though. Friday afternoon Gaudi gave a great show... very live, playing with theremines, controllers, toasting, and to finish off his set, dancing with the crowd on Bob Marley's Jamming. Happy hippy! I was very pleasantly surprised. Carbon Based Lifeforms enjoying Gaudí Saturday was gonna be kick-ass day and oh boy, was it ever. CBL performed in the morning, and did a beautiful set... about as good as I expected and my expectations were quite high to begin with. The menu for the night was quite spectacular. Me, my gf, some blankets and pillows, a good spot in front of the stage, a trip and a half, a sky FULL of stars and the craziest chillout lineup you could want. Asura, Solar Fields, HUVA Network, Aes Dana ... we left 15 minutes into his set to dance our asses off to Eat Static at the main stage, only to return an hour and some later with fresh supplies for The Orb live! Yes! I had always wanted to see the Orb at a festival, on acid... only difference was that I had dreamed of them performing late afternoon, but otherwise it was close to perfect for me. Asura was excellent, nice trancey dreamey stuff as I expected. Solar Fields was very good too, quite uptempo, but not enough to keep me from lying next to my girl and make me get up and dance. HUVA Network I didn't really like: too harsh 4/4 beats, and I missed the chemistry. Didn't find it anything special, to be honest, but maybe that was due to the fact that I had been lying down, listening to Ultimae for the last 4 hours. Weird programming though for The Orb (which, for me at least, was the biggest name in the Chillout), at 5:30 AM. Not that many people were there, but that just made me feel more special (and a little bad for them). At least they seemed to be enjoying themselves, at least after the first minutes when - again - something completely fucked up with the bass happened. After that was fixed, I was in aural heaven... lotsa crazy samples, nice funky groovy renditions of classics as Perpetual Dawn, Little Fluffy Clouds, A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain, etc. etc. Fucking excellent. Sunset after The Orb live... nice 'waking up' After a dip in the sea, watchting a spectacular sunrise, being too tired to offer the Orb a spliff when they sat right next to us on the otherwise deserted beach, taking a shower, putting on new clothes, we were ready for Merv's second Live of the night. Oh my! A lot of my favorites were played, in - as usual - great new versions. And to make me even happier, he finished his downtempo set with an extra long version of 'Gulf Breeze', one of my favorites. Nobody could wipe that smile off my face, and even after having been awake for 30some hours, I was still feeling energetic. Merv doing an excellent live downtempo set, sunday morning. The only disillusionment was Soulsurfer (I think it was sunday afternoon). What a complete ass. Having utter disregard for the (little) audience that was there, he did absolutely nothing. Didn't see him open up his laptop and press play, but fuck... he called some guy on stage, chatted with him for half an hour, only returning to the knobs when he saw someone taking pictures, and posing. After that dude had left, he felt lonely, and left the stage twice, the first time to piss, but the second time to chat with whoever was backstage. Lame ass shit. I booed him, when I saw him drinking beer and not giving shit, something I have only done once before at a psytrance festival (and 1200 Mics really had that coming too, hehe) Soulsurfer 'Live' All in all: excellent festival, good amenities, although I don't really understand why they programmed all the great acts in one night. The 'normal' people that hung around were great decoration, otherwise I found the deco none too spectacular. Very 90's stringart blabla. Find the Belgians. Girl Attracts Guy. Puppy Attracts Kiddo.

Irresistible Force, The - It's Tomorrow Already Sounds From The Ground - Kin Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land Various - Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack For An Oliver Stone Film Toy - Toy Various - Bip-Hop Generation [v.7] Rip-Off Artist, The - In Through The Out Door Various - Jukebox Buddha Fennesz - Black Sea Flim - Helio Alex Smoke - Incommunicado Wevie Stonder - The Wooden Horse Of Troy

Wow? FSOL live? Doing FSOL stuff? Oldschool shit? Am still not out on whether I dig AA or not... I have been listening to their An Enormous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind mixes and those are excellent... but haven't so far really gotten into their psychedelic hippy rock stuff. Alice in Ultraland wasn't all that bad though. But I know practically everything FSOL have done by heart, and AA is not even close. Actually, while I was in Greece, I had a dream about them doing a live show, very small and intimate venue, very sixties hippy show, and extremely mellow... So yeah, I guess I'd go. Alas, I'm no longer in Greece... trunksan: tell me something about the live show dude... I want to know!

Sounds smart. Go for it!

Yeah, I dig. I'd suggest to keep it downtempo and psychedelic. So I reckon Autechre's Quaristice wouldn't fit in, but Amber would. Ah man, you don't know what you got yourself into... either it's gonna expand beyond whatever, or else people are gonna complain it's not "psychill" enough. The KLF - Chillout is most definitely essential, since it's the album that gave the whole genre its name. FSOL - Dead Cities FSOL - ISDN The Orb - U.F.Orb The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Biosphere - Substrata All classics that aren't psychill. Monolake doesn't really fit in though, if you ask me. Nodens Ictus - Spacelines Eat Static - Back to Earth VA - Downbeat Liquid VA - Dissolving Clouds Unstable Elements - Technical Illusions Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies Krusseldorf - Smokers Lounge Don't know if the above have been mentioned yet, but they could be included as well.

Mwah, that's kinda nonsense. If so, what are Aphex Twin, The Orb, FSOL and Trentemoller doing on that list, for example? I wouldn't want them removed, and would quite some other albums, but if you want to keep it psytrance specific, that's hard enough as it is...

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

Aphex Twin - Polynomial-C Exceeeeeelleeeeeeeeent melodies, nice breaks, terrible quality (as usual with the twin).

Almost anything by the Coen Brothers is worth seeing.