Snapinho
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Capitol K - Island Row. Nice freaky idmbient! Me gusta!
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Same here. I love cranking up the volume and putting on 'Among Myselves' just to creep people out. And maybe to ease their minds, after that something really sweet, hehehe.
Btw: I must admit I never really got into Amorphous Androgynous... I don't know, they really couldn't reach the same heights they did when producing as FSOL.
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Yeah, I know. I even got this album as a present from faze (thanks nonetheless dude!Woow, that's hard critics Snapinho! But I respect that we have different opinions. I hope you will like the fortcoming release on Chill Tribe better..
Styles and artists will vary from release to release, so there is still hope...Thanks again for all the feedback people!
All the best!
PKS (Chill Tribe Records)
) but I was pretty disappointed. Maybe it's cause a lot of psychill doesn't seem to evolve as I'd hope for. Meaning: a lot of artists seem to be relying on the same tricks, same sounds, same-same samples. Well, having read quite some reviews of yours, I think you do indeed have a good taste. This comp just didnt reflect that, but hey: tastes differ indeed! I'm still curious about your next release though, that's something, ain't it?
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Much respect to Seraph: I just got Cascade EP in the mail and man: this is excellent stuff. It's like a >half hour version of Cascade. Amazing! I'm awaiting 'My Kingdom' and 'We have Explosive' as well, the others I couldn't get my hands on yet. I think those are 'the Far out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman' and 'Lifeforms: paths". I think there's also a remixalbum of Papua New Guinea (I have the translations already) but I don't really know if that one's worth getting. Thanks seraph!
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Some people just invent awesome tracknames... let's collect em all!!
Ohmgnome - Step away from the dwarf
the Orb - a Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You)
FSOL - Among Myselves
FSOL - Everybody in the World is doing something without me
ooooh, there's a lot more but my brain is stuck. Help me out here!
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Ulrich Schnauss - Monday Paracetemol
Eat Static - Abduction
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I think this is definitely a good release, but not all that all the time. There's times where I just love it and there's times where I get a little annoyed by the richness of the album. It's cramped really full with a lot of sounds, nicely fused ethnic flutes, dubby rhythms and a feel-good atmosphere. My favorites are I think Neurosomatic Circuit, Gnome Dosed and Dub Crickets. The flute is sometimes a little bit too much for me, but as a whole I think it's a good example of how Psychill can also be done. Not too cliched and full of ethnic chants and instruments, but warm and psychedelic, atmospheric and dubby. And not to forget: the artwork is something else too!
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Today I got in the mail:
Pole - Pole
http://www.discogs.com/release/167715
Dub Syndicate - Pure Thrillseekers
http://www.discogs.com/release/740876
FSOL - Cascade
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hahaha, maybe I was being sarcastic? I truly despise IM's new style...
Btw, how can you say the Misted Muppet has gotten better? He has only released one album, hasn't he?
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Hehe, it was intended more as a happy than as a funny smiley. I'm curious about the Orb though (Nodens Ictus I've played a thousand times before I finally got my hands on an original), I kind of expect them to be not-quite-so-good but on the other hand it is the Orb!
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Nodens Ictus - Spacelines
the Orb - Cydonia
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Used to be psyshop, lately it's been more Saikosounds. I dunno, they seem to have more of the cd's I want in stock and although they take quite a lot longer to deliver, I have always liked them. Dunno why, but they're cool!
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I totally agree. I buy mostly cheaper albums on eBay and must admit that my buying in saikosounds has dropped dramatically. Ebay is kinda addictive. But really, this doesn't help the artists AT ALL.Come to think of it, it's really unfair to the artist how high the prices on eBay may go, yet they don't get 0.01$ from it... In ideal world, eBay should develop a system which transfers a percentage of price over it's initial value to the artist, for example if new Breathing Space CD costed 10GBP when it was released, if it's now sold at 25GBP then artist should receive say 25% of that extra 15GBP - that'd make sense... But it's very unlikely something like that will ever happen...
On the other hand, in really ideal world such CDs should be readily available in normal stores, then we wouldn't have that problem
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I voted 2009, cause I expect Jeller to be dead by then.
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Higher Intelligence Agency - Ketamine Entity
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Really nicely done! Great pics!
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Interesting subject!
Let me add some more key features of postmodernism (as I understand them):
- The world can not be viewed objectively, it's socially constructed
- There are no universal ethical or political truths/principals
- New social movements (peace, women's rights, animal rights, etc)
- Fragmentation of the self, there's not one identity, but many
- Deconstruction of categories
- History is not linear
- Nihilism
- Relativism
We've all heard or read about people's experience with psychedelics, and several of the above key features are often part of their description of the experience.
I'm not quite sure what I think of it, but when I do, I'll come back to this subject.
The creation of new social movements as an alternative way of political participation can also be traced back to the protests against the vietnam war. Protests where the hippie movement played an important role.
Btw, if you haven't read Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman you should. It's a very funny book written by the founder of the Yippie Movement and his personal description of that time in american history. Highly recommended!
I haven't yet, but I will. Thanks for the recommendation! Btw: have you read the book Acid Dreams? very interesting story about the place of LSD in those times. Funny thing about the social movements is: most of them seemed to think that lsd implied some kind of social conscience that every would develop when under the influence of it. Well, some hippies turned pacifist, while groups like the Weather Underground but also the Black Panthers and others started using violence against "the man".
You might also find it interesting that "the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago."I did know that, there was a seminar on the influence of lsd in scientific discoveries. Now, an other fact. Did you know Albert Hofmann said that "he didnt discover lsd, but that it made itself known through him?" Funny story (and I heard him say it!): 5 years after first having synthesized it, he suddenly had a chill and remembered this substance called lsd-25 and resynthesized. The rest is history..
Political science. My bachelor thesis is not related to this in any way. I'm pretty sure my professors aren't ready to discuss this subject. :-)
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Orbital - In Sides
atm: Out there Somewhere pt. 1
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Just a quick question before I start a more elaborate reply: Trolsk, were you by any chance on the LSD Symposium in Basel, january this year? That was truly the most wonderful weekend of my life. Man, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. Anyway, next time there is such a convention (or well... a similar one, good ol' Albert isn't turning 100 every year
) you should really go. I was amazed to see that there's so many really really clever people, who are not only out there, but also in their right minds. Meaning, they were very friendly, open, warmhearted, natureloving people and at the same time very scientific. So, not too floaty, fuzzy (if you know what I mean: not hippies screaming turn on, tune in and whatever... hehehe) but very rational. Well, this is turning into a short review, but what the heck. Can you imagine there were parties every night and I still managed to go to bed early and get up even earlier (7 ish) to not miss any lecture? From 9 in the morning till 9 pm. Normally I'd have fallen asleep by noon, but this just gave me more and more energy. So many brilliant minds: Ralph Metzner, Jonathan Ott, Christian Rätsch (now there's a freak!! extremely funny dude), Alex Grey, the Shulgins, Martin Lee, Hoppy Hopkins, poets, musicians, people who opened the UFO club in London in the sixties, underground acid manufacturers, philosophers, filmmakers...
Wow, I was just gonna ask you if you'd been there, hehe. Nevermind: I'm off to the library to rewrite my conclusion and I'll come back to the subject. Matter of fact: I'm still searching for a subject for my final thesis. Maybe you've given me an idea, Trolsk. You the man!
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Infected Mushroom of course!
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Hehehe, I am just laying the final hands on my bachelor's thesis on a very closely related subject.
Though I'm afraid that I have used mostly dutch authors... I wrote about the relation between modernity and the ecstacy experience (not as in the drug, but as in the transcendental kinda experience).
I must admit I do not completely understand the correlation between the discovery of psychedelics and postmodernism. My gut feeling tells me that people would find more 'sense' or more 'connection' in the world, between people and things and between people in general. Postmodernism seems to drift away from those things... I mean: the postmodern world isn't very cozy and comforting, so to say. But maybe that's what you were hinting at: the rise of postmodernism caused people to reinvestigate the possibilities of other ways of experiencing and 'going back to nature'.
Anyway: personally I feel more and more attracted to the relation between quantum physics and psychedelics, but that's a whole different subject.
Btw: are you planning to write a paper on the subject?
Essential reading: Walter Benjamin - About Hashish. It's a little fragmented, cause it's not a work of his, rather than collected articles and writings on the subject of hashish and its relation to experience. There's a very good read in Lieven de Cauter - Archeology of the kick, but I have no idea whether or not it has been translated. He's a Belgian author...
Anyway: I am probably able to find some more authors if you're really interested... Lemme know what you've come up with so far. Nice subject, dude!
(what are you studying anyway?)
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I just got Floating Point II in the mail and there's this song by Crowd Control, called Ivory Town. Would've been a nice and sweet song, until someone starts singing. Aargghh. Well, most songs are ruined by vocals if you ask me. Buh.