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    The PsyNina mystery

    in General Psytrance

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    Is that someone on this forum?

     

    A few people have apparently cybered with her on MSN but no-one who has ever written anything about it has ever said they've actually met her, apart from Thomas. No photos in the studio, DJing, or even partying.

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    what kind of a dj do you prefer?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    The combination of mixing skills and track selection. It doesn't matter if you play the best tunes ever if you trainwreck every mix, or if you mix like a god but you only play shitty tunes. It seems to me that the technical aspect of mixing isn't as high within the psy genre as it is in other genres of electronic music. I've met people who don't like tracks being mixed; "the tracks are a journey in them selfs. mixing will ruin that." With those attitudes around, of course there will be shitty djs, people accept it.

    Am I the oldest guy here?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    please do, then I'll feel younger...

     

    I know I'm only 23 now and having age panick at that time is not normal, but I'm serious!

    Hahaha, I think the same sometimes myself. I'm used to being the youngest at parties, amongst people who like that kind of music etc. But that sure has changed :)

    Let's talk about Downloading and piracy

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Psy albums don't sell more than that :o ???? I'm shocked

     

    Do you earn good money on performing live and stuff then?

    Most of my gigs have been free. Gotten paid for some, but seldom more than 100 €. With the current price level in Norway compared to the rest of Europe ... well, you do the math :)

     

    But I'm not complaining about the money, I started making music when I was 12 years old for fun. That's how I intend to keep it. If I make a few euros here and there, that's great, but it's not why I do it. Of course, I got bills like everybody else. As mentioned earlier, I'm studying these days and working a part time job, so I don't get to do as much music as I'd like to do.

    Let's talk about Downloading and piracy

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    1. Do you download music from the web? Any kind of music. How much? How often?

    These days I don't download much. I used to though. But these days I have enough on my hands with school, work, doing my own music while trying to have a social life. If I download stuff now it's usually some stuff I've been recommended. I'm also a fan of downloading sets, either dj sets or live sets.

     

    2. Do you download specifically Psytrance releases?

    No.

     

    3. Do you think that downloading (and any other forms of piracy) really hurt the music industry?

    Yes.

     

    4. Do you think that downloading (and any other forms of piracy) really hurt the Psytrance industry?

    Both yes and no. It hurt the people who started releasing music after "the old model", but at the same time it opened the eyes for thousands of people downloading stuff, thus discovering a new genre and new artists.

     

    5. Would you like a world that every new album/comp would be released only in the web?

    Nein.

     

     

    It's interesting to see my album has sold around 300 copies, while a live set I put online a few months ago has gotten well over 6000 downloads...

    THE DJ LIST 2008 ::: RESULTS

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    Artists being the best djs? That prooves the list is not entirely right... Artists mostly play their own music in their dj sets asa promotional thing... Mostly the story of a dj set is bad because of that... ah, my 2 cents...

    Don't bother man. These days you're a dj if you make music, and dj's are holding concerts - not gigs.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Recommendations

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Shameless self promotion:

    Check my live-set; www.phobium.net -> music -> live in Gothenburg

    I've gotten more feedback on that set than I have from releasing my debut album; Future Uncertain

     

    I'll keep a close watch on this thread myself, I'm curious to see what people recommend from the last six months.

    How old were you

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Now my question. I hope you won't mind answering it. Didnt you feel lonely in the psy world being so young ?

    You know 9-12 years old is kid :) I didnt know anyone else beside me for years that liked psytrance. All my mates were into some rave/dance/eurotrance anthems. I felt totaly isolated. Seriosuly, it's weird feeling...

    There are many pluses i think of starting psy journeym so early. You can build your independence! Kids at the age of 10 are so easily open minded for mainstream influences, all the viva/mtv shit...I think it's inredible hard to stay away from those things especialy when you're so young :)

    I'm not saying i wasnt listening to commercial stuff, but my point is that goa/psy became my life :) Any other genre wasnt giving me such an fantastic ecperiences like psy.

    The thing was that I wasn't only listening to psy at that time, I was listening to "everything". Techno, trance, some ambient ... back then the genres weren't taken over by genre nazis so there was a lot more versatile music if you bought a compilation for instance. But I guess KLF was the thing that started it all when I was 10, I remember being very amazed by that.
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