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    What is psytrance?

    in General Psytrance

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    judging what is psy trance based on a bassline is misleading.

     

    I think the term psy trance, at least in our circles has become way too broad. Basically, its anything that sounds trippy. Some hard techno and progressive house, has been called psy trance around this forum (I like those genres too, but wouldnt call it psy trance per se)

    where are the reviews

    in General Psytrance

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    Yeah basilisk I have seen and read your site through your links on Last.fm You are one of the hardest working psy trance journalists I have seen on the net. Kudos and thank you for the hard work.

     

    I hope to encourage as many people as possible to actively engage their music. Either spin it, produce it, write about it, decorate stuff for it, promote it. It's how we keep this thing going you know? :)

    where are the reviews

    in General Psytrance

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    Speaking for myself (and I've heard the same from some others who used to regualrly do reviews), it simply takes up too much time to write good reviews and life just generally caught up with me (and the others I've talked to as well). Another possible reason was also there was a bit of backlash against the long kind of reviews myself and people like Death Posture used to write (on discogs it went so far as a campaign to erase most of those reviews). So basically lots of time involved + plus job/life + a fairly large number of people saying our reviews were a waste of space = an ever decreasing desire to write them. I basically limit myself to writing them only when something really hits me now. I think the quality of music now is really no different from how it was 4 or 5 years ago so saying there are no reviews because everything now is crap doesn't ring true for me at all (people 5 years ago were saying the same thing so...)

     

    good point. I dont think I have ever posted a review here (although im supposedly a writer) but I have learned a lot about good review writing watching some of the regulars. Honestly, and I am just offering my opinion, there are people out there who truly enjoy the long detailed reviews almost as much as the music itself. I personally like to listen to an album and pull out a good review and see someone translate the sounds into words. When well done its magical, like a good narrator in a movie :)

     

    shun the non-believers shun!

    where are the reviews

    in General Psytrance

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    what's up abasioooooooooooo

     

    yeah i know the regulars throw down..but i still get the impression that the review section doesnt compare to 2-3 years ago when people were going apeshit posting reviews and opinions..true most were really 'killargh' but among those were some really quite insightful, poetic even..

    where are the reviews

    in General Psytrance

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    The main thing that got me here to psynews was an excellent cast of reviewers that delivered top notch information about the latest greatest stuff and also some oldies once in a while.

     

    where have the reviewers gone?

    other genres?

    other sites?

    nothing worth reviewing lately?

    lazy?

    life happened?

     

    come on...write something..or ill be forced tah tei kovah

    :lol:

     

    ps: for those who still do it. thank you for spending time to save ours. your contributions are always welcome and form a strong part of everybody's scene (for lack of a better word) :lol:

    Logic Bomb - Sonic Algebra

    in 2007

    Posted

    im checking this out as I am writing. I am having mixed feelings, although Videorome sounds great!

     

    whoa sloww down at reverser...mm not bad but as said before here nothing out of this world. Ill come back and throw some coins after a couple listens

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