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    Amorphous Androgynous Live At Athens

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    I choose their FSOL stuff over AA anytime man. The music they did was excellent, cant think of all those moments listening FSOL. But, for me, its the next best thing :P I

     

    have seen the videos of FSOL Athens and I was so pissed I missed that show, but I had to work and still counting that I dont live in Greece, cant blame myself too much.

    Amorphous Androgynous Live At Athens

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Hey people, I dont know if you have heard about the Amorphous Androgynous. Its my fave band I guess. The FSOL guys rocking it out in a very psychedelic rock way, mixed with sitars, sytnhs, reverse guitars and all that you can think of.

    I will be heading to their Athens concert, I just wanted to hear if anyone else is making it and what do you think about the Amorphous Androgynous.

    FSOL for me is one of the top psychedelic bands of all time, I had great time on their music. I used to listen to and play in a psyrock band and when they got into it and blow the whole genres roof off I was quite happy :)

     

    Hey I would love some pointers for Athens too, where to go, relaxed places, cafes, bars, places to hang out, psy shops, head shops :)

    Turkish music

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I will soon write new recommendations

    by the way

    we are nearly finishing our first compilation

    if you liked mercan dede and baba zula this will be much more psychedelic music with turkish influences

    it is a concept album based on a book writen a few hundred years ago and is about sufi and buddhist ideas

    a guy drinks a special turkish cofee with a so called mad man and trips into stories where he meets buddha, god and much more :)

    DUB, Experimental recommendations

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    If you like psychedelic music and dub, here is a shortlist of the most psychedelic dub artists from France, and France is where its at, at the moment...

     

    -High Tone - Start with the album Acid Dub Nucleic and carry on from there :)

    and their collabs like WangTone, Highvisitors, Kaltone...

    -Kaly Live Dub

    -Lobe Raidant Dub System - Echo Chamber Oddysey (put this album on, crank the volume up and just wait for an audio meltdown)

    -Brain Damage - Always Greener on the Other Side

    -African Head Charge - Visions of a Psychedelic Africa

    -Zenzile - Sachem in Salem

     

    and more of an electro infused dub

    Ez3kiel and L'oeuf Raide comes to my mind

    Twisted Downloads

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I purchased and that second the download link appeared on the page, it doesnt come as a download link or something by email, it is there in your account on their webpage

    Altough I havent faced any problems still there may be as Pavel says so...

    The only thing that bugs me though is some singles cost a little less than 4 dollars to buy track by track, but cost more than 5 when you choose the option to buy the whole single, what the????

    Twisted Downloads

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    oh and I was really waiting for the Total Eclipse - Espanolizer (2007 remix)

    Altough I listened to this track at 2006 and asked Stephan about how to get my hands on it

    He told me he sold it to Twisted and it is up to them to release it

    Love this track and love this version more than the original

    Pic of your workarea?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    www.myspace.com/taurusbabas

     

    the space rock track is a bit different than the others, so pleae listen like another world too :)

     

    altough the tracks here are before I got the 2408mk3, eventide and the waldorf

    my new tracks will be on the album

    and too far out ambient ones are not online anywhere, I play them when people are high enough to listen :)

    Pic of your workarea?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

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    Computer:

    Apple Mac Quad 3.0ghz, 4gb ram, 750gb HD

     

    Sound Card:

    Motu 2408mk3 Pci-E

     

    Preamps:

    Motu 8pre

    SPL Channel One

     

    Midi:

    Motu Midi Express

     

    Outboard FX:

    Eventide H7600

    TC Fireworx

    Alesis Quadraverb2

    Rat You Dirty Rat distortion

    Boss Re20 Tape Echo

    Vox Wah Wah

    NI Guitar Rig Hardware

     

    Monitors:

    Adam A7

     

    Synthesizers:

    Moog Little Phatty Stage

    Nord Lead 2

    Access Virus B

    Waldorf Blofeld

    Korg MS10

    FutureRetro Revolution

    Roland TR-505

    Roland SH-201

    Silicon Chip Theremin

    Circuit Bent Yamaha Drum Machine

    Circuit Bent Speak and Spell

     

    Midi Controllers:

    Evolution UC33e

    Korg PadKontrol

    E-MU X-Board 49

     

    Microphones:

    Rode NT1A

    Rode NT5

    Shure SM57

     

    Acoustic and Electric Instruments:

    Hand made Iranian Santoor

    Gibson Les Paul Standart

    A Stratocaster that we have put together from selected parts specially

    Martin Acoustic Guitar

     

    Amplifier

    Fender Princeton 1000

     

    Field Recording:

    M-Audio Microtrack

     

    DAW and Soft Synth:

    Ableton Live 7

    NI Guitar Rig 2

    NI Battery 3

     

    Some equipment is in the other room, like guitars and amp and some are at my friends as they needed them, but what you see is what I use the most nowadays.

    looking for a mixer/pre-amp sound card

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    well for the money you ll pay for a mixer like that or a little more

    you can get a soundcard with 2 preamps like a motu ultralite or a rme fireface 400

    then get decent eq plugins or an uad card with the eq and comps on it or a liquid mix

    the resulting sound according to my experiences is much better

    unless you really have high quality outboard stuff and know exactly how to use them, its really better rather to mix in the box. Those plugins also with their presets makes you learn how to set these up, shows you templates.

     

    these are all choices though

    for the sake of putting all these eq control right under your hands may be better suited for you

    it may add more to you rather than the sound quality, you may find that mixer sound even better who knows...

    but even if it is the case I would still get some really decent plugins and a nice controller like uc33e and map the eq s to knobs and still you can reach them, you just have to work more when you re starting mapping these things and such, and different eq s would be different colors so there would be matching sounds from one of them for you...

     

    I am an analog freak mostly, but have found out that, if you cant replace the plugin with a much better SOUNDING gear, you might as well just not do it.

    I try and keep my sound sources all analog (not all of them though I still love some va) and my synths outboard, as for me it is really dull to control and make sounds on a synth with a mouse or control all of them with the same layout. Different synth interfaces and sound engines and converters make me synthesize different sounds. But for eq s, I tried some yamaha mixers, some outboard eq s and the resulting sound was really far away from what I could achieve in high quality plugins. I still add more outboard stuff though, with listening and judging if it there to replace some plugin.

    Entheogenic´s new album rocks!

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    well, you just order the cd s based on artists, labels, reviews or something like that then...

    I ve been burned more than a few times like that, and not have that much cash you know

    The samples may not reflect the whole album but not a single soundbyte reflects much less for me anyways

    I ll wait till it hits saiko or psyshop to give it a listen and may buy over their artist site for the back up

    I mean they could ve a myspace page or something like that with the new tracks in it, cant find that too

    Entheogenic´s new album rocks!

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I can understand that they re selling through their websites

    but

    how come we can not even listen to some samples before buying, why should I buy some album without knowing how it sounds like, their previous album let me down, so I want to hear some samples at least before buying.

    Is this a technical diffucilty, ignorance, or a lousy trading trick?

     

    This is music, I want to hear it before I buy it.

    nord lead

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    I have a Nord Lead 2 not the new one 2x the original 2 and I recommend you buying the old one too

    For a few reasons

    First of all, altough the new lead 2x is updated with higher quality converters, it made it loose its sound characteristics, made it more sterile and not as agressive sounding as the old one, the sound is everything for me...

    Secondly, the 2nd hand lead 2 is much cheaper to get, and is a sturdy va that can keep you company for a long time

    It s one of those synths that the longer you spend time on it, the more rewarding it becomes

    Its not hard to program, presonally I do not like tis filters response but for the rest its quite good

    Its also one amazing synth that anytime I make a sound with it, it sits really well in a mix.

     

    Virus is a whole other bag of tricks, I love my Virus B and its kind a of a jack of all trades synth and it really is well thought with all its modulaiton possibilities , fx if you like onboard fx, warm almost moogish filters, vast array of sounds, very logical layout, and even deeper than nl2... Look for second hand Virus B, they shouldnt be that much expensive, and they are really well.

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