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I like Jaia - After the Rain An old classic Oh, and Life on Planet Earth as kindly reminded by exotic. Ace track. Love it.

No Fate is a cover, sure, but to my knowledge the rap lyrics are made by Scooter. And they really add something. + their version has a lovely chilled sound to it.

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This is interesting. Would you call this style of d'n'b some kind of techno-hybrid? I've listened to Concord Dawn, Pendulum etc. and found a prevalence of very "clean" structure compared to other d'n'b. Also a focus on full-tempo melodies instead of half-tempo atmospheres to complement the drums. Any thoughts on this?

Nah. D'n'B can have loads of complicated beats. The main characteristic of the genre is, imo, the "intellectualisation" of jungle. Less furious screaming jamaicans, less blatantly party-influenced atmospheres. More chilled out and contemplative, but still very fast.

Some neew Green Nuns wouldn't be too wrong. I wouldn't mind it.

Eat Static - Abduction Juno Reactor - Transmissions Union Jack - There Will Be No Armageddon And early Dragonfly compilations. As well as THIS ONE: http://www.discogs.com/release/226694

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Yes, to a brief degree. The purpose of mixing and mastering is generally pretty much the opposite, though.

I would say that has more to do with mixing than mastering. What different soundsystems provide is essentially different attenuation or accentuation of different frequencies in the spectrum. So, for example, if you want a mix to sound "bass heavy" on a crappy laptop soundsystem, you could try boosting the harmonics of the bass instrument, for example. If you want your music to really show some extra depth on a system with proper low-end, on the other hand, you can do this by keeping the lower parts of the spectrum with some "musical integrity", i.e. not just as an enforcement of things going on higher up.

So beautiful

I prefer mastering that's been done with minimum distortion (and by distortion I mean essentially everything that changes the sound). Just volume setting is really enough, and some subtle EQ to bring things together. Compression should be kept to a minimum to preserve dynamic range. If loudness is required (which it absolutely ISN'T for either psytrance or ambient/chill imo) it can be accomplished by other means than heavy limiting. For example subtle analog distortion (or emulation of such) and EQ to slightly bring up the "loud frequencies" (upper mids). In my opinion the loudness war has become plain ridiculous.

I don't.

Shiva Chandra seems underrated to me. He should really be in the hall of fame. Just listen to "Midi Kill". Or "Nep-Tune" by his side project collaboration Prime Time Plastix. Does it get any heavier than that?

Your analysis is just as interesting as the music itself

You live forever in my heart, Alectrance. I love your descriptions.

I've heard so many people say this, but no motivation. Seems like hearsay to me. No need to get dogmatic, IMO.

Why would the sound become "bad" if you "rise the curve"?

No Hallucinogen yet? Pretentious dicks Space Pussy!

Oh, this one has OT?

I've been playing lots of Ozric Tentacles. Never tires me

It's very nice "Inner Universe" has a great melody and it all has a nice sound about it. "Skeleton Key" nice structure.

Yes, there are several hardcores. But there's only one grindcore!

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I have no idea what this thread is about or why it exists. But maybe Etnica, Hallucinogen, Astral Projection, Deviant Electronics...?