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I wonder what this music would sound like with modern production and more than 4 tracks (possible sounds) on the mixer

Ah that cover is great, now the title is clever =) Those tomatos look so freshly cut

If you guys are telling me that Filipe's music doesn't deserve sales you've got to be kidding me =) Looking forward to hear this.

Rules like that are totally stupid, this shouldn't be some sort of exam, music is an art, allow them the freedom to use whatever brush they want - Another idea is make a short peice using only one synth plugin, we can choose to use free ones if no one can agree on a synth everyone has.

ah so you're making nightpsygoa now, I guess goatechpsy didn't work out so well?

They're making psytrance so that they have more of an audience to tour and play their music so they can make money and support themselves. After nearly 20 years of doof doof I'm not surprised that they aren't bursting at the seams with creative and innovative music. They still are good quality music, but they aren't doing goa because if they did that lessens the amount of exposure they can get by like 90% (and also the amount of money they can get by 90%) Atleast, I imagine that if a group has been touring the world for most of the year doing 3 shows per week that they are doing it to support themselves... So let them. It would be a pity if this scene is so small that it can't even economically support one of the greatest acts to come out of this hippie disco shit. Personally, I don't expect anything more to come from Astral Projection, they did their thing 10 years ago, now let em live. Its up to some younger more spirited people to carry the flame on now.

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Ahh you already took it down mate? Don't see it up there

Awesome!

Brice is working on it from what I know, and the bits he's shown me have been very good

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These are good tracks, glad you have the oldschool sound but are also exploring it. Got any for DL?

There, you've had a look at it... I've already said too much :|

The not so secret secret is that you need to have a good equalizer and know how to use it, after that maybe a compressor can help out + knowing exactly how to program your bass synth. If you want to sound like everyone else and 95% of psytrance out there (please don't) use VB-1, if you want better basslines that can do more than sound like smooth black rubber, grab Muon Tau 2, its what I use.

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What external sound card are you using mike

Its not the best and its kind of slow but there is www.psytunes.info

After that, try setting up an EQ and putting a peak in the middle, and modulating the peak with midi or setting it to an LFO

Actually I don't see Filipe as replicating astral projection at all, and I hear more allusion to exotic/oriental sound than the israeli sound. There is mad energy and alot of sunlight in filipe's music, and I think he's one of few to really understand pads and sweeps in the goa universe, as they drive his tracks so well, its really one of the key ingredients that puts the momentum in the music. This is his style and he does it well, I'm not saying it should change, but that the feeling of his music should, as there are now so many tracks with the same vibe. This is more difficult now, to make these different feelings. Its far too easy that once you figure out your "style" you just keep on using the same instruments, the same melodic structure from track to track. Artifact303, though extremely promising music, is also doing this from the music I've heard from Peter. Its AMAZING, but it greatly diminishes replay value once you start feeling like you are hearing the same thing from track to track. I would give the same speech to Filteria (bot not KOB ) , and some other artists, I don't want to listen to an entire album with just one feeling in it, one vibe comming from the music. But please note, nor am I saying every track should be different as night and day. I don't want different styles, I think its important an artist picks his style and drives that direction making it as unique and bold as it can be, I am saying however, there should be different feelings that this style will do.

Filipe, some of your best work was under the brief Ataraxia name...particularly the tracks you did not finish. You evolved into a darker party-vibe sound with pandemonium, but interms of uplifting and complex melody Ataraxia had it. Amithaba Buddha is your more classic sound that is homage to the goa of old days but I personally am more enticed by exploration and broadening pushing the borders of whats possible with goa, in otherwords - hearing new things. If I were to critique sternly your new amithaba tracks, they are ofcourse good - great to plug on the dancefloor, but they are not much new, they don't make my mind soar you know? And I know you can soar. I want to see exploration from you, and some attempts at really expiramental stuff. Surprise people. I know you have figured out your production and gotten to a level at you've been striving for years, but I don't think you should stop here, or there will be very little difference from track to track. I want to hear your style applied to morning tracks, dark tracks, aggressive tracks, and so on with the rest of the colorful palette goa can do. I want to hear an album from you definately, but so long as its not 10 tracks of the aggressive exotic goa you have nailed down so well. It would be a pity of you spend so much time on so many tracks yet they all are the same structure. Like with Sarcophagus, aside for the clever modulation on the multi-layered bassline, and very well done production, I feel I've heard this song in 6 other songs already. Like this track is basically when the universe was created and psyramid mixed together. I say this to you as a challenge, because I know what else you can do My favorite track of your amithaba buddha project is the remix of infinite dimension's Astral Mountains you did, (incidently dave's original Astral Plains is also one of my favorites to this day) when I heard that track it was really something I've never heard before.

I mean you just set the cutoff filter to bandpass no? Boost with EQ, play around with mixing another oscillator in there, Mix 2/3rds saw (or pulse) with 1/3rds square, Add a subtle phaser or flanger placed after a ping delay and then playing the cutoff will give you some of that magic sound...if you point out exactly the sound you want (with a sample) I'd help more Make em out of simpler sounds and a clever Fx train You are limitting yourself if you can only sift through presets and at most tweak a cutoff knob, you will really take off once you begin to understand how to program a synth. Thats not to say you invent things from scratch, but all things considered its practically from scratch starting with a preset and making 10 new ones out of it.

Jihooka would be great music (I mean it, it already is) if they didn't go with the shanti samples we've heard a million times. People don't use those native american samples for a reason

A real, nmon flaming response: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=51382

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