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Always such beautiful artwork from Peak!

Nice mix of trance styles! Don't know most of those names, but the last few tracks are spec-freaking-tacular! d/ling now, will post feedback. And, at Britney Spears right above Kino Oko! Imagine if they collaborated

:blink: :o :o :o I wish I had read this when this release first came out! Cuz thats when I bought it! Damn... I wish there was some way I could make sure they get some money... So, if you see them tell them I'm sorry and love their work... I should also note which releases I already have: Midimiliz-Non-Standards VA-Abracadabra Sensient-AntiFluoro Triac-Mean Between Kino Oko-Lost Entertainment Opsis, 5 Tons of Flax, Chronika ch 2 and Refresh all added to my list! :clapping:

OOOh, the darker stuff (Cujorius FTW) is by far my favorite... So, yeah my TO BUY List looks like this: Cujorius One-Creating a Second Sun Tetrameth-Psychological Pyrotechnics VA-Bush Food VA-Intelligent Manipulation VA-The Lurker Bigwigs-The NAtional Heroes... VA-The Dissidents X-Dream-The Best 1991-2001 VA-Solstice Black 1&2 VA-Festivus (Open FTW! ) ... So thats a good start... Mechanical Dragon seems like its gonna have some nice releases! Sonic Dragon has yet to disappoint me in any of its facets.

So yeah, Ive been really getting into the psychedelic tech sounds lately and would love anyone's recommendations! Im not necessarily looking for psychedelic-type releases (IE released on psychedelic labels), just psychedelic techy stuff. Stranger the better! So here's what Ive found so far: All the releases on Digital Diamonds thanks to Basilisk's site Zenon records Horns N Hoofs Gravity Plus Double plus awesome if you know of free releases!

OH MAN THAT HUGE SYSTEM IS RIGHT IN RENO! Where I live! Hehe... Too bad thats WAY out of my range... Dual Mackies for around 1k used is about what Im looking for, nothing big or anything, just a beginning of a giant system. Thanks all, gonna have a look around Craigslist and other such places for stuff... And yeah I know a grand isn't all that much for a good system. But I gotta start somewhere and theres NO way Im gonna go generic. (Not again...)

Juno Reactor-God is God (CJ Bolland rmx) CRAZY video, like WHOA. http://video.aol.com/video-detail/junoreac...-rmx/2248834255

wow! Very nice! Listening in surround headphones....

d/ling, sounds like a hot ticket

Thanks Otto! Great advice... Better than I've ever got previous! This is precisely what I was hoping for... ;D Oh, and I just got the new version of Renoise, which includes some new and refurbished DSPs, which definitely gives me more options and ideas... (This track was made entirely in the previous version, just gotta go back and tweak and tweak...)

I dig everything from 1-160 bpm, but my favorites lie between 140-160. Any faster than 160 and its not really danceable in my mind, and so often it seems that artists make that fast stuff as a gimmick. Or so it seems to me. My absolute favorite BPM ever in the whole world is 152.

+1 Heard a Psynina track (along with some great tracks from OOOD and Error Corrective that forced me to buy both those groups' albums. FORCED. Like strapped me to a bed and bashed my knees in.) on a Revolve comp. And, no sir, I didn't like it. Im a guy pretending to be a girl pretending to be a forum pretending to be valuable life-experience.

I picked Something Else. To me, a good DJ adds subtle things to the tracks, tastefully, like a little tiny bit of flanger right before the bass kicks back in, that kind of thing. Something more than just playing one track after another, even if the tracks are amazing and the mixing is flawless. I think that track selection comes first, then mixing (though, as Gil himself has shown this isn't always so important). Mixing should include those little subtle things that make it more than just the original track. Sure, the original producer(s) knew exactly what they wanted, but that doesn't mean they didn't leave things out. Sometimes it takes a fresh unbiased perspective to see the flaws... And of course, another important thing, even more than track selection, is flow. If the mix has good flow, you lose yourself, lose touch with your body's movements easier, which is the whole idea behind Trance Dance music. Just playing good tracks won't do it, you gotta play good tracks in the proper way so its not so obvious that the next track has started. But also, its not good to play tracks that are TOO similar to one another, then you have the possibility that dancers will get bored of that same sound. I prefer a DJ who takes all these things into consideration, but above all HAS FUN doing it! Nothing better than a DJ or live act who just LOVES what they're doing. Its anticlimactic to see someone just standing behind the decks looking all serious. Almost like they're at work and would rather do something else...

yeah, VSTs are pretty easy to get a feel for. Some of them are pretty out there as far as sound and interface, some designers are pretty weird... hehe... There arent too many Renoise users anywhere, really, which is sorta why I'd like to get us all together (so we can talk shit about Cubase and Logic users ) and see what happens, even if its a disaster. Those good ol' Impulse days... .it was Impulse's file extension, Impulse was like a bigger/better version of Scream Tracker which of course is a bigger/better version of all those old Amiga and Commodore trackers. Hehe, mod tracking began as a way to create music using the piezo-buzzer in oldschool machines (you know, the thing inside that beeps when the comp is angry). Its amazing that those old tracks sound even halfway decent, and some are actually really good. Not bad for 4 tracks max, heh.

OK, so after a few tracks I've uploaded had no feedback, Ive instituted a poll. You can have this track for free, and you can play it anywhere and everywhere, under ONE CONDITION. You must leave feedback. Written or in the poll. I don't care if its good or bad, just let me know, please! IMO, I like my tracks. I know the mastering needs some work, the track needs an intro, and a few tweaks to various parts of the track... I really want to know if I should keep working at it before trying to share, or what. No feedback is worse BY FAR than bad feedback. I'm left hanging! It sounds good to me, but is that just pride, combined with listening to it too much? Please, help me! It may not be the style you like, thats fine. I like it, and I know theres plenty of you out there who feel similar... I'd name my influences as Terminator, Mubali, CPC, Darkpsy, Para Halu, POTS, Fitalic, Perfect Stranger, Orestis, Sensient, SunControlSpecies, Parasense, Blisargon Demogorgon, Wizack Twizack, Derango, Tegma, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Xyla, Error Corrective, Cactus, Terranoise... I really can go on and on... Lots of different names there, eh? Yeah, I don't always make full throttle night stuff. Why have Filet Mignon for dinner every night, when you can have lobster, sushi, and all manner of other delectables! So without further ado, here's Lateral Thinking: http://www.sendspace.com/file/599e87 Written and produced by me, using Renoise Tracker and a Korg microKONTROL controller.

Any contribution works! Mainly Im curious to see if the way I do it is in any way similar to anyone else's methods... And Im curious to see what a bunch of different artists can do together, even if we're on different ends of the earth... I also had the idea that it would be totally awesome and 1337 if we found someone to code a demo to the track, in true oldschool demoscene mod style! A tribute to trackers...

So I had this idea that maybe those of us who use Renoise could possibly make some kind of collective track. For example, one person starts out with a basic bassline or melody, then passes the .xrns to the next person, who then adds more, and so on. Not sure how feasible it would be, or if anyone would even be willing to do it, but it seemed to me that it could have a lot of potential to create some really crazy stuff, and maybe help us all grow as Renoise users, and help those of us less familiar with the program to learn new ways to use it... But I could just be an optimistic visionary with no basis in Reality... Hehe. So, if we do decide to get something going, I'd like to propose a few parameters. 1. If using hardware or commercial soft synths, for the benefit of those of us poor monkeys, please output the track into a sample/samples so we can all hear it, and if using free vsts, give a link or something, or even better upload them along with the .xrns. 2. To avoid confusion and divergence, only one person at a time works on the track... Somehow we could make a rotation schedule... like every 2 weeks ___ sends it to ____. Or something. Like I said its just an idea, and potentially a harebrained one at that... Let me know what ya think. (Oh, and if you don't yet have Renoise v1.9, GET IT NOW. Click for Backstage login)

uhhhhuhuhuhuh..... Thatth pretty cool! Uhhhuhuh.. Youve got WOOD... [/butthead] Damn fine work there! What kind of wood are you using?

So I'm looking to acquire a sound system of my own so I don't have to rent/rely on others', for parties. I'm hoping to spend less than 1000 USD, and get a decent system capable of putting out enough sound for a good party, with all the necessary limiters, amps, and whatnot. Hopefully to become the basis for a much larger system, but that's for the future... Any info helps me!

And mountains of plastic neon beads too. Very important to look PLUR and psychedelic.

Who knows, and I think any predictions will fall far short of what's really gonna happen. I'm thinking it'll be amazing... One thing I see happening is a return to the tightknit community vibe everyone's always lamenting the loss of. Just look at anything else that got popular, blew up, and attracted a ton of idiots. Yep, thats right, before long the idiots got bored and went along the road trying to find their next New fix. One thing that can be counted on is the short attention span of the shallow. I'm sure I'll still be into psytrance, hell its been more than 10 years since I first heard psy and goa. And in that time I never once thought, maybe I should move on to another style... Psy keeps getting better (if you know how to look and listen), more diverse, and MORE INSANE! Its only got UP to go from here!

IMO, there's NO single way to dance to psytrance!! However you feel like dancing is how you should dance. Its not about how you look to others!! Why care what they think? If they think it looks strange its THEIR PROBLEM. Its not a fashion show! You dance to feel good about yourself, to unite yourself with the music, and to unite yourself with others sharing the experience, forging a union of music, self, and others. And trust me, I guarantee this, that no matter how bad you're dancing, there will ALWAYS be someone dancing worse! Forget what others think and just enjoy dancing. F@*$ them if they can't enjoy it too, is what I say.

1. Yes, I download free dj mixes and free tracks. Never pirated material. I have pirated stuff in the past, long ago before I realized I'd rather show respect to the artists by buying their releases than scurrying about in the catacombs stealing scraps. 2. Yes, for the most part the mixes and free tracks are psytrance. 3. No, I don't think downloading hurts the industry. To me its a matter of respect, if the artist chose to give their tracks away, thats one thing, but pirating, IMO, is like walking into a friends house, heading straight for the refrigerator, and helping yourself to whatever's inside, without even asking, or even saying 'hi' to your friend. What do you think your friend's reaction would be? Even if, if you just asked, they'd give you whatever you wanted from the fridge. I'm sure it wouldn't be 'Sure, yeah, why don't you just eat all my food without asking, PLEASE!' It doesn't really affect sales, as any artist can tell you most money from sales go to the distributors, then the label, then the sound engineers and artists who mastered and beautified the release, then whatever's left goes to the artist. ALl those middlemen, and if you consider the cost of a CD thats NOT A LOT, especially considering the small lots psytrance gets released in, where 500 pressings is a LOT... The real money is of course made by playing live and touring. And even then, its a rare artist in this scene who can make enough doing that to live off of... 4. Yes and No... As Ive outlined above its not releases that make money. What I see it hurting, is the staying power of good releases. If you're just d/ling a release, at least, when I've downloaded releases in the dim past, you just don't take it as seriously as hardcopy. Its just another tune to digest then excrete and forget about. Its cheapening the whole community, people just think of it like drugs, never appreciating what they've already got, always seeking more, different excitement... Helping to bring about the problems we're seeing all over the world, with promoter politics, 'producers' stealing from real artists, djs who downloaded their entire repertoire... Cheapening psytrance and causing it to become just as shallow and essentially valueless as mainstream EDM has become. 5. no, because if the Web were to (heaven forbid) ever face a catastrophic failure (discounting the possibility is foolish) and be completely wiped from the earth somehow, all those releases would vanish forever. All the eggs in one basket is not a good plan.

Nice one! Listening now, and its 8-bit nostalgia awash over me...

still sounds funny in English... d/ling now, ketamine theme=