abasio

Are you younger me? I feel like you are. You have very similar taste to me and a decent sized disposable income to by loads of CDs. I'm jealous of younger me but I'm more jealous of you because there's is more excellent music now. Enjoy!!!

I don't really feel that Psybient is a real genre, the music that was labeled psybient and even psychill was generally just the ambient and chillout that psy-heads enjoyed listening to. Psychill became much more of its own genre because we enjoyed the psychedelic elements in Psy so they got put in the chillout stuff too. Also a lot of Psy artists made downtempo stuff which was mostly slowed down versions of their upbeat style. Ambient though was different, it was an established genre long before Goa came along and IMO is extremely psychedelic journey music. But it's not psybient. Drone ambient like Nimon and a lot of Ishq's recent stuff was not popular on this site 15 years ago. Stuff like Shpongle was referred to as ambient and Ishq as Beatless, which in my head-genres are completely wrong. For me Ishq - Orchid is upbeat ambient: there are obvious rhythms, a lot of percussion and melody. Beatless for me is more like Steve Roach (The magnificent void ) in which you can still hear rhythms and even percussion but it's much more subtle. Genres in your head might be different still. Ishq - Orchid was very popular with psy-heads and his later follow up albums: ...and awake & Sama were in a similar natural, melodic, rhythmical style. A lot of Matt Hillier's other projects were very different though and I doubt would have even seen the light of this site if it wasn't for the fact that his Ishq project was so well loved. But even if we loved Orchid, it isn't psybient. Nor are any of his other projects but as loved as it was it was clumped in to this genre of psybient. Later Matt stopped only using the Ishq moniker only for that certain style and now a lot of drone, glitch and other kinds of ambient are released as Ishq. They're not Psybient, Ishq never was. His newer stuff is still great in my ears but it's not Ishq. I don't know what to expect when and Ishq album is released. Now Nimon doesn't have this history therefore he's considered ambient or drone ambient. Well that's what I think anyway. TLDR: Orchid

6 years old and watching films like that? Fucking hell, that's almost abuse itself My sister was worried the star wars movies were too adult for her 6 year old boy when her husband got him into them. I wonder what she would have thought of Hostel.

Aye, that sounds like me. I just don't want to see it. Me seeing it won't make a difference, it's not going to galvanise me into someone who could put a stop to this so turning a blind eye as it were does no harm, does not prevent any positive action and helps keep my sanity. I know sick fucks do unspeakable things to innocent children but the only thing I'd like to see is the news story that they've all been sent in a rocket to the sun. Edit: my wife loves the realistic horror shit like Saw and Hostel, I can't stand it but I've seen all if these. I prefer religious horror: hell and deamons and shit. We've never watched one of these together!

I bought the Globular one today and hope to listen to it soon. I'll vote once I have heard it a few times.

Daughter's bed time. She's upset tonight, crying any time I out her down. It's going to be a long night tonight. And here was me thinking I might have time to write something

I've never really gone far into anything on the net. I know what I don't like and I know that I won't like the shit that's out there. I didn't even watch two girls one cup, although I did see two girls one cop , nor did I see Sadam Hussein's execution. I don't want to see that sort of shit so I don't go looking for it. My wife on the other hand, she goes looking for all sort of shit she doesn't want to see, then complains about it later. Nothing pedo or necro but she did see some cockroach porn: yes ladies and gents that's a woman masturbating with a cockroach. Oh, I did once see a guy above his head up a woman's vagina, but that was in club in Spain.

I didn't think I'd been so away from the scene to miss the resurgence of one of my favourite lables. Well, there goes my daughter's birthday present money.

It looks like it's still being hosted, can't check on mobile but here is the link http://www.percussionlab.com/sets/abasio/broken_summer

A mix I made some years back 1. Omni Trio - Ocean Driver 2. Legiac - Tretz Dizm 3. Kattoo - Place 6 4. Plaid - Headspin 5. Kilowatts - Azure 6. I Awake - Leaving The Known (Featuring Planet Boelex) 7. Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling 8. Trentmoller - Moan 9. Nalepa - Porcelain 10. Minilogue - Feeling In Spring Beside The Dressing Table 11. Vataff Project - Kalitz 12. Electrypnose - Neverending Story 13. Solar Fields - Swimming With Stones 14. Subgardens - Asleep Clockmaker 15. Vakuum Sounds - A Journey After A Snakebite 16. Ghostfriend - Moist 17. Kettel - Mwoeb 18. Plaid - White's Dream 19. Aphex Twin - 1.3 20. Ian Ion - Sunshy 21. Kettel - Wim Hoffman

Is that a GNotR track I've not heard before? *melts into the floor*

I've been out of the loop too long, I have no idea what this one is Looking forward to this new Oforia though

What do you think of Crows un wra? I bought the first two but haven't had much chance to sit down and properly listen.

Recently I got Aes Dana & Miktek - Far and Off Sounds solid so far without being spectacular but it usually takes some time for Ultimae releases to unfold for me.

Liquid Sound Design is still releasing? I'm going to have to check this out

There's different ways of surviving. Sometimes you have to do what you can to mentally survive. But like most of the things we do to make it through the day, continuing the same thing for a long time just makes it harder to survive later on. Every day for me is the day before I give the booze a rest. I'll just drink tonight and tomorrow I'll have none. Doesn't work out how I plan though.

Time has been my biggest factor in not reviewing anything for a long time. I really want to review some records but finding the time to sit down with it and compose my thoughts is too difficult ATM.

Don't feel like you're not qualified. It's not like your getting paid or receiving promos for your reviews. Just say how you feel about the record, if you're worried about not being experienced then don't talk about the technical aspects and don't talk in absolutes. Talk about how it makes YOU feel and your opinions about it. Other people can make up their own minds and disagree if necessary. It could then spark some discussions.

Not really thought of that before but that makes a lot of sense. I still think it would be good to open up the review section for more discussion though.

So what did you end up getting?

Something easy I can do? I'll give it a try if I can't find anything easier

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-aPsKwoXcPw My favourite shorty Genetic - Trancemission

It's that time of day again: Dreanfish - Hymn :zzz:

I think what happened was that some years ago we tried to make the reviews more just reviews and didn't allow discussion that wasn't directly reviewing the music (comments on the review, asking for recommendations for similar music etc) and this kind of killed the review section. Reviews would be posted and then sink down the list as no one replied with a few words that would have bumped the review thread up and encourage more people to post. I'd prefer to allow more discussion in the review threads because as you see, there's not much to ruin now.

Hi Dros, Sorry for replying to something that probably predates us actually meeting. I do actually love some space opera and I read a hell of a lot of shitty sci-fi but this guy is the worst writer ever.