Anakoluth

thats what i expect a good dj to do id' play everything i guess, from ethno music to minimal techno and oldschool goa trance!

ever seen a good electro dj mixing with 4 turnies? if you think djing does not require any skills i am eagerly awaiting a fucking link from you. and i'm talking about turntables here, cdj's are nothing compared to them. spinning is a fucking handicraft, man. mark rothko used to paint simple paintings, just two areas on the canvas painted in different colours, sometimes with a white spot on them, mostly without. but if i do this it looks horrible. so you need skills for everything, even for throwing two different colours on a canvas. it makes you angry that carl cox gets better votings, which he deserved, btw, and it makes me angry if i see other peoples work degraded with such stupid uneducated comments.

my objection is that this compilation, just as most collaboration work i heard, doesn't really sound like a collaboration compilation if you analyse the tunes itselves. i dont want to offend the makers of those compilations or to put down their work, not at all, i just put a questionmark behind the idea of collaboration-compilations. it's just me! musicwise i like this record very much (most of it)!

one superb tune indeed, got the LP - black gold however, i dont get the whole collaboration thing of this compilation. pipeworm sounds like 100 % hallucinogen, porcupine like 100 % tristan, primitive earthlings 100 % eat static etc....i just dont get it. it sounds like lucas just did the same thing that i would do if i was doing a tune with simon: sitting there, watching overwhelmed. nothing more.

just received my first package from him yesterday. it all went pretty fine, the vinyls are in mint condition, most of them look as though they've never been played (they have)! great stuff he has and reasonable prices (va-forever psychedelic/matsuri for 7.50 e's aint bad eh? at least for swiss standards this is cheap...).

i once bought two cd's from him, it was by far the most uncomplicated and quickest deal i've ever done.

Subconsciousmind http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/fii/fii1cd001.html awesome emotional psytrance from switzerland!!

it is rather sad that artists and listeners seem to direct their attention to the impact on the dancefloor only. but maybe they just dont know that music with other basslines work on the floor too. ps, i'm not addressing you directly supergroover..

practice makes perfect

IMO what you were trying to do is not a melody, but just a synth line. a melody consists of tones in different tone pitches, like C, D, E etc. they sound like, but they aren't as per definition i think. however, in psytrance, especially of the calmer sort, most "melodies" are simple one-tonal lines like you tried to do, but not "real" melodies, as i see it. in the lines i make for example, there are most often just a few differently pitched tones and filter cutoff etc automation. but thats because i dont want very complex melodies in my music. making these ubercomplex goa melodies requires some harmony or piano or whatever knowledge imo. from a pro's view of things, this might be utter b/s as well, though, sorry cheers

maybe.. RA - Beyond Control maybe... Prana - Alien Pets (this one generates balagan in every swiss oldschool goa party) maybe... Sandman - Perfect Stranger maybe... Segment - The Gelfling (Uru Mix) ... changes all the time

King's X - Talk To You (live)

yesterday evening, there was Placebo playing in town. but it's too emotional music for me at the moment, so i sold my ticket and went to some jazz concert of a relative of mine. twas cool i went there with my papapa, and we first killed a bottle of wine before i teached him to appreciate Guinness the music was great though not very special, got all the classic-jazz pieces from Lee Morgan, Miles Davis etc etc. especially the alto-saxophonist was great, a young bloke who has already played at montreux in the past. in the end i even took a seat behind the drumkit myself, but i surrendered soon after the first bottle came flying towards my head traveller, that sounds really interesting. love the Tenor dude.

dito. best album ever

you're not alone i'm hardly going to parties anymore...that also is because of the music, but more because of the people. actually that's not quite true as well, it's because of me. psyparties are not the parties anymore that i can enjoy even without very good music. that hasn't always be the case. i enjoy the people less and less, means it's not the place anymore where i can have fun with other people i hardly know, and i have a problem to openmindedly meet them. which is just about the opposite at other parties, concerts, or even theatres and readings where i nowaydays find more people i feel sort of connected to. there is one musicwisely good party coming up in december. that would presumably be the 5th one this year then... the love for the music is still strong though. it's just that i'm making more psytrance myself nowadays than listening to ready stuff damn, actually it's too early to get old (just a j/k as an addition to the debate of becoming quiet with the age)

Chris Isaak and not ashamed a bit

you didnt ask me, i know, but the first two albums of Haldolium (Deagua and H2) are IMO pretty near to Native Radio that doesnt count for their other stuff though, indeed...

Native Radio - Chiba City Blues is one great record! also try Segment - 01 and a few of the older Medium-compilations. too bad such music is hard to find nowadays..

Hello, I uploaded three new tunes (around 4 min. samples) to my soundclick, which are: Atlas Shrugged - nite time prog with an edge of something (134 bpm) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.c...&songID=4453847 Devil's Throat - deep psychedelic downbeater (96 bpm) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.c...&songID=4453959 Vaporizing Glares - sort-of uplifting prog/psy hybrid (138 bpm) - PAR2 Productions http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.c...&songID=4457838 ...enjoy. I'm thankful for any feedback or hatemail. chrs, R.

i've experienced the best service from trance shop. every other place i tried wasnt even nearly as quick in case of shipping, answering mails etc, and not as friendly and goodwilling also. its just too bad they dont have most of the releases i want, so i find myself ordering from psyshop mostly instead.

imo Loopus In Fabula (Fabula Records) released 2 great groovy, funky psychedelic prog/trance albums (Astrofunk and recently Fat Ladies Bingo!) that not very much people have heard of. it's some top prog material, i love to listen to it if i need something not toooo serious and heavy-on-the-mind.

we do have EasyJet flights, but i don't like them, we'll fly there with Swiss or BA, he's convinced last year they kicked me out of a few pubs hehe, thats why i was worried bout it. but they can't do that to a twisted whore!

tonite i'm going to discuss the trip with my friend.... as for now, he wishes to go there by car, but that's about the dumbest idea i've heard in quite a while. i hope we can fix that... then there is another problem probably, which is my age, i've just gone 20, you know...what you guys think, will they let me in? perhaps if i wear a twisted shirt? cheers, roman.

best in psytrance was Koxbox during some very small and cozy open air in 2004...also BLT & Danni Makov at new years eve 2005/2006, a terrible party with only 2 hours of good music. one of the best in electronica overall was Aural Float in zurich this spring and Mouse On Mars last summer. best in rock was Roger Waters in locarno. usually i try to forget the bad ones, but two i can remember: danish Micro Dot playing cdj-act at Traktor Schalllabor label party some years ago and Eskimo at Zoom 2004. i still have nightmares.

i'm now pretty certainly attending this party too... tomorrow i'll start looking up a decent flight. i'd also love to spend a few extra days there then, coz i lost my heart there when i visited london last year. omg i'm so nervous already!