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Ah, well, I'll be overjoyed just to see the old reviews back up again, anyway. I used to love Children and Freak's reviews.

I voted for one forum per year. Also, can a thread exist in two seperate categories? For example, we could list an album review thread in its year, as well as in another forum according to genre; a bit like the old way of categorizing it. So, say, Ott's Blumenkraft could be in the right year for those who want to browse by year, and also in Chill-Out. I'm not saying make two threads, just that one thread should be listed in both sections. Can it be done? (I don't think it can, but what the heck.)

It's not recording because you probably haven't created a sequencer track for the mixer. Right click on the mixer and select "Create Sequencer Track For Mixer 1". You should be able to move the know while recording and it will record the automation. Barring which, right click on the panning knob you want to automate and select "Edit Automation". The sequencer will open up an automation lane in the mixer track; then you can pencil, line and erase to your hearts content. Did that solve the problem? (Don't kick yourself in the butt, though. Not creating a sequencer track for the mixer is the number one oddity amongst most Reason noobs.)

I kind of like this, but isn't it deviating from what you said earlier? Earlier you said everyone would spend two hours doing work and now you're saying that "work" would be done by robots essential freeing humans to pursue whatever artistic/aesthetic endeavours they want.

According to you, then, the constructor deserves nothing for building houses and offices and superstructures. He shouldn't get anything for acquiring the raw material, labour, etc as well: he should produce it all out of his ass. Ditto automobile manufacturers, farmers, electricians, ad infinitum. If you're gonna chuck art in the free category, you might as well chuck everything else. I'm not disagreeing with you, not entirely, but because our society is fundamentally financial, you'd have to strip society down to realize that ideal. Yeah, but those synths and mixer tables ease the process considerably, don't they? Let's ask a sculptor to make a long-lasting sculpture out of dry, fine-grained sand or ask him to mould a block of cast iron into shape using no heat; let's ask a painter to paint using his mouth and a singer to sing with a gag while we're at it. Would you rather eat with your hands or your feet? You can chuck gobs in your mouth with your feet, but isn't picking stuff up with your hands easier? Again, I'm not completely disagreeing with you--Stephen King wrote his best books on a typewriter--but if the artist has the skill, the right tools--better tools--can only aid his art. What of it? Yes, I do agree that most of the stuff the fashion industry keeps doing is crap, but that's perhaps because I can't see the art in it. My preferences do not, however make that industry useless--if it were so, hundreds of thousands of people wouldn't be busy making new clothes and styles. They definately see something in it that I do not. So according to you art is leisure while "work" is not? I don't know about you, but for an artist, art is work as much as anything else is. And what's wrong with art as work? What's wrong with labeling something you like doing as "job"? Is it fundamentally wrong to have a job you like? Is it wrong to get paid for a job that isn't cripplingly boring and is, in fact, the best way you can spend your time? This is what I'm against: why shouldn't the guy make music for eight hours? Instead of working for two hours and making music for the rest, what's wrong with making music for those two hours as well? And if, as I said, we're to continue the financial society (which, like it or not, as Pink Floyd sang, is the root of all evil today), what's wrong with earning money for doing your "job" just like any other job, even if it's no job but a heck of a fun ride? And because people seem to need to state this: all of it is, of course, my opinion.

"As a child I could walk on the ceiling. I'd butterfly up in the walls." - The Delta.

Yep. Since way back when the old site was still up and A Progress In Trance was creating ripples which more or less shaped the minimalist trend to follow. I remember after a while we had to register a username and password to post reviews on the old site cause there was too much spam.

It'd be better if they only released the unreleased extra CD with the booklet and not include all three albums. Those who wanted to buy the three albums have already bought them, anyway. And with mp3s and lossless wavs becoming quite common, it's not as if we still need to buy an extra CD to store in a locker in Switzerland for safekeeping.

If, by overrated you mean bashing the artist each time he does something that is not very good or up to the standards set by him in the past, then you're right. Simon Posford is overrated.

I've been a long-time psy follower. The way I see it, this happens to every single thing which begins as a niche: more people get involved. Alex Garland's The Beach nails it very well when the Beach members try so desperately to keep its location a secret. People dilute anything. It's natural. I'm not saying Psy should be a closed underground top secret ultra-hush-hush affair. It's just something that I've seen happen to all good things which start out small. When the numbers--money, producers, buyers--increase, the quality is affected. You'll probably disagree with me, but the main reason Goa or Psy has become so dull (apart from a few genuine, surprisingly good songs every now and then) is the same reason Rock music, as a genuine art, died.

It means revolution. The anti-British movement by the Punjabi circa 1940 was termed a Gadar. It is often bloody, quite the opposite of everything Goa as a house of psytrance came to stand for. (Although you're quite right about it's textbook definition.) Which language is that? Doesn't sound like Sanskrit, although I'm no Sanskrit scholar. Is it Bengali? India's major language is Hindi. In Hindi, to say, "Nice," you'd say, "Bahut Achcha," or "Beh-tuh-reen."