Redeemer
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Obviously not much music turns out like that, and to trying to achive that normally in my ears turns in to uninspired "pretentious" music.
Well, not much music really is that good. A lot of stuff just isn't worth listening. Easily forgettable.
I would be curious to know what tracks that you had your best dance experiences too?
I don't know about that, but let me put it this way, the music that I've enjoyed most at a party would probably be Hallucinogen live and Ra live, in other words the very same stuff I'd play at home. Let it be said that I haven't been in psy-parties that many times because there simply isn't artists that I like coming this way that often.
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Ok...for me thoughtful music sounds pretentious.
For me pretentious would mean music that tries to be something that it isn't. Like, dunno, clubtrance producer making an attempt at goa but failing miserably or something...
And ok...I'm also getting old...when I was younger I listened more to trance at home all the time. Mostly to get that great feeling you have on a party recreated.
But the concept of making music that should be good at home and at parties always annoyed me . It's two completly differnt settings, and in my ears a lot of music suffers from the compromises that is done because of that.
I guess the difference in opinion comes from our entirely different perspectives. For me parties are just a side product, home is where I spend most of my time and do it usually while listening to music. I don't listen to music to recreate anything, I listen to it because I like it.
I really do not understand the division to home and party music, if I like something at home, I like it at party and vice versa. Ok, maybe some downtempo or chill excluded, but for me it wouldn't work the other way around, that is, if I like something at a party, I'm going to like it at home too.
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I could not possibly disagree more with Spindrift. Thoughtful music does not equal to pretentious. Someone once said that "Goa is truly thinking man's music" and that is my opinion also. Of course it doesn't fit for most of music released these days, but then again I don't enjoy much most of modern psy.
When I go to parties I try not to be so serious about it and I settle for whatever it is they're playing, but at home I wanna play what I really like and frankly I can't think of anything better than good Goa & Psy.
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Yes I could understand that artists want to do what they want to do instead of what someone tells them to do... I don't listen to VAs so I don't really know...
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I hate to join the hype choir, but after listening to the samples I must admit that this sounds absolutely mindblowing. After all these years, I would have never guessed that someone would make music like this.
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In other words if you don't like this one you don't know what good music is about? How about just having different tastes... Personally I can only wonder how many star trek and babylon5 reruns you need to watch before you no longer find the vocals here corny or outright embarassing. "...digital delight, desire in megabyte..." Jesus H Christ, spare me...
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I second that. Hallucinogen live was my first ever psy party and still the best I've ever seen/heard.
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If you use LAME v3.90.3 to encode MP3s, with the setting:
Then you cannot tell the difference! This has been proven by blinded testing. I would say it is even overkill. There are some "problem samples" where MP3 as a format stumbles, but this is probably not a major concern. Whatever you do, there will always be some naysayers when it comes to MP3, but they generally have no rational reason. If you force them to do ABX testing on their own, they will fail.
The reason is not so much of hearing a difference between 320 and FLAC, but having the file with the original CD quality means that in the future you can encode it to whichever format necessary at that time. With mp3s re-encoding a lossy format will reduce the overall quality.
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The music is good but why, dear god why the vocals. My face turns red of embarassment when hearing that. It's even worse than with Infected Mushroom.
Vocals in psy is like guitars in psy, it can be done, but 99,9% of the time it will fail miserably. Juno Reactor did well on Labyrinth, the vocals are used as an instrument, with elegance and style.
But this... this crosses the line way over to the corny side. Just like IM did on Supervisor and CV.
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FLAC is the way to go. As a lossless codec the quality is 100.0% equal to the original. I wouldn't pay for less than CD quality.
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Exactly. I mean trancers getting bored to 303 would be equivalent to rockers getting bored to guitar; can't happen.
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I'm sure there's tons of people who'd like nothing better than getting back those old-school sounds. I know I would. If you like that too then go for it, a musician should do what he likes, not what's in fashion.
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I'm not that impressed. First of all, what the hell is it with psy artists and corny, embarassing vocals these days? First IM and now X-D. What's this supposed to be, robot-rap? Uh.
Anyways there are some really good tracks too like Try to Save Your Song or Virus, but overall I'm a bit disappointed. Then again I'm sure everyone will disagree since Radio is my least favourite X-Dream album and everyone else seems to think so highly about that. On the other hand I really liked the powerful Irritant album as well as the two first so...
But if you want a new album from old masters, get the new Juno Reactor instead.
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Jupiter 8000 easy. EU had two good tracks, The Prayer and some other I forgot, but Twisted Bliss I loved pretty much every track. It was a real surprise to me as I didn't think much of the first Jupiter 8000 that came out a long time ago.
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suXors. Family Of Light is a better album than IFO.
Nah, no it isn't. Modulation, Moon in Your Window and Seven Sisters are definately great tracks, but the rest are weak. On IFO, there are no weak tracks.
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Hey I play congas so the track Conga Fury is like my anthem, i can never get tired of it. So I love Bible Of Dreams. Let me tell you from a psy percussion point of view it doesnt get much better than that (dont get me wrong, there are heaps of tracks that are better but if you want to hear some awesome congas listen to this track). But wait till I start releasing tracks with my own conga patterns, then you hear some real conga fury!!
Hey, don't get me wrong, Bible of Dreams is a good album and I like Conga Fury too a lot! Nevertheless as an album I think Beyond the Infinite has more content, it's richer somehow, imo.
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WOW! What an amazing album, been listening to this for practically two days in a row now. This is easily _the_ release of last few years for me. Unlike some other artists these days, JR doesn't desperately try to change and be "different", instead they keep on mastering their skills and doing what they're best at! The result sounds like them, which is a great thing.
This album has more raw energy than the rest of the year's releases combined.
With Beyond the Infinite, this is the best album from Juno so far, imo.-edit- Oh and what an amazing opening Conquistador!
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Why don't you just copy them off the net. Even the moral preachers can probably understand it if you can't buy them anymore anyway.
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Hmm, pretty hard to pick 5, the list would probably be a little different every time I'd write it.
But this is what I could think of now.1. Hallucinogen - Twisted (Obvious. I can't understand how some people rank Deranger higher than this...)
2. Juno Reactor - Beyond the Infinite (I can't understand how some people rank Bible of Dreams higher than this...)
3. Infected Mushroom - The Gathering
4. Pleiadians - I.F.O
5. The Delta - Send in... Send Back (Is it possible not to think about a ghost ship drifting through space while listening to this one? I'm talking about the kind of ship that has no crew, no one knows where it's coming from or where it's going...
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It's a nice listen, but nothing mindblowing. Then again, what is, these days...
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But I am surprised JUNO REACTOR put on two tracks that already have been released on the soundtrack to Matrix Reloaded. Couldn't they have come up with all new songs for their next main album instead of songs we've already heard???
Agreed, especially since it's not like they put out new albums too often, when was Shango released again...? The least you'd expect is previously unreleased material. But I guess these days you have to settle for little.
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I think that it sends a wrong message to buy something that you don't like. Shouldn't buying something mean that you like what the artist is doing and want to support that? Especially a well established name like JR, I'm sure they get by and money would be better spent to someone less known whose work you do like.
That said, I'm really looking forward to this album. A lot of old masters have disappointed me lately, will JR succeed where others have failed?
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I dont like the expression Progressive because its so wide.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the expression 'progressive' per se, it's just that for some weird reason in music it's usually used to describe music that is everything _but_ progressive, more like conservative. Strange.
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Hehe mate, the fade out is done on purpose. They are just samples to give you an idea about the track without giving away too much I suppose.