Rotwang

The English didn't wipe out mankind's history. We stole it, and put it in musea.

Yes. It was nowhere near as bad as what ISIS are doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iw9AmGcoD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqS_DH8zxy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meQ73kB7qbw

Yep, I immediately thought of The Portal when I read Ormion's post too.

OP fixed, I hope.

If you're wondering, I got it from here.

If you want one. I'll do it when I get home.

Looks like it has something to do with people not putting "Uptempo" or "Downtempo" at the start of their lists. I thought I'd spotted all the examples and dealt with them but I guess not.

Embiggened:

Good catch, thanks. Not sure how it happened but I'll check my vote counting doohickey when I get home from work. In the meantime the results should be considered subject to revision.

Thanks.

Here are the results from the Psynews "Best of 2014" poll: Link to results and discussion thread Link to "voting thread" (closed) The best 10 of each category are copied below (for the complete ranking, check the link above): Best uptempo albums 1: Shakta - Retroscape (Suntrip Records) 2: VA - Ten Spins Around the Sun (Suntrip Records) 3: E-Mantra - Nemesis (Suntrip Records) 4: VA - Moon Ritual (Amakusa Records) 5: Moonweed - Voice of Jupiter (Anjuna Records) 6: Ephedra - Journey Through my Head (Goa Madness Records) 7: Astral Projection - Goa Classics Remixed (TIP Records) 8: Cybered - Acid Box (Horns and Hoofs Entertainment) 9=: VA - Analog Dreams (DAT Records) 9=: Deviant Electronics - Green Room (Zion 604) Best downtempo albums 1: Asura - Radio Universe (Ultimae Records) 2: E-Mantra - Echoes from the Void (Altar Records) 3: Androcell - Imbue (Altar Records) 4: Circular - Moon Pool (Ultimae Records) 5: Ajja & Cosmosis - The Alien Jams - Live at the HR Giger Museum (Peak Records) 6: Sinepearl - Cycles Within Cycles Within (Interchill Records) 7=: Koan - The Way of One (Blue Tunes Recordings) 7=: Krusseldorf - Fractal World (Not On Label) 9: OM - Viaje Al Interior (Ovnimoon Records) 10=: Psyfactor - Retro Scientific (Sentimony Records) 10=: Astronaut Ape - Flight 420 (Microcosmos Records)

Here are the results from the Psynews "Best of 2014" poll: Best uptempo albums 1: Shakta - Retroscape (Suntrip Records) 146 points from 20 votes 2: VA - Ten Spins Around the Sun (Suntrip Records) 105 points from 16 votes 3: E-Mantra - Nemesis (Suntrip Records) 104 points from 17 votes 4: VA - Moon Ritual (Amakusa Records) 85 points from 13 votes 5: Moonweed - Voice of Jupiter (Anjuna Records) 81 points from 11 votes 6: Ephedra - Journey Through my Head (Goa Madness Records) 72 points from 14 votes 7: Astral Projection - Goa Classics Remixed (TIP Records) 71 points from 12 votes 8: Cybered - Acid Box (Horns and Hoofs Entertainment) 55 points from 7 votes 9=: VA - Analog Dreams (DAT Records) 53 points from 12 votes 9=: Deviant Electronics - Green Room (Zion 604) 53 points from 8 votes 11: VA - Three OM Three (Anjuna Records) 52 points from 12 votes 12=: Morphic Resonance - Chromatic World (Neogoa.tk) 50 points from 8 votes 12=: Psysutra - Gamma Phoenicis (Cronomi Records) 50 points from 8 votes 14: VA - Flight 604 II (Zion 604) 46 points from 8 votes 15: Goch - Sphere of Influence (Hypnotica Records) 40 points from 5 votes 16: Omnivox - Fragments of Evolution (Spacedock Records) 32 points from 5 votes 17: Goasia - Amphibians On Spacedock (Suntrip Records) 30 points from 6 votes 18: Ovnimoon & Rigel - Omnipresent Technology (Ovnimoon Records) 26 points from 4 votes 19: VA - Colors of Goa (Ovnimoon Records / Timewarp) 24 points from 3 votes 20: Ajna - Search for the Divine (Ovnimoon Records) 20 points from 5 votes 21: VA - Gamayun Tale (Lookinglook Records) 19 points from 4 votes 22: VA - Realization (Tantrumm Records) 18 points from 2 votes 23: Arronax - Crossing the Rubicon (Neogoa.tk) 17 points from 3 votes 24=: Dragon Twins ‎ - Only for the Wicked (Neogoa.tk) 15 points from 2 votes 24=: Gojja - Eggshell Marmalade (Sanaton Records / Lost Theory Records) 15 points from 2 votes 26: Radical Distortion - 12 Dimensions (Zion 604) 14 points from 2 votes 27: Lectro Spektral Daze - Psy Trance Powers my Space Engines (Timewarp) 13 points from 2 votes 28=: Lunarave - Do You Know Who You Are ? (Hadra Records) 12 points from 2 votes 28=: Somnesia - Sanctuary of Stars (Goalogique Records) 12 points from 2 votes 30=: VA - Goa Energy (Timewarp) 11 points from 4 votes 30=: Android Spirit - Synthetic Organism (Timecode) 11 points from 2 votes 32=: VA - Epoch of the Terrans (Suntrip Records) 10 points from 3 votes 32=: Minomar - Oriba Tiwa Project (Goalogique Records) 10 points from 2 votes 32=: Virtuart - Sacred Drop EP (DAT Records) 10 points from 2 votes 32=: VA - Limitless Universal Waves (Goalogique Records) 10 points from 1 vote 36=: Cybernetika - Solar Nexus (Ektoplazm) 9 points from 1 vote 36=: PsySex - Mind Penetration (Hadra Records) 9 points from 1 vote 36=: VA - Audio Elastique (Another Dimension Music) 9 points from 1 vote 36=: VA - Forensic Science Vol 2 (Iono Music) 9 points from 1 vote 40=: Maiia303 - Sky in Diamonds (Ovnimoon Records) 8 points from 3 votes 40=: Cactus Arising - Star Storm (Timewarp) 8 points from 2 votes 40=: Galactivation - Open the Stargate (Sumeria Records) 8 points from 1 vote 40=: Hypnagog - Thematic Mathematics (Kinematic Records) 8 points from 1 vote 40=: VA - Future Architecture 2 (Neogoa.tk) 8 points from 1 vote 45=: Son Kite - Prisma (Iboga Records) 7 points from 2 votes 45=: Act One - Brain Snakes (Digital Shamans Records) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: Antagon - Belief Engine (Damaru Records) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: Hardfloor - The Art of Acid (Hardfloor) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: Suntree - Outside - The Remixes Album (Iono Music) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: Tesla Principle - Forbidden Knowledge (Geomagnetic.TV) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: VA - Beyond the Tuubi (Sound Kitchen Records) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: VA - The Call of Goa Volume 2 (Timewarp) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: VA - Zenon Records 10 Years (Zenon Records) 7 points from 1 vote 54=: Dreaml4nd - Dreamland (Dreaml4nd Records) 6 points from 1 vote 54=: Elegy - Inside (Ovnimoon Records) 6 points from 1 vote 54=: Psyshastra - Through the Forest (Backflip Records) 6 points from 1 vote 54=: VA - NaV JeeVan (Digital ShivA Power) 6 points from 1 vote 54=: VA - Progstorm 5 (Prog On Syndicate) 6 points from 1 vote 54=: VA - The Live Remixes (The Hypnotic LFO Room) 6 points from 1 vote 60=: VA - Blue Sangoma Sounds (Blue Hour Sounds / Sangoma Records) 5 points from 2 votes 60=: Elgiva - Mysticism (Ovnimoon Records) 5 points from 1 vote 60=: Lectro Spektral Daze - Out of Body Experience (Neogoa.tk) 5 points from 1 vote 60=: Neutral Motion - Zero Point Field (Wildthings Records) 5 points from 1 vote 64=: VA - Celestial Transvibrations (Neogoa.tk) 4 points from 2 votes 64=: Nanoplex - The Billion Dollar Brain (Flow Records) 4 points from 1 vote 64=: ON3 - Plateaux EP (Platipus Music) 4 points from 1 vote 64=: Select Project - Jar Ptica (Osom Music) 4 points from 1 vote 64=: Yar Zaa - Lights & Shadows (Phantasm Records) 4 points from 1 vote 64=: VA - Spiral Trax - Scandinavian Progressive & Goa Trance Volume Two (Spiral Trax) 4 points from 1 vote 70=: Faxi Nadu - The Dangling Thread (Sun Station) 3 points from 1 vote 70=: Mindflex - Genetic Pattern (GOA Records) 3 points from 1 vote 70=: Omegahertz - Spacewalker EP (Space Baby Records) 3 points from 1 vote 70=: Skizologic - Adrenochrome (BMSS Records) 3 points from 1 vote 70=: VA - Misty Grove (DopeDeer Records) 3 points from 1 vote 70=: VA - Synthetic Lifeforms (Damaru Records) 3 points from 1 vote 76=: Electric Universe - 20 (Dacru Records) 2 points from 1 vote 76=: Ghreg On Earth - Photon Grimoires (Mindfull Records) 2 points from 1 vote 76=: VA - Brainzcrew Vol. 3 (Parvati Records) 2 points from 1 vote 79=: Blue Planet Corporation - Unreleased Old Sounds Series - 1 - Compilation (Not On Label) 1 point from 1 vote 79=: Fiery Dawn ‎ - Cosmic Ascension (Timewarp) 1 point from 1 vote 79=: VA - Orientation Volume 6 (Dacru Records) 1 point from 1 vote 79=: VA - Reboot Part 3 (Mechanik Records) 1 point from 1 vote 79=: VA - Serbia Brasil Connection (TesseracTstudio) 1 point from 1 vote Best downtempo albums 1: Asura - Radio Universe (Ultimae Records) 81 points from 10 votes 2: E-Mantra - Echoes from the Void (Altar Records) 78 points from 10 votes 3: Androcell - Imbue (Altar Records) 72 points from 10 votes 4: Circular - Moon Pool (Ultimae Records) 56 points from 8 votes 5: Ajja & Cosmosis - The Alien Jams - Live at the HR Giger Museum (Peak Records) 51 points from 7 votes 6: Sinepearl - Cycles Within Cycles Within (Interchill Records) 34 points from 4 votes 7=: Koan - The Way of One (Blue Tunes Recordings) 25 points from 4 votes 7=: Krusseldorf - Fractal World (Not On Label) 25 points from 4 votes 9: OM - Viaje Al Interior (Ovnimoon Records) 22 points from 3 votes 10=: Psyfactor - Retro Scientific (Sentimony Records) 18 points from 3 votes 10=: Astronaut Ape - Flight 420 (Microcosmos Records) 18 points from 2 votes 12=: VA - Passages (Ultimae Records) 17 points from 4 votes 12=: Cosmic Replicant - Soul of the Universe (Not On Label) 17 points from 2 votes 14=: Dr Trippy - Invasion by Osmosis (Disco Gecko) 16 points from 3 votes 14=: Audioglider - Accidental Beauty (Section Records) 16 points from 2 votes 16: Astropilot - Iriy (Altar Records) 15 points from 2 votes 17=: Chronos - Spiritus (Mystic Sound Records) 13 points from 2 votes 17=: Soulacybin - Gratitude (Merkaba Music) 13 points from 2 votes 19: Gus Till - Ghosts of the Earth (Interchill Records) 12 points from 3 votes 20=: Beatfarmer - Eye of the Storm (Ovnimoon Records) 11 points from 3 votes 20=: Flooting Grooves - Antimony (Flooting Grooves Music) 11 points from 2 votes 20=: PsiloCybian - Unfold Oneself into Endlessness (BMSS Records) 11 points from 2 votes 20=: Sephira - Monkey Tales (BMSS Records) 11 points from 2 votes 24=: Kaya Project - Firedance (Interchill Records) 10 points from 2 votes 24=: Sundial Aeon - Analysis (Impact Studio Records) 10 points from 2 votes 24=: Alpha & Omega - The Half that's Never Been Told (Steppas Records) 10 points from 1 vote 24=: Aphex Twin - Syro (Warp Records) 10 points from 1 vote 24=: Iacchus - Frogspawn (Mystic Sound Records) 10 points from 1 vote 24=: Invisible Allies - Conversations with Bees (Aleph Zero Records) 10 points from 1 vote 24=: Mark Harris - The Angry Child (n5MD) 10 points from 1 vote 24=: Sygnals - Enter Light (Sonic Loom) 10 points from 1 vote 32=: Bioscape - Living Connection (Gliese 581C) 9 points from 1 vote 32=: Kalya Scintilla - Resonant Mind (Merkaba Music) 9 points from 1 vote 32=: Kaminanda - Liminal Spaces (Merkaba Music) 9 points from 1 vote 32=: VA - Ten Spins Around the Sun (Suntrip Records) 9 points from 1 vote 36=: Entheogenic - Enthymesis (Universal Symbiosis Records) 8 points from 2 votes 36=: Carbon Based Lifeforms - The Path (Not On Label) 8 points from 1 vote 36=: Point - Flatpad EP (Digital Diamonds) 8 points from 1 vote 39=: VA - Ethneomystica Vol. 1 (Mystic Sound Records) 7 points from 2 votes 39=: VA - Smörgåsbord (Maia Brasil Records / Omnitropic) 7 points from 2 votes 39=: Ishq - Zennor Plane (Ektaphone) 7 points from 1 vote 39=: Misled Convoy - Tickling the Dragon's Tail (Dubmission Records) 7 points from 1 vote 39=: Murya - Triplicity (Touched) 7 points from 1 vote 39=: Tycho - Awake (Ghostly International) 7 points from 1 vote 45=: Christopher Willits - OPENING (Ghostly International) 6 points from 1 vote 45=: Etnica - In Dub (EtnicaNet) 6 points from 1 vote 45=: Gmo vs. Dense - Equation (Altar Records) 6 points from 1 vote 45=: Ishq - Seascapes (Virtual) 6 points from 1 vote 45=: Nimon - The King is Dead (Ant-Zen) 6 points from 1 vote 50=: Ishq - Blue Infinity (Virtual) 5 points from 1 vote 50=: Ishqamatics - Waterbound (...txt) 5 points from 1 vote 50=: Mister Chill'R - Lysergic Lullabies (Waveguild) 5 points from 1 vote 50=: Solar Quest - Core (Electronic Soundscapes Records) 5 points from 1 vote 50=: VA - Paz 2 (Ovnimoon Records / Goa Records) 5 points from 1 vote 55=: VA - Floating Spirals 2 (Altar Records) 4 points from 2 votes 55=: Globular - Digging & Building (Not On Label) 4 points from 1 vote 55=: Kick Bong & Squazoid - Ethnic Vision (Cosmicleaf Records) 4 points from 1 vote 55=: Ren Toudu - Nemophilist (Ovnimoon Records) 4 points from 1 vote 55=: VA - Enfold 01 (Ultimae Records) 4 points from 1 vote 60=: Master Minded - Heart And Soul (Merkaba Music) 3 points from 1 vote 60=: Northcape - Glasshouse (Sun Sea Sky Productions) 3 points from 1 vote 60=: VA - Waypoint (Interchill Records) 3 points from 1 vote 63=: Displacer & Nimon - House of the Dying Sun (Hymen Records) 2 points from 1 vote 63=: VA - Into this Wired Abyss Vol. 3 (Into this Wired Abyss) 2 points from 1 vote 65=: Andrew Heath - The Silent Cartographer (Disco Gecko) 1 point from 1 vote 65=: Memphidos - Walking To Loneliness (Sonic Loom) 1 point from 1 vote 65=: Munstrous - Mists Of Time (Glitchy Tonic Records) 1 point from 1 vote Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to the artists.

What is a "proper melody"?

Can anyone recommend stuff like this? Preferably stuff that can be bought in a digital format? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts0LAmfOT0A

I don't know if there's anything I can do about it, I'm, afraid (I'll ask the other admins though). Do you have a computer you could try it on? Alternatively if you send me an email with the image you want as your avatar I could set it for you.

What happens when you click the "OK" button?

I just tried on an iPhone 6 and it worked OK. Are you using the mobile version of the site or the full version? How big is your image? When you try to adjust the crop, are there "OK" and "Cancel" buttons below the image cropping box?

It's still February until I get round to closing the topic and counting votes, which may or may not happen later today. Meanwhile: Uptempo: 1: VA - Realization (Tantrumm Records) 2: VA - Audio Elastique (Another Dimension Music) 3: Morphic Resonance - Chromatic World (Neogoa.tk) Downtempo: 1: Sinepearl - Cycles Within Cycles Within (Interchill Records) 2: Androcell - Imbue (Altar Records) 3: Circular - Moon Pool (Ultimae Records) e: Wow, that yellow/clay/denim colour combination of my downtempo section is horrible.

Can you be more specific about what happened when you tried? Did you get an error message, or did the image just not come out looking like the preview, or what? Also, what browser and OS are you using?

Nice track, interesting style.

Upload them to a site such as Imgur, then get the image URL and post like this: [img=http://www.website.com/image.jpg]

^ Interesting post, I don't follow regular trance so that's all news to me, but it makes sense.