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It aint? Must be confusing him with somebody then. It's been a while since I listened to that album.. must be a few years now. But isn't that album like some kind of horror-style psytrance? Isn't that in any way darkpsy or what?

No, I just found out. It was Artifakt.. how could have I forgot? Artifakt was really one of the first artists that made me start to notice the depths of darkpsy.

Aphex Twin - Powerpill Pacman :posford:

He does it for the fun. He's just makin fun of the genre. You can't really think he's serious? Have you heard some of those tracks?

Ok just who is this 'We' you speak of? Do you represent someone here? And what goa trance releases, there were only a handful. 'We' don't do a best of [goa trance] of each year but a collection of releases in different genres that relate to psy in one way or another for that particular year. edit: i'm sorry. it's december. you joined a month ago. You don't consider yourself new tho huh?

And this is true for (almost) any hifi headphones. But especially for the K701's. Trying to use them without an amp is like trying to drive a ferrari on diesel.

I see your point, but that's a bit of an offtopic area here. He wants to invest in those headphones allready, but without an amplifier to drive them they will sound the same (well not really but you get my drift) as using cheap sony's. Now to your point; It really depends on what the musician is trying to accomplish here. Is he making music just for the people, or is he making music because he loves making music? Personally, I do it for myself. I'd sure want the best monitors out there but I can't afford them really. I like to play with all sorts of frequencies that in a normal environment (aka mainstream speakers) would hardly even be heard. But that's not my concern. If the artist wants to dumb down his production to suite only the mainstream population that's his/her choice. As for dumbing down, everyone is jumping on the mp3 bandwagon these days, even mastering technicians are doing their jobs in a way to make the master as good as sounding on an mp3 as on a .wav. Instead of just converting that mastered .wav file into an .mp3, they're actually dumbing down the whole process so the mp3 sounds just as good as a .wav does. That's why you have so many people out there who will swear that an mp3 sounds just as good as a .wav file - even on an ultra-expensive setup. This is because the mastering was done deliberately this way. Since online music has started selling really good, the fastest way to satisfy an online customer is to transfer mp3's instead of wav's (since mp3's are way smaller then wav's and take less time to download, not to mention you can put alot more of that stuff on your iPod). It's pretty much a "master it for mp3" & when it's done "convert it to wav" process. That way they can force the mp3 as a new standard in music (since virtually that .wav file would musically be no different than that mp3). I am speaking of course about pop music, not neccesarily about psytrance. But since psytrance has become so mainstream I'm sure it's following the same steps of pop music.

It was scary because the cover associated to my memmories of my first listen to that album.

Yeah, wish they'd at least let the Spiritual/tech in read-only mode. It wouldn't hurt..

Did your sarcasm-detector crash or something?

Like Isao said, preamp no, but headphones amp definately. Without a dedicated headphone amp with the Audiophile you will need to set your software mixer's volume to it's max, and it won't be a pretty sight. There's alot of dynamics missing, not to mention the bass by using the 701's that way. I'd either go for something that Isao suggested or get some extra money for the amp. They're not that expensive really (the amps I mean mind you )

Can't remember the artist right now. But there was this dark psy album cover that scares the shit out of me (or used to anyway). It had some sort of skull or face on it. And the music = I know everyone's heard of him but my brain's kinda laggin atm. After the first time, it's kind of fun to listen it again.

Well I guess with some more psychedellic kind of psy (oh the irony in those words..) there are some jazz influences. Since jazz really is a type of music where you expect the unexpected, some psy artists show that in their music I guess. I can't really name any names tho.. but I've heard stuff like that.

Well you're the mortician around here. How's business?

That's easy, Psynina!

€50,000 for a live set? Talk about milking the cow.. Well looks like the guy behind EC has closed the site down (a.k.a. website in maintenance). Seems like a hit&run to me.

Indeed. And google doesn't have a Engrish > English translator unfortunately.

Or just import the .wav and timeshift it by a few milliseconds to make that infamous trippy flanger effect.

I'd pay that sum just so they can stay out of my sight.

Ok I just got a track sent from a friend.. wohooo!! It's "Suckwurmsoutmyfartinbcunt", and it's.. Well better hide your kids while you listen to this

Apparently some of his stuff is available on this record label for free download: http://www.core-tex.org/ However I haven't managed to download anything.

Tip of the day: You can end any internet debate with just a grain of satire and some photoshop skillz. It's closing time soon, my clock reads 21:00. Only a few hours left untill we announce the tip of the day for today. K here's one: If you have a cat in your appartment/house, then wear your slippers in RAID-10 mode. You don't want to walk barefoot to the toilet just because your cat has hidden your slippers under the couch.

What's so wrong about DVD's? You just need to keep them safe in place. Fuck, I've got DVD's that I've burned over 5 years ago and they're still 100% operational. No errors or anything. If I want to, I just re-burn all the data to another DVD, and there I have it, another few years of safe data (If I keep it safe). Unless you put your DVD's under the rain like you put your computers, you should be safe.. Compare the price (and the ammount of space) of a dvd failing to a hard drive failing and I hope you'll see my point here. Even USB stick's should be safe enough for quick project backups. I don't see the point of having 500 hard drives when all you do is waste power (increasing your electricity bill)? Not everyone is rich or a tech freak nemo, for the rest of use we use alternatives like DVD's and usb memmory.

What was it, a hard-drive failure? I buy a new hardrive every couple of years anyway - and a good one not some cheap crap. But if some boot sector gets messed up or windows messes up I'm smart enough to be able to fix it. As for some tips: Use multiple partitions people! At least a 100 Mb partition with a small linux on board with some basic hard drive tools like a partitioner and a cd/dvd burner. It will save your life (and your data) Either that or just a stripped down version of winxp (tinyxp) on another partition. Also keep an empty partition of several gigabyte's where you can quickly copy data to in case something really bad messes up and you need to reformat the partition where your data is on. Also make sure you have a Bootable CD or DVD (or USB, or floppy, or whatever ) of linux. I think there's a live version of Ubuntu aswell as any other major linux distro out there. Look it up on google. You should also burn all of your project files onto a DVD or a CD (or a USB, they've become pretty large in space size over the years) every month or so. Well it depends on just how active you are, but it's really handy if everything else fails. Remember there's only one thing worse then loosing 1 month work of production - A years work of production. As for hard drive failures that's a whole 'nother story, but I believe even they can be recovered. There's companies that can do that for you, altho for a pretty large ammount of money (last time I check was years ago so I might be wrong). Another tip: Save your projects often. Use either your own version numbering or auto-saving features of your DAW (Several major daws support this - saving your projects by versioning every x ammount of seconds/minutes, really handy). Don't overwrite the same file all the time because in the worst case scenario (say a power outage) you're file may end up corrupted. With no recent backups you could loose hours of work. I've literally got a couple of dozen different version of my every project, of course you might say that I don't need any other version then the latest but I can allways use these old versions to retrace my steps and see if I missed anything out.