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    Psy & Ambient Musicians - Video Interviews

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Haha, yeah there's a step up in the way he mix hes tracks, from the cubase/vst plugin thingy i'm working on :P Doesn't look cheat all that equipment he's got... Just that mixer alone must cost as much as my appartment.... Anyone knows if Postford made all that money (for the equipment) from producing psy??

    Take a lucky guess.. :rolleyes:

    Psy & Ambient Musicians - Video Interviews

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I was browsing around youtube and found some nice interviews, so I thought why not make a topic with a collection of links to video interviews from various psy or similar oriented musicians. But I'd like to include some ambient acts aswell.. since there's quite a few ambient lovers on this site, right?

     

    Oh and, please do try to keep it English. Or at least videos with english subtitles? ;)

     

    Here's something for starters:

     

    Aphex Twin NL Interview - This is in English after the first 10 seconds.

     

    - Not an interview but still funny to watch.

     

    Ulrich Schnauss 2005 Interview | Part 2

     

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    The best of the best

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Hmm.. Oki. Let's see if I can find some vids on youbute, i mean youtube:

     

     

    Astral Projection - Flying Into A Star

     

     

    Man With No Name - Paint A Picture (Featuring Hannah)

     

    Man With No Name - Seratonin Sunrise (MVO Mix) - Sadly there is no youtube vid of this track, only the original.

     

    Three Drives - Greece 2000 (Man With No Name Remix)

     

    Etnica - Tribute - Pwnz the shit out of every other track imo. (I SAID IN MY OPINION! :P)

     

     

    There's loads more but I can't be arsed to find youtube's of em atm. This is just a nice short list.

     

    I do hate the quality on youtube tho.. the tracks just sound too dool unless you know them allready.

     

    Edit: Btw thx for the topic. There's a few tracks I haven't heard from the initial post aswell.

    Vibrasphere - Lungs of Life album review

    in 2008

    Posted

    I think there are some great tracks on this album. But still it feels a little bit "thin" Some remixes that are very good, but they're still remixes. And also the new tracks are not that good as I'm used to from vibrasphere. It's not an instant buy for me. After having heard the single Autumn Lights, which is extraordinary good, I was expecting more.

    I'll have to agree with this one.

     

    I've noticed allready from exploring the tributaries that they started commercializing. Altho it had a few gems there, but just as much fillers and old tracks re-released.

    This one tho.. Well there's a few good tracks, the Dewdrops (Vibrasphere & Ticon) is nice. Other then that.. really seems like a filler album to me.

     

    I'll have to give it a few more listens. Maybe it will grow on me, highly doubt it tho.

    Strange Questions

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Artifakt is not darkpsy! :o

    It aint? :blink:

     

    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?

    Pinned: Psynews's "BEST OF SINCE 2008!"

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    For those who are new on our forums, I'm talking about the "best of since 2008" in the GOA TRANCE music style.

     

    As 2008 is finishing, we can officially review all our 2008 albums, or even re-listen, make up our TOPs best since 2008 albums and/or compilations, come to Psynews, post it, and see the results.

     

    We hope that many of you will participate in this exercise, and remember, the bigger the database gets, the more relevant the results will be!

     

    They both contain new elements, so we consider them valid since 2008 releases. They can be voted.

    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.

     

    For those who are new on our forums, I'm talking about the "best of since 2008" in the GOA TRANCE music style.

    edit: i'm sorry. it's december. you joined a month ago. You don't consider yourself new tho huh?

    Preamp for Headphones?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    this is a slightly unrelated comment, but still has something to with it and maybe is just ignorance talking, but i'd like to still throw up there, ok? let's go...

    For production purposes it is great to have all those hidden frequencies to play with them and make it all sound really... introspective.

    and then you spend two pineapples and pear on mastering, or even if it's really good, you still have 80% of the population listening to your music on sub-par sound devices that do not reproduce all those wonderful hidden frequencies... so what's the point? You know what i mean? Yes the music is for large speaker set-up's but half the times they are going to have something half decent to play them the way it 'should' be...

     

    does this inquiry have a point? does it even work that way? is it just too vague? Cause it has happened to me. There are a few tracks i've had for years that i re-discovered when i upgraded speakers and is not like i was using laptop speakers before or anything, I'm talking about normal mid-level sony's they produce in the millions, which serve their purpose for just about any normal human being listening to music. So i'm just confused how it all works...

    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.

    Preamp for Headphones?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    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 :P)

    Strange Questions

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    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 = :ph34r:

     

    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.

    80's influences in the [Psy-]Trance

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    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.

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