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    I bought the AKG K701's!

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Those dark blue ones are sweeeeeet, Mal. The detachable cable is a great addition. So do you get that rippled alien head I was talking about? I eventually fixed mine with some velvet and string. I'm really impressed with how durable they are. I've overloaded them so many times now (*BLRRBT!*) and they still sound perfect.

    Haha rippled head! :lol:

     

    Well actually, yeah, it kind of gets annoying wearing them all the time. The ears are never annoyed, but the head.. I don't like that design really. I mean sure that's only after a LONG time wearing them (I put these under stress almost 24/7 lol, my head would hurt on any headphones i guess)

     

    Oh and I'm thinking about selling these to my sis' and getting the dark blue ones just for me only. (cos she LOVES them. I told her she was gonna get hooked the minute she listened to them :D).

    One other thing, that one bit of that transparent plastic that acts like a handle, that looks like rails broke one one side. It's no biggy, it doesn't change the balance or the sound of course. It's just annoying that a headphone with such precision get's such design flaws. I mean cmon, cheap plastic used for the handle that is used constantly to adapt the phones.. that's a no-no. Other then that, absolute brilliance coming out of them after 1 year of use. :)

     

    I eventually fixed mine with some velvet and string.

    Now how does that work?

    I bought the AKG K701's!

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    Ha! Congrats. I practically live in mine when I'm at home. Be sure to save the silver stand to put your phones on when not in use. :D

    Dudeeeeee........

     

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    AKG K702!! :D

     

    They're the same as k701 except they're DARK BLUE! (Fuk yeah, why didn't they make them like that in the first place, white just looks cheap..) + they've got a detachable cable. I'm so gonna be an AKG collector when I star earning millions.. :rolleyes::D.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

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    Psy trance is by definition a sub-set of predefined sounds and formulas that we collectively know (and identify or misidentify as psy trance). As it has been stated you have room to grow and experiment a bit within these confines, but if you go too far, then suddenly it is not psy anymore according to our definition. The artists that evolved the most (in what direction it is unimportant) are no longer psy, because they decided to stretch the line a bit farther. They crossed over to electro, or tech house, or horror trance or whatever. The sad truth is, once a sub-subculture is defined as such, once we identify the psy sound, or the 'goa' sound, it stops evolving, given those basic elements are now defined.

    What Definition? Predefined sounds? Predefined formulas? That's the exact opposite of what psy should be about. I'm sorry, but electro and tech house are not "streched out" psychedellic music, they're something completely different. But if you believe you can call that psy...well.. that's your own idea. I don't really care if artists stretch out the meaning of a genre, actually I respect artists for going to extremes, but that's not what's hapenning right now. The genres are being narrowed down even further with predefined formulas, and that's exactly why 90% of the music blows. Luckily there's other genres I can look up to, like ambient for example, where the ratio of good music to be found is in a better advantage then the psytrance scene.

    2008 CHRISTMAS CAROL RELEASE

    in Free Music Promotion

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    YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!

     

    I've been waiting for this ever since the last christmas carol release of 07'!! :posford:

     

    Downloading..

     

    Edit: Fuck me, I can't download the file. Some kind of download-limit reached (only 250 MB allowed, your archive is 295 MB)

     

    Reupload on yousendit or somewhere..?

    Complaints about Moderation.

    in Psynews.ORG

    Posted

    I wouldn't have banned him but he did post completely off topic, nonsensical posts in a lot of topics. Very few of his posts made sense. With the cessation of off topic, the forum is about to be music. Random crap was bound to have consequences. He should have no complaints -_-

    Since when do you have moderation privileges? :ph34r:

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    No one disagrees with that.

    I think it's the root of all problems in my humble opinion. Why would anyone want to copy other peoples style or create their own based on a 'popular formula' unless they wanted to get in the music business purely for the money or the "fame" (which explains the boom of artists in Israel).

     

    I'm not a genre fascist tho. There's pretty much gold in every genre, altho maybe I can't grasp what full-on really represents as a subgenre. As for dark psy, psykovsky is the one I found out about first, a really great talent and he makes the genre shine. I can't really blame one genre of music for killing another (as in becoming more popular). If one genre becomes more popular then the other, and artists start abandoning their original genre for the more popular one, it's their choice sure. But if they do it solely to promote their music to a wider population no matter what that music sounds like, then I think this is called "forced cross-gendre switch" (Holy shit what a tittle :lol:).

     

    Blame the artists for selling out, don't blame genres. Don't blame the listeners either, it's their choice to listen what they want to listen to. If an artist switches to another genre, but does so because he is truly interested in another genre and not just to make his name more popular, then I respect that. I guess thats what Posford did, but I'm kind of 50/50 about liking/not liking his style (altho that's more of a personal taste then anything else).

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Pads in death metal, WTF? Pad-Metal? :lol:

     

    To be honest I don't hear anything 'psychedellic' in nowaday music that's labeled 'psy', and that includes all of the subgenres. It seems like the definition of 'psychedellic' has been turned from 'complex, crazy, melodic, rhythmic, interesting' to 'simple, unmelodic, vague, plain, uncreative, dark'. Just dropping a sound into a track that sounds way off doesn't make the track psychedellic for fucks sake. It's not about the sound, it's about the effect of the entire track. You build little peaces together and make the whole track sound psychedellic, but yet make the listener interested throughout the entire track. That's the true genius of it, not some damn dark samples layered all over with a bassline, and expecting the listener to just like it. That's why I don't like today's music so much. It's because (almost) everyone is making music with a formula.

    Banco De Gaia

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Love Banco De Gaia :wub:

     

    Similar artists?

     

    Hmmmm.....

     

    Try Kaya Project & Jairamji

     

    not exactly the same but I think if you like the ethnic style without going to overboard, you may like them :D

     

    I also played some Mystery of The Yeti at a night recently & someone commented how Banco it sounded (it was an upbeat excerpt though)

    Thanks! :D

    VA - The Next Millenium - Track 9 (1999)

    in Lost Tracks

    Posted

    I'm kind of stunned since I can't figure out who really made this track. According to discogs it was Iridium:

     

    http://www.discogs.com/release/206469

     

    Track 9 - Iridium - 12000 Suns. A track made by Iridium, I gave a quick visit to the artist page, only 3 track listed and this VA track. But I allways thought this was a track from Astral Projection?

     

    There seems to be mixed results when you search on google for 12000 suns, on some pages the author credited is Iridium, on others its AP.

    Musically speaking, it sounds like something AP would make, since I've never heard anything of Iridum before anyway.

     

    Anyone got an idea who is really behind this track? Was it a colaboration maybe?

    Banco De Gaia

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Toby Marks a.k.a. Banco De Gaia. Just listening to his '10 Years' album. Really great ethnic/chillout music, very creative stuff. I've found out about him from the ambientmusicguide.com site. Altho theres a TON of artists missing from that site it's still nice to find this kind of music.

     

    Anyone else enjoying this music? Have recommendations of similar style artists maybe? (Well I'll find out by myself probably, since I haven't browsed thru all the artists from that site just yet.) But this is great stuff! :)

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