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    Hot Food/Sauce/Chilli Addicts?

    in Off Topic

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    Haha yes I know what u mean.. I am not really into scoville checking or trying to eat the hottest stuff possible. I rather something that I can still taste haha.

     

    Also recently and kind of related I have been on a Bloody Mary kick... The best one I had was when the place had some kind of chilli oil in the back after I asked them to make it hotter. Ouch. :D Good though!

    Love bloody mary. The spicier the better. big fan of spicy stuff as well but not so spicy that it sets some bells ringing between my ears. I had that once , not a very pleasasnt experience.

    Tracklist for DJ sets should be mandatory....

    in General Psytrance

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    I don't reveal my tracklists on Soundcloud (my downtempo mixes) for the simple reason that I find that looking at a tracklist you can more easily opt not to listen if there's for example too many (to the listener) unknown artists, or if there's too much of artists you'd rather not hear. The good thing about Soundcloud of course is that you can always PM me for track details. People have done that and I always reply.

    A tracklist will make me not want to listen to the set incase i have heard some of those tracks before but what i have also realised is that in a good set those very tracks you are used to listening stand alone take on a completely different meaning when mixed well with other tracks that you might not have heard. So i always give the DJ the benefit of the doubt that it will be a different experience even though there is a sesne of familiarity with the music. and the more tracks that i have not heard in a set the better. But i might be the exception here.

     

    IMO Its always better to provide a tracklist than not so the listener knows exactly what to expect from a set.

    Revival or regression?

    in General Psytrance

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    I dont understand the need for people to compare the two . True neogoa is more closely related to old school so a need for micro analyzing the two and decide who the winner is but not like psytrance post 2k didnt draw in its own insignificant way from oldschool goa, infact minimal /full on darkspy wouldnt have come into existence if it wernt for oldschool goa which led the way. so why dont we whine about psytrance the same way we whine about neogoa being a rip off the oldschool? its all a part of what we call psychedelic trance innit ? Yes some got inspired by industrial and some by more commercial genres but the entire psytrance movement was spawned because of Goa-trance pre 2k. So i dont understand why there is a need to call it revival or regression , its an entity on its own like some one said above, or what i would call a "continuation" . Infact i would say that the psychedelic electronic genre is now heading in the right direction after the U-turn that happened with all the subgenres that tried to continue the magic but somehow lost their way or couldnt keep the orginal oldschool fans engaged enough. Its better we dont blame new school artist for copying or getting inspired by what was the original movement. Fans should be happy that some one is keeping the flag flying high even if its done in a somewhat different style , the intention and essence remains the same.

    Do you suffer from any mental illness?

    in Off Topic

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    Glad to know im not alone. I guess listening to psytrance comes with a cost ... we're all not normal. :lol:

     

    ok that was meant to be taken lightheartedly .. on a serious note i have some issues like depression, social anxiety etc which i have developed over the years , i was not like this infact completely opposite to the way iam now. I dont know what caused this , some say its substance abuse but im not willing to accept that. Its probably something to do with third generation genetics but i could be wrong. :unsure:

    What books are you reading now?

    in Books and literature!

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    Have undertaken the mission to read the great SciFi classics... So far I've read:

     

    • Hyperion by Dan Simmons: great The Canterbury Tales - like construction of the narrative, enjoyed it a lot. Quite abstract in some of it concepts, focused mainly around pain. Definitely worth the read.
    • Neuromancer by William Gibson: awesome. Very 'fast' and techy feel, kaleidoscopic descriptions of cyberspace, all before the internet came into existence as we know it.
    • Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick: Classic, also bought the director's cut blu-ray of Blade Runner...The soundtrack and atmosphere still amaze me.
    • The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick: Psychedelic but rather dark trip, Dick had a very ominous kind of perspective on the future... Uneasiness is the keyword here. Definitely recommended though.
    • Dune by Frank Herbert: Still on this one. Wondering by myself how in god's name I've waited so long for something this good. Stunningly imaginative.

    It's been a great trip so far :D Oh, in the meantime I've also read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell... A future classic, no doubt. And Logis in einem Landhaus by W.G. Sebald, beautifully melancholic. I'm on a roll!

    Just ordered Dune (as it was not available in any of the stores either physical or online here in india ) along with Infinte jest (again some issue) from Amazon. Paid crazy shipping made worse by the dollar exchange rate these days but I guess they are both worth it. :wub:

    Early Infected Mushroom

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Classical Mushroom is, in my opinion, a fucking masterpiece. In general, I adore and I'm a huge fan of their earlier albums. I basically grew up with them. After IM the Supervisor, they went to absolute shit, unfortunately. It's such a sad sight. How they could go from all that to spastic dubstep/house/D'n'B crap is beyond me.

    +1

    What do you hate most about Full On?

    in General Psytrance

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    Actually I like good full-on...as all good music. What I really cannot stand are those damn breaks and stupid build-ups that lead nowhere and just interrupt you from doing anything, i.e. having fun.

     

    But give me good full-on and I'm all over it.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIINKcwOk1U

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6YPuK5czu4

     

    Hyperion, Digicult, Raz, U-Recken...there are some good full-on producers. But of course there are Beat Hackers, Perplex and all that crappy stuff....

    +1

     

    Had to go through the entire thread to see what others were talking about, this makes perfect sense !

     

    I like u-recken too :)

    What do you hate most about Full On?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    when i'm listening to that, i'm really enjoying the silence afterwards ^_^

    :lol:

     

    Dunno whats happened to wrecked machines they were so good when they were making tracks like "take the ups" etc

     

    honestly i dont know what i hate most . when i started to enjoy psychedelic it was due to full on so im not going to bash it just because i have discovered much better music because of it. i wish protoculture were to return to his roots and gave us some of that Refractions magic that he created with his debut album. Unfortunately everything has gone downhill since then.

     

    Other than that i did enjoy some Bizzare contact , alternative control and a couple of other Israeli artist that were making full on around 2004-05 till i realized that there was much better music in the psychedelic genre.

     

    Its not that bad if you ask me unless its done in really bad taste like remixing pop tracks and i say really bad because even that can be pulled off without sounding like WTF.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfh_TlhxQnM

     

    :ph34r:

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