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    in Psynews.ORG

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    Well that kind of sucks..

     

    Now what am I going to do when there's nothing to do?

     

    William blake said;

    Nothing is lost. Nothing is lost.

    And I, I really believe that.

    That we all move on..

     

    Baaah, now I'll cry my eyes out :drama:

    Boom festival 2008

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I can't believe that nobody in here went! Ok, i'll try what i can to review since i'm not too good at this.

    Yes, there we're lots of things in the festival, not only the tipical dance and ambient floor. One of the great things about boom is that it's not just a trance festival but a multicultural, multiartistic event. It was held in a sustainable village built near a beautifull lake with restaurants, flee market, potable water, showers, toilets, huge camping area so you had all the basic needs to survive the 8 days. Of course stuff was a expensive for portuguese pockets so we brought loads of canned food. As for the entertainment we had much to choose from: dance floor, ambient floor, groovy beach floor with all kinds of music from new age to triphop, sacred fire floor with ethnic music, psycedelic painting expositions, theatre/ performance room, cinema/ conference room, therapeutical room for massages, meditation, trance inducing musi, etc. In the lake there we're some gadjets, like a bicicle boat that people could use to cross the lake and a sort of hamster spining wheel. We spent most of the time in the dance floor, wich in terms of decoration was a bit poor comparing to previous editions (where the fuck were the black lights!! :P)... it seemed incomplete to me. Didn't like the music much, sometimes became a bit boring with the same bassline and proggy effects but the people were smiley and friendly and for me that's what counts the most. Didn't spend much time in other areas so can't say much about it. Anyone? Overall for us was a very nice, unique moment in time that we'll never forget. Looking forward to 2010 :)

    Surely you're not talking about that raped swamp thing?

    Aurora Festival

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Tell me... who were you? there were not so many people at the chill at that time... picture? :P

    I'm pretty sure I saw you and maybe Mars as well at the front dancing with some girls.. I was sitting slightly behind with one other guy and a girl..

    Aurora Festival

    in General Psytrance

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    I don't know. Maybe I didn't catch you from the beginning. I do remember the visuals saying "OOOD". Was def not ambient playing at that time. I just remember thinking that this is nothing like the OOOD I've heard (and enjoyed) before.

     

    Not the end of the world. I remember being so disappointed that I made a mental note to whine about it in the internet.. sorry. Glad to hear about new bookings :)

    Aurora Festival

    in General Psytrance

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    Not the best ever, but at the same time certainly not the worst either. It was all-in-all actually very good.

     

    Location could have been nicer (very much prefer nature over camping sites with cars, scooters and old people all around).

     

    There was some seriously good music. Klopfgeister (spiderpig, spiderpiiiig.. lalalalalala :D ) and Prometheus and Hallucinogen at main, and for sure Asura at chill. Way to go! There was a definite correlation (minus some anomalies) at main with the amount of daylight and quality of music. Days = good, Nights = rubbish

     

    I liked the crowd. The atmosphere was nicey nice.

     

     

    ..also food was overpriced and crap. Same with booze (the price part). But it's okay, after all there was a supermarket nearby :)

     

     

     

    edit. huh I look so whiney. Really I had a great time :posford:

     

     

    Great time even thou I fell asleep just as Ott started. Woke up to people dancing to YB (or maybe Shpongle), actually I made a point of sleeping really close to the stage so I'd have my personal crowd alarm clock. Turned out I was way too tired. So I just slept right there. No comments on the music which was played that night :(

     

     

    edited again for less future drama :drama:

    Shpongle - Unreleased Remixes

    in 2008

    Posted

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    Label: Twisted

    Format: 320 mp3

    Source: twisteddownloads.com

     

    Tracklist:

    1. Dorset Perception (Deep Dive Corp Remix) 6:24

    2. Dorset Perception (Gaudi Remix) 8:12

    3. Dorset Perception (Lo-Step Balearic Breaks Re-Edit) 7:49

    4. Periscopes of Consciousness (Greg Hunter Edit) 5:26

    5. A New Way To Say Hooray (Greg Hunter Remix) 5:48

    6. Dorset Perception (Brothomstates Remix) 7:31

     

    I pretty much creamed my pants when I noticed this one at twisted downloads website. I reckon most of these tracks were supposed to be on Shpongle Remixed, but for reasons unknown they didn’t make it. So, lot’s of Dorset Perception, another one from Tales and one track from the latest album. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’d want to hear some remixes to Are You Shpongled material, but yeah..

     

    Deep Dive Corporation’s remix is quite chilled. Nothing unexpected I reckon. It’s Shpongle in their style. The only thing is that this tune is not Dorset Perception, but Once Upon the Sea Of Blissful Awareness. Nice one twisted..

     

    Gaudi on the other hand goes more electro tribal. This time it’s Dorset Perception. That guitar(ish instrument thing) we all love has been replaced by this bass(ish) thing. Non-theatrical Juno Reactorish sound here.. kind of. I like it.

     

    Most of us have probably heard the Lo-Step one. It’s pretty much exactly like the original, only there are more breaks/drums/stuff on top the whole thing. I reckon I could have made this one even myself..

     

    Greg Hunter delivers a slightly darker version of POC. No wonder they called it edit instead of a remix thou. It’s not that different to the original..

     

    Hunter’s second attempt offers more. From the first second on you’ll know that you’re up for something different. I’m not so sure this really is A New Way To Say Hooray, but who cares. There’s quite Indian vibe to this..

     

    And then an offering from Brothomstates. The sound is very Warp recordish and I cannot recognize this one as Dorset Perception or any other Shpongle tune for that matter but either way it’s quite cool tune to dig into.

     

     

    Rough around the edges, but still worth my 5,72€ for sure..

    Younger Brother - All I Want Remixes (Twisted 2008)

    in 2008

    Posted

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    Label: Twisted

    Format: 320 mp3

    Source: twisteddownloads.com

     

    Tracklist:

    1. All I Want (Cicada Remix) 9:12

    2. All I Want (Cicada Instrumental Remix) 9:12

    3. All I Want (Plimsole Instrumental Remix) 6:42

     

    Pretty much my favourite song on "Last Days of Gravity".

     

    Hadn't heard of Cicada before. I'm guessing it's the same guys than here. Maybe not? Plimsole is someone close to Twisted. I'm guessing it's either Prometheus or Tristan, probably Prometheus, but it really doesn't matter, does it? The Cidada remixes take the song to more straightforward mainstream groove. It's all good. Plimsole's remix isn't really instrumental since the vocals are still very much there. It's more warp like electro weird warp sound stuff, but in the end not that experimental like that warp records stuff is. I really don't know what I'm talking about..

     

    Bottom line: It costed 3.18€ ..very much worth it I reckon. It'll be part of my Summer 2008 soundtrack :)

     

    edit. sorry kind of fucked up the title.. :(

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