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Mars's review is hilarious.
Relistening to this one yet another time right now. Wonderful release from start to finish.
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Love it!
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My favourite album by Biosphere is Polar Sequences which he did with H.I.A. It's even more special than Substrata IMO.
Absolutely beautiful.
People who dig Biosphere should check out Irezumi.
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i`m with you. the question for me was: what is berlin sound? for the younger ones is it the current berghain sound. older associate with it the sound of maurizio&basic channel together with the old tresor sound (which is also a blend of detroit&birmingham).
and you are right with this one:" I don't find debating genre boundaries particularly interesting or enlightening so why don't we go on recommending tracks? "
https://www.discogs.com/Francesco-Baudazzi-The-Black-Nobility-Of-Venice-And-Genoa/release/3553175
a nice mixture of hard industrial and some deep-sea-diving like donato dozzy stuff...
cheers!
Great recommendation. I'm a big fan of that hypnotic Italian sound. Sabatini got a lot of play on the techno circuit a few years back with this:
Also, the Zooloft label is full of stellar releases.
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There are so many ! But when you ask for one, I can't recall, idk why! :/
There were many screaming acid tracks , but in my head only that acid scream has remained and not the name
Currently loving this , not sure if it counts.
Maybe you refer to something like this classic:
Great recommendation there, I really like that track!
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Still enjoying this one.
Current favourites - Cycles of life (happiest track ever??) & Arsonik - that acid! Not the harshest I have heard, also not the softest. Just perfect. Does wonders.
Come on, show me some harsher acid than Arsonik!
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i do not think that they are exclusively focused on beeing raw and banging and i think that they would be quite offended by this insinuation. for example: surgeons rmx for rue east "birmingham" (https://www.discogs.com/Rue-East-Indoor-Culture-Remixes/release/30467)
is that only raw & banging ? on a monday morning at berghain ?
quote:" The Birmingham sound marked a turning point in the development of techno and its influence can be heard throughout the Berlin techno of the Berghain and Ostgut Ton.[6] It also formed the starting point for Regis and Female's later Sandwell District project.[7]"
That's why I mentioned Regis, not Surgeon. I'm a big fan of Regis's early work and as I recall even he said in interviews that he was putting everything through an amplifier and aiming for the most uncompromising sound possible. Sure in his later work particularly with Sandwell District there is a more psychedelic air but it's still far from the psychedelic synths of artists like Orphx and Rrose.
Exactly, the Birmingham sound influenced the Berlin sound, but in other respects they are quite different. That is why I chose this broad title for the thread. If I called it simply "Birmingham Techno" or "Berghain Techno" most of the tracks I posted wouldn't fit, whereas if I called it just "Techno" that would be far too broad and people would be posting Detroit stuff. I don't find debating genre boundaries particularly interesting or enlightening so why don't we go on recommending tracks?
In fact if I had to choose a different thread title it might be "Stroboscopic Artefacts", the label which is pushing this sound the most. Excellent releases all around.
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psychopod dreampod not listed yet i am surprised
Good point, pretty much any Koxbox track deserves to be here.
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Thanks a lot for the input Cybernetika.
@ulmehagen I'm fully aware that this isn't an official genre, but if you listen to the Orphx track and others I posted you'll find it is an apt description. You claim that the essence of techno is very psychedelic and industrial, which is simply false. Techno is a broad church. For instance, lots of techno is inspired by IDM or is very minimal, without psychedelic elements at all. The Birmingham sound is not a suitable description, since artists like Regis aren't focussing on being psychedelic but on being raw and banging. Most of the artists I listed have more to do with the Berlin scene than the Birmingham one.
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The beauty of astral projection is they sound fantastic every time, on time. No matter what..
Nice way to spend a trip my brother
Sorry, if I had the choice I'd rather listen to Magnetic Activity or Maya Moon than Mahadeva
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Hehheee, better side of gangsta, not liking but it is listenable in a way that if a radio station would play this I'd not switch the channel. @ Acid-brain you will soon be happy mushroom, keep on posting: I just had 500 posts and a status update for this rainy Friday afternoon, lolz
Haha, I first joined this forum in 2008 when there was more activity and lurked for years. There's not much activity these days but people here are so open-minded and awesome, plus obviously I love goa, so I've become fairly addicted to posting here this past week. I definitely am a happy mushroom.
I was surprised to learn you had been into this music for just 1 1/2 years, but you have already done a lot more for the goa scene than I have
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Hiphop stuff what I also like is The Streets. The older stuff from them is actually carrying the same dirty atmosphere as the good old Austrians...
TIGHT is the word I was looking for. So fucking tightly packed with rhymes and little stuff to discover. Loaded to the brim with dynamite. HipHop is extreme sports for me...
Thumbs up for Brummie rap!
Grime music is very popular amongst my friends in South East London at the moment:
It is English, but is full of South London colloquialisms and culture. I strongly suspect that Anu won't like it
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On 7/15/2016 at 3:15 AM, abasio said:
With a cool Star Trek TNG sample
Yeah, AP are the kings of using samples
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funny thing, the music from spirallianz, midi miliz, the delta, x dream, etc. remained completely unnoticed in techno circles. for a good reason ...
What exactly do you mean by that?
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Now I know where Oforia got his inspiration.
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I hadn't ever listened to any AP track before reading this thread right now, believe or not, but I have listened to goa for only 1 1/3 years, how would I have had time to do everything. Honestly I don't understand what is the fuss about, sounds okay, not special. Ok, ok, they are pioneers, respect for that.
Hahaha prepare to be crucified!
Nah, actually it seems that many people on Psynews aren't huge fans of AP. Including me. That said, my favourite track by them is Flying Into a Star. It's their most twisted MFG-like track, without too many sickening melodies
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Maybe you'll like this compilation?!
VA – The Delta Force (The Delta Compilation): https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Delta-Force-The-Delta-Compilation/release/119891
PS Back in the days (beginning 2000) there was a party organisation in Belgium - called Drona - specialising in these kinda parties. Went there a few times: hardcore...
Yes, good point, the tech-psy sound also loosely comes under this banner. I love all these interrelated genres. I think my favourite tech-psy track is X-Dream's Peter's Hoover from the Irritant album. That Spirallianz track is also nice. It's been ages since I listened to The Delta, so thanks for reminding me to relisten to their discography.
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To anyone who has not already read them, I would like to refer you to the user reviews of BotFB's latest album.
This guy is still making music as edgy, unusual and as challenging as his oldschool goa.
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Haha Oopie that is definitely the worst goa track ever. Cross-post to Lost Tracks and prepare to be surprised by the artist
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On 7/14/2016 at 4:19 AM, Starkraver said:
What do you think would happen, when the average (the vast majority) become aware of their rights , liberty of thought and other usual stuff.? Are people happy with the way things are? I ask this because we get to know hardly anything apart from what it's state owned media wants us to know.
The only thing I see that will ever break the Chinese might is a revolution within China & its autonomous regions gaining independence which they'll never allow it happen.
UNCLOS - The situation is also nicely fucked up with countries trying to force the ruling on China and China on the other hand is just being China. Let's see how this one ends. My guess is Philippines will accept the bilateral talks and they will reach some form of compromise.
Yes, most people are happy. China's growth has been 7-10% for the last 30 years, which means that the economy has doubled in size every 8 years or so. Improvements in quality of life have been so massive for most people that they don't feel resentment about the government at all. In fact, they identify their country with their government, and feel proud about both.
I think that most revolutions actually happened after the government released control and gave some freedom to the people, and the Chinese government realise that. So they are very proactive in brutally shutting down potential protest groups. They are also very interested in citizen monitoring technologies. With the dawn of huge-scale surveillance it is hard to see how a revolution could ever get started. Just read about this: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186. The current premier Xi Jinping has been far more authoritarian than previous leaders.
On 7/14/2016 at 10:00 AM, recursion loop said:China defeats my point of view that the most successfull economics may be built and maintained only in Western-style democratic societies. On the other hand, they seem to rely on making cheap copies of everything and unskilled/low paid manpower rather than on their own innovations.
I don't actually know much about China though. After Crimea and the sanctions Putin tried to tell us that China is our best friend now, but I still feel much more conenction to European people than to Chinese. Generally, it seems that political and economical interests of China don't have much to do with Russia.
Yep, in fact the highest growing economies of all time, Singapore, China, South Korea etc have all had highly authoritarian, protectionist governments, which might be troubling for liberal democratic free-trade kind of people.
When I was in Beijing I met loads of Russians who had moved there for a better life.
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I lived in China for almost a year and speak a fair amount of Mandarin. One thing that struck me is how disconnected from politics the average Chinese person is. Sure, some of them express nationalistic fervour and lots of them are posting their unhappiness about the ruling to social media right now, but the vast majority remain apathetic. They don't really know anything or care about their own governance, and that's exactly how the ruling party wants it to be.
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most of them are the refined derivaties of american music.
america invented rock music, britain brought it to perfection with prog rock (or whatever variant of rock you think is best
). ultimately, all metal is a derivate of rock.america invented house/techno and britain / europe used that to develop rave, dnb, dubstep, ... / trance, hardcore, ...
Okay, makes sense now
It all depends on where you draw your boundaries though and what music history chooses to remember. Some would say that Kraftwerk invented techno.there's also goa trance: aerosis, though we haven't heard a new track from them for a while.
otherwise, the only well-known artist from the us i know is chromatone.
Good call, those are some of the best contemporary artists. Aerosis's track Contorsion is outstanding and Chromatone produces pure psytrance wizardry.
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Also I think that Ofer Dikovsky anticipated this genre with tracks like Timelessness and Alien Pump. But he never gets the credit - I've never seen anybody draw the link between his brand of dark industrial goa and modern techno.
Yes that track is 20 years old now (!!).
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Plot idea for a film or novel: in the future, the media hires people to commit heinous crimes just so they can be the first to exclusivity report on them. When a more honest media organization discovers this conspiracy and plans to report it, the evil media conglomerate ensures that the director and journalists of that paper are personally disgraced and the information is suppressed. But all these crimes and subsequent uncovering were themselves secretly commissioned by yet another media figure, who reports the full story and uses the public outcry to secure his own fortune and power.