transistor91

Dumbest thing I've read today. First we had "unlimited". Many of them were actually limited in quantity (and are now rare), although that marketing label wasn't used for them. Next we had "limited" as a marketing term to encourage more buyers to purchase because of the chance it might be worth $$ in the future, even if the music sucks. Now we have "limited" as a purely fraudulent and deceptive term, because it's not actually limited. Next we'll have one-of-a-kind releases that are printed in hundreds of copies, real CDs that are actually burned CD-Rs, etc. How dare anyone desire to make a profit from the label's success other than the label itself!

LMAO this is what happens when Russians get a hold of ripped CDs with scanned artwork.

There must be 50+ more releases of oldschool Goa so far in the past few years. AP is hardly pioneering anything new with this.

My post was deleted/censored. PM me if you want to see it.

Balance-Music - The Man Behind The Machine A fictitious interview compiled by Zoomorph. Hello Mr. Balanced-Music, thank you for agreeing to do this interview for us. Let's start off with a basic question. I see you posting on Psynews pretty much 24/7. Do you have a job? Oh wow, you make your handicapped wife work to provide for the family? I'm shocked! And what do you do while she's at work? Ah, so you're a stay-at-home parent, now I understand. Have you ever held a job? Ouch. Well, that certainly sounds like something you'd say. Are you the kind of guy who gets bullied and picked on a lot in real life? Well no surprises there. I imagine you'd get punched a few more times if you met the Psynewers in real life! Let's try a new line of inquiry. How much allowance does your wife give you and what do you spend it on? Do you regret not having a career and a job of your own? It's OK. We've all felt feelings like that before. I really hope this interview isn't getting you down.... How are you feeling right now? Woah! Um... I'm sorry to hear that you're pussy-whipped-- Hey! Calm down! I was only joking. Let's try to be civil, shall we? Ah I'm sorry to hear that you have psychological problems. How is your therapy coming along? ...continued...

I know you are but what am I?

I don't think I would be alone in that. Only you "white-knights" want to see radi sheltered and protected from the tempests of life, cowering in a corner, afraid to touch a girl, treating her as a princess, etc. It's sickening. It seems that you want to impose your own limitations on everyone else rather than let them flourish and develop in their own unique and special ways.

It's normal in our society to be squeamish about these things, but don't let that hold you back. Hurting others is the source of all joy in the world! Without suffering there could be no joy. For that reason, some Asian cultures try to eliminate joy to subsequently eliminate suffering. But that is a pathetic way to escape living (and in practice is always veiled in religious nonsense, and unauthentic). Stronger men try to exemplify both. Intelligent men must at least accept this reality, even if they don't desire to directly partake in it.

Your friend's wife got raped so you've become a crusader for censorship on the internet? Typical victim complex. Grow up and get over it. Life is moving on with or without you. Don't expect the world to shed a tear over your loses, no matter how much of a temper tantrum you throw.

1. Stomp around. 2. Flail your arms around. 3. Shake your dreadlocks around. Hah, just kidding. I see what you did there. There are no guidelines for anything except what we make of them. There are no guidelines as to whether a DJ is allowed to dance on stage, for instance (or even to throw a speaker at the audience). It's all moral guidelines that we create and elect to follow. Anoebis' moral argument is that DJs should act respectable and not place themselves in the foreground. My moral argument is that both the DJs and the audience should act respectable and not "let themselves go wild" to the music, or place themselves (their egos) in the foreground and on display. Probably most people on here don't share my moral value and some don't share Anoebis' either. At bottom it's a question of respect and discipline. Some people don't care about those and just want everyone to be happy and free, whatever that means to them. Others care to varying degrees and want to act in a restrained and controlled manner, to have self-control and to use their brain rather than just their body.

ITT: soft, emasculated "men" whine about the dangers of "sexual harassment" (including looking at a girl in the wrong way if she doesn't want you to) and cry for mods to censor the internet because they've been "offended". "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."

Since Goa Trance listeners and musicians idolize India and Hinduism so much, I think it might be sobering and enlightening to see how they treat dance: These are truly talented dancers who dedicate their lives to it, not for "ego", but just because that's how they've chosen to express themselves. They talk about forgetting their body and intense concentration. This is practically the opposite of your principle of using your body and forgetting your head (aka being an ape). It's ironic that our music and culture is supposedly inspired by them, yet we clearly lack their strength or talent and are happy to indulge ourselves like wild animals without a sense of discipline or decency.

There are many great dancers who have spent their lives practicing and learning and developing their talents. I don't think "use your body, not your head" is advice that they'd value. Perhaps that's precisely what's wrong with goa/psy dancers: that they don't use their heads. When you shut off your brain, maybe do some drugs, and jump around flailing your arms like an idiot, you have taken "dancing" back to the realm of the monkeys rather than the human art form with the same name. I'm not disputing that it's an ecstasy for you to do this. Similarly, it's an ecstasy for heroin addicts to shoot up. Decency would suggest that you don't do that in public and that you shouldn't be proud of such moments. But we're might be speaking a completely different language here. What value do I imagine that you have for decency? Likely as little as I have for "letting myself go" unrestrained. :-)

I've never understood people dancing to goa/psy music at all. They flail their arms around and stomp like wild animals and it all looks quite idiotic and indecent to the outside world. I find the video funny. It shows that the leader of the apes is an ape himself.

You're taking things too seriously, bro. Whatever radi does, I'm sure it will be a valuable growing experience. Hopefully not just posting on the internet about it, as that's probably the least bang for his buck.

You don't have to touch her butt or breast to start with, although if you are a courageous man that's the best place. Other options are her neck, face, or legs. Do it radi, we all wanna see the next picture of you 2 together holding hands and kissing. :-)

Be a man and touch her... girls like men who take control and don't pussyfoot around like this.

Lol that Astral Projection track radi is pretty crappy. Here's some of my favorites of downtempo: 1993 1993 1993 Pentatonik - El Amor (missing from youtube) 1997 1998 1998 And here are some other good downtempo tracks from Goa albums: 1995 1998 1999 Here are some downtempo/psychill favorites from 2000s: 2001 2001 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtLrfxVJTc 2002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7gkUgOBh3k 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgty2RNlfZM 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kPoUyNJni0 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdmf6rIJbbI 2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1NgXI_jizM 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpfcEVSAETU I could post hundreds, so I'll stop with these few. Not including any of the great stuff from Ultimae, either.

Great tune radi! Here's one that I find very similar:

Imagine that... someone not dancing at a dance party, eh? Incomprehensible to your mind. They must be insane! And of course no culture could ever appreciate any music that wasn't uplifting, because "people are good" -- whatever that means. I must be an evil sociopath. Argument dismissed. Geez, you have an infantile perspective on the world. Sorry for killing your vibe, but maybe you should grow up.

No "limit", but higher BPMs wear me out. ~90-120 BPM is my favorite.

As I said, Goa Trance may be more effective at reminding us of science fiction (often through direct samples of sci-fi lines). That was my very first, brief response in this thread. But I would not say that science fiction is equal to space. I said as much in my previous post. It uses track titles that refer to science-fiction (and science-reality/astrophysics) to attach itself to celestial objects and so on. A lot of ambient music does the same, yet sounds completely different. Rock music could just as easily title itself after stars and galaxies, too. The only reasons it might be less successful are cultural ones: because rock music is already well-ingrained and established, and because the relatively-mainstream fans of rock music are probably not as interested in science-fiction as we are. That's all in your imagination. Other listeners would certainly think it differently. As would many of the artists and creators. I've never denied this. Of course Goa Trance and all music affects our brain and our environment, which in turn affects the way we think or perceive things, which could be called "therapy", I suppose, for those looking to be "cured", or could just be called "experience". And I highly recommend it, but I don't want to over-value it -- there are many other great and diverse experiences that are required to create an intelligent and perspicacious individual. Goa Trance alone seems to only create a dancing-obsessed, drugged up hippy who can scarcely type a coherent thought or express himself without reciting cheesy, mystical mumbo-jumbo. Just keep this in mind: just because something was the cure for you doesn't mean it's the cure for everyone. Goa Trance could just as easily be a cancerous disease that destroys some people as it happened to cure you. And that's assuming that it did cure you! Maybe it's a sweet, charming, but deadly flower drawing you near the precipice of your destruction. A matter of perspective?

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I give myself the right. Meanwhile, you guys value universal tolerance and respect. You act shocked that I don't value the same? And you imagine yourselves nimble dancers...! That's one perspective on it. There are others. Mainstream is popular; it's statistically defined. For example, a morality of universal tolerance and respect is mainstream. To comfortably settle down in your way of thinking in life is mainstream. I consider that a superficial definition. Undergroundness is deeply personal. It's ripe with contradictions. It is not easy, nor can it be trivially defined or captured. There are various levels of undergroundness. Unfortunately, most people occupy the easiest levels and are too pleased with themselves as soon as they've reached one. Only the rarest individuals continue to dig deeper and deeper throughout their lives, never settling. The basic question I'm addressing is: what does this music provide for us? It provides a trip. It's similar to a drug. That we interpret that trip as having anything to do with "space" is due to our cultural understanding. It could just as easily be the music of sewing machines or of noisy electronic boxes or of crying dolphins to a person of a different culture or with a different set of concepts, beliefs, and associations built into their mind. Second question: does it matter what it provides? These are deeply personal questions. My comments here are not to be taken dogmatically or as answers. Music is a language of its own which can share emotions between people of a similar culture and understanding. That it meant to say something can't be altered any more than that: an English novel meant to say something, a novel in a forgotten and incomprehensible language meant to say something, and an abstract impressionist painting meant to say something. I don't see why we couldn't deny those. We don't because of our cultural and historical understanding. Here's an image that I have no clue what it was supposed to mean: Imagine the person who painted that one looking at yours. It's unlikely that they would understand the allegory in the same way that we do. Great works of art are personal. They tend to appeal to us when they express something that we identify with and understand, or when they express us. But they can also appeal for completely different reasons. For example, I can appreciate the painting above or Indian music despite almost certainly not understanding it in the way its creators did. As I mentioned, in my personal experience, I've heard many tracks that I did not feel to be about space until I read the track title. Track titles are like movie synopses -- they heavily bias us and can even ruin it for us! If you have the opportunity to randomly shuffle through thousands of tracks that you're not too familiar with and listen to many without knowing the title in advance, I'd recommend it.

Your inability to express yourself clearly or logically makes me highly suspicious of any claims to possessing a special branch of "intelligence". There are countless people similar to you who spew yourselves on the rest of us like diarrhea, offending us with your vulgarity. I'm sure you'll never be lonely. Because my love and joy are precious. Only a few earn them. To my mind, all mystical experience is accompanied by a certain anguish, or at least anxiety. There's nothing like that here.