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LMAO this is what happens when Russians get a hold of ripped CDs with scanned artwork.
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There must be 50+ more releases of oldschool Goa so far in the past few years. AP is hardly pioneering anything new with this.It's kind of remarkable that such an album was even made to be honest though. These original tracks date almost 20 years and yet someone thought it would be commercially viable to do it.
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My post was deleted/censored. PM me if you want to see it.
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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?
My wife has Cerebral Palsy.... She is the sole breadwinner in our family.
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?
my wife an I are lucky enough to be in a position where we can afford for me to be a full time stay at home parent.
Ah, so you're a stay-at-home parent, now I understand. Have you ever held a job?
I got fired as a store person at an electrical goods storei a few years back. I was taking a 70" tv to a customers car. My back was sore as it was late afternoon after a 6am start (the person for second shift hadn't turned up) & I was having trouble lifting the tv in to his car. He refused to help & said "come on! What are you? A weak homo? Out some muscle in to it!" And laughed with his idiot mate. I walked off after saying "I might be a weak homo but at least I'm not a dumb c#nt like you!".
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?
I used to always get punched when I went to raves, pubs, clubs or gigs. When some one says something i take as an insult i don't hold back.
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?
I'd say I spend around $100-200AU every 3 months. This covers all my music.
Do you regret not having a career and a job of your own?
I feel that I wasted a lot of my early life & could've become more than what I am now. Now I am more stuck in an for of disappointment
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?
I am feeling rather horny but I pissed my wife off earlier so my only option now is to pleasure myself
Woah! Um... I'm sorry to hear that you're pussy-whipped--
I dare you to speak to me in such a way to my face you rude insecure prick. I can guarantee that if you did you'd not be able to speak again for a very long time with a wired jaw.
Hey! Calm down! I was only joking. Let's try to be civil, shall we?
I am a generally nice person but with a quite bad anxiety problem can be hard to be friends with in real life let alone married to but I'm getting professional help
Ah I'm sorry to hear that you have psychological problems. How is your therapy coming along?
I find seeing my psychologst really helps ... I get very angry/frustrated easily at these times....
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I know you are but what am I?
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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.So not thinking it's funny that you are trying to get radi into harassing a girl equals crying and being too shattered to get on with your live? Strange logic imho... You can easily try to intellectually justify your "humour" by pointing out how much you can take and how good your behaviour is for humanity. In end it's pretty obvious you would enjoy seeing radi getting into trouble for sexual harassement (and I'd rather not want to know what thinking about the girl's feeling during that even might give you).
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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.I can't stand people hurting each other. Especially when it comes from intelligent people like you.
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Your friend's wife got raped so you've become a crusader for censorship on the internet? Typical victim complex.my friend's wife was raped by a colleague who'd sexually harassed her for months
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.
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1. Stomp around.Also, would you mind posting general guidelines for people how to dance to psychedelic trance?
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.
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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."
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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.
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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.If you want to dance, use your body , not your head !
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. :-)
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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.
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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.Come on people, it's not that much fun to encourage him to sexually harass her. Touch her breasts if he's a courageous man?! You're just being mean here (or totally stupid, I'm not too sure).
I'm not saying I appreciate his behaviour towards her but getting him into trouble does not make you look any better than him...
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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. :-)
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Be a man and touch her... girls like men who take control and don't pussyfoot around like this.
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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.
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Great tune radi! Here's one that I find very similar:
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Imagine that... someone not dancing at a dance party, eh? Incomprehensible to your mind. They must be insane!People are good so ultimately they will design trip that make them feel good or amazed them. At least it's only this kind of trip that will become popular: uplifting, mixing cultures...
I do not know anyone interested in craziness or self destruction except you. I associate this with isolation and troubles. That's why people do the complete opposite, they gather and dance together for exemple.
You could have share your music, you could have join the exchange, but no you prefer killing the vibe by attacking me on ridiculous definition. Here is all your perspective/personality being expressed.
You are like this sociopath who stay beside the dance-floor to hate people dancing... at a dance party!
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.
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No "limit", but higher BPMs wear me out. ~90-120 BPM is my favorite.
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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.Why wouldn't be Goa Trance more acurate when it comes to space representation ? Isn't it a music based on Science-Fiction ? Haven't the movement elaborated and designed sounds that were meant to be spacey ?
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.Goa music uses common representations of celestial objects (planets, asteroids, starships, nebula... as well as the ideas of distance, void and stellar radiations) and translate them into equivocal sounds. Is it that hard to understand ?
That's all in your imagination. Other listeners would certainly think it differently. As would many of the artists and creators.Void is pictured by ambient layers, and planets can be embodies by acid loops or spacey melodies.
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.One final thing : about the statement that Goa can't be a special mystical music.
Music has power. It is amditted that some musics in particular have virtues that affect both mind and body.
Musico-therapists cure some diseases with specific sounds, such as Bach or Beethoven.
Why couldn't Goa music have some virtues as well, able to make you explore spiritual dimensions (whatever you mean by that) ? Why couldn't it affect you in order to streghten the spirituality, or the imagination of one's individual ?
It is a hypnostising music that burry itself into the subconscious. You just have to read the topic of people hearing Goa Trance into their night-dreams or day-dreamings to understand it. It goes far into one's mind, and we can assume that it has consequences.
And I myself have used Goa Trance songs such as ones by Toï Doï or E-Mantra to help my mind in difficult times. There are songs that makes me feel brave and gives me energy when I'm so hopeless and desperate that I can't get up from my bed. Somes songs can do that.
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?They provide me a music that fills me with something. And that something helps me to move on with my life.
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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...!But what, my good Sir, gives you the right to mock those who don't share your views ?
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.And I also refutate your statement that because of his mystical approach of music, Mr Spoke is being a mainstream guy. Mainstream is consumerism.
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.Undergroundess is the search, the exploration of creativity, of art, of new perspectives. It is also a refusal of the end products such as delivered by the mass market of entertainment.
The basic question I'm addressing is: what does this music provide for us?You claim that the representation of space in psychedelic music is only but an a posteriori construction of the consumer. That the music itself is meaningless and that it is the mind of the listener that will fill it with its own representations.
I agree on the part that says that the listener theirself add its own feelings and representations to the songs. Of course.
But it seems to me as well that the music itself contains pre-established narrative schemes and emotions that are no less valuable that one's own perceptions.
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.However, something inside the music, that was meant to say something, can't be altered.
I don't see why we couldn't deny those. We don't because of our cultural and historical understanding.No one can deny that the lady holding the flag is an allegory for the idea of Liberty. No one can deny that the painting is meant to represent a battle, with characters engaged into a fight.
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.Though it seems more abstract, it also applies to music. The language of the artists, though subject to many interpretations, remains. And a red thread inside the music, that you can choose to ignore or not, is set in order to lead you to a story.
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.For instance, I always knew that E-Mantra's track Transneptunian Objects was about astrophysics.
However, when I listen to it, I don't only understand this track with my intellect. I feel it with my guts.
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Your inability to express yourself clearly or logically makes me highly suspicious of any claims to possessing a special branch of "intelligence".More dangerously, condemning this branch of intelligence is closing the door to a vaste universe of possibilities, discoveries, progress. It is cutting a tree at its tronc so you are never able to collect its fruits. I am sure you got this easy picture that shows how narrow minded you are.
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.Your point is that my place is in a mental hospital because, as religious people or drug addicts, i am just having some fantastic interpretation of reality who finds no echoes in science and by trying to represent one vision that i perceive (the act of creating art) naively as an ultimate truth, i can only be a narrow minded idiot, i don't even know the right terminology therefor i should stop expressing my thoughts and feelings immediately.
Because my love and joy are precious. Only a few earn them.Why being such a asshole when you could use the same space to express joy? or love!!
To my mind, all mystical experience is accompanied by a certain anguish, or at least anxiety. There's nothing like that here.
SUNCDLE05: Asia 2001 - Psykadelia re-release!
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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!