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Mh, good question. I was "back in the days" at severall parties and/or festivals. However mostly we wouldnt even care if someone played live there. Maybe if it was a super known or beloved artist...for me it was like this, friends would call tell they drive to this and that party/festival if I wanna join. Or I would call em and ask if somethings is on at the weekend. Never really cared about "live". Guess there must be a whole lot of artists we "saw" or better listened too. There is not much to see in these live acts, right ? If the music and people were cool, live artists did not matter much. I only remember 3 names now: Boris Blenn (E.Universe, P.Connection), Tarsis, Element. All from Germany I guess. Tarsis was Soundgarden Dortmund, quite good actually. Element was some strange festival in the middle of the woods - I liked the use of guitar to lay more what sounded like pads than playing riffs or even rockish stuff. I hate rockish guitar in electronic... For EBM/Indus or Metal concerts this was different, then it counted quite a lot what artists played. For EBM eg. now you wanted to avoid those that "sat" on stage with a laptop, right ? But chose these that make some aggro or SG or horror show....luckily in the 90ties and up to middle of 2000 there were still some of the better ebm/indus artists around. If I wanna write down all the metal/goth/ebm bands I saw the list would be too long Sadly I catched some bands after their prime time, eg. Sisters Of Mercy.... he apparently wasnt very enthusiastic to play at all, judging from his performance that day LOL Also his presence was ruined - NO long black hair and total black clothes anymore, but blonde short hair ? MH! The looks wouldnt matter if the show would be good, but this was only a further nail in the coffin of his live playing. His legend was short, but important... today, not so much anymore. The most known bands I saw were probably Depeche Mode, but to a time when they were not THAT superstars... funny thing their support band was booed away. Fans didnt like em. Was some female act, never heard of them before and after LOL. Very distracting were the girlies crying at Depeche. Also the band seemed distant to the audience, much different to less known artists when you can actually often talk to the guys before or after the concert. Or even better they arent even recognized as the artist that will play later or already played LOL I remember some semi known ebm artists wlaking around the audience or attending their collegues shows.... no one seemed to recognize them or care about em

Seems drugs generally do not work for me.... in addition to above post, I remember once my friend had the clever idea to eat what was I guess "mushies". You eat this right ? I guess he had read that psy and/or techno artists would take these while making music. We were trying to make music, and he brought this idea forward. No effect on me at all. Also I can not even imagine to make electronic music when drunk (no alc here) or drugged tbh. Maybe punk yup. I mean totally drunk/drugged here, not only lightly of course Coffee also has no effect on me anymore, except it is very strong. But than it tastes like shit But normal strong coffee - its like water only tastes better.

MFG - Project Genesis See: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/71056-anyone-has-this-on-cd-mfg-project-genesis/

YES ! Coffee and cigarette right now. But nothing more, these are bad enough, right ? (BTW: I switched to so called "natural" tobacco which claims to have no chemicals in it, not sure if this is true. But it tastes ok. I cant even smoke "normal" cigarettes anymore, even the cheapest tobacco is better imo.) I tried recently the Lucky Strike natural, but it is more expensive and tastes not as good as the cheaper ones LOL I only tried once what they called "E" back in the days, I shared one pill with a friend. It had only the effect I had terrible headache most of the night. So never tried again LOL This must be 10-12 yrs ago. Also some friends from these times, smoked weed. I never bought it, but if they let get a puff I would take one. But never needed it. Now I hate already the smell of weed, terrible

For you short question: Is this Youtube upload quite bad quality and if yes, is the CD much better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjUkGxCTzU Thanks

I know I am one of the "older" people who still bought "real" instruments and gear in the 2000s. Guess all together it might have been up to 4000,- of todays Euros... I even bought original sequencer software lol. It was Logic 4.xx Amazingly all that stuff still works fine, except one effect unit (SE50) which lost all memory (probably battery empty or damaged)... I am just listening right now over my "old" first cheap analogue mixing desk

Btw. the overflow you mention can be called a big tsunami for at least the last 5-6 yrs or so.How much music is now out there in the nets ? Millions of tracks maybe? I also had an electronic group at Soundcloud (or better still have it but do not care anymore)... strangely enough it became quite popular even if I wanted to push some of my own shit through it. When I set it up I planned to this different and listen to tracks that are added or submitted and do only feature those that fit the groups description. Well I listened really to many of them at least for a minute or so to check if at least the genre is right and is not some rip off or mix or cover version etc. But gave this up quite quickly because it were too much tracks added and I must admit there wasnt much really stuff to discover (to my ears at least). Anyone who has a sample program downloaded somewhere now makes music and also uploads it somewhere, so you need to wade through a lot of "shit" to fit some gems. Way too time consuming. Then the times of records and CDs were a bit easier imo.

Yup, thats my view too. However now it is quite different than say still 15-20 yrs ago, when there was so much good stuff coming out and you were excited when some guy(s) put out some noise. Thats not for psy alone but all the genres I listened too. Maybe ecxept Metal where is even much good newer stuff (why this genre is so much better than most electronic ones I dont know tho). As for reviews I wrote for some webzine for a while and also a printed zine 15 yr or so ago, mostly reviews sometimes interviews or concert reports. It was fun for a while and also I thought it was kind of a mission to recommend and promote good music (or what I thought to be good, which mostly is). but it really gets annoying if most of the promo you get sound generic and you are at a loss of words to describe i. So I quit that "hobby" But I would listen at least 3-4 times before forming an opinion and writing something... and often ignore the label info sheets as they often were just hype. Some were spot on though (which got that label a bonus in my view).....

So AP, Cosmosis etc. is called "full on" ? I thought it was goa ... Also I started to like progressive since 5-6 years quite a lot, but there is still good and soso stuff in this genre too. like in every genre, isn´t it ? And the CD2 is really "SOSO" (to be polite)

UHM, thanks I got the PM now, I wasnt online in any forum for 2-3 weeks for "real life" reasons Just for info.

arious ‎ A Voyage Into Trance Vol. 6 - Transient Label: Sub Terranean ‎ GTN 1085.25, GTN (Global Trance Network) ‎ GTN 1085.25 1-1 Cosmosis Gift Of The Gods 7:50 1-2 Astral Projection Life On Mars 9:08 1-3 Disco Volante Contact 8:01 1-4 Slide The Search 8:39 1-5 Cosmosis Sanyacid 7:43 1-6 Christof* And DJ Mael* KLM 8:33 1-7 Chi-A.D. Exit Eternity 10:51 1-8 Astral Projection Dancing Galaxy 9:14 1-9 Cosmosis Moonshine 9:46 2-1 12 Moons Zero Gravity 6:23 2-2 Vibrasphere Nowhere 7:49 2-3 Phoney Orphants* Black Sheep 8:59 2-4 Tinnitus Shape Shifter 8:30 2-5 Noma What's Out There? 7:59 2-6 MumboJumbo* Mysteronz 7:44 2-7 Quirk Tribodelic 7:32 2-8 Purple + Lunar Subtle Thrust 8:29 2-9 MumboJumbo* Abdabz 7:52 http://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Voyage-Into-Trance-Vol-6-Transient/release/267265 Yesterday listened again to this one, well on A) we have severall cool classic tracks (Cosmosis,AP, Slide) while Side B ) is shite. How was that possible ? 1 or 2 ok tracks on B ) ? grmpph

And btw. Hitler said something simmilar....

Well if festival goers like to be discriminated and called "dogs" (btw. this is not against dogs I like them) then they are self to blame. Seems ppl. lack critical thinking skills these days more and more. Why don´t they boykott such events ?

Related to festivals:

Explain ?

Thanks, well got a bit of shock cause my older projects sounded so weird, but noted some of the plugs lost their settings... so actually the shit I started a year or so ago is workable if settings fixed again....

How ? Explain ? I only skipped through the video........ maybe I use this one or some other I found to make a track just for fun if time again...(yes it´s lame, but let´s try if these "tutorials" actually work )

Also related:

on topic just found this :

For people interested in THRASH here 2 focus about early days of Kreator & Sodom Well the 3rd band is missing, as a docu so at least a live album here:

Interesting topic... well if we take the Psy/Goa genre I think this social and political content might be out of place (even if I agree with the views). We have some other genres which are better suited for this and traditionally use such lyrics to critize certain developments. Mostly Punk, Hardcore, Thrash Metal but also some EBM/Indus bands. However it doesn´t change anything in the long run, punk was making anti war and anti capitalism songs for at least 20 yrs now. But wars haven´t stopped and society got colder more darwinistic (mega capitalism in which the banks and big corps rule, not the electred or the people anymore) However there is nothing wrong with the artist expressing his views, that is one of the resons art existis right.

Not a fan of overlong tracks and this one loses ofc interest a bit over time, but still nice 6/10 Some more darker stuff

No Psytrance

Howdie, we have some free tracks, too: a ) 2 x former project Split Effect here: https://soundcloud.com/alphaquadrant b ) Also here 4-5 older ones from AQ, but low quality: http://www.lastfm.de/music/Alpha+Quadrant If you wanna buy the a nice compilation from stuff up to 2010 head here: (NOTE: It´s HQ so better than the freebies above!) http://alphaquadrant.bandcamp.com/ If you wanna check some stuff on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/UsoundsGermany/videos --> TO CHECK OUT AND MAKE A MENTAL NOTE: End of the year, an album or EP will be out, so stay tuned. As usual in severall styles, but this time I believe much more psytrance compatible (dark and industrial styled, we call it HELLTRANCE), so shouldn´t be to OT in this forum Hear ya later I hope