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@Oopie im curious. is it more x-dream oriented or more chi-ad oriented than your other album(s) ? either way im looking forward to hearing it. i got a few melodies and basslines of my own to stitch together but no sound yet. thats the hard part. every good artist i can think of has their own unique sound and you can identify them by the sound alone in just a few bars. such as x-dream, or chi-ad. you are in that similar vein but i think has your own sound still. i wonder when that happens. when in your production phase you develop your sound, if that happens before you write music, or after. and what constitues a "sound" for that matter? is it EQ? tonal qualities? cause it cant be the melodies/patterns themselves. huh. guess i went a bit far off the off topic there. curious about this though, and i welcome any and all input !

Well damn. A new hallucinogen album would outdo pretty much anything. Now all we need is that AP album coming within the next century, another Dimension 5 album, another Blue Planet Corp album and ofc the new silicon sound album and I'll die a.. Well I'd still be pretty miserable but I'd have the music sorted.

I think I read or heard somewhere that they are using a modified common cold virus that carries that messenger rna that tells the cells to produce the spike protein. So in theory this vaccine could potentially cure the common cold as well. When I say cure I mean it will aid the immune system in producing the correct antibodies. As opposed to a classic vaccine that uses dead animal tissue and an inactive virus to do the same thing. What worries me personally is that the virus may mutate, and now you have told the cells to produce an antigen that the actual virus is now immune to - and this could cause the body having to fight both the mutated actual virus - while also fighting the spike protein created by the vaccine. Double jeopardy? Plus, there's no way of knowing what the long term effects could be by "tricking" the cells to create this spike protein to trigger the antigen response. The whole vaccine thing is worrying to me in general - I'm very thankful for the old tried and true vaccines like measles, tetanus, rubella, dyptheria. But the first round of polio vaccines caused mass casualty, and there's even reports of a polio outbreak actually caused by the vaccine. Also, let's not forget the narcolepsy reports from the h1n1 vaccines. I think there's alot to worry about without being labeled either "antivaxx" or a "conspiracy theorist". And let's be honest. Without the vaccine there's already a 99% chance your immune system will fight it off without much issue. And the risk groups are mostly the elderly. Sadly the life expectancy is around 80 years old in many countries which just happens to be the same age group as most of the covid casualties. Also I don't like Bill Gates and don't know why he is the worlds vaccine-tsar.

Im out off the ICU now, since yesterday and feeling allright I guess. Got tested for Covid too since we had it in the unit. But came back negative thank god. Dont think my body would have been fit to fight covid right now. @RTP Thanks brother, I totally got the sentiment of your comment and appreciate the kind words. Yeah that drug is called Antabuse (Disulfram) and Im currently on that. So even if I wanted to drink I would get very sick (or at least extremely uncomfortable). But I have no cravings at all, and Im very thankful for that. The worst thing now is that my dopamine/endorphin-regulation is way off, and I cant seem to find content in doing pretty much anything. Thats the "sickness" of addiction and it will take months if not years - to heal, so that I can feel happy from "normal" things again. Its gonna be rough but Im very thankful to be off booze for the first time in like, I dont even know. And in case anyone is interested in pharmacology Im also on Quetiapine, Alimemazine, Venlafaxine and Mirtazapine. I am personally really interested in medications and the effects on the body and mind (I have erhm, "experimented" quite a bit in my days ) And some beta blockers and B-vitamins. Quite a bit of meds I guess but it takes what it takes! Id also like to take this opportunity to apologize for my alcohol-fueled rantings and ravings over the years on here. Cringe to say the least. Hope everyone is doing allright!! I dont envy anyone working in the medical field, and I dont envy anyone in countries heavily affected by this shit virus. (Sweden is heavily affected I guess if you look at the numbers - but honestly I dont see it/feel it) Btw - Are you guys gonna take the vaccine? I will NOT take it. At least not until its been at least 1 year and its proven safe and effective. There was never a coronavirus vaccine before, not for the common cold or anything else - and now theres one that has only taken a year to produce while normally vaccines takes 5+ years to make. Im cautios.

Gamemaster Similar vein and one of my favorites..

I'm sure AA can work for many people. To me it's a bit of a bunk science.. It's really an echo chamber where you sit around a table and everyone starts by saying hi my name is X And I'm an alcoholic ", constantly affirming yourself that you are an alcoholic. Everyone says the same things." today it was really bad yada yada ". To me it was extremely negative, nothing positive about it at all. And the fact that you constantly affirm yourself each time that you are an alcoholic - isn't really gonna progress your state of mind into something better. I'm not in the belief that once an alcoholic - always an alcoholic. I'm a firm believer that you can change your life/mindset around and the echo chamber that is those AA meetings keeps you in a perpetual state of being an alcoholic even if you stopped drinking, cause that's what you tell yourself and others each meeting. Anyway, if it works to keep people of booze then fine but it also keeps you stuck in the mentality that you're forever an alcoholic and I don't think that's a healthy mindset to have. Alcoholism is not a disease in my book, it's an addiction and once you break it I will never sit around calling myself an alcoholic year after year in those meetings. Negative affirmation isn't good I think. And to anyone reading that AA has worked for, then great on you and I'm by no means taking anything away from anyone, this is just my opinion on it as its certainly not for everyone. Hope I didn't come off as defensive Thank you for your comment!

I decided to stop drinking alcohol. Not sure if it's topic related, but I don't wanna live life in a tired, depressive haze when I have no energy and say and do things I regret all the time. Lately I began to feel suicidal after i was drunk each time. Got myself to the ICU, and am now at hour 48h. First 12-24h they tried diazepam, got 90mg but was unresponsive. 155/115 blood pressure, 150 heart rate. Then they switched to Clomethiazole. Two capsules 4 times a day. Blood pressure have yet to drop but heart rate is around 105. I had 3.3 per mille when admitted. (I'm not sure why I drank so much that day, 3.3 is literally insane.) I hope I get better soon. They want to keep me here at least 2 more days to make sure I don't get DT. I've drunk every day for almost 2 years now, but on and off for roughly 10 years.. So if you ever wanna change something about your life for the better, now is the time to do it. Hope this comment is worth something to someone. Take care everyone.

there has to be some meaning to the feeling of nostalgia, no? either way sometimes when you feel like youre about to just end it all, the feeling of nostalgia really does help you get grounded and come back into some sort of meaning

@IronSunthose are all really really good. Especially the hypnocock, triquetra and sykespico ones.

My mistake I meant the 3rd not 4th but whatever. I liked it alot either way.

Noone mentioned mindsphere yet? I think this release speaks for itself.. Mental Triplex (2016) Nova Fractal - The Wheel Of Time (2016)

nice. surprised to see you go to the darker side. this is great stuff. i like forest (or twilight i guess?) that doesnt necessarily sound like forest. this seems to have alot of punch and depth to it still. the only suggestion would be to try to drop that 4th snare hit. it is perhaps too static with that; i dont think forest or twilight uses that much snare on the 4th.

What subgenre would you say it is? If it's neo goa I think it's skywalker - filteria remix. It's from 2014, cover is orange with some purple, and has very melodic bassline. But that's probably too easy.

If you like a combination of 80s movies and 00s hip hop

i dont mind the music at all on the compilation, the oforia and astral tracks too. But i mind how they sound. The oforia track has a really really weak kick and im very surprised the dude went backwards. If it was something from a new label, or a small label - with lots of indie artists - i would likely have felt very different. But its suntrip, and its ancient masters like the ones mentioned. There really shouldnt be an excuse to not have the BEST sound possible; to portray the music. xenos track could have been so great, but the kick is just a subby click. And why did Astral all of a sudden feel the bitcrusher is the best thing ever? Anyway, this is just one persons opinion thats all

This is a very strange CD for me. It almost sound like these old masters like Xeno, MFG and Astral said "oh, Suntrip wants music from us... New school.... what to these guys like again? Ultra clean sounds, alot of bitcrushing and made in software". And thats what they delivered. Some of the stuff here sounds much more "dated" than even their own stuff from 15 years ago. Theres a plastic sound quality to alot of the tracks, especially the xeno, astral, and oforia tracks. I can hardly believe it was the same guys that made this stuff. Its almost like they hired some friend/co-producer/ghostwriter to make some of this stuff (the oforia track specifically). Im thoroughly disappointed. I like the xeno track musically, but sound is not what I would expect from a master like this. Even his stuff from waaay back sound better. We have so much amazing quality in the new school genre that there's really no excuse to not submit top tier production (especially coming from artists like the people on this comp) Theres Artifact303, that makes the tracks from these ancients look like it was their first attempts at making music in the box. Filteria uses hardware and sounds about a million times better than most of the tracks on this CD, aswell as Artifact - which afaik do NOT use that much hardware. Mindsphere is another that comes to mind using the same gear as these old artists supposedly also do. So why does so much on this album sound plastic fantastic? When mindsphere, artifact, filteria etc do not? Even the Astral track sounds weaker than anything from Amen (2002). Guess Ill get alot of hate for this review but considering the high standard of new school goa - and the high regards we have of these masters and creators of original goa trance - this was NOT what it should have been..

omg havent seen you in years man. gotta catch up some day. so wait, you actually program your own daw? music reminds me slightly of both MFG, Planet BEN, and Hara Gobi. but its certainly its own style.

I see. But If you had a really good turntable, pickup and needle - using a high grade studio dac like the lyra or something, you could probably capture a vinyl record (without noise or crackle), and i think that would sound way nicer than someone rippin flacs from a CD! obviously thats the optimal scenario, but even with consumer grade stuff i think vinyl just sounds a bit better, it doesnt have any aliasing or sound sharp, and it has to me a more realistic sound. (i think phase and stereo image has alot to do with this. which can sound slightly artificial in a pure digital environment) in fact i have a few vinyl rips of the astral catalogue and they sound better to me than the CDs. but you mentioned properly mastered digital files from tapes - Its probably quite rare to have a digital file sourced from tape? Ofc unless you mean how Cds were sourced from the master tapes in the last 40 or so years.. But if thats what you mean then thats not even better, its actually another step. Sourcing a Vinyl rip (thats also sourced from the master tape) and then making a "proper" digital master as you say - would sound better using the vinyl rip than using a CD rip.

damn, you didnt notice the penile enlarger enclosed in the cd case??

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where did AstralSphinx go? he didnt defect to china i hope

And here I am, trying to find vinyl rips :p you dont find they usually end up sounding better? even through a digital medium.

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