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Sounds nice, indeed! Thanks

Freq - 2004, Andromeda -2005, Sensogram - 2012. I don't know any current artists with similar sound. Most recent mainstream "prog" actually soudns like full-on slowed down to 138-140 bbm.

Yes, that's him.

It seems that some people miss this style, me included. Compared to the todays definition of prog it often had more groovy, syncopated bassline (though sometimes also the typcial KbBB pattern but somewhat more "relaxed"), less starts, stops and shooshes, more mellow and hypnotic flow with lots of lush atmospheric layers and sounds. Everybody knows Vibrasphere and Atmos, but I also like these albums, perhaps less known Freq-Strange Attractors Andromeda - Sensations Sensogram - Parallel Minds What else should I check out, with similar sound?

Yep, he typically makes more uptempo stuff which also sounds great, smooth and very psychedelic

That's the section https://www.psynews.org/forums/forum/18-artist-news-and-labels-announcements/ Also I listened to your video but I only heard a short intro and a generic beat. Probably you should use a more distinctive part of your track for a promo video? Does it have a climax or a main melody?

Thanks!

Indeed, as someone said here, what is called "progressive" now is actually full-on slowed down to 138 bpm. I do actually like quite a lot of it but I miss softer, mellower and more hypnotic side of progressive It's not that it's completely gone but is hader to find. A more recent track with similar vibe (2018 I think)

Pandorum seems to fit the bill but for some reason i wasn't overly impressed. Maybe i need to watch it one more time. Another one, not really about space but it deals with aliens - The Fourth Kind. It gets mostly bad reviews but for some reason it really scared the shit out of me. I had a terrible hangover when i watched it tho, maybe that's the reason.

I liked Britney's Womanizer and some other songs. Will I be banned?

Curious what you'd think of these

Prometeus has great aesthetics but it raises more questions than answers. And I won't mention Alien/Covenant here. Life (2017) was not bad but very similar to Alien. Predator I think is more of an action movie, I have fond memories of the first two films but I think it shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence with Alien(s) and Event Horizon (and I'd better pretend I never saw the 2018 movie). If someone knows some good sci fi horrors with space aesthetics, I'm all ears

https://www.beatport.com/release/safe-travels/3078936 Four track EP, stylistically it's all over the place, so I'll introduce each track separately Star Matter - melodic goa inspired by Global Sect sound Safe Travels - oldschool melodic full-on, homage to late 00's Dacru style (Ephedrix, Aquila, Alternative Control and similar) Impossible Landscape - more modern take on morning/progressive style The Distance - also a kind of morning track with some melodic elements. This track was written in collaboration with another Psynews member, Astralprojection, who provided some melodic ideas, mixing advices and motivation to pull it off

One of my favourite sci fi classics, along with Alien.

If I had unlimtied funds I'd buy a separate room for a studio, at least 20 square meters, and invest few grands into a proper acoustic treatment and a good sub matching my monitors. Also a UAD card with full plugin package. Synth-wise I'd probably buy Waldorf Quantum and Dave Smith OB-6. But most likely I would still use mostly software synths for actual tracks

What do you mean? It's the same thing.

Using HP first can make sense too, sometimes you don't want to overload the saturator with the bass frequencies, especially if it's not frequency selective. But then you may want to check at the end of the signal chain if your processing doesn't add to much lows and maybe use another HP. I used to have a persistent problem of lower midrange muddiness in my mixes, it turned out this was largely due to that I was using a HP first in the chain

Before Satruation after hipass may add the unwanted low freq content back. Also try more gentle hipass slope (e.g. 12 dB/oct instead of 24) and higher cut

I usually hipass everything that is not the bass at around 300 Hz, give or take. If it's too thin, add some slight distortion or compress it (but before the hipass filter)

I think Van Buuren's collab with Vini Vici was an one-off. Sean Tyas who used to be a household name in commercial trance, has made some psy tracks which sounded decent but quite generic Protoculture, who had migrated from psytrance to commercial trance long ago, returned into psy as Shadow Chronicles (still with a lot of EDM/mainstream trance elements but not really cringeworthy) I think psytrance may be something of interest for mainstream trance producers as a production challenge, for being highly techncially advanced music.

Also check out this (was just posted in the promotion section) https://druidproject.bandcamp.com/album/spessartine-dreams

Really good! Mellow, melodic and deep. I do hear hardware production

Great stuff! You might like some of these (a bit slower than your playlist but kinda similar feel)

136 bpm progressive psy inspipred by early 2010's Serbian prog like E-Clip, Relativ and Lyctum. Mastered by Astralprojection (master@aeap.se)