antic604
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The solution is simple - just sitting before your DAW or in your studio and making music without waiting for insiration. Been there, done that, and it does work.
On topic: I was expecting to hear something really poorly produced and was quite surprised that it is completely opposite. The synths in hypnotrance are real ear-candy. Lo-fi, yes, but sweet lo-fi. Psychosis is agressive and energetic with some awesome squelchy synths. Both these tracks are pretty decently mixed. Thanks for sharing this!
Glad to hear that. Check the rest of the tunes (there's 26 of them there), please: https://soundcloud.com/antic604
This positive feedback really makes me want to write some new music soon
Thanks guys!
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What inspired you in writing Chase and Hynotrance.??
"Chase" was obviously inspired by those 70's/80's american police / detective movies, where they were chasing the bad guys through the streets in their big V8-s
"Hypnotrance" AFAIR was heavily influenced by techno/trance music played in MTV's Chillout Zone late night over weekends - artists like Biochip C, Jammin Unit, Love Inc., Ultrahigh, etc.
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I used Impulse Tracker from '97 to '99 and haven't really made any music since. After that it's been random fucking around in Jeskola Buzz with endless experiments trying to do weird stuff instead of music, and in the past 10 years I've maybe started up the software a couple times a year just to see that my inspiration is still not really back.
Same, just replace Buzz with Renoise
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With proper production this could a very nice track
Nice mate
Psychosis is really good!
I would put it in my playlist if it was remastered
Thanks guys, but I'm afraid that's not gonna happen - I've not finished a single tune in last 17 years and God I tried so many times! There are basically two reasons - one, I don't have as much time for this as I once had due to family/work; two, with today's technology there's so many options and possibilities, that I end up endlessly tweaking filters, effects, changing samples and presets on VSTs, experimenting with mastering, etc. so after few hours I lose the track of whatever idea I had in first place, ending up with 1-2 minute long loops. Hopefully, I'll have more time when I retire
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So, I finally decided to put my old (1995-2000) music somewhere online, so that it's available for myself and other people to listen without having to convert obscure project files into wav/mp3. Almost all of those tracks - except for "Art of Magic" - were created on Amiga 600 computer using ProTracker, so please forgive the sound quality, repetitive samples and overall roughness of the music - as some of you know, you could only have 4 sounds playing at the same time, so it required quite some skill and creativity (and sacrifices...) to make it sound decent.
I grouped it all - 26 tracks in total - in 3 categories:
- funk / pop / electronic - with music influenced by either what I heard on TV, Amiga games and demoscene,
- techno - with stuff ranging from minimal / experimental, through regular trance to happy hardcore,
- psychedelic / goa-trance - tracks inspired by Goa Trance that I discovered somewhere in 1997 and loved ever since...
Hope you'll enjoy it and please share your feedback
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Damn, it's a fine album - pretty different to your 'regular' new-school goa, with a lot of (good) Nitzhonot influences, very melodic, acidic, fast.
It's out in Psyshop, with immediate PsyRIP files delivered: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/hdo/hdo1cd006.html
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@Antic - 40? now I feel a bit better
Edit - I remember reading an article which said, 40 is the age when you achieve most of your goals. So all is well
That's right - I feel pretty happy with what I've achieved in life so far, but on the other hand you also start to realise there's so many opportunities, things, career choices, etc. you won't be able to try anymore, simply because ...life is short. For example, I was always a hobby programmer, with particular interest in 3D graphics but I KNOW I won't have time to go deeper into that - and God, it IS a deep topic nowadays - because of my current job, family, etc. The same with writing music - I was very active in 1995-2000, but since starting full time job I couldn't finish a single tune. Not that I regret it, but somehow I always thought I will find time for those things, but now I see it may not happen.
Anyway guys, please carry on with your optimistic, careless lives while you still can
EDIT: added a link to my music from old days ^^^
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Well I cant take it into consideration since I wasn't alive back then to hear it.
Damn, this made me feel old (I'm turning 40 later this year)...
On topic, I'd say:
- Koxbox "Dragon Tales"
- Psychopod "Headlines E.P."
- Hallucinogen "The Lone Deranger"
- Cosmosis "Synergy"
In short, for me 'psychedelic' means that the main driving force are rhythms, sound patterns, textures & effects NOT really melodies and those albums have plenty of that.
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I'll cheat but not really, because this sounds nothing like the theme from James Bond
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it's really good. there are no tracks that are as spectacular as some from globular or ott, but there also aren't any tracks that are over-the-top or cheesy as can happen with both of the others.
this album actually got the top spot in my downtempo vote for 2015.
Yeah, sounded that way. Thanks!
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Any thoughts on that? Was released in Dec '15 and it's a collaboration of Hux Flux's Dennis Tapper with Magnus Holte, a hip-hop/dub producer. Judging by the samples, this sounds a lot like something released on Dubmission Rec. (Pitch Black, Third Ear Audio, etc.) which is surprising, but also very interesting.
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My God, the samples sound AWESOME!
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Yeah, I came back to listening this last weekend and - after some time off - this sounds really awesome! Perhaps I had too high expectations for this in the beginning, but it really holds its own now as a great background music. I'd still appreciate some more variety within the tunes themselves, like some more sophisticated transitions, key-note changes, etc. but what's there is already pretty great. I know the tunes by heart now and love almost all of them, maybe except "Around the bend" which has this dark, menacing atmosphere that somehow doesn't click with me.
I hope Cosmosis comes back with some new music soon - he's been silent since this release in late 2013 and since 2009 for a up-tempo trancey stuff.
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Sounds more like Psykovsky, but that's hardly a fault
Buying it day one
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It's here, my precious
Mine still isn't but I'm sure it gets here any day now
The only "bad" thing I can say about the V/A is that different artists start to sound too much alike, just like Nano, Bom Shanka or Wildthings artists are - seems they share the sound presets, samples, mastering templates between eachother. But the music is sublime
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Green Nuns' whole catalogue, but this one in particular:
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^ you are always the first!
Well, Arabesque is the best place to track upcoming releases, because they distribute most of them :-)
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@Everyone, sorry for overreacting - I simply have hard time agreeing with mentality that if someone doesn't explicitly like something or tries to constructively criticize something then they're immediately tagged as "hater". It doesn't help that current social climate - political correctness, disproportionate attention and voice given to vocal minorities - encourages such behaviors, by looking for issues where there are none. Internet (and using foreign language) make it difficult to convey the deeper meanings, nuances or intentions, so I'll stop.
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Kris? I wonder what happened that there's so much of hatred towards this release.
The rest will DIE with this FORSAKEN release.
@Everyone
You're either schizophrenic, fail to communicate sarcasm or simply can't comprehend the reality... It's clearly you who is seeking "drama" and actively fueling it by such comments. Are you living in some sort of bubble, when a calm and reasonable discussion becomes so discomforting for you that everyone need to "chill out & relax"?
If you have nothing to contribute to the discussion then don't & eat your popcorn - I couldn't care less, really
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Just wow at this thread! Next I'm gonna learn I'm a racist because I don't enjoy Chinese food, that I'm Islamophobe for driving a hybrid and a homophobe because I don't watch gay porn... The world is not just black & white / good & bad / love & hate.
@Kris, if you read this - my comment was strictly from *my own* perspective:
- the non-album tracks are new *for me* because I never heard them - still, it doesn't change my opinion there,
- Pete Martin was *for me* the driving force behind the components of UX sound I liked - how do I know? I love Slide's "Unstable" and "Waking Up To Chaos" on this very release, while I wasn't very fond of the style of EON Project's "Brain Filter", guess what is the difference there?,
- I'm dissapointed that "Master of The Universe" is still not fixed after all those years - it's one of the best UX tunes (musically), but one needs to increase volume by 50-70% to hear it at the same level as the rest; *I* usually listen to albums / compilations in their entirety and therefore it bothers *me*, while it could have been easily addressed in mastering process,
Maybe I could have been clearer in my original comment, but then it should be obvious for everyone that I wasn't attempting to convey some universal truth or global sentiment towards this particular release, that it was just *my* opinion based on *my* experience, expectations and - limited, as it turns out - knowledge. I actually feel sorry for anyone who reads Internet in any other way, but maybe I'm just too old and grumpy?
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Kris? I wonder what happened that there's so much of hatred towards this release.
Ok, please elaborate where you see "hatred towards this release"? If anything, people - myself included - were first worried about it not coming out despite Anjuna's promises, then discussing whether it was released and distributed lawfully (i.e. whether or not the artists gave permission & got paid) and my last comment is something I'd put in my review: that it wasn't a perfect release due to the reasons I stated...
But then again it's not the first time that rational and substantiated criticism is frowned upon, whereas blind and naive worshiping is favored. Actually, I'm pretty sure no one would bat an eyelid if I just wrote "this release sucks balls" because somehow that's more acceptable...
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Ok, so what's the verdict on this one?
Myself I'm happy it was released and grateful for it being available, but:
- track selection is pretty poor - I'd take live versions of "Life Support Technology", "Chameleon" or "Mind Over Gravity" any day in place of "3rd Eye" or "Crossworld" which are too industrial, repetitive & heavy,
- the new tracks are laughable imitations of original UX style, using too many of recognizable sounds & samples, which proves it was Pete Martin who was the driving force behind their sound,
- "Master of The Universe" is - as per usual - botched, being much quieter than the rest of the album, at least its core part because the added atmospherics / strings / effects are as loud as the rest,
- overall the sound quality is pretty bad - likely because of 'live' recording - with more busier parts drowning in clashing frequencies and muddy sound separation,
Before you jump to my throat for criticizing it, let me reiterate - I'm happy I bought it & grateful to all making this possible, but that doesn't change the fact it could have been better. IMO, if you have original release (or are satisfied with Ektoplazm's free "re-mastered" version) then there's no point in buying it other than for collecting sake. It's not Etnica Live '96 or Pleiadians Live, but then nothing is
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What's Up With Ektoplazm?
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Then why there's no link to there in your signature?