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  1. It's been almost 9 years since their previous release (https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/70339-tickets-dreaming-of-places/) and I'm frankly not at all familiar with their output, but I remember a lot of people listening to the South African twilight psy had them in high regard.

     

    It sounds really different to the majority of today's psy, almost like it was actually made 10 years ago (which it maybe was?): full of melodies, expansive sounds, actual bass lines that you can memorise, etc.

     

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    Listen & buy here:

     

    https://timecode.bandcamp.com/album/silent-solutions-timecode  <- digital, lots of old Timecode stuff at EUR5 (Artifacts, Shift, Principles of Flight)

    https://timecoderecords.bandcamp.com/album/silent-solutions  <- digital + CD

    https://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/tcc/tcc1cd032.html  <- digital + CD

  2. Really great track, I like a lot how it develops by revealing new layers and modulating what's already there. Brilliant stuff! <3

     

    If I was forced to peg it to some genre, it's the closest to progressive trance, with strong hints of techno at @tsotsi above suggested.

     

    EDIT: lots of great music on your Soundcloud! Followed :)

  3. As a kind of follow-up to recently released album, Victor Solsona a.k.a. Hypnoxock decided to share with the world a mini album containing unreleased and remixed tracks from different points of his career, dating back to 1999 and up until 2013.

     

    It's a name-your-price album so - if you want - available for free, so have a look:

     

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    1. Hypnoxock - Wormhole (Remastered 2002)
    2. Hypnoxock - The Final Passenger (Nocturnal Mix 2015)
    3. Hypnoxock - Mismo Plastico (Virtualmismo Tribute Remix) 2011
    4. Hypnoxock - Dr. Livingstone (Unreleased 1999)
    5. Hypnoxock - Progresion Ecliptica (Special Edit Ozora 2013)
    6. Hypnoxock - Deluxaflex (Unreleased 2004)
    7. Hypnoxock - Blue Monday (Tribute Remix to New Order)

     

    https://hypnoxock.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-another-time-mini-album

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  4. I am disappointed with my dear Neogoa. I saw your comment in fb "you're doing god's work" (on the new comp). I wish I still could feel the same. Instead: bgf is supported and I get why: the history etc.

     

    Oh? So it's Neogoa involved in that mess around BGF festivals and mass cancellations of acts that were supposed to be playing there? Is there anything anywhere I could read on what actually happened?

  5. Few thoughts:

    - it starts and develops great, with hard kick/bass and some really nice, lush and warm acid lines sprinkled in between,

    - somehow the congas do not sit well in the mix, like if they were coming from completely other environment - maybe it's a matter of how they were sampled? or some reverb?

    - the chanting don't fit to the melodic progression of the tune, but are acceptable

    - the triplets on the other hand? well, it sounds like the song tripped and fell... totally breaks the groove, IMO.

     

    Obviously the above are a matter of taste, so it just reflects my personal preference, likes & dislikes and therefore take with a grain of salt :)

  6. Well, I don't know the details of what happened but it must have been serious to trigger such a strong reaction. Some time ago I was also tired of psynews.org and asked mods to delete my account which I've been using for 16 years (!!!) ...but after few months I was back. Psy/Goa is not just ANY music to me, it's the way of life :)

     

    In quitting psynews, psytrance related FB/Twitter or Bandcamp you're actually doing more harm to yourself and the artists you love, than to the people doing the shady business.

     

    Also, being older gives me a benefit of reflecting on how time passes and I can clearly see cycles of passion in my life: many years ago popular science was my main thing, then I got deeply interested in gaming technology (game engines, rendering techniques, etc.), recently I switched yet again and got back to writing music. But always goa/psy was there as the undercurrent, providing steady and firm ground I could always fall back on.

     

    So, I'd rather say "see you back soon" instead of "good bye" :)  :wub:

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  7. @antic604, it seems to me you are making a big deal out of this. The release date is 1st August when people will get the download and the cds. The cd will have a bandcamp code to download the tracks. If you only want the files wait for the official release day, it seems all very logic and simple to me, no backward thinking, just you wanting the file this very moment, before it's even released.

     

    You can buy it at Psyshop and Bandcamp right now and have the CDs delivered still this week.

     

    It was never explicitly said that the 'links' you'd get pre-ordering at Bandcamp would be a links for Bandcamp. For all I know it could be a link to some cloud service to d/l the files.

     

    Bandcamp has a functionality to properly and transparently process pre-orders, like so: https://timecoderecords.bandcamp.com/album/silent-solutions. This way it's all there: I know what I'm ordering, I know when it will be sent and/or available for download. The tools are there, they just need to use them.

     

    And yes, it's backwards to have the CD released 2 weeks before the digital downloads, because there's no way it stops piracy - quite the contrary, because people only wanting the files will have no way to obtain them legally for two weeks.

  8. Strange thing about the pad:) i listened again and it is the same one playing but just sounds better in the end.

    Probably to to the presence of more sounds being there than in the very beginning:)

     

    The main thing making it different / better in that later section is the accent (reverb :)) on the middle-layer melody at 4:13 / 4:14. It glues it all together and provides stronger context for that particular chord. Pure accident*, but works beautifully :)

     

    * in a sense that I know very little about music theory, but have a good ear for musical harmony and am able to recreate what I have in my head by trial and error

  9. to me , the pad in the intro is clashing with the melodies especially bad at around 1:00 the pad right at the end sounds better integrated to me than the beginning. Track gets better as it progresses.

    It's exactly the same clip at both instances, and I actually was going for this dissonant, mysterious feeling, like it kind of breaks from the 'expected' chord progression but still remains in acceptable territory. I can see this being an acquired taste, but considering I got lots of feedback on the track and no one else felt this was out of place, I'd risk and leave it in especially since I think it works really to the advantage of the track here :)

     

    The reverb on every 2 bar after 2:30 to me , sounds very bright, almost becomes the main feature, overpowering the wonderful melodies you have going.

     

    Again, that is the purpose: to have the reverb and delay part of the arrangement providing accent to things I wanted to emphasise. They're both put on send tracks and automated to achieve that. However, you might be right about the amount being too much, because I'm working in headphones and spatial effects can sound misleading in there, although usually the other way around, i.e. what seems enough or excessive on headphones, can be barely audible on speakers. I'll try to get that balanced when I finish the tune and come back to mixing it.

     

    Very very good job on the medlodies. Makes for a good listen. Good work. Looking forward to the complete work:)

     

    Thanks, really appreciate your comments! :)

  10. psyshop not offering so far a rip after cd purchase

     

    Yes, I noticed that. It's probably because the official release date for the digital version is August 1st. The thinking behind is - and I got this in e-mail from Boshke - that if digital was sold simultaneously with the CDs, no one would buy the CDs and the files would get to torrents and other pirate sites.

     

    Well, guess what? 1) people that don't want the CDs won't buy them anyway, 2) once the CDs are out there, it will get to torrents / pirate sites anyway, 3) there's risk that those wanting only the files will get the pirated version instead, since they need to wait 2 more weeks to obtain them in a legal way, 4) I wouldn't be surprised if there's some additional stupid exclusive period, where files are on only available August 1st via e.g. Beatport and nowhere else.

     

    Yeah, that's a proper old-school, i.e. backwards thinking.

  11. No-bullshit, honest and straight-to-the-point full-on psytrance. It's not intellectual, very much one dimensional and formulaic, but - damn! - it works. You can hear years of dancefloor experience between the two guys (Olli Wisdom & Max Petersen) in a way they build their tunes, choose the sounds, construct the build-ups, drops and peaks.

     

    I liked a lot their debut from 2015 and this one seems to follow the same path.

     

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    1. Amazing Tales from Outer Space
    2. Mad Robots
    3. Out of this World
    4. Drop The Bomb
    5. Electric Kool A©ID Test
    6. LSD Party (Kicking In)
    7. LSD Party (Meltdown)
    8. Joint O’Clock
    9. Party Planners

     

    Samples:

     

     

    Purchase (out today):

     

    https://tiprecords1.bandcamp.com/album/amazing-tales-from-outer-space

    https://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/tip/tip1cd821.html

    http://www.beatspace.com/10239/Tip+Records/MAD+TRIBE/Amazing+Tales+From+Outer+Space/detail.aspx

  12. And there you have it. Everyone tried to copy a fantastic album and Goa/psy became so formulaic that people lost interest. One of the things that made that album a classic was how different sounded compared to the rest goa/psy at the time. 

     

     

    Worst thing is he said "make it sound as good as" and they understood "copy", which - with less talented artists - was reduced to droning kick & bass and we ended up with 2000+ tech/prog phase which split the scene. I don't think it was a bad thing however, just find it interesting to read that quote as this was something I suspected for a long time.

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