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  1. If I may expand ?With kick and bass and I will focus on the above Psy bass is interesting in that the perception changes depending on the listening volume. The human ear is not linear in its frequency response, look up fletcher-munson equal loudness contour curves. The ear is less sensitive to lows and highs at low volume which evens out as volume increases. This alone means even changing volume changes the timing perception of the kick and bass. And why kick and bass is such an interesting psychoacoustic effect. The kick and bass above is interesting as it almost speeds up and down depending on what is playing. Most psy kick and bass has this phenomena. This kick and bass is somehow not 100pct quite timed correctly, as some young whipper snapper on Youtube will no doubt tell you it is not perfectly phase aligned. However it has a ambiguous falling forwards feel (something coming a bit early) so it propels the track well. Also your perception of kick and bass changes as it interacts with other sounds in the mix... a mono kick and bass can sometimes start to widen and sound pseudo stereo even if it is mono due to stereo mix elements interacting with the mono kick and bass (often ping pong delays on leads and effects) and also the phase and harmonics shifts (filtering) from lead sound interactions. The timing and "feel" of kick and bass is affected by the listeners listening volume as you ear becomes more or less sensitive to a different harmonic partial of the closing filter sweep. That is why i believe it creates such an interesting effect, and why it persists in the genre, it is because it is very very interesting to hear. In addition unless you are right between L and R you are getting a time delay between 1 side of the speakers and the other (or more if quad stacks +) so when you move around the static nature of the kick and bass is filtered by the distance / time delay / phase relationships from L and R speaker stacks changing as you move around. Most producers of psy trance will know when they have a cool section that sounds good to the ears but may start to retard in energy. It can lose forward momentum, a tricky problem to resolve.
  2. Cool Staffan, I have played these vids and they are great. The first track of video 2 is very haunting. MWNN and AP used that same Choir pad sample (or synth).. I have been wondering where that exact pad choir sample came from.. in this instance T1 of Vid 2 the slower attack on lower notes suggests it is a sample (sounds like just being pitched down which gives its own haunting feel). It might have come from an Emulator sampler (earliest one) I did try and track it down to use and follow in the greats but failed. I found sampels like it but not actually that one. Listening is like another life time right ? Time travel almost, in your own ears/head. Back then the freshness was mysterious, there was a touch of darkness there as well. It reminds of Goa 96 getting a "Motorbike Taxi" back from Anjuna at midnight after failing to get in the with crowd, just groups sitting on the beach (in front of the legendary Shore bar).. and finding where a party if any was going to happen. I stared into the sky above the Arabian sea and felt very alone... content in paradise but kind of alone. Big things happened the days after though that changed all that. So when you are feeling the emptiness (even in paradise), it may only be days before light shines again. It's hard to remember that sometimes.
  3. I have a wacking great knowledge gap kind of 92-94 on Goa trance. I was listening to other stuff at the time. I did go to what was called a couple of "Goa Reunion" parties in London probably 92-93-94 at a guess, cannot pin it down, went to a NYE's one all nighter in E. London round the back of Mile End road. I learnt much of the deeper trance history only over the last 7 years. There was so much going on musically around that time period, many new sounds and genres evolving, even birthing.
  4. MEGA THINGYS - Boing boing boing boing boing 👌 I have yet to hear a kick and bass that gets me like this one... to me that's as close to perfect as it gets. Aaardvarkk comes close for me though as well he does some killer trouser flapping bass lines. Proper wibble wobble, wibble wobble, jelly on a plate bidness.
  5. For a modern take Outsiders are no slouch to a good 303 ish melody.
  6. I know they are Goa trance gods but am not very familiar what their tracks, probably to my shame. I know Transwave, Astral P and MFG a bit better.
  7. I am not very familiar with Filteria's music, I gather he is Neo Goa hardware based and very melodic just like old Goa. Cosmosis always seemed to have a groundbreaking before his time sound back then. He is a very easy chap to hear speaking, a very mellow voice.
  8. thought I would share as I like to see what Cosmosis is up to from time to time, Ultravibe, sorry corrected spelling
  9. Jaaaa Jaaaaa Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! Fun track.. 2 choices.. Harsh, watery and sibilant.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amun881JSdU Or worn vinyl vibes and mono : (I think this was called New beat as the style, lots of Belgian techno/electro style stuff made it over to Goa as far as I understand) This inspired my track Tanzen in Raum Und Zeit a bit, one of a handful. There is a lot of it here if you like the general sound.. Tanzen Tragic error in the mix and better quality...
  10. Thanks, well you know, you have to make judgements and make a decision. Given the original post was 2012 it seems ever so slightly late, which is a factor.
  11. I wrote some thought but was not sure to post them in the end. Sorry.
  12. Lunarave has a new album out in the last 2 weeks. He does this "doubled up" basslines (not sure if it a delay added or some kind of duplication but it gives the bass a different feel), which is a little unique, technically that loses a bit of punch and immediacy - it blurs the bass note transient definition - , but that's his style and he has a strong style I have respected his work since long ago and his early music as well. It could be some delay based psychoacoustic effect, I recall this plug in sounded a bit like this effect when I tried it on bass line: https://www.tone2.net/akustix.html One of my favourite artists, always done his thing, not followed others, unique sound for psy which is not easy. I get a feeling he has musical training or understands theory as his compositions suggest, that adds another dimension as well. I am enjoying it so far, there is some sublime melodic work on the first track of the album. Worth a listen ! "The edge of life" Some nice cinematic and synthwave melodic synths in the mix. I just bought the album to show some love... as this is big work he has done, complex music for complex times in which we live, sad, beautiful and powerful. Something I like is he has never been afraid to do is keep the kick and bass motoring and that has a deep cleansing effect ! It cleans your head right out.
  13. Tristan produces the "thing" very strongly... at Curlies 02:49 onwards and it keeps going especially 03:01 onwards... to see people loving it like that is it, those moments. That's why we like it : ) I don't any other music that does it quite like psy trance and Goa. That bass line grind is great.
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