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    OOOD DJ mixes

    in DJ Promotion

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    Psytrance

    Rama OOOD - Psysalad Feb 2008

    Ryo OOOD - Mooned Off My Face June 2007

    Steve OOOD - Tribeadelica March 2007

    Ryo OOOD - Make Nice March 2007

    Rama OOOD - Psysoup Jan 2007

    Steve OOOD - Little Sizzler Nov 2006

    Ryo OOOD - Cruise Control 2006

    Colin OOOD - Released Tracks Oct 2004

    Rama OOOD - Up For It Summer 2004

     

    Progressive Trance

    Ryo OOOD - Chojo September 2008

    Rama OOOD - Shifting Sands Oct 2008

    Steve OOOD - Fluffy Spangled Sunrise Mix April 2008

    Steve OOOD - Future Progressive 2 March 2008

    Steve OOOD - Future Progressive November 2007

    Steve OOOD - Morning After March 2007

    Rama OOOD - Shambaloon March 2007

    Steve OOOD - Daytime Trance 2 May 2006

    Steve OOOD - Daytime Trance Feb 2006

     

    Minimal

    Rama OOOD - Sketchology March 2008

     

    Electro/Progressive

    Ryo OOOD - Nobori Oct 2008

    Rama & Steve OOOD - May Manoeuvres May 2008

    Rama OOOD - Jelly Jive April 2008

    Steve OOOD - Shuffle-uffigus 2 January 2008

    Rama OOOD - Scalectro Oct 2007

    Steve OOOD - Shuffle-uffigus September 2007

     

    Electro & Breaks

    Rama OOOD - Undulator April 2008

    Rama OOOD - Blanket Brakes July 2008

    Rama & Steve OOOD - Electronington June 2008

    Steve OOOD - Forward Electro April 2008

    Rama OOOD - Hullaballoo October 2007

    Rama OOOD - Morning Break Dec 2006

     

    Chillout

    Rama & Steve OOOD - Winds Of Change June 2008

    Steve & Rama OOOD - Atlantic Drift November 2007

    Rama OOOD - Squishy Phish Sept 2007

    Steve OOOD - Opera Rotas August 2007

    Rama OOOD - Chilli Om Feb 2007

    Steve OOOD - Shamanic Dreams Jan 2007

    Steve OOOD - Chill Mix 01 Oct 2005

    Rama OOOD - Chilled Baba Sept 2005

    Steve OOOD - Mushroom World 2003

    Rama OOOD - Planet Rama 2000

     

    Eclectic

    Rama OOOD - Fritterbus May 2008

    Rama OOOD - Bonkers Dec 2007

    Rama OOOD - All Over The Shop March 2007

     

    If anything appeals to you, let me know (with your email address) and I'll Sendspace as many as you like to you.

     

    90% of these mixes are on my machine here, the others are on Rama's machine and he can send them to me no problem, so fill yer boots!

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Indeed, with software anything is possible. It's a shame artists aren't taking that advantage tho.

    I think they DO take advantage of the new, cheap food processors that software gives you - most trance today has very distinct flavours. A lot of the time though I don't like the ingredients they use; too bland.
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    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    mmm cake

     

    With software you have so much control over your cake; with hardware the flavours all munge together and it's really hard to taste the separate flavours unless you have a kitchen costing tens of thousands of pounds. Listen to the clips of the Crop Circles cake for an example; no-one can deny it's a truly awesome recipe developed by a group of Michelin-starred chefs with amazing ingredients, but because of the tools they had to use, the melody chocolate overwhelms the flavour of the hihat raisins.

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    badly mastered CDs

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Don't blame it all on the mastering. The ME can only work with what they get, and a bad mix can't always be made to sound good in mastering. Bad mastering often has more to do with compression and distortion than bad EQ choices.

    +1

     

    Whilst I wouldn't say Declassified is mastered badly, it certainly is louder than almost every single other CD I own.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    If you can't see how electro and full-on belong to different genres, and how trauma trance and prog belong to the same genre, then your conception of trance music is different enough to mine that useful communication about it is impossible.

     

    Unless you're being deliberately difficult?

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Psy trance is by definition a sub-set of predefined sounds and formulas that we collectively know (and identify or misidentify as psy trance). As it has been stated you have room to grow and experiment a bit within these confines, but if you go too far, then suddenly it is not psy anymore according to our definition. The artists that evolved the most (in what direction it is unimportant) are no longer psy, because they decided to stretch the line a bit farther. They crossed over to electro, or tech house, or horror trance or whatever. The sad truth is, once a sub-subculture is defined as such, once we identify the psy sound, or the 'goa' sound, it stops evolving, given those basic elements are now defined.

    I completely disagree. There is infinite room for experimentation within the parameters that define something as 'psytrance'. For me the definition of 'psytrance' includes prog, minimal, traumatrance, full-on, goa, even vocal trance... all these have the same basic source (the music was being referred to as psychedelic trance even before the word 'goa' was first used) and IMO are blatantly part of the same overall genre. Phreaky, Silent Horror and Perfect Stranger are brothers in psy and show just a small part of the diversity that is possible.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Close mindedness is IMO the biggest cancer of today's scene. I personally welcome all of the new outings from psy trance artists that use certain elements of the genre but combine them with techno, breakbeat, electro, minimal etc etc, even if it means that its not necessarily as psychedelic (in the psy scene definition of the term, which is generally pretty narrow IMO) The full on, progressive and goa formulas have all been worked to death and it deeply annoys me to see people criticise music just because they don't consider it to be 'psychedelic' and instead can't judge it for its own musical value (the psynews thread for the reviews of trentemoller's album sums this attitude perfectly IMO)

     

    Music needs to continually evolve and progress in order to stay interesting.

    +1

     

    Although I would disagree that ANY of the psytrance formulas currently extant have been 'worked to death'. In my opinion most people have discovered a small subset of things that work within those formulas and are happy to hammer them into the ground rather than risk doing something slightly different.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I don't know whether this was directed at me, but in case it was I'll say a few words in my defence: I haven't intentionally dissed stuff which isn't darkpsy, nor did I ever mean to suggest that it's "the only one that has carried on the true lineage from Goa trance"; I agree that they all have (in fact I like lots of stuff which isn't darkpsy, much like all the darkpsy listeners on this forum AFAIK). It's just that when somebody accuses the music I like of killing the scene, and calls people who share my taste "scum", I feel like I should defend it, especially when that person backs up their claim with statements that are demonstrably false.

    It wasn't; the 'true lineage' part was mainly inspired by a post I read on Isra to that effect. I have noticed the 'divide and diss' attitude a little on Psynews though, from certain quarters.

     

    I don't entirely agree with this - when a genre evolves in different directions it's natural that some people will like some directions more than others, and I think it's good that there exist parties and festivals which cater just for those people who like dark or progressive or minimal or whatever best. "Division" needn't mean "hostility".

    By all means use the labels; they help us know what each other is talking about and can facilitate understanding and communication. But using them to divide us into - for example - 'dark psy lovers' and 'people whose music taste I respect' is not something that makes me feel warm fuzzies. And I'm not so sure that single-sub-sub-genre events are such a good thing either; things have become so specialised so that in some places its very difficult for promoters to put on events in their chosen pigeonhole; even with a single-stage/room event, widening the scope of the music played would bring in more people, expose people to more different music which they might well like, remind partygoers what musical progression sounds like and stop the scene from falling up its own arse. I'm very idealistic, I know.

     

    I just mastered the next Silent Horror EP. It's really bloody good.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    A cancer of today's scene is people insisting on putting trance into smaller and smaller pigeonholes and dissing everything in a pigeonhole they heard one track of and didn't like.

    A cancer of today's scene is people giving those pigeonholes individual names, then using those individual names to create divisions between each other.

    A cancer of today's scene is people with preferences for individual sub-sub-genres insisting that their favourite music is the only one that has carried on the true lineage from goa trance, when really they all have.

    A cancer of today's scene is the insistence of "I'm right and you're wrong".

    A cancer of today's scene is me thinking my opinion means anything at all.

     

    There are more, but the last thing you guys need is an emo producer moaning about shit.

     

    After this post it will be a cancer of today's scene if this thread continues.

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