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    Mīrzā - New Horizons

    in Free Music Promotion

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

    This is my new project that I've finally decided to make public recently. It is not genre specific but I decided to make sure my first official release will be a Downtempo track. Also, it's worth mentioning that I composed this music to video, so you can argue that it is somewhat cinematic as well.


    As some of you may know, I stopped producing Goa trance some 2-3 years ago and was devoted to exploring other genres since (predominately hybrid orchestral and symphonic music).

    If you'd love to stay in touch or follow for more music down the line, I kindly invite you to follow some of my pages listed below:

    Facebook

    Bandcamp

    Soundcloud

    Spotify

     

    Thanks for listening! :)

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    VA - Svemirski Hod

    in 2016

    Posted

    Rasputin is well known song, or at least the melody so it's not hard to see many people doing their reworks, covers, tributes, etc. (Vatrogasci or translated to english - Firefighters are known to make parodies of well known songs, but I never actually liked their work or lyrics. On the other hand, Anadolka theme is more on emotional side, not that much slavic per se, but it got nice ethno vibe, typical for sevdah music. Since it's traditional song, this version is one of my personal favorites (now when we're discussing that particular song from compilation) :) I hope Mirza (Arronax) will give his view about the influences :)

     

    YouTube link.

    The first time people mentioned "Rasputin" to me I was like what song is that? I had no idea that Boney-M used that melody for his song. And yes, you're right, my inspiration came from both the original sevdalinka called "Anadolka" and the cover version performed by Afion in the link provided. It's just a Goa take on a traditional melody, I'm sure I'm not the first nor the last artist to use a traditional melody and covers it in Goa Trance. There's dozens and dozens of Goa tracks out there that use live recorded samples from bands playing traditional melodies of India, Kashmir, Tibet, Middle East and the rest of Asia. Samples illegally downloaded from random websites, without even crediting the original artists who recorded the melody with their instruments. I rarely hear a complaint that they "stole" it.

    I didn't use any pre-recorded samples in Dive Into Merak, everything you hear is played by me on keyboard, the vocals melody was composed by me, and the latter part of the track definitely shows some variation on the main theme where it confirms that my composition wasn't just a bland copy of the old sevdalinka, but a rather fresh take on one of the most beautiful melodies I know in traditional art here in the Balkans.

     

    Anyway, I don't wanna spend too much time explaining my reasons, the track was both a tribute to the artists mentioned, and a reflection of cultural diversity in the Balkans, which was the very concept of this compilation that was "Balkan only". And in the end, maybe Boney-M should've explained himself why did he use a centuries old melody for his disco song in the 80s. :-P

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    Your non-psy musical output

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Love it! Great production, sounds very mature.

     

    I thnik I hear some Balkanian motives here, which I like

    Thanks a lot! It's a complete rework of Europa Universalis soundtrack, composed one of the biggest game music composers, Andreas Waldetoft. The original theme is composed by him, but I made a unique rework, trying to develop my skills in this genre as of late. Can we hear some of your work now? :)

    Theist or Atheist?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I am a Muslim, grew up in a multi-cultural society and I really appreciate the diversity that my country offers. There are still Jewish, Orthodox and Catholic temples standing right next to mosques in our capital city, and while there were turbulent times in the past (mainly because of dirty dirty politics), religious people are still very helpful to each other, regardless of their creed. I'm sure that the world would be a great place if all people (regardless of their beliefs) worked on tangible things together. The world is developing into a multi-cultural place, one day the whole planet will be a mix of everything. If people stick to the old ideas of "I am always right, you are wrong", we will see big world wars in the future, and history teaches us those are pretty bad. Maybe I'm preaching but I really hope that new generations will be busier and more focused on creating a better world for everyone, without feeling superior to anybody else because of different views on the world or religion.

    Arronax - Crossing The Rubicon

    in 2014

    Posted

    Thanks guys, there is an anecdote regarding that track. While I was composing the main melody, there was a huge thunderstorm in the city I was living in, and at some point a huge lightning struck a tall electric pylon on the hill like half a kilometer away from my apartment. It was such a powerful feeling, to literally see the lightning strike an object from a safe distance :) So, that's how the track got its name.

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    Morphic Resonance - The City of Moons [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    At some point I have to disagree with you on this one Mirza. I don't mix creative aspect with technical aspect. Nowdays, when we're all blessed with available technology, knowledge, informations, I don't see any reason to be lazy and not to put some additional time into improving the quality of your own (product)ion. I mean, there is a bunch of people out there who are willing to save their money just for the sake of buying a ticket for a show/party or purchasing your album. You don't want to deliver just 'an idea'. That thinking sounds to me like kvlt-black metal bands who are, you know...just throwing out some ideas without giving any single fuck to actually learn how to mix their own instruments. I'm not a hater and I've been into this kind of stuff enough to recognize how much time, money and 'giving a fuck' someone puts into his own music. There is a thin line between 'soundling raw and oldshool' and 'being lazy'. We, at Neogoa published a lot of music withouth paying additional attention towards thoose aspects and even we're doing this for free, it bothers me each time when I see someone isn't happy with soundquality. That means that we're not doing enough and most of the time, the main issue is related to artist directly, even mastering is the same on different releases :)

     

    Why is this happening? Well, truth to be told, most of the artists nowdays are expecting that mastering studio will somehow make their music sound uber-awesome, but most of them (and yes, this is related to 80% of Goa trance artists producing and making music nowdays), don't know how to prepare proper mixdown of their own tracks. I mean, if you want to release and share something to the public, and you're expecing some live-shows/gigs, eventual physical release, fame?, promotion by label/radio shows/YouTube uploaders/reviewers/DJ's, etc. at least spend some time learning basics and how to PREPARE your own music for the mastering studio. And this doesn't have anything with hardware or software, in the end, same machine is capturing the sounds and you're mixing it on your DAW before the actual export.

     

    The issue here is that most of the artists nowdays are trying to be a rock-superstars, but most of them can't play anything besides some basic oriental-phyrgian-scales at their synth, but they're expecting that someone makes wonders out of their low-quality mixdowns and in the end to recieve Dickster-kind pumping final masters so they can show off in front of the crowd. This isn't about someone being creative or talented, this is about someone being lazy and not caring about his work and music enough. I shared PsiloCybian tutorials because I'm very much familiar with his work, not only as a producer, but as a guy who is fully dedicated into music-production and he actually is putting shitload of his free time to share a knowledge and deliver it in user-friendly form...and it's all based on vast experience in fields of serious music production, audio-geekism, collaborative work with biggest names on psychedelic trance scene nowdays and a lot of feedback that he collected - from smallest venues to the biggest psytrance festivals. You remember how Kolovrat sounded before he put his fingers on to it? If you do, I think I don't need to explain any further my point.

     

    In the end, we all admire, recognize and like the originality, creative and refreshing new things that are happening in Goa trance scene now and than, but without any hesitation, we all should be critical when it comes to sound quality for the sake and benefit of our own scene. And yes, I'm against the loud, only dance-floor oriented mastering because CI was beautiful music ruined by harsh and loud mastering without any subtile and gentle touch. It's funny because it's melodic Goa trance and that kind of music actually needs more fluid, dynamic approach instead of being...well...just loud mess in the end. But, in the end the label and artist got the seal of approvement and if they were happy, I guess we shouldn't just like that jump and bash mastering studios :)

     

    P.S. - It might not be a bad idea, but moderator could split this discussion into a new topic if we went out of control :)

     

    P.S.S. - Let's assume that average Goa producer get's somewhere between 100-400 EUR per average gig, (and that's optimistic assumption), some of fellas who are active here can get even a lot more. Giving (let's say) 50$ for a 10-hour long tutorial I see as an healthy investment into your own work/knowledge, just like buying gear. There is so much other useful tutorials (our chap courses) that you can get, but hey...it's easier to be a ''rock-superstar'' and blame mastering studio when someone dares to say something against your music and how does it sound :)

    I'm not sure if this part was addressed to my music or to my work directly, or were you talking in general, but I will answer from my personal point of view, like I did in the previous comment.

     

    The sound quality of CTR (the first version) was pretty muddy due to a lack of proper monitors in my improvised home studio. As I know this shouldn't be an excuse, it was a technical aspect that made CTR sound pretty muddy and too much on the low frequency side, and I only realized that after the mastering by Stryder emphasized some of the mistakes that were made in the mix. That's why I insisted on repairing those tracks, improving my sounds for the remastered version, and that's why I personally suggested the album should be remastered by someone else, because I wanted to have a fresh sound on remastered CTR. And I believe it worked,

    because I haven't heard a single complaint about CTR sound quality.. yet. If someone has issues with the somewhat "diminished" sound of my music, I will just say this: I am not partaking in any loudness wars, I keep my mix really devoid of too much compression, as I want music to stay as unsqueezed as posssible. It's my personal touch. If one sound engineer believes that sounds should be processed an extracted to 99.99% of their loudness worth, I am on the side that believes it should be left with some rawness, not too crystalized. I am using simple wording to describe a delicate processing of sounds, but I believe you get the picture.

     

    I wasn't saying anything about the expertise of Sasha, I am 100% sure that he is a genius in his own field, and I believe you misinterpreted my message about him being a sound expert. I KNOW he's an expert, and as you said, he did an amazing work on his music and on Lunar Dawn's mastering. I told you this in person that the mastering was really crisp and clean. My initial reply in this thread was referring to a certain group of people who learn from Psilo's (and similar YouTube) tutorials and then preach about mix "purity", practically trying to be smarter than the author of those tutorials himself.

     

    And in the end, I wanna say I agree about improvement and learning, that's something I always strive for, learn new things, implement new technologies, use new ideas... and most important of all: ENJOY your work :-) Music composing would be utterly tedious if it was all about technicalities, I think I'd be long gone from the music world if it was only about "keeping those attacks low" and ADSR in check the whole time.

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    Morphic Resonance - The City of Moons [Suntrip Rec.]

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    This release is gonna be one of those that mark a decade, judging by the samples everything sounds and feels amazing. I love the organic sound it gives.

     

    Morphic Resonance is one of the most original projects nowadays, despite some people blaming him for "stealing" Pleiadians sounds etc... Also, when it comes to tutorials, I think no tutorial can teach you to make epic music, it has to be felt, played from the heart, or head or whatever organ people use to squeeze music out of them :-D My opinion is that when people only stick to technicalities, that can only limit their emotional attachment to the sound. From my perspective, if you think about mixing while writing a song, the outcome will be more like techno, less psychedelic, less emotional.

     

    It's good to plan tracks in advance, sketch some ideas and prepare the instruments for a good mix, but when someone works with hardware (as far as I know, Cristian does) the workflow and recording can go a different route. It's much different than a few clicks here and there. Besides, I heard him on BGF 2015 live, I found his set to sound quite organic and "muddy" to a level that it gives spirit and a different vibe to the tracks.

     

    In the end, it's all up to an individual listener. From my perspective, being a musician isn't about being a sound engineer while not being able to play one simple chord progression on a keyboard. In the world of YouTube & arpeggiators, it's easy to be a sound expert :-) But very hard to be a good musician.

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    sheyba trance africa express unreleased remix

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Yeah, I was working on that remix with Somnesia, but I signed it as Space Elves because I was part of the Space Elves at the time. The situation went dramatic mostly because everyone was hot-headed for no apparent reason. Anyway, the remixes will never be released because a) Kristian from Elysium as an owner of the original track is the one who decides where his material can end up, and he explicitly said that he won't allow any releases of the track because all that drama broke loose. I can understand his position, and I think he's got all the right to decide so.

    B) Somnesia & me did a good job on remixing but to be 100% honest the mixdown wasn't all that good. I still have the source files on my PC but I'm not planning on doing any repairs because of a) and because I left Space Elves 3 years ago.

    Videogames official thread

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I was supposed to get TES: Oblivion yesterday, but as Styx: Master of Shadows was on sale I decided to go for that one instead. Played through the introduction in my rather pedantic style, getting the hang of it. Seems nice so far :)

     

    I started Oblivion at least 4-5 times, and every time I find myself buried in 100s of installed mods, tweaks and new locations :-) I still haven't completed the main quest after all these years lol :-) Same goes for Skyrim.

    VA - Planet Discovery - Goa Galaxy

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    I swear I saw this cover before, did not you release something before with the same cover? Tracklist looks interesting enough, will download, thank you!

     

    I am not representing the label officially, I just shared the news about this release as a featuring artist, but to answer your question, the cover is part of the series, Galactic Discovery, Stellar Discovery and now Planet Discovery. They all have similar covers.

     

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    VA - Planet Discovery - Goa Galaxy

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    New VA release by Goa Galaxy net-label from Bulgaria. The release came out 2 days ago.

     

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    Tracklist

    1. Tranceway - Ulysses & The Sirens

    Written-By, Producer – Franco Forte

    2. Veasna - Dreams

    Written-By, Producer – Patrick Dinklage

    3. Psychedelic Quest - Chaotic Dimension

    Written-By, Producer – Leonidas Giotis

    4. Imba - Galaksija 2012

    Written-By, Producer – Nikola Petrović

    5. Nash Mafia Blues - Harmageddon

    Written-By, Producer – Nasheen Ghurburrun

    6. Sun Shadow - Unreal

    Written-By, Producer – Alexander Vinshu*

    7. Do.D.Idea - Awaking Dream

    Written-By, Producer – Daniel Birger, Gilad Ben-Nahum

    8. Lunar Dawn & Arronax - The Dark Side Of The Moon

    Written-By, Producer – Kristijan Ilisinovic, Mirza Aljić, Saša Precanica

    9. Hypnotic Ant - Spica

    Written-By, Producer –

    10. Itzamnia & Khetzal - The Year 10191

    Violin –
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    Written-By, Producer –

     

     

    Download from Goa Galaxy webpage for free:www.goagalaxy.com/music/011-planet-discovery.html

    The third Goa Galaxy compilation.
    GOAGALAXY011

    credits

    released 09 September 2015

    compiled by GOAdelic
    mastered by Maciej Zeman (OCCID)
    cover art and design by GOAdelic & SatanicElectro
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