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Dune - Cant Stop Raving (Video Mix) LaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLAAAAAHAAAAAAALaaalaaaaaaa

What I've heard is nice, very nice ambient-trance... but I highly doubt if any of their releases can match my favorite chillout music from FAX. Huh? Surprised to see Robert Rich on the artist page.

Ticon - The Analogue H Ticon - Back To Basic Ticon - The Ghost In The Machinery

Last night in bed with headphones: Troum & Yen Pox - Mnemonic Induction I must be a little fucked up to like this. Crazy experience. An intangible, continuous flow of darkness in the deepest depths of a gothic underworld. Fascinating mind music. The silence when it was over was so loud.

Delerium - Wavelength DAMN IT this track owns so hard, it is perfect darkness. Gives me this "MUHAHAHAHAAAAA YEAHHHH, BRING IT ON!!!" sort of feeling

Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn Theme =)

Using a basic piano, synthlead, single drum sound etc. from a sample CD in a sampler, is the same thing as using a synthesizer with a lot of ROM samples (a "rompler")... with these samples you can create your own patches in more or less the same way on both a synthesizer and sampler (or you can use/edit the preset patches). On a lot of sample CD's however, the sounds are much more extensive and very 'premade': complete drumloops, vocal parts, ambient drones, cool FX etc.... all sounds that would require a lot of effort to create them yourselve. I don't mind if people use a few of those samples to make their tracks complete... but it does irritate me when there's obvious and extensive use of these samples, with little or no editing. That's just too easy. Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth is full of those samples. The end result is nice but it's still a little too easy IMO.

Of course, listening to psytrance with multiple layers of harsh sounds, crazy melodies, relentless basslines, loud and fast rhythms, twisted FX etc. is much easier for the ears Really, it's a matter of acquired taste. Some classical pieces are simply too long and complex....it will only start to make sense when you listen multiple times.

Ash Ra Tempel - New Age of Earth (1976) Happy, sunny, atmospheric. I think it would go well with beautiful sunny mountain sceneries.. and the 4th track at nighttime. That is, if you can see past the "dated" sound and listen to the actual music. I think it's nice for a change, these old skool analog sounds. They don't sound so clinical and perfect like today's music, and that's what makes it warm and alive. This is much better than most of today's melodic chillout music (that's just me, I have a weakness for music from that period).

Juno Reactor did music for the terrible B-movie called Beowulf.

Biosphere - Substrata Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place! Off The Sky - Gently Down the Stream, maybe... it's very very nice anyway Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto =)

Lustmord - Metastatic Resonance Always a favorite.

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Klaus Schulze - Mirage Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding Vangelis - Blade Runner

It's old but it still made me laugh because it's so true! =)

You could also try an older version: Cubase VST 5.1 I hated the SX version I tried: it was unstable, had unneeded features, removed MIDI functions and different controls. I bet VST 5.1 runs better and more stable if you don't have a mega pc. It supports any VST/DX instrument or effect and works just fine. I have no reason to ever switch to another program.

Vangelis - Pulstar

If you like classic solo piano I recommend Schubert's Impromptus. They're not too complex and have a very natural flow. It's not too virtuoso, impressionistic stuff, just very beautiful in its "simplicity" when performed right. My favorites: Schubert - Impromptu Op 90 No 4 Schubert - Impromptu Op 142 No 2: Very calm "everything is alright" kind of piece. I taught myself this one and could play it a bit.. damn I think I totally forgot, the only classical piece I ever played.

I like some classical music, my favorite is Rachmaninov for the piano works. I recently found out he also did great choral music, it's religious music but really beautiful (Liturgy of St. John's Chrysostom). It's like... the perfect ambient. I don't think I'll ever really get into classical music though. After a while I get bored with the limited range of sounds... then I want to get back to ambient: less melody, but more interesting sounds and imaginative atmospheres.

as for psytrance-related music: only a Juno Reactor personal 'best of' album, would get my 10/10

no, I meant: - music from any year (so also 2005) - that you heard first in 2005 - and this music became your favorite in 2005 Isn't that more interesting than just the latest releases...

looks like an old Warcraft wannabe game ^^

from my online gaming experience I can tell you that a lot of people from that country seem to speak very crappy english

Steve Roach - Big Medicine yeahhhhhhhh this is great!

Klaus Schulze - Friedrich Nietzsche (first 10 min) It had to be the last track of 2005. Cheers, I'm off to partyyyyyy