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sceyefeye

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  1. Try http://www.gersic.com/plugins/index.php?daCat=29 More drum machines than you can wave a stick at Have been using the XX Drum Modules, mainly cause I can just load up a kick drum on a midi lane load a snare on another etc and not try and programme my whole percussion in one lane Going to give that psykick dll (listed above) a whirl to see what that sounds like
  2. Might have mentioned this somewhere else on the site Listening to two various albums at the moment Greetings from Goa (Paradise of Psychedelic Trance) Tracks that stand out Disk 1 Cosmosis - Key to Innerverse EPD - Spiritual Hallucination Inscape - Atlantis Disk 2 Kailash - Higher MFG - To Eternity Miranda - Concorde Prana - Alien Pets Mushroom Vol 1 - Particularly Nooshpere 23rd Chromosome Others that I have recently been listening to on MP3 Astral Projection Utopia Kabalah Enlightened Evolution Encens (Dara Lee, Miranda + another person I can never remember) Spiritual Transgression This last track is an all time classic for me. Have it one DAT but alas my DAT machines packed up a few years back, and am no longer sure the tapes even play anymore. Actually have about 50-60 DAT cassettes from mid 90's with some truly inspiring GOA stuff that I cannot get my hands on :drama: Nice Thread BTW Total Eclipse - Free Lemonade (another blinder of a track) Saw them live at a Space Hopper Party in Birmingham in 96. Was helping prep the venue while they were doing their sound check. I think someone mentioned that I particularly liked this number cause as I was crossing the dance floor suddenly they switched to that one. Just stopped my in my tracks and dropped everything and started raging my nut. I think they liked the feedback too :posford:
  3. Ok I have only listened to what they have on the site, so not the best quality but is definitely keeping me amused while I am fighting with my CAD package and computer (another typical working day then) while outside it is a glorious summer day with not a breath of wind. Thanks Ticon! making things a bit more bearable. I have go along with Oopie, I have a suspicion that my days of being a trance junkie are drawing to an end. I love most electronic music, well no let me qualify that. I love most genres of well produced, intelligent electronic music. Range from perhaps my introduction Depeche Mode's - My Secret Garden through the Orb and Propellerheads to whatever. What has impressed me the most over the last few years? Sphongle, Younger Brother, Flying Rhino's Freestyle stuff. That is stuff that is good music without having to fit into a category. For what it is worth I am really glad to hear these guys are 'stepping out of the box'. I haven't bothered buying much in the way of trance lately cause of the old situation where one or two tracks on the album are killer and the rest range from ok to plain old mediocre? At least here we are getting something that you have to decide 'do I like it or not?' and perhaps why do I react like this.
  4. My 2cents Koyote - the sounds that Dara Lee and co were putting out......drool Ok Nova Tekk not 'their own stuff' sure, but have been listening to Greetings From Goa (Paradise of Psychedelic Trance) lately, particularly Miranda's Concorde WOW WOW WOW. OT Played that in a set a couple of years back now (pre fatherhood) and blew the monitor speakers by the 4th bar! Ooops
  5. Ah yes the heady days of the last decade. I have to agree. Too much formula, not enough emotion and dare I say it? Soul The X-Dream tack that always takes me back is "Imagine the whole world on a trip together" - was X-Dream wasn't it? Memory ain't what it used to be I have a love hate with X-Dream, sometimes their music is easily accessed other times I find it very difficult to get into. But I agree with an earlier comment, they still have a lot of production in them - still to come I hope. And the fact that they can push the genre in so many different directions just shouts volumes about their musical and sound design ability. Are they Full-On in the modern sense, well I suspect that they are well outside such simple labels surely? My thinking is that the guys who try and be full on or proggy or whatever are looking for a box with a formula, I am thinking that the guys who just get on and make interesting and wonderful music without sticking to categories, well they are the 'real' musicians who are doing it to make wonderful music (no allusions to the sample in POP or was that Delta Project)
  6. ha ha ha I thought the emails on the dreamweavers mailing list could get off topic. I have to agree with supergroover, poor input = poor output or at least a generic sound. I am guessing that Colin speaks with a lot of authority (I am assuming that this is the same OOOD that was producing killer, mind twisting tracks back in the 90's? If so I think I was listening to one the other day) on GOA and what was going on back then. But there has been a massive leap forward between the technology that Astral Projection used to compose Kabalah and Utopia to what they used on the last track of theirs that I heard. Frankly I have a rather spurious thought that the 'original' Goa sounds have a lot more life and emotion to them. I suppose looping takes on a DAT tape meant that you always got a sort of live feel? Though of course I stand to be corrected. Mastering issues aside my take on this is that before we even get to the mastering stage today's tracks seem to have an over-produced almost clinical perfection about them. bitd I couldn't sit and listen at the side of the dance floor. Today (sigh perhaps I am getting old) I find I listen to trance as cerebral stimulation rather than for its foot tapping qualities. Though this might be due to too many breaks and clever tricks and I am trying to figure out how they are done? So what happened to the original thread and releasing free music? Did anything come of all of that?
  7. Ex DJ now trying to make something like trance in my spare time. At the moment I seem to come closer to general or even experimental electronica but on the whole i am having fun :posford: my music such as it is
  8. There is a Reason refil called Virology, and in the description they list AP as users of the Access Virus. Just my 2 cents. Also there is a youtube video of AP live at the Fridge Club in London 2006 and there you can get a glimpse of some of their older kit, Roland (not sure model) amongst others. Their newer stuff is certainly a lot more digital and atmospheric with a less pronounced kick and to my mind a lot more virus 'inspired' than the early 90's stuff. On the Etnic comments, apart from Starhip 101 (and no I have no idea what they were using back then - other than perhaps a 303 or later - having seen them live in Cape Town) they also have a track Z-plane sunrise so perhaps there is smoething to the comment about using a Z-plane?
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