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that first scooter track actually sounds a lot like modern progressive (the kind that j00f mantra would release). then of course there's 10 ragas to a disco beat: and obviously the odd trance track that sounds more like goa than the majority of actual goa:

remarkable. not every dj dares to go from electro sun to oldschool goa to hightech in back again in such a short amount of time. and such a massive crowd too. to be honest i'd rather dance to nhjo than some of our local djs.

as i am a night person , this was one of the two big downsides to connection festival. most headliners were playing in the day or (even worse) after sunrise before noon, while most of the time there were no-names or even darkpsy (why?!?) playing at night. i really don't get why so many festivals think that the main party time has to be between 8:00 and 15:00... the second big downside was that the nights are freezingly cold. because you don't want to miss the best acts, you cannot warm yourself up by dancing, so you'll put on 2-3 t-shirts, 2 warm sweaters and crawl into your extra-warm winter sleeping bag and still end up shivering with cold. that's why i didn't go again last year even though the atmosphere is really nice and the lineup is a consistently awesome mix of oldschool and newschool goa.

does anyone still have this one? i can't find any working download link.

the more seconds i watch from this video, the more i wish that someone hit duvduv's head hard with a shovel. erez must have infinite tolerance and patience to be able to endure being in the same room with a talking duvdev for those 16 minutes. obnoxious is definitely the right word. the music itself seems unspectacular. while there are some bits of old infected here and there, those "super old school" "psytrance" parts that duvdev talks about sound more like vini vici than anything else.

wow. that video looks like the videos i'm only used to seeing from belgium (including the excitement of the people). i'm amazed that you can fill such a large venue with people in a city of 250000 people with goa trance. over here you need to book astrix to get an audience of that size (and then people won't be dancing like that ). respect to the serbian scene; i'm jealous

i think it would fit even better in (one of) the acid thread(s). but thanks, it's a great track and apparently also a really good artist, also without any acidlines. that kind of music definitely has that warehouse vibe.

the new ticon album is certainly "credible", as in deemed to be quality music by most progressive listeners. there is no single "cool" music nowadays. the scene is pretty much split up between hitech, progressive (ranging from commercial stuff like vini vici to psytrance-like stuff like ovnimoon), uk psytrance and goa trance. with the former two dominating. even in small-medium size cities that you'd think could barely support a single psy scene you'll find multiple types of parties populated by completely different crowds.

thanks everyone! and these two are horribly outdated or created just as an example for a thread like this one. i cannot post more at the moment because i wrote lots of tracks without bothering to do any proper mixdown in the last years . so fixing that exactly what i'm working on at the moment.

it should be working now. soundcloud and the semi-automatic embedding here on the forum confuses me

surprisingly i didn't forget. so here you go: link

don't all modern daws compenasate accordningly? i thought they just delayed all audio output to compensate any latency that the plugins cause. the only time when you notice is when you try to tweak everything live with a controller (anything you do on your controller, you hear with some sort of delay not unlike a lagging online game).

the samples (the first two tracks in the first post at least) certainly sound better than the last album. but imho this is a really bad thing for the psy scene. i really wish they'd finally do what protoculture has done and turn their back on psytrance once and for all. another album that's partly psy and partly commercial crap is going to make the commercial crap (even more) acceptable at parties. infected's last albums have thankfully largely been ignored on the scene, but i fear that it's not going to be the case if their new album is better than the last.

i am totally loving the high energy protons remix at the moment. it takes what's good about the original, expands upon it and puts it into a modern goa/psy framework.

pretty much the only forest track i like.

that's actually a very good idea. i'll have to try it with my next track. i now imagine a second oscillator with a highpass filter, maybe some stereo spread and some distortion, with the volume controlled by velocity. i think you could really build a nice groove with that sort of thing... if i don't forget, i'll post something this weekend. i'd like to know a way to split the signal, but i'm using two synth channels with exactly the same patch now. though maybe it's a good thing that i cannot split the signal totally equal because when fiddling with the eq settings to find the ideal crossover i don't get the same frequency for both channels. but it's usually around 200hz +-50hz. that bassline is a bit too high (or more accurately: the filter is opened too much) for my taste. but for fullon it's completely fine. i prefer basslines that don't act as a lead, rather fill in the spot in the lower mids / bass spectrum to add warmth (if you take away the bassline you get that abrasive techno feeling), and don't get in the way of the leads too much.

1- you can make a working psy bassline with any synth that allows you control over the relevant parameter, but obviously some sound better than others. and of course some will sound better to your ears while others will sound better to others'. 2-i've been thinking a lot about that one a while ago. but this would probably warrant an own thread. we have not even one octave of space where the typical psy kick/bass will sound good, so the key makes a huge difference. (i myself tend to stay in the range e to a) 3-it can only be one saw for your typical psy bass. of course additional oscillators are possible for oldschool basses or prog offbass. 4- definitely. and i often overlook this one. 5- i've never been able to make a sub oscillator sound good. there's always a "hole" between the sine and the fundamental of the saw which is one octave higher. 6- that goes without saying 7- that wholly depends on what you want to achieve and what your particular patch needs. sometimes its only eq, sometimes distortion, eq and compressor. more complicated thing only go on the upper layer. i typically use only one or (more often) two layers. but i don't do a sub oscillator. rather i split the same patch into two so the lower layer is filtered down to something that's beginning to sound a little like a sine, while the upper layer has all the rest. this allows me to put effects life flangers/phasers/... on the upper layer, playing with the stereo field to widen the bass sound and add some movement. hamburgers i agree partly. it can be exact, but i like to have some movement and a warmer sound, so i often layer by basslines (see above) to achieve that, but some "puch" or clarity is lost in the process. still it fits by idea of a good compromise between fullon and goa bass nicely i think that's an outdated view that people are just repeating. back in 2008 (it can't be 9 years ago, feel more like 2-3...) when fullon was still the main thing and progressive was resticted to daytime, every single artist used exactly the same fullon bass and it really started to bore pretty much everyone. now when i hear progressive on the mainfloor, using varying basslines (from kbbb to offbass to minimal to electro-like patterns played by "hamburger" patches) i often wish they'd play those always-the-same, but fun and bouncy fullon basslines instead you better look for the samples he's using (if any) or sample his basslines

distant system is an alias of androcell. so he is still producing, though mostly psydub. his last album imbue is the best to date imho and the creatures ep released this year is pretty nice too. but i have no idea if androcell has any plans to follow up with more downtempo trance stuff...

it also works fine for me now. yeah, that must be it...

thanks for the update. that's some really nice stuff there on soundcloud. it's still the same floating ypsilon 5 sound take your time. if you manage release a new album by the time astral projection does, you've still taken two years less than they have

the most redeeming features of any festivals still left in austria is that they aren't too far to drive for austrians. it's not worth it to come here for a festival. politicians have made the life as difficult as possible for the organisers that most have given up or moved elsewhere. (btw: austria is not eastern but central europe ) i know you didn't hae a festival that's too big, but wouldn't ozora or boom still be obvious choices with a great variety in music and the "full experience"? the atmosphere at those big events is really different than at smaller festivals. (at least it was a few years ago when i was there the last time)

with this thread, we again have a link that keeps reloading forever.

i have enough chemistry knowledge to know that it's one of the most difficult to synthesise among illegal drugs. you'd need a skilled chemist in a properly equipped laboratory, neither of which are required for most other commonly used psychoactives. but the thing is that while one gram of mdma is ten doses, one gram of lsd is 10000 doses, so the potential for profit is definitely greater. but of course blotter without any active substance will always be cheaper to produce than any active product.

really? i've been out of touch with people who do this sort of thing regularly for 3-4 years now, but before that it was almost tiring to turn down all the acid (yes, real lsd) or free shrooms all the time. i guess it depends on which people you party with at the time... looking at the local drug test results, there was plenty of tabs getting tested in the last two years and most of them had real lsd. maybe it's also a regional thing?

lsd and mushrooms are still used. though mostly at festivals and mostly some distance away from the dancefloor, but it has always been that way. the packed, crowded dancefloors with lots and lots of stimuli are often too much for people on psychedelics. mdma/speed and to a lesser extent coke are popular with any sort of electronic dance music, because they give you energy, make dancing more fun and amplify the joy you get from deep booming bass (except coke). so they just fit perfectly to electronic music including psytrance and have always been present. ecstasy is the prototypical rave drug and has (together with amphetamine) been a fundamental part of trance parties since before psytrance split off mainstream trance.