Padmapani

i don't really care about the rest of the album, but towards proxima centauri is absolutely stellar.

and indeed i got it from the section on the right of the wikipedia page about india. not from the mukunda upanishad well, some people tell lots of lies (there are those people who'll tell any made up story to impress others — though i've met fewer of them in recent years) and if they don't put a much greater amount of effort into remembering what they told different people, they'll be called out on their bullshit very quickly.

everyone does. as little as possible. as far as i know (my own perception might be skewed?) i do it most of the time to make a point in a conversation (a point that is actually valid), when the reality is too complicated for me to make that point in an amount of time that does not completely put off anyone i'm talking to. also to avoid unneccesary conflict. just recently i was talking to a few collegues about politics and you just cannot tell those people whom you hardly know that all those "centre" politicians they prefer are almost like fascists for you. generally i'd much rather say something that's true but maybe a little bit beside the point rather than telling a lie. lies require that you remember fake facts/stories and the context in which you told them to what people. with my horrible memory i couln't keep that going for long, even if i wanted to put effort into that sort of thing so avoidance of lies is seem as an even more imporant virtue in india? "satyameva jayate"?

it does work more or less for me. of course for for all tracks, but most of mine have a tweaked variation of the same bass patch. of course sometimes i'll hear a bassline in some sort of track (the last time it was some proggy by sonic species) and try to copy it. then i'll have to spend days to make it work in a goa context (with the result sounding nothing like sonic species at all)

it's not too different. i usually make a slightly goa-influenced machinegun bass with some uhbik-f on top (to widen/fatten the bass and soften it a little). yeah, u-he makes great sounding stuff almost all of the time. i haven't bought bazille either (i wouldn't use or want to learn all the fm/... stuff either), but i've found beatzille on the net. that's a slimmed down version that lacks some of the more exotic functions but sounds equally good with some simple settings and has no copy protection hive didn't catch my attention either. i've played around with the public beta but haven't really found any use for it (just like sylenth). pretty much all of the things i can do in hive, i can do better and more easily in zebra. on the other hand psy basses turned out better, though i still prefer the results i can get with ace or bazille.

alright, here you go. but don't complain about there only being little acid in some boring progressive track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO3uWTrC-Vg i quite like this recent trend of the 303 becoming really fashionable again in proggy.

one of their absolute best tracks. haven't listened to it in a long time.

@starkraver your last track is nice psychill with only a little acid in the background. so that qualifies for this thread (it's yours so you decide, but i might post some prog later on if you tolerate less acid-focused tracks too )? i was rather imagining music like this:

sonic fusion - tribal warrior comes to my mind immediately. it's a bit faster but should still work nicely if pitched down to 130. another one (that's actually in the correct bpm range and has more "lyrics) is chi ad - pathfinder. iirc i've also heard these tracks after one another in a dj set before, so i guess it should work nicely — if they aren't too dark for your purposes that is...

zebra is a great synth imho, but psy bass isn't one of its strengths. most of the bass patches i made with zebra sound somehow dirty or "flabby" to my ears... typically i'll do bass sounds with ace, but bazille is also quite nice (though i've only used the beta in one of my tracks up to now). that said, i used zebra for bass in my last two tracks. once i used the LP TN6SVF (this one and the LP MSxxx filters sound way better than the older ones you can choose in VCF) and the other time i used the (new 2.5) XMF. the filter of XMF sounds cleaner and more "modern" than the others. besides, the analogue overload you get with the xmf adds lots of fatness to the sound — i also use it for other bass sounds in zebrify. ____ your result sounds really nice. very warm and fat bass here.

exactly. no. since i got new monitors i've put off doing a proper mixdown until i've gotten used to their sound. now i tell myself that i'll do a proper mixdown of all of them at once with fresh ears to get a consistent sound, once i've got enough good tracks to actually send them somewhere. in reality i'm probably deluding myself to justify skipping the most boring part of production . i just realised that this is strangely relevant to this thread

what is this? all "tracks" have exactly the same kick and bass. the track names are also very creative.

@antic i know all of those points very well. so are you thinking about changing your artist name now that it's different? i always have one "best track i've ever made" and cannot create anything that's even close. then 5-10 tracks later a new one easily pushes the last one from the #1 spot. i took me a while to realise that there will always be another track that's better than the previous one when i just keep producing interestingly though most of those best tracks are ones that i'll start after months of making no music. maybe because there's less pressure to "compete" with the track before it?

i agree, but often run into the problem that i intuitively answer the question with "more energy, more stuff" almost all of the time. appropriately i never have problems adding layers and progressinv towards higher energy parts of a track. in contrast, transitions to calmer parts are always hard work and i have to be very careful not to break the flow too much.

no, i've never heard of it. looks delicious! how would you prepare it? i'm a bit sceptical about the super easy to make part btw: your imgur links only work if i delete the .jpg at the end.

what problems did you have with the ur22? i've got one and it sometimes produces some bitcrusher-like artifacts for 2-3 seconds once a day. besides that and the fact that you cannot turn both channels (output and headphones) of completely (there will always be a little bit of sound playing at my monitors when i use headphones and vice versa), it runs fine and does its job. have you seen the same behaviour or did your unit have worse problems?

imho yes. i move between two location and carry my headphones with me, the only thing i don't take with me is my midi keyboard — and to be honest when i don't have it i don't even bother making music most of the time. the only thing i seem to be doing is tweaking things and working on parts of the mix. the creative stage is just cumbersome without. if i got a melodic or rhytmic idea i would usually just play it in within seconds, but with the "caps lock keyboard" of logic, which is so inaccurate with timing, not velocity sensitive and so unnatural to play, getting the idea i had down correctly takes so long that i forget what i had in mind when i'm only halfway finished. of course it takes some time to be proficient enough with the midi keyboard until you can just play what you're thinking about, but when you're at that stage you don't want to be without it anymore. even when you're only working on fx, the ability to use velocity/modwheel/aftertouch and turn some knobs simultaneously while recording what you're doing in real time can be very handy.

there was vox - innerpolarity and lost buddha - untold stories and transwave - backfire (if you count those).

nerso is nice, but e-clip must surely be the king of tesseract/serbian style progressive with his album shuma

probably not too far from the truth. but i think that drugs have served as inspiration for many many artists. they can often give people different perspectives and a different perception of music that can accessed later in a sober state of mind. if i try to pinpoint the time in an artists carreer when they make the best music, i would say it's the time coming immediately after the wildly experimental (presumably heavily drug influenced) phase. give them more time and the output "loses the magic" and becomes realatively "boring" again. i think pink floyd are an excellent example for this. before 1970 their sound is extremely psychedelic but their peak comes with more sophisticated sound of medde or dark side of the moon (or the other albums from around that time) in 1973. afterwards their music becomes more and more conventional and loses its special appeal. rock music is easier to look at in this respect because there are more years to look at and the status of the bands as stars gives us more information about their drug use. and of course there are those kinds of geniuses like salvador dalí and frank zappa, who don't need drugs to come up with way-out there, highly psychedelic art — but imho these are the exceptions. just look at the music of the beatles pre- and post-psychedelics. the difference is like night and day. and they were not bad musicians in any way.

prog can be slower but also faster (but the majority is somwhere between 135 and 140 — since the early 00s. if it's below 130, i'd most of the time rather call it downtempo). it's more the slow and steady progression with gradual changes, the focus on the groove/rhythm and the lack of energy, big climaxes and abrupt changes that makes a track proggy instead of fullon.

my favourite track from aeternum/encens is this one: isn't ominus just encens+miranda?

nice! judging by the samples, my favourites up to now are cosmos in her eyes and creature of heaven.

the only true way to enjoy coffee! same here. one cup per day is the absolute maximum; and even that is not something i could do everyday. the problem is that i love the taste (and going for a coffee break (or going for coffee and cake) without coffee does not feel right). since i discovered that the caffeine free coffee in those nespresso tabs actually tastes like coffee (unlike any other caffeine free coffee i have tried up to now) my coffee consumption has quadrupled.

thanks for the lengthy backstory. i will be interesting to hear how you incorporate more "modern psy" elements into goa trance. especially since most of your past tracks have that '95/'96 vibe . the cover looks pretty nice too. i'm looking forward to it; a full length album imba is overdue anyway