Padmapani

risking continuing spread of the virus and longer lockdowns and closures puts the economy even more at risk. if you look at the economic data from elsewhere the countries with the highest growth rates are also those that acted quickly and decisively. if we did more against the virus, the ski lifts would maybe go bust we'd still have the rest going on relatively normally. now everyone suffers and of course more lives are lost in the process too. with thousands of people getting the vaccine it's incredibly unlikely that it's just a statistical fluke. of course the number needed to treat (or vaccinate in this case) will sound a lot worse than 90%, but we really have to wait for the full data to be sure. the thing with the rna vaccies is that those cells "infected" with the rna will produce the antigen indefinitely and ultimately be killed by the immune system. it's not much different than what a virus does. a virus also injects its rna into those cells, which will then never revert to normal again. only with the rna vaccine there is no spread to other cells because no infectios particles are produced. so i see no problem there. the only problem i see is that getting rna into the cells without a virus is tricky and maybe some of the tricks used here might have harmful consequences we haven't noticed yet.

i'm not gonna get a vaccination of one of the new vaccines (astra, moderna, sputnik) at least for a few months and until a few ten thousand people had gotten it. i'm also skeptical of how these were pushed though in such a short timeframe. however i'd take the chinese vaccine on day one (but i don't suspect it to turn up in europe any time soon). that one is based on tried and proven methods, although it probably won't be as effective as the others. i'm still waiting on the companies releasing the whole data from their now ongoing phase 3 studies until i make a decision. right now everyone is claiming >90% protection, which seems a little dodgy.

yeah. the hospitals are working over their capacity, ages is cheating with the data (adding new available beds every time we hit 100% occupancy here in upper austria, while everyone knows that the personnell and machines available don't change), and the biggest worries we hear in the media is the profits of ski lift operators. have you seen the documentary in orf a few days ago? a woman there complained about having almost everything smell like rotten onions for months. so your smell and taste is back to normal now? how many months has it taken to return to normal? good to hear of someone acting responsibly. apart from my family and closest friends i don't see anyone taking it seriously at all. even at work where people should know better we've had a colleage break the lockdown rules and meet lots of people, including k1 and now she's been tested positive. i tested everyone at work yesterday with an antigen test and will do so again next week (we still cannot be sure if she infected anyone else in the meantime. antigen tests not always turn up positive in the first few days, damn that wide range of possible incubation periods). i do write music in the meantime, but creativity isn't as easy to come by as usual atm…

if you don't count tiny countries like andorra, then we're at the #1 spot now. things are not looking good. almost 1% of the population is currently diagnosed with an active sars-cov-2 infection in the area where i live. indeed, the lockdown is a joke and if we open the country when they say, we'll be up where we were a week ago in no time. i'd write something very similar to your paragraph on that. only no gf at the moment, which is not likely to change any time soon due to the coronavirus which is a bit of a downer. also work wise if you had asked me 10 years ago, i'd have imagined working on a vaccine rather than taking nasal swabs to test for covid. i blame that on capitalism.

yeah, that's exactly the astrix, alien project, etc... sound. but with this comparison i am even more sure that aquila is es-1. still, the vb-1/quadrafuzz bass sounds better to my ears

i guess xenomorph's demagoguery of the obscurants would fit here, even if it isn't pure psytrance.

neither did i. and it's become increasingly difficult. afaik the newer versions of cubase cannot run the old version of quadrafuzz, that's on pretty much every one of these basslines, anymore.

it's possible to sample es-1 and put it into cubase for quadrafuzz. from what i've heard that was quite often done in the early 00s. it's not quite there, but something about the way the filter works makes me think it's es-1. there's some sort of characteristic that's very distinct from the basses i get with other synths (though obviously i don't know vb-1).

could also be the classic ES-1 + quadrafuzz combo i do think it's pretty close in character to your typical es-1 fullon bass. this is what i've come up with in 5min of tweaking es-1 trying to imitate that bassline. i imagine it could get very close to the original with some more tweaking and once you do some processing. https://www.dropbox.com/s/68xzz0e9rpcipns/ES-1 Bass.wav?dl=0

maybe i remembered it wrong, but the only thing i could find was this: it actually looks like a real club and he's playing what seems to be a halfway decent goa trance dj set. in my memory he playing some goa trance track and singing on top of that. maybe there's another video still?

true. you cannot get more underground than that

club? do you mean that video with nhjo playing in a garage with just him playing and one person dancing or have i missed something?

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i manually classify every track in my library by genre. everything umptemp psy is categorised into "goa, fullon, progressive psytrance, darkpsy (including forest, except of course forest goa trance which is found under goa ), dark progressive psytrance (i.e. zenon), suomisaundi, psytek, nitzhonot and psytrance (which is oldschool psy before fullon came along, uk psytrance or psytrance that doesn't fit into any other category). i do however run into problems sometimes. minimal psytrance from 00/01 will sometimes end up in progressive and sometimes in psytek. i cannot justify the effort to look through all the progressive to correctly identify the minimal psy tracks in their own genre. sometimes uk psy will sound so similar to fullon that it'll end up in the fullon category. also some more modern psytrance sits at the boundaries of progressive, fullon and psytrance, so a given track might end up in any of these categories if it feels more like that than the others; for instance the tracks from the mysteries of psytrance 4 compilation did end up in four different subgenres.

so do you think nhjo could produce 60 000 instead of 6 000 tracks in one month with samples from speedsound?

he just spams his ads on the forum.

why is your windows in english now when it was in korean before?

no way. so do you guys want a public folder to exchange files until we can find a more permanent way to do this or not?

me too. i want to believe no idea here. same with the original etnica lineup. i guess the most efficient way for differentiation of labour, where everyone specialises in one aspect, would be synthesis, writing the parts, sequencing, mixing. but then they wouldn't be working together as much as one after the other. some sort of "you're our 303 player, while i play the 101 and the third guy mans the drum machine" would also be a little strange…

iirc the people from suntrip said that earthcall was the last uptempo release by ra?

exactly

the old theme with the update looked a little broken but with penzonews it's all fine now. i actually like the new look. if i were pressed to find an issue, then i'd say that the new sidebar takes too much space away from the posts in some threads, but that really doesn't make a lot of a difference.

i don't know much about electrical things, but aren't capacitors just two rolled up metal foils kept at a small distance by an insulating layer of plastic?

i think we interpret the topic a little differently. as i see it tsotsi is asking about psytrance that doesn't fit neatly into sub-categories instead of music that doesn't fit into any sort of genre (and therefore cannot be psytrance at all).

i'm aiming for album length atm, so something like 8 full tracks. i typically get lost in the creative stage which is most fun with complete freedom before i get on to sequencing. then i throw out most of the stuff that's not quite good enough and wonder if i can get close to the usual 7 minutes. but in the end most tracks end up with 8min+ anyway imho there is some sense for a psy track in making a journey that lasts for a while for your typical trance inducing dancing experience. you can already subtract maybe one minute at the beginning and one minute at the end if a track is played in a dj set. that leaves you with 5-6 minutes of playtime for a typical track but just 3 minutes for a 5 minute one. i do want to try making something with the structure of early 00s fullon some day, where the track slowly builds up to just one melodic climax at the very end (think talamasca - the old school, or cancer), but during seuqencing it somehow feels wrong if i don't go to full power somewhere between 3:00 and 4:00. i am not from vienna (rtp is) but lived there for a some years a few years ago. tbh i didn't like it very much for psy parties back then (they are either huge and inconvenient or tiny). however they still have outdoor parties now when we have none so i am a bit envious now in pandemic times