Padmapani

i sense we are going to disagree in the astral projection thread. trust in trance? do you like any ap at all?

good night. i'm looking for the perfect chord progression. i've gone from Gm over various others to Dsus4, Asus4 and A. but now it doesn't want to resolve back to Gm anymore... edit: it resolves to Dm now. Gm is out.

no, no. the legal kind of pharmacist. really. spicy food? it's not rare for me to eat more spicy food at home. it was campylobacter. my friend was struck by salmonellosis one weeks later. what is with you guys? why don't you cook food that's safe to eat (or at least mark the unsafe places as they do in singapore) . we only ate at what looked like good (or at least the best in town) restaurants. also we never took any of the delicious looking salad, because it isn't cooked. and we quickly started only drinking coke instead of fruit juices because coke is sure to be safe. maybe we tourists don't have a good eye for which restaurant is safe or maybe you guys are all immune to most bacteria already? yeah, the treated water over there tastes horrible. the mineral water is one of the things i enjoy most when i come home from travelling. copper vessel.... so that's your secret. copper is toxic to most microorganisms yeah, we do have markets and they have fresh high quality food, but they're much more expensive than the supermarkets. talk about twice the price for most things. not really. most of europe is rather stuck with deflation or deflation risk. austria is a bit of an outlier with moderate inflation due to rising prices for food and rents. but generally the guys from the central bank print insane amounts of money and give it to the bankers hoping to create some inflation that way. but the bankers keep the money to themselves and the "finance industry", so we get no inflation because nearly nothing makes it to the real economy... so you still have food inflation? i read something about droughts raising the onion prices two (?) years ago, but didn't realize that this was still going on.

total eclipse - all of them regarded as classics, but really i don't see anything special. they have a handful decent tracks and that's it. same for the infinity project, prana and asia2001 really*. *i'm not going to say infected, because we've had that topic often enough ; )

mahadeva. lol.

the problem is that most media are saving cost and just copy&paste the texts they get from press agencies (your national press agnecy, reuters, ...) so you'll get the same news (often with the same spelling mistakes) from everywhere. i've noticed that demonstrations against austerity measures or against conservative governments inside the eu (in spain or france for example) often don't appear in the media, while much smaller demonstrations in countries we don't have good relations with get lots of coverage. when tens of thousands of spaniards protest against austerity for a week, marching across the whole country to madrid, all we hear is "some anarchists at the edges of a demonstration set fire to cars", and this only a few days afterwards. but when you have 200 people protesting against putin on one evening, we get a detailed view with interviews of the participants immediately. i think the situation will be even worse in countries like germany where media ownership is even more concentrated in the hands of a few. every source is biased. of course russian media is even worse, but for some topics concerning eu-russia relations you can only be sure that something is actually true when your newspaper and russia today are in agreement

thanks for the offer, but as a pharmacist i don't think i'll be struck by poverty unless people stop getting sick we have three big companies owning all the supermarkets. and they pay every few years for illegaly fixing too high prices, but why stop what you're doing when you pay only a fine of few million euro but gain profits of billions of euro by that practise... also we didn't have the hartz reforms as in germany, which dramatically lowered wages and created a huge pool of cheap labourers (who wouldn't be able to get by with austrian prices). so we're not really comparable to germany here.

on one hand you want evidence that goa is becoming popular on a global level and on the other hand you take the situation in belgium as your only basis. there were no fucking goa trance parties anywhere between here and belgium for many years. except for belgium and probably israel there was only a big vast emptyness. also i don't see how it makes a huge difference if the parties are every 2-3 weeks or monthly. if you count monthly events you'll have goa trance in many places. if you don't count them, you're effectively saying that monthly parties are no parties at all, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

wow. for 1000€ you get 50m2 in a nice neighborhood, 600€ for 40m2 in a shitty neighborhood. halve those prices when you move out of vienna. but for food prices we beat finland according to eurostat.

last year we had: https://www.goabase.net/festival/connection-2015-open-air-goatrance-festival/81661 https://www.goabase.net/party/balkan-goa-fanatics-a-rise-of-balkanix/85750 with goa only. out of the festivals in 5h driving distance last year we had: 4 without goa (rather small ones) 1 medium size with plenty of goa acts 2 bigger ones with goa acts and 1 with only goa (balkan goa fanatics). that makes 50% of festivals offering goa. and those 50% are way better than the other 4, even if all of them played the same music. here in vienna we have a monthly goa only party series and another party series that plays goa every 4th time. i'm not saying goa is the dominant subgenre, but 5 years ago+ we had exactly zero goa! edit: forgot about lost theory. thanks to imba for reminding me.

comeon, have you ever looked on party and festival lineups since 99? i've been going to psy parties since the early 00s (regularly since 06) and i have never seen as much goa as now. we have regular goa parties, we have goa artists at pretty much every festival, we have festivals with goa trance only. ten years ago we have nothing (except mwnn at ozora). i remember a festival in 09 where i was the almost the only guy dancing at the second floor (which had a really shitty pa) to a dj set by digitoxin. that was the first time i heard goa trance at a party (except for mwnn and hallucinogen at ozora).

2010, when i was in kerala. for the same reason that befalls every tourist who decides to go to india these are some hefty prices up there. here, it's 10-25€ for one night (the 25€ for those huge parties with thousands of people, 3+ international big names and waiting times of 30min+ to get in) and 70€ for a 4-day festival (where you need no more money if you take everything you need concerning food/drinks to the festival).

true. the deedrah remix is just so much better and more popular that i thought of it as the original

way to turn a classic into an annoying and incredibly boring track. this wouldn't be so bad as it is, if it wasn't supposed to be a remix of lepton head. it has the main melo in the middle, but otherwise it lacks all the attributes that made the original great.

apparently and even then it sounds a bit lifeless and overly "digital". i just listened to a few other youtube videos with presets and it seems to be good at gritty, harsh sounds. even the bass presets sound mostly agressive and lack warmth... so if it sounds like that for you, it's probably not because you don't yet know how to program it. but the interface looks interesting. theoretically it should be really flexible with the wavetables, so i guess the filter isn't the best or certainly not analogue-modelled.

nope, never heard of it before your post. after reading your post, i also don't think i missed out

the last track is at least as epic as the cover

it did work (and show filipe's posts below yours), but facebook always tries to be maximally annoying for those that don't have an account. so thanks for pasting it here

what makes it better to read on facebook than here? is it because facebook blocks half the webpage with a huge floating "sign up" window, or because get called "cocksuckers" by filipe when we visit that facebook page?

a really nice album. he doesn't care at all about conforming to a particular genre (i'd still say it's all goa, but the influences from other areas of psy are numerous). it's really creative with unexpected developments in almost every track. there are plenty of unusual sounds even though acidlines and mwnn-like sine melodies are abundant. still, there is never a "melody overload" you might find with many newschool goa tracks. the similarities to old oforia are very few. i'd rather place this album somewhere between mwnn, old koxbox and new born with a touch of blackstarrfinale. though it's not very close to any of them. even though i'm just on my second listen through the album, i know it's definitely going to be among the higher places in my top 10 for this year.

prav is no fullon. it has a few fullon elements, but really is goa. if borrowing a few things from psy that was popular after the time of oldschool goa makes a track fullon, then almost all newschool is not goa. (i'm currently working on a track that leans more towards fullon than this one, and i still think of it as goa). prav is also my favourite on this release. nicely melodic and with a lot of power. nav is not my cup of tea. too much "balkan" sound and melodies. jav is better, but not electronic enough for me. i loved the interplay of the real world instruments and electronic music for instance on blessings from irij on kolovrat. with jav it seems like it's not instruments embedded in an electronic track, but rather the other way round. still, you immediately notice that it's all quality music, even if it doesn't conform to ones specific taste.

you think the wealth common to the member countries was not distributed equally?

they confuse the eu with the commonwealth of nations? those people really are the same (and too many) everywhere. over here they turn to conspiracy theories about the elites wanting to replace the indigenous population with arabs, faking election results to achieve that and using chemtrails to influence voting behaviour, simply because they didn't win the presidential election.

most of it is pretty simple from a "traditional standpoint". especially darkpsy with its lack of melodic content. also progressive because of its minimalism (a nice groove, some percussion maybe one or two melodies and that's it). not having a chorus actually makes psy more complex imho. if you just alternate between chorus and verse you'll end up with something simpler than a 7min piece that steadily progresses into new territory. i think you'll find the most complex psy in goa trance. filteria has plenty of interesting melodies, harmonies and progressions. likewise for pleiadians/etnica, bpc or khetzal. artha and hallucinogen also make some complex tracks with polyrhytms, ... if you decide to include fx into the picture it would of course look different. but i don't see how we could have a meaningful metric to rank track this way. does the artist applying lots of effects to a screeching sound make the track more complex, just because the screeching sound is marginally different afterwards? do unexpected breaks and jumbled up parts make a track more complex or is it just randomness? if you count randomness as complexity, wouldn't pure white noise be the most complex "music" there is? i don't think it's possible to come to any conclusion if we go down that avenue. also, i don't think there's necessarily a correlation between complex music and good music. lots of my favourite tracks (and lots of psytrance classics) are actually pretty simple. take genetic - transmission or electric universe - one love (or most electric universe actually); they just have a beat and few melodies, but are old favourites of many because it's just really good music.