Padmapani

but you know all those extra-agreements and opt-outs that the uk had wouldn't be possible now. if they rejoin there will be no option to keep the pound, the opt-out of schengen to opt-out of the european human rights charta (seriously, wtf britain?), no discount on the membership fee... i doubt you'd get a majority that that anytime soon. the uk has been massively cherrypicking up to now.

i've seen it drop 10% (compared to usd. the euro has also gone down a little) in one hour or so last night when it became clear that the brits voted for brexit. it's a little better now already. it's obvious that it was a bad decision for britain (it might even become "little" instead of "great britain" if the scots and the northern ireland decide to leave the uk (yeah, i know the island is the thing that's called great britain, but whatever )), especially with their reliance on being the largest base for the finanacial industry for europe — that questionable honor will undoubtedly go to frankfurt in the future — the whole trade stuff, science funding, etc... the uk will now likely have similar agreements as norwegen or switzerland have. so basically they'll have to pay money to participate in some of the eu's agreements without having a say when the respective regulations are decided. but i think it's a chance for the european union. first of all the eu will not be blocked by the brits anymore who have always been against a higher political integration, common social standards and basically anything that could counterbalance the advantages the eu provides for businesses (as opposed to the working populace). also brexit is like a kick in the ass for all pro-european politicians in the eu. so there's an added impetus to finally tackle the problems that everyone knows are present now: lack of democratic structures in the eu institutions, a tendency for eu institutions to block themselves making decisionmaking hard or even impossible, a tendency for single countries to fuck up decisionmaking for the whole eu when it's opportunate for your own election at home, the adherance to economic policies that evidently don't work - increasing the disparity in wealth/income and creating an environment where countries compete for having the worst conditions for workers and the lowest taxes for those who could contribute a lot (mainly multinational corporations but also the extremely wealthy) - etc, etc... i'm not too optimistic with a conservative president of the commision and a conservative majority in the parliament, but there is hope that even those people see the signs and the urgency of the situation. on the other hand a brexit is also a victory for xenophobia, nationalists and generally the preachers of hate. far right parties across europe are already trying to ride the wave now. but i am confident that the people on the continent feel much more in the middle of things and see the advantages of the eu as well as the isolation they'd face if they left. especially if we really see some meaningful reforms now.

i take it you don't like space tribe at all. without the at times funny samples i would have a very hard time distinguishing his otherwise quite bland tracks.

i don't know about m-run (i don't listen to his music often, not my cup of tea), but i could easily distinguish between imba and celestial intelligence. imba has a more playful style, sparser arrangements and an oldschool vibe that many newschool artists lack. celestial intelligence has very dense arrangements, is very melodic, very newschool and always intense music. but i might have problems differentiating celestial intelligence from cosmic dimension or maybe psy-h project at times. imba on the other hand i could confuse with other tracks if it were on a dat records compilation there are also many artists with a much more unique style, that makes recognising their music as easy as recognising a tree when you see one. artifact303, nova fractal, blackstarrfinale, artha, ra, khetzal and filteria come to my mind. there's no way i'd guess another artist for one of their tracks.

you mean like this? or this? (3:50) other than these i cannot think of any tracks that don't just have choir sounds (aaah!), speech samples or singing that is utter cheese.

miranda - gnocchi makes me happy, just like solar quest - acid air raid (the raw power and epic acidlines never fail to put a smile on my face), but neither of them are what i'd call happy tracks. rather the opposite.

i mostly "curate" music with headphones. anything psy that gets a good rating lands in my normal playlist that's on all the time when i'm home, so from the second listen it's mostly monitors. sometimes it's only then that a track truly shines (and i might go back to the album to re-evaluate it), but that doesn't happen too often. usually i'll rather think "wtf is it playing that horrible, annoying track" and then proceed to correct an overly positive rating

i don't think you want to. i'm a horrible dj, so to make it sound decent i used lots of intro/outro mixes. i didn't bother to upload the 600mb thing anywhere, especially since at some points it seems just like a playlist with crossfades

nice and happy tracks that are guaranteed to put a huge smile on your face. ideally on a dancefloor outside in the summer sun. i have more (i once made a 5h mix of euphoric/happy/morning goa/psy/trance and just have to look to that tracklist). for instance: Electric Universe - Rain Antares - Astral Plane Protoculture - Dawn Razor Cybernaut - Hydrophonix Artifact303 - Energy Waves ...

as far as i know there's no special name. these are just fm leads (lead sounds created using frequency modulation). depending on your settings you can make patches that sound bubbly like these or harsh, metallic, dissonant, bell like or just like a normal saw wave, .... fm leads are are very characteristic element of almost all darkpsy (and imho the most annoying. the psyfart-like patch at 2:45 is way more interesting if you'd ask me )

thanks for the suggestions. i'm already doing that with the playlists. but they also have their downsides. it's a pain in the ass to look for something specific in a huge list of tracks when you cannot search hierarchically. and if i use the search function it just plays the one track and then stops. anyway, i hope they fix it in a future version. no worries. i certainly learned a few things i just remembered the owner of the most popular indian restaurant, always wearing huge golden necklaces, rings with huge jewels and a rolex. so i guess that's regular show off? but he's not from andhra pradesh, but from punjab. i don't think he's into hip-hop though i didn't even know filthy ass rap songs catched on in india. with indian english preserving old phrases and not using the profanities that are normal for many british speakers, that make the language sometimes seem like 19th century gentlemen talking. hip-hop feels out of place there since we've already derailed the ttip thread into an unexpected direction i'm trying to keep this short. but since i just came from the shower: wait, what ? did i miss something i think your position is very reasonable. especially when i don't even understand how anyone could wear closed shoes and socks at 35+ degrees

i'll second the music player. itunes on the iphone was great a few updates ago, but they really fucked it up. it went from doing exactly what i wanted it to do to being a confusing convoluted piece of crap. i cannot even figure out how to have it play a track and then continue playing from the same playlist, nor how to only shuffle the tracks from one artist, nor how to turn off all the cloud stuff... i thought it's customary to use any riches you might have to show your status over there?

you're not the first one. some highly intelligent and renowed people fear such a scenario. if the "intelligence" of ai continues to increase exponentially and if we use ai to improve the intelligence of ai (which we're increasingly trying to do), we might (in 20 years or so) end up with something that could in a timeframe too short for us to notice become vastly more intelligent than we are (many experts think that reaching that point in time is inevitable; the question is only when). of course we don't even have an idea how to start to teach any sort of machine intelligence our ethics, so in the likely case that we don't solve it until then it wouldn't think in such concepts. let's hope we manage to build in a failsafe or turn it off in time before it decides that we are an obstacle to whatever goal we gave it btw: skynet- or matrix-like scenarios where humans are subordinate to the machines are rather unlikely compared to a scenario where humans don't exist anymore. that is if you go with the dystopic outcome of the whole ai scenario. most professionals i've heard who put a lot of thought into such things either predict such a catastrophic outcome or the exact opposite with huge advances in many fields. or maybe super-intelligent ai is just like commercially feasable fusion reactors or the new astral projection album and they're estimated to be 20 years away at least for the next few centuries

through the idea of communism, concerted effort of workers unions including general strikes and a broad consensus among top economists that classical economic policies lead to mass poverty which led to scumbags being elected and whole lot of violence* (sadly neo-classical theories are fashionable again and we see the same effects as we saw before the rise of keynesianism). i'm not exactly sure what your point is, but if it's that we can only afford our relatively humane treatmentment of workers by expoitation of people on other contintents, i strongly disagree. the above recipe did work in countries with no colonies (or former colonies) at all and it did work at a time when global trade was pretty much nonexistent when compared to now. the whole outsouring and globalisation thing got huge only in the 80s when neo-classical theories became the mainstream of economics again — since then our real wages have stagnated or gone down, while global trade went up a lot just like the profits of the big multinational corporations. *trying to talk about the history of economics before the middle of last century without invoking godwin's law

i find it a disgrace that profit interests of companies should be "on equal fighting grounds" in special courts with democratically passed laws. the secrecy is pretty shady too. just like the initiative of the eu commission not to have the parliaments decide on ceta. but apart from all these things, such trade agreements are almost all of the time only advantageous to multinational corporations, which have more than enough power anyway. no wonder when they are the ones who are invited to discuss what should be in the agreement instead of the people... some unification of standards could be useful, but not with the many atrocities we'd also get with ttip. i don't even believe that free trade is inherently a good thing. much less that we should have more free trade whatever the price. i think we should reinstate hefty tolls against wares produced in places, where workers' rights do not conform to european standards. that way we would see less of the production emigrating and it would also be an incentive to instate proper protection for the workers in other areas of the world. a t-shirt produced in a facory where people are locked in for 12h a day with no weekends and no employee representatives should be more expensive than one that is produced domestically.

tbh i don't hear anything special at that time point. like recursion loop the only thing i think of in the context of "auxilaries" is an aux channel...

did i miss the latest filipe drama?

austria-hungary would have a real chance to win. we'd have a team of more than 55 players with austria, hungary, czechia, croatia, slovakia (plus maybe a player or two from italy, poland and ukraine each). as it is now i predict that austria will lose every game. not that i'm an expert or even interested in football at all; i only came for the austria-hungary joke but richpa was faster

i wouldn't refer to the hihats as percussion. hats are hats, even if they're technically percussion. in electronic music they fulfill a different role than other percussion instruments (drums, shakers, ...). but what people refer to as percussion can vary a lot. i've even heard someone talking about the kick as percussion...

really? up until now in this thread i didn't even know that someone made presets for goa trance. and presets for other psy or trance or whatever often don't really fit that well into goa. isn't it rather that too many newschool goa artists go for a simple detuned saw (sometimes with a little sync) instead of delving deeply into the possibilities that the various synths offer?

but wait! there is more: generally there should be many tracks to be found in the music of juno reactor, eat static, elysium (also check his great mixtapes for suggestions), planet ben and kopfuss resonator.

how can this not be the first track in this thread? a bit darker and more technoid: less tribal, but also percussion focused and very entrancing: likewise, fits perfectly together with rotorblade:

i disagree. i could remember teleport and mahadeva from the first listens many years ago and they are still among my favourites after many hundreds of listens. some tracks never get old, but others do so quite quickly. still, every kind of music has its place. a dj set without "forgettable" tracks isn't going to have a nice flow. just like you cannot tell a joke by just telling the punchline you cannot tell a story with music if you just play one unique and catchy track after the other.

some of my favourite mixes are like that. last week i looked for a few tracks from an old mix from 2004 or something and only after finding the originals, it becomes clear that he follows a darkpsy track with some progressive (followed by fullon, ...) right somewhere in the middle of the mix. no one would do that now anymore. but when you listen to the complete set it's just one journey and you don't even notice how you're switching between genres.

i'm just listening to john 00 fleming's new album alter ego. does anyone else think that he crossed over from making trance with psy influences to making progressive with goa influences? style-wise it's not too different from ovnimoon's latest album. i wouldn't classify any of those tracks as normal trance.