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interesting, that track is another trance classic i've missed up to now. i know it, but i have no idea which was the most popular mix (the one that i've heard back then and the one that immediately starts playing in my head when i hear the track now). i know it's not this one (sounds way too much like mwnn) but this version is still closer than the original mix. any ideas?

very interesting track. i like how it combines 60s/70s psy rock with modern electronic music. (which is something i also want to do with my own music. this might give me ideas on some possibilities ). to date, the psychill track that did this the best imho was chromatic aberration. who are they and did they make more such music?

no we don't!

he has always used prominent voice samples, some of which cross the threshold to annoying (while others are great), but while this album has more than magnitudes of order, there are less than on self-fulfilling prophecy. the latter had a few tracks i didn't like because of that, but just like magnitudes it had one insanely good one (to the other side of fractal phase space and fire&stars respectively). while the samples aren't too much for me in any of the tracks on holobiont i don't see an otherworldly great gem either (might of chondria is indeed the closest to that as far as i can tell with just 2 listens). so the album seems less daring than previous ones, but it still beats my favourite psydub of last year (illuminus - sweep dreams) easily with it's vibrant and creative sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZzAnByEYs moonweed makes lots of powerful acidic tracks, but they all lack the beautiful melodies and the coherence of micronesia. shakta is an expert in the latter, also makes acidic music, but nothing he made is as intense and forceful as micronesia (the deedrah remix of lepton head confirms the first post in this thread and is totally different than shakta's laid back original).

ah, ok . well, our politicians still talk like they'll take decisive action, at some time in the future, to stop climate change and complain that the countries on other continents don't want to do anything at all (as if they'd be stopping emissions, it's always the fault of the others...). no, i didn't. so when are we talking? the maps where large parts of each continent are underwater are only accurate in a few thousand years (even by pessimistic estimates — it'll take a long time until all of antarctica has melted). i wouldn't expect anyone except the netherlands (plus maybe denmark?), bangladesh and a few island nations (i've heard the maldives already bought some territory in india) to have a real problem during our lifetimes. and a quarter of the land area of the netherlands is already under sea level, protected by dams. they should know how to live with rising sea levels that's an interesting article. i haven't thought about that before, but it's quite logical with so much mass redistributing...

of course it's not a good thing. still we can enjoy the upsides (warm summers and milder winters) too . i think we're responsible for a greater amount of species going extinct through other means (agriculture, pesticides, deforestation, fishing, ...). the habitat of most species will just move a bit to the north (or south respectively) with climate change. but yeah, coral reefs are an exception to that. let's do some calculations . europe has a population of 742 millions on an area of 10 million km2 (density: 75 people/km2). even if we took up all 1.2 billion indians our population density would be 192 people/km2 which is just over 50% of what india has today (368 people/km2). space is not going to run out soon, and i think it would only be fair to allow for migration. i don't think so. there is no choice. if we were to stop climate change we'd have to stop (and i mean completely stop) using oil, coal and gas immediately. even if half of the world's population would (and could) get their energy from wind/hydro power (solar panel's aren't as good as these two) and would practise asceticism concerning any products that have any co2 footprint associated with them (which is pretty much everything available right now), then the end result would only be delayed by a few years. stopping climate change is utterly unrealistic; we have to adapt and make the best of it.

yes please! what we love about our temperate zones is certainly not the bad (=cold) weather. i do think one of the main reasons why no one is acting on climate change is that the temperate areas mainly profit from climate change (longer growth period -> more crop yield; shorter winter -> less energy needed for heating -> better air quality, ...).

all pink floyd is great. but yeah, the piper at the gates of dawn, a saucerful of secrets (let there be more light!) and ummagumma are the most psychedelic. the dark side of the moon, meddle, atom heart mother, animals and wish you were here are more sophisticated than the former but imho even better for most occasions. they tend more towards prog rock than pure psychedelic rock for psychedelia i recommend grateful dead (you immediately hear that they played on acid most of the time), the doors or maybe jefferson airplane, or even the beatles (if you choose the right tracks). if you fancy a nice blend of psychedelic prog rock (like dark side), you shouldn't miss king crimson, genesis (they made really good albums before phil collins got in charge and turned them into a pop band), the ozrics of course (but any psy head should know them anyway) and jethro tull (if a little folk influences don't turn you away). if it can also be a little jazzy soft machine might be worth a try. but none of those (except the ozrics) make as much use of synths and electronic soundscapes. if you want to go down that direction with psychedelic music and don't care so much about the rock bit, you should try tangerine dream.

globular is always quality music. i think this is one of the very rare releases where i'll pick up a physical album (along with one of magnitudes of order) when there's a free download available. does anyone know how well that works through bandcamp? or is there a better place for these albums, where morrison gets a bigger share?

not just that. today i suddenly realised that i was smiling, shaking my head to the beat waving my hand to the melody of logic bomb's third revelation while looking out the window when i should be reading some boring stuff about medicinally used antibodies instead. i listen to good music almost constantly, so it happens multiple times per day.

alright, 55 it is then. so we meet in the middle and were both right to some degree growth hormones are forbidden for farm animals (i have a source at least for beef) here in the eu. but yeah, it's not like that everywhere and some of those substances (especially beta receptor agonists) make life for those animals pretty unpleasant; i would not stop short of calling it torture. tb is correlated pretty well to hunger, but you're right and i completely forgot about malaria. effective medicine for that isn't around for long and 100 years ago we even had malaria here in europe. praise ddt even if it bio-accumulates (who needs birds of pray anyway j/k) . i was thinking of historical figures from the greeks to medieval times and many of them lived to ages above 70. but that's likely skewed because these people were not among the poor ones affected by hunger (and therefore more susceptible to tb, ...). so in the end the figures from acid brain with 55 years are likely more accurate.

you can get them without harming the mother plant. but cereals are basically little baby plants themselves they are not separate facts. they are one and the same fact. with a child mortality rate of today you'd have a life expectancy pretty close to what we have today 100 years ago. if you were an 18-year old man (women were worse off due to complications with childbirth) in 1900 you could expect to live to around 70 years old, just as you could if you lived thousand years ago or in babylonian times. the big difference is really just child mortality, which we have dropped to almost zero with hygiene, antibiotics and vaccinations (especially with the eradication of smallpox). the greeks (i think?) wouldn't even consider a child to be truly part of their family until it had survived smallpox. i hope you stay clear of mushrooms, then bio-accumulation is only really a problem with fish and liver (and mushrooms). normal meat (especially when it's not from carnivores (which we normally don't eat) is pretty safe in comparison).

"killargh" used to be an expression for something that the speaker thinks is outragiously good (before people started to make fun of it and only used it ironically). just as in "man, that is a killargh track!" so killargh bass is just some sort of bass that someone finds to be pretty good. there's no official "killargh bass". so you can choose your own favourite samples and call them killargh (if you don't mind people thinking you're some isreali who has slept for the last 10 years and tries to promote his music).

i know they exist in europe. the netherlands has lots of those, so does germany and apparently france. i'd never buy meat from the netherlands or germany for exactly that reason. austria is a bit different, probably partly because of the mountainous landscape. there are lots and lots of small farms and not much else. if you have 15 cows you're already considered to have a large cattle farm. (the farmers have a strong lobby so there might even be regulations preventing industrial meat factories but i don't know...) soetimes you even have the names of the individual farmhouses on the package you buy in the supermarket. of course, just because i've never heard of a huge industrial complex in my country, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. still, i have possibilities to make sure i don't get meat from such factories. plants have no nerves but they have ways of transmitting signals from one part of the plant to the other, and demonstrably do so when they're injured. it all depends on if you believe that everything that lives has some sort of consciousness (i do not). then again when animals are properly anaesthesised (which sadly doesn't happen always in the facilities you mention or when traditional slaughtering methods are used) they also don't feel pain or suffer, so i don't see a problem there either.

sinaï better than the oldschool? i don't think so

yes! also and more psytrance oriented: Pleiadians - Modulation Pleiadians - Time Dilation (Etnica's Morning Mix) Filteria - In The Heaven's Eye Phobium - Towards Proxima Centauri

sadly, not even the lestat of today can

zodiac is totally underrated. leo is great and so are libra, sagittarius, cancer and capricorn. the other tracks are also fine. it's funny to read how people hated albums back then, that are now considered classics.

if you like psydub, don't miss globular. concerning goa, lunar dawn - kolovrat, blackstarrfinale - auryn and proxxeus mentioned above are better than most cd albums. for progressive, i'd recommend stereofeld - frequenzwechsel (never mind their newer album).

your "psy tech" is identical with my definition of "psytek" (i.e. psy-techtrance or psytrance blended with harder mechanical sounding techno — the delta, mos, kopfuss resonator ...). "psychedelic techno" is a term i often see applied to proggy/minimal hybrids or to minimal that tries to be psychedelic in a way. it's a totally different kind of music. there are a few compilation over at ektoplazm.

i first listened to goa trance at the age of 16 in 2001, went to psy parties (among others) regularly in 2003 with 18 years and became a full-time goa/psy listener (with psy fully replacing prog rock for home listening and freetekno/dnb for partying) with 21 in 2006.

it definitely shows. many newschool artists make music that sounds great on monitors but on a big festival rig (or even worse at a medium sized club) it all turns into a big mush, the details get lost and and the important elements don't stick out anymore, but for your music everything still sounds as it should. the new tracks sure sound good. i'm looking forward to the new album btw, is there any chance that you'd enable the download button for that set?

i dread the day i'll have to upgrade to logic 10. quite a few of the plugins i use are 32 bit (especially old but useful freeware like smexoscope, ...) and an update would drop support. knowing the abundance of compatibility problems i encountered when upgrading to logic 8, i decided to keep updates to the bare minimum required to keep the system running and functioning.