Padmapani

for hightech kashyyyk sounds really nice. it's actually interesting and musical. the closest i know is lunarave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMFNDOS51k many darkpsy elements (though not in all tracks), but with none of the dumb noise and actual melodies that tell a story... (be sure to also listen to the sections after 4:30)

some people prefer to vote just before the poll is closed. also, maybe there is less discussion this time? but if we keep talking about it, we'll reach 4 pages easily

techno started out pretty housey, then it started to sound more and more like techno (=got a distinct, characteristic sound) in the 90s (banging industrial machine noise music), but the trend reversed in the early 00s and it now sounds more like house than in the decade before. so yeah, techno it can be pretty melodic, even if it doesn't sound that much like (the) techno (we're used to) anymore .

why not filteria - dog day's bliss. it's like a much improved version of liquid troll. while we're at it:

talpa (the older stuff, before he made progressive like everyone else) belongs here:

totally. my plan and magma are simply great. actually the whole out of focus album is. one of the greatest moments of last years connection festival was when some dj played my plan -> total bliss.

i thought trold made more darkpsy oriented music? but braincell is a total genius. this is a melodic (to stay on topic) masterpiece. on of the best psy tracks in history imho. @techno if it has an easily discernible melody, it's not techno . @aaarrrh that is not a deep track that gets you into a psychedelic state of mind (in stark contrast to braincell above; take good headphones and close your eyes: i promise that you'll feel your body melt even before the big climax hits at 5:00 ), but decent party music. the melodies aren't cheesy but a bit simple. still, for party music it's perfectly fine.

it's really good. there are no tracks that are as spectacular as some from globular or ott, but there also aren't any tracks that are over-the-top or cheesy as can happen with both of the others. this album actually got the top spot in my downtempo vote for 2015.

so, obviously, no. but while the above track is great, i typically prefer the melodic stuff. early protoculture is really something we could use more of. who's to say that you can't have psytrance with both plenty of effects and melodies? logic bomb for instance. btw, i wouldn't call electro sun happy, it's just horribly cheesy imho.

one doesn't have to be a vegetarian to be against industrial meat production in the way described in the video. the true evil behind this is not meat-eating but capitalism. if it weren't more profitable, such facilities wouldn't exist. i'm sure glad to live in a country where small farms and slaughterhouses are the norm (i've seen how the process works irl) and meat factories like in the video are the rare exceptions (if they exist at all).

good post. even if i cannot agree about not recommending them. irl i know so many people who use them therapeutically (either in consistently low doses for years or just occasionally) for good effect (with minimal side effects) and up to now just a single person who escalated dosage resulting in problematic use. of course you don't know how it'll turn out before you decide to use them, the risk is never zero and it's a decision that everyone has to make for themselves...

yup. in addition to that i also feel that there's a tendency in the psy scene to live in your own little fantasy world a little. not only in a way that criticism is ignored or omitted to preserve "shantiness" but also in a way that people just endure the hardships of everyday life and flee to fantasy land (psy party/festival) every now and then instead of trying to make a real change. when compared with the freetekno scene (where drugs (including psychedelics) are much more prevalent and people are generally a bit younger, poorer and with less education — least over here), involvement in social issues seems to be lacking on the psy side (even though the psy heads would have a clearer mind and more means to make a difference). this is imho probably due to our focus on new-age stuff while they have a strong anarchist/diy culture. where we have decoration with shiva, elves and gnomes, they have posters with demands, messages to society and (admittedly lots of) checkerboard patterns with spirals. then again, i would not exchange the happy fantasy land that is a psy festival for the lawless utopia of a teknival that turns into a dystopia within a few days when people (due to a lack of proper installations) turn the camping grounds, parking grounds and even the dancefloor into a huge public toilet including the corresponding smell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmg7wXhy41I thanks, branefreeze, for your post in the best of 2015 thread. this almost seems like their best album to date.

anything "killargh" is a relic from the early 00s when isratrance was a lively forum. the best vst to achieve it is any (that does have a sufficiently snappy envelope and doesn't have a highpassfilter you can't remove on everying).

330 cpm = 66 wpm. not bad, but not great either.

i've seen visual snow and glare around intense light sources since kindergarten - just like "floaters" which are intransparent stuff floating around the vitreous humour of your eye. the halos around people against a white wall are something i've first noticed when first experimenting with weed. every one of those phenomena can be explained by the way our sensory organs work, but are normally filtered out by our brain. still, what has been seen cannot be unseen, you can just get used to, forget and therefore fail to notice it (abstaining from psychedelics should certainly help that process). but when i think of visual snow and focus on it i see it on all suitable surfaces (doing that right now because of this thread ). as a rule of thumb, it's not hppd if it doesn't impact your life in a huge negative way. i've read a study about one third of psychedelics users having some visual disturbances (from normal stuff like snow to real patterning), for months after use. so it's in fact to be expected so see something you didn't notice before, if you do those substances.

i take it technossomy doesn't approve of eat static's samples

you mean like what they're trying to do over at the grounds of sun festival (and a few others in europe)? though they are a bit of an unorganised lot so i cannot say how much of what they try to achieve is really being done but as far as i can tell, apart from the green/eco/local/sustanable stuff there isn't much getting done as far as i know... the thing that seperates us from the hippies back then is probably that a bigger percantage of people lead completely normal lives when they're not partying and that a bigger percantage of the "hardcore" psyheads fall for esoteric new-age bullshit compared to back (at least that's what the old hippies i know say). you don't tackle social issues by eating mushrooms and listening to terrance mckenna.

any party culture is going to be primarily hedonistic. still, it seems that the scene in europe and america (where it exists) has stayed truest to the original "hippie" values, which have been lost for a big part of the scene in areas where psy has reached (for us) unthinkable popularity. after all, if you try to make a top 40s hit which the majority of the people should listen to, you'd better have the image of a "cool guy" and make something that's easy listening instead of expressing your last acid trip by making an ornate psychedelic masterpiece.

jaia - mai mai has some melodies that have a certain east asian ring to them (though the sample is vietnamese i think?).

it's similar to benzos (hitting roghly the same receptors), but for many people it can turn pretty weird when not going to sleep and/or taking higher doses. there are also some reports of people sleepwalking, sleep-eating or sleep-driving while using it therapeutically...

"Music is more than mathematics. And I am much more than a program with musical subroutines!" "Inside this room, all of my dreams become reality." logic bomb - the third revelation the second one just works so nicely (when you're actually at a party inside). (edit: i somehow missed paul eye's post. i'll still leave the sample in here.) "yeah, sorta reminds me of my time in montana, 31st of december 1994, when i saw the mexican jesus floating down the river…" scatterbrain - mexican jesus this one is truly unique "As a child, I could walk on the ceiling. I'd butterfly up on the walls" the delta - as a child i could walk on the ceiling if that's not considered too popular? the sample of hiscore - identify also never fails to create a monumental atmosphere.

i thought he was quite ok, a bit minimalistic and strange but not too special, until i heard his set live at connection festival last autumn. i originally wanted to go to sleep and my feet already hurt from the previous days and hours of the festival, but i couldn't stop dancing. he doesn't try to do anything to fit into the newschool/goa (or any other) cliché, but rather tells his own story — in a way that works extremely well on the dancefloor.

no. you have to repent by listening to electro sun's higher than ever from start to finish in one sitting. that's what you get for making me (and probably a few others on here) feel old

morphem - out of focus talamasca - zodiac braincell - universal language and any chi-a.d. the others i'd put into my favourites are albums i'd also put in the classics category.