Padmapani

nice one, but... it's not clipping and there's no horrible singing. you still have a long way to go before you can approach the level of our genius producer nhjo hyennro.

but thanks for doing so. i must have missed it the first four times around easily one of tim schuldt's best tracks.

yes and yes. there's no difference. let's take the first oldschool and newschool copilation that i find in my library: it turns out to be: VA - Tribal Science. the only good tracks on here are imho space tribe - flipout the dolphin (voodoo edit), mwnn - silicon trip and cydonia - animals (which is the track why i downloaded the comp in the first place). the rest is mediocre at best. the psychaos track are very average, just like tip, the sounds in prana gets on my nerves within a few seconds and even the second mwnn track has a horrible, uninspired melody in the middle (which is surprising because there's hardly a track by him that i don't like). for newschool is was: VA - Goamystica Vol. 1. the good tracks here imho are khetzal - damocles, imba & jagoa - unidentified flying spores and fiery dawn - feelings. space elves and somnesia have melodies i don't like, cactus arising and maiia303 are nice, but not special enough to get a "good" rating in my library, afgin is horribly cheesy and the rest is just average. surprisingly there are exactly 11 tracks in both compliations (no i really didn't pick them or plan this) so the comparison is easy to make. 3/11 tracks are good in the oldschool compilation and 3/11 tracks are good in the newschool compilation. the rest is just average. i've been disappointed by newschool and have therefore turned to oldschool instead multiple times, each time only finding that the percentage of good music wasn't better back then, it's rather that the average and bad tracks sound different. much of that used to be amateurish, boring music with bad sound design, now it's music with "standardised" sounds playing a constant and tiring stream of forgettable eastern. maybe we disagree because i wasn't there in the golden days and don't have fond memories of the time?

visual snow is perfectly normal. it's only that the less observant (=most people) never notice. but being tired or taking certain "pharmaceuticals" can certainly impair your brain's ability to filter out the snow before it reaches your conscious perception for a while. it can be the same with astigmatism and tinnitus ime. @ap benzos are also being considered at the moment as a novel treatment for tinnitus brought about by loud noises/hearing loss. they are thought to inhibit overactive regions in the brain responsible for hearing, getting activity down to a normal level (i.e. having you only hear sounds that your ears actually hear instead of hearing sounds because your brain overcompensates for the lack of information coming from the ear).

this thread still exists? i thought i was deleted because offtopic was forbidden at the time? but yeah, it's really sad that the images don't show anymore. a lot of fun was had back then

nova fractal and psy-h project immediately come to my mind:

serveimage edit: i've lost more faith in my ability to post images on a forum than in humanity. edit2: i've scrolled down now and indeed, my faith in humanity has taken another blow.

daze, without a doubt. it's the most "cosmic" one with a smooth sound and the most memorable melodies. i thought lost in the wild would grow on me, and although it's better than heliopolis (and probably also sky input), it's not anywhere near daze. you may want to keep quiet about that. some people might take you to the baumgartner höhe for criticising d5 too loudly

-quite to the contrary. there's lots of overmelodic eastern stuff, and very little true morning music. -i don't see any resemlance to second phaze. i wish most newschool was closer to that album. for me most average newschool isn't floaty and deep enough. instead it's random melodies over random melodies, leaving no space for floatiness or anything else. _______ -yes! -agreed, but i wouldn't stop there. i don't mind a few fullon (or progressive (if it's the good kind)) elements in my goa either. -yes, i also criticise that sometimes, but from time to time i'm guilty too. "ooh, there's a goa track in my reddit feed; i have to upvote even if the track isn't that good"

moonshine is definitely in the top 5. but my #1 cosmosis track is inner space

the wheel of time surely is the better track on here. it's right up there with my previous nova fractal favourites mass extinction and blindsight. mystery of life on the other hand sounds extremely familiar from the first listen. it's a good nova fractal track, but being "a good nova fractal track" is pretty much all the description needed to reproduce this mystery of life. just like with losts souls from the ep last year. if his music were more popular (which it should be - i still have no idea why it hasn't hit the psy dancefloors big time; it has everything that made fullon so danceable and appealing to the psy masses) i'm sure people would be joking about having a nova fractal music generator where you put in a simple melody and get tracks like lost souls or mystery of life. but since we only have a handful tracks (instead of thousands upon thousands) in this style i wouldn't even call them generic.

those new versions of time slices and identify ( ) sound soo good compared to the vinyl rips that are floating around on the next. this release is worth it alone for those two tracks. the track is pretty good, but the sample…

less forgettable tracks than patience for heaven. some even stand out when initially skipping through the tracks. so the biggest minus for the previous album isn't that big of a problem anymore (although there are still less distinct sounds than in the albums of some other top newschool aritsts). production, nice floatyness and everything isn't worse either. presence either is on par with or improved compared to patience for heaven, which is already a very pretty good album, so i'll definitely have to pick this one up soon.

neelix afair. i also remeber a festival back in 2010 or so, where i heard exactly the same melody (obviously from a sample cd) but with different eq/filters/... three times in different tracks in one evening. but i cannot remember who the djs were and much less who produced the tracks. still, it's definitely widespread.

i agree, but sadly many people (including "big" artists) do.

that's an understatement. at a blind test over at some studio forum, more people thought that diva was the analogue original and thought that the old analogue synths costing thousands of euros were the plugin than the other way round but for the most part diva sounds more like the lush synth sounds of the 70s or 80s, instead of the cheap digital synths that were so prolific in oldschool goa. of course it's a flexible synth, but out of the box it's easier to sound like vangelis than like astral projection... btw, diva also includes modules modelled after the ms20, so it might be a cheaper (and equally good) option if you're looking for that kind of sound and are fine with it being software.

i used to try to produce "a track like that", forcing myself to do proggy or psydub or whatever, but that inevitably ended in a failure (2 minutes of crap). now that i don't force myself and just do "a track like that" without fixing myself on a genre it always turns into newschool goa . so when i just do whatever i want, it turns out more consistent than otherwise

he's not stalking you, he's stalking almost everyone on psynews far as i can see .

how about psylent buddhi (while we're talking about great tracks that aren't avaiable in the quality they deserve to be heard in)?

Uptempo: 1: VA - The Mystery of Crystal Worlds (Global Sect Music) 2: Pleiadians - I.F.O. (DAT Records) 3: PsiloCybian - GodHead (BMSS Records) 4: VA - Aurora Sidera (Suntrip Records) 5: Hux Flux - Circle Sine Sound (Z-Plane Records) 6: Lunar Dawn - Kolovrat (Neogoa Records) 7: Koxbox - The Scanner (Zero One Music) 8: Doof - Let's Turn On — Remixed & Remastered (DAT Records) 9: VA - Mysteries of Psytrance Vol. 4 (Ovnimoon Records) 10: Proxeeus - At the Mountains of Madness (Neogoa Records) Downtempo: 1: Illuminus - Sweep Dreams (Z-Plane Records) 2: Ott - Fairchildren (Ottsonic Music) 3: Phobium - Khronikos (Self-released) 4: Hinkstep - My Forest Queen (Self-released) 5: Flowertz - Kumbhaka (Self-released) 6: VA - Fall (Altar Records) 7: Floating Planet - Fractal Wortex (Self-released) 8: Suns of Arqa - All Is Not Lost, But Where Is It? (Liquid Sound Design) 9: E-Mantra - Raining Lights (Altar Records)

same here. d5 is very good most of time. not necessarily as spectacular as etnica can be, but there is not a single d5 track that's bad or even just below average. with nothing to dislike they come closest to 100%. the only other group that i can think of that also releases consistently great goa trance is ra.

amen is my second favourite ap album after dancing galaxy. it is pretty consistent but doesn't have any track that stands out as much as dancing galaxy does on dancing galaxy or people can fly and kabalah do on trust in trance (chaos comes close but is not on the same level).

nice cover. and a vary varied but unmistakably french sound. i'm usually not a big fan of toi doi, but some of those samples sound pretty good (elliptical, rossignol perche, planet 4).

why has no one posted tim schuldt up to now? Talking Souls - Karma 209 Mama Indica - Radioactive Rain another nice but severely underrated acid heavy track is is this one by boris: something a little different but still highly acidic and epic. and here's one of my favourite acidlines in goa trance: (4:35!) edit: how could i forget: doof - double dragons