Padmapani

wrong thread. my unpopular opinion is that i find it just as good as the prior astral albums

sure. the original sound the processed version that i used as fx a potential percussion sound i also got out of it

i've sampled my dishwasher and put it into a track

nhjo hyennro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDAquFSHlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmEnG5cSrY these are (together with mwnn) the tracks that imho have been improved most by being remixed.

there will be no photo (i'm very happy that one of the two webpages that had a picture of me has finally disappeared (and the other one is over 15 years old)). you won't find me, i will find you anyway, i'll likely be wearing an orange jacket with oms and buddha's eyes or the suntrip anniversary shirt or both. if i'm not wearing blue jeans, my "leggings" will be either black or white

10? it starts in 8 days as far as i know. anyway, see you there!

i'm trying to take up a nationalist/racist viewpoint for the sake of the argument to apply the same principles to the original immigrants from europe, so i have to be biased. sure, smallpox (among other diseases) has had a much more devastating effect than the european conquests, but still the natives weren't exactly treated nicely and cheated for land repeatetely (just like so many other tribal (or similar) cultures when an "advanced civilisation" came along. the situation for the native populations of india is hardly better even today although the dravidian and indo-european population has immigrated upwards of thousand years ago) i'm not for kicking out any people who are living in any country today, but just trying to make it soud as ridiculous as thinking of immigrants in the way you portray in your first post as it will sound in one or maybe two generations from now. so many people of the "native population" here in austria have slavic or hungarian surnames, that you'd be tempted to think of people with a german surname to be immigrants from germany honestly, i only know the situation in austria well enough so i can only speculate for comparisons with the u.s. or other european countries from what i hear in the media and read on the internet. from from what i hear, it seems that we are far better off than the u.s. despite having for instance one third of the population immigrants in our capital city. and i remember you have food stamps over there, which is something only my grandmother remembers from the second world war. the reason for this probably is that the saying that everything comes to austria at least 10 years late (including the end of the world ) isn't too far off. we haven't had a margaret thatcher from the 70s to '90 and the erosion of social systems has only begun (more slowly than in other places) in the 00s. so the u.k. not fitting into the "european social system hypothesis" here is no surprise in this context. why france doesn't fit in is a mystery to me (i must confess france is one of the eu countries i know least about), but for the rest of europe the pattern seems clear to me: the more social security you have the better poor people (including most immigrants coming from a background with little education and therefore worse job opportunities) are integrated into society, the more productive those people are, therefore leading to a more peaceful and happier population of the respective country. just look at what happened to the southern european countries after they cut back on social spending to evade bankrupcy, which wouldn't have been a risk if they didn't give all their money to the banks.

i always have to laugh at people form the u.s. complaining about immigration. if they (assuming european descent, which is true for the great majority of the people with such views) were serious about their own point, they should be full of shame, give their land back to the natives of america and proceed live inside a reservation granted to them. after all, the majority of immigrants to what is now the u.s. back then were the european underclass with poor education and often with no means to properly feed their family. so exactly those kinds of people which are now attacked by the right-wingers and their sympatisants. the reason that these problems exist in the u.s. in the current form is that there is no socialist tradition other there. the solution is helping the people in need and integrating them into society. segregation and oppression do never solve any problems. i don't think your good, elaborate post could be interpreted as support for the op.

if i'm not struck by a meteorite in the meantime, i'll be there i think now is the appropriate moment to start the countdown for the festival with the best lineup since 1999 or so : only 10 more days!

no. the usual way is to press play and pretend to be doing something to the sound (i.e. turning knobs on a mixer that isn't even plugged in, playing notes in a keyboard that isn't plugged in, staring intensely at the screen while bobbing your head, ....) it's up to you to set your standards higher and add yourself to the list of execptions to the rule of lazyness and pretending

logic bomb has two tracks that lean more towards progressive imho one of the best progressive album from the last years (that doesn't come from the usual suspects like ovnimoon, lyctum, e-clip) is certainly worth mentioning (especially since it's a free download from ektoplazm). Stereofeld - Frequenzwechsel

yep. definitely check out the releases by globular for some really good psydub.

i've also looked for such videos some time ago. some nice examples i found were these: goa gil playing in goa in 1999 (that's not even the early days of edm, when everything was still new and there was more of a kind of communal spirit - as far as i hear, i wasn't there) notice how we see the at the time "superstar dj" of psytrance only for very short amounts of time in the video, and when we see him, no one cares, no one looks at him, no one cheers to him. everyone faces the music or the other partygoers. now on to the other extreme: everyone looking up to a fancy stage decorated with visuals and blinking lights and with the most important thing in the entire performance: the guy who presses play and then waves his arms around and shouts into a microphone every now and then. no one is really dancing, but they hold up signs and national flags and raise their hands when commanded to do so. if we extrapolate from how our scene has changed from 1999, then the second example is our not so distant future. so what can we (or rather party organisers) do? my list of measures would look something like this: - don't build a fancy stage - don't sacrifice "traditional" decoration like fluoro blankets or string art for lightshows/lasershows centered on the stage - distribute decoration equally around the mainfloor - don't book artists that act like a rockstar on stage and play "put your hands up in the air" breaks every few bars and - hide the artists from plain view

absolutely! it's time to hide the artists behind the speakers or behind some flouro blankets. i have to admit that i usually face the dj on parties, but that's only because i face the direction the sound is coming from. i'll also happily stand in the huge free space (which shouldn't be there!) behind the central pillars at festivals, which block the view to the dj booth. what really made me realize how bad this has become was the pyramiduna festival in hungary. they had the dj booth rotated 90 degrees from the mainfloor and while there was a huge crowd near the dj booth - facing the djs, we were just 10-20 people near the speakers and oriented towards the PA. that was just insane; it's like the guy on stage is more important than the music he's playing. not all styles. there's still freetekno, but even there the culture of not having the dj visible at all (and not printing individual artists on the flyers) has begin to erode a little bit.

^ terribly outdated, but i still havne't come across something better up to now. if he only had been right... i certainly wouldn't hire ishkur if i ever need a reliable prophet

i'd love to recommend some goa (because we all know that it's not only the best subgenre but also the only one that hasn't completely gone to shit in the last few years), but to give you a more balanced view of the state of psytrance i'll recommend an album that's not goa, but still stands out like a shiny mountain (not the only one, but certainly one of the tallest) above a huge sea of mind-bogglingly uninspired crap that aims to destroy anything that psytrance stands for: Logic Bomb - The Grid if you've been out of it for so long that you don't know Sonic Algebra you might consider getting that one instead.

sorry, no idea. but it's awesome acidic goa yeah, much too wild for boris. sounds a bit like tim schuldt rather...

destination goa vol. 10 style. nothing comes near welcome to the edge, not even on mars apart from that, even though it doesn't have any tracks as awesome as the above, a new kind of world on average is the best album imho. i find that a lot more of the tracks from there made it into my good psytrance playlist when compared to the others.

they got a few fuckups in there. if you click astral in psytrance it plays goa (likewise for total eclipse and a few others), and if you click on talamasca in the same category it plays the worst kind of fullon. and if you click on tekno it plays hardstyle. wtf?!?

acidcore is nice i don't have more recommendations beyond the artists you mentioned (basically the best stuff i've found was everything released on the obscure label). but i'll check out the artists you mentioned. my favourite atm is this one: but one of the things that's so great about that music is the long, powerful kicks. i wouldn't trade them for 1/16 psy bass. imho it's rather that darkpsy needs harcore kicks than the other way round

^ i'm just listening to a few samples and it indeed sound pretty good.

i generally consider logic bomb to be fullon starting with unlimited (everything before is labeled "psytrance" in my playlist). they do make excursions into progressive every now and then, but most of it sounds very much like fullon to me; but yes, it's the best kind of fullon

the uk has d5, mwnn, hallucinogen, cosmosis, chi-ad, shakta, ... while isreal has astral and mfg. a fairer comparison would be uk vs. sweden+germany. there must be something special about that island that brings forth great musicians. from the beatles to pink floyd, jethro tull, black sabbath, ..., the beginning of the rave scene, spiral tribe, dnb, ...

compared to logic bomb - the grid? or cosmosis - fumbling for the funky frequency? or compared to cosmic experience? not really. but if you compare it to electro sun - higher than ever or perplex - reunion or the latest talamasca, then it's unbeatably awesome