Padmapani

damn. that reminds me that i wanted to go this summer when he came to austria, but i missed getting tickets in time . a friend had seen him in budapest and reported that it was great. so you weren't that impressed?

i going to see steve vai this week. as i guitar player i can't resist seeing the worlds best (from a technical point of view at least). and he does put on a pretty good live show.

there are two types of english (not exclusively. the situation sadly is similar concerning my german) i am proficient in: the first is the kind of language you would use to write a scientific paper, while the second is as far as i can tell just above being as good or grammatically correct as you need to be understood. the "in between" language you'd normally use to write an email to someone you know (but don't know very well) is utterly difficult to me. so what you're reading from me probably is mostly "good-enough" english with some "scientific-grade" parts strewn in. i hope that, combined with my predilection for overly long sentances (for which english isn't the most suited language), this doesn't make me sound like a pseudo-intellectual bellend. i'd have no problem though with sounding like an intellectual bellend that just happens to write sloppily

i don't know about brazil, but over here electronic music has never been a majority interest (if you exclude pop music, which although in many ways electronic imho focuses on something completely different and just isn't part of the edm family tree). 80s nights or something are (and have always been) immensely popular compared to any edm genre - even those "in" genres like electro house and minimal. but then again any event that's focused on drinking is much more popular than any event focused on music. the one thing that was most popular among the students at university while i was there was called russian something and their advertisements focused more on the size and cost of vodka bottles than on the seeminly random acts that were playing. but yes, electronic music is much less popular than it has been in the past. 5 years ago most young people were still fascinated by the parties, dancing the whole night until sunrise, the drugs and the (seeminly) "wild" lifestyle of the partypeople. nowdays you often hear from people of the same age that they don't want to waste their time with parties and they rather talk about getting a job that pays good money or starting a family. these are 17-20 year olds; in my time in school or in the first years in university not a single one thought like that - even the most conservative ones would have fun getting drunk at rock concerts or dancing to crappy eurodance; sometimes you'd even find otherwise conservative people who'd confess that they love listening to psytrance when stoned. if that trend continues, i predict we will see a new counterculture emerge in 20-30 years consisting of old people rebelling against the conservative youth. i blame the rapid progression towards neoliberalism here. fun isn't what counts, productivity is...

i hope not so weird that you want your account deleted @anoebis that's the spirit! @topic (you can't be more on topic with anything else than a falsely coloured goan sunset here)

i see many of those tracks rather as euphoric/simply beautiful morning tracks than as melancholic or sad. rain? mai mai? spiritual healing? crystal? lubianka? axis v0.99? are you serious? i'd agree with juno reactor - rotorblade what i find sad/melancholic would for instance be: chi-a.d. - pathfinder poly61 - elämänsä

we have that over here and i hate it. in reality this almost inevitably turns out as follows: 22:00-23:30 - progressive 23:30-5:30 - various kinds of darkpsy 5:30-end - morning fullon so if you don't like darkpsy you have to option of coming early and dancing to one set of progressive as the only person because people rarely come before midnight, waiting six hours and then dancing to some mediocre fullon while fighting the urge to go to sleep. or you can pay the full 15-25€ just for one dj set; either the one at the beginning where the party hasn't really started yet or the one at the end where the party is basically over. i have nearly stopped going to parties because of this. so bring on the different rooms with different styles!

thanks everyone for the suggestions, again there were a few good ones. and i've noticed it's far harder to find techno on the internet than psy. most of the time there's only vinyl or mixtapes... @aliendna orbital and prodigy sure are good music, but i'm not sure i would call that techno. to anyone interested, i'll post some of my (unrelated) finds here: http://www.discogs.com/TPH-Mechanisms/release/115593 (again, no youtube. why!?! the title track at least is great) although this last one would be a million times better if they wouldn't repeat that speech sample all the time. interestingly, the majority of the tracks i like most are still tracks usually 303-less track played in acid techno sets (by djs like for instance chris liberator, ddr, dave the drummer) inbetween real acid techno. (well, i do love acid techno at least just as much, but i'm looking for techno beyond acid here. there has to be many times as much good music without tb-303 ). is there a name for this (imho very distinctive) style?

the samples sound nice. especially the second half of the album.

oh, my bad. i mixed it up and thought a previous account of his also went by some variant of "paradox" and good to know you'll stay. it seems as if someone wants his account deleted every few weeks

we're considered (by the physicists) to live in a world with 3 spatial and one (distinct) temporal dimension. so it's rather 3+1 than 4.

afair he wasn't banned but asked for his account to be deleted as neurogen after the colin episode. as much as i disagree with him about colin, i don't understand what all the fuzz is about. people are inevitably gonna disagree, argue, get into flame wars, ... so what? if we disagree in one thread, we'll work together in another one for sure. after all it's still fun for the great majority of the time. that's why we're all here. so, farewell, aliendna/neurogen/paradox. hope to see you coming back with a new account after a while

Δμδε, Υομ ϲαπ'τ μςε ιατΙπ ιεττεϒς το ωϒΙτε ϑϒεεκ.

it's fairer if you compare those people with (partly analog) hardware studios and most often a background in a different genre of music to us newcomers with digital sounding softsynths, most of whom never made anything else than psytrance. surely it's still not totally fair, but imho it's more about listening pleasure than fairness, and from this point of view those newschool artists with their rich, huge soundstages definitely need to be mentioned.

you should check out shiva and maybe vertigo. shiva is on the lighter, trancier side, but still pure goa. and iirc also by far their most popular track. maybe they'd qualify for the one-hit-wonder thread

blasphemy! disliking AP in general is a valid point of taste, but singling out mahadeva is preposterous

your comment makes me feel younger than i really am

these two for sure. flower power is great and energy trace is my favourite darshan track by far

ever since i got my really nice headphones this summer, i have noticed the variation in production quality a lot. and this is the point where newschool goa completely sweeps the floor with oldschool goa. you listen to the classics and they sound great, but then you switch to some artha, e-mantra, filteria khetzal, ra, nova fractal, portamento liquid flow, etc. and a whole new world of sound opens up. most of the classics sound as if they had been crammed into a little dusty box in comparison. the artists where i have noticed the high production quality most are those i listed above. but there are a few oldschool albums which hold up to the test of time surprisingly well. off the top of my head these are: hallucinogen - the lone deranger morphem - out of focus and to a lesser extent: most of the music by astral projection and cosmosis as well as etnica - live in athens / best of unreleased (but mentioning that one is cheating a bit ) oh and btw: ott or cbl are even more amazing than most newschool goa, quality wise

the samples sound great. i'm really looking forward to this.

sundown is about as oldschool as it gets concerning goa. but wasn't the overlords' true "hit" in the goa scene "god's eye on goa"? for sure it's my favourite

from an austrian perspective those stereotypes definitely have a strong basis in reality

i want one of those

aren't most of these (bordering on cheesy) hard trance? but definitely not a one hit wonder. my favourite is plasma way better than восток. @kathmandu witchcraft is sandman? you never cease to learn

i also don't think they'll relase a bad album, but i'm still sceptical if they're going to release a new album at all