Padmapani

acid techno freetekno/acid tekno/hardtekno/tribetek acidcore acidtrance trance (the good things from the early-mid nineties mainly) techno drumnbass (only select few things like black sun empire and some darkstep. the harder, darker and weirder, the better) raggajungle i also like some speedbass, happy hardcore (the funny european kind (think luna c), not the american, cheesy, pop-remix kind) or dubstep, but i won't actively seek it out and listen to it. the only styles of edm, where i won't find any subgenre i like are breakbeat and house (house for me includes rebranded styles such as what is now called "minimal techno". i think it went by the name of microhouse in the 90s.)

acid air raid. but also this: 6:30!!! not very much of a climax, but definitely intense acid: and quite a few tracks from the computer controlled eq by bassline baby.

but chances are, you're still way better than me. considering drawing/painting i have never progressed past the stick figures a 4-year-old can draw

yes! as long as you're referring to minimal-psy/techtrance with "minimal" i have exactly the same thing

neither would i

the headline is misleading. it is no wonder that a chimpanzee wins the first prize in a chimpanzee art contest. as far as i understand that article there were no human contestants.

i think no one's arguing for pretending. we're rather arguing that only important thing is the music. i have also come to psytrance many years ago from the freetekno movement and found it utterly strange to be able to see the dj/artist on the stage. on festivals i'll still dance happyly behind the central pillar, where i cannot see the stage at all, if i find a great-sounding spot there

and of course miranda - gnocci. but also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHh-Lr-X6wU i'm not sure if that can even be called a bassline, but i like it

that's really a short preview. i'm not sure if i can judge the music from 3 seconds.

my favourite from sun project is tribolus. that track is just so typical of old school goa trance. after this one come computer breath, paranormal and dance of the witches (fire mix) (i have to admit i really like that cheesy guitar riff )

one (great) album per month! and this.

i always thought kopfuss resonator was more minimal psytek stuff (in the vein of spirallianz or midimiliz), rather than acidic. i guess i'll have to take another look at them again

i am an atheist. i find believing in the existance of the christian god as absurd as believing is zeus, little red riding hood, godzilla or the flying spaghetti monster. but i have a small affinity towards buddhism and hinduism. i value buddha as a philosopher, have a figurine of nataraj on the desk where i produce my music and will even light incense for ganesh sometimes, but that doesn't mean that i believe in their divinity respectively existance.

a possible solution to the first problem could be that reincarnation does not need to happen sequentially in time. if you could be reborn 500 years in the future or 1000 years in the past, then the change in population is not a problem anymore. heck, we could be just one soul (or non-soul if we want to use the buddhist rather than hindu view), that goes through all these different lives and then finally becomes reborn as an indian prince 2500 years ago . the buddhist solution to that, is that animals don't have free will and "do good" by acting by their nature. that said, i do believe only in a very western kind of karma. for me karma is the law of causality: if i drop a stone, it will fall down. if you piss a lot of people off then a lot of people will be pissed off and you won't make friends . reincarnation? i don't have the necessary knowledge to come to a conclusion here, so i don't know. let that be a surprise.

nowhere except sun festival. i was in dire need of an extended period of relaxation this summer and we had a great, exceptionally hot summer, so why go anywhere ah, myanmar, one of the last two countries in south east asia i haven't been to. but i hope it won't stay like that for too long . i have always been intruiged by myanmar, so please do tell more. do you still have to take all your money in cash because there's no atm? do cell phones really not work at all? and is visiting the shwedagon pagoda or bagan really as impressive as i imagine it to be? nature in malaysia is great up in the mountains, but if you have a longer drive along the coast the lanscape quickly becomes boring. iirc 1/5 of malaysia's land area is covered by palm oil plantations... i'd agree that it's too westernized in many respects, but then again it's not more westerized than europe itself as is the case in singapore great pics btw.

if procyon is talking to panoptes, it would be impossible to talk about you in the first or third person. we know you like to be at the centre of the attention and manage getting there very well, but this is now just plain silly.

yeah, a pity there's not more stuff from them. i know identify, true freedom, drove vii and tacker, but... i need more music like that and as far as i know there isn't even a sideproject from one or more of the guys with similar music.

i took the last 2 photos and only found 6 differences (red circles). but that obvious face in the blue circle freaks me out no, seriously, it's a very beatiful landscape with the lush green covering those smooth hills.

exactly. in a hypthetical, ideal case, the mastering engineer should only have to raise it to the desired level of loudness (and get it ready to be pressed on cd).

the most commonly seen way to do a "liveset" at psytrance parties, sadly, is preparing a set from your own tracks beforehand and simply pressing play when on stage. then you have the choice to either dance to your own tracks, stare at the computer screen to give the impression that you're actually doing something or to turn some knobs on a controller that's not even plugged in.

not if you do a really good mix

let's still hear it

ulysse voyage #2.

i just listened and played along with the midi keyboard to get the pitch right, then tried to put in the right notes, but i could only get the rhytm right once i pitched the original down to half speed. sadly this doesn't always more as well as here. the main lead has already gotten plenty of distortion. besides the filter overdrive (i turned it up to the max, but it could use a lot more), i put on logic's overdrive and saturn with a tube setting (the original definitely has some tube distortion on it). i don't think there's another layer on top in cosmosis' version. it's probably the filter of some hardware synth that makes it sound like that. the next best synth after zebra was sylenth, with which i could emulate the dirty, high screechyness better with similar settings, but in the end it still sounded way worse.

very interesting settings you have there in subtractor. a completely different approach and it really sounds much better in context with the correct bass progression. thanks again. someday, why not moonshine sure is a difficult one. i give up on getting the correct sound. i have tried every synth in my arsenal, but i've found that the only way to get the filter overdrive halfwawy right is zebra's middrive lp filter, while the original is a bp i believe. i didn't bother matching cosmosis' cutoff modulation so i only put an lfo on top and the bass pattern still misses some of the funkyness in the original. anyway, here's my try: http://picosong.com/ysAL/ and there goes another night that could have been spent more productively working on a track