Padmapani

weird? yes. psychedelic? yeeees, no nowhere near the most psychedelic. this is way more psychedelic: sorry, i'm on some kind of eat static trip since i heard his liveset last weekend

i have experimented with this some time ago and found it best to just take high pitched saws/squares and filter them down to nearly a sine wave. you can also use a sine oscillator, but otherwise you can add a bit of attack with the envelope or add a bit of character by opening the filter up a little bit.

no, covers like this one: and those track names are pretty flower-power-sunshine compared to a track named "three monsters in hell" from an artist named "satanic mutant" on an album called "monster troll in hell" http://www.discogs.com/Satanic-Mutant-Monster-Troll-In-Hell/release/1803208. of course i know that this is a small minority, not representative of the genre and not exclusive to darkpsy. i did notice it being more frequent (also, more importantly, more discussed in the community) in darkpsy as opposed to other styles of psytrance a few years ago, but according to my perception this "trend" (of a minority) has already died down. so actually i was only suggesting that this could have had an impact on the psy-public's perception and could be responsible for the undeserved "black metal of psytrance" image.

missing the first minutes of the logic bomb set would certainly have made it better ime only the hungarian food, the italian pizzas and the food from the vegetarian cake stall. the crepes i had were more crackers than anything else. no wonder as all the shops offering crepes were german. i sorely missed the french stall i knew from ozora 2 years ago. i also have to disagree with the showers. every time i was there, there was either no water or a huge queue.

yup, definitely.

great. it contained all my favourites, from the snuggling snail over the big blue to the lunar civilization remix and definitely made me look forward to the new album i also think the mwnn set was better than in the last few years at various ozoras. other favourites of mine were logic bomb except for the first two tracks (wtf logic bomb? that was more electro than psytrance) and eat static. x-dream was also good, but i was eating at the time. one point that was good to bad depending on what you wanted to do and what time of the day it was, was that most of the time you could very clearly hear the music from the mainfloor on the camping grounds (at least where we put up our tents). i enjoyed the zen mechanics set that way, but i think next time i'd rather camp away from the car somewhere in the woods.

interesting. that's something where i agree with you, i don't think it's hard music at all, even though it sometimes sounds to me like it's trying to be. iirc there were quite a few compilation covers with "evil" or "satanic" album covers and sometimes even track names, which seemingly reinforces the idea that it should be hard music and is probably responsible for the black metal of psytrance image. but i don't think hard music (in this sense) and psychedelic music are mutually exclusive.

i also thought i saw carbon's t-shirt, but couldn't walk over and say hello because i was too fucking tired (just got up for filteria) the heat and the sun were definitely a bit too much this time. i just sat there and listened to raja ram and mwnn. dancing was impossible for me at that time. i also have no idea about pleiadians. missed them just the same. but if they play the same kind of set they used to in the last years, it will be fullon with some remixes of old tracks and maybe one or two old tracks in their original form at best.

didn't we all?

this: and this: i couldn't have said it better.

i have absolutely no problem with most kinds of metal (but prefer doom metal to black metal any day) and love dark and hard dnb and techno/tekno, but i don't see why it would help me enjoy darkpsy. do you really see a deeper, more mystical atmosphere in your favourite darkpsy tracks than in for instance x-dream - psychomachine? that reminds me of another question i wanted to ask the darkpsy enthusiasts: do you think that darkpsy is "hard" music? (in a sense of raw power that "kicks you in the stomach" like a darkstep bassline, deep metal riff or distorted 909 kick does)

the ideal timetable would be: 00:00-24:00 Goa (with the really good acts concentrated around 23:00-6:00) but i could also compromise with something like: 20:00-23:00 Goa (any kind) or stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere (Talpa / Union Jack / ...) 23:00-01:00 Early '00s Psytrance / Techtrance / Darker Goa from around '98-'99 (something like the Basilisk - Moonshadow mix) 01:00-03:30 Intense Goa (Pleiadians / Filteria / Cosmosis / Mindsphere / E-Mantra / ...) or artists like Logic Bomb / Hux Flux / Koxbox / ... 03:30-06:30 Transition to Morning Goa ( D5 / BPC / Artifact303 / Ra / Ketzal / Goasia / ...) or good morning fullon, but i think that doesn't exist anymore (sunrise is at around 5:00, so we should be well into morning territorry by then) 06:30-12:00 Anything (i'll be sleeping or chilling at the tent in a tired way anyhow). candidates are iboga-style progressive, but i'd be perfectly ok with hitech or anything else. 12:00-20:00 Progressive (transitioning from more relaxed acts like Ace Centura to "night" progressive like E-Clip or S>Range) but it could also be mixed with some downtempo / relaxed goa (pre-1997 or Crossing Mind or so)

edit: woo, that makes 35 if i counted right. excellent selection of music btw, most of these get regular playtime here

and it also has a poll. that makes it better by default

don't care much about it. i must confess i haven't really looked into suomi much and have never heard it played at a party yet. generally i prefer serious music to funny music and i don't value funkyness very much, so i guess i'll never be a great fan of it, but still suomi would be preferable to a most of music which runs under the psytrance-umbrella right now.

i will report back here after dancing to his set there

these were definitely among my favourites. i didn't care too much about the smurfs, ducktales or tmnt. does anyone else remember the mila superstar series? i hated that one with passion. dunno why i still ended up watching it again and again...

yes, of course even in psytrance i can think of lots of examples for the remix being better (discounting same-artist-remixes). just look at what mwnn did. but i guess this is going offtopic here

how could you be on this forum for this long and not get it with all the praises sung about it here? now, eight years after its release, i think it's safe to say that corolle is right up there with the other greatest albums of goa trance like twisted, ifo and transdimensional.

they go into the stalls. it's even more impressive on video:

definitely not photoshopped. i haven't been that close when i last was in bangkok, but i can confirm its existance.

why not old+new? bpc + e-mantra chi-a.d. + ra cosmosis + filteria etnica + nova fractal transwave + artifact303 and of course hallucinogen + artha

as i'm from europe, all of it is a bit boring as a travel destination to me (also on the expensive side for sure). if i had to reccomend cities i'd probably say lisbon or amsterdam. i've also travelled quite a bit in asia. my favourite cities there were chiang mai, kandy, vientiane and penang. generally thailand imho is an excellent country for a first trip to asia. easy going, everything works, low risk of getting sick (oh india, why do you always give everyone the shits? why? you'd be so great otherwise), european quality healthcare, and depending on your destination you can have everything from tourist hell (completely commercialized shithole) over tourist paradise (being nearly alone at a kilometer long white sand beach, but still have everything you could want) to a completely authentic experience (don't expect to be able to eat at a restaurant in chanthaburi if you can't order your food in thai from a menu in thai script). for beaches i could reccomend ko phangan (go in september or so, the beaches are nicer then and most of the island turns into "tourist hell" over the winter holidays; and go quick too, it gets more commercialized every year.), the west coast of thailand above phuket (powdery white sand and not much esle as far as the eye can see) or of course goa. the best destination of course depends on what you want. for simply having a good time i'd say thailand, for relaxing and doing nothing nothing beats laos, for blowing your mind definitely go to india. sri lanka is somehow like a gentler, more comfortable but less mindblowing version of india with the added bonus of not having to spend weeks on the toilet. . of course all this is pretty subjective. for sightseeing and cultural interest of course all of these countries and those in the vicinity i omitted have more than enough to offer.

depending on when you first joined, you can also search for your posts in that period of time. it worked for me that way.