Padmapani

it's been released today on bandcamp. an instabuy for me. so far i like it even more than the last globular album.

i never liked techstep back then, with all the boring slow drums. except this one obviously

nice one. but i can top that. from 1994. but i've rarely heard this at parties. just as with psy i at first did not understand why the music at parties just wasn't as good as the music i got from friends (like this one) in the early 00s

that drumstep track is weird. it's hard hitting and lacking impact at the same time. my guess is that it's totally overcompressed. the liquid track is quite a contrast with a soft sound and deep powerful bass in comparison. really nice one. now to get back to the title of the topic here's a wild track from 2002. this is what we used to call "dubstep" back in the day and about vocals. this used to be a popular closing track for just before the club closes when i was partying to dnb: its acutally not bad because the cheesy vocal is balanced with the hard beats. not for prime time, but the dnb equivalent of morning fullon

that seems like the most likely explanation. if you had very mild sleep apnea you might not have noticed it before and not need any sort of treatment usually, it could very well become noticable when you have an infection in your lungs. we had a whole semester course on hypoxia/lung failure at university. so yeah, a cytokine storm is not just a normal reaction of the immune system. it's going into overdrive releasing so many messenger molecules that attract too many immune cells to the point of inflammation leading to tissue damage and making all those immune cells clog your blood vessels. this is ultimately what causes multi-organ failure because the oxygen in your lungs cannot be transported to the rest of the body without the appropriate blood flow. also the organs that receive most blood flow in your body (kidneys) can also get clogged. the good news is that it's not something to worry about at home. it's rather what gets you from serious but stable condition when you're already in the intensive care unit to a 50/50 chance of survival. the ventilators do cause lung damage if you're on them for too long (they also increase the chances of superinfection), but no one is put on a ventilator if it's not strictly necessary. doctors know the dangers of ventilators well enough. so when you cannot get the oxygen you need by breathing normally you'll first be given oxygen. as you increase the oxygen concentration of the air you get from 20% to almost 100% you can get (roughly estimated) five times the amount of oxygen per breath as you'd usually would. this is enough for most cases and only if the condition worsens enough that this is still not sufficient to get enough oxygen into the bloodstream people will be put on a ventilator. good to hear you're feeling better! staying out of hospital is definitely a good idea if you don't need it. getting a bacerial superinfection in the hospital together with covid was a problem in china in february. bronchodilators are effective first line treatment here. i give them out to people with all kinds of respiratory infections multiple times every day. i'm no doctor but i don't think oxygen would have been the right next step here with you having no troubles breathing at day. it's rather something usually given to copd patients or in hospitals. for more serious sleep apnea a cpap-mask is the standard treatment. it just applies a little pressure to keep the airways open as usual at night despite the muscles around the throat area relaxing. but even this would be overkill right now imho. anyway, a speedy recovery! (i'm sure you'll be much better soon. the usual time between first complaints to a doctor and recovery is somewhere around two weeks)

thanks for the update. at least you finally got the test. it really is a mess. while i would have expected them to have less peopel working over easter, i would not have thought that they lose their samples. unglaublich, so a schlamperei. at least those in the hospital are a bit better prepared. to which hospital did you go? the hypopnea/apoe is really surprising here. i did another search but found zero mention in the literature available about covid-19. did you take any cough or pain medication (basically opioids)? or have you noticed that you aren't well rested after sleeping before your symptoms began? i have no idea how the virus could cause this, especially when you only have relatively mild symptoms otherwise (except the blood of course), but in real life medicine anything is possible… this also makes me question if looking for fever as a symptom is of much or any use with covid-19. all the best and a quick recovery!

now that are some serious skills then. i can't even use the drum pads on my midi keyboard to do a normal (-2-4) snare rhytm without (1/16) quantize putting the notes in the wrong positions

i'd definitely have suspectd some auto quantisation happening there. but then i'd also have expected a small delay between button presses and the sound. there must be some trick at work here maybe he alters the timing of the video and aligns it to a grid in postproduction

that's good news! but i really wonder what takes them so long to get to the test results. it procedure involves something like 30 min sample cleanup, 30min of combining ingredients for the test (if you want to fill up the thermocycles with lots of samples) and then letting the machine run for 5h. i could understand if they collect samples from one entire day, then let the thermocycler run overnight, but even then you'd have a result in the next morning. anyway, keep us updated with the results.

tbh most of these "subgenres" are just progressive psytrance. the whole guide seems to focus on progressive mainly and leaves out much distinction in other subgenres. what they call "psytrance" is often called "serbian style progressive" (the main label that pioneered that sound was the seribian label tesseract) or "fullon-influenced progressive". what i call "pure" psytrance is something like children of the bong - bionic bong, sex on mushroom - dirty 80s or prometheus - arcadia magik. if you look into what "hot" fresh tracks come closest to that you'll have to go with uk psytrance atm (btw, "psychedelic" really? comeon. if it isn't psychedelic it shouldn't be in that guide. calling a subgenre of psychedelic trance "psycedelic" is just nonsense). bunching up the old style of progressive "minimal psy" with zenonesque aka dark prog that has a very different distinct sound and came much later with nothing in between is also kind of strange. "tribal" is a joke here. it's not as if a track suddenly changes genre simply because you throw a sample in there. those "tribal" tracks are the same subgenre as what is called "mainstream" in the guide. the usual term would be "futureprog". so again this is progressive psytrance, but the kind where people rightfully start to question wheter it as much or anything to do with "psy". similar thing with offbeat. just because the bassline has a particular pattern it's not suddenly another genre. it is commonly called "hamburg-style progressive" because that sort of sound is most popular in nothern germany. "psytechno" is another mess. "psytek" is a subgenre from back in 2001 characterised by fast tempos and heavy focus on techno like percussion. think x-dream - thorazin, auricular - pilzvergiftung or etnica - technoshit. what was called "psytecho" a few years ago (the style has all but vanished now) was a cross between progressive (again!) and minimal techno/house. think d nox&beckers. utterly boring stuff if you ask me. "psy-tech-trance" is something i've never heard before. i've seen "techtrance" in the context of psy to refer to the "psytek" i mentioned above. but the examples here are just more regular progressive. albeit more on the commercial side. "psybreaks" i'm completely fine with. same with nitzho (although it might be useful to differentiate between new nitzhogoa and old nitzhonot which was related to but was not psy strictly speaking) "goa trance" definitely needs some differention. newschool goa has evolved to become way different from oldschool goa. and if you treated goa in the same way as they treat progressive, you'd end up with at least 20 "genres" of goa. astral projection - mahadeva would nonsensically end up in a different drawer (probably something like "tribal offbeat goa" if you apply the same rules) as astral projection - let there be light. fullon also needs differentiation. the ultra-commercial stuff they mention for regular or morning (?!?) fullon is much more different from actual regular fullon (think talamasca, post-goa cosmosis, logic bomb, optokoppler, psydrop, post-goa electric universe). morning fullon (protoculture, silicon sound, sirius isness, fatali) should be seperate if you want to go deeper than "goa, fullon ,prog, dark". night fullon (cpu, absolum, xerox) is different from twilight (slide). the division into dark, forest and hitech is sensible though i'd definitely split psycore and hitech. highko is nothing like crazy astronaut. "psychill" and "chillout"? really? either lump it all together under psychill or differentiate between at least psychill, psydub, downtempo psytrance and beatless ambient.

there are something like viruses constantly floating around in the population that cause the common cold (including 4 types of relatively harmless coronaviruses). many of them could be responsible here. definitely. that's one of the reasons people were fearing a fast spread of covid-10 while influenza was still circulating everywhere some time ago. if you get both influenza and covid-19 at the same time, you'll likely have a pretty bad time. the biphasic course of the disease could either be bacterial superinfection (while your immune system is occupied with fighting off pretty much any virus it doesn't really care about bacteria that much. after all a virus can produce hundreds of copies of itself in the time a bacterium takes to divide into two new cells) or it could be covid-19. people also report feeling better for a day or two after a week or so before it comes back for another week. but i honestly have no idea how to explain that. after about one week your antibody production ramps up noticably helping you win the battle against the virus/bacterium/whatever. so if it's indeed not just a few odd cases but a characteristic of sars-cov-2 there must be something going on we don't yet fully know yet.

results are negative for all of us. so if the tests are as good as the manufacturer claims (5% false negatives), there are a few other viruses out there with similar symptoms (dry cough, tiredness, lung pain, raised temperature, no clogged nose or sneezing at all)

what kind of magic is this? how does that thing keep everything so spot on timing wise? and how does he go so fast without making mistakes, especially at the part around 8:00 (btw, that's the amen break right there )? also, lol at super sharp shooter as far as i understand it kicks and snares are usually synthesised or layered but for the rest people just cut up drum loops (such as the amen break for example).

that shortness of breath does sound a little suspicious. i think you should get tested. don't hesitate to call again if it gets any worse. keep us updated and take care. that thing with lying down reminds me of what my parents told me a few weeks ago. they both were sick but comparatively fine in the afternoon, but had a bad cough with a little shortness of breath when lying down at night and frequently woke up because of the coughing. i myself have had a little raised temperature (about 37,2) for 10 days together with feeling exhausted (might also have been due to stress at work) and a burning sensation in the bronchi, that caused me to stop smoking for the whole time (which i've never done due to sickness before) maybe two weeks ago. nothing major at all, not worse than the usual sniffles you get in winter, but the burning was unusual. we're all fine now, but considering the wide range of symptoms, going from nothing at all to life-threatening, and how little we still know of the disease i'd really like to know if that was it or i'm just overly attentive when any such symptoms are mentioned in a situation like this one. i've got an antibody test coming in the mail (the kind of test that is only positive 1-2 weeks after the infection) soon. the more data we have the better. if any of us has a positive result the official numbers are just the tip of a giant iceberg, which would also make covid-19 a lot less dangerous as most cases would be relatively mild and go unrecognised.

bpc - hemo static ii. the intro is epic and spacious, but the track while very good never reaches the proportions of the intro. also d5 - ganymede. in the intro we get that awesome outer space chord progression, but the rest of the track is still good but never gets to the same level. we do get the continuation of that progression in caprica though maybe psychomachine also deserves a mention here. the best part of the track is when the first (unfiltered) kick hits.

here's another gem from back in the day. i think you'll like it. that's about as much vocals as my taste allows however my favourite from that album is still that one: i just love my dnb with wild chooped up amen breaks and a deep growling bassline yeah, making dnb is a little tricky. i think you need a wide repository of loops to choose the best sounds there. not too much you can do yourself synthesis wise for the drums. but the pattern is easy in theory. just choose either the amen break or for more "civilised" dnb the two-step pattern. the hard part is to make the whole thing really driving. just the amen break or two-step can sometimes be enough for early 00s style dnb but i guess modern dnb needs even more drums layered on top?

the thing with the tests and risk zones is beyond ridiculous by now. what lung problems have you had before? any fever now? from what i've read in the scientific literature, it'd be very unusual to go staight from just feeling weak to coughing blood without typical pneumonia symptoms in between. also covid-19 does usually progress to serious illness, if it does at all, in a matter of no more than two weeks. if it's not covid-19 it's probably for the best if they don't collect you now and put you in with covid-19 patients when you're already coughing up blood now. didn't they say that anyone who gets advised to do a test by a doctor will get one now? or is it just the usual thing of "shorty" lying as soon as he opens his mouth… what about the drive-in stations they put up in all kinds of places? anyway, all the best. get well soon and fuck our chaotic, bureaucratic way of managing this crisis.

it is nicely mixed and it has a good punchy kick. not something you'd usually find in dnb. but for this one i could do without the vocal and i'm sometimes expecting the filter on the bass to sweep up and give it more presence, but that never happens

now that sounds exactly like my cup of tea. i'll report back once this one has gotten some proper listening time.

nice thread. i've been pretty much oblivious to recent dnb since i started going to tekno/psy parties. 99% of the tracks i know are from before 2004. these tracks above are nice and fluffy. something i'd like to hear when sitting together with friends. for the dancefloor i'd prefer something like this one:

this is not a question of philosophy, it's a question of chemistry. any fire is a reaction that gives off heat, so fire is clearly hot. no matter how you look at it, any materials on fire are hotter than the same materials (in the same circumstances but) in the absence of fire.

sure, nearly any mutation will make it less viable. but every infected cell produces thousands of new virions. there are multiple coronoaviruses out there that are responsible for a portion of our seasonal colds. infection with neither of which produces lifelong immunity due to mutation of the virus before reinfection. of course it's not mix-and-match as with the influenza genome but we cannot be sure that it will not stick around at this point.

if you've recovered from the infection you are immune to that virus. without immunity you wouldn't be able to recover at all. the thing about people testing positive after negative tests is most likely due to the swabs or labwork of the negative test not being done correctly. there's plenty of error here. up until now we're only seeing one "strain" (i'm sure there's a more correct term here but i can't think of one now) of virus, so even though it mutates enough for us to be able to trance the patterns of spread, once you've had one infection you cannot be infected again as of now. the danger of course is that we'll see mutations over the next year that will allow a slightly altered virus to reinfect those who have had it this time. this chance of course rises as it spreads more. but the good news is that it seems to be mutating less than the other coronaviruses we know that cause seasonal flu-like illness. so we do have a good chance of this not developing into a yearly occurrance.

to be honest, now that it's weekend i don't notice much difference from the lockdown. the only thing is that there are more people at home making noise (screaming kids, vacuum, ..) when i'm trying to mix my track. tips? psytrance instead of reading newsfeeds for hours. by now it's mostly boring stuff anyway (rich people complaining about getting less money, sports evens taking place later than usual, rich sports people demanding money, politicians saying that what they're doing is the best) instead of news that really matter. over here the new numbers are looking good, but only because it's weekend and like every weekend they're just doing a lot fewer tests than normal…