Padmapani

@threadstarter this is pretty similar to my preferences in progressive. thanks for the recommendations similar stuff that hasn't yet been mentioned is: mindwave, elegy, some andromeda and soul kontakt.

the melodies and sounds are awesome, but yes, the bassline is quite a distraction and imho doesn't really fit to the rest of the music. everything else could have been taken right from the golden times of goa trance, but the kick/bass is just screaming "ignore those melodies, instead look at me, i'm from 2010!" there's no need to take old goa basslines for modern goa. filteria, artifact303 or e-mantra (among many many others) have their own modern bassline sounds that fit nicely to the music. some new goa also works nicely with fullonish basslines (some tracks on shaltu or alienapia or many others i fail to remember right now), but here i don't see this. let's hope it will get changed when they release their music....

@procyon according to your logic (or rather the FBI's logic), beer is the gateway to serious crimes and herion addiction. consequently it should be outlawed, right? i hate alcohol and have never found a beverage to be as foul tasting as beer, but i'd stand up for the right to drink beer. freedom is not something to just give up, it's something we have to fight for. btw: crack is pretty much nonexistent here in central europe. illegalisation has never solved any problems, it only ruins the lives of users, puts loads of money into the hand of the criminals controlling the drug trade. it creates violence and crime by making fights over territorry/supply routes profitable and by making addicts have to resort to crime to support their habit. ozora has always been a place of peace, love and freedom, completely free from the oppression we experience almost the whole rest of the year. if we let them take the freedom to take drugs (regardless if you would take drugs yourself or if you despise them), i'm sure they'll move on to the next thing. in a few years it wouldn't be different than any other huge commercial festival: limits on loudness, limits on how many consecutive hours there can be music on the mainstage, metal gates and mandatory searches every few hundred meters, a huge army of agressive security personnel to enforce this, rise in prices and advertising all over the place to finance the whole festival security, .... i think that's not what we want — at least that's not what i want when i think of a good psy festival.

^^ nice one! sounds a lot like artifact303 with most of the melodies and the psychedelic taken out

welcome! and if you somehow found out the track at 1h18m, i'd be glad to hear it. i also have a mixtape from around that time with some tracks i'd love to have identified and this is one of them btw: the track at 40mins sounds a bit like feuerhake or klangstrahler project...

55mins is Dark Soho - Dark Moon in Stonehenge 1h07min is Astrix - Crystal Sequence

and this one:

a new album from one of my favourite prog artists, nice. considering that most older prog artists have moved on to minimal techno it's a pleasant surprise that it's not the case here. i just gave it a quick listen and i think that i'll fly with you, tron escape and temple of groove are not my cup of tea, but the rest sounds like solid progressive psy. not quite as "outer space" as his older work, but definitely good.

it's even more apparent with the party reviews on a site like goabase. 90% of the parties there are "top! one of the best parties in its category", while it takes a party being advertised as a pure psy party, when they actually play minimal techno 80% of the time for a party to be rated as "average". i guess one factor in this is the whole "think positive" thing so prevalent in psy culture. if you give a bad review, you'll likely get replies like "if you don't like it when don't go there/don't listen to it, but stop ruining it for everyone by spreading negativity". a review with "the melodies spiral upwards to take you on a cosmic journey" or something like that also is more likely to get a reply with "great review!" than "the main melody sounds more random then well thought out and gets annoying quickly". still i think that on psynews the main problem is more, that people are too lazy to write reviews for album they don't like or that they don't know bad albums well enough to write a review.

great find imba! i've tried a few times, but have never figured that one out. i played around the BPC's overbloody flood some time ago. here's what i got: http://rghost.net/39200792

definitely unique and nice style. the hihat indeed is a bit strange, but i can't tell exactly why. maybe overcompressed? maybe eq? and what's up with the "LP" noise in the break? generally the track reminds me of some of the more minimalistic goa from around 1996/1997 or so, but with a modern sound. i like.

^ these are great!

The things that come to my mind are: Tetrameth (a bit dark and a bit funky, sometimes minimalistic) Onionbrain (darker and twisted) S-Range (not really twisted, but with a nice distinctive sound) Etnoscope (more tribal influenced) Necton (2001 style, harder, more minimalistic) Protonica or E-Clip (both not too far from "standard" progressive sound, but psychedelic and damn good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8oAU057tgM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPoObK10MYE&list=AL94UKMTqg-9AVPxLxv5ZqBsWNN7UmW9TF&index=6&feature=plcp

totally. i've also been looking for this track, but the vocals are indeed horrible...

i'm not sure i understand what you mean here, but if you mean playing the same note as opposed to a different note, it won't make much of a difference. yes, using the tonic or to a lesser extent the fifth creates less interference and so it should help, but if the instruments don't fit together, it won't be enough to make it fit. if you mean giving each instrument it's own frequency range, then it won't matter which note you'll play. if you mean playing on different octaves, yes it can help. sometimes that resolves frequency conflicts, but somtimes it won't work. you have to try.

so many albums in so little time. emanuel lives in a bubble that distorts the flow of time samples sound nice and the artwork is great as usual.

i love fullon (not as much as goa but still)! the problem is that there isn't that much good fullon anymore. from around 2002 to 2006 there was a lot of it, afterwards it became formulaic-always-the-same-sounding-with-more-and-more-cheese; nowadays (with some notable exceptions) it's getting more and more "minimal-ized" with bleeps and stupid kick/bass patterns that stop and therefore break the flow every couple of bars. that's not the fullon i love and know, with cosmic melodies that take you to different worlds. this is fullon with soul that puts you in trance and takes you on a journey: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DonS2usQkeM http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI_7G7L_ubw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=incbL8VIuAg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCcQhp3WQQ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIeOixnKm4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTTOLlxaHI(is there any way to post youtube links as links and not as media files?) i'd be very happy for recommendations of similar fullon released 2012.

have you checked if the device actually has cables connected to it? most of the time it's fake: press play and act cool...

nice!

1. i have them in the arrange, just like any synth part. 2. i invent them as a make the track (sometimes i add them after the rest is nearly finished if some part seems too empty). but i might also import them (and alter them a bit) from an older track if i feel that it would fit in nicely with the part i'm working on.

kick and bass before processing (kbbb with offbass as sub in case you're wondering): kick and bass after eq, sidechain and a little shortening of the kick: nice and clean. of course you can do all that by ear, but especially if your monitors/room accoustics aren't perfect for bass frequencies the oscilloscope makes the whole process easier (at least for me). it's always good to double check...

i'd say saw with some overdrive (can make it sound a bit "squarey"), but filter closed so much, that it's almost a sine wave for snares i like audiorealism ADM. i just love those classic 909 snares. synthesizing your snares has the advantage that it's much easier to tune them. logic's ultrabeat also does a great job here. but just be creative and experiment; i've once made a sort-of-snare out of a voice sample

i regularly use the oscilloscope (smexoscope) for production. it is a great help for finding problems/optimizing kick/bass.