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It's best described as a slight feeling of being sick ... but it's definitely without fever or elevated temperature, I checked multiple times. Depending how I feel I can also have uneasiness or elevated heart rate (which then is toxic for getting a night's rest) - I believe these are just results and not causes though. I got my heart checked pretty soon after the infection and it was all good. I don't know what to make of it and had slight hopes a lab test might bring a bit more clearance into the picture. Thanks for the feedback regarding vaccination If I do a lab test, I'll just put an antibody check on top, even if the doctor doesn't order it for me ... I'm just curious whether I still have any - and if yes, I won't vaccinate.

... and nice plot twist: I'm banned on facebook already I don't know why. They say it was due to violation of community guidelines. Maybe that "first chat message with link to Psynews.org" was indeed reported as SPAM I don't think it was anything else. I certainly didn't piss on anybody's lawn. At least not more than here. I filled out their forms, but I don't think I'll get that account back ... and even if I do, I'll be super careful with it from now on - have to be, because what happened is odd I'll edit my previous post because all that rambling isn't so relevant anymore now that the account is locked. That was quite fast tbh. A pity... I new facebook would be shit. I just knew.

hi @psytones -- the project name actually stems from my initial idea to release a real physical 12" (and to be honest, not only one!) ... that's actually a load of spoilers now but I don't care ... there you have it: I wanted a 12" vinyl with at least one S-RANGE track (of course) and the B side would have on it "what I could get my hands on" ... I actually was already in talk with Magnetrixx and actually was the closest to release anything but I can't seem to get a hold of him anymore, which is unfortunate because I know what the track sounds like and I would like it a lot - and I'm actually even a tad worried he's alright - but maybe he just forgot, you know ... "creativity" ... and my backup plan actually was Etnoscope but I can't seem to get in touch with any of them yet, I only had the "hint" to try it on fb ... but anyway, I will continue to try it and even have to go for a different plan maybe or maybe I'll be lucky with a different artist ... we'll see what I can come up with, the plan for the 12" is still live in my head and then I'll have earned the name At the moment I don't even have a single track I hope nobody of these guys is mad at me for talking details, I don't want to talk inferior of anybody - such projects are very casual (they can only be casual for me, I'm an absolute beginner) and are ony "done when they're done" I guess Also I can't change the name "RTP Records" anymore otherwise I'll have to register a different artist And that first release was from the project "Skeletone" I did with a friend who's the producing mastermind and I just have put it out there to see how these releases look like and to be able to show ppl "ok, if you give me a track, I'm gonna release it like that" - I actually wanted to have it FREE but it's not even an option, the distro service does just put a price on it automatically - at least there's something to learn https://open.spotify.com/album/5g4GqUlMkdQIX43DDY6Mx1 ... if you know any people who want their tracks on Spotify, I can deliver with this method. The payment must be agreed upon though... PS: ad ultimo: if there's nothing else to be achieved, at least you'll be able to listen to Skeletone on Spotify this way

Ah so they just change the delivery method of the RNA into cells, I see. I'm not entirely sure that this is a good thing though... Your mentioning of autoimmune responses to Covid-19 got me thinking. I found this article, quite good in my opinion: https://theconversation.com/an-autoimmune-like-antibody-response-is-linked-with-severe-covid-19-146255 I feel like that explains to me a bit why I felt so crap as I had it - it probably was this immune response I had to deal with and I was actually fortunate enough that it didn't turn out severe. The only one thing that worries me personally is this sentence: "Would an ongoing autoreactive response help explain instances of “lingering” COVID-19 even after the viral infection has cleared?" Could there still be a (low-key) autoimmune response active inside of me and that's the reason for these occasional "bad nights" as I put it? I keep having these - nothing too severe, but it makes me think. What lab tests would I need to do to find these blood cells responsible for autoimmune responses ... we have this thing called "large hemogram" ("Großes Blutbild" in German) - would that suffice? And I assume I must do one when I feel the effects, not when I feel totally fine, right? And on a second note: would that vaccine even help me when I had the sickness already and my immune cells therefore should know the virus already (obviously they do, because otherwise I would be dead long ago - said the doctor to me) or is it just pointless increase of risk if I took it?

Stunning info! Thanks @Padmapani So the cells where they inject the RNA will die off eventually because they are killed by the own immune cells? I didn't know that. I would still prefer the traditional way of a vaccine with inactivated real Covid virus without any messenger RNA trickery. The risk of "not all immune cells being able to take a look at the virus" I'd just mitigate with repeated injections: I'd take 10 doses of the traditional vaccine or even more just to get around that messenger RNA thing ... make it an intravenous infusion instead of a syringe if you want ... I really would feel bad turning my own cells into "factories for the bad stuff" that my other cells then have to kill (both the stuff and the factory cells) and even if it's only the "harmless" spike protein that they produce - all of this just sounds already like the beginning of an autoimmune disease to me ... what if the immune system doesn't only kill off the cells that the RNA was injected into but, due to an error, it also "learns" to kill off healthy cells? To this day I don't even know if that vaccine doesn't just kill everybody anyway after one year (unlikely though = I don't believe it ) ... nah, it's way too risky in my opinion. What about synthetic antibodies? I think the company "Regeneron" and also another one in the US has made such a cocktail for example and I've heard Mr. Trump himself got that one administered during his infection. Are these less dangerous?

Cool ... you just got a new follower (the label and you)

hi there, I just moved your thread to a better spot ... all the best

I think Synthwave or "New Retro Wave" (even though that's a YouTube channel and no genre) can answer this for you = I mean: modern production, but made to sound like it was made in the 80s. So it all sounds like "old tracks" and invokes (in me) that feeling of listening to something old that you just found in your parent's attic (depends on the age of your parents but you know what I mean) ... and yes, this feeling is different than if I was listening to modern sounding stuff, even though both can be brand newly produced. I appreciate the thread starting post though - well put @MikroMakro I think it's true that everbody is looking for something different in the music - and it's only natural. You don't even have to hit the exact spot in everbody in a track, you just have to get a large enough amount of people aboard for the trip Uunfortunately most commerically oriented producers misinterpret that and just go for a formula they think that will attract a maximum of people - it's too bad for them that I usually don't work like that and would say that I rather am likely to despise that what masses like - nothing personal or purposeful even, I maybe just work a bit different to other humans, that's what it is... A least I work similar enough to you people here so that we can enjoy some good psy music together

Thanks, I am very happy that I'm not the only one enjoying these Oh and @psytones- yes that last one reminded me of Infected Mushroom regarding the style ... the original tune is pop though (I'd rate it as that). And Mothership makes good remixes if you are into computer games of the 00s...

I am very surprised you didn't mention the Metronome Remix - that one is indefinitely better in my opinion: And the fun thing about it is, regarding this thread: lo and behold, I find nothing missing in that track. So it really IS possible to still make stuff I enjoy limitless The problem with today's stuff mostly is that I find it overproduced though. And here may lay the cool feature of that remix: "The Only Process" is an old track, grounding these new production techniques and not making them go havoc and be all over the place. I second what you say about 2002 Fullon there above though - Silicon Sound was the main element I grew fond of, but there was more out there in that kind of style. The modern sound = too complex. All this bassline stuff you were talking about in here for example ... already that makes my head spin. It must be even more complex for the other stuff in the modern tracks. I have come to the conclusion that the more repetition and just gradual evolution a track has, the better it is ... that's also why I like the old progressive so much, it was "not jumping around", it was straight and continuous, most of the time... When I miss something, then it's the continuous fast vibrating bassline of progressive.

Well, well, if you do "shameless self promotion" and then disclose your name on Soundcloud and it's similar to artists I heard of, I can't help but comment Ah bummer - so it's a super common name then, well - would have been a funny coincidence if you were related... Nevertheless, cheers - you can check them out ... mostly old style Synthesizer ambient I'd call it. By the way, the suggestions from the others = nice, I like - but a lot more in the vicinity of psytrance than the stuff before ... it depends what you are looking for... (Cool to see Aion kept his name btw, I think it was a good decision ) Ah btw, lemme drop a bomb here ... "something new": hee hee ... what do you say? Great? Terrible? It depends what you are looking for ... what are you looking for?

Dude, your name is "van der Heijden"? You are not by any means related to Harold van der Heijden - or Eric van der Heijden? Both of them ring a bell and I am remembering an old recording that was called "From Hull to Leeds" by Ron Boots and Harold van der Hejden - nice ambient piece in old style ... can't be found anywhere on Youtube though, a pity. I would think that there are not so many "van der Heijdens" in the Netherlands that also tweak aound with Synthesizers, no? Or am I wrong?

I think I understand where these "winter tourism profit worries" stem from ... there is indeed lots of money involved in the success of tourism ... did you by any chance see the last "Am Schauplatz" in ORF - I don't watch much ORF as I think it's brainwash TV, but I think that is a pretty good format (at least when they don't portrait quarreling neighbors all the time) - there they explained the real estate business in the Alps and it works like this: a rich person (it's called an investor) buys a luxury Chalet in the Alps for 3 to 5 million, then they rent these out to wealthy tourists and also have the right to stay 2 weeks there on their own ... the tourists pay back that investment over the years ... well, if these tourists don't come, not only do all these ski lift operators have nothing to do, it will also be that there will be no rent earned on the appartments (Chalets), meaning all the rich have panic for their money or these projects will even go bust. I predict there's going to be a load of these luxury villas on sale next summer - if we don't get winter tourism. If we get it, all will stay the same. Tons of money involved. The problem is: us ordinary people will suffer too when they get bust, because let's be honest: the politicians don't care about us, they care about these rich ones and do everything for them - all the amenities we currently have are for these rich ones - if these people go elsewhere, it will get pretty dark and grim here pretty soon. I did not watch that documentary you mentioned, but with me it was like everything tasted sour. Like, my mum brought me a soup as I was sick (bless her, that was really nice from her!) and I thought she must have done something wrong with it because it tasted sour. I called her, but she confirmed that soup was totally alright. Also had this with other food - I couldn't trust my senses if it was okay. But I didn't know that I had Covid back then, so I didn't make that connection... What stayed after the sickness is a greater aversion towards perfumes or other strong smells ... I didn't have this before to that extent. Nowadays when I go out, I can smell some people's perfumes even if they are long gone and I don't like that! Well I try to be responsible, but it's not possible to avoid people all the time ... so let's just hope I'm doing enough. As for the vaccine, please read this - here is the trick how they claim to be 90% effective: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4347/rr-4 Let's face it, the guys from Biontech were just lucky that more people got infected in the control group. Everybody was (and still is) playing Roulette - the company with the most infected in their control group wins the jackpot. There is just ONE of two things a vaccine can be: fast OR safe. You can't be fast AND safe. It is not possible. I will only get that vaccine if lots and lots of people have received it and some time has passed - if this thing for example kills everybody after one year, nobody would yet know Simple question: I have heard that the vaccine injects a gene sequence that acts as a constrction plan for the body's immune cells to produce a specific antigen. That's fine - but how do the cells stop producing it if the threat is over OR if the body needs other stuff to be prioritized in production? I imagined a funny thing as I thought that question through: that the body does not stop the production of the antigen anymore and is in the long run poisoning itself with these self-constructed antigens that were triggered by the alien gene sequence from the vaccine

I'm glad that you liked these! Yes, you are right, these indeed are made of at least partly the same elements that also psytrance has - and this is exactly why I like them so much. It's projects like these that I am more after than actual psytrance these days. There's one more artist that's very dear to me and is way underrated at the same time in my opinion - it's Strangezero and the reason why I got into them was because their (early) sound reminded me of Carbon Based Lifeforms, but it has become just so much more: This playlist contains everything noteworthy from them on YouTube video-wise: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt-j8Op3VdjSNoM9gwGAEFSJBJ3SNRjqY

Fair enough. I have no experience with the AAs. I am "lucky enough" that I get terribly sick when I drink too much. Way worse than what people call a hangover. I _have to_ keep my intake low, there is no other way. That's the reason why I have not yet developed an addiction. There's a drug that you can take which will invoke the same symptoms: it'll make you sick when you drink alcohol. Is that a possibility for you? Best of luck that you beat it either way.

Huh okay so I was a bit in a wrong direction to waht you wanted there However, if you throw in X-Dream's Radio there, I'd say Hux Flux - Cryptic Crunch? Has equal amount of "personality" - let's call it that - in my opinion. Not genreless though, but X-Dream isn't either Son Kite - Prisma comes to mind. THAT is quite out of the box thinking in my opinion. Especially their last album is the farthest out there I'd say - previous works I prefer though, because that was good old progressive as we know it - even though Colors was quite modern already

If you are bored by psy, you should go look at the genre boundaries or maybe also go across them. A feeling like this I have long not felt, because I stay ever-hungry for music. You can find so good stuff out there that's just waiting to be discovered Check out This Morn' Omina. They're way underrated in my opinion... If that was nothing for you, maybe you are more the tribal type and like this: And if that's also a no, here's my last ... you could open an ambient set to this imo:

Hey ... don't know if this helps, but maybe try doing something you want to get done for just two minutes a day (or even just two minutes a week)? I read that this helps ... important is that you do it for two minutes though. It tricks one's brain and often you end up doing it longer - or if not, then it's nothing for you anyway because your brain doesn't feel like doing it...

Jep - welcome to Austria, the country with the "quite highest" rates of positive tests ... but we don't need to worry because the news are declaring the situation already to "relax" They probably will open for xmas because "economy" ... and they we'll be in the same spot in January At least my throat relaxed and the taste is gone. Hope it stays that way. Well, I can't really see my GF in these times because she does not live in Vienna. Even though the Lockdown is a joke and I could visit her, we are both not doing that ... especially not right now ... thus I don't feel so much better off. But I second that "dating" or going out trying to talk to girls is practically not doable in Corona times ... maybe just pass the time with a nice computer game or two and then get going when the days get longer and brighter again. (And if you don't game, then paint or write or learn a language or work for whatever other goal you have ) I think girls must feel the same way though. Corona doesn't erase people's wishes... That was really horrible to read about ... I hope you are OK mate. 3.3 is absolutely off the top and I hope you won't do that again - but I imagine it to be super hard if you try it on your own ... have you got some help or support from the AA or from Doctors? Hope so.

When I think of the 90s, the first things that come to my mind are Paul Van Dyk and Love Parade Here's both: ... but the 90s had so many other great stuff. Utah Saints ... I didn't know them in the 90s, shame on me, but that doesn't matter, just am an even bigger fan now: But being totally honest, in the early 90ies I neither knew Paul Van Dyk, nor any other trance artist ... this shit is what we listened to because it was played on our radio. and be honest: it's not good, but I say it is so off the charts that it's already good again ... compared to this even Texas Faggot isn't that mad Most what I did know in the 90s of trance and techno was on Dream Dance compilations and Future Trance, although that was even later. This one stuck especially: But my REAL techno and trance obsession started with Mauro Picotto, in the early 00s ... which is not part of this thread anymore...

So it's 4 months later since the last post in this thread now -- and unfortunately almost everything has changed for the worse here. AUSTRIA is the country with the 5th highest infection rate per 100k people (positive return rate per 100k tests) _worldwide_ right now ... that's right: USA, India - all behind us. Not many people on this forum will live in a country with higher positive test return rates. We are in second "lockdown" - which is a joke though, you can go out and even get Coffee to Go, nobody will say anything. And top of all: I woke up in the middle of last night with a very peculiar metallic blood taste at the back of my throat which reminds me very much of the shit I went through in March... You can imagine how happy I was about it ... I panicked so hard I couldn't sleep for a long time after that. The metallic taste is gone, but I have a strange feeling of a foreign object in my throat that does not go away no matter how hard I swallow. It's nothing I panic over right now, but I think it will be different in the night if it doesn't get better, I assure you of that... That thing with the metallic taste is especially significant because: it apparently is FINALLY talked out loud that hemoptysis alone can be a symptom of Covid-19 - has not reached mainstream doctors, but first publications are available: https://bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12890-020-01312-6 I strongly believe that what they write about here is the same manifestation of Covid that befell me in March, alhough I was fortunate enough not to catch it so severely that they had to put me in hospital - and I "fortunately" had a positive swab test, otherwise we'd be none the wiser until this day! Chaos all over... Sounds weird, but: I hope you did what you wanted to do in this life. I don't think good times will roll so soon again for us all... Did I do what I wanted to do in life? Well, fairly yes - I maybe should have written more (wanted to become a writer) and it was stupid of me to be lazy and give up blacklight painting, talking french (lost that ability) and maybe I should have travelled more, but travel was fairly okay with approximately one trip each year. Had I known it would come to this, I'd have done more, but I didn't know. Partying was fine - purists may give a weird look and say "what, so little?", but I don't care because I feel fine - that is most important ... I also feel fine about my video game consumption. No regrets. Friends? Fairly okay, but I could have done a bit more in this department, calling people more up, keeping in contact more. Girls? Not fine at all! But I am enough of a realist that I say I'd be as timid or stupid next time I'd come into those "girl situations" again ... just isn't my thing. Maybe I knew I needed my capacity for something else instead of messing with girls - i.e. having my kind of fun. I'm not unhappy about it. Career decisions may have not been optimal, but are meaningless to me - best was to give up the second university study and focus on having the last bit of a good time in life! What about you? Edit (so this doesn't come across as a total depressant): don't worry I have not lost motivation and I think I will (or should) also make a post stating the goals / outlooks I still have, even despite the current situation. Oh and I have a GF right now, so I don't wanna say "Girls = all went bad" ... could have been better (lots better) in my youth though

It might not help you much ... but there's the Trump Rising track - which is ... at least electronic https://soundcloud.com/user-571754012/skeletone-trump-rising (not gonna put a huge banner on your eyes for this, that's probably not worth it)

Today I found this one just lying around on Prex' official Soundcloud account - unreleased to my knowledge ... did you know about this? and its awesome

that reminds me of:

and I feel like a fool openly said: I registered there because I wanted to get in touch with an artist (not S-Range this time, fortunately not ) ... he said to me he'd be on FB rather than on Soundcloud and I kindly ignored that at first, because I loathe FB ... I had an account with a friend in the past, called "Daswhiskeyglas" - "careful" documentation of the adventures of a Whisky tumbler, stunning pictures - and these damn fools from Facebook apparently killed that account off, it's no more, making me furious because I have no backup of the photos ... well, I loathed Facebook, loathe it to this day - but at the same time I need to get in touch with people ... so now that I kicked off this RTP RECORDS thing, I'd be a fool ignoring a direction to contact people ... so I registered there well duh, first strike to the face: you need to be ppls friend to message them ... great, would you approve a newly created account with zer0 followers? I would not = we throw out spammers on Psynews practically every few days so I tried anyways, got through in one instance - and I immediately feel like a fool because I wrote into my first chat message "cheers RTP from Psynews.org" - the software translating "Psynews.org" into a link with a huge ass banner ... well great, now I'll be probably flagged for spamming by the person I am trying to contact or maybe the chat message that contains a link, how evil, will not even go through ... at least I can understand everybody ditching a first chat message that contains a huge ass link... anyway, people, this is my site ... feel free to add me because I feel like a fool without any connections on fb https://www.facebook.com/bernd.masterman.1 cheers