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Good luck on your travels, Basilisk

If I were Japanese and had the state of mind like now, I would either be dead or would have gone into one of these buddhistic temples to escape... But if I really were born in Japan, I wouldn't have that state of mind, would have different education and thoughts ... and would probably be like the others...

I would have done the survey now, but I also got that "maximum number of responses allowed by the quota" message...

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Hello, we've now lowered the level of posts necessary to 2000 posts. All people over 2000 posts therefore qualify for the custom member title. Please check your post count and your profile if you are eligible. I have updated Moni's post at the beginning of the thread... greets RTP

Hello, we were asked to remove some posts in this thread ... also, please discuss other subjects such as politics in appropriate other forums, they don't belong here...

I'll surely try my best to do it

You have drawn my attention to an interesting aspect, Drosophila ... yes, indeed, I think the Arab Spring is good, it's good when people change their way of thinking and I actually feel a little proud now that I have the possibility to support that. Regardless how it turns out, the people should be supported I think and this is my way of doing it ... even though I will not engage in anything and just will go sightseeing. We do pass Kairo, but we want to see Gizeh ... we'll probably take a route around the town. But we definitely want to see it. An interesting coincidence: Banco De Gaia posted a set of tracks on soundcloud 23 days ago (23 is my favourite number) and one of them is Gizeh. Supposedly it contains sounds recorded inside the Great Pyramid. And I definitely like the thought that this could be the universe giving me a hint that I will see it

Thanks for the answers, guys ... yeah, I think I'll go for it (unless all hell breaks loose in the next week ... which I don't believe ... but if it is, the ministry of foreign affais will know and issue a warning). It's good to hear from somebody that was there recently and says it seems ok. We certainly won't do any stupid things and will stay out of trouble. No running across Tahrir square in tiger costumes or anything. We will stay out of Kairo anyway. Just being plain tourists that watch some of the amazing cultural heritage and staying nice to people and paying some attention to not run into trouble. If we do that, we'll be fine I guess. I have been asking around today and the day before and the number of people who told me really not to go is quite small indeed. There are even people who told me to do anything, go for Kairo aswell ... but we won't, we already replanned our trip. When I like the country, I'll do Kario some time later when it's calm again. And even in the event of trouble, I guess us foreigners won't be so much endangered because first it would be bad for the whole country when they harm tourists (they live off them after all) and second we are guests there and they value hospitality a lot. Plus we've got absolutely nothing to do with their affairs and will do everything to stay out of them. Also, the fate argument is a valid one. You could get killed (or severely beaten up) in Vienna too if you were going to the wrong places at the wrong time. We'll do our best to stay out of shit. So I think we'll return home safe

Hello together, I am having a bit of a thoughtful time here recently, sleeping bad and such. The thing is, I will go in two weeks to Egypt. That by itself would be fine -- but wait, there is one thing not so good, which is riots going on there currently Remember the football game? 70 dead. Then, there were protests in bigger towns, leading to 2500 injured people in Kairo as they were protesting at the ministry of internal affairs. Not to forget that the financial ministry went up in flames not long ago. So is it really safe to go there? We will fly to Kairo, stay one night there (not in the centre and we will also not go to the centre), then go further down to Assuan and Luxor. We will stay for 9 days. I am a bit confused having read the news and talking to people ... some say no. don't go ... some (those that go with me) say definitely yes. The Austrian ministry of external affairs has not issued a "travel warning" (that's when they disapprove going there and you get your money back on flights and hotels when you cancel them). And I'm a bit clueless. Flight is paid - and as there's no "travel warning" at the moment, I would not see any money if I wouldn't go. So I would need some advice from people who know the situation there ... is it safe to go? Or also if you don't know the situation there - if you feel like to tell me what you think about it, please do. So what would you do? All input welcome.

Yes, I totally approve this idea. In fact, I find it great! Some interesting topics brought to attention and all that with the potential to reach the facebook user base ... really nice. And it's also good that you have several people working together, everybody bringing in their own suggestion for topics ... this way everybody can bring in their favourites, you have more frequent updates and such ... great actually Please tell people clearly what it is though ... a sort of "psynews selection", some news about topics, done by some of the site's frequent users. (You don't have to tell them hardcore, but I think it should be clear ... unless you want us to take a hand in it too ... I would be willing, but I honestly doubt that I would bring so many hot topics up ... except some S-Range or Pusherstreet maybe ... but other then that...). Seriously, go for it. You have my best wishes. And you even might be bringing me to register there myself ... because I don't have my own facebook account, to this day Also, something interesting aswell: I have googled a bit and found some indications that we have got a facebook connect functionality in IP Board 3.2.2 that we use here ... it would be a feature that you can log-in on this forum via facebook. I must find out the details still, but maybe this can further help us connecting with the facebook community...

My mom has a rare name ... a very old-fashioned one. No girl nowadays is called like that anymore ... so I don't think I'd ever have to ask myself that question

Eight years? Jeez that's a long time. Didn't even seem to be that long to me. Scary. What I find cool is that I still like the song. Been listening to it from time to time all the years

HA! I FOUND THIS ONE TODAY! You won't believe it It's Talamasca - Brain Activity. For all those years I was looking for this track. And indeed, I remembered the sample, the melody ... and that I had posted a thread here. And I was checking back quite often ... never there was an answer ... until FINALLY I found it today. Talamasca - Brain Activity. Meanwhile so much time passed that I don't find the track so incredibly great anymore ... but anyway, it's still good I am such a fucking freak that I found this finally Here it is: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2P7AIzaY8 (oh, by the way, I see I was still on the old forum back then ... now I'm a guest there above, because I never merged these old posts ... man, this is old )

Well, I have to drink something to actually listen to that But I understand you. In a village pub over there in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I could imagine being piss drunk with Vodka (or what do you drink over there?) with some people and we swaying to that, to and fro and front and back... In Austria we do have some pretty awful (to me) folk music, but I could not do the above to it. I guess only music from the east can do that to me.

I say no! But on a serious note, these two track titles pretty much sum up what happened to the scene in the last years. In the past in our scene, people said no. They said no to the temptation to disrespect nature and humanity for profit or shallow experiences of happiness. They said no to the commerce, indoctrination of mass media and so on. Well, not everybody did. But in psytrance you were able to find rather alternative thinkers and personalities that were more or less saying "no" to society's glamour and what comes with it. Now it's not so much like that anymore ... and you more and more find people that say yes to all that above. Very interesting.

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The more I listened to this stuff that is commonly referred to as psytrance, the more I was realizing that "the" psytrance actually doesn't exist. I don't know if you feel alike, but to me psytrance is a genre (to which also Goatrance does belong to in my opinion ... I was always naming them besides each other as a genre such as "Goa/Psy"). And once you are starting to check out the scene you see that there's a lot of subgenres and sub-sub genres... And with me it was like that the more I dug into it, the more I got immersed in all these sub-genres and was not percieving it as psytrance anymore, but as darkpsy, full on, oldskool, progressive... It might be "psytrance" from a distance, but the closer you come the more detailed the sub-genres get and the less you see the whole picture. "Psytrance" is the tree, the subgenres and sub-subgenres are the branches that get ever more seperated and then the leaves are the songs...

Yeah, the pool really was awesome Oh yeah, the fireworks ... before we went to the pool we did watch them too. We just shot some rockets and then we attempted to make an experiment with a christmas tree that we planned to shoot up with some rockets sticked to it, but it didn't take off and the whole thing exploded on the floor. Was a nice show though

A happy new year to all from me too

Watching the new year's concert - with HDMI sound. Gradually I'm really getting a bit into classical music

Hey, I want a robot crab too

I went to a Pool party The point is, it was a psytrance party (yeah, Vienna psytrance organizers really have evolved to making something cool quite often). They rented a whole indoor pool hall ... such a water park kind of thing - wave pool, canals, pirate ship, that stuff. Only the big slide they closed because it wouldn't be good if intoxicated people would be riding there... It was quite a blast. It really has something when you listen to Ephedrix lying on the back while floating on a tire in some canal and you're so drunk the ceiling makes waves Only bad thing was that it was cold because so many people went out smoking and opened the doors all the time ... glad we got into a Jacuzzi where it was warm And I did not see any vomit in the water ... but I think I caught a cold. That was obvious though. You don't go to pool parties in winter. Well, I did. And you would have gone too, admit it. Psytrance Pool Party on New Year's Eve - what a great idea!

I rather wish a happy new year

Sounds fun, but I think I won't be capable of doing that, can't drink 9 pints... Hell, I didn't even make it to do a power hour so far because the people I am with were too sissy to go for it every time I asked. Sounds helluva boring actually. Well, it is not so. The point is that I switched to Whisky and don't like beer/cider anymore because I get headaches and there are not many possibilities where I drink lots of the latter anymore.