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yeah, but that's the point - it's made for the people who don't listen to psy! what about the people who do already listen to it? I'm not saying that it's utterly bad, but what I heard was too little to convince me to hand over my money to support this. I won't do it. I'm curious about the review though.

I used to believe that all synth melodies are played by just pressing one of the keys on the keyboard for each tone ... that you basically could always play with just one finger

pownage the studio pwns...

ok, good that it's not a bot then

hey, this is interesting! lol, you're beginning with S-Range's chill track from Space didn't expect that! I expected some older S-Range tune ... but on surfing through (didn't listen all through) I couldn't find any. Found S-Range, 12 Moons, Vibrasphere and two Noma tracks... I'd be curious for the tracklist.

I only listened to the first two of the four. The music is better than what they did on VD (at least ... but that's not a big deal), it's still not my cup of tea though. IM sorta only hit my taste in between Classical and CV. Or maybe I've grown out of it now altogether, who knows. But at least I'd now go to their show if I won tickets, the music has become bearable again ... but that's still far from what I really like and pay money for.

thanks for the thread, guys ... this year I really suck behind incredibly bad ... didn't even catch up on the Ultimae releases because Wirikuta doesn't have them anymore ... that's right, I ordered absolutely nothing this year so far... shame on me.

even though this is spam, you have to admit that this is one of the most useful spam threads that this forum has ever seen (aside from eventual carnal pleasure advertisings that have gotten deleted), don't you? I won't take the test though since I'm confidend that my hearing is good ... even too good maybe, for when I already can register the sounds that bats make in the night (I mean the ultrasound cries ... it's no sound that I hear, but I feel the air vibrating in a certain way ... it's like I feel there's a tone, but it's too high to hear for me) I think I might be hearing already too well

big fan here too! hell, I have been staying up long without my parents knowing and watching Terminator 2 in the night ... I'm a big fan since I was eleven or so... very big fan ... even bought this yellow press shit-newspaper recently because they had an interview with him... And I haven't even seen True Lies yet ... but since people say this is one of the very best of his films, I'll save it for a special moment! He's the biggest movie star Austria has and will ever have! Period. And the only Austrian that has and will ever have become Governor of California! Even though he's critisized by many for what he does and he doesn't seem to be the best person for a governor, I still find it bloody damn awesome that he made it up there! An Austrian ruling in California! That's fuckin' awesome, man!

I just have to share this (it's official anyway) ... Pusherstreet is one of my favourite artists nowadays, those guys make really nice progressive trance! Progressive like it should be ... kicking, driving, happy and straight to the essential point without any fancy-commercial add-ins. And if you didn't know it, Rasmus Alanne from Etnoscope is in it too And now it's official that they have released their first digital EP! And they made it available for free! Get the free release from Multiplex Records: http://www.multiplex-records.de/musicdownload.html (don't know how much they like direct links, so I put you to the downlooad page where you'll find it -- Catalog # MULTIPLEX 010) And there might be more to come from Panzar Rekordz (their newly-established label -- http://www.panzarrekordz.com ) in the future. Get this! -INFO- Artist........ Pusherstreet Album......... EP Label......... multiplex-records.de Genre......... Psychedelic Style......... Progressive Trance Hyperlink..... http://www.panzarrekordz.com http://www.myspace.com/pusherstreet Medium........ Mp3 Encoder....... LAME Bitrate....... 320kbps Constant bitrate Mode.......... TRUE STEREO Release.Date.. Tracks........ 02 Playtime...... 15:36 min Release.Size.. 38.2mb Tracklist: 1. Lingo 06:58 140bpm 2. Knazter 08:36 140bpm Introducing a new progressive sound in a time when psy & fullon dominates the trance scene, and most of the progressive artists & labels around produces music that all sounds the same. Pusherstreet brings you a fresh different approach to progressive trance. Bringing you progressive funky-trance made in Sweden. Umpa, Umpa with a twist!! --- What are you waiting for, get it!

yeah as good as the music is (I like it!) ... it's minimal and not psy!

damn right you are! much prog has gone house style ... money, carnal pleasure and models on cocaine...

I always argument: when I buy a used CD, then another buyer who's seeking for this release won't be able to buy it used and therefore will go and buy it new I know it mostly doesn't work like that though...

psydb statistics are quite interesting when it comes to that and not even they have every release. Psydb lists 5826 releases on CD. There's only the question: how much of it is goa trance?

yep, Noma, S-Range and 12 Moons was precisely what I thought of aswell ... try the single tracks of 12 Moons though, the album won't be anything, it's too lovely for your needs also Prex and the older tracks of Matenda (specifically the 12" and compilation tracks of him ... Saikosounds page: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/show_artist.asp?artist_id=640 ) ... check it out! and Anakoluth's stuff you might like, get it free @ Ektoplazm there was a thread about this here aswell I remember, "dark progressive" or so it was called ... but I won't dig now.

S-Range has got some good ones ... mostly they are either pulled from old Neil Armstrong space flight recordings (but they fit perfectly to the theme of that spacey music) or from films, but they mostly fit right in place... I also like the samples of Silicon Sound a big lot ... they're taken from various computer games (System Shock 2, Unreal 2, Doom 3) and from films such as Final Fantasy (the first one)... I really like when samples are recordings from films, computer games or other real events. This sort of triggers a thought flash like "hey, I know this, this is from (blahblah)" ... either first-hand (when hearing the song) or second-hand (when coming into contact with the original source of the sample when you haven't known it before). And I admit that I love the second-hand samples much more, because then it's like some flash of enlightenment and a grin in my face when I realize that this is actually the sample from this or that song ... and usually this happens at a totally different place in time, which is cool... Custom made samples or samples from sample CDs or anything don't have this effect on me ... I can't re-experience the recording in any way at some other point of time and thus I don't like it that much. Kudos to an artist that does his/her own samples for originality, but I like the other way ... at least when it doesn't get too cheesy ... like the blade Runner samples of old, everybody used them, which was just a pain in the ass. For me a sample should be taken from somewhere, but still maintain its originality! And this is actually difficult to achieve...

Even though the links are broken, the news made me smile. Slinky has hit the bullseye with this one... oh and we won't get rid of the hippie image, never...

yeah, same here but since then there was nothing from him ... hope he didn't do anything stupid, the situation he seemed to be in wasn't a good one. a pity, I kinda liked the guy...

dark? not scary? try Ulf Söderberg aka Sephiroth (he's using both names) ... he's doing pretty good dark ambient ... dark, tribal and mystical... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s75AUsadLLI

Shiva Chandra was the most remarkable of those cases for me... I never understood what to find in this monotonous, melody-lacking sound of his (apart from his first album they're all in this style). Never knew what to make of it, filed it under "utter crap". Until I was running to it one day ... half-heartedly I had recorded one of his tunes on MD (Schaukelstuhl) and, well, once I played it. Boy, I was awestruck! The pace was precisely suitable for my speed ... and suddenly it all made sense. This sound had no meaning, no hidden message, no emotion, no tangible expression, it just was rhythm and strange sounds ... and awesomeness! I can't describe how I mentally got it, but since that experience it's like somebody flipped a switch and I'm a total sucker for this stuff

you know, actually I'm happy to have discovered this music only in 2002 and not earlier ... otherwise I'd probably ramble on about the oldschool times on and on ever and ever again and join many of the others being an "old fart", as abasio put it ... I'm kinda used to the fact that there's a ton of crap released that I don't care about ... it always was like this for me in this scene and it'll never change. I'm picking my gems out of the sand practically since the beginning... As for the reasons why the quality was better in the earlier times, I second the reasons Trolsk stated. Nowadays just about everybody can become a producer ... and while this is actually a cool thing, it's also part of the problem. The market is flooded with thousands of average tracks. And it has become easier to release the stuff aswell.

That's Feathers style indeed. He has way too much time on his hands...

I have very sensitive ears (seriously sensitive ... I believe I can even hear bats (I actually do not hear them, but I do percieve the ultrasonic vibrations with the ears in some way, because always when I feel this special vibration stuff and look close around I can see bats flying around ... we've got some on the canals near my house)) and things easily get too loud for me. For example I don't even wanna walk by jackhammers on a construction site... On parties and also open air concerts I practically always have something in the ears. Not real earplugs (they dampen too much), but rather just handkerchieves ... the cheap version for volume-adjustable earplugs (just stuff in more if it's still too loud and stuff in less if the volume's lower ) ... I wonder how people can take the volume with their bare ears; in the past, years ago, I used to have a kind of dull hearing each time after a party because it was too loud for my ears ... and since I began stuffing the ears, I practically never had problems again... At home on the headphones I put up the volume until it suits me, which is mostly actually quite moderate; every time I lent my headphones to people when I let them listen to tunes they used to turn up the volume because it's too low for them ... and every time they lend me theirs I have to beg them to turn the volume down. Even though it happens that I turn it up some levels when I get carried away by the music, I'm still convinced the levels are not too high. It's a different thing when I'm outdoors. Not while running, it's rather calm in the park and I have recorded my minidiscs only in a moderate volume so that I can't even crank it up. But it's something different when I go out with my mp3 player. Near busy streets, railways and other noisy places I turn it up beyond levels I normally listen in, frankly because otherwise the sound gets overpowered by outside noise. But then I say to myself: that outside noise was never too loud for me so the volume level on the headphones can't be so bad for my hearing either... Visines methods are quite good. It's a great method to let the ears get used to a lower volume level first and then even minor increases will make it sound definitively louder.

You dug up some old memories there I remember that site ... and I loved one of the pieces there, but it kinda never got released! And some years ago I was thinking of it again, but the site was all gone ... would be interesting to know what happened to the tunes...

Yep, I agree with that. Although there's some good oldschool out there, I actually much prefer living in the now than living in the past...