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Well, I have taken quite some time to reply here again, but boy, has my view changed! At first I was thinking like "how could you sell it all" - now I am in a related situation, I had to get out of my flat because it's going to be renovated. I already have the situation sorted and I am fortunate enough _not_ having to take all my stuff out of the flat (because they're just gonna renovate parts of it, so a lot of the stuff can stay in, with a bit of moving around) ... but it has completely shifted my thoughts. Because I have to admit: I would have quite a problem if I had to take all the stuff out. So damn, I never understood your motives better than now. I am actually happy to have a smaller music collection than others, never thought I'd say that one day... Tempting ... but I will restrain - at the moment, more stuff is the last thing I need And history has shown me, that expensive or overly cherished T-shirts only tend to rot away in my cupboard most of the time (for fear of me damaging them or making them dirty), they really would deserve better... If you had a Spiral Trax shirt though, or know someone selling one, I'd have that

Indeed, that is his title and it stays even while he leaves the scene

It's called reactions and you can't command what people give you. (However, you could try to influence it a little, maybe by providing good content.) You also can't see who gives what reaction. That's why we keep this feature as slim as possible. And to prevent abuse, negative reactions that decrease your status points are not possible. So nobody can downvote anyone. However, it's currently still possible to react on every post with a "sad smiley". And while that is peculiar, it's no reason for me to turn it off. I would, however, limit the amount of reactions people can give each day if that feature was used for spamming continuously. And yeah, you can give a cry smiley on that one now

Ranks are ditched But unfortunately our custom titles have been removed too ... so I can't be bad 2 the bone anymore

Where are we currently? Where can I get the files? I have a studio session coming up. Maybe we can work on something. No promise.

To each and everybody who saw these ads: PLEASE USE BRAVE BROWSER ... I am using it and I saw no ad, zero, zilch ... and I had not any adblockers to configure... ...if you would not have called it out, I would NEVER have noticed... ...you better use Brave anyways because for Web 4.0 you will need crypto integration, which Brave has built in (Ethereum )... ...and if you really fancy ads (who does ), you can do that in Brave but you get paid for it in BAT tokens which you can donate us seamlessly with the button at the top, in the address bar ... or go over to Ektoplazm - Basilisk accepts them aswell ...anyway... By the way, these badges are terrifying, I don't like them... I do find a badge system cool, but only for the "peculiar" stuff that happens here, you know

I think it can't be separated, unfortunately. They all will keep too many dirty data. And that's that. Blockchain can be used though to make the format interchangeable. You click a link on TikTok - block added to your chain, which also YouTube can see... But there's one major good about these things: I can evaluate by YouTube suggestions that people get if they are compatible with me or not... ...my best friend for example -- whoa, he had a lot of identical recommendations even though he only rarely ever listens to psytrance. Stunning to see that! Better indication than Parship or any of these matching algos That's advice for you right there, dear reader. Avoid divorce by checking YouTube suggestions of your spouse before marriage

Wow, respect - I can not compare algorithms, I am not on TikTok or on Insta. Also not on Spotify. YouTube is actually my only home for consuming content in masses ... and amazon, because of some exclusives... Youtube knows me quite well, if you counted all the man hours that went into me feeding that machine while searching for obscure music videos and whatnot, you'd be a pretty rich man... ... it would be cool if that history or "key of preferences" was interchangeable between platforms, I must say ... then I don't have to wade through loads of crap when going on a non-native platform... ...but what am I saying. That would be the total surveillance of internet activity, wouldn't it - and I am not a fan of that, actually. Plus it makes people quite vulnerable to manipulation, doesn't it? ...preaching to drink water and drinking wine doesn't go well together, eh? However, blockchain could help that the data at least is not tampered with while being openly accessible ... that would be okay as long as the match between key and human behind is not feasible, because that would not be to my liking. Just imagine my boss or an institution asking me about this track "Sludgy Heads found in a Handbag" by Megaptera that I listened to AGES ago ... "strange fascinations or violent tencdencies much?"

I just have a YouTube generated playlist going which served me two monsters of a track right after another, that I honestly confess to not have known before, but daaaamn they are good... ...I mean see for yourself: Ulrich Schnauss ... daaamn awesome ... and that Tripswitch Remix of "Water From A Vine Leaf", absolutely great... ...by the way, the subsequent track after these two is Vibrasphere - Erosion ... also brilliant, but I knew that one before ...the oddity about it being, however, that I started off with a band that is not directly related to these supertracks in my opinion (QNTAL ... more Goth than anything else =) ... as you can see ... so apparently these tracks were linked by the algorithm with me previously giving the right input... ...which is cool, because it gives each and every click on YouTube that I did before more meaning, more depth... ...but that also made me think further: I believe there is a key that you can feed the algorithm so that it creates the most blissful, most perfect damn insane top-of-the-world playlist, custom forged for you individually. The key consists of a series of tracks you have to search for and listen, giving them a like. But it goes way beyond the good old "people who have listened to this track also liked..." method. This method usually delivers pure garbage in my case, I am a very special character (no offense to anybody else - I actually mean this in a bad way) and it has let me down so many times... ...but when the algorithm gets more and more material from me, it can craft more and more special things, diving down into these small backalleys of genre border areas where I like to roam about and then, when it has roamed there enough, boom! there it is, the perfect combination. It can be a long key and it can take years until it is complete. But with every interaction with the system, bits of this key are confirmed true or false... The cool thing about this is: every human being in this world has such a key. And it feels right now if QNTAL were the last missing part to mine By this rule, cases like this should continue to become more common. Or not? What do you think? It also has made me think of a story. I have this idea for a story about this machine - or complex of machines - that gather information in this way, ultimately becoming so powerful they can find out these keys for each and every human being... However, I don't really know what to do with the story when all keys are known. What then? Or is this not a story, but reality?

LOL I totally forgot about him He reminded me of Omar Suleyman ... because it's kind of the same formula, "mixing traditionally rooted elements and traditional singing with this electronics synth stuff": ... and because I find him equally hilarious

thinking again, you might maybe enjoy this more @abasio I remember this from another thread where I mentioned that... Akanoid started out as a psytrance group, that's why there's so much of that in there... Do check out both albums cocktail Pop and Civil Demon ... and the earlier ones are just normal psytrance

Ahem: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/76772-go_a-instead-of-goa-will-be-the-new-hype/ Yes, I would recommend that song on this occasion But other than that, there's more that I could recommend ... @abasio I understand your addiction, it has got me too, I have to find new stuff that has this special something ... unfortunately 99% of what the YouTube algorithm recommends is unusable in this regard, but when you find a gem, the joy is absolutely huge. I do not have anything that uses real psytrance 1:1, but lots of vibe comes across and I hope that is sufficient:

jap I told you all ... too bad they didn't win That Aura song is horrible ... I think all artists involved can do better... imo Mothership Loudspeakerz did a LOT better job by remixing K/DA - Villain: maybe he should remix Aura

To me that just seems to be his style ... I read enough of the threads back then and almost everywhere there was beef ... honestly, this is one of the fewer threads about or with him that have not yet turned into a flame / warn / ban fest (and I credit everybody for that) ... but whether my memory is right or not doesn't change the fact that I never understood him - which is why I rarely argued in those threads, because the only thing that could become of it is beef, actually. I have to give Kristian credit though for two things: his amazing music - and the sheer power to completely derail the peace on this forum every once and a while "Drama, baby"

you mean this, right:

Ha, I am just listening to Akanoid again, thought I'd mention them in this thread - but I was happy to find out that they already are named. That is good, I like when more people know them! You also brought in some facts I didn't know. I also remember @Tatsu mentioning "Instant Summer" somewhere, which is a great album by Akanoid and some say it's their best. The album you have must be Cocktail Pop, right? That was the first on Echozone. Or it was Civil Demon ... but on that one, they left pretty much everything that connected them to the psytrance world. It's a pity, because their old tracks really had good potential ... yes, they were not always perfect, but it gave me a really good vibe listening to them... Apparently they are still around (20th anniversary in 2019 - just before Psynews), but their last work "Noi" is 5 years old and I remember that I listened to it, it had nothing of the old style See, I have to admit I really like what they did there at 1:50 ... it feels pleasant to me

Cleaned up the trash. Sorry if anything meaningful went with it, but I didn't feel, that it would do the topic much good if I left it here... Thanks for pointing it out. This exactly cheers

that surprises me too ... why hot water ... where is that discussion? The track is OK, but I'm afraid Psytrance may be used as an instrument for a purpose that it can, in my opinion, not completely fulfill - our music is rather not very political in nature ... except some interesting exceptions of which you already portrayed some (Demagoguery of the Obscurants for example ). But if the purpose are a little "Fxck the system" kind of vibes then it's not the right delivery imo...

Sweet Ukraine is nice ... crazy in a very good way ... even though I don't speak a word of their language.

So I was damn wrong... Go_A didn't win ... they came 5th ... which is not bad, but it won't hype. You fraggles can continue dancing along in the dark - and in peace (well, not that it would have had an impact tbh, but it would have been cool )

I'm just thinking: Recently I contacted someone to do a remix ... price was 500 EUR If you charged 500 EUR for your trax you'd make 194 716 * 500 = 97 358 000 EUR 97 million EUR ... that's some damn big money

See? The plot thickens. I think some forces want them to win the ESC. I am just thinking. Should I place a bet? Try it, I'd be curious ... hee hee By the way I think you should do a (fun) album review for them on YT, I bet you gonna get some pretty big exposure by the algorithm for that move

yeah, Swedish origin, now living in Brazil ... sometimes I thought that moving somewhere warm and nice would also be my dream ... but now I don't wanna be over there, just like it's the case with my desire to go to India, not the best place to be right now Nah AFAIK he never had other names before S-RANGE ... it stands for the "Esrange" (european space range) which you might know and which was also one of his first tracks ... later on there were a few more names, such as Agent 17, but he dropped that one strangely quick after I asked him about another Agent 17 act and if it was him... PREX are S-Range and Noma by the way.

there's a new one by This Morn Omina, it's called The Roots of Saraswati ... bloody awesome, but don't be fooled by the indian title suggesting it might be peaceful, it's dark and intense and mysterious, just like good whisky I'm not fully through yet, but here's a playlist:

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