johnb820

Hi everyone. I recently felt compelled to share this short set of tracks that I have been working on for some time now. I saw no other option but to get this out of my body, mind and soul. This album is the product of a personal moment in time which can never be reproduced. As the universe spins towards infinity, we can only vibrate to its motions or get swallowed up by despair. Thank you to everyone and everything, who and which contributed to this album whether realized or not. In case the soundcloud embed doesn't work here is the link. https://soundcloud.com/ruby_plexus/sets/sublime-motion Or a download available. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19925349/Ruby%20Plexus%20-%20Sublime%20Motion%20(mp3).zip

Awesome! I am glad you had a good time! I wish my festival experience was as pleasant as yours seems to be.

*raises hand* Me.

Going some place new will almost always result in getting sick. You do not have the immunity that the local people have built up over the years. The same thing happens to me when I go out of town.

I definitely have a phobia of needles. I tell myself that I don't but the last few times I have gotten shots I have fainted immediately after injection. Other than that I have had periods of depression along with what might have been multiple serious anxiety/mental breakdowns while I was in college purely because of stress. I remember writing a page worth of complete non-sequiturs that didn't make any sense one night as they were just pouring out of my mind. Thankfully I am over all of that now that I have graduated and I have time devoted to self expression.

The Shpongle "aesthetic" is what is so successful. Whether they are "psychedelic" or not is not really the point. People like Shpongle because it's catchy, interesting, rhythmic, and fun to listen to. Clearly they have done something right if they can get average people who are not commonly interested in electronic music to listen to some of the most effects driven music ever made.

Don't forget kbbk and kbk every once in a while. Then the same boring cutoff filter. Then back to kbbbk. Aaaaaaannndddd boi boi boi boi boi on the thirds.

The best samples are not the ones that directly talk about psychedelics, but imply something about the psychedelic experience which may or may not have anything to do with the drugs.

Closest artist to AP is Radical Distortion imo.

All those samples are really short and basically come from the intros of each track so they are not a good indication of what they will sound like.

So, any bets on which songs will be in 7/4 or 7/8? I'm guessing Further Adventures in Shpongleland.

If Anoebis and Mars knew how to run a label they would have gotten us the third Hallucinogen album and released the new Astral Projection album. I am just kidding, please don't hurt me.

Installing any basic linux distro, including Ubuntu, is extremely easy. Installing new software is a click away from the expansive repositories already set up. Getting your software to work the way you want it to is still a difficult challenge. Likewise there may be hardware that Linux does not automatically have a solution for. It's quite possible some piece of hardware simply won't work. Going beyond the basics of the OS almost always results in learning some commands which if you have the patience for can be fun and rewarding but also very frustrating. If you don't want to do much fancy stuff on your computer, Linux is far and away the safest, most secure, and stable OS out there. No viruses, no malware, no lockups, relatively fast, easy to use. All of your basic computer needs are generally met with zero learning curve.

Hey K-BAN, it's unfortunate but I had work this morning at 7am EST and was unable to catch your set. Any chance you might provide a download for it? Edit: Never mind, I found your link.

Arch Linux here. I have been using Linux since about 2005 when I first tried Ubuntu and haven't touched Windows since. I guess I use Linux because it's simply a superior OS even though it can be troublesome to set up properly. It's all a learning experience which I find infinitely rewarding. I studied computer science in college and it's by far easier to program and develop on. By the way there is a great studio application available called LMMS which I use to make stuff with in case some were wondering whether something like it existed or not.

Excessive fills.

I have my membership ready this year so as not to have to hear commercials every 30 minutes.

I wish I knew what you were talking about because Celestial Slice actually contains acoustic guitar if you listen carefully enough. Much of Christer's interpretation comes down to soft sinusoidal leads with heavy reverb and delay. The result is a very nice consonant ring acting between all the various layers. But it's probably just easier to say it sounds "shiny?"

Now this is a good topic. 1) Your favorite AP album? Dancing Galaxy 2) Your favorite AP up-tempo track? Flying Into a Star 3) Your favorite AP down-tempo track? Still Dreaming (Anything Can Happen) 4) Your favorite AP artwork? Another World (Vinyl Cover) 5) Your favorite AP melody? Tie between 3:37 of Utopia and main melody at 3:40 of Searching For UFOs 6) Your favorite AP speech/voice sample? Flying Into a Star 7) Your favorite AP intro? Aurora Borealis

Electronic Dance Music has come a long way over the years. Here is a classic acid house track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbLI8EufNo The production is awful. There are barely any ideas throughout the song. It's dull and poorly mixed but yet it was very popular at the time and became the definitive sound of a whole genre. If edm has evolved beyond this, how hard is it to believe that perhaps goa trance has evolved beyond that stuff in the mid to late 90s? People produce stuff in their bedroom better than Acid Tracks precisely because it's easier and cheaper to do so. Infinite possibilities lie at your finger tips from beyond the computer monitor. Controlling it and producing the kinds of things you want to is the challenge. Getting it right is like finding a gold mine and as a listener, hearing that search for the perfect sounds is immensely entertaining. I for one welcome our new Goa producer overlords.

Just like Ethereal's track Moondawn fell victim to being the last track on Opus Iridium, so too does Uth's on this album. But just as Moondawn won me over when I listened to it separately so did Cosmic Fusion. Just amazing production.

All the whining in this thread reminds me of what happened the last time Shpongle released an album with Simon getting pissed at all the people who pirated the album. Let's hope that doesn't happen again!

"We're totally not just here to talk to each other about how crazy our last trip was. It's completely 100% scientific, yea that's it. Psychedelics have like... medicinal value and shit."

"Trance2MoveU is the reviewer psynews deserves, but not the one it needs right now." Wait what? Oh nevermind. Blacklight Moments is a very very special album, but most of you knew this already right? It's so full of twists and turns, contemplation, hope and despair, light and darkness. A culmination of who these artists are and what they want to show us, participating in this ever creative process known as life. I won't go into each and every track on here in detail because they are all so good, so unique and well made. So yes, thank you to all the artists, lesser known and well known your craft means a lot to me and surely others. My summer is a little more glorious thanks to you all. Also, in case you have not heard, Skarma's track is out of this world good. So clever, well written, it shimmers with energy from the developing melodies to the breakdown to the release. I have to say though, you are no Astral Projection, you are better. More specifically a typical AP track would be slower, with a totally different kick/bass rhythm. Neither would AP write a song with such a song structure. I don't like to make comparisons but I think Blacklight Moments is better than Shaltu. It's more intense, more twisted, more spiraled, perfectly laid from track 1 to track 10. This album is seriously a wonderful psychedelic journey from start to finish. Basically, Suntrip has done it again.