Dolmot

I'd say about 95% of vocals, chants and voice samples in this genre come from sample CDs, movies, TV, other tracks and whatnot. The producers just don't have the training, proper studios and talented Indian vocalists at their disposal. More likely they're just hammering a PC alone in some basement in Brixton. The extent of clearing and crediting the samples varies. People have become disillusioned by learning about the sources of Daft Punk hits too... (We can have another topic for this. The database shouldn't be that full yet.)

Well, I got mine this week too. It took four months but they do deliver so at least some knickers can be de-twisted.

So I found a copy of Material - Hallucination Engine on my HD with no idea whatsoever where it came from and when. Then I got all the way to Words of Advice and noticed something familiar. What could it be? (The monologue is older than that, but I found this particular version interesting.)

Just weird or very weird?

Give him one!

To make them available (legally, first-hand) for under 50e, maybe? But hey, I definitely won't complain about including extras too, especially like those announced.

It's been a busy spring. I think I haven't bought or downloaded a thing since January or so*. Now I could place a couple of orders so any ideas of stuff I've missed, up- or downtempo, would be welcome. Free downloads also count. Titles and quick blurb, please, not vids. *OK, I got Nervasystem 3 & 4, The World Beyond and Kolovrat. Etnica in Dub, Doof and the Suntrip stuff I happen to like are already on the shopping list, but what else?

http://imgur.com/r/gif/aiEJH

Well, I placed orders to Anjuna and Zion in January-February, even got quite genuine appearing promises of re-shipment from both, yet nothing has arrived from either label. I think there are some fundamental problems over there. I don't feel like blaming anyone in particular. Nevertheless, as the outcome is money paid but no items received, currently I cannot recommend direct orders from that corner of the earth, regardless of the reason.

Why not for them as well?

It has similarities to Chemical Trance...but differences too? Then again, many of their early tracks shared similar elements. Anyone got more free time to compare?

This whole "live" thing is a bit odd in many electronic genres. (Regarding terminology, it seems to stand for "a bloke playing his own music" and that alone without too many expectations of the technical implementation. You are allowed to dislike the fact but don't expect it to change any time soon. Every producer is a live act when it comes to party posters.) But isn't it actually somehow weird to expect that any knob-turning would be involved? I mean, nowadays probably more than 95% of trance etc. is produced with no real-time manipulation whatsoever taking place in the whole process. Why should producers start performing something they simply don't do? (Well, obviously for the entertainment value as suggested here several times, but please try to follow the original train of thought for a moment.) Isn't it like inviting an animator to a film festival and then expecting him to perform the film in real time using paper cutouts? OK, that may be a crap analogy but hopefully you get the point. I enjoy many pieces of electronic music because they're something "unreal", that is, hard or even impossible to perform live with any equipment, obviously excluding pre-recorded media. Unfortunately, when music sales are minuscule, the only way to get paid is getting on the road and performing, even if it's sort of unnatural considering the production methods. Didn't we have DJs for that part? In short, I have some sympathy for producers who are doing great job in the studio but then get pushed on the stage to fake a performance just because the crowd wants to see a "live" act. Heck, many of them don't even have any kind of DJ experience, let alone playing synths and such live. I have discussed with some fine studio artists who confessed that just having something playing for a whole hour was a real struggle, because that's not how producing works. The previously given description "when we got together as a band we already had between us a fair bit of experience with live electronic music" simply doesn't generalise particularly well.

Vocals and live gigs with guitars help a lot. That's what large crowds want to see, not a bloke behinds his laptop playing no-name tracks for 2 hours straight. (Some of those can be successful as well but it's less likely.) The guitar doesn't have to be plugged in anywhere as long as the act is entertaining. Ambition and willingness to turn it big also help. Some artists prefer keeping it at least somewhat underground or just don't care about popularity.

Carlos Siliceo of Sharigrama Torakka

As someone who does audio signal processing for a living, I could... Ah, nevermind. YOUR MOM IS GAY! CHECKMATE! Stay classy.

Visiting Australia and wondering why everything is upside down.

Listening right now...but is there a reason why this one is in 22 kHz?

Tristan - Face to Face?

Slinky Wizard - Sodom Like There's No Gomorrah Although only the title is memorable, not the track. Edit: GNotR - The Afterburner EP too.

Sounds accurate to me. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moon-moon

Hey, the full artwork still has a bear - all black and brown, and covered with hair! But Richpa's crescent has been censored.

I got my hopes up primarily from the Shiva's India remix, which unfortunately didn't end up on the album. The original was a bit bland and corny par-teeh track like 1200 Mics tends to be, but AP managed to give it a beefy oldschool treatment. The contrast to the embarrassingly punchless handbag club trance they released around 2010 was striking. That was the point when I really started following them again. Well, maybe some of the very-soon-to-be-released album previews like Dunes of Gold too. Concerning the remix album, it was close but not quite as exciting. However, due to sound quality, I still haven't bought it and probably cannot bring myself to listen to it again. A shame. Maybe I'll get Mugen with the Suntrip release instead, because that was the other cool track of 2014. No idea whether it will sound better, but almost certainly it cannot be any worse.

You should have used that as the artwork.

I almost do that for a living... Unfortunately, the problem in general is a difficult one and far from being solved. If you ever hear someone claiming a "quick and simple solution", most likely at least one of the following applies: 1) They make strong assumptions on the input, such as strong mid/side separation. 2) The actual result is...less than perfect. 3) They're just lying through their teeth to make a sale. Even the cheapest playback systems may have a simple mid-filter, which sometimes works but obviously will fail miserably in many cases. Then there are slightly better attempts, which are used by some guys to make stuff like bootleg acapella discs and mixes. Often the standalone output sounds more like someone torturing a cat, but it's not so obvious after blending it into new music. Then there are professionals like Audionamix who work with major labels and Hollywood companies, but their products/services won't be free. So, it's a classic case of picking between fast, easy, cheap and good. If one could get those all for nontrivial signals, I'd be looking for a new job or at least a new topic...

Yep, 44 days, only tumbleweeds here. Not the best shipping 7e can buy.