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My browser tab of the promo mix did say "VA - Anal". It sounds like porn. The mix, I mean.

In a good edit style they're dropping hints so I say Sunkings - Starbuck Razor's Edge - The Zoo Regarding the legality...although there are obviously some regional differences, generally speaking you can only re-use copyrighted material if it's so heavily modified that the original is barely there. Even that is up to the judges. It's not easy to get that ruling against big players who guard their goods closely. There have been cases where just three-second samples can get you into trouble (and also cases like Skeewiff's One Sample Short of a Lawsuit EP where they eventually hired a studio to re-play the riff so that it's no longer a sample from a legal point of view). Anyway, just playing a vinyl at 33 rpm and pressing the result, possibly with minor modifications, is definitely a no-no. I guess they just use such sources and batch sizes that nobody can be bothered to call it. You can always play a custom edit, though. The royalties will (or won't) be collected as usual. It doesn't matter how you play it - original speed, slowed down, backwards, in three second snippets, whatever. It's just reprinting in any form that definitely requires a permission, or clearing like they call it with samples. To be honest, I find these versions a bit too cheap. It's a neat observation that 33 rpm turns EBM into new beat but why bother pressing it? Just get an original - preferably another one than these - and play it at 33 rpm, FFS... Meanwhile, there are some outright amazing disco re-edits out there, both cleared and bootleg.

That one isn't too obscure. If you can't decrypt it, check the Discogs comments.

I think our jolly spotting contest round 12 had a good selection of classic downtempo goa.

Is it Trans.Ø 10 C from the B side of Spectral ‎- Bizarre Planet?

Banco de Gaia - Maya 20th Anniversary 3CD edition Circular - Moon Pool Dr Trippy - Invasion by Osmosis Kaya Project - Firedance Koan - The Way of One Ren Toudu - Nemophilist Various - Paz 2

On this forum... http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php/topic/68196-nervasystem-voltage-voodoo-limited-edition-vinyl-ep/

This time my stream didn't crash...but I'm not sure if there was that much to be seen. 0-0s are always a bit disappointing. Even the penalty shoot-out sort of fizzled with no good drama. Oh well, I guess the high stakes of the final games will provide more excitement, no matter what exactly will happen.

Er...my copy completely fails to read, on two different CD drives. Or at least CD1 does and I think CD2 wasn't much better when I tried. Is it just me?

New school goa is already quite varied and colourful, by no means just floating and formulaic. There's no particular reason to make it "darker".

Just plain absurd. I had faithfully watched the quarter finals which ended 2-1, 1-0, 1-0 and 0-0 with very few goals during the actual game. Tonight my stream crashed for ten minutes at 1-0 and when it recovered, it was 5-0. Simply put, by that point there was no game any more. It was effectively over and almost painful to watch. On the second half they didn't even bother celebrating the goals much. At 5-0, the local TV commentator looked around the stadium and said "Some of the players...excuse me, spectators have already left to fetch refreshments..." He could have been right already with the first version. Unbelievable.

What the hell is going on?

Remember to get the free Fluori Dolby EP too. Arguably some of the punchiest tracks were kindly donated as a promotional release earlier that year so they didn't end up on the album. If you feel the album didn't deliver completely, try considering it as a bundle deal with the free extras and maybe you'll feel a bit better.

I think he was doing pretty well when it comes to calls which really counted, including the scoring free kick and penalty kick, and equally the rejected goal which was an offside by about 20 cm IIRC. Try spotting stuff like that on the field without fifty HD cameras at your disposal. (I believe video evidence is still specially forbidden by FIFA, excluding goal line verification.) Also imagine the brouhaha if calls like that had gone wrong. Argentina-Belgium appeared a bit boring, although I admit spending a good part of it cooking, eating and multitasking many other things.

Recently... Ten Trips around the Sun Woob - Lost 1194 Etnica - Alien Protein LP Joujouka - Aoki Uru Witchcraft - Magic Frequencies a couple of MWNN 12"s Psysutra has been ordered, of course. Maybe raiding Psyshop for this year's update next.

Can't you all just list the colours of your leggings?

Bah. Like it or not, the Oriental/Indian/Goa connection has become so strong that it's one of the best established, even defining features of this scene, all the way to the name of a (sub)genre. For a comparison, take a look at metal and its different branches. Nobody probably denies that stuff like skulls, swords, spikes, blood, black shirts, near-illegible logos and grainy black-and-white forest scenes have been done to death (heh) already years ago. Nevertheless, those are recognisable features. Browse through a random pile of CDs and you can easily spot power metal from its chrome, folk metal from its medieval look, and black metal from its grain. Then you can dress similarly on a festival and connect with other people. Things like that form the scene and differentiate it from other genres. Inevitably, you'll also find a crapload of people who very cleverly spot these recurring themes and decide to think different. That's nice. I think what's really bugging you is cheap production, not its content per se. It's very possible to follow a theme yet to bring a new twist to it. The other option is to rip the first Shiva image found by Google search and a chant from a '95 sample CD, already appearing in dozens of tracks. Or mushrooms on fractals...sometimes it's hard to tell whether people are really trying or just being nostalgic / tongue in cheek. Like in metal. Full respect to people who try (and manage) to innovate, but it's not that terrible either to follow the established themes as long as there's something noteworthy in the overall product. Plain copy-paste definitely appears just lazy and pointless.

Germany-Algeria, what a game.

I've always counted it as a subgenre of house instead, mainly because it's 1) not psychedelic 2) not trance That didn't stop me from collecting it in my house years, though. I'd just hesitate recommending it when trance is requested.

In most 90s games the actual audio data was either in separate files or bundled into larger lump files. There were ripping programs that detected and extracted them. In fact, sometimes you could just load a whole data file to an audio editor and spot the audio segments. It was almost always plain PCM data until compressed formats like mp3 started to arise. With those tricks you can get the exact source wave. However, the audio was regularly stored as something like 8-22 kHz so it won't become hi-fi even with these fancy direct extraction tricks. Digital or even reasonable analogue sampling from the gameplay output shouldn't introduce any significant error compared to the original resolution. The only real benefit I can imagine is choosing your interpolation algorithm in upsampling, but sometimes the original rough playback is actually preferable as that's how we remember it. Also try googling. Often people have already extracted the sample banks and they're floating around...

I was posting it but your reply appeared when I was previewing. And your switching was indeed unnecessary. I also went through my lists and noticed that strangely many releases there are free downloads, sold out, or only available directly. There's not much on Psyshop I can genuinely recommend as "best of" anything. Well, there are loads of Suntrip worth getting but everyone knows that already, right? (Meanwhile, I'm just placing my own order and I'd like to ask if there's something I've missed this year, but that might already count as thread hijacking...)

It wouldn't surprise me much that new school labels and artists are better represented and more active on Spotify than old school ones.

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Holy carp. England is out too? I know they're regularly a butt of many jokes but already after two games? Oh well, what should you expect after losing two games in a row, Uruguay included...

Wow.