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Nice Toy, the ITR version. I've probably listened to that one more than all other Etnica tracks combined - and it still works. (But when did people start to ask 76e for that CD, exactly? )

Err...that's Burning Up which was released in 2000. Hardly a sign of a "new direction" if it dates back two years before Amen (which still contained fairly deep stuff, by some definition). I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from a one-minute clip of them playing a track from 2000. I believe it's been fairly common a number in their sets, after all.

The first track has similar style and even the same FX as Wrecked Machines - Four Walls (but it's not that one, I think). Then again, piles of tracks did in that era... Sounds more like early 00s, Etnicanet or something, to me. Sorry, I don't really know anything either...

Ah, another shipment with all the usual goodies and an extra thick bundle of cards and bookmark-ish smaller strips. That was new to me. And of course... (Not that album, just referring the title.) Still deserves a

I'll try my luck again... Saiko-Pod - Phutures and Options. Its last track "Tron" ends with a B5 sample "You can not run out of time, there is infinite time. You are finite, Zathras is finite. This is wrong tool." Nice album, BTW. When the goa heyday was over, some of its replacements were bad but this was both innovative and cool. I listened it through just a few days ago.

Have you tried the label site...

Any relation to Ed Cox? I have the album and I love it...

OK, let me throw in my wild guess. Last weekend I was browsing Psychlopedia's page on Discogs and pressed play in the youtube window (even though I have pretty much everything on vinyl AND as files...) Someone has uploaded this in 2009: It has elephants, although I don't think it's a cover of any relevant album. In any case, the track is well worth searching for or listening to even if it wasn't the correct one.

Finally listed most of my CDs from all genres on Discogs. There was a lot of crap but some gems too and a few items I had forgot entirely... Let's see when I manage to get started with vinyl.

I have that single...and most of my work is caffeine-powered.

I can't say a thing about the actual motives of Andreas & Mathias, but I think that getting an artist identifier Yggdrasil (9) on Discogs suggests that the name might be slightly overloaded (or, unoriginal). By the way, it seems that the shipping costs were accurate. The disc arrived in a neat pre-paid, CD-sized envelope, which is allegedly good for up to 2kg. It surely comes in handy if you're ever distributing depleted uranium from Sweden in CD-sized padded envelopes. However, I guess someone at the post attempted doing multiple barrel rolls with his vehicle. The fancy special plastic case had broken somewhere along the few hundred lousy km it had to travel. Bah. No silver platters or other extras either. The music is still very nice, though.

Wait, the same Sideffect who's still on the front page after reviewing TransStellar on 5th and posting a light-hearted reply on 6th? This is too strange for coherent commentary right now.

Woo, we're invisible!

Very good indeed. I have a bunch of pro-piracy friends whose favourite excuses include "artists have too many Ferraris parked next to their swimming pool and record labels are evil megacorps". And of course, "there's only one good song on a CD / music is nowadays streamlined crap". Every time I'd like to show them the handwritten postcards I've got from Vincent with those CBL albums and whatnot. Not too many Ferraris in this scene either...

OK, it's great and I bought it...but the announced $10 price could be called misleading. First, there's a hidden tax and second, shipping was $8 for a single CD. Do they deliver it on a silver platter with a complimentary blowjob?

Did you visit Moria?

The trend of calling mastering "bad" is also everywhere but it gets more complicated when people should agree, what makes it good. (Apart from tautological arguments like "it's good when it's enjoyable to listen". Well duh.) The truth is that there's no single configuration of, say, dynamics, which would fit every situation. I have some ambient/chill CDs which alter between very quiet and loud sections (a bit like good classical does). They sound excellent on headphones in a quiet room. However, when I tried them in a car with a heavy noise floor from traffic, tires etc., 90% of time I didn't hear a thing. Conversely, CDs with "ghettoblaster" mastering are good for cars and crap stereo but extremely tiring to the point of being unlistenable on headphones. There are CD series which are directly intended for commercial lounge/café use. They're extremely flat and constantly on red. The whole point is to provide a static muzak experience where every part can be heard over conversation but none exceeds it. Again, good for its purpose but awful for home listening when you could actually enjoy more dynamics. Nevertheless, CDs in general shouldn't be pressed flat. If that's what you want, get a proper DSP component for your setup. It's relatively easy to flatten dynamics during playback but next to impossible to recover them properly if the product is already compressed to hell and back, twice.

Can you give any particular examples?

Dimension 5 - Ganymede (or Guitar Mix)?

Not dead but sleeping.

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Me neither...although by that time I was busy with everything else and only checked the samples briefly. They didn't produce any "must have" reaction back then so I skipped that one. No idea if I'm really missing much as I have little recollection of the whole thing. I've found Solar Fields releases to follow a gentle downward curve for me, going from "very good" to "alright" over release year. Nothing deeply wrong with it, yet there's plenty of other music with more novelty value to discover. Sync24 and Connect.Ohm were good, for example, but there's definitely a whole world outside Ultimae as well. Just keep on browsing... It could have been 10e good but not 50e good, for sure.

I'm starting Mercurytrip as we speak.

May I clarify that you can use Matlab for actual reseach/number-crunching work too, not just taking/giving courses...

For me it's been a full time job for several years...