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In terms of Southern winds bringing sand from the Sahara, that's always been the case here in Greece. Southern winds bring the African heat to the country and in places were the beach faces the South (like my town) it also brings humidity, exactly the opposite happens at Northern facing sea-fronts, which get dry. The problem with strong Southern winds carrying sand is that it's not good for people with respiratory problems. In the winter, it raises the temperature (which is good) but if it rains, it rains mud not water. Rain (even mud-rain) is always good, so the problem is really aesthetic. In the summer, you get heat waves, which is not good at all.

I'll also put laminate flooring on my floor (already purchased it), I love wooden floors and windows but can't afford them and on top of that they need maintenance every few years. Since my house is about 150m from the sea, wooden windows is a definite NO NO, the salt eventually even corrodes aluminum so the most practical yet elegant option was PVC windows with wooden coloring. As for the weather: A lot of people were at the beach the past weekend and I'm now in my t-shirt. An night you need a sweater or a light jacket but it's still very warm. We are jealous of your financial stability and quality of life!

Juno Reactor are superb! Except for the Gods & Monsters album I like most of their stuff!

That's lovely. Very nice deco!. I love the wooden flooring at Northern European houses (like Insejin) it's not so common down here in the Mediterranean (or Greece, at least). I only see it at Doctor's offices

First of all. I listen to a lot of of music styles and attend equally as many events: psytrance, opera, ballet, traditional Greek music, disco, metal. hardcore punk/metal, rock (especially stoner/sludge), house, techno, deep trance, chill, goa. Almost every weekend I go to some kind of music event. In fact I wish I could go to more techno events but the ticket price is too expensive for what is offered. It also changes with the season, I love some house or balaeric trance at the beach, but indoor I just can't stand it. Obviously what I look in each style is different. I think what I look in most music is: Purpose I want a song to ultimately have something to achieve, a goal (me understanding it) and eventually achieving it. A pop/opera/disco/rocks track is supposed to create some-kind of feeling with the music and the lyrics. I want to eventually feel it, it could be euphoria, love, anger, sadness. A goa or psy track is supposed to cause some kind of psychedelic or euphoric feeling and possibly maybe me want to dance and get into somekind of trance. A hardcore track is supposed to make me want to get into a fight or bang my own head on the wall. I want to feel that. etc etc I also appreciate technical abilities in people playing an instrument or writing a track but it's not really necessary to make me enjoy a track. Some disco tracks (Abba for example) are really so simple, yet I can't stop listening to them.

Around 2000 they were the biggest act in the scene. Their first releases (first 3 albums) were simply SUPERB, people loved them (I certainly did). After converting vegeterians it all went downhill and on top of that, not-so-knowledgable-about-electronic-music people think that this is Psytrance or Goa (brrrrr I literally shivered when I wrote this). It's the same like any rock or metal legend that goes downhill and produces shitty music. First name that comes in mind is Richie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow. Compare that output with Blackmore Knights. It's a disgrace! Edit: I went to Youtube and listened to 5 secs of Blackmore nights.... I wanted to puke.

My recommendation is to make a redbubble account and make some money towards psynews.org. or you can send the design to me, I'll promote it and keep the money for me :P:P:P:P

Very classy and elegant! Northern European style!

Talking about priorities: Although, as you can see, the house is not complete. I have already bought a 5.0 speaker set (3 way front speakers, so no need for subs) but I thought "Subs rock" so I also bought a 12" active sub, it will need a lot of tweaking though since the system will be full of lows and the rooms is not that big.... IT WILL BE FUN TWEAKING IT THOUGH!!!!!!!. I already have a 7.2 yamaha amp, DJM700 mixer, some crappy Numark CD decks and I'm thinking of buying the latest gen vinyl decks which also act as software/midi controllers, they are a bit expensive since it's a fairly new idea but I hope their price will go down as newer models come in the market. Also, for the garden, I have, in its box, a ghetto surface pool: 3m diameter x 1.5m height. The house is about 150m from the sea and there's a well in the garden, so I can pump as much sea water as I want. So, no damage to the environment (depleting drinking water from the network) and to my pocket! Since the amp has a capacity for 2 zones (not at the same time of course), the balcony will become a 2.1 zone by just moving the sub outside or by the balcony door. As for both bathrooms, I have in storage, waiting to be installed after the electricians finish the switchboard: 2 high tech bath/showers, that have speakers,network/internet access via Wifi and a waterproof touch screen running on android (although I'm not sure how long these will last, water destroys everything). I got them again from companies going bust, retail value is about 7.000 eur (together) but I got them for under 1000 eur. aaaaaa, I'm so excited that I'm getting my own place, I've busted my ass the past 4-5 years to get this finished.... Relatives are telling me "now that you'll have your own house time to have a child too" My reply "I hardly know the child that is hidden inside me.... When I get to know it better and then get bored of it, I'll think about having another one!"

I will be a home owner in a couple of months (mortgage free). This is how my living room looks now. Me, my GF and an architect/interior designer are testing color combinations on the walls, hence the patches of badly painted walls. Thursday we are making our finals tests and on Friday (national holiday) and the weekend we'll paint he whole house with some of my friends (outdoor is about 80% painted). The furniture that is covered up is the kitchen. It's a showroom kitchen which I bought from a furniture shop that went bankrupt, so I got it super cheap but it has gotten a bit roughed up since it's not the best place to keep furniture. There's already 5.1 surround sound wiring in the living room walls (so that there are no visible cables) + stereo wiring for the balcony (not in pic) which all lead to the corner next to that square hole. The square hole is not a door for Hobbits, it's where the hydraulic fireplace will be installed after I paint the house and the electricians complete their work (only switchboard is left).

My fondest memory of Goa, the city: I hated all the hippies, the European tourists, the corrupt police and the money-hungry locals that I left in 3 days promising to avoid going there again. My fondest memory of Goa, the music: Hallucinogen, Eat static, Juno Reactor and Prometheus in Athens 2009 1) Music was amazing, especially Simon although I've heard him about to 10 times 2) Literally, all my close friends (except for one) were there. One of them was across the street at a Greek live music venue (were they throw flowers and used to break plates) and we went and took her by force although she doesn't listen to this kind of music and she loved it, she was in high hills which she had to get rid and dance barefoot. Also, while we were dancing I looked to my left and I saw another friend from a town up north (Larissa), he hadn't told us that he was coming and we just bumped to each other on the dancefloor. Also, at about 6 in the morning a bride in her wedding party dress came at the party and she became the center of the party. It was the combination of great music and great company.

Both feasible!

I'll make one later today... You'll like it!

Hi Guys, I was browsing Ektoplazm (BTW, what's going on with v.2, I was a contributor in the campaign) and they have an account at Redbubble.com where you can order t-shirts with their logos etc. I thought it was a great idea since Redbubble is a huge/reliable business and although they have outsourced their business at various parts of the world (I know that because I often buy stuff from them) their quality is good and their prices for long-sleeve t-shirts is also very cheap IMO (long sleeve shirts is what I usually buy). It's good that you can also make bags, phone cases, leggings etc The only problem that I have found is that not all t-shirts have exactly the same line/fit if bought with different orders, which I attribute to the fact that they have outsourced their business at different factories and there's no centralised supply of blank t-shirts. The quality and colours of the print again varies slightly, but overall they have a good quality for the money paid. I think it would be very easy for psynews to do exactly the same thing as Ektoplazm and I would proudly wear Psynews.org clothing. P.s Redbubble doesn't give me commission, I just like their idea and way of business.

I spoke with the Daikini records guys about 10 years ago and he was more than happy to send me a copy but I don't remember why I never got to paying him

I don't have any youtubes of fighting sports. Kids grappling = Judo without submissions and/or wrestling, That's my personal opinion. There's the occasional 15-16 year old that comes to the gym, if I see that they are mature enough I let them train but noone so far has actually stayed along, they are usually more busy studying,chasing girls and playing video games rather than committing themselves to grappling. My striking experience is close to 0, !'m 100% grappler, so you can't really say I'm an MMAer. They train kick-boxing and TKD at the gym, but I don't see myself joining, I just don't enjoy it. I've often thought about joining a boxing gym since boxing is fairly easy to pick up but again, there's not enough available time. I reckon I'll pick up some striking once I join the gym I'm talking about but I intend it to be focused on boxing. As for violence and fighting outside the gym. Only once at a punk concert I had to use my skills: Some stupid scrawny kid punched from behind a big fat guy while he was head banging, because the fatso was drunk and kept on stumbling on him and his GF. While I should have beat the shit out of the kid, I felt sorry for him because if I let the fatso go close to him, the kid would have ended in the hospital, the size difference was enormous. So I constrained the fatso while the couple left the concert. In fact the concert stopped and the singer came down and said all kinds of stupid anarchist shit like " don't fight, the real enemy are the authorities" and crap like that. I actually became friends with the fatso and spent the rest of the concert picking him up when he fell on the floor, so that people wouldn't step on him. One of the perks of grappling is that you learn how to handle a human body, so it wasn't really any trouble. aaaaa and one more time a few months ago at a fairly rough bar that I sometimes go to, one of my students (he's an 130 kg boxer) was trying to say to a drunk hilly billy from the mountains to leave 2 girls alone (they were like 19yo and friends of the owner's daughter) but he wouldn't have any of it, so he actually tried to start a fight with my student.... Everyone was petrified and yet I couldn't contain my laughter, my GF was saying "Go help him" and my reply was "Are you kidding? What kind of an idiot starts a fight with a beast like that, just sit back and enjoy" and just as expected the mountain guy was thrown out of the bar banana joe-style.

I spent a day in Nis when I was driving down from SUN festival 2014 towards Attica, Greece

A lot of people have reccomended it to me, but I haven't started watching. Most agreed that season 2 is not as good as 1.

With the internet, hardly anything is underground anymore.... except of course for things that are actually underground like basements, tunnels, caves etc and of course things that are illegal.

Nice technique man.... I'm a grappler and teach Judo, BJJ and Olympic Wrestling to adults (not qualified to teach kids and don't intend to). I used to train with Gracie Barra Greece and we had a lot of athletes from many different disciples, boxers, kick/boxers, muai thai/bora, karateka (except for grapplers). I haven't trained seriously for the past ~4 years because I changed jobs and I finish at 6-7 in the afternoon, so there's not enough time for me to catch the train and get to a decent gym in time. The closest serious gym is about 40 klm away. When I trained at Gracie Barra it took me about 1.5 hours to get there and 1.5 hours to return. I was lucky that last year, a blacksmith that was doing some repairs at my house mentioned that his sensei (TKD and Hapkido) started BJJ at Gracie Barra so when I mentioned that I trained with Gracie Barra for 7 years he immiadetely said "Come and teach us, we are clueless" and indeed they were, but not after 1 year of training they are starting to get the grasp of things and of the younger guys will go to compete at an Open tournament in December. Since I'm also a Judoka, I teach about 30% standing and 70% on the ground, unline most BJJ gyms that do 95% on the ground. We would do more stand-up but the gym is very small and I could see us getting ourselves seriously injures with big Judo throws. I've got training in about 3 hours. I plan to go, twice a week at that gym that is 40klm away in a few months when I get a bit more relaxed with my projects. Now I'm busy all day!

A few years ago it bothered me too. I guess now I'm older, wiser, more cynical and more hard-skinned and I don't give a f@ck. There's still good music, there are still interesting events, look out for them and you'll find them. If you can't find them, get together with a few friends and do it by yourselves. That's my approach and I'm living by it. Nowadays in Athens, a lot of the old Goa crowd (40yo+) are getting back together to organise small events since they are sick of listening to shitty music and being the cash cow for dubious organisers/promoters. Although I'm much younger than them, I'm also a part of this movement and I intend to be much more active in it next year (have a lot of work now, but this will change). Ormion, you are welcome to join! p.s.: Vini Vici is anoter alias of Sesto Sento.

Grazie bello, potrei scriverti in Italiano pero lo so che parli molto bene l' Inglese. Yiannis Pegkos is a HUUUUUUUUUGE fan of Etnica/Pleiadians, like you, his best mate has the Etnicanet totem tattooed on his calf. I think he has old DAT dates that he got from when Max was visiting Greece in the mid-90's maybe there's something of interest for you in his collection and hopefully it wasn't in the stuff that was stolen. PM me with your facebook details and I'll connect you.

I thought about making a post about this party beforehand, just for you, since I know you live in Athens but I remembered that you don't go to parties anymore so I didn't bother. There's an event this Saturday at IT (Exarheia) with an even more old-school vibe than the party I organised. Primitive Whisper presents a Tribute to Psychedelic Goa Trance Music by: ○Nick Pall (Uniteam warm-up set)Fractal Records Infinity-Tunes ○Vasilis & Nicolas ○Stavros Ahimsa (UK) ○Errikos (Electric) & Greg All Species Stavros Ahimsa plays again Errikos was the resident of Sunrise Zone (Alsos, Battery, etc in the 90s) Greg (I think he now lives in Crete)is not Greg Staikos It's like a reunion of the old Underground Athenian Djs of the 90s who are now scattered all over the country doing other things and/or caring for their wives and/or kids. And of course there is also Sandman/Alien Project on the 29th but that is definitely a weird situation because the party organizers are Far-right scum and most of the ppl I've spoken to, will go just for Sandman and leave. We have "agreed" to avoid leaving any more money to these idiots, we'll just pay for entrance, no drinks.

Didn't take many photos! Photos from sound check, Sample stick Live, an unexpected guest DJ we had at about noon and a video of the beginning of Ahimsa's set from the balcony (unfortunately the moon was behind clouds at that moment so there wasn't much light) Here's a pic from another friend at the back you can see the olive fields, in the morning a Sheppard passed with his sheep to check what's up and at the right you can see half of me with the orange sweater and the glasses

How can I say to him to stop doing drugs when I'm also doing it? I'm not critical of drug use. I'm critical of "irresponsible and excessive drug use". I stayed drug free for this event because I was responsible for the equipment AND the ppl being there, I would have liked to take some kind of psychedelic but it wasn't the time or the place Just like most things in life its the excess and dependency that is the problem. Anyway, let's just talk about the event, rather than my mate.