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I don't agree with your post. I basically do the same things you said you do: I am a full-time father, full-time owner of 4 dogs, take care of my house and my boyfriend, take care of our lounge bar and maintain a news site online, check e-mails etc... But, more frequently that I wished, I don't have time or the brains to answer some e-mails that people send to my site. Not to mention the ones people claim they sent me, and they really did so, but they went unnoticed by me.

In 1986, it was as fast as it could get. No one thought that it would reach 145 some years later. But in the 1980s things were so sweetly slow, but we thought it was the apex. :D (gosh, I used to get my hair cut in the "mullet" fashion, it was sooooo good) I wonder if someday 145 bpms will be thought of as "those days"

I agree, one needs to adjust his ears to listen to acid house, it lacks melody. I think it is because acid house sounds are raw, hard, given it is a direct descendant of Detroit techno. Listening to it now, it's hard to realise why acid house was the hype those days: it was the first time that people listened to 125 bpm, a novelty, something never heard before. I remember how entranced I felt when I listened to Phuture's Acid Trax beats. I think if a flying saucer landed before my eyes it wouldn't make me so stunned as when I heard the first high bpm track.

I have been using OSX for years now. It is so smooth and efficient it makes you feel like you wasted years with MS.

Hey, I have found vids of KURO playing a goa set at the Rezonancia party. Here it is: There are more vids in sequence.

Many consider this track to be the ONE that attracted millions to electronic music: S-Express - Theme From S-Express

BamBam - Where's Your Child. A track that first showed 303 to a lot of now known producers Man With No Name - Geddit? One of the best know goa artists who was in the acid house scene before goa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfvKjxeXGM

Some tracks that moved our parents asses: First, some BBC words on Acid House:

Is Arabesque really going down?

The only thing that comes to my mind is tech-trance stuff. Check this Zenon album. It's not pure psytrance, so I don't know if it meets your request. http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/zen/zen1cd025.html

Very likeky they wouldn't understand a single word we write. But, if you want to meet J-girls, here it is: http://mixi.jp/ It's their "fasubuku", and psy-goa events are promoted and sold in Mixi.

Agneton, Anoebis: that's exactly what I was trying to tell Richpa. There are busy people behind labels, etc. Usually just ONE person.

Here's what I do when I have insomnia, my recipe: 1) take a walk. Walking is really tiresome. 2) then take a hot shower, or a warm one. 3) in bed, do not read anything or turn on TV - it makes you feel "tuned", therefore unrelaxed 4) use earplugs (there are people who feel physically uncomfortable with them, I do not) 5) turn off all lights. BUT, leave a dim light on - it can be anything. And that's the important part: make your body in a comfortable position, and with ONE EYE semi-open, keep staring at the dim light. Sleep will take over in a few minutes. PS. The dim light trick is actually a self-hypnosis technique. Why one eye, and not the two? The brain takes this info (staring with one eye) as a state of semi-consciousness, thus it starts resting. If you stare with the two eyes open, then the brain understand this as a state of "attention on". I learned this in a old-book on hypnosis. EDIT: forgot to mention that if you close both eyes in step 5, your brain - still active - will shift attention from "visual" to "hearing", to noises. And you will actually pay attention to them, even with earplugs.

Alien Jesus? :lol: :lol:

That's a huge problem. Of course, the only way to find him is via Google. But it's close to impossible to write his name using 4 different alphabets at the same time. I don't know if you are familiar with Japanese alphabet, but I can give an idea how it is: the first Catholics missionaries in Japan in the 17th century wrote to the Pope saying that they had discovered the language used by the devil. I know he remixed some tracks for other Japanese artists, but I can't find them. Also, Japan is an isolated community in the internet, for the alphabet reason.

AFAIK, Hooj IS a euro-house label. Martin just remixed their tracks, put a bit of goa-psy sauce over it, without destroying the "Hooj spirit".

That's the good side of the times when internet was not available. Some treasures went unnoticed, for it was hard to spread tracks like we do now. Another MWNN track that I discovered in 2011 is this one. There are two artists that I stalk: MWNN and KURO, both have remixed tracks that I just can't find anywhere. When I find one, it feels like a fresh release to me BTW, thanks for sharing Dream Universe, loved it. I didn't know of its existence as well. Three Drives - Greece 2000 (Man With No Name remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZVR3nGl6g4

No, it's nor hard. What I really think it's hard to understand is when someone says "opinions on art" should be somehow measured, regulated, controlled to express only good things, or things that are taken as positive. To me, it's close to be ultra-leftist in the cyber world. This is what exactly the likes of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro do to their people: dare you express something which is not nice, it may cost your life in those lands.

Really? From what I understood, you don't take critisism as finely as you think you do. I wonder your reaction to a real negative review to one of your works. Good to me, a harsh reviewer, that I can't remember listening to a single track of yours.

I wasnt' talking "business" money-wise, but as an institution. What I meant was that your messages to these labels have no one with available time to read them, very likely. Sometimes you see that not even artists who are contacted to be booked are aware they were contacted. As for the passion, you're right 100%.

Moved messages from http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/61701-rip-neogoa-2010-2011/ -Penzoline Well, I don't know how long you have been in the scene, but most labels, distributors, sites are a ONE MAN company. Or, rarely, two or three person behind the desk. I once threw parties and after contacting names lile "Cosmic Lights Decoraction Crew", only to discover that the "crew" was a girl doing everything in her backyard on her free time. What I mean is: psy business is more like something people who are behind company names dedicate some time after they have finished their "real" business. That is why you see this lack of interest on your offer: I am sure some of your messages are in a mail box waiting to be opened by someone who very likely is busy working. Perhaps when it was a novelty and people really bought CDs (in the early 1990s), you had labels with proper staff. But, now, I think it's just like the "Cosmic Crew". The only psy business that look like real companies -with dedicated staff, etc - is the festival market. This make all the business chain to have a professional look (it's easy to make a beautiful site), but lacking personnel to deal with offers like yours. It is a pity. Well, this is my experience. If I decide to throw a psy party nowadays, it's easier to do it all by myself than trying to get help from "crews" and "companies".

Zinno - Roussian Roulette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKlY6Y0WocE Tragic Error - Klatsche in die Hande

Then, Richpa, with all due respect, this thread title is misleading. Neogoa is not going to Rest In Peace. It will go on. Not as we know it, but it won't be closed down. Is that right? Good news, by the way.

The best solution, then, is that an artist that can't stand anything other then comments like "Your music is great! You're doing the right thing! Killlarrrgh!", should stop TAKING PART IN FORUMS ABOUT HIS ART. For, I don't know a single writer, singer, moviemaker, poet, etc etc etc...whose work is an unanimity. Perhaps you should start a forum like this. If you don't mind my suggesting: POSITIVE ONLY REVIEWS PSYFORUM. Any negative opinion or members trying to push artists to different paths would not be allowed. It would be interesting to see what people would write there.

I agree music is about expressing yourself, but if you don't want to read "pointless, personal and subjective" opinions, then keep it inside your bedroom. Never release it. The same works for book writers, painters, moviemakers...