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Is this guy really bwhale? I mean, I didn't ban him to let him open another account just like that. He had to think, before. I temp banned Mr. Baron just ini case. If he's not that bwhale guy, then he can write to me and we can have a talk.

THIS is fun !

He's based in Ibiza, which means...whatever you want. He still makes music, and perforoms but he's much less "involved" in big parties and main festivals for a few years already. I think his music lost some of its interest. Too bad.

Some are missing IMO (Suntrip CDs...). I have counted > 13000 releases all included (CD/LP, CDS/CDM/EP) without dupes ever since psytrance existed, but I don't know how many are actually Goatrance. The Rhythm of releases accelerated from 2001, but we can say Goatrance releases were marginal after 1999. So we can count 5 years of Goatrance (1995-1999), with between 200 and 500 releases / year. That must be a few thousands overall.

Ultimae stuff, like HUVA Network.

Suntrip / Psynews is gonna be there. Just come and say hello !!!

We don't encourage piracy here. Maybe there are for sale on discogs.com ?

A better person, I don't know. A different person, that may be. A person that opened his eyes on some things, surely. Well, first you need to enter an alternate state of consciousness out of dancing to the power of music. That's kinda hard and you can't control it. That's something that happened to me a few times spontaneouly because the music and the weather, and the ambiance were all perfect. Else, it's easier to do so with some psychotropic help, but we aren't talking about that, are we? Well, so, everytime I came back to Earth after such an experience, I had the feeling I needed to relativize some things in my life. Like, think about what's really important in life, what to change with daily relationships, etc. Maybe your frends didn't go as far as you in the trance-dance thing, maybe they're listening to styles of music that are less prone to slingshot them over the coulds, but overall, I tend to agree with you with a nuance: based on my own experience, I'd say you won't be changed or made better in a finger snap, but you'll start reflecting on your own life...which may induce some changes. In other words, the transient state helps opening your mind to oneself's changes, and whether changes happen or not, takes place after, and is entirely up to you. With some drugs, in some conditions, though, it goes much further, and you can definitely get "altered" dutring a psychedelic experience, not always the good way, unfortunately. I wouldn't advise doing so.

It wouldn't be convenient from me to mention Opus Iridium. Actually I'm storngly hesitating between AirBorn and First Flight, both from Flying Rhino. ..launching a coin... Ok "Air Born" is my fav.

Yes... For me 1st time was in a car, on a week end of mid-1995, a good friend had brought Trancentral 4 mixed by Tsuyoshi. But I didn't really like the music at the time. 6 months later, however I heard LSD by Hallucinogen and I changed of music tastes overnight.

It's August you know. Not only are people on holidays, but it's the festival month for the psytrance scene... Thanks very much for the information. I always though it was the photo of a tatoo or soem random drawing. That wasn't the case.

Oh yeah these ones are so good ! Many many tracks made me cry or close to, including of course some RA and Pleiadians tracks. More recently Filtertraces by Filteria gave me similar emotions. Else, the closest I was from crying in a party was on a Kox Box live years ago. On a sunrise, open air, the sound went liquid, time slowed down, and tears came in my eyes. That was not a even one track in particular, that was the perfect moment.

That's where Skytrancer, the absolute fan, should be getting in the discussion...

I downloaded both sets before going on holidays and liked very much listening to both acts on the beach

Etnica - Alien Protein Pleiadians - I.F.O. Pleiadians - Family of Light Crop Circles - Tetrahedron Get these, you have the best. There are a few very good EPs, too. The Juggleling alchemists and Equator are now classics but weren't at all when they were released. Still if you can grab them, do it. The good melodic stuff got released before 2001. After that there were good Etnica tracks but in a much darker style.

Santiago de Compostella.

I totally agree. This one is the best KOB track to date. Well, yes we will put up some releases. At the time we wanted to parner with digital distributors and it wasn't possible. Now we have our own shop, which helps.

We're still in a stage of discussion. But...when Anoebis is back from his pilgrimage we'll talk about it.

Ok so a big party. Doable but in Belgium. Any artists you'd like to see (besides Filteria and Afgin, they came twice this year) ??? Suggestions are welcome.

Right!

Nope, that would mean I was born in 1971, which is dividable by 3 twice (3x3x219)...

It's my birthday, indeed. Thanks all. Little game: Until yesterday my age was a prime number, My birth year can be divided by 3 once, I'm under 40, but I was grown up when psynews started. Hence my age is ??? It makes me think that psynews will turn 10 next January !!! And Suntrip turned 5 last week...I mean, the company creation, the 5th bday of our first release is in november >> What could we imagine to celebrate all that?? hmm??? Ideas are welcome.

After 15 years of listening to psytrance loud and partying my ears are fucked. I can hear...that I hear less things than my gf for example. I passed some tests years ago. Treebles were definitely fucked, and overall heaing was just above average. It must be worse now. General advice: place yourself quite far from the loudspeakers in a party, and in a blanaced place, to optimize your listening experience. Also use some plugs. Not like the shitty yellow plugs, I mean scientificly molded to your ears plugs, with adjustable inflow. At home, use the hifi more than the headphones. And if you choose headphones, take big ones instead of intra auriculars. Take good quality headphones like AKG. And of course, keep the volume at an acceptable level. That said, that's right it's tempting to listen ot something you really like at high volume. And refraining from doing so is hard

I think Filteria made over 100 tracks. The released ones are: - the 3 albums (24 tracks) - the compilation tracks (+/- 15 tracks incl. KOB) The unreleased ones are: - the live versions: almost each released track has one (or more) live mix(es). Some get released over time (Ultimator Rmx / Navigate Rmx for example). This summer you will hear some Daze of Our Lives remixes, for sure. And I still have in store all the Heliopolis remixes. I'll put them on suntriprecords.com when time has passed (not to introduce confusion with Daze) and when Filteria agrees. - the tracks that were not "good" enough to be released (very early tracks, Predator, more cheesy tunes...) - the tracks that almost made it (e.g there was a lot of hesitation between "Galactic Rays" and "Latch" in Sky Input. Latch is still unreleased. Another example: Memory Lane didn't make it in Daze of Our Lives because Earthrise arrived at the last moment and was much much better). Originally, Aqua Society was made in autumn 2004, around the time Sky Input was released. And, well, after that it wouldn't have fit into Heliopolis, so it remained unreleased. Recently Filteria was concentrating on other projects and live remixes. SO he must have thought the track matched what he was asked for when Alternative Colors was prepared.

Artist: Electrypnose Date: 09-06-25 By: Ben Dorrell (5meohd) Q: First off, Hello, How are ya, and thanks for taking the time to answer my questions! A: Hi, I'm doing well thanks. Thanks for your time too. Q: Does the name Electrypnose have some special meaning? Who came up with it? A: It actually does, but in english it's not always obvious. Electric and Hypnose (hypnosis in french) mixed together. Nothing related to trip with the nose, white lines or whatsoever. It's a friend of mine who found it when we started writing music together back in 2000/2001. We collaborated on that project for almost a year, then he left making music to focus on his studies. (I tragically lost this very good buddy a few months ago.) I guess if we were speaking english well back then, we would have called this project « Electrypnosis ». To make it more internationally understandable. Q: How long have been you writing music and was there a specific blip in time where you said "I must make psytrance!"? A: Started with music since I was a little kid. Played violin for 10 years. Began to go to trance parties at 17, and 2 years later really started to stick on the computer writting tunes. I just tried it out and it was good fun, then one thing after the other, you improve your skills and get better gear to work with. After it became a real addiction to go further with it. Including the passion of the technical aspects (gear, computers...). Today, almost 9 years on it. Q: I personally think psychedelic trance has had a revolutionary change the last few years, more funky grooves, fusion of other styles of music did you spend a lot of time thinking that you wanted to follow this trend with Funked Up! or was this just naturally coming out? A: I'm liking Electro and Minimal for a few years only, before I was really not attracted to those genres. Then I reallised how good the sound quality of some productions in these styles could be. Wanted to give it a go. I've opened my tastes a lot since I've started. I'm glad now to contribute a bit to the new fusions. I think it's a bit of both, following the trend and going on naturally at the same time. Never had any wish to make a hit or anything... For me making music has to be fun and interesting for myself in the first place, then it's a great pleasure to share it with friend or other people. Q: I'm listening to Hallucinogen In Dub: Live, right now. Have you heard it? Lots of psy producers claim Simon P. as a huge influence, do you agree? A: I've heard it a lot of times. My favourite is « Angelic Particles », especially the last half. Love it. Simon Posford has given an amazing contribution to this music. I'm glad he got the respect he deserves. I'm his big fan, definitely. For me it's more « The lone deranger » which has been an important influence. I'm less into the new Shpongle works, not so attracted by the oriental/world music side of it. Q: Other than Simon would you care to share a top 5 psychedelic projects you listen to... and a top 5 non-psychedelic projects? A: Hard to pick just 5. But here is some of my all time favourites. Psy : Pretty much all of Huxflux, Absolum (mainly Wild album), a mix between deep and psy techno. Antix or Zenon Records artists for the progressive. Highko/Cosmo/Kindzadza for the mad night moments. First 4 albums from Infected Mushroom stay a big reference (musically and production wise, especially for me BP Empire), Shiva Shandra, Logic Bomb... and the list would be really long. I'll maybe add H.U.V.A network, wonderfull down tempo music. Non-psy : Archive (Londinium album). Heard it thousand of times and never get enough of it. Trentemoller or Tipper have done amazing works. Peace Orchestra, Kruder and Dorfmeister kind of stuffs. Air (Premier Symptomes), like the first I mentioned, can't get enough of it after years of listening. Leftfield, Portishead, Pearl Jam, Deftones... and maybe a last one, Ajja – Chillsome, almost a « secret album ». Peaceful guitar and soft beats. Again, the list would be very long if I'd mention all the music and artists that made my day. Q: Was there ever a gig where the crowd didn't dig your vibe? Which gig in your opinion was the 100% opposite "the best"? A: Of course there was. I'm glad it happens less and less. Some years ago I think my music had good ideas, but the quality wasn't good enough. Compared to what the DJ's would play before and after me, my music was sounding like crap. If you don't take it discouraging, it's a good kick in your ass to do better, improve your work. It happened to me that some people asked me to stop playing. The « best »... hmm, there are a lot of « bests ». From the after party with 10 drunk friends by a sunny day... to the big event with 5000 people. Had lots of gold moments. Q: I'm from the United States and haven't really seen very many psytrance shows, what was your impression of playing here? Any country in particular that has the best parties? A: I played 6 shows in the US. I remember all of them very well and had a great time. Your scene is quiet small but crowded with very nice people. I like the feeling when I'm in a foreign country, knowing nobody when I arrive, and enjoying the same as if I would party with my friends in my country. I had this feeling completely in the United States. About other countries, I must say that I enjoyed every single country I've visited and played at. Can't rate them out. I'm very happy I had the chance to travel and see all this, it is an amazing life experience. Q: So I'd like to mention that you have blessed us with an oppurtunity to become members on your site and hear EVERY tune you make... Do you feel that you are in a different league coming up with several awesome tracks a month, or do lots of producers do the same and just keep it to them selves? A: I always thought that if I keep my music too much for myself, it will certainly more loose the chance to be heard, than having people fighting to have it. With this idea, I'm happy to share all I do. I actually don't really know other artist's website where you can get it all. For artists, the usual way is still to release on compilations or your own album. For that, the labels will ask you something unheard/unknown. That's why artists mostly don't share their tunes so easily. But, to answer your question, no. I don't feel in a different league, producing faster or slower doesn't mean better or worse. Q: The next album! When? and have you been thinking of any big ideas, or more of just a collection of the best tracks you sort of randomly come up with? A: For now I take my time to think about it. Many confused ideas about a next album. So I won't rush it up. Sorry, can't really tell more about this yet. Q: You have been running all sorts of other projects, web design, mastering, collaborations, record label... can you update us a little? Fun, or dreadful work? A: Also the workshop is quiet an important project we focus here with some friends (www.primitif-workshop.com). Then all these projects are a lot of work yeah, but this way I'm sure to not get bored not knowing what to do. And of course most of the time it's good fun too. When it will be no pleasure anymore, I'll certainly stop it. Web design became a need to do it by myself, because I was too complicated for the web designers. (who are good friends). I was asking them to change or add new things all the time. I'd also say that only producing music can be boring if you overdo it. That's the main reason why I try to find myself some other activities. Then back to production, you enjoy it even more. Latest new projects I'm on are building a DIY (Do It Yourself) analog modular synth. Also opened a new website for artists to share their unsigned music (www.freeqtechno.com). Q: Speaking of the In Dub: Live album, what is your opinion of this fusion of electronica with acoustic instruments? I think its the future... would you agree? A: Electronic and accoustic mixes are great in my opinion. I'll work on it in the future, but more mixing classical music with electronics. I couldn't say this or that is the music of the future. I have no idea and actually I don't ask myself. We listen to music that has been written 300 years ago (classical music), and what I think is that it actually beats much of what is done nowadays. Of course they couldn't make electric sounds back in the time. But our music culture is still very young... lets see how good we can improve all this. Q: Can you give us some ideas about your production setup, essential equipment used on the mojority of tracks, your track building process, also can you only write tunes in the studio or do you do alot of work on the laptop on the road? A: I recon I pretty much need my studio setup. I do some things on the road on the laptop, but that never sounds like a proper mix when I bring it back. The studio setup is a good 4 core CPU computer, using Cubase and Flstudio. Then a bunch of hardware is connected together... Trying to put some of everything in the music I write. You can go on my website to check the setup, that will be easier than listing it here. Also hard to say about a building process. Sometimes it starts with a few melodic notes, sometimes an atmoshpere, or sometimes straight with the kick and the bass... I like to tell to myself that actually, it's not me who really makes the music. But the music takes me on a journey, and « the music » is telling me where to go. Q: Also the same for your live setup... I beleive your useing ableton, do you care to elaborate, maybe discuss the benefits of that amazing software, or maybe some things you can't stand about it? A: I've used Ableton for some years now, with a Native Instrument soundcard and 3 Faderfox controllers. I'm liking Ableton a lot, because it's rocking stable and you can play a lot without having any worry. It's also very flexible on how you want to manage your live set. I like to have a bunch of sequences ready to play, and just have fun... but also to have some solid material to play and mix, to ensure the people will enjoy it. If I'd just play around, I don't think people would actually enjoy what I do. Q: Lastly, a bit of a personal question, where do you see your self in 5 years? Married with kids writing scores to atmospheric films, or flying free letting the psychedelic energy keep you young!? A: I don't know. I maybe have a project to open a more permanent workshop. For people to come to Switzerland, enjoy a bit of the country, have a place to stay, a studio to work in and have some classes. It's still an idea, but about the rest, children and things... It's too early to say. I'll see where this life brings me.