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If you go for the first option I can allready she the tripper's faces: "Oh man, I see a really strange thing, a woman knitting right there at the dancefloor!" "Yeah sure, you're fucking nuts! Oh wait, I see her too! Damn, that's not right. We've must have taken way too much of that liquid!!!"

I know, I'm just goofing around, don't worry! No intensino to get an OD or embarras myself, I know my borders...

Adrenochrome you mean? Hehe, this going to be fear and loathing in London...

I'm so sorry! *breaks down crying* I have you in my heart but not on the list, shame on me!!!!! E's would be great, and liquid... *drools* Haven't tried liquid but I would like to... Hehe, yes Moni is missing, and DP. I'd die to go on a bender with DP!! Well, DP and the rest of you of course!

Space Cat - Sleepwalker

I'm really thinking about your offer! Have to talk to my gf again about it but maybe we can do something about it. Who is thinking about coming? From what I've understood: OD & Majoony of course Psychocell Colin (still wasted from his gig the night before... ) Heva Nemo (?) maybe me and gf Sounds great so far!

Ion - Stamina The whole album rocks, one of the best releases in 2005!

Audiotec - Catch Me

Oh Miss Kittin is so fucking great!! I saw her spinning an amazing set at the Gurtenfestival. It was more a rock festival but she played on Friday and Prodigy on Sathurday. That girl knows what she's doing, the crowd went nuts and she played everything from electro to acid to techno, added own vocals and effects. Aboslutely great! And I saw Laurent Garnier two years ago in London, also very good music!

Morpheus - Pure Tonic

I only had good experiences with psyshop so far but this is really bad. As the other have said the original CD looks normal, no CD-R or anything. I hope psyshop corrects that mistake!

Protoculture - Magnetik

I haven't even heard about those tracks!!! But I'll keep my eyes and ears open for them!

I was thinking about going, especially because I've heard a DJ-set by Xerox/Maskalin some years ago, also at the Gaskessel, that really rocked. But since I'll have to play soccer at Sunday I have to stay at home. I'm way to old to go to a match directly after a party!!

Remake - Balde Runner Nice bassline but the piano melody is just awesome!

Woow, I even love the original Yeke Yeke song, but I agree that the remix is way better. I haven't heard the Blue Monday remix but I'm dieing to! I aboslutely adore the original song and since I love the Hardfloor style I'm sure I would just love it! The classic remix EP with the Blue Monday and the Depeche Mode track is on my wantlist btw...

Now that's the spirit!!! I really like the old track like the Hardfloor remix of Yeke Yeke (world music by Mory Kante) or the Hardfloor remix of Anne Clark's Darkness. I demand (once again) a detailed party report!

I'm going to see Depeche Mode live next Tuesday (not tomorrow, I mean Tuesday in a week), really looking forward to it. Besides that there is nothing interesting that I know about. Hardfloor must be a blast!! Will they play their old tracks or do they have new material?

Abfert - Come Into My Life

Yes, but this still means that you know more about it than I do. That wasn't meant to be sarcastic or anything, it's just a truth. If that's true then why I fail to get in trance when listening to minimal or progressive music? It's not like I haven't tried. During 00/01 minimal and progressive was THE THING, played at every party. Didn't really like it, even started to hate it because it was nearly the only thing that was played. But still, I tried to dance to it. Get into the music so to say. I could manage to follow it for maybe about half an hour, dance to it (high or sober, tried both) but after this time it just bored me to death. I was never even near trance in that time. Some minutes ago I was listening to Sven van Hees - Emotional Rehabilitation. At the beginning there is a part with melodies without beats. I closed my eyes, followed the melodies with my mind, and I can easily imagine that this track could put me into trance even when take the beat away (the beat beginns after this "intro". Now there is this track LOC - Parsec a bit later on the CD, there are two different melodies (repetitive ones I mean, not like in the Emotionial Rehabilitation track) and I've tried to do the same. The first melody is more like a repetitive effect and it just doesn't get me. Now there is the second melody, this could do it, but mainly because even if the melody is not really varied I can make some sort of new melody with my mind while listening to it. That could get me into trance. And then there is a break without beats at all and a varied melody, I'll bet that this part would put me into trance at a party or at least when I'm not at my office... Anyway, I got carried away a bit... What I was trying to say is that I'm very sure about the melodies but me in trance and not the beats. The thing that brings me into trance is that my mind flows with the melodies, I often move with the melodies when dancing, my mind is making his own melodies out of of certain rhythmic effects because the rhythmics themselfes are not enough. And that's what does it for me. There is no way I can prove this to you since you can't read my mind. This is btw. also a reason why I like a lot of clubtrance (I'm not talking about stuff like Aquagen but about stuff like Conspiracy by Rank 1), listen to that melody, that's what puts me into trance. Feel free to call me cheesy but that really is it.

Nice track! I'm playing Sven Van Hees - Emotional Rehabilitation

I don't deny those studies and I'm also sure that you know more about this stuff than me. Basically because you have more experience with making music and also because you have probably read more about it than I did. I also know about the last part in your statement (And I can guarantee you that this scene... and so on). BUT when I say that it is the melodies that put me in trance then I'm right because I'm only talking about me. My mind doesn't really care about those studies, they might be right in general or for the majority, but for me it doesn't work like that. The beat can be as nice as it gets and it might also be part of getting me into trance. But the nice beat alone does not do the trick for me. If it's a melody that gets me, then the beat can be very standart and boring, I still go into trance. No melody --> no trance for me.

That's how it is for you but with a beat alone I was never able to get into trance so far. When I said "Sure the beats ir hypnotising but the thing that does the trick is the melodies." I was not talking in general but talking about my feelings. I should have said that again but since I wrote "Well, for me it's exactly the layers of melodies and the breaks that put me into trance." in my first sentence I thought it was clear. I haven't tried it with a melody alone, but when I have to chose between a melody only and a beat only I would take the melody anytime. Maybe some tribal drums played live woudl be different, I haven't tried them but progressive tribal music at parties (or at home) has never done the trick to me so far.

Well, for me it's exactly the layers of melodies and the breaks that put me into trance. I follow the melodies with my mind when dancing (sure, I'm also following the rhythm of the beats with my feed) and when a climax or break comes, it makes bang and I'm deeper in the song. The repetitivity you are mentioning is bringing me far away from trance, it just bores me. But as I've said, it's a matter of personal taste.