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I'm not following the prog releases that much anymore but for me it feels that most tracks sound very similar. Maybe that isn't that much of a surprise since they belong to the same sub-genre but that's not what I mean. Similar beats with similar bass and even similar effects. Like everybody is following a scribt to create the tracks. This music couldn't be farer away from being psychedelic if you ask me (and I used to be a huge fan of prog some years ago). Maybe it's also a local thing but I also feel like parties are more commercial than they used to be. If you go to big events obviously this is what you ask for but also smaller events look like nobody cared too much about the decoration similarly to nobody seems to care that the tracks sound all the same. Liquid Soul used to make very good tracks, I agree about that. Haven't seen him playing lately so I can't tell how he sounds nowadays but the last tracks I checked weren't blowing my mind neither. On the other hand I might feel that way since I'm used to go out in alternative circles where decoration and a theme for a party is really the thing to do. Where you actually feel people giving their heart into the events they were organising and also into the sets they are playing. Obviously it is very biased to say the organisers of the last few psy parties I've been to are not doing that but I have a hard time not judging people like that after visiting their events and also after seeing what kind of people are attracted by psy nowadays (means I might be an asshole actually, but at least I've stopped going to their parties and doing my own thing instead of only being bitchy...).

As Ormion said it's not so much a gadget but an item for your image. If you can just download it instead of having to pay several hundred bucks for it it loses that image so maybe they wouldn't? Or they would just buy any gadget instead of an expensive model? I can't tell.

Imho this is exactly what doesn't make sense to me. Lots of people are tech-crazy and get the newest gear more or less regularly: new TV, new smart phone and what not. But paying 1.5 Euros for a MP3 is too much so they rather download or watch movies in crap quality on their high-end tv.

Even if music is getting more digital, imho if you DJ you have to buy the files from official sources. End of story! I also fail to see why people won't to that. I mean back in the days if you wanted a specific track and you didn't want to download it illegaly you had to buy the whole album, even if the rest of it wasn't that hot. Nowadays you can buy single tracks and you are set. Especially when it comes to DJing this feels like heaven to me. It's a bit off topic but you can use CDJs to mix MP3s via USB stick without any sync-button whatosever. It functions in the same way than using the CDJs and CDs. And mixing with a controller even with the sync function can be fun if it's done well. I'm not into it but you can use shitloads of effects during the mixing and even add additional controllers with more effects. You can obviously say that using the sync function is cheap but imho djing is not only about the mixing but more about creating a good mix with selecting the right tracks for the right time. Which is a talent that is not linked to being able to beatmix just by hearing but imho at least equally important for a DJ.

It's basically the same for me. Of course there are the acts who play neo-goa trance but the majority of music at parties doesn't fall into that category. Because of that it's been something like two years since the last party for me. On one hand I miss "real" psy a lot. On the other hand there is lots of music from other genres that I really enjoy (progressive, techno, deep house...) so there is no real reason to be sad. Similar to Anoebis I had the same feeling around 2001 when the minimal/progressive wave hit psy/goa. A bit later full-on came and I was back in the game. Maybe something similar will happen. But if not, there's other music to enjoy.

I'm registered for quite a while and as far as I can tell I haven't noticed more spam in my mail. Imho amazon and google are worse and also no stuff linked to the books I add there (I do see personalized adds after ordering stuff form amazon so I think I would be able to notice).

It's alive!!! ;) It's nice you're still online here.

Oh yeah, I forgot: if you are in the "right" scene you can bitch about the others. How could I... :d

I'm using that one too! Care to share your account? I like to sneak through people's collections and see what they like. Here's mine: www.librarything.com/profile/Stampfi-Gang

Very nice! But I have to day I can't remember anything about skytrance. Must have been before my days at psynews...

I had the same feeling during the last few psy parties I've been and it's one of the main reasons I prefere other music now. Thje last really amazing party I've been to was with Crossing Mind and Cosmosis live, and that was at least three years ago. I was able to catch Ticon live maybe two years ago and that was cool too (besides the fact that the rest of the music was not really fresh and he is more progressive than psy). The rest of the DJs I heard lately were playing tracks sounding nearly all the same, lacking really psychedelic elements. Because of that I think it's kinda funny if people bitch about commercial trance acts like Armin von Buren. As if the psy scene is not getting more and more commercial and as if the psy scene is still blasting with innovative sounds (of course some artists are, but the general outbut is sounding very similar within each sub-genre)... I also think it's kinda funny that one hand we bitch about Armin's influence on the commercial trance scene and blame him for the decay of it but he mentions he listen to less commercial artists like Ott people still diss him. I mean ok, he is a big name so no matter what he does he is an idiot anyway. Very open minded we are...

Well, we had discussions like that on psynews 10 years ago. It never gets old. I'm not disagreeing with you BraneFreeze but maybe you might feel differently (to use your words) if you would live in Palastina and would be feeling like Israel is taking water and other ressources you need to stay alive away from you. You can say that this does not justify that Hamas launches rockets against israely civilans and yes, I agree about that with you. But it's similarly wrong from Israel to attack palastinan civilians. But that's the whole point with the conflict: both are wrong and right at the same time and it seems like there is no solution possible. As ususal politics is going its way but the civilans on both sides pay the price. That's the real sad part of it... :( :(

Well, in my book a DJ or act who is able to deliver a great set deserves the attention from the crowd. This does not mean that the dancers have to worship the guys and girls on stage or anything like that. Dance your asses off anyplace you like if you feel like it, this shows allready all the respect that is needed. I personally also like to dance in front of the DJ because I like to see how he or she mixes, this can be very interesting. I also like to show my support if I like the music that is being played and it can be lots of fun if the DJ interacts with the crowd (on the other hand I prefere friends djing to big names so the interaction is different there anyway). But what annoys me if people don't really care about the music that much but just cheer for the DJ if he or she has a big name. I've encountered that lately when I was watching and hearin Solee (not a goa guy but a damn fine techno producer) play a set. He is sort of my hero since he is able to create amazing tracks. Unfortunately he either had a very bad day or is generally not really a good DJ since his set sucked hard. Never the less people where acting like it was the hottest shit ever. Even when he had problems mixing the tracks together sometimes, wasn't able to create a real set (it sounded like he randomly selected some tracks) and the music was mainly boring. But hey, he has a big name so lets cheer. Generally (not only when it's about techno but I had similar feelings at the last psyparties I were) lots of people at parties (depends on the parties of course) give me the feeling they don^t care too much about the music. A good beat, a hard bass and they are satisfied. Obviously it gets worse the bigger and more commercial the parties are. Since it's more about being there, taking some pics for facebook and maybe find somebody to bang or doing drugs than actually enjoying some special musical moments (not that really loving the music and still looking for somebody to bang or drugs is not possible ).

I'm just wondering if moving will really solve all your problems. But we will see I guess...

My vote goes to Israel but the UK has very impressive goa artists too: Simon Posford, MWNN, Infinity Project, OOOD... Imho the difference between the output of the two countries (quality wise I mean) isn't that big.

You make it sound as having Asperger or any other similar symptoms is a shame. I fail to see the shame in that. I mean ôbviously it is nor your fault if your eyes are not working properly so there is no way you should be ashamed because of that. Why should you be ashamed if you actually had Asperger or any other mental constitution (I'm not saying you have one btw) then? There is no need to justify yourself for your behaving but considering you complained about feeling bad you should consider all possible options for the cause of your bad mood instead of feeling attacked when people think about possible reasons for your mood. And btw: first you opened a thread to complaing about the forum, when people didn't agree with it you claimed it wasn't so much the forum but your general bad mood that made you post the thread. Then people showed some empathy and tried to give you suggestions for changes. Now for a sudden change you feel like actually you don't have any problems but all you need to do is change location and everything would be good again. If the solution is so damn easy when why the constant bad mood? I'm not sure if you are not really honest with yourself about that issue or if your mood really isn't as bad as it first sounded.

Seems like Google Translator is not only your Indian but also your English teacher.

Well, growing and becoming more mature is changing somehow.

Well, to go travelling so long you sure need a lot of money. Even if you only stay in countries where living is cheap you need money to pay for the flights or other travel expenses. Besides that like everything else travelling is not a guarantie to change somebody for the better. Some people think they have changed but if you watch them for some time after coming back you see not much changed for real.

Sounds like a good plan radi.

Sorry but I don't get you anymore. In your last post you said yourself you are not like the general people. Obviously that doesn't mean you can't get along with them anyway, I'm also able to do that. Still, as close friends it doesn't work for me since there is not enough I can share with them. But if that's not a problem for you then I wonder why you just don't go to the next club (or whatever place it is where people around your age gather) and have a drink to see what happens. Or go to see the world cup games in a public place. Since the town you live in istn' that small you should even be able to choose between different locations. So even if you are shy sooner or later somebody will start talking to you if you show up several times and make a halfway friendly face. The procedure for that doesn't change much if you just switch to another city that is smaller but where you also don't have any contacts.

It's pretty much similar here with the people. But that's how it is: either you blend in with the regular people and like being around them so it's easy to make friends or you don't. And then you have to take special actions to find the people you actually like. It really depends but in small towns the changes that you are being watched if you are not blending in with the regular people are imho way bigger. Plus lots of younger people leave for bigger cities (especially the more alternative ones) so if you are unlucky there are mainly older people or people who are younger but allready have family and what not, which wouldn't make it easier to find friends. In the end it doesn't make a difference where you live, the reasons why it is hard to find friends may vary but but there will always be something that makes it hard. Actually I think it's this lazy attitude you mentioned that makes it hard for you to actually get what you want and it might also be the reason why you rather look for excuses than actually trying to actively change something. If you are happy with the way you are then it's no big deal. But since you are not really happy with your life maybe you might want to try to change your attitude a little. Not to suit others but it seems you are actually prefenting yourself from being happy and that's a shame.

I just mentioned going to a bar, club or whatever as an example. To show you that maybe you should make your mind up and think about places you would like to go and that might be suitable for meeting people. I don't know what you do besides making music and being online (I know you like the rila mountains and mountains in general and highwa nor do I know the town you live in. So obviously I can't exactly tell you what to do, I can just give you hints to make you think about a solution for finding friends. But how I see it you don't care that much for it. Instead you are making up excuses why you can't make friends in your town, since it's too big. But really, if you would live in a smaller village where everybody knows everybody do you think that would be more comfortable to go to a bar alone where everybody knows you're the outsider from out of town? I somewhat doubt that. Finding friends is always hard, it doesn't matter that much where you live. Maybe you should consider the possibility that I (and I can imagine other people here too) was in a similar sitatuation and maybe I'm talking from experience and not just giving some randwom advice out of the blue. I allready wrote about that here but I met my now closest friends when I was allready 30. And I did meet them because I was joining a group who organised cultural and political events. I didn't know anybody there when I first joined them and since I'm not feeling comfortable with stranges it was actually taking quite some time to open up and actually getting to know the people. But that's how it is. Sooner or later you have to leave your comfort zone and stop giving a fuck what the computer guy (who is not fond of you anyway so fuck it) might think about this and that and start doing something. Maybe you will fail but at least you tried. If you are too proud to try then deal with the consequences. How I see it (at least for me, maybe you are different but I doubt it judging from what you write) for me it is not possible to just go to a random bar or club and meet people I would actually like to have as friends. Since most "regular" people just piss me off. So I came up with the idea to try to meet people under different circumstances. I think you should do the same but you have to make your own mind up who you would want to meet. Actually bigger cities means more people therefore better chances to find somebody you like to spend time with. I can just repeat myself: instead of always thinking about why this and that won't work I would rather make my mind up and think about what kind of people I would like to have as friends and where they might spend their freetime so you can decide where to try to meet somebody.

Actually there are lots of other ways to meet people than just joining groups. You can go out on your own, either to clubs, concerts, festivals or bars, and meet people for example. But you have to be the type for that and be able to easily chat with people. I know you are having a hard time but actually I'm not surprised you don't meet lots of new people or if you do (like the guys in the computer store you wrote about in another topic) the friendship or whatever you wanna call it wont last long. I'm not writing this to put you down and I can only talk about how you come across online but to me it seems you are a very negative person. Which makes you rather unattractive as friend, let alone as partner for sex or a relationship. You seem to always see the negative sides about everything, it doesn't matter if it's the town or country you are living in or a possible meet-up with the psynews guys at the balkan goa gathering. I mean seriously, since I know you you are complaining about how bad your life circumstances are and it's getting worse. When you were still in school you were very unhappy about living in Germany. Then you moved back to Bulgaria later and you complained again about living there (because there weren't enough girls like monica or something like that, can't exactly remember since it's way back when I read those posts). It's similar now: you complain about the lack of little cafes in your town. What about maybe getting your ass up and look for stuff that is good around you and try to take a chance with it? You are living where you are living so the only thing you can do is take an objective look around you, see what is there and then start to work with it. Like that there is at least the chance to change somethzing. I mean the psynews meeting sounds like fun and you seem to be able to be part of it. Instead of being happy about that and the chance to make some friends and finally meeting some forum people you whine about how the music might be too loud and about how flashlights might disturb your eyes. I can understand that if you've crossed a certain line of feeling bad you simply can't see the good things anymore. But either you nurse a depression, which means you should actually get a treatment for it, or you just like to feel bad about yourself. Because like that you can give away the responsibility for your life and for your own happiness and just bitch about how bad life ist and how you can do nothing about it. In this case (not the depression case, the other one) actually your mood wont change just out of the blue, you have to do something for it. You have to finally take responsability for your life and try to find a way to make yourself happy. If you can't do that even if you meet new people and make some friends it wont change anything about how you feel.

I'm sorry to hear that. You posted about feeling bad several times during the last few months and occasionally before. I know it's hard but have you tried to actively change something in your life, like moving into your own appartment, getting new hobbies to meet people or whatever?