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My latest CD design is nearly complete... here is the front cover: The final release should be available soon. Almost there

Is that even available still?

Thanks everyone I've switched things up a lot in the last month or so. Drop by the site and check out some of the changes: http://www.ektoplazm.com/ There are too many new features to list but one is particularly relevant to the theme of this thread: the "more music" section. I opened this to give myself a little more flexibility about what I can write about and promote. Have a look for yourself; here are some recent posts from this new area: http://www.ektoplazm.com/more-music/buffoo...away-and-mukti/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/more-music/darkps...t-smells-funny/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/more-music/subcon...ind-gfuhlsweid/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/more-music/cosmo-...t-encounter-ep/

Ahhh, well if you keep your ear to the ground you should be able to find out about the odd psytrance event that takes place in your neck of the woods. There aren't many, no, but they're probably pretty cool. Some sites to check out: http://www.tribalharmonix.org http://www.liquidbeat.com/liquidbeat/phpbb...wforum.php?f=20 http://www.myspace.com/okanaganmoondance http://www.infinityloopmusic.com/psyentifica/ I hope that helps you connect with your local scene

Where are you living? In the interior? Even in Toronto you won't find much psytrance in stores. It's all online. But there are parties--pretty much everywhere. Particularly in B.C. I've seen listings for psytrance events from Tofino to Nelson, in the Okanagan and all over the lower mainland and the Island. I played at a festival on the Sunshine Coast this summer, and then ferried over to Victoria for another gig the weekend after. It's definitely happening out west... Of course, I agree with the general sentiment that psytrance isn't well-marketed outside the established boundaries of the scene. People find out about this music but it isn't so easy--not in North America at least... well, I know with certainty that my web site is helping with that in a major way. I often receive email from people who have just discovered psytrance thanks to what I am doing. And it makes sense. The best promotion for music is music, after all. When you interact with people outside of the scene and suggest that they go check out Infected Mushroom or Shpongle or whatever, you are essentially asking them to load up some P2P software and get pirating (I mean, who is going to fork out money for something they've never tried before?). With my site, people can simply drop the link and that's it--immediate access to a whole new world of music. No wonder we're closing in on 400,000 releases served...

I disagree completely. The purpose of these threads is not to build a definitive list of favourites but to interact and discuss music. Every new thread brings out something fresh... and I, for one, do not always like posting in threads that have become bulky and stagnant with old content. Favourites change with time... limit the ability for the forum to shift and change and you will inhibit spontaneity, and to what end? Simply to clean things up and "streamline" dialogue? I think we would lose more than we might gain. If you want a forum where all standard inquiries are met with the mantra "use the search" then by all means, check out Isratrance I like that Psynews is a free-for-all, that it isn't a big deal to start up a new topic no matter how many times it may have been raised. Let's keep it wide open.

Ack, now I feel bad that I wasn't more proactive! I thought you guys knew what was up and and were working on it. I've been doing a lot of reading into security matters as Ektoplazm has been under near-constant attack for close to two months now. Have you considered that the recent intrusion might have nothing to do with board politics--that this was a non-targeted attack? Generally speaking, when someone has a grudge and makes the effort to hack a site they usually go after juicy data (the database, for example). Inserting a few lines of code redirecting traffic--that sounds more like an automated process, the actions of a bad robot. The Internet is swarming with them. And here you are using Invision, a popular forum software package. Hmm something to think about.

It was a ruse in any case; the details weren't really based on anything.

Not unless you want PKS stalking you Yeah, there is little in the way of quality control on Discogs any more... and without mods volunteering their time it takes forever to do everything. I wonder whether the guys at the top really thought this through and whether there are plans to change things around.

You are in luck! Try one of these links from the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://goatrance.free.fr http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://psynews.org

Waverider, Creeping Gravity, Manitou, and Fluid Cluster don't get nearly enough credit

No, I am too. Something is up.

I agree with B/C/D/E/F 100%. Only thing I wasn't with you on was the speed/coke bit, that's not accurate I don't think (not here anyway). A lot of DJs simply go hard and stay that way. You're right about this, certainly--which is where the "peaks, plateaus, and troughs" model of programming comes in. C) I do this all the time... trance DJing is about the journey; you go from one place to another. I don't think this is nearly as effective when you limit yourself to one style. D) Same as before, you aren't getting the full experience at an event that focuses on one small piece of the pie. E) I like the night style but I don't think it is necessary to play it all night at every party... there are so many different ways of orchestrating the flow of a night. Melodious, beautiful music in the heart of night, especially outdoors, can work extremely well. I guess it depends on what the preconceptions are; here in Canada most trancers are open-minded, but I gather that crowds in some other nations virtually demand that a particular music is playing at a particular time of day or night. F) This happens when DJs play for other DJs, not the audience. What is more important: impressing people with tracks they haven't heard or playing a good set that appeals to the crowd? I doubt many DJs ask themselves this. Anyhow, I play a variety of music from different time periods; my next gig is going to focus on Scandosound classics and Y2K-era hits: a sort of flashback into time. And for Halloween, one of my sets is going to be a genuine old school set--I don't play many of those, but the promoters requested it. And the next one might be all new, who knows? That's the fun of it. Every set is a unique story to tell...

I am having a hard time thinking up any Astral Projection rarities... virtually their entire catalogue remains widely available.

His point is ultimately irrelevant because this is trolling, pure and simple. He's pretty good at it too--the better trolls bury their most inflammatory statements inside a smokescreen of seemingly reasonable and innocuous argumentation. Then they come back to chip away at whatever counter-arguments have been presented, dissecting the posts of adversaries to find any kind of leverage to perpetuate the controversy. There's an art to it, really, this application of skills of rhetoric in the digital age.

Yep.

I am just listening to their new track, "Master & Servant," a cover of the Depeche Mode song of the same name (which--strangely enough--Dado has already covered as Synthetic, in a much more tasteful way I might add). All you old school Transwave fans are going to be absolutely outraged if you hear it!

Science fiction is my other passion. The two go hand in hand... although to be perfectly honest, it is much harder to find good SF than it is to find good psytrance.

CDs and FLAC/WAV...

Crystal, from The Magus. It was a weird mix, but I figured that the hollow lo-fi vibe of The Zap! might blend well with Artifakt's harsh mechanical aesthetic. It sort of worked in some kind of dreadfully awkward way.

Most psytrance albums are a collection of tracks. This album feels like a collection of songs. I don't know for sure whether I really like it yet... but I tried out The Mouse And The Opera Singer at a gig last night and it went over really well (mixed with Artifakt and Haltya of all things)...

Out Of This World makes for good listening if you're into the idea of a full-on science fiction experience. The music is not very deep but the melodies are dazzling enough at least. Movie samples constantly appear, establishing a theme by brute force. It is comparable to U-Recken's Deeper Into Man although I think I prefer this album... at least for now. I know enough about this sort of bold, accessible, and immediately gratifying approach to say: enjoy it while you can! Repeat listening might wear it out.

This is a definite step up from We Interface. March is a real killer, deep and heavy with just the right balance of minimalism and grind. Building #7 is catchy, a renewal of their electro aspirations of 2004 done in a way to be much more interesting to techno fans. Outfiled is nothing special; nice production but not particularly memorable. Altogether it is a very good vinyl release and a nice return for X-Dream.

Yes please, clean this thread. It has grown moldy and libellous.

I'm in the same boat but never seem to have much of a problem with what other people do at festivals. You might find some people smile a lot, mumble inanities, jump around a bit, or talk really fast, but that's about it. When you're the sober one people around you can be weird... but from their perspective things are probably much much weirder