Rotwang

I go alone to the pool in the health club I use all the time. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.

What "consumerist kiddies" are listening to new-school Goa trance? What new-school Goa fans don't also listen to oldschool? Why do people pretend that any music they don't like must therefore only be liked by "consumerist kiddies"?

No, that doesn't follow. What follows is that there would not have been music made with computers back in the 90's that required a lot of computationally intensive processing (e.g. reverb, convolution, Fourier synthesis - the sort of things I expect are involved in recreating the sounds of analogue synths) on a large number of different layers. That wouldn't rule out people making something like house or DnB on a 90's computer, but it would make it harder for people to make something that involved a large number of different layers that recreated the sounds of analogue synths - like, say, Goa trance. Are you aware of any old-school artists who made Goa trance using only software in the 90's? I'm not claiming there weren't any; as I said, I have no experience with music software that I didn't write and my guesses could be completely wrong, and I will happily concede as much if someone who knows what they're talking about (with all due respect, that does not include Radi) tells me so.

Insomnia and Avatar are two that spring immediately to mind.

This is completely irrelevant to what I was trying to say. Any music software is going to be restricted in what it can do (or at least what it can do in a reasonable amount of time) by the processing power and memory of the computer it's running on. The upshot of this is that one can make sounds that are computationally expensive more easily on a modern computer than a 10-year-old one even if one is using the exact same software on both.

I don't have any experience with proper music software, but my own music software would have been much more restricted ten years ago by the amount of RAM on an ordinary desktop. I imagine the same would be true for any software that has to do complicated things involving convolutions or Fourier synthesis in real time, even software written in a sensible language by programmers who know what they're doing. So I would guess that it's easier to make music that faithfully reproduces analogue sounds on a modern laptop than on a 10-year-old desktop.

Another vote for Flow from me. Also this (it's actually taken from a progpsy album but I reckon it still counts as goambient): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7bc7kireU

I had a pair of the S5i, supposedly a "rugged" version of the S4i, and one of the channels stopped working after about a month. I had them replaced and got a couple of years of use out of the new pair until one of the channels stopped again. Given that those were supposed to address the durability complaints that people had about the S4i, I'm not too optimistic about the latter. I recently bought a pair of these following my flatmate's recommendation. I haven't had them long enough to be able to say how durable they are but the build quality seems very good, and I think they sound way better than the Klipsch ones. The remote doesn't have a volume control, unlike that of the S5i, but that isn't a problem for me since my iPod has a rocker switch on the side which is easy enough to get to. e: Are you aware of these two websites? There you'll find more information about headphones than you could possibly have time to process.

I dunno but I hope it has something to do with Autechre.

I've just remembered a couple more good ones: Khooman - The Depths VA - Boom Shiva Freaks I had the same problem at first - when Tumult came out and people were calling it forest it just sounded like other darkpsy to me. Now I've heard more forest I can hear the difference, but I have no idea how to describe it. And they certainly aren't that different (e.g. the second release I posted above is arguably just darkpsy rather than forest), so I think of forest as a subgenre of darkpsy in the same way that psycore is.

That's a remarkably good Radi impression.

Because when you paste links into the rich-text editor it automatically adds tags around them, which overrides the embedding. Use the plain-text editor instead (you can get the plain-text editor by pressing the light switch logo at the top left of the reply box): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFUNZPnyOs

I'd like your opinion of this one once you've listened to it.

He may have already dropped the "Mike D" nick by the time you joined. In 2006 or thereabouts he was called "The Journey Man Project". He was a bellend.

I replied before I saw your edit.

In addition to the Derango and Kiriyama albums already mentioned, there's Atriohm & Encephalopaticys - Ukalen.

Nope, he's been a fuming twat for years.

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No, he got banned for multiple abusive posts and for being Mike D, a pathetic excuse for a human being who periodically trolls psynews. He thinks there's something clever about pretending to be a cunt, apparently unaware of the fact that he isn't pretending.

^ Does the song actually keep ending and starting again like that, or is it a faulty upload?

Good point. Obviously if he were a caring human being like you he would have left his spare copies sealed to be opened by his children instead of selling them, because that totally benefits charity somehow.

Oh, do belt up.

I recently installed Mint. It looks like this:

Apparently so.