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Well I'm not looking for a keyboard controller, I already have a keyboard. I ordered the APC40 from Musician's Friend, whose website didn't tell me until after I was done placing the order that it was out of stock and wouldn't ship for about 2 1/2 weeks, and they've already charged me.

I listened to Chi-A.D.'s "Eye Am The I" on the way to work, and now that epic melody is stuck in my head. Such an awesome song!

It must have been a couple years ago when it started, it went for a few episodes, then the show "took a break" and was supposed to come back after a couple months, but I don't think it ever did. I agree there were some things I liked, but I felt like the characters and story lines were lackluster.

I watched that when it came out, and I was super excited because I used to watch the original when I was a kid, but it was a big disappointment. It had potential but it was no good.

I thought Portamento's album had some good 303 sounds.

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I didn't go to the Youtube page, but the song is definitely about early USA subjugating the natives:

Hell yeah! Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast, Fear of the Dark - epic greatness!

If the US invaded the Amazon it would only be to pave it over and build malls.

'Grunge' isn't really a genre though. It was a label the media made up to try lumping all the 90's Seattle bands together (and the ones that copied them), but those bands all sounded pretty different. Most of them had a metal influence, though no one would really call them metal.

Except Push is way more expensive, not available yet, and doesn't have faders.

Solar flares have nothing to do with global warming. They're over with in the span of days. The sun does have a cycle of increasing and decreasing activity, about an 11 year cycle.

Sidenote: why are people mentioning Nirvana in a metal topic? They came from the punk side of things. Unlike the other 90's Seattle bands, who did come from the metal side.

Oh yeah, Pan's Labyrinth is awesome!

I've seen this somewhere before, seems like it was here on Psynews, where people talked about parallels between metal and goa. Or at least about metal fans also liking goa.

Too old for Radi.

Ah, but they are indeed part of heavy metal's history! If you were a Maiden fan in the eighties, you were a heavy metal fan! And Judas Priest! They're one of the godfathers! Like all music, metal has evolved. Black Sabbath isn't that 'heavy' today, but in the 70's they sure were!

I've been a long-time metal fan, since long before I even liked any kind of electronic music. I don't really have a broad library though, same as with psy. Since getting into trance and then goa/psy, my love of metal hasn't really diminished or anything. There was a span where I wasn't really looking for new artists, but I never stopped listening to what I had. In the last 5 years or so I've gotten re-interested in new metal (new to me, anyway). As for metal vs. psy, I hear some similarities in rhythm between metal riffs and certain goa/psy synths (not bass). Maybe some similarities in scale/key on occasion too. Some of my favorites: Gojira Pantera Sepultura Lamb of God Slayer Amon Amarth Opeth Malevolent Creation Metallica (early) Iron Maiden (some) Wolves In The Throneroom And if you want to count other hard stuff that isn't exactly 'metal' as considered by the metal community: Rage Against the Machine Botch Neurosis Isis (earlier stuff is harder, but I love it all)

Apparently not reading for fun?

Well, the stuff I'm referring to I don't even really listen to, so I'm not familiar with the artists. When it comes to non-psychedelic trance, what I have in my collection is also largely less hypnotic. But my go-to reference for classic trance is: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnBeTPpr98g

Some trance, of course, is trancey, but a lot just isn't. The music from when the name 'trance' was first given was trancey, that early, classic stuff. In my opinion, the more complicated the melodies and everything get, the less hypnotic it is. But that's OK. As far as goa/psy goes, I'd say the most "trancey" I've heard is Blue Planet Corporation, especially the stuff on Blueprint For Survival, because it's so much more like classic trance than goa. Now, I think music can be 'psychedelic' without being 'trancey'. A lot of goa/psy is psychedelic to me without being trancey.

I don't know much about tech house, but most if not all forms of trance left behind the "tranciness" long ago. A lot of goa is not the least bit trancy or hypnotic, but that doesn't necessarily affect the quality.

I think you're definitely crazy: you don't like strawberries!

WOOT!

This is a common misconception on Boris Blenn's divinity. He is actually one part of a divine trinity, the other two being Astral Projection and Simon Posford.