Veracohr

Apparently you have to have an account to download? Try uploading to Soundcloud. Very user-friendly.

The story isn't exactly the filmmaker's fault, it already existed. I haven't paid attention to any commentary on it, but I thought it was decent. True, nothing original, but not bad. For me, the bar is pretty low these days for Hollywood movies.

Hey, as long as it's got three-boobed chicks and creepy, psychic conjoined twins, it's all good!

I think it's funny that some people think of synthesizers as not 'real' instruments, even though they've been in popular music for 50 years.

Just one of the many many sites that scour the internet for available media and try to sell it to someone. I've found my own music on a bunch of them.

I'm just listening through the crappy laptop speakers at the moment, but I hear some old school in there! Must give a better listen later.

I thought we had a twilight thread here, but the only recent one I found didn't have much in the way of names/links. I expect you'll have Ormion here in no time to give you some suggestions!

That's a disc manufacturer in the United States, in US dollars. Standard jewel case.

It's all economics and business. Not many duplication houses will go as low as 100 copies (not talking CD-R). A quick check of Oasis Disc Manufacturing shows this: 300 CD's (their lowest amount) 4-panel full-color insert Full-color disc printing Poly wrap Total: $932 (US) That's a little over $3 a CD to manufacture, which is 20-25% of the average retail cost of a goa album . Add on percentage for the label (who is probably paying for mastering), the distribution company, the reseller (Psyshop, Saiko Sounds...) or personalized online merchant service costs, business taxes, shipping and related costs, and of course the artist(s). And how long do you think it would take to sell 300 copies for a small label, how long to recoup $1000? The distributors & shops may also have minimum stock requirements, I'm not sure. As comparison, the total cost from Oasis for 1000 CDs with the same options is $1270, only $1.27 per CD. Better margin all around there, but then you're stretching out the recoupment time much longer. Running a label releasing CDs in a small-market genre in the days of declining CD use can't be easy.

Of course you don't 'have' to learn music theory to be a composer, but it can certainly come in handy. If you get stuck on a song, don't know where to take it next, knowing music theory can give you suggestions on complimentary chords to try that fumbling around trying to feel might take a while to get to. On the other hand, going through significant training in music theory, in my opinion, may make someone stuck in the box of music history and not able to break out and do something new. Knowing music theory also helps one communicate better with other musicians/composers about song structure and song writing.

Do you think they're usually samples, or played specifically for the track? I'd love to use something acoustic to mix it up.

I don't have the initiative or interpersonal skills to throw a party, plus so few around here like goa. I'm also not a DJ.

They're definitely raw & in-your-face, but that's why I find them boring. No nuance.

No, I'm in the US. My city has a small group of people who put on shows that are mostly darkpsy I don't much care for, but still go to on occasion.

Maybe I just have the disadvantage of neither having been into electronic music in the 90's nor having much experience with goa/psy in a party/club setting.

How do you figure out of a type of music was 'ahead' of its time? That to me implies that either a: it would have been more popular had it began later in history; or b: it didn't become popular until it had already existed for some time. I don't think either really applies to goa. It wouldn't have been more popular later because it arose in tandem with the rest of the electronic music world, so it existed at a prime moment for popularity, and also its popularity is limited by the weirdness factor. Not everyone wants weird psychedelic noises in their music. As far as b, goa is most certainly less popular now. I don't think I'd agree with that. Regardless my dislike for most house music, it is by far the most danceable (for the general dancing masses). That's why it's in all the clubs. For most people, dancing requires a groove, and trance rarely has groove.

Filteria, really? I find his lead synths pretty boring, soundwise.

I don't think I'd pay $64 plus shipping to US.

Thanks guys. Old horror movies huh? I can't hear it myself, but mkay. By "sound quality is OK" do you mean OK good, or OK "could be better"?

I'd definitely go with IM for best high-tech sounds. Crossing Mind has some really good silky smooth psychedelic sounds. Lately I've gotten a couple Voice of Cod albums, and they've got some nice IM-ish lead sounds, but more psychedelic and less techy.

I actually hate even more samples that are used as though the artist thought it was cool to use some sort of sample, regardless of what it actually says. Erta Ale has a few songs like that.

Oh yeah. For some reason I was thinking it was Chi-A.D., but naturally couldn't find the song.

I love every song on this compilation! It's just great. Although I do feel the Stargate SG-1 sample in the Nebula Meltdown song is a little cheap. It's appeared in psy before, I just can't remember the song at the moment.

I can't hear a bass, just the long decay of the kick drum. Is that intentional?

This isn't psy but I always liked the use of samples in it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kc-2mXIrfc