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Song? Artist? Doesn't ring any bells.

No no, these are intentional, not meaningless coincidences. Well, I'm making an assumption on the Koxbox one.

Post some coincidental correlations that relate to psytrance! Paranormal Activity - Song by Chi-A.D. from the 1997 album Virtual Spirit - Horror movie from 2007

Good sounding stuff!

Wow, this is awesome! But I also don't want to pay that much for a download, even FLAC. Maybe though...

Sounds to me like just a sale to get rid of older stock that isn't selling. This is common.

I think the overall structure, melodies and such are good, if nothing new, but the mix focuses on the leads too much. I think it would be better with the leads a bit lower and some more random psychedelic sounds or effects up a bit more. I know this isn't your song, but I'm giving the advice anyway.

This is just me being annoyingly picky, but does that really count? It's just remixes of a song from a 1998 album. I wasn't even aware of it until now. I assume since you included it that the remixes are pretty good?

A lot of movie samples in psytrance music I tend to find poorly used. Seems like the artist thought it sounded really cool and trippy but sound kind of ridiculous to me. Like Radical Distortion's use of samples from one of the Resident Evil movies (I think it was). Some are good though; more often I like to hear samples from non-fiction sources like the one in "Lunar Civilization". But most of my favorite samples occur in non-psytrance music. There's a White Zombie song with one that says "do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?"

Whoa, like magic!

What? Filipe without a 303? I don't even know what to think! I've got the Liquid Jungle EP on heavy rotation.

Argh! I have this album and still haven't heard more than about 2 minutes of that song because the CD has a defect that skips in CD players and crashes my computer.

OK, so a rolling bassline is a 1/6th note bassline. I can see what you're saying now, but using that term to describe that kind of bassline/riff/melody is weird to me. Doesn't fit in my mind. Done derailing the topic now.

Actually this to me is a "rolling bassline": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQnVmeigvQ Does that agree with anyone else's interpretation?

I don't post interesting stuff when I'm drunk. Only stupid stuff.

Pretty good song, but I don't know what you're referring to. No melody starts at 1:10 in that song. There's a sound that starts at 1:10, but it's definitely not melodic and nothing I would call 'rolling'. More like 'glitchy'. I'm not really sure what 'rolling' would refer to. Sometimes I've seen people say "rolling bassline" but I don't really know what they mean by that.

Machete improvises.

Multi-quoted with Safari 5.05 on OS 10.5.8 to see if I have problems also. I normally use Firefox and haven't had problems. I don't get any errors with Safari, but I do see that the code Richpa put in the code tags doesn't show up (I only see the tags), in both browsers in both multi-quote and single-quote. I guess that's normal.

That reminds me of something. Before I came to Psynews I spent a few years on a site called DMusic. When Madonna's "American Life" album came out, she "leaked files" of the 'music' on P2P networks before the official release. They were actually files of the exact same length as the real songs, but were just loops of her saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" (as in, "what the fuck do you think you're doing downloading my music illegally) DMusic held a contest for the best parody/remix of this, and here's my entry:

First to use it period or in the screechy acid way? Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat from 1982 used it just months after it was released in 1981, but not in a screechy acid way.

'Legend' has it the flange effect was discovered by accident during a Jimi Hendrix recording session. They had two tape decks going - professional reel-to-reel tape decks not cassettes! - that had the same thing playing from both decks. Someone accidentally leaned against the edge of the reel of tape (which is called the flange) on one deck, causing it to slow down slightly. So instead of two identical tracks playing at once, one of them became slightly delayed and detuned. Later it was discovered how to do this electronically and the rest is history. The phaser/phasor/fazer, which is short for phase shifter, isn't terribly different from a flanger electronically. I don't know the history there, but I'm going to guess there was never any mechanical precursor to the electronic phase shifter. Phase shift circuits are used in many ways that have nothing to do with music. 'Acid' is not an effect. People kind of use the word that way now but it's just an evolution of word from the genre name "acid house", which is recognized as being the first genre overall to use the TB-303 in that way. The 303 was not deveoped to "replace a bass guitar", it was just made to be a bass synth. There are a few things which together contribute to the "303 sound" - a 3-pole low pass filter when all other synths up to that point used 2- or 4-pole filters; I've heard it said the filter was designed in an unusual way although I've got the schematic and I can't tell how; the character of the glide/portamento; the Accent control, which bumps up the amplifier output as well as the filter cutoff and is kind of an unusual feature. But the main aspect of the 'acid' sound is the filter; when you turn the resonance way up it gets funky. Most analog low-pass filters on synths will do this, but depending on the design they may not react exactly the same way. I see no reason to think someone was on 'drugs' when they discovered this. You get a new synth, you want to play with the buttons & knobs! It just wasn't until the acid house producers that someone thought that screeching sound might actually be useful. What's with the drug fixation? Edit: forgot to mention one thing. Flangers and phase shifters both basically do the same thing: create comb filters. This means lots of narrow frequency notches throughout the spectrum. As the delay time is modulated these notches move around. A comb filter effect is a natural result of mixing a small-delayed (ie. too small to hear distinct repetitions) signal with the original on a wideband signal.

Looks like an extreme close up of a brownie.

This reminds me that it seems like I used to see the name Ololiuqui quite a bit a few years back, but I don't remember seeing it lately. I see on Discogs they did an album as recently as 2006. I wonder if it's any good. I remember the name really caught my attention when I first started seeing it, because I read a shit ton about psychedelics and frequented psychedelic forums long before I actually came across psychedelic trance music, so I knew the name well. Pretty decent song - but who's the joker that put it to an image (albeit awesome artwork) from such a craptastic album ....which I own....?

Institut Für Bassforschung! A couple years ago I heard "Narkotische Früchte" on some DJ stream I was listening to and got all excited about it. Of course I was a bit drunk at the time, and I tend to get excited about things when I'm drunk. Still, I searched later and had a hard time finding the song. I bought Vibration Four which has "Der Grosse Kumpo", but I didn't think that song was as good, and I'm not really a prog fan anyway. Eventually I found the Narkotische Früchte/Der Grosse Kumpo single used online and bought it. I'm glad I have it, but of course when I finally got it I didn't find "Narkotische Früchte" to be quite as good as I remembered. But it's pretty cool. Still, these guys made 2 or 3 songs together and that's it? Discogs has a nebulous CDr listed with one more song called "I.F.B." plus a bunch of "Untitled" songs.