Veracohr

I started getting into psy about 10 years ago, being my mid 20's. I was super into the new school wave for several years, every release sounded new and fresh to me. Eventually, after enough releases, I began to realize how homogenous a lot of it is. It's not that I was necessarily more into old school, but after listening to enough releases both old and new I saw how diverse the old stuff was and how homogenous the new stuff was. That's what people usually complain about, the lack of diversity, and the lack of originality. Sure, some people choose to express that in a negative way, but for me the issue is not saying "so-and-so sucks", but saying "so-and-so sounds just like all their contemporaries". I bought a particular release a year or two ago, a much-hyped release, and I've only listened to it once. It was utterly forgettable music to me. But recently I've gotten other releases, both old and new, which are much more diverse and actually inspire me to listen to them more than once. It's great that you're into the new school body of work, but I daresay you may eventually get tired of it also. People's tastes change. Don't take it personally when a scene veteran expresses discontent with the new stuff. Sometimes people want to be excited by new music in the scene, but they just aren't, so they become discontented. It's a valid feeling.

Creative doesn't necessarily equate to new/original, and I think that's the general complaint against new school.

I haven't paid much attention lately. I have a Poly Evolver but I don't actually use a lot of polyphonic parts; when I do it's more often just a short overlapping of the previous note's tail with the next one's start. This one looks interesting, though it will probably be super expensive: http://www.modalelectronics.com/modal-008/

I used a CRT TV until a few months ago when it quit on me. Deciding to cannibalize it, I pulled out the main PCB so I can salvage transformers and heat sinks off it. I also pulled out the speakers. They're weirdly shaped, 1.5" wide and 5" long. I'm designing an amp for them so I can hook my computer up to it & listen to music while I'm working on circuits. I wanted to have something better sounding than the laptop speakers. I could probably get better performance from an IC amp (since they're low power), but it's fun and I can make it with what I have. In simulation I've gotten it down to less than 0.3% THD and about 33% efficiency for a class-AB design, putting out a maximum of a little less than 1.5W to the speakers. Now I just need to find some kind of enclosure to mount the speaker drivers in.

What's with the attitude? It's not fraudulent and it's not deceptive; Anoebis clearly stated the plan. Familiarize yourself with a dictionary and don't make false accusations.

Can anyone recommend any good documentaries about the beginning of techno/trance/electronic music in the 80s? My girlfriend is fairly ignorant about electronic music and often when I play something she relates it back to Kraftwerk, as that's the electronic music she's most familiar with. That can be valid to some degree, but there's more to it. To me, relating all electronic music to Kraftwerk is akin to relating all rock music to The Beatles, which is a disservice to the contributions of later artists and the situations that surrounded their scenes. I'd like to show her some good documentaries if I can. She's a musician herself so I feel comfortable that she'd get it if it was presented well.

I like the notion, but I don't think the examples posted achieved this. They weren't bad, although I didn't really care for the first one. I think I like the second song the best, except for the bassline. I hardly know all things trance, but I kind of think that the idea of melding the original spirit of trance with psytrance is a contradiction. To me psytrance is a distinct evolution away from original trance, so I'm not sure how one could blend the two.

I haven't heard it, but no. I can't believe people are still talking about the possibility of a new AP album. The "Astral Projection new album" thread is 7 years old!

As A Child I Could Walk On The Ceiling

I agree with these: Terrafractyl Battle Of The Future Buddhas Carbon Based Lifeforms Juno Reactor And I add: Crop Circles Cybernetika

City of God About a photographer growing up in a slum of Rio de Janeiro. Pretty good, kinda depressing.

I'm maybe 15 miles from the northern edge of the swath where it's complete. A map I saw gave the duration at about 30 seconds at that edge, and I'm maybe 50 miles from a 2 minute duration. It's overcast here anyway. Not unlike Rotwang's.

What specifically do you want to do that you're trying to learn through videos? Maybe you're just past the tutorial stage now and should start asking specific questions.

Sure, but it hardly has a monopoly on such a viewpoint. The Christian Bible is just as intolerant and exclusive, and people who follow it literally are equally deplorable. The problem is dogma and unquestioning faith, not the specific flavor chosen.

Not today but recently: Shakta - Retroscape Moonweed - Voice of Jupiter Ka-Sol - Fairytale -- (how did I pass over this before??) VA - Blacklight Moments VA - Lucid Flux VA - Three OM Three Etnica - Alien Protein Also, as a first for me, I got them all except Etnica as FLAC instead of CD. I still feel like I want the CD, but realistically I know I just don't need it. So I'm trying to ween myself off CDs when possible.

Too bad I did my recent music buying too late, or I could have thrown in some more votes for some of these.

That's a pretty ridiculous quote, but that's nothing new in the audiophile world. Which is where I assume it came from.

So you know the Ozzy Osbourne song "Crazy Train"?

I found this song last night on a DJ mix I don't remember downloading while going through my iTunes. When I saw it I thought "why the hell does Anno Domini have this weird artist name tagged on it?" thinking it was the Chi-A.D. song. Completely different song though, pretty good in fact. Discogs tells me Brain Accent is Tim Schuldt. There was no point to this post.

Right...satanic sacrifice.

I hate politics with a flaming passion. It's all bullshit and I feel that political parties shouldn't exist. They only serve to divide us. Which is the reason they exist; those who dictate the party's platform and have the most to gain from it are the ones who benefit from that division. We unwashed masses don't.

I have an Ibanez with a floating bridge, I can't remember the model. I rarely play guitar anymore, and when I do it's almost always acoustic. Back when I got it as a teenager (before I got into electronic music at all) I thought the floating bridge was such a great idea. Of course back then I wanted to be Kirk Hammet. I hardly ever used it (the tremolo) and it's just a pain in the ass for tuning and changing strings. My amp is a solid state Dean Markley. Very clean clean tone, crappy distortion, so at some point I got an Ibanez Tube King which sounds pretty good. There's a new version of it now, I don't know how it stacks up. I also have an Electro-Harmonix Polychorus pedal.

I don't see how technology can make talent matter less.

Identical topics merged.

I'll second Richpa's Cybernetika suggestion.