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A song of mine will be played today on SPF Radio ( http://yage.net:9000/listen.pls ) sometime from 11am to 2pm PST (GMT-8hrs). I think the one he's using is "Time of Illusion", a track from the downtempo/ambient album I'm working on.

Yeah, I've got their Goa/Psy, D&B and Ambient channels in my streams playlist.

I normally find progressive psy to be kind of boring, and psyradio.fm seems to play mostly progressive whenever I tune in, but I often put it on while I'm working on homework, because it's easier to do homework to progressive than fullon or dark psy. (Anyone know of any all-goa streams?) But I just heard a really cool song by an artist called Institut für Bassforschung, called "Narkotische Früchte". It's a pumping, brooding track with an 1/8th note bassline that is just progressive enough, but not too much to be boring. This link says it's from 2002. FYI, in case anyone's interested.

One of the main objectives in mixing is to ensure that the mix sounds the same everywhere. That's where good monitors have an advantage. You might get a good mix on less than good monitors, but it might not sound good on every other sound system. That's why mixing engineers (responsible ones, that is) check their mixes on a variety of systems, not just in the studio. Including car stereos and portable boomboxes. I have less than good monitors. And I struggle to get mixes that sound the same everywhere. I'm constantly checking on the home stereo, the car, and the discman.

A couple songs come immediately to mind: Astral Projection -- "Utopia" MWNN -- "Silicon Trip" And an album, which isn't psytrance, but very psychedelic in my opinion, L.S.G. "Into Deep". Especially entrancing whilst on psilocybin mushrooms.

I can't write goa, does that matter? Every time I try, it ends up being something other than goa. Anything can be learned, but that doesn't mean that someone who learns how to make good goa will make good goa. If you learn all the tricks and methods and whatnot, all you're doing is making something according to a recipe. Betty Crocker music. The inspiration has to come from somewhere, and I don't think inspiration can be learned. Some people have the inspiration necessary to write good music. Others don't, but can play an instrument proficiently, and perhaps make their living as an orchestra member or some other sort of hired position where they play music someone else writes.

Well the guy's from Rotterdam, right? This is my only other knowledge of music from Rotterdam: http://www.discogs.com/release/355453

The file of Mahadeva I have I got from mp3.com many many moons ago. I was under the impression it was the original, but perhaps not?

A song can start from anywhere, any piece of the song. Basslines may be common places to start from, but it's not always the case. Look at other styles of music: Drum & Bass probably usually starts with a beat, rock and metal usually with a chord riff, pop perhaps starts with a melody. Sometimes I get a melody or chord progression in my mind, and I put a simple one or two note bassline to it just for working purposes, before I flesh out the bassline later on.

Yeah but, unfortunately I.F.O., the one everyone seems to rave about, is I believe one of those numerous albums in this genre that is no longer available.

Of course I'm not... Hey man, most of the names I come across on this site are new to me. I didn't really know many goa/psy artist names before I came here, I just knew I liked the style.

I was looking at Pleidians on discogs.com, and this is what it said: Pleiadians name was forged when a famous label requested them to do so. They didnt like the idea of them releasing material under another label as they wanted the exclusive of the Etnica name. Therefore they did and actually it perfectly fitted the music they made. Curiously for them making tracks was just one thing, and they didnt plan to make different projects with different names, for them it was all Etnica material. That's interesting. I didn't know much about either (or the) group. I think I'd only seen the name Pleidians here at Psynews, and to find out they're the same... Not the best written entry, though. Too many 'theys' and 'thems' with no differentiation.

Psychedelic trance--trance inspired by psychedelics, right? So let's list some songs and/or artists, and what psychedelics they relate to, in your opinion. What songs/artists would you say sound like or typify: LSD psilocybin mushrooms DMT mescaline saliva divinorum Ayahuasca Ololiuqui (Morning Glory) peyote 5-MeO-DMT or any others you have experience with Today I was listening to Elad Afgin's "Dimensional", and I thought, "this is mushroom trance".

I'm never an "early adopter". I'll wait to hear some opinions.

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The one at rapidshare doesn't work, and I don't want to open an account at the other just to download one file. Got any other way to download it?

For many of us, it's too damned expensive. I'd have loads of hardware synths if I could afford it.

If it's not too expensive, why not? I saw them a couple years ago. Sort of. It was AP and IM and some local DJs. For some reason AP showed up almost two hours late and only played for 30-45 minutes I think. So it not only sucked that they didn't play for long, but it sucked extra special like because the local DJs who extended their set while AP was on the way played the most appalling collection of shit. So my friend and I proceeded to get drunk in the bar where there was breakbeat and DnB. But it was pretty cool when they played. I'm sure it was mostly newer stuff (I didn't know their music much at the time), but I liked it.

Active or passive monitors? If you have an amp and can go with passive monitors, ADAM ANF-10 would be the way to go, although they'd be about $750 a pair. In your stated price range, perhaps the Tannoy Reveal. In active monitors, the Alesis M1 active are pretty well priced, though nothing special. Also KRK makes decent active monitors in that range. M-Audio interfaces would be good to start with, especially if you're using mostly softsynths, or EMU as stated.

If I can get my monitor amp fixed and mix the music that is waiting patiently on my hard drive, then absolutely, I'd be up for it!

Some years ago I heard this great album: Syanaesthesia - Ephemeral I'm actually working on a downtempo/ambient album right now.

18 or 19, in a class about MIDI. It was Opcode's Studio Vision Pro I first used. I never have used trackers.

I decline to vote, because it doesn't really matter. If you change the description, people aren't going to suddenly say "oh, we can talk about any kind of music in there! Sign me up!"

It's not too bad. I'll have to delve into it more in the future to decide if I want to buy a CD or not. I can at least say it's not boring and generic.

Remixes in the same genre? Remixes into a different genre? I've fantasized for a couple years about remixing The Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black" into trance. Would that interest you? I usually find remixing to be pretty worthless. There are some exceptions, like Nalin & Kane's remix of Energy 52's "Cafe del Mar 98", which is way better than the original "Cafe del Mar". The only (supposedly) psytrance remix I've heard is some horrible version of "Tainted Love" that plays every now and then on one of the psy streams I listen to. /shudder/