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Bitwig 2 was just announced: https://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig-studio/bitwig-studio-2.html

Oh, those would also do the trick: https://www.discogs.com/Orion-Metamorpheus/release/209241 https://www.discogs.com/Nervasystem-Brainradio/release/8852283

Anything from Creamcrop records would be a good start I think: https://www.discogs.com/Orichalcum-Live/release/67926 https://www.discogs.com/Alienated-FF/release/143520 https://www.discogs.com/Process-One-Drop-Or-Two/release/188412 They're obviously not goa, but some of it still gets pretty melodic while retaining that darkness & coldness.

Great, please keep us posted!

The Soundcloud tracks sound really good! Any plans for CD release, or at least Bandcamp?

Happy birthday! Can't still believe I've been here for almost 16 years (since Feb 2001)

Agree, there's nothing wrong with the mastering. I guess your main issue is the long release on the kick - but that's an acquired taste, was pretty typical back then and you can't really do anything with it without gating the individual stems (separate tracks for instruments). Great track, BTW!

Just in case anyone was wondering, as of today I've become a happy owner of Ableton Live 9 Suite. After a lot of research, reading & watching tutorials and extensive hands-on testing I came to the conclusion that at this stage it will fulfill my needs better: it's more mature, more feature-packed and complete; and since it's not as flexible (modular) as Bitwig it will let me focus better.

Just to quickly comment - I love the way this V/A progresses, from the more (positively) ancient & dry sound of MK Ultra & Athena, to very contemporary & energetic Proxeeus, Ephedra & Clementz. Really good compilation (& review)

Yes, you really must. You should. At first it's a lot to take in - the music is very dense, full of melodies, acid lines, effects, drum loops, etc. so it took me some time to put those things in order and to see past it to recognise the structure of the songs, the arrangements, etc. Some of the things you'll just have to accept as an artistic vision, e.g. the fact that "Secret Trip" or "A Way To Target" go against the typical track structure, where you build the tension over the time - in both cases the peak is in the middle, while 2nd part is a "release": more melancholic and moody, focused on sound textures and landscapes rather than energy. I personally LOVE that, because it means that the artist had his very clear vision which he realised in spite of popular conventions and I can really appreciate that. Sure, the voice samples in "Dream Telepathy" are testing my resolve and T2MU very aptly called the last track "fantastically unremarkable", but no album is perfect (at least for me) and - again - you need to try to see what the artist was going for, what kind of atmosphere or feeling he wanted to create. It's easy to criticise something that's very distinct and personal - like Artha's music is, despite its distant similarities to Hallucinogen's sound - because there will always be people that don't get it or don't like it. But what's the alternative? If I were an artists I'd prefer to have a polarising reviews, with maybe some people hating the stuff but others genuinely loving & understanding it, instead of lukewarm reception a lot of our music gets because it's bland, mediocre, by-the-numbers and ultimately forgettable. I'm happy music like this album is getting released, because I - and some others - will be remembering it for years to come, because it's special, it's intimate and it is art.

I appreciate your honesty. Personally I don't see this "trying to make that heavy and trippy atmosphere similar to Shpongle" - for me it was actually the opposite: they (BTW, it's two guys, not "he") aimed to make it really simple, streamlined and "pure"; to distil the sounds to their very core. Unlike Shpongle (which I love as well) they don't try to overload the mix, to assault the listener with multitude of samples and sounds. On another forum a guy was actually complaining that it's too simple, that there's no technical wizardry there, that it's "easy" to do something like it. Again, I feel completely the opposite - it's very easy (with current tools) to build a complex arpeggio, dripping with effects and sound modulations, add a K_BB rhythm section and call it a day; but it's soulless. It's much more difficult to create something meaningful out of few simple sounds - and I think Loud succeeded here! Sure, I agree some tracks (or their segments) get repetitive, some are boring or even annoying, but I try to view it as a whole, which to me is still exceptional.

Can't live on faith & trust forever When it's getting released?

If there's a person from psynews.org deserving to be in a "Who is who in psytrance?" book, it's definitely NHJO! Congrats!!! Maybe we'll finally get to know WHO he really is?

OMG! What happened? Hope you're OK now?

I love it! Need to dig deeper into your other tunes

Good to hear that! Lease keep us posted about release of your music

Ok, this is properly fucked up... In the most positive, crazy and awesome way!!! Basically every second of it is great - it sounds like a contemporary Sean "Process" Williams track: so full of random, but still very coherent and fluid sounds, melodies and rhythms. It flows so effortlessly and must have been a blast to record, I'm sure. One thing that I'd look into is the balance between the ambient parts (from your previous post) and the psy-trance parts, because until the very end it sounds as if the psy-trance was playing behind a wall, so not a lot of the actual groove and rhythms comes through to the front. I'd lower the pitch of the kick (it sound like a slap on the face) and maybe tone down some of the gating / ducking / side-chains because at times it sounds like your computer was dying recording this. I'd think the track would - even more - benefit from that. But still, it's AWESOME. I mean how come you're not on this compilation representing the SA psychedelic sound boggles the mind

Really good track! Two things I'd consider: - the riff entering at 3:25 - I'd add a bit more groove / swing to it, because it's too much quantised / too even IMO, - 2nd part I'd make either shorter, or add at least 1-2 more breaks there (and that awesome guitar/sitar? break @ around 4:30 would work better without the kick), because it's *a bit* monotonous, Still, I love the intro, the arpeggiated melody, the singing and all effects applied to it.

I really like it! Triplets rarely work for me, but in this case you made it really interesting, especially with that fade-in 2nd bass layer, which adds an unusual, very cool groove. Still, your music is an acquired taste - it's pretty dark, mysterious and - at first - sounds fairly "empty" which in fact it isn't: it's full of delicate, well chosen and placed sounds, that (very) slowly build up to something more meaningful: sometimes more melodic, sometimes more experimental, but always interesting. There's palpable tension in your music, though it's never aggressive or energetic, but it's rather constrained, controlled and held under wraps. Some will not like it, but I really appreciate that. Stylistically, I'd say it very much fits into what Trick Music is doing (Scorb, Squid Inc., Deviant Species, etc.) - kind of psychedelic techno married with dark, cold ambient. Also, it helps immensely that your production skills are already very, very solid. It's really a pleasure to see your music grow over the last few months that I've been following you! If I could advice something, I'd suggest to maybe try to condense the ideas a bit more and make them even crazier, because slow(er) tempo allows to put more flair into individual sounds? To that end, maybe try to spend more time on polishing given track, instead of putting a new one every 2-3 days? Also, you could maybe think of introducing more variety into your arrangements: most tracks have very similar structure: dark intro, dry drums, spooky voices, then a transition from triplets to straight 4/4 or the other way around, then some melodic element and a wind down. I don't mean it is a wrong arrangement - I try to write along those ways myself - but after hearing 10 tracks all following the same scheme it gets a bit predictable. Still, awesome work!

Well, that's disputable - I mean releasing everything that's out there regardless of its quality just for the sake of having it available, would not be wise. But as I said, in this case - and most of DAT Rec. output - it is justifiable as there are really no weak tracks there Considering how great this music is, I'm really surprised that it wasn't more popular back in the day. I also chuckled when I saw one of his aliases: Ze Rude Waiter

I'm glad to hear you like it Yes, Alice is still there in Season 4 I just started watching. If you're on Netflix, I'd also recommend seeing: - Daredevil - not a typical Marvel universe action-hero series, it's much darker, grittier and actually engaging, - Elementary - another take on contemporary Sherlock Holmes (with female dr Watson ) and few surprising twists and turns along the way, - Better Call Saul - a prequel of sorts to Breaking Bad, telling the story of Jimmy McGill & how he became the Saul Goodman we know from Breaking Bad, - Stranger Things - as a great throwback sci-fi movies of 90's, al'a the Goonies or E.T.

It's similar in overall vibe (a brilliant and uncompromising detective, who can't help being dragged personally into the crimes he's trying to solve), but I'd say not AS dark and disturbing as True Detective. But then nothing really is... If you've Netflix (or piratebay...) try first 2-3 episodes of season 1, but beware it might be difficult to sometime understand what they're saying because they're using proper - and slang - English

Luther is back with 3rd season on Netflix, so if you like dark & disturbing crime stories then it's worth checking out.

You CAN d/l whatever you want to your device for off-line listening, obviously as long as you're a paying subscriber. But no, I don't use it. For me it's difficult enough to switch from physical media to buying digital releases! Subscription model is even further out of my comfort zone...

Happy New Year!