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https://suntriprecords.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-duality Well, the files for now but the CD is coming next week This is such a great and criminally overlooked release! Aaron is a genius (in all of his musical guises)

Oh, that makes sense, although - for my workflow - I guess I'm looking for a setup where if I have let's say three plugins playing at once (bass, acid, lead), those are send to their effects (delays, reverbs, etc.) and I have 8 knobs, then I want to assign e.g. 1 knob to bass, 2 to acid, 2 to lead and 3 to the effects so that I'm able to control all of them simultaneously (with my 8 hands ) without switching from one instrument to the other. Will Automap somehow help me with that?

Click either on the CD or "digital download" icon on top and inthe drop down menu you'll have Top100

Purchased!

Thanks! Your releases are so underappreciated - groovy, funky, acidic, complex & multidimensional! Everything I love about music

What a great CD! It clearly follows the minimal, techno-ish, sci-fi roots of their debut "Lewd", but adds even more groove and melodic elements into the mix. As a result it retains the original drive and gets hypnotic at points, while feeling uplifting and brighter than previous album. As SkeletonMan above hinted at - man, I miss his reviews here! - they really get the sense of journey or storytelling in their music just right, slowly building the tension, adding small elements and tweaking what's already in there. I also like that the overall sound picture is soft and subdued, with barely any aggressive or sharp sounds, which definitely adds to the experience providing for an interesting contrast: dark(ish) music vs. bright sounds. Solid 4/5 It's a real pitty that Iboga went recently into more mainstream sounds and Beat Bizarre's latest album was a digital-only release

Awesome! BTW, will you have Proxeeus' album in Suntrip's shop? They release on the same day (according to Arabesque).

Well, to be completely fair Suntrip's CDs usually end up in Psyshop's Top10 list, e.g. Ra's "Earthcall" is now #6. However, Tripswitch's "Vagabond" is at #17 almost 6 months after its release, so either it's objectively good OR there's the effect best described by Polish saying: "Eat shit! Millions of flies eat shit so it must be good" BTW, if anyone knows good albums in the style of "Vagabond", i.e. leaning closer towards progressive house than trance, them please let me know via PM or something.

Kiriyama and Fragletrollet are - as you said - forest with goa/psy influences and I count "forest" into the "darkpsy" sub-genre. The Nommos is indeed trickier, but it's much closer - IMO - to darkpsy than to pure psytrance. Also, for someone who apparently only discovered darkpsy recently, I guess those would be a good entry point regardless of strict definitions.

I actually like this album, although it's definitely not up to the old Logic Bomb standard. I don't mind the more progressive sound, because there's still some variety there, some very good melodic work and psychedelia. The only real gripe I have with it is that it's somehow quiet, even though it's heavily compressed - if you look at the waveform it seems artificially limited as if someone lowered the volume while preparing the master for pressing... I hope so as well, especially since they (Logic Bomb & Hux Flux) started to working together again and it sounds really good:

Listening to the samples back-to-back with his debut album I need to say there's a definite step up in terms of cohesiveness, storytelling, variety to the sound,etc. I'm really looking forward to buying this. Hopefully Suntrip will have it in their store, so I could snatch it along new Crossing Mind (both out on 4th Nov).

I'd recommend checking out albums by: Alien Mental Atriohm & Encaphalopaticys Enichkin Furious Fragletrollet Grapes of Wrath & Metaloids Hutti Heita Kindzadza Kiriyama Neural Motion Ocelot Para Halu Procs Psykovsky Shivattva The Nommos (Goa Gil's project)

I'd prefer you elaborated a bit more on that - of all the people here you should have the most experience and knowledge

Thanks for advice, although with Renoise that I'm planning to stick to for the moment I guess this is covered by their MIDI mapping function where I can assign any controllable parameter of Renoise's instruments, FX, VST(i) or the DAW itself to whatever controller (key, pad, knob, fader, etc.) I have? At least that's how I read it

Damn, that sounds awesome indeed!

That can definitely be heard in your music! Since I have your attention - what's happening with Space Elves and when do we get to hear samples from the upcoming album?

A stupid question within that topic - some of those keyboards (e.g. M-Audio Code 25) have knobs that turn around infinitely by 360 degrees, while others (e.g. Akai Mk2) are limited to a 270 degree cone and have min/max range. What's the difference in practical terms? I would imagine that if in my song I have filter cut-off at 0 right now and I'll turn the knob right on M-Audio controller it will increase the filter respectively to how much it travelled (e.g. quarter of available cut-off range for 90 degree turn). However, what happens if in the same situation I'd use the Akai's knob, which - for example - was already in half of it's scale (middle between min & max)? Would the cut-off suddenly jump to half scale and then increase further? I know there's some hardware where knobs & sliders have in-built motors and will move accordingly to to what's recorded in the song, but they're likely out of my budget

I really dig the (purposeful) lo-fi / forest(y) aesthetics of it! It reminds me Para Halu's "The World of Peace", but brighter and more acidy. Good stuff! I'm hoping for a full - hopefully physical CD - album release some day!

As some of you know I've been fiddling with music for years but have not really finished anything in almost 20 years... Anyway, I recently decided I can re-prioritise some of my free-time towards music-making but one thing I found is that regular PC/laptop keyboard is terrible to quickly get the ideas down and changing parameters of FX or instruments with mouse is imprecise and cumbersome. Thus I started looking for control keyboards, likely with good velocity-sensitive keys (in 2-3 octaves), few programmable knobs, pads and faders. Few that caught my eye, are from respectable firms and are within the budget (say up to equiv. 200-250EUR) and have small enough footprint (25keys), as I can't really afford to take much place in home: https://www.muziker.pl/en/alesis-vi25 https://www.muziker.pl/en/novation-launchkey-mini-mkii https://www.muziker.pl/en/akai-mpk-2-mini https://www.muziker.pl/en/m-audio-oxygen-25-iv https://www.muziker.pl/en/novation-launchkey-25-mkii https://www.muziker.pl/en/m-audio-code-25 https://www.muziker.pl/en/novation-impulse-25 https://www.muziker.pl/en/arturia-keylab-25 https://www.muziker.pl/en/akai-mpk-225-compact-keyboard-controller https://www.muziker.pl/en/akai-advance-25 I'm actually thinking of that M-Audio Code 25, because it has an interesting combination of knobs, faders, pads + X/Y surface and ...looks badass Anyone have experience with those? If you're using anything else what is it and how well it interfaces with your DAW of choice? Thanks!

Very nice! I love the contrast of that sunny, very warm wooden interior vs. cold outside (is there snow already?)

Thank you all for replying - it's interesting to see how each of us looks at the music. Keep the comments coming! Yeah, I was afraid my post can be interpreted as such... But it's really not the case - what I tried to do is to dissect & point to the elements in music that make me fell joy, happiness, satisfaction, that give me the goosebumps. And indeed, to understand that I needed to be a bit more technical, trying to identify and name those things as accurately as I could. I don't think my emotional enjoyment of music is any less than Psychedelic Chipmunk's, Mars', Starkraver's or The Goa Constrictor's who resorted to talking about feelings. My goal was to take this one step further, to recognise what triggers those emotions - for me it's usually complexity, small details & subtlety, but e.g. for Imba it's more about power, energy and drive. But then you have eclectic guys like Ormion...

Yay! There's my post on your PC screen and you've got a PS4 and Sony tablet - my man!

@Imba, IronSun, Padmapani - thank you for your extensive answers. I'll leave feedback in the evening when I have some time. Yeah, sure - but some people get pleasure from gentle stroking, others require heavy hit in the balls to feel anything As IronSun suggested, I indeed spent some time trying to understand what gives *me* goose bumps and enjoyment, so I'd appreciate a bit more from you as well. Thanks

...and then you have virtual analog synthesizers, e.g. Access Virus, Korg Prophecy, Nord Lead, Roland JP8000 I remember going to music shops 20 years ago, drooling over that hardware, trying different sounds and pretending I know how to play

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