Taika-Kim

I tried listening to a few tracks, there's actually good stuff happening there, but my brain started bleeding from listening to the basslines so much that I had to stop.

Woops... The thread was for the label releases only, not all neo goa music, sorry edited my ad away

Phew, yes I think Katso kukkaa cost me around 2500€ to manufacture (because of all the special ecological stuff), of 500 almost all are gone now, but I´ve also given away a quite a few when I realized I can´t sell all, on parties I´ve been selling them quite cheaply, a shop in russia never paid the ones I gave them, etc, so I´m still on minus for that one I think. So this time I will just make around 50-100 CDrs with some nice packcaging like in the good old days. But Katso kukkaa was a fun project to do, even though the pressing issue created quite a bit of stress. But it was my mistake, not listening to the CDs I sent to the house... It´s so utterly Murphy´s law that that was the one and only time my burner ever has made errors when burning :/ I´m quite happy with how this album turned out, mainly because I have myself been so happy in the last few years, the tracks on Katso kukkaa come mostly from a very challenging period in my life, so the general feeling on that album is darker and more tense, I think?

It's by Yana Naumova, she's got a smashingly delicious Deviantart page: http://yanadhyana.deviantart.com/gallery/

Btw the sample is edited from Wrath of Khan

I have a kind of conflicted feeling about album pricing, putting a high price like this because I've given music for free or very cheap in the past. One thing is, I had expenses when making this, and also another is that I think they ways people consume music are changing and the situation just isn't what it used to be. People are getting a bit too used to just streaming and downloading music endlessly for free. There was a time when free distribution was revolutionary and we were one of the pioneers in the whole scene of trance, but one idea can't become a dogma... Also, I just feel nice how the price reflects in a way the vast amount of work and love I put into this, doing practically nothing else for the last 6 months now that I have been happily unemployed. Also, when there will be a CD version sometime in autumn probably, people who bought this will get it with something like 80%-90% discount... And thanks about the text. I have a strong opposition to that featureless "spirit rising / motivational shit" writing trance albums usually have. Rajam Ram wrote good stuff for the Early TIP records, after that people are just generatig that hollow crap out of habit... So I was walking on a really precarious line between saying things I really feel inside my heart I want to share, and not ending up soudning like I'm writing an advert for an overpriced yoga rertreat in Bali...

Oldschool trance, analog synths and effects, self made acoustic instruments and field recordings. Organic self-grown food and priceless treasures from the bins of a featureless mall. Dark winter nights spent in my cozy studio with the sun catching me up still in the morning honing everything to shimmering perfection. The endless wonders of nature, friendship and love, the allure of new places and winds from distant countries. That time you thought you lost a precious thing, but ended up finding something better than anything a sane person would even dare to dream of. Gossamer fairy-threads of the memories of summers past, and the hidden places in the forests where unforgotten things go by their lifes with no opinion at all about us. The 80s, the 90s, the 00s. The good, the bad, the funky and the not. Of all this, and more, I have woven together the fabric of this album for your enjoyment. The seams might show and the fabric is not that synthetic perfect haute couture smooth you saw at the gala last night, and this never will be your favourite shirt. But it will be the warm friendly one that you keep coming back to time time after time when the world feels just a bit too much to bear, and you need something to reassure you that magic and fantastic things do still exist. So let the sun of your soul shine bright and burn away the fear of being just your simple self, nurturing softly the garden of your dreams and showing the light on the ways that go through dark places. Go higher, go further and go without hesitation to places you never thought possible, love a lot and then some more !! https://aavepyora.bandcamp.com/album/hengen-aurinko

From the video description: " A small teaser of a live I'm building featuring the Boomstar 4075 as the lead synth, with a MXR Distortion+, EQ10, and the Moogerfooger 12 stage phaser. Tracks run from Reaper, and I'm triggering MIDI clips from Playtime plugin from a Quneo controller. The loops go to Cream arpeggiator by Kirnu, also automated thru the pads. Various pads control a bunch of other effects too: Livecut, Fire, Glitch, etc... Controlling everything is an IBM Thinkpad X60s from the year 2006!" So the tracks are already composed, I'm only creating live one synth channel + the pedals and all FSU effects of course. The system is quite fun to play: I can create synth lines that are unique, so each set will be different, but everything stays in sync all the time. Vangelis is using basically the same kind of system, I learned afterwards. Only his is of course a million times more evolved, and allows him to play the whole composition live from the beginning. It's not so much to carry around, one synth, the controller, some pedals, the laptop and sound interface, it all fits in in one carry-on flight case.

Something I've been building recently, I'm premiering this with Lau Lau in January, so if you're around, be welcome! I'll be happy to answer any questions... And also welcome discussion about how people who play live here incorporate live material into their sets? I'm dead tired of playing DJ sets myself, and can't recall seeing... Hmm almost any psy lives that would have stuff happening that wasn't actually set up previously to happen in a pretty railroaded way...

Heh, lot's of funny tracks here, I think it's impossible to take a track that uses this seriously especially if the bassline moves up and down even the slightest bit That Mushroommman track has the offbeat hit really heavy, but no octave jump... OK, not trance, more like real oldschool goa stuff actually, but one of my favourite applications of this... And amazingly, every time I see this on a dancefloor, it just takes people away, good job from a track that's technically basically taped together by sheer luck Thank you God for synthesizers so we less gifted can also haz make music.

Truly next level New Order stuff, like I don't know, maybe he should create a startup and start composing these basslines for rich people or I don't know what, wow, like he would be so rich: Probably the best application in a trance tune I know

Hmm, I think eurodance usually had just an 8th offbeat bass? Well Neverending Dream had an octave bass.. Mahadeva, yes, that's proper That Predators tracks has quite a bit of variation, so that disco feeling is missing.

This reminds me a bit somehow, altough it's a lot more acidic... Maybe it's those Posford pads?

So I think it's a scientific fact, that disco bass is the ultimate bassline. What goa tracks have this? From top of my mind, can be wrong: Let's not count proggressive since then the list would go on forever Asia 2001 - Flirt Filter (at times) Mindfield - Let's Get Stoned and Watch the Freaks (the BEST, no variation, whee) Indoor - The Key (they do break the rhythm though so it's not pure, I just checked..It's still obnoxious enough I think) Sundog - Touch the Sun Trancelestial Psychobabas and Ormazd count too I think... Though they have variation too. ?? moer? ("disco bass" is a 8th note octave interval where the lower not falls on beat, and the higher on offbeat.So like the german offbeat bass with an additional strike overlaid with the kick drum an octave lower. also great variant 8th16th16th so it's dunn-dada-dunn-dada instead on dunn-bumm-dunn-bumm) Yes this is the best thread.

Konemetsä 2007 I think. I don't know what they had, but it was loud but still incredibly clear, and there was bass. Not this over pronounced upper lows or this muddy low end mess, but this springy, responsive sound. I think it was D Nox & Beckers and maybe Ticon... On that system wow! The worst is when the system clearly just can't push enough low frequencies, so it's built to make this hollow square bass that's supposed to compensate for the lack of real subs.

This is actually a very good question that I have been thinking over many times. LSD is indeed a very powerful track, altough not maybe in the cranium crushing sense that's usually associated with the psy sound. Wizard by Slinkies is, yes, one of my favourite goa tracks... I really miss this kind of deep, colourful sound. I was now listening to Too Pure by Kox Box, and altough it's not directly comparable, it has this effervescent quality to the sounds that is still largely an unexplored area. Like goa, but without the extremes, and more heart... Oh, it it has cheesy sound library ethno loops, it does not count. This ruins 99% of "atmospheric" psy for me.

I think between 138 and 145 is the optimum, with my sweet spot at 141. I can see the point in modern super fast psy, but it still doesn't mean it doesn't sound a bit forced usually, and definitely is not very fun to dance. Maybe if you have some inner tensions and need to go through that kind of cathartic process..

Yes but not this super cheesy 1988 sound But I wouldn't know, I'm not in the scene.

Yes his/their stuff is just brilliant. Love that raw sound.

https://soundcloud.com/purple-om Lots of tracks there, Simon played keyboards, bass and all kinds of things, recorded at the Butterfly studios... Nothing that special, but I thought somebody might be interested for historial reasons For example: https://soundcloud.com/purple-om/the-storm

http://www.artifactrecords.com Was this mentioned? He's involved pretty heavily it seems. He said in an email that he still performs with an ensemble called Grey Area, but didn't find any audio on that.

Oh, I would also say: a classic track has an intro that is instantly recognisable in less than 5 seconds. Just an empirical observation

I've been thinking about this a lot. I would say also: Good melodies that sound original but are still easy to approach. I also agree on the consistent sound that is recognisable. Maybe it's that I like to concentrate on the melodies myself, but this actually I think is really important. To create something that sticks in the mind a little bit. It's easy to write "beautiful" melodies and soundscapes (check club trance), but harder to create something that ONLY that one artist could have created... Also, I think it largely comes down to experience, practise and a wide musical taste. Where do the original ideas come from, when a 19 year old who never listened to anything else than trance, starts to write her own tracks?

http://itarzan.bandcamp.com/track/tarzans-in-time From Freudian Slip, enjoy

Colour, I mean just a bit more layered sound, with more crunch and tweaks. Then again I really like the more progressive and minimal sound on it's own terms. But everything I'm writing on this thread should be viewed in context of the original quest to find modern producers who make something that recalls the more trippy but still melodic productions of the old days... (was listening to some old Process today for example, gooood stuff!) Because often it seems to be only the one or the other. One might ask, why not just look for good music? That is a good question indeed, and I will now go sleep over it And Oopie thanks! I'll check those after the Natural High festival There's still time to take part in a different kind of experience