Guest kingdok Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Not that it's a matter of great importance, but... I'd like to know how many of you feel like you're living this scene, or that you simply enjoy passing through it on occasion. I'd describe myself as the latter, a visitor. I REALLY like psychedelic trance and its companion-genres, but I don't feel like going out and partying to it all the time. Lots of emphasis/importance gets placed on parties, I suppose since that's how the sound perpetuates itself and gains exposure. No parties = no music, and vice versa. So which is it : Are you a resident or a transient? Either is fine; I'm just trying to get an idea of where everyone's coming from. P.S. -- The "How Hardcore are you?" subject was meant more as an attention-grabber than a serious question. Obviously it's not about being "hardcore" or competing against other people. That'd be dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stringtheory Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I don't like scenes. I don't believe in them. I am a person who likes many different kinds of music, psytrance being one of them. I don't go to parties, and I don't like dancing. To me it is only about the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest r2d2 Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Yeah I'm kind like stringtheory....don't really go to parties much. It's all about music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rocko Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 i´m new in this world, like a year and a half, but i really enjoy going to parties, the best weekend of my life was at a 3 day festival called Maraakame. and almost all the time i´m listening to psy, (especially while driving) the bad thing is that in mexico the scene is dying because of many stupid people who don´t want to pay for the parties and get into anyway by violent ways, so the producers aren´t making any parties right now, the next one is at august 10th and the last ones weren´t that good at all. I really need a good-big-crazy party soon. let´s see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest small grey creature Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 well i dunno how to define me between resident or transient as kingdok said... i do like the music as much to listen 60% of my day but i dont like to go parties because the reasons rocko said and many others like envy, and stupids way of think about this "way of entertainment/liberate/whatever" and we all will pass to other kind of music/life/you know as we get older... its your choose to pick the one you like, so i dont imagine me at 80 listening to talamasca or synthethic with my grandsons and tell them... ahh when i was kid i freaked out with this guy ah!!! what a good times c'mon son pass that cigar that makes me smile... BLAH!!!! certainly at that time cds will be history..... so its just matter of time to move to another kind of "scene" (as you name it kingdok) the only that i really think that matters is how intense you live this period of your life.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Footsteps Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I had my party-season, nowdays i just listening psytrance and sometimes go to the parties. And like kingdoc, i think we´re all just visitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Footsteps Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Sorry, it was kingdok. ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mad Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 i listen a lot of psy but many many many ambiant chill out stuff i go to party all the week end i think i gonna stop for a while stay calm now party dontgive me so much stuff in my life eccept tiredness i dont talk about drugs coz eccept canabis i m clean !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tyrannicide Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I'm pretty entrenched in the "scene", but I'm still fairly new to it (the electronic music scene in genenral), so I still have alot to experience. I've only been to a few psy parties (Infected, Logic Bomb, Astral Projection, Total Eclipse), but I've loved each and every one and I'm definitely gonna go to all the upcoming ones. Before I got into electronic music I pretty much shunned dancing, but after I went to see Infected Mushroom, it was all over. Nothing like aligning yourself with the music and just letting it take you to another world with a few hundred like-minded individuals who share the same love for the music. There's really nothing like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psylotik Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Yes, I feel the same way as Tyrannicide..... nothing like going to a party with like-minded people and grooving to your favorite tracks! And beaming psytrance into the night air in the outdoor events is just fuckin fantastic. I feel so much at ... home ... in a psy event. Long live psytrance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ibotenic Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 It's all about the LSDance.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 at the moment i'm not hardcore at all. i rarely go to any psyparties and in the last two months i also stoped to spend that much money on psy records. somehow i have lost the interest a little. maybe it’s because i overdosed a little on goa the time before... ;-) i stay at home most of the weekends or if i go out i’m more into clubbing and commercial house and trance music. maybe it’s also because i’m together with different people now who don’t like goa that much. but still, i like the music a lot and i’m quite sure after a break the addiction of buying goa records will come back!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dizzy Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 well... i'm also new at this "scene" (2 years now) and i like going to parties but psy it's not "life" for me...i listen to another genres and not only electronic music, i like reggae, rock, etc...but the psy parties are the best!! also the psy ppl is great, except the CHAKARAVERS (stoopid ppl that like rocko said, try to get parties for free, and only get high for the kicks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ks Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 extremely hardcore..... but i don't do any chemicals... i will go to any good party within 4 hrs driving distance.... i have spent 2 seasons in goa//// i have other things going on all the time, but i am the kind who likes to be hard core and different.... currently i have just graduated and am travelling soon... i love rock as well and i occasionally go for deep/ prog house and progressive trance parties.... but i love good psy trance.... i prefer the more full on/ goa parties as you europeans have labelled them, because i find that there are more people at those parties like me... i do too many other things like theater, writing, art etc,.. to say psy is my life... but i love this style of music, and i like the parties even better... bom shankar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ciotera Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Psy is the only music I listen to (loosely defined to include some ambient/world). I listen to it pretty much continuously: at work, in the car, at home after work, parties during the weekends. I don't go to every party that comes my way, but I go to most worth going, especially if there is a live act of somebody I like. Outdoor parties are definitely the best, and try not to miss those. Don't know if this means that I live the scene, but I sure spend a lot of time there.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Järsimähäiriö Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Ha, ciotera's profile is almost the same as mine... I never listen to anything else but psy at home, and I practically never go to any parties/happenings that don't involve psychedelia (so Ozrics and likes of that are ok). I've also been to Goa solely in search for "the roots" if you don't mind the cheese, and also went to places like Koh Pha-Ngan in search for parties. I spend almost all my time thinking about this whole "scene" (a word that I don't necessarily like) or DJing. So yea I consider myself pretty hardcore (not in an elitistic way, but as the best possible definition). My biggest gripe is that none of my closest friend's could tell Hallucinogen from ATB, and they definitely don't share my enthusiasm to music of any kind... I find this highly irritating, and I've become a bit alienated from my friends because of this. But I'm not complaining, as this is what I want to be like, screw everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ks Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 hmmm thats interesting... isolation and despair, jarsimahairaio that is what artists tend to feel not only in music, but in painting, writing, poetry etc... but isolation is bound to come up, since not many of anyone's friends will be in psy... but like you said, who cares as long as this is what we want though... oh yeah and hard core in my definition also does not mean elitist.. i am the most common of you all... :-);;; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike D Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I am not that hardcore at all. I used to go to parties alot, but then got sick of being tired and stuff. I also, until about a month ago, used to listen to Goa nonstop at home and on my 'phones, but am kinda getting out of it. I find the whole scene to be a little bit awkward, like the hardcore goaheads claim there ar eno rules, but if rocked up to a party and I was a well-to-do yuppie kinda dude, I'd feel left out in a big way. I think that this scene actually locks a lot of poeple out and is not very open minded at all, but more a major subculture and there are certain things to belong. I think I have reached a point where I can now say, electronic music (esp. Goa) was a wicked time in my life and I still do enjoy, but there are many more things right now that I'd rather explore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdok Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 Hmmm...it's a pretty even split so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llazi Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 I thought psynews community is pretty hardcore ? anyway. I myslef listen to Psy all day long if I could, of course other good e-music too but psy still rules my time and I go to every party I can. About resident or a transient. I'm pretty resident in good electronic music in general since 1995-96 and I think right now I'm in a very powerfull situation regarding psy caus I feel that so much is evolving in the psy scene, and i'm exited that I can be part of it. peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Matta Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 I'm certainly in no "scene" unless you include this forum. I'm essentially on my own and kind of like it that way. I've been to one show - Juno Reactor and Medicine Drum - and have met only one other person locally who likes the stuff. That said, the music is fulfilling enough to be a portion of my personal identity. It's synergistic in that I feel I was born wired to enjoy this music (like some people are born wired to enjoy an excess of a certain kind of drug), and the music entails a sort of neo-hippiness that agrees with my ideology. So I found the music just as much as the music found me - there's little separation; square block in a square hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Setsuko Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 hmmmmmm ... i just like the electronic psychedelic music scene ... psytrance is the best for dancing and guess what , i just love to dance ... almost every two weeks i go to a psy party , and i can't get enough of it ... but after a few years i prefer to dance on the subtle groovy minimal psytrance ... or de oldschool ofcourse ... but i got bored very fast with the full-on ... which is to chaotic for me ... i'm still addicted :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Järsimähäiriö Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 Yeah, ks, I hear you mate... I'd like to correct myself a bit, as I do indeed like other things as well... like movies, I like movies a lot. I'll also be going travelling soon. Distant, exotic places is my other big interest besides psy-music. Will most likely have a jaunt in Australia and then head back to Indonesia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kriz Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 yes I really like the scene and I go to every party I can and can afford ... always like to dance to some good psytrance )) (with friends!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psyaholic Posted July 29, 2002 Share Posted July 29, 2002 I live in norway so there is no parties ;D but im peretty fit with just chilling listening to psy (thats maybe because i suck at danceing) or discuss it with my friend (the only one ecept me that love psy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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