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Post by nightkoder »

H1Supreme wrote: post #174
taneq wrote: post #63

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> As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at night, or vice versa! I can understand that. The shift from raves to daytime 'festivals' basically killed the whole scene for me, the mood was all wrong (not to mention it was way too bright and often way too hot). I realise you can still find night raves but by the time the next one came around after a string of daytime events I'd lost interest.…

Completely agree with you here. When I was college age back in the late 90's / early 00's, there was a pretty big rave scene in my area. They started around 9:00 pm, and went until the next morning. The vibe of those parties is completely absent from these middle of the day festivals. They're just...weird. A slammin' techno set at 3:00pm is so out of place.

I used to really enjoy playing really dirty psy in the middle of the day, but slowed right down - like -10%. I loved the effect personally, but I did get kicked off the decks quite often..

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Post by sharadov »

Fnoord wrote: post #34
ssijak wrote: post #23

I have just returned from one psytrance festival. I like to go there, not mainly for the music (which I like mostly), but for the atmosphere. Meeting all kind of different people and getting out from the usual "reality" and norms and rat race and jumping into crazines, relaxing the norms and trying new things. It is so refreshing, I always return home more happy and enthusiastic about life. And yes, people eat like t…

This resonates with my experience as well. For me, the goa/psy trance community will always remain the most open-minded, friendly music community I've been part of. I'm even kind of proud to have been part of that scene, doing my 2 ct. contribution to it (mainly, connecting artists with labels and vice versa, giving artists feedback on their tracks, buying legal copies, as well as sharing obscure material to goa tran…

I used to be part of the goa psytrance community, introduced to it by a dear friend ( who was a little too into it). At one point he was getting Djs and throwing parties and not even taking money for entrance tickets. It was a great time.

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Post by sharadov »

weavie wrote: post #11

Wow. I'm old enough to remember when it was just goa trance. And then towards the end of the 90's the kicks became more pronounced and the melodies were dropped in favour of more psychedelic soundscapes. From that it seemed the genre split into daytime trance that was brighter and more uplifting and nighttime that was darker and more psychedelic. As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at ni…

Neuromotor - his tracks were all dark.

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Post by sharadov »

Goa Gil, Astral Projection, Juno reactor - good times! Saw them all live, Goa Gil did a 24 hr set in the Santa Cruz mountains, absolutely blew my mind!

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Post by Raphmedia »

codeulike wrote: post #25

Well I for one think Electronic Music has too many sub-genres. Like if you change the timing of the highhat or the type of synth you're using it catapults you into a different genre. Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented?

This is like saying analog music is too segmented because both rock and metal are played with guitars. Imagine searching a huge "analog music" catalog for hours and hours until you stumble on Country music. You would go through so many other genres until stumbling on what you were looking for.

People make music first and labels appear after.

An example I like is Witch House. The name was originally conceived as a joke:

"Myself and my friend Shams were joking about the sort of house music we make, [calling it] witch house because it’s, like, occult-based house music. I did this best-of-the-year thing with Pitchfork about witch house. I was saying that we were witch house bands, and 2010 was going to be the year of witch house. It took off from there. But, at the time, when I said witch house, it didn’t even really exist..."

"Shortly after being mentioned to Pitchfork, blogs and other mainstream music press began to use the term. Flavorwire said that despite Egedy's insistence, 'the genre does exist now, for better or worse'."

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Post by leetcrew »

stinos wrote: post #82
ssijak wrote: post #23

I have just returned from one psytrance festival. I like to go there, not mainly for the music (which I like mostly), but for the atmosphere. Meeting all kind of different people and getting out from the usual "reality" and norms and rat race and jumping into crazines, relaxing the norms and trying new things. It is so refreshing, I always return home more happy and enthusiastic about life. And yes, people eat like t…

> not mainly for the music (which I like mostly), but for the atmosphere He for me it's actually the other way around. Well, sort of: I really go for the music or more specifically for dancing hours in row. It does get me in a trance and that is the main aspect which makes me return home more happy and enthusiastic as you call it (too bad that effect doesn't last long but that's something else). But this wouldn't be…

also in my experience people will get drunk and quite physical at hardcore (punk) shows, but are also quite caring and considerate about it. I think the community around the music is much more causal than the inebriant of choice.

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Post by munificent »

NKosmatos wrote: post #9

Very nice guide, especially for all of us in our mid forties that liked and listened (still listening?) to all these styles when they were actually being created!!! Recently there was a HN post about a similar site http://everynoise.com/ but for all music genres

More trance than psytrance, but I recently stumbled onto Above and Beyond and their Anjunabeats label. I had no idea people were still making trance that feels like a continuation of the stuff I listened to in the late 90s. It's great!

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Post by pugworthy »

ssijak wrote: post #23

I have just returned from one psytrance festival. I like to go there, not mainly for the music (which I like mostly), but for the atmosphere. Meeting all kind of different people and getting out from the usual "reality" and norms and rat race and jumping into crazines, relaxing the norms and trying new things. It is so refreshing, I always return home more happy and enthusiastic about life. And yes, people eat like t…

It's not just the music, but your general description of the atmosphere is basically mine with Burning Man.

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Post by piva00 »

nvirDoomed wrote: post #184
piva00 wrote: post #182

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Sure! One thing that I love about the music producing/synth community is that we all love to share :) I have dedicated myself to use only hardware for a while, working on a computer for 8+ hours a day really puts me off on being creative on it so I went to the only-hardware route. With that said, my current setup is: * Roland TR-8S for the drums, recreations of the classic drum machines (TR-606, 707, 808, 909, etc.)…

Been wanting to get a digitone, how easy is it to sculpte basses (similar to dnb like artists similar to bredran) Also what is the inputs left and right used for? It looks amazing especially when you need to travel

It's really easy to get a good bass from the DN, with the filter and amp env you can totally get a bass similar to a more common subtractive synth.

I'd say that the A4 can give me a "deeper" bass when I need but the DN comes loaded with quite a few basses presets for you to start from while you are getting the hang of it. I'm not sure how close to bredran's basses you can get (as I don't produce DnB) but if you can try a DN from a local music store for a bit do it! It's quite fast to get inspired with it and much easier to design sounds than it first appears.

And yup, I've been carrying it around sometimes while traveling, I'm starting to consider getting an external battery capable of powering my Elektron gear as I'd love to bring the OT and the DN while off the grid.

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