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Post by piva00 »

makemusic wrote: post #189
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.)…

Oh you've been bitten by the Elektron bug. I have 6 myself.

I definitely have been! I live in Sweden also so it was very cool to find a local maker with such unique instruments.

A big selling point for me was the Elektron sequencer and workflow, I just "got it" from the start as I didn't have much experience with other synths before. I don't really mind the menu diving as, after you get familiar with it, it feels like the machine is a keyboard of shortcuts for you to get around easily.

Mind sharing what is your setup like? Sometimes I've even thought about selling the TR-8S to get an Analog Rytm but the TR-8S is so much fun to play live (and the AR is more than double the price) that I've put the idea to rest, haha, also trying to not fall too much into GAS.

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Post by scarejunba »

munificent wrote: post #198
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!

Their shows are pretty freaking great, too. If you can't make ABGT in Prague, I'd recommend trying to go to ABGT at The Gorge in 2021. It's a marvelous venue, great crowd, and the music is fantastic (Anjunabeats first day, Anjunadeep second day).

Some of the songs are decades old, too, which helps with that feeling. Hard to believe that "Satellite" is 15 years old and "On a good day" is 10 years old. Wild.

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Post by imesh »

weavie wrote: post #164
mping wrote: post #125

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I'm glad you had a good experience. When I was younger I was producing psytrance (I played the guitar) and I would do liveacts with a dj + my guitar. I had some pretty cool gigs and nice songs too. Unfortunately, what made me quit the scene was the transformation I saw on my friends and acquaintances due to drug abuse. I don't know if it is a cultural thing, but I have witnessed people losing some or all of their men…

I also know a number of people in the scene who lost their sanity through drug abuse. It is sad, but when you are partying and abusing yourself every weekend for years on end something is going to give.

I'm not saying there isn't a correlation with partiers who do lots of drugs and mental illness, but I have watched a lot of people lose their minds across all my social circles. It seems like a certain percentage of people lose their minds in their early 20s.

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Post by thatswrong0 »

mjpuser wrote: post #27
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?

I am in agreement with you. It seems it is more work than it's worth to develop this taxonomy.

Most people in the scene (or at least the sub-scene I'm embedded in) that make it and listen to it don't really care what it's called. But for people trying to find more of a certain style, it certainly can be useful.

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Post by core-questions »

listentojohan wrote: post #17

My first though was Ishkur's guide to electronic music as mentioned in another comment, and which hasn't updated in ages. I then go into the wikipedia, and along to twitter, and see that there's been a countdown going on today - hoping it's a launch of a new version... https://twitter.com/Ishkur23

Awesome to see this, I still refer to his guide on the regular. I'll keep my eyes out for updates.

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Post by mping »

forthispurpose wrote: post #126
mping wrote: post #125

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I'm glad you had a good experience. When I was younger I was producing psytrance (I played the guitar) and I would do liveacts with a dj + my guitar. I had some pretty cool gigs and nice songs too. Unfortunately, what made me quit the scene was the transformation I saw on my friends and acquaintances due to drug abuse. I don't know if it is a cultural thing, but I have witnessed people losing some or all of their men…

Was it in Russia?

Nope, western europe.

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Post by firegrind »

cheeseomlit wrote: post #169

Anyone know of good guides on making this kind of music? I've tried looking into it and there are just so many options and esoteric knowledge of synths and software required that's it seems hard to get started. I've bought several MIDI keyboards that all turned out to be junk and tried several DAWs that were very unintuitive, I'd like to know the best way for a beginner to get into it

Have a look at some of Tom Cosm’s tutorials, and Ableton.

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Post by narag »

piva00 wrote: post #182
narag wrote: post #180

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Care to share what software/hardware you use?

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.)…

Thank you very much, that looks impressive. I'm looking for professional drum sound, but honestly can't justify the price of the TR-8S, hoped that there's some sample set that I could use from software. Anyway it's useful to me as a reference.

Have you some music published?

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Post by mushtar »

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…

What drugs are associated with the psytrance culture? I'm guessing LSD and psilocybin, but are there other more niche ones that are common?

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by aznumeric »

I've listened to most of the projects mentioned here and have been listening to Psytrance since 2005 but nowadays I mostly listen to 90s and early 2000s Trance and I must say that I find it better in general than the Psytrance stuff. I'd like to mention some of the legendary tracks here:

Quiteman - The Sleeper (Man With No Name Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjOcSatGkmo

Li Kwan - Point Zero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWIXkF_7JII

Electronic Arts - Need for Speed 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8CEJTPECxc

Blue Planet Corporation - Crystal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtw6j1AHUw

Odyssey Of Noise - Firedance (The Sunrise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKPMZm2O8No

X-Cabs - Neuro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-tKoIE9C0

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