PsyTrance Discussion and Stuff ver. III

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Psychedelic Gleam said:
Ive heard nothing but good things about Boom this year.

My friend was the Artist Coordinator out there and she said that this year the non-trance stage with idm/dubstep/techno etc was the one she spent the most time at saying the variety and quality was outstanding.
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The festival was lovely as a whole though perhaps not as good as previous years and, as ever, there was a lot of dodgy trance. However, lots and lots of blindingly sick sets too.

However, I have to mention the non-trance "Groovy Beach" stage.

During the day it was almost entirely utter shite. Fuck off the exact same old Michael Jackson tune. No I don't want to hear that wicked oldskool hip hop track five times. And yes guys, there are other dubstep producers apart from Skream (that track is total gash anyway). We literally heard some songs five times over the festival. There is no excuse for that.

Even for lovers of oldskool hip-hop it would have been nice to play something a bit fresher. Baile funk/funk carioca, kuduro, glitch, alt hiphop.. to me these are genres which really deserve to get played at parties.. I don't understand how a stage can have time to play''play that funky music'' every day, and not play anything as fresh like non-english language hiphop (which I heard very little if any of), or some slightly underground genres.

Admittedly there was some great stuff (Scuba, FTL, Boxcutter, etc.) and I didn't go there at night (that's when the only decent psy was on) but it was so painful (and pretty embarrassing) to hear the same old cheese-night shite every single day all over the site (it easily drowned out the trance). Everything I heard at GB was the sort of stuff I go to psy parties to avoid. Tired old commercial rubbish.

The thing that pissed me off so much was the missed opportunity. I love varied music at psy parties but where was it all? During the day I would have killed for some decent dubstep, techno, braindance, minimal, whatever (even some dnb would have gone down nicely) but there was nothing. It was the perfect opportunity to hear some cutting edge electronic music and what a waste. Worst of all, the stuff that was played was in no way psychedelic. When I'm tripping I'm happy to listen to lots of genres but there was nothing about the daytime stuff at GB that got my head ticking. For what's probably the world's best psychedelic festival I was dismayed that such unpsychedelic shite was getting airtime. For shame.

Dalfir said:
Outdoor officially season starts Saturday...Ohhh yeah.

From 1:15AM to 12:15PM.

1:15 Zion Linguist
2:15 Xatrik
3:15 EMP
4:15 Bretheren
5:15 Shift
6:15 Slug
7:15 Bruce
8:45 Broken Toy
9:45 The Commercial Hippies
10:45 Headroom
12:15 Regan
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Lovely progression of styles there. Looks like a belter.
 
Mine was alright, though not enough psytrance..I got off work just in time to see the trance set in the park downtown and the chick was playing neuro at 7 p.m. when that music definitely was more suitable for 2 a.m. (IMO neuro has its place, but I like to be led into it with more melodic stuff first.) Then I went to a party after, which was fun but they didn't play trance. Good party though. :)
 
We had two floors, one playing Psy and the other a whole lot of mediocre stuff. One hip hop group came on and scared everyone away to the trance floor.

Had to suffer a gale force wind though, tents flying everywhere.

Music was great though :D
 
TwistedReality said:
Mine was alright, though not enough psytrance..I got off work just in time to see the trance set in the park downtown and the chick was playing neuro at 7 p.m. when that music definitely was more suitable for 2 a.m. (IMO neuro has its place, but I like to be led into it with more melodic stuff first.) Then I went to a party after, which was fun but they didn't play trance. Good party though. :)
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Ah it was freaking wicked neuro though, her own stuff as well. Plus there was no 2 am music so I figure 6 hours of non-psy and 2 of 145+ bpm dark psy was alright with me. And on top of that freaky full on trance in the middle of a city is a surreal and fun experience IMO.
 
that was a really good track.
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Got the call yesterday that I'm playing a DJ set at the Dirty Motion launch party in a couple of months. This will be my first major outdoor.

AMPED :D
 
Anyone else listen to OOOD's new release Fourthought?

I have to say I am a bit upset about it, the sound is very different from Freerange. I like some of the songs, but they are nothing to great, and seem very plain.

Now it kills me that I don't like this CD, so I am still making myself listen to it. When YB's last days of gravity came out I wrote a similar review as I hated it at first. But now its one of my favorite CD's and I think it is far better then A Flock of Bleeps.

So I reserve the right to 180 this review in the next few weeks.:D
 
^Should I rename this "Dalfirs Promo Thread"? :p <3 :) Jokey, I'm digging your tracks at the moment. The only trance I'm on, besides Lab 4 for some unearthly reason, is that mix you posted a week or two ago. Will download.

Whose doing the mastering? I do a bit of that if your interested, free of course. Probably only digital for now though...

SwingBreed said:
I'm really loving Uminum - 3rd World Stories right now. If you haven't heard it, it's available for free download at www.resonantearth.com.
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I can't see where its free....?? Defintitely keen to d/l anything from such a pretty site though :)
 
This guy on Isratrance.com is doing free masters for people. My partner and I definitely need to get our set mastered though. :/
 
swilow said:
I can't see where its free....?? Defintitely keen to d/l anything from such a pretty site though :)
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Well, if you click on "listen" under Uminum in the artists section, you can download it track for track (1. Nimbostratus 2. Fingertriger 3. Ajde de Strumfuvame 4. My Precarious State 5. Deviousness 6. Flip 7. Shubi Dubop 8. Kop Kop) by clicking the download tab at the bottom of their playback device. There's some other good stuff on that label, Dosage and especially Hooga Booga being other personal favorites.
 
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