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Electronic music thread

dholliday said:
any excuse to link the grandmaster, this is by far his most popular piece, a massive 1.5 million hits!

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Haha I had that on on the car yesterday. Did 200 miles without stopping purely listening to Psykovsky lol

Flippin' love trance for driving.

Still have to pick at why anyone calls Psykovsky's music "dark" though. There's psy out there that's really dark and unpleasant. I guess its cos the BPM's are high. Vasily's stuff is just trippy, not dark at all.
 
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Blue 1 said:
Best trance record ever?

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nice!...trance was my first raver love...Brixton Fridge etc culture (and a guitar-carrying man called Culture who'd smoke spliffs with us in the Peace Gardens, which back then was a no man's land for weed). So much love, so much lovely emotion...we eventually 'graduated' to acid techno, hard house, lock techno, goa and me eventually to darkpsy/forest...but nothing can ever match those first emotions on trance...what a time to be alive. grown men still weep for those days.

lots of candidates for what might be the best...The Bell Song, Universal Nation...i might go for this textbook euphoric example, while on its own maybe not memorable, but in the middle of a peak-time set it was totally perfect for the eed-up dancefloor of that time:




Blue 1 said:
Haha I had that on on the car yesterday. Did 200 miles without stopping purely listening to Psykovsky lol

Flippin' love trance for driving.

Still have to pick at why anyone calls Psykovsky's music "dark" though. There's psy out there that's really dark and unpleasant. I guess its cos the BPM's are high. Vasily's stuff is just trippy, not dark at all.
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oh wow, all 200 miles with Psykovsky? that's amazing. what albums did you have on and do you have a favourite? i think Tanetsveta might still be mine, despite very strong showings since then. yeah, he has a couple of dark pieces (m muh seeng wuh springs to mind) but i agree, he's trippy & even uplifting...a real story-teller.

i have a tradition where i write with him after every new album, and he's got yet another one out so we exchanged some fine words, he even downloaded some of my own musik...what a guy!

his new album is dryer than previous works, it recalls Da Budet and a little Na Ve Ka. like Da Budet it's a real grower. This has a very hypnotic melodic groove between 3:30 - 5:30, almost like forest-psy in how the melodic licks help drive the flow:

 
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dholliday said:
nice!...trance was my first raver love...Brixton Fridge etc culture (and a man called Culture who'd smoke spliffs with us in the Peace Gardens, which back then was a no man's land for weed). So much love, so much lovely emotion...we eventually 'graduated' to acid techno, hard house, lock techno, goa and me eventually to darkpsy/forest...but nothing can ever match those first emotions on trance...what a time to be alive. grown men still weep for those days.

lots of candidates for what might be the best...The Bell Song, Universal Nation...i might go for this textbook euphoric example, while on its own maybe not memorable, but in the middle of a peak-time set it was totally perfect for the eed-up dancefloor of that time:






oh wow, all 200 miles with Psykovsky? that's amazing. what albums did you have on and do you have a favourite? i think Tanetsveta might still be mine, despite very strong showings since then. yeah, he has a couple of dark pieces (m muh seeng wuh springs to mind) but i agree, he's trippy & even uplifting...a real story-teller.

i have a tradition where i write with him after every new album, and he's got yet another one out so we exchanged some fine words, he even downloaded some of my own musik...what a guy!

his new album is dryer than previous works, it recalls Da Budet and a little Na Ve Ka. like Da Budet it's a real grower. This has a very hypnotic melodic groove between 3:45 - 5:30, almost like forest-psy in how the melodic licks help drive the flow:

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Da Budet and Na Ve Ka.

Tanetsveta is also my favourite though. That album is probably the closest musical approximation of an acid trip I've heard. Aura Leta is one of the finest bits of trance ever recorded.

Similar story to you as far as raving goes, I think. Used to go to Escape from Samsara once in a while, love the '90's trance sound, Eve Records, Noom etc. Then got into acid techno and the traveller/squat scene, used to play at that sort of do for a few years. A bunch of my mates are/were travellers and used to put on parties.

Never got into psy/goa so much, in fact, an awful lot of it does my nut in and I struggle with a whole night of it. There's a few stand out artists like Vasily, Simon Posford, Bigwigs, Doof and w few others, but heaps and heaps of bad music. Went to goa parties in Ko Phangan late '90's early 2000's and spent months there, but could never really get into it like I could with acid techno or schranz.
 
Blue 1 said:
Da Budet and Na Ve Ka.
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wow, you should like the new one then. It's striking how many people say To Now Knows When sounds like DMT.


Blue 1 said:
Tanetsveta is also my favourite though. That album is probably the closest musical approximation of an acid trip I've heard. Aura Leta is one of the finest bits of trance ever recorded.
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ha! i've tripped to it...saw visions of me creating line-by-line old items out of my childhood, most vividly my first ever tape player which i haven't even thought about since i broke it about age 7 or so. the various licks and layers of Tanetsveta kind of directed the data which brought these things back to mind. hard to describe, but great trip!

I uploaded Aura Leta almost 8 years ago with the description: one of the greatest moments in trance. - tho' had to cut out the Joy Division closure as back then youtube had 10-minute limits.

we're on the same page, i think! Call of Beauty is Aura Leta's spiritual successor, replete with lush vocals in the 2nd-half:




Blue 1 said:
Similar story to you as far as raving goes, I think. Used to go to Escape from Samsara once in a while, love the '90's trance sound, Eve Records, Noom etc. Then got into acid techno and the traveller/squat scene, used to play at that sort of do for a few years. A bunch of my mates are/were travellers and used to put on parties.
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who knows, we maybe bumped into each other, my Brixton time was 99-02ish before a massive crackdown, then we did our own thing in Hackney's Joiners Arms, then squat parties for a couple of years, like you i was involved a bit in setting up and playing. all had its moments like but was never the same thing as that old trance magic, K didn't help the vibes to be honest.


Blue 1 said:
Never got into psy/goa so much, in fact, an awful lot of it does my nut in and I struggle with a whole night of it. There's a few stand out artists like Vasily, Simon Posford, Bigwigs, Doof and w few others, but heaps and heaps of bad music. Went to goa parties in Ko Phangan late '90's early 2000's and spent months there, but could never really get into it like I could with acid techno or schranz.
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i get a bit mixed up with the term Schranz...i'm a big fan of what I call lock-groove techno, but some have called this Schranz, which I associate more with really hard filthy distorted techno. Here's 3 favourite techno tracks and all i'd put under the lock-groove (like a locked groove in vinyl) umbrella. The Reck track might be borderline Schranz...makes me lose actual control, it's got a brilliant youtube comment: "4:05 onwards it's time to check your graveyards"








i enjoy old-school goa, still love darkpsy/forest, also some full-on, but not so much standard psy-trance (progressive psy is as boring as Berlin minimal techno). Love me some Juno Reactor.

Here's a couple of goa-ish tracks which you might enjoy as they're not typical:



 

ste d' indica said:
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One of my favourite DnB tracks of all time. Finally got round to buying it on vinyl a few weeks ago.
dholliday said:
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Love that one. She was a genius, and I don't use the word lightly. She lived in Northampton during her last years and was something of a recluse. Pete Kember from the Spacemen 3 did some collaborations with her during that time and tried to rekindle her interest in making such music, with limited success.
 
Blue 1 said:
Love that one. She was a genius, and I don't use the word lightly. She lived in Northampton during her last years and was something of a recluse. Pete Kember from the Spacemen 3 did some collaborations with her during that time and tried to rekindle her interest in making such music, with limited success.
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aye big fan of hers too, we were talking about her in the main musik thread earlier...so any excuse to link my personal favourite Delia again:

 

uff...what a musical wormhole this forum's been the last day or two...one more for the road...my favourite live performance of synths this:

 

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