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  1. Yeah, it's a fairly large scene with it's own huge festivals with maybe Boom being biggest in Europe. It also overlaps somewhat with the backpacker scene and people go to places like Thailand to join full moon parties. Even in the country the size of Finland we have at least one psy festival a year and I remember that some people even tried to launch a psy magazine at some point. But there's Finland specific peculiarities in the scene, like the Finnish underground hip hop scene is connected with the psy festivals and there's a Finnish version of psytrance called suomisaundi or spugedelic trance which is more melodic and acid influenced than the mainstream psy.
  2. OK, this isn't psybient actually but I think this is one of the hidden gems in that kind of the Orbesque, FSOL-like genre: Voices of Kwah - Silver Bowl Transmission , released in 1996. I can only find their more poppy stuff on youtube, so I can't give any examples but the Silver Bowl Transmission is a trippy mixture of FSOL kind of stuff and glossolalia singing. Good luck finding it though..
  3. Ah, I used to listen to his stuff back in the days of mp3.com. He had a bunch of free tracks available there that I think still have stashed somewhere.
  4. I think there are audiowise differences between "normal" chill out and psybient. Like for example psybient uses time stretching similar to psytrance to give the music a trippy feel. Also the sound is more compressed and dance music like than regular chill out (well, anyway what I've been listening). Also there is a pretty clear thematic undercurrent in psybient: psychedelics, DMT, LSD, ayahuasca and all things related to them when it's not at least so upfront in other electronic music except for psytrance. That's what has been really putting me off from psybient lately. It sometimes sounds like a fucking brainwash attempt by some weird drug addled cult. I still enjoy listening to Divine Moments of Truth though.. makes chills run down my spine.
  5. Haven't really listened to psybient lately. Kind of drifted away from that psy-trance thing. Anyway, Shpongle is pretty much essential, but you probably know that. If you don't then grab the first two Shpongle albums. Simon Posford is pretty much THE psybient producer (also in Shpongle) so you might want to look what he's been up to. He has a shitload of aliases. I have heard the psy-hippies praise Younger Brother but haven't bothered with it myself. Ott's Blumenkraft is also quite good.
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    So far it's been great. It's set in near future Istanbul. I've read the River of Gods, Cyberabad Days and Brasyl from him before and this has been the best so far. They're all sort of 3rd world cyberpunk, set in India and Brazil respectively.
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    Lol, I kinda want to read this: http://www.bogost.com/blog/10_print_announce.shtml
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    been meaning to get my hands on some of his stuff. where to start? I've been reading just the travelogues, but from there I'd start from Shenzhen and work chronologically from there, because he sometimes references back to his older work and you can see him developing over time. Though Shenzhen is a bit more boring than the rest in my opinion, so if you like you could skip straight to Pyongyang where the stuff gets more interesting.
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    I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and Guy Delisle's Jerusalem, which is great. I've read his Shenzhen, Pyongyang and Burma books before, all top notch. But beside those I'm also reading this fucker: It's a description of fundamental physical laws and mathematics needed to understand them in 1100 pages.. I'm kinda out of my depth with this one, I may just as well soon give up. The speed in which new ideas are introduced is breathtaking and his approach to some things is not really the most intuitive to say the least. Even when he's dealing with something relatively simple like Newtonian mechanics the mathematics get pretty heavy.
  10. Oh man, I like good basslines but there are so many. Liquid Liquid's Cavern and Squarepusher's Iambic 5 poetry are fucking great as mentioned previously. Good dub basslines are just heavenly: Also The Orb has many great ones Blue Room 12" version for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMZDBdoe8g Slug Dub has pretty insane in the bass line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2etnJW0NxjE Also check out Jah Wobble: And of course P-Funk, especially Bootsy: George Clinton:
  11. Lol, also an Amber review mentions the Casio keyboards, but seemingly it's from a different guy:
  12. I've been thinking about joining the local zen group to practice some meditation. I've tried zazen at home on my own but some kind of outside help would be beneficial I think. I've also practiced tai chi chuan on and off for few years. It's a sort of meditation practice because the point is to clear your mind and concentrate on the movement and the breathing.
  13. Hey, thanks for reminding me of the Gentle People. I did not know there were remix compilations out there until I just googled now. http://www.discogs.com/Gentle-People-I-Love-The-Gentle-People/release/2040484 http://www.discogs.com/Gentle-People-Mix-Gently/release/40983 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAViouy-4VY Got to try to grab these.
  14. I just finished a Lancaster Bomber.
  15. It's really hard to put them in order. The top four would probably be Untilted, Confield, Chiastic Slide and Oversteps. Not necessarily in that order.
  16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY2lYHdld-8
  17. LSD is not a Tryptamine it is an Ergoline and closer to a Phenethylamine than a Tryptamine. LSD contains the tryptamine backbone in its structure, so technically it is a tryptamine. But it's of course also ergoline.
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