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    Gagarin Project reacted to Globadelic in Globadelic - Trance Orient Express NYE Ruigoord Amsterdam (2015)   
    This set I played on the brink of 2015 @ the Trance Orient Express New Year party in Ruigoord Amsterdam.
    It is psybient & dub with global flavours. Hope you'll enjoy!
     

     
    Tracklist:
    1.Ecstatic Rapture (Open Space Mix) - Desert Dwellers
    2.Plug n Buzz -Tara Putra
    3.Pequenisky - Ishdub
    4.Ada - Cygna
    5.Interlude Sky - Asura
    6.Timeless Vibration - Globular
    7.Hella Dub - PhDeems
    8.Aurora - Martins Garden
    9.Dreamsters - Tipper
    10.Elementals - Kaminanda
    11.Wandering Sadhu (Jef Stott Remix) - Desert Dwellers
    12.Varanasi Summer Dub - Lab's Cloud
    13.Voice of Spring - Kuba
    14.Low Red Moon - Maluns
    15.Baladi Dub - Makyo
    16.Pink The Floyd Remix - Kukan Dub Lagan
    17.Wimble Toot (100th Monkey Remix) - Banco De Gaia
    18.Depth Charge (Tor.Ma In Dub Remix) - Whitebear
    19.Kumbh Mela (Beatfarmer Remix) - Desert Dwellers
    20.Kamakshi Devi (feat. Avari) - Kalya Scintilla
    21.Inner dub - Low End
    22.Signals From Bob - Ott
    23.Arabic Psymphony 2012 - Astropilot
    24.One Way (Tor.Ma In Dub Rmx) - Loud
    25.Occupy All Streets Original Mix - Kukan Dub Lagan
    26.Kunilingus - Chronos
    27.Neuron Circus - Androcell
    28.Screaming Butterfly (Dub Mix) - Etnica
    29.Taking the Plunge - Globular
    30.Flower Sun - Zoungla
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    Gagarin Project got a reaction from Globadelic in Music streaming industry discussions (soundcloud, mixcloud, spotify, youtube etc)   
    Friends,
     
    Let's discuss the music streaming, artist royalties, advertising etc.

    Youtube, Mixcloud, Spotify pay royalties to artist, but how fair are they?

    - Would be interesting to hear from artist what do they think about the income from these services

    - Would be lovely to hear from streaming users why they prefer certain services over others 

    From what i see now, streaming wil notl give appropriate amount of money to artists, so if you like something you listen via streaming and if you wish to thank to the artist, try to purchase something or donate to artist. or in worse case spread word
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    Gagarin Project got a reaction from unknown music in Spirituality and Electronic Music   
    We started this whole psybient.org project, because we believe that psybient downtempo music has a positive impact on human mind and it reconnects us both to ancient world of sounds and to eternal cosmic energy of the universe! We all know that good music is beneficial for body, mind and spirit! 
     
    psybient / psychill music is often based / integrate elements of traditional instuments, talks about counscioness shamanic rhythm and so on. In general spirituality and trance music and events are highly interconnected. I would like to remind you about this wonderful documentary about spirituality and electronic music. It is called "Electronic Awakening" and it was released in old 2011. 
     
    I was going to buy the DVD but i manage to wathc the full version online by using some a browser plugin.
     
    You can watch he full version here, unfortunately it is available only to people that are in USA. I actually managed to watch in from EUrope by using some browser "proxy" plugin.
     
    Electronic Awakening (2011) video
    http://www.hulu.com/watch/477301
     
    Teaser

     
    6 min sample

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    Gagarin Project got a reaction from BEAT D FENDER in Androcell - Imbue (2014) [Altar Records] (psybient, psydub)   
    Artist: Androcell
    Album: Imbue
    Type: album
    Style tags: Psydub
    Media type: CD/WEB
    Year: 2014
    Label: Altar Records
    Catalog ID: ARCDA46
    Length: 00:59:41
    official url: https://androcell.bandcamp.com/album/imbue
     
    Tracklist:
    1. Smile On (07:31)
    2. Under The Sun (06:46)
    3. Trodding Valleys (06:49)
    4. Pushing Onward (08:28)
    5. Finding Our Bliss (06:26)
    6. Neuron Circus (07:32)
    7. Sacred Encounter (07:38)
    8. Root Of Pharmacology (08:28)
     


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    Gagarin Project reacted to via'on in Essential tips, plugins and VST   
    I love big knobs.
     
    TC Electronic make a good passive volume knob :

    I've been using it for 7 years, still handy and not much crackling. 
     
    Otherwise, to answer your question, maybe me most important trick I know about mixing is "all is about balance" : balance between instruments levels, spectrum occupancy and spatialization. Set a priority list in your head and don't be afraid to cut useless frequencies. 
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    Gagarin Project reacted to DJ Chien in Your favourite books   
    Island, so smart a book...!
     
     
    The Art of Listening, by Erich Fromm. For those who are interested in the understanding of everyday human behaviors and basic mechanisms about how we form expectations in life!
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    Gagarin Project reacted to neil (spatialize) in Ishq - Autumn Light (2015) [Virtual]   
    that matt hillier.  he never stops.
     
    love the ishq
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    Gagarin Project reacted to neil (spatialize) in Experiments in Silence - Hidden Harmonic 2014 [Txt] (Deep ambient, scape)   
    Welcome to the late night electronic floating world where synths and samplers play themselves and music arises effortlessly.......

    This is the debut album from Experiments in Silence, the soundscape and experimental ambient project of Neil Butler from Spatialize, featuring 2 tracks co-written with Matt Hillier of Ishq. Also features an Experiments in Silence remix of a Cloudcycle track which became 'A Ghost of Stars'.

    Limited CD edition Sold out at www.txtrecordings.co.uk creditsreleased 15 May 2014

    Synths, spaces, paths & networks, grains & mastering by Neil Butler

    All tracks written on western UK coastal fringes by Neil Butler except:

    A Ghost of Stars (Butler / Hunter / Liguori / Antognini)
    As Gentle Rain Falls (Butler / Hillier)
    Duskforms (Butler / Hillier)

    Cover photography by Scott Howse

    www.experimentsinsilence.bandcamp.com
    www.facebook.com/experimentsinsilence
    www.soundcloud.com/experimentsinsilence
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    Gagarin Project reacted to snowdrop in SnÏ•wDrδp - lunar internet radio - new moon grooves   
    Hey, thanks Big, big respect and gratitude for what you do brother.
     
    I'll be on the mic introducing the show and the guest mix, and probably commenting on recent releases, or anything else that pops into my head But yeah, mostly just letting the music speak for itself
     
    It'll be great to have you if you make it! Peace and love xx
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    Gagarin Project reacted to neil (spatialize) in Spatialize   
    thanks gargarin.  i edited the post to show the bandcamp link.  very helpful for sure mate
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    Gagarin Project reacted to Spinnet (One Arc Degree) in Introductions (Say Hello)   
    Greeting from the south aegean island of Kalymnos!
     
    I have been visiting psybient.org for a good while now, its a great place to find about lots of interesting releases plus nice interviews. I have been listening to ambient / chill music since 2000 and it's been a great ride so far. I began experimenting with computer music software to create my own works around 2006, at the time I had just finished my master at theoretical physics in the Netherlands. 
     
    So, for the last five years I have been living in Kalymnos, working as a high school teacher in physics & chemistry. In my free time I produce as much music as I can. I enjoy trying my hand at various styles & tempos, but I definitely gravitate towards atmospheric and dub-influenced textures. Inspiring artists are too many to mention... but a few names stand out like ASC, Aes Dana, Autechre, Murcof, Burial, Machinedrum, Solar Fields, Bluetech (in his various guises) and I'm sure I'm forgetting many highly influencial artists here.
     
    In general, I love science fiction themes and aesthetics and that extends to music as well.
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    Gagarin Project reacted to yiannis in Androcell - Imbue (2014) [Altar Records] (psybient, psydub)   
    Hmm, although I enjoy it, it's probably my least favourite of his albums. Who knows, maybe it'll turn out to be a grower?
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    Gagarin Project reacted to Soul Shanti in When did you start listening to psybient / psychill music?   
    I came relatively late to the party, starting around 2011 by listening to Shpongle and Entheogenic at first, coming from a psytrance background. I felt in love right away, but didnt know back then that there was a huge world of psybient beside these two acts. Nowdays, I discover new artists weekly and it just never stop. I am not complaining!
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    Gagarin Project reacted to schofield in How to release a dj set in internet (naming, tagging, cover art)? My way to do it.   
    Great post.  I generally don't do the zip folder with the cover art, cue file and text file.  However I do embed the cover art into the mp3 (320) and enter the tracklist into the lyrics.  The cue file however I do think is a good idea for the reasons you stated above.
     
    I use Media Monkey to add the tags in much the same way that you have above.
     
    I also agree that the tracklist should aways be presented.  So many times I've wanted to purchase music I've heard in a dj mix and haven't been able to identify the track or artis.  It's annoying!
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    Gagarin Project reacted to marsh in Crispy - Psilicon Dreams 13 (2011)   
    Agreed! Crispy is currently involved in a "psychedelic jam band" that's got some stuff up on Soundcloud if you'd like to check it out. You can find out more on their Facebook page:
     
    https://www.facebook.com/sonicshiva
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    Gagarin Project got a reaction from un1ty in How to release a dj set in internet (naming, tagging, cover art)? My way to do it.   
    Maybe it is not the pro way to do it, but in this way i do feel that i am creating something that is listener friendly. I've seen some other people around me doing and created my own approach. Being probably the biggest consumer of my mixes, i like them to look "nice" on my audio players.
     
    I am sharing the technical aspect of creating DJ mix, the "legally" proper way is to contact each of the artist/labels and ask them for permission to use a track in dj mix. Well i guess 99% of dj's in internet don't do it and i am one of those. Actually most of the time if you provide proper credits (information about track-list) most of the artist will thank you for promoting what their music. 
     
    Creating of mix and archive file
    Recording a mix (following an idea or experimenting, track pre-selection or improvisation) Checking the mix (i do not like to re-record mixes, but sometimes is necessary) Intro / Outro - fade in / fade out (to make it smooth)  (optional) mastering. ( i am not doing it, but i know some people do it). Here is discussion on this subject. Giving the name to the mix Track-list (i think this is a mandatory for all the mixes that are released to public, dj's must give credits to all the artist tracks they use) Basic mix info to the text file Cover art creation (i usually use a creative commons licensed images and i edit them in photoshop) (optional) i create a .cue file.This file is useful when you record a mix to CD, as it give the information to cd recording program about the track length. This way when mix is recorded to CD you can skip tracks. This .cue file will allow to skip tracks when you use some of the software audio players on your computers. put everything to a folder (audio file + text file + cover art file + cue) Preparing mp3 file to online / offline sharing
    As I record my mixes to the wave format, i keep the lossless version of file for archive (i convert them to Apple lossless format, but FLAC, AIFF can do the job as good).
    Then I convert it to mp3 (320 kbps). This file will be uploaded. using Itunes i add all tags: artist, name, year, style etc (see screenshot) a add cover art i add track-list to lyrics field  (see screenshot) i name the mp3 file properly (something like this Gagarin_Project_-_32_-_Cosmic_Awakening_-_10_-_Earth.mp3).Adding number to the mix allow me to keep them sorted if they are stored in one folder) adding "underlines" instead of spaces can be useful when you upload files. (this allow to view all this information on some audio players, for instance the track-list can be easily visible by ipod/iphone). It also help for people to identify the author of the mix. 
     
    if i want to make mix publicly available i will upload it to online streaming services (soundcoud and mixcloud) and will share share it to groups on soundcloud and facebook.
     
    you can look here the example of a folder with all files => http://www.gagarinproject.org/download-our-mixes/
     
    Last but not least, i think dj's shall support/buy the music they mix, listeners shall support/buy original artists. 
     
    Let me know if it was interesting / useful for you to read
     
    p.s.
    This workflow might sounds complex, well i do it like this.
     
    p.p.s.


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    Gagarin Project reacted to Inertia in Inertia - Sunday Evening Downtempo (Brighton, UK) - Next event: 05/04/2015   
    Inertia is a monthly Sunday evening downtempo & chill night in a seafront venue in Brighton, UK.

    In order to keep the forum spam free we will be keeping this single thread updated with details for each event.

     

     



     

    Inertia - Sunday 1st February

     

     

    Grains of Sound

    Continuum

    Seashoe

    OmNebula

    Evelyn Conn

     

    Free Entry || 19:00 - 00:00

     

     

    Facebook Event

     

     

    Fortune of War

    157 King's Road

    Brighton

    East Sussex

    BN1 1NB

     

    Pictures from this event can be seen here.

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    Gagarin Project reacted to Spinnet (One Arc Degree) in One Arc Degree - Under A Trillion Suns (2014) [Microcosmos] (downtempo, trance, chill)   
    Artist: One Arc Degree Album: Under A Trillion Suns Type: EP Style tags: Chillout, Downtempo, Trance Media type: DIGITAL Year: 2014 Label: Microcosmos Records Catalog ID: MCRCSMS012 Length: 00:29:00 official url: http://microcosmosrecords.com/one-arc-degree-trillion-suns/   Tracklist: 1. The Star Orchard (07:04) 2. Futurism (07:08) 3. Under A Trillion Suns (06:17) 4. For The Love Of Despair (08:29)  
    Our first extended play release was hosted by the wonderful people at Microcosmos Records. This was a big release for us, marking a shift in direction from our usual breakbeat / drum & bass rhythms into a deep & mellow 4/4 trancy style. The defining One Arc Degree melodies and ethereal atmosphere is ever present, as well as the soprano voice of Georgia Irakli plus a guest appearance from another great vocalist, Ivilinia. Enjoy the music, I hope you'll find it interesting! 
     

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    Gagarin Project got a reaction from snowdrop in Androcell - Imbue (2014) [Altar Records] (psybient, psydub)   
    Artist: Androcell
    Album: Imbue
    Type: album
    Style tags: Psydub
    Media type: CD/WEB
    Year: 2014
    Label: Altar Records
    Catalog ID: ARCDA46
    Length: 00:59:41
    official url: https://androcell.bandcamp.com/album/imbue
     
    Tracklist:
    1. Smile On (07:31)
    2. Under The Sun (06:46)
    3. Trodding Valleys (06:49)
    4. Pushing Onward (08:28)
    5. Finding Our Bliss (06:26)
    6. Neuron Circus (07:32)
    7. Sacred Encounter (07:38)
    8. Root Of Pharmacology (08:28)
     


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    Gagarin Project reacted to yiannis in When did you start listening to psybient / psychill music?   
    There was actually a full page on psybient at the time, with recommended artists and labels. I started buying some of the recommedations and downloaded any bits and pieces I could get my hands on on Limewire. And yes, the psybient packs were pure gold too, I learned loads from them. Nowadays it's mainly through your site I learn about new releases, but also YouTube, Ektoplazm, some bandcamp pages and some other, less, erm, legitimate sources. We're spoilt for choice nowadays so it's not a big deal if I miss some releases.
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    Gagarin Project reacted to andorra in Stereo width VST recommendations   
    Here's a free stereo control plugin.
     
    http://a1audio.de/index.php/a1stereocontrol
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    Gagarin Project reacted to Mr. UPGrade in Stereo width VST recommendations   
    For analizing and shaping stereo with i often use
     
    Flux stereo tool (http://www.fluxhome.com/products/)
     
    and 
     
    Voxengo MSED (http://www.voxengo.com/product/msed/)
     
    Both are free
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    Gagarin Project reacted to Phase47 in what music library/player app do you use and how you organise your collection ?   
    iTunes for collection organization.
     
    Traktor for playlist creation.
     
    Portable library on iPhone or iPad.
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    Gagarin Project reacted to unknown music in what music library/player app do you use and how you organise your collection ?   
    For organizing my music library I use a modified version of the application foobar2000, as well as a bunch of other third party software for editing tags, converting audio formats, etc.
     
    The folder structure goes somewhat like this [Genre] / [Album Artist] / [Year] - [Album Name] / [##] - [Track Name]
     
    On Discogs and last.fm I look up a lot of the relevant information for the album, like release year, country, record label, album artwork, style tags, background info (so that it can all be searchable and easily identifiable). I follow certain structures, like if an album is a compilation album released by a label and no particular artist, I make the album artist the name of that label and group them together that way. For the genres and styles I use the modern id3 v2.4 standard, which is not widely supported but allows for multi-genre and multi-artist tagging. The first main categorical genre determines the genre folder it lands in. All the other genres and styles are stored as extra descriptors so that everything can be browsed and queried using foobar's wonderful adaptive and re-programmable user interface.
     
    Using id3 v2.4 tags, I neatly write all this information to the files and adhere to a standard for the whole library and make sure that I have at least between 600x600 and 800x800 pixel size artwork
     
    My modified version of foobar displays a waveform seekbar, allowing me to visualize the current listening position of the song super imposed on top of the peak waveform of the whole song. This gives me extra insight when studying the dynamics of music and instantly allows me to see how a recording was mastered. Also, there is a high quality VU (peak and rms) combined meter, loudness normalized around -18LUFS using the EBU-R128 loudness normalization algorithm. This meter gives me a relativistic perspective on peak and rms dynamics and mastering quality of a song. Aside from this I have a very large display of the album artwork for more visual contemplation as well as a real time stereo fourier transformation of the audio signal, allowing visual cortex analysis of the temporal stereo frequency spectrum changes in the music I am listening to.
     
    Of course, I only listen to everything using ASIO soundcard drivers. The windows sound module alters and muddies up the sound as it is known to use weak resampling algorithms to mix multiple sources of audio together, myself and others have confirmed this through listening tests. When I listen through direct ASIO driver output I get more clear sonic quality and I can properly make out all of the finer details in recordings. Often times, I think most people don't realize that the difference between playing back a 24 bit lossles audio file and a decent quality mp3 file is negligible compared to the difference in sonic quality you get from switching to proper ASIO soundcard drivers. In other words, if you're not even using ASIO drivers, who cares if it's mp3 or wav? I say, make sure your digital signal processing chain and audio equipment is set up proper, then worry about which compression algorithms to use. In my experience, I am fairly happy with high quality mp3s for my music library; but of course I only work with at least 32 bit floating point wave files for all my serious audio editing work and do my calculations in 64 bit with 512x oversampling.
     
    Using my knowledge of computers, mathematics, and programming, I have learned certain truths about computer digital audio over the years and combined all this knowledge into my customized workflow with audio applications to really allow me to study and appreciate music in all its details.
     
    That's it for my music library. I have separate libraries for percussion hits, audio samples, recordings form portable recorder, etc. I primarily now use Reaper to compose, arrange, edit, mix, and master all my audio.
     
    Reaper is like a swiss army knife for the studio work and foobar2000 makes an excellent music exploration and studying tool ~
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