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psy_blue

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    psy_blue reacted to angelaweiss in news - 2016 - W16 (April 11 - 17) - release of the week poll   
    My vote goes for forgotten future's realignment EP. I love love love the journey it takes me through, starting with smooth ambient, evolving into psybient downtempo tracks and closing with three breakbeat - trance - glitchbreak remixes. It is such a diverse album at the same time a great continuous listen. Just an amazing release, a worthy continuation of last year's forgotten future album that won the poll here. I agree with timeisart that the Infinati release is also stands out for its uniqueness.
     
    I don't know about you all, but I want to be surprised as opposed to hear just another version of the typical melodies and beats... and these two albums definitely feature lots of original ideas and sounds.
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    psy_blue got a reaction from snowdrop in news - 2015 - W23 - release of the week poll   
    I've listened to the entire Forgotten Future album (actually just purchased the 24-bit flac) - to me this music is on a whole other level. Yes you can hear the Ultimae influence and the production quality is superb but what gets me is the extreme uncategorizableness (is that a word?) of this release. It feels psybient in general but has pure ambient tracks and also lots of acid sounds but no trance. Gets epic in 4-5 tracks but again, no trance. Vangelis comes to mind but there is no new age. Spacey psy, yes, but what about track #9 that to me is closer to some Rone tracks than anything psy. Even John Carpenter's minimalism seems to show up here and there.
    My point: listen IN FULL to get an accurate picture of this album.
     
    I was debating between it and Keziah's Angel, but when it comes to the "new" in "best new release of the week" imho forgotten future passes with flying colors and leaves me wanting more (luckily 3 more parts are coming, this one is the first of a 4-part series, according to their website). Gets my vote for awesome feel, production quality, and especially, character/originality.
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    psy_blue reacted to angelaweiss in Introductions (Say Hello)   
    Hello!
     
    I have been an occasional visitor to psybient.org for about a year, and finally decided to register today. What brought me here initially? My love for ambient, psybient, psychill  music, and interest in the process of making it and listening to it. What attracts me to the genre is that to me a good psybient / ambient release is the perfect marriage between warm emotions and technology (used to expand the horizons, not just to "impress" by distorting bass).
     
    My decision to join however came as after a studio-show in California yesterday, my google search for the artist (forgotten future) brought up one of the psybient.org pages (weekly releases) and I realized (again!) how many great new tracks are released every day that I'm not aware of. My love for Dragon Ball Z and its soundtrack as a teenager introduced me to the work of Julius Dobos, the composer behind forgotten future (I have been a fan of his since the early 2000s) - which completes this circle.  I'm also a huge Ultimae / Solar Fields and Altar Records fan and psyshop patron.
     
    Aside from my personal story...  I'm in interior design and acoustics, working with a major company that designs and redesigns listening spaces form the small project studio to some large venues, living my life between NYC, occasionally Silicon Valley, and my hometown Berlin, Germany.
     
    Glad to be here, finally "officially".
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    psy_blue got a reaction from angelaweiss in Where do you buy chill ambient downtempo CD's online ?   
    Prefer to buy from bandcamp to support the artist or label directly. Hard to find / out-of-stock titles from eBay.
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    psy_blue got a reaction from angelaweiss in news - 2015 - W23 - release of the week poll   
    I've listened to the entire Forgotten Future album (actually just purchased the 24-bit flac) - to me this music is on a whole other level. Yes you can hear the Ultimae influence and the production quality is superb but what gets me is the extreme uncategorizableness (is that a word?) of this release. It feels psybient in general but has pure ambient tracks and also lots of acid sounds but no trance. Gets epic in 4-5 tracks but again, no trance. Vangelis comes to mind but there is no new age. Spacey psy, yes, but what about track #9 that to me is closer to some Rone tracks than anything psy. Even John Carpenter's minimalism seems to show up here and there.
    My point: listen IN FULL to get an accurate picture of this album.
     
    I was debating between it and Keziah's Angel, but when it comes to the "new" in "best new release of the week" imho forgotten future passes with flying colors and leaves me wanting more (luckily 3 more parts are coming, this one is the first of a 4-part series, according to their website). Gets my vote for awesome feel, production quality, and especially, character/originality.
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    psy_blue got a reaction from timeisart in What makes a piece of music (or art) psychedelic?   
    No lyrics is definitely a plus for me as well in qualifying a track psychedelic, at least in the electronic music camp - psychedelic rock might be a different question but I suppose the OP was not referring to that. Timeisart I think you hit the mail on the head by referring to a trip to a place were "you would't normally go". To me this is a key element - I used to listen to John Williams, John Barry, etc. (orchestral soundtracks), which did take me places: to the "world" of the movie. But that's not very personal, does not come from your imagination, but kind of already laid out for you. So I'd expand your "definition" with "inspires the imagination to construct and go to not yet explored places".
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