news - 2016 - W50 (December 5-11) - release of the week poll

[timeisart 170]

 

Hi guys,

I invite you to discuss and highlight the music releases that have been announced this week in psybient.org news. You are very welcome to vote for your favourite, most 'interesting' album(s) and/or share your impressions and thoughts on the music.

 

Embedded players for each release are under the spoiler - click 'show' below to display them. For previews of non-Bandcamp releases, click on the link.

 

 

 

Aythar - Arctic Night EP [self Released] {Ambient}

B. Ashra - Open The Door [separated Beats] {Psybient}

Beatfarmer & Shankara - Encounter [street Ritual] {Bass}

Clockmelt - Pyramystic [self Released] {Ambient}

Earth Grid - Earth Grid [Eardream Music] {Psybient}

Estray - Axion Esti [self Released] {Psybient}

Estray - Unreleased Works #02 [self Released] {Psybient}

Floating Machine - Fragments [self Released] {Dub Techno}

High Dude & Lck - From The Darkness [Outtalectuals] {Bass}

Kathedral - Inside The Open Eye [self Released] {Psybient}

Kratos Himself - Stay True [self Released] {Downtempo}

Master Margherita - Selections by Master Margherita [sofa Beats] {Psydub}

Matthew David's Mindflight - A Meditation On Events In 2016 [Leaving Records] {Ambient}

Michael Garfield - Duende [self Released] {Ambient}

Nibana - Fireside Tales [ADN Music] {Psybient}

One Arc Degree & Trinaural In Dub - Coalescence [Ovnimoon Records] {Ambient}

Pilot To Paradise - Wheels Of Trancefusion [self Released] {Psybient}

Pranasonics - A Substitute For Love [self Released] {Psybient}

Rakoon - Our Smiles [self Released] {Psydub}

Rumpistol - Eyes Open Wide [iboga Records] {Psybient}

Sacral Crown - Patience EP [self Released] {Bass}

Shamanavi - We Are Not Alone [self Released] {Bass}

Smooth - Vintage 04 [Cyan Music] {Dub Techno}

Sonic Mind - Kristinelund [Electric Spin Records] {Psybient}

Tactyl - E=MCfreak [bowlba Records] {Psydub}

Tetarise - Playing In The Glow [self Released] {Psybient}

Various Artists - 5 Years Of Gravitas [Gravitas Recordings] {Bass}

Various Artists - Ethnostep 6 [subbass] {Psybient}

Various Artists - Heterodox [Thaz Dope Records] {Bass}

Various Artists - Inner Bliss [Electric Spin Records] {Psybient}

Various Artists - Terra Immotus [universal Tribe Records] {Chillgressive}

Xspance - Melodyheart [section Records] {Downtempo}

Yagya - Stars And Dust [Delsin Records] {Dub Techno}

Youth & Gaudi - 2063: A Dub Odyssey [Liquid Sound Design] {Psydub}

 

 

 

Results for last week (these are the results after one week of voting - you can still vote and comment on this selection - click here!):

 

 

 

5 Votes - Zero Cult - Closer Than Ever [Cosmicleaf Records] {Psybient}
3 Votes - E-Mantra - Oblivion [Melusine Records] {Psybient}
3 Votes - Various Artists - Mindsphere [Noosphere Network] {Chillgressive}
2 Votes - Giyo - Somnambulist [self Released] {Downtempo}
2 Votes - Hadron Orchestra - Angel Technologies [self Released] {Psybient}
2 Votes - Martin Nonstatic - Granite Remixes [ultimae Records] {Psybient}
2 Votes - Wildlight - The Tide Remixes [Jumpsuit Records] {Downtempo}
1 Vote - Andy Pickford - Harmonics In The Silence [self Released] {Psybient}
1 Vote - Ascendant - Source Transmission [synphaera Records] {Psybient}
1 Vote - AstroPilot - Fruits Of The Imagination (Remastered 2016) [AstroPilot Music] {Psybient}
1 Vote - Aythar - Dream Of Stars (Selected Ambient Works 2010-2015) [Txt Recordings] {Ambient}
1 Vote - Beatroots - Providing Pressure [shanti Planti] {Bass}
1 Vote - Flucturion 2.0 - In The Interval Between [spaceradio Records] {Chillgressive}
1 Vote - James Murray - Eyes To The Height [ultimae Records] {Psybient}
1 Vote - Jim Ottaway - Timeless e-Motion [self Released] {Ambient}
1 Vote - Koan - Condemned [blue Tunes Chillout] {Psybient}
1 Vote - PsySutra - Nebulla Cebulla [Neogoa Records] {Psybient}
1 Vote - Stimulus Timbre - Ambient Pathways Vol. 2 [Cosmicleaf Records] {Psybient}

 

 

[Lorn 74]

This week is quite remarkable in that there are some absolutely horrid releases but also some truely remarkable and fresh sounds.

[timeisart 170]

lol yeah Lorn that's how it goes sometimes, but as the messenger I have to report on all of them.

 

Nibana, Pranasonics, Sonic Mind and Tactyl are getting my top votes this week

 

Rakoon always has a unique take on the psydub sound

 

also Earth Grid & B. Ashra have some interesting techno/psybient blends

[psydub 17]

You gotta chill to this kind of music.

[Gagarin Project 400]

lol yeah Lorn that's how it goes sometimes, but as the messenger I have to report on all of them.

 

 

thank you again for all your efforts, you are "hero" of psybient

[timeisart 170]

thank you again for all your efforts, you are "hero" of psybient

thank you for the compliment. I have a question for you (and the rest of the forum too actually).. Are you enjoying this weekly poll format or would you prefer a monthly poll format if I decided to switch over to that?

 

A monthly poll would be more of a retrospective look back than the "news" format of the weekly polls. I would imagine that most of the releases I post here aren't "news" to anyone because you've heard about them during the week before you see the poll (or am I wrong here?), so a monthly poll might be better to look back on and discuss the best releases.

 

Making only 12 monthly polls instead of 52 weekly polls seems easier but maybe not since each monthly poll would probably contain 100+ releases each. Is that too much to absorb in one post, even though we'd have an entire month to listen to them before the next poll is posted?

 

I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.

[yiannis 201]

I definitely appreciate learning about new releases here and no, I don't necessarily learn about them somewhere else. However, like you suggested, I feel the monthly poll would give a different perspective to the voting. Maybe it could be two separate things, presentation and voting,

 

Not that there's anything wrong with how things are atm of course.

[timeisart 170]

Maybe it could be two separate things, presentation and voting.

 

That's a great idea yiannis.. I've occasionally noticed that some late votes will be added to the previous poll (not the current one), indicating that people might need more time to listen to releases before they make their votes.. so if there were still weekly release presentation threads (to introduce the releases but not containing polls) then at the end of the month have a big poll containing all of the month's releases would be the best of both worlds in my opinion.

[Gagarin Project 400]

That's a great idea yiannis.. I've occasionally noticed that some late votes will be added to the previous poll (not the current one), indicating that people might need more time to listen to releases before they make their votes.. so if there were still weekly release presentation threads (to introduce the releases but not containing polls) then at the end of the month have a big poll containing all of the month's releases would be the best of both worlds in my opinion.

 

obviously the current system and workflow can be optimized, but :

1) still people might not have time to listen the releases from the "latest" week. 

2) voting for 40-50 releases can be "hard".

 

1) what i mean: let's say we have 4 weeks in a month. so when we do a month vote, it will be still "not enough" time for "week 4 (latest week of the month)" release to be heard properly.

 

 

solution might be that we move all the votes to the main site. And we use forum to discuss them, but the audio players and vote interfaces will be on the main site. this way we can have votes running in parallel separately on weekly and monthly basis. (in web site we can easily to it - use same releases id )

 

[timeisart 170]

obviously the current system and workflow can be optimized, but :

1) still people might not have time to listen the releases from the "latest" week.

2) voting for 40-50 releases can be "hard".

 

1) what i mean: let's say we have 4 weeks in a month. so when we do a month vote, it will be still "not enough" time for "week 4 (latest week of the month)" release to be heard properly.

 

Both valid concerns but these problems seem unavoidable and will likely be minimized by leaving the voting for the monthly poll open for the entire next month, to allow people time to catch up and absorb the many releases.

 

solution might be that we move all the votes to the main site. And we use forum to discuss them, but the audio players and vote interfaces will be on the main site. this way we can have votes running in parallel separately on weekly and monthly basis. (in web site we can easily to it - use same releases id )

 

If you're talking about using that star rating plug in, the 2016 releases table shows that that voting system is too easily gamed and manipulated (it's obvious that some releases have one person voting on their release multiple times by getting around the plugin's security somehow). It really turned into a mess with all the "fake" votes and so I don't want to continue using that system in 2017. I think keeping the voting limited to a single monthly poll here in the forum will be a much cleaner and "true" option.

[Gagarin Project 400]

If you're talking about using that star rating plug in, the 2016 releases table shows that that voting system is too easily gamed and manipulated (it's obvious that some releases have one person voting on their release multiple times by getting around the plugin's security somehow). It really turned into a mess with all the "fake" votes and so I don't want to continue using that system in 2017. I think keeping the voting limited to a single monthly poll here in the forum will be a much cleaner and "true" option.

 

yes, i was talking about stars.... 

i was afraid that people will find a way to trick the system. 

[Gagarin Project 400]

enjoying A Substitute For Love by Pranasonics