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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN thats an awesome story tathi! you da man! haha, thats pretty ballsy to avoid security like that. id be too much of a scaredy cat i reckon! the problem is, theres nothing better than lying on your bed with your headphones on, listening to deep melodic prog whilst youre offa. cant get enough of it. actually, all popular culture is more fun whilst stoned.

There was no way i was going to miss one of the sets of the year

I try to smoke only socially, cause i can see myself getting very addicted if i had a stash at home because as you say there is nothing better than listening to deep melodic prog while you're baked

Pot can be good in certain social situations, when i was travelling through South East Asia there was nothing better than passing around a joint while sitting at a Resteraunt in Laos or Cambodia, eating amazing dishes of food that were only $1US (Longnecks of beer were also $1) and then chatting about Politics, Philosophy, the meaning of life, etc, with backpackers from all around the world who have fascinatingly different view points to yourself. It tends to incite very interesting conversations so long as you've not had tooo much

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Originally posted by shaolin_z Another random question: How many of you guys still listen to Trance? Seems like most people who listened to trance eigther stopped listening to it by now or listen to Prog/House/Electro or somet combination of that stuff. And how many of you still listen to other EDM/electronic music?

Rarely listen to the uplifting stuff anymore, but i do enjoy some of the seminal stuff that came out in the mid 90's. Trance has become way to commercialised :/

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z BTW, a few weeks ago the servers crashed or something for DJMixes2K and the entire user data base was wiped out. So my ratio is gone (I uploaded over 132 gigs) but they're accepting new members now if any of you want to join.

thats good, i got banned from djmixes2k for downloading gigs of Digweed sets without seeding any

also click _here_ for an amazing Melodic Prog set by Andrew K (from Greece) i think even you would like this set PKC

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Originally posted by tathi thats good, i got banned from djmixes2k for downloading gigs of Digweed sets without seeding any also click _here_ for an amazing Melodic Prog set by Andrew K (from Greece) i think even you would like this set PKC

Thanks . Yeah, I'm sure their list of banned IPs got deleted too so now you can join again .

EDIT: I'm 16 minutes into the set. So far so good.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

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Originally posted by tathi ...if i had a stash at home because as you say there is nothing better than listening to deep melodic prog while you're baked

That also gets pretty old pretty quick, unfortunately .

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Originally posted by tathi Pot can be good in certain social situations, when i was travelling through South East Asia there was nothing better than passing around a joint while sitting at a Resteraunt in Laos or Cambodia, eating amazing dishes of food that were only $1US (Longnecks of beer were also $1) and then chatting about Politics, Philosophy, the meaning of life, etc, with backpackers from all around the world who have fascinatingly different view points to yourself. It tends to incite very interesting conversations so long as you've not had tooo much

That sounds kinda interesting.

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Originally posted by tathi Rarely listen to the uplifting stuff anymore, but i do enjoy some of the seminal stuff that came out in the mid 90's. Trance has become way to commercialised :/

I'm pretty much the same when it comes to Trance. Most of it pretty much sucks nowadays , except M.I.K.E, J00F, and maybe a few others. I'm waiting for that Andrew K set to get done since you mentioned him before, comparing his style to Nick Warren's. I've been listening to alot of Holden and Sasha lately. They're experimenting with some pretty interesting stuff these days . I can't wait to see Digweed this September .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Hmm... Interesting... I just found out after reading an interview with Sasha that Sasha & Digweed didn't use a conventional turntable-mixer setup to mix Northern Exposure but used Pro-tools. Eigther way, I don't think eigther one of them needs to prove their DJ skills and NE's still one of the best compilations I've ever heard.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

You know, I was going to say I didn't listen to trance anymore... but I'm glad to say Nou (yes, Nou) reminded me of why I like trance.

Or rather, eurodance.



This is by far, the most interesting song I heard this year slower than 145 BPM.

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Originally said by Adolf Fleisch Hitler How naive can people be? Curing the COR with messy hair and philosophy?

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Originally said by Maurice Moss I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk

^^ Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

An evil Picture,

This looks weird huh?? I was messing with my cheap camera, put it down on the couch and started to mix, an hour later, all of a sudden it flashed and scared the shit out of me. After I checked my shorts, ha ha I checked the camera. this pic was in it, I need a priest!!!!

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z ^^ Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

I'm not.

And, in case you're puzzled, here's the explanation:

First of all, the song is catchy - I've been playing it for the last hour non-stop. It's simple, cheesy and not even the producer takes it seriously. The whole thing is taken as a joke, from the lyrics talking about an internet bot to the video showing a "boat in a channel" (Christ, what a bad pun ). Besides, I used to love eurodance back in the day, and I love the retro feel of this tune.

I never managed to get into "prog", for example, because of its boring rhythm and lack of fun. It can't even brag about being musically interesting, because it's not (is there any real "inovation"?), although it pretends it is.

You probably realised I said it was the most interesting tune slower than 145, and that's because Acid Techno is still fun. NRG is just party music, and it's aware of this. Most punk rock is, well, punk rock.

And drum'n'bass, you like it or not, seems to have this inherent experimentalism... which is lacking in recent 4/4 genres.

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Originally said by Adolf Fleisch Hitler How naive can people be? Curing the COR with messy hair and philosophy?

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Originally said by Maurice Moss I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk

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Originally posted by LazFX An evil Picture, This looks weird huh?? I was messing with my cheap camera, put it down on the couch and started to mix, an hour later, all of a sudden it flashed and scared the shit out of me. After I checked my shorts, ha ha I checked the camera. this pic was in it, I need a priest!!!!

You look like you're morphing into the Hulk here .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

@ St_Andrew: My mom emailed me a bunch of pictures so I finally have one of myself on my computer. You can use this to update the PDD frapper thing since I didn't have one back then (where the hell did that thing go anyways?) https://webspace.utexas.edu/zaidiia/public/warwick.JPG

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller