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I miss Everything :(
In general, I think I miss the songwriting aspect most. Infected Mushroom really nailed it, which is why they're so popular. Nowadays, I can only find the Japanese doujin music scene among those that regularly mix and match psytrance with various other genres.
A few other recs going more in that direction:
- Talpa (https://sundancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-somberne...)
- Jerico's Law (https://juno909.bandcamp.com/album/another-law)
- Migma Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3dfWAOgloDDde... -- j-pop psytrance!)
- Hilight Tribe (https://hilighttribe.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-light)
- Koxbox (https://koxboxmemo604.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-unknown)
- Hallucinogen (https://hallucinogenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-lone-derang...)
- And finally, the best hi-tech work I've ever heard. Sephax - Electric Currents (https://alice-drecords.bandcamp.com/album/sephax-electric-cu...)
Someone else recognized the language he was speaking, and that it wasn't actually gibberish (and so he wasn't some crazy old man).
Put your lossless files on a server as a source-of-truth (with a regular cold backup somewhere else) and install a streaming server, like Navidrome[1], which will allow you to transcode on-the-fly to all of your devices. This is how you build a true "digital music collection": so that you won't regret it 5 years from now, when the site you bought your flac's from closes down/erases your files (as has happened before on Bandcamp when an artist account gets deleted!), leaving you solely with the reencoded mp3/opus files you kept, unable to move to better formats as they progress.
Where is that limit achieved? In the case of prosthetic limbs, should we seek to achieve perfect organic behavior replicability, or is anything further than that inhuman in some arcane way? Oscar Pistorius, AKA Blade Runner, earned Olympic medals despite having prosthetic legs. Is he advantaged or disadvantaged compared to other participants?
The anime series Texhnolyze touches heavily upon this subject, amongst others.
He didn't, the Syrian Arab Army and Russia did (and the Syrian Defense Forces, to an extent).
In the west, there used to be forums (like doujinstyle) dedicated to sharing new releases after every event, which turned into large discord servers in the past year. Otherwise, a lot of the releases can be found on Asia-oriented private trackers as well.
These are often the only way to get a chance of actually listening to the album, since there's generally a limited number of physical albums available for sale at the event, and reprints during the next edition of the convention are uncommon.
These are arranges or sometimes heavily sampled albums that simply wouldn't pass on typical streaming platforms. Just something like Death Grips' cult Exmilitary album got removed from Spotify because it used a tad too many samples to their taste (although luckily it's available for free on their website).
There's a WK deck if you really want to use their content.