Top 10 Reasons Parties were Better in the Last Millenium

I was more thinking of everyone else making good (hand-powered) use of the mental images you've provided them Sorry for being abrupt above, didn't mean to be dismissive.

Bunch of wankers.

Lurk kicked this off with 10 reason why it's not as good as it used to be and in 5 pages its become a toss up of members posting confessions about their daily wanks.

Oh how I love pie forum

Mate its cool... i was a bit confused by my own filth for a second back there, you weren't dismissive at all
: ) xx

Dib-Dabs are still about and they were/are the bag of sherbet with a lolly, Sherbert Fountains, although equally nostalgia-worthy, are the tube with a stick of liqourice.

This forum existed and became a battleground between the 2 largest London fluffy party organisers leading to the decline
Then came the coke
Then came the ket

How marvel ... i love your flicker page ..

Bring back

Daily??

That shows restraint!

Is having a wank like eating a tube Pringles? Once you pop , you just cant stop???

Sorry Lurk mate ; ) i will stop with the unintentional friday night derailing and start being more serious about my trance. (serious face mode)

I R SERIOUS DAMN IT !!!

... i used to love this stuff... always wanted to try it while i was tripping

Ive read the thread and i dont think anyone has mentioned my major gripe with todays 'psy' trance.Its the basslines. Pre 1999 each track had its own unique bassline. Nowadays every single basssline is that 'variant of the 16th note dagenham,dagenham' rubbish. Not only does it sound crap, they are all the fucking same! How can a style of music have all the same bassline? (did i miss a meeting here?). So all sorts of 'different' psytrance still sounds exactly the same as each other cos you've got this weedy little propeller chugging along at bass frequencies that barely scratch the surface of what bass can actually do. Sort it out ffs.

in the 'good old days' psytrance was alot more difficult to mix, which kept the talentless away, and there wasnt a traktor to do it all for you.This variance in basslines from track to track meant that it was unlikely that you would have two artists sounding alike (unless it was someone properly just ripping someone else's sound off, but then this was so obvious you wouldnt really get away with it). This is because a different bass pitch/tone etc would lead the producer to alter their mid/top end tones accordingly to fit with the bass sound(or vice versa).


Nowadays, i know for sure that lots of peeps keep their sounds very similar so they can freely swap ideas & sounds around with each other.This leads to music that is much easier to make than it is to listen to, and, imo, this should be the other way around....

Don't know what 'psy' trance you're talking about, there's quite a big variance of basslines out there.

I stand corrected!

Give 'em to granny

hahahaha

Good point there Jim! If you listen to Goa albums from the '90s now, it's amazing how much variation there was compared to new releases.
I must admit, when I re-discovered psytrance in 2008, my first reaction was WTF? All the basslines are the same. I wasn't overly keen either at first, on the 16th note duggaduggaduggas, especially having listened to mainly techno for years.
I had a go at knocking out a mix from my new CDs and gave it to another techno loving pal who used to produce some tunes himself and his reaction was: " yeah, there's some good tracks, but why do all the basslines sound the same? It's like they've run out of ideas."

Somewhere along the line though, after hearing the new psytrance basslines at a few parties, that's all changed and I LOVE them now! There's a special comfy massaging effect that psy bass gives me, that I've never experienced before.
I'm hooked - for better or worse!

lol something like that yes ^^

Alright, i'm convinced.
It's not as good as it used to be.

Here's five reasons parties were better in the 1970s:
1. There was no Criminal Justice Act
2. Parties really were free
3. we had Bott's and Kemp's LSD
4. Psytrance didn't exist.
5. Most of you lot weren't born.

anyone know who did the first rolling dagenham bassline? i gunna guess cosma.