Soma 2011 / New Years Celebration / 31 Dec 2010
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AYkiN0XiA replied on Wed Dec 22, 2010 @ 10:05pm |
 Coolness: 166520 | kill what? what is IT?? :P |
| I'm feeling inspired right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Wed Dec 22, 2010 @ 11:40pm |
 Coolness: 2603930 | 
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| I'm feeling nuclear right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Dec 23, 2010 @ 2:46pm |
 Coolness: 509505 | we're eatin' meat tonight! nothing to do with Soma, jus' saying |
| I'm feeling psyfun right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AYkiN0XiA replied on Thu Dec 23, 2010 @ 10:59pm |
| Coolness: 166520 | interesting read... it's always good to know what the party name means :)
[ en.wikipedia.org ] [ en.wikipedia.org ] <3 wikipedia :D |
| I'm feeling inspired right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AliceInAcidLand replied on Sat Dec 25, 2010 @ 2:20pm |
 Coolness: 180035 | W00t! Less than a week away!
I'm so psyched :3 This will be my 4th in a row now |
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| Good [+2]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Sat Dec 25, 2010 @ 2:44pm |
| Coolness: 2603930 | You should tell Jesse to stop spamming my event page and all my attending people... Not cool... |
| I'm feeling nuclear right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Br34th3 replied on Sun Dec 26, 2010 @ 8:15pm |
 Coolness: 127710 | (English message to follow)
Salut tout le monde! J'espere que vous avez passe un tres beau Noel! C'est maintenant le temps de penser au Jour de L'An qui arrive dans moin de 6 jours. Au menu pour SOMA 2011: une nouvelle deco completement malade, de l'excellente musique et un decompte a minuit! Voici le line-up: 10-12 Dj Zentrix 12-1:30 Dj Hexa-5 1:30-3 Dj Psydraulix 3-4 Kode Six (Live) 4-6 Scorb (Live) 6-7:30 Dj Br34th3 7:30-9:30 Virtual Light (Live) 9:30-12 Dj Symbolium On a tres hate de vous voir et feter l'arrivee de 2011 ensemble! Il reste encore des billets au coût de 30 $ au Psychonaut et sur [ www.wantickets.com. ] De plus, des billets seront disponible a la porte au cout de 40$. L'équipe de Phonolite et Psychonaut vous souhaite de joyeuses fêtes! ------------ Greetings one and all! We hope you had a very pleasant holiday season thus far! In less than 6 days we will be ushering in the new year at Soma 2011 with brand new deco, excellent music and a countdown at midnight! Lineup: 10-12 Dj Zentrix 12-1:30 Dj Hexa-5 1:30-3 Dj Psydraulix 3-4 Kode Six (Live) 4-6 Scorb (Live) 6-7:30 Dj Br34th3 7:30-9:30 Virtual Light (Live) 9:30-12 Dj Symbolium We are looking forward to seeing you and celebrating the coming of 2011 together! Tickets are still available at Psychonaut and on [ www.wantickets.com ] for $30 and there will tickets available at the door for $40. Happy Holidays from Phonolite and Psychonaut! Update » Br34th3 wrote on Mon Dec 27, 2010 @ 7:32pm Q'n'A Interview with Scorb by Kalan Bird December 27 2010... Enjoy!!
Please state your full name: Ady Connor, but I also write under the pseudonym Yod Onsen. Q: How old are you and how long have you been making music? A: I am 34 and have been performing music since I was about 11. I started out on drums and percussion playing Jazz, Rock, Metal, Big Band, Orchestral and Chamber music. I've been actively producing and releasing electronic music for a smidge over 10 years. Q: Where does the name Scorb come from? A: I get asked this a lot. It just sprang out of nowhere really and ticked all the boxes I wanted from a name. It had to be unique and have no existing associations, I wanted it short and monosyllabic, easy to pronounce and hear with an odd number of letters for symmetry in the logo. Even though it wasn't an existing word I think it somehow conjours up something in the imagination and I still like it. Q: Who or what influenced and helped shape your music the most? A: Learning and performing drums and percussion turned me on to music in a huge way when I was younger and there wasn't time for much else. Whilst I loved rock music I was also into 12" dance remixes when I was about 9 or 10. Believe it or not, Disco by the Pet Shop Boys was an early influence that provoked a fascination with synths and electronic sound. I dabbled with Octomed on the Amiga as a teenager and I was already hooked on early stand alone soft synths before it became possible to make electronic music completely in the box. I think what inspires me most is working on music with other people and checking out their ideas, inspirations and tastes. It really helps drive home the idea that there is always more to learn and always more than one way of doing things. Q: Whats your favorite Scorb track and why? A: Sometimes writing a track can be beautifully painless and the track seems to unfold naturally before you. Almost like you are witnessing it's creation rather than acting as the guiding hand. It's these ones that I can still enjoy listening to if I hear them again. A lot of the time though, there are so many tweaks and problem solving sessions during production that it's hard to appreciate what it was you originally liked about a track, at least for a considerable number of months after you complete work on it. During the production process, sounds that need attention are what I train my ears to listen for and I find it very hard if not impossible to come out of this mode when listening to my own music. I try to spend most studio time in getting the musicality and arrangement of a track right. The longer the production takes after this point, the less likely that I will enjoy listening to it again for a long time. I guess some tracks that I like are because I was happy with the production (The Ploy), other tracks because of the musical ideas in them (Sol Invictus) and others from the reaction they get on the dancefloor (Still Raving). Some I like just the titles (Jack the Kipper, Spilling Mistake) hehe! Q: What software do you use to produce your music? Do you use hardware at all? A: I use Ableton Live exclusively for producing and have done since about 2004. I find that it's one of the fastest and most inspirational sequencers to use, particularly for dance music. I rarely use any hardware. I am used to using computers from when I was a full time graphic designer, so getting creative ideas out using just software is something I am very comfortable with. Occasionally I'll use some sounds from the Virus or JP8000 if I'm in someone else's studio, but I've been making music exclusively inside the box since it was barely possible to do so. My studio at home consists of just a pair of monitors, a table to put my laptop on and a lot of acoustic treatment. Oh, and a chair! There's something quite liberating about having your entire studio in a backpack! Q: What other projects are you currently working on? A: At the moment we are putting the finishing tweaks to the Prism album "Freedom 35" which should be out in the Spring of 2011 on Trick Music. Prism is myself and Arnaud Levasseur (aka Concept) and we are excited by how the album has shaped up. Arnaud has also been very busy this year, setting up a Minimal House label with Samy Guediche (CPU) called SFX Recordings. In fact, we have put our shades on and started some cruising house tracks, which will be released shortly on SFX and Clubstream. There have been a few Squid Inc gigs recently so we've been getting more Squid Inc material together for a possible album next year. Hmm, what else… Oh yeah we have some filthy UK psy coming out in Late January, Phibian Vs Antispin - Dangerstrips EP. Not for the feint hearted. Q: How has the psychedelic/techno music industry changed since you first started and where do you see it headed? A: So much has changed. We are all playing on a much more level playing field, but one which is vaster than ever before. The technology and tools are available to anyone now to make music and release and promote it to a wide audience. The one thing that I've noticed more than anything is that the concept of music "ownership" has changed radically. Physical CD sales have dropped massively in the last 10 years and I think that new digital formats are a blessing as well as a curse. Why? Well, in the past a CD or vinyl was something to be treasured, released in limited edition, collectable. The music and presentation was tied up in a package that had inherent value. You could sell it to someone if and when you decided you no longer wanted it. Sometimes, if it was a limited edition, you could sell it at a vast profit even! With digital formats their are clear advantages to a physical CD (no manufacturing costs, running out of stock etc) but also you are asking people to buy something which has no inherent value. It can't be held in the hand and is worth nothing on the second hand / collectable market. Herein lies the problem. Much of the time digital stores are asking for as much (or more) money for a digital release compared to the equivalent release on CD. This smells like a rip off and I think it's putting a lot of traditional music consumers from buying into digital formats. I think that in the future we will see more artists selling tracks and exclusives through their own channels and hopefully at a more realistic price point. The digital stores are charging too much and previewing tracks in very poor quality. I'd like to see digital music prices cut by around 50% . If labels could do this it would go a long way to persuade the music stores to follow. Q: What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you on the road? A: There have been a few stories, perhaps most notable was when I burst out of an Onsen (Japanese bath house) and fell off the mountain naked in Hokkaido, Japan in 2003. I would really rather not go into the details of that right now, but it's where I got my Yod Onsen alias ;) Q: What do you see in the future for Scorb and Trick Music? A: At the moment I am remixing some of the earlier Scorb tracks. I've started with Mutoid and 13.5 hours and am contemplating which one to go back to next. Get in touch if you have any good suggestions! I will also start work on a new Scorb album in 2011. As for Trick Music, we have a lot of plans for the next year. We'll be working with some other great artists and focusing on developing our slower output. We're talking 134 bpm phat psychedelic goodness that will really resonate. Some of the new Orzels Machine material is doing very nicely and we may contemplate starting on an album soon. Mike Rucinski (the other half of Orzels Machine and Trick Music) is also getting ready some of his Reef Unit material for release. I'm really digging this, it's an extremely musical warm dubby vibe and I'm sure people are going to get into it. We're a little different from many psychedelic labels in that we aren't just pushing trance. I think all musical genres benefit from a bit of cross pollination and we aim to provide cutting edge psychedelic music that takes in dub, breaks, techno and other forms as well. Anyone who has tuned into one of our podcasts will understand we are pretty eclectic in what we listen to outside of the studio. I think that if Psytrance is going to move on from the slightly overtrodden territory of the last few years then it really needs to start taking influences from outside it's own comfort zone. After being on the scene for a while it's very easy to get tired of hearing the same gated synth effect repeated ad nauseam broken up with predictably unnecessary kick fills. There's a lot of this stuff out there and it's clearly only taking it's influences from other psytrance. This is actually very limiting for the style as people feel less able to move away from the "accepted" template. When this music first appeared there were no established rules and it sprouted and evolved like crazy with fresh sounds every weekend. Now it seems it's more like the template has evolved and people stick to it pretty rigidly because it's tried and tested. This isn't necessarily an all bad thing but it is a rather paradoxical situation given that the theme of much of this music is about being futuristic and embracing individual creativity. I like stuff that stands out from the crowd, something with it's own voice and individuality that makes you want to delve deeper. It's with this in mind that we continue to develop Trick Music. Q: What can we expect from your upcoming performance at Soma 2011 this New Years Eve? A: Well, now's a great time for the live set. I have plenty of unreleased goodness in store including some sneaky peaks of the new Prism album, some new Phibian material plus a stack of Scorb obviously. I've had a few requests in the last year for old school Scorb sets which led me to remix Mutoid and 13.5 Hours. I may play one or both of those, let's see. It's been five years since I was last here so it's great to be given an opportunity to let you hear what I've been up to. I look forward to seeing you on the dance floor in 2011 :) Scorb |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AliceInAcidLand replied on Tue Dec 28, 2010 @ 3:19pm |
| Coolness: 180035 | Originally Posted By NUCLEAR
You should tell Jesse to stop spamming my event page and all my attending people... Not cool... Why don't you tell him yourself? I'm not a fucking messenger. Fuck. I don't see a problem in a dj wanting his friends to come party and dance to his set on new years anyways. |
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| Good [+2]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Wed Dec 29, 2010 @ 12:23am |
| Coolness: 2603930 | I did tell him! Just I get yelled at when I do the same thing!!! |
| I'm feeling nuclear right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AYkiN0XiA replied on Wed Dec 29, 2010 @ 7:05pm |
| Coolness: 166520 | so... y'a pas la deuxieme salle? |
| I'm feeling inspired right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Wed Dec 29, 2010 @ 11:38pm |
| Coolness: 509505 | it's a new years eve secret special ultra hype super cool crazy room... shhh |
| I'm feeling psyfun right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Virtual_Light replied on Thu Dec 30, 2010 @ 11:38am |
 Coolness: 94710 | lol isn't Freedom 35 an early retirement plan ? haha nice one |
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