'Psychedelic eMagazine'

On 2014-02-26 03:06, Psychedelic eMag wrote:

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On 2014-02-25 21:53, The Hypnotic LFO Room wrote: I hope you look at the underground too instead of just focusing on popular pop trance.

If you ask me, all psytrance scene is "underground".. There's no mainstream. I got your point tho and we're working towards that direction. furthermore, i appreciate your suggestion and if you wanna get deeper in this and explain it even further i'll be grateful. Nevertheless we're 100% open to ideas and suggestions, after all we're all from the same group of people

My point is that whenever you see a Festival review or artist review/interviews its 99% about big commercial festivals such as Ozora, Boom etc. and the same artists who play there year after year.

I miss non-commercial artists and festivals/parties getting a chance too.

An example. Last summer ZNA Gathering in Portugal happened. A 100% retro Festival with an amazing vision, crowd and not the usual 5-10"top" Goa artist playing but a mix of other artists who was just as popular in the 90's but totally ignored by today's "Supermarket" organizers. I did not see any magazines being interested. Instead they focused on the same commercial festivals and artists as usual.

To make it short. Focus on the real psytrance and goatrance = The underground. Not just commercial "machinegun-bass" pop-trance and Festivals who are into the scene to make money.

On 2014-02-26 14:02, Colin OOOD wrote:
Oh, and I disagree that all psytrance is 'underground'. Compared to some genres it is, maybe, but as with any genre there is still some psy made for the fame and the money, not for the music. Psytrance has its ghostwriters and fake artists, too!

On 2014-02-28 00:59, Carbuncle wrote:
Lost Theory Festival
Freqs Of Nature

lineups that you guys definitely should check and deal with such artists.. really pure psychedelic music coming out from those artists.. these only 2 from my side cheers

On 2014-02-28 04:15, Colin OOOD wrote:
A 'fake artist' IMO is someone who hires a ghostwriter - a composer or a music producer who often signs a non-disclosure agreement - to write the music that comes out under his or her name, and who then takes all credit for it. Like these guys:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/japan-beethoven-mamoru-samagochi-composer-deaf
(oh and all of a sudden the fraudster says he's not so deaf any more... )

In the last few months I've seen a Facebook page offering psytrance ghostwriting services, and I've followed up a couple of interesting comments I've seen on various places and actually got to talk to someone who used to work as a ghostwriter in the psytrance scene. He doesn't want to be a whistleblower so I won't give his name, and he didn't want to tell me specifically who he wrote for, but he did say "Yes, a couple of them have been famous but disappeared when they couldnt make any more "good" music." I don't know if you feel you have any reason to trust me, but we had a long chat about all sorts of stuff, and I trust him.

Anyway it's only a part of the scene and there's plenty of other things going on to concentrate on

On 2014-03-01 10:00, Upavas wrote:
Subscribed... and intrigued. Hopefully this is not "another" Magazine that concentrates it's attention to the more famous main stream producers (meaning the same old same old)

In the last 2 years or so I have found and connected with some amazing producers all over North America, you won't find them in Europe, at least not yet. I also find the magazines about Psy that are currently out there very very mainstream and when looking into some of the festivals they talked about here in Canada and also in the USA I was surprised that only the shitty ones were mentioned.

It would be great to see a magazine that really works with the scene instead of for the main stram Psy that's out there...

Prime example Rinkadink! Yes, he is a great producer, but I have already seen so much and heard so much about and of Werner that I wonder if this new e mag is not same old same old...
not that there is no good main stream psy out there and Werner does make good music! Also when I met him years ago I found him to be a nice chap... albeit his tunes as of late are a bit too mainstream for my taste (that's subjective though), needless to say that this type of interview has been done over and over...

Apart from advertisement revenue I wonder how you guys will make enough money to survive if you don't go the usual commercial route...

I wish you guys the best and very much look forward to checking out what you come up with!

Greetings and love!

With that said, all my life im trying to speak honest and honest i'll tell you that i don't like this separation of "main-stream" and "underground" in our scene. When this came up? From the separation of Full-On and Progressive?

There's no so much out there, imo. We had in our minds to feature both in our pages, top-class artists and "underground" (cause i see you like this term )

Is on Mtv? Playing at EDM Main Stream radios of the world? Did they play on Pacha and Amnesia at Ibiza?