Indian State Of Goa Considers Renaming Itself “Progressive”

According to Ott, Goa Trance was invented in 1994 by Ott. The music quickly spread through North London Kebabberies and Cottaging venues before snowballing out to the widespread traveller community. Moving to the Indian coastline, the previous name Chip Shop Trance was dropped in favour of Goa and thus the scene was born.

Goa Trance is loved by wannabe hippies and cynical twats the world over. The fans, whose backgrounds range from middle class to upper middle class, travel up to a thousand miles for a good party — where they stand around talking shit to each other, often barefoot.

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– For the full article head over to PsyReviews. What are you doing here anyway?

Frank Herbert das antigas

Na época que eu escutava o “Piece of Mind” do Iron Maiden, eu não sabia o que era Frank Herbert… hoje em dia estou remontando as coleções antigas (Iron, Judas, Malmsteen, e muito mais) em MPC ou APE, e dando uma ouvida para relembrar. Não é que achei “To Tame A Land” no Piece of Mind? A música tem ‘cara’ de Dune logo de cara!

Mais um para a horda de artistas que prestaram tributo ao mestre Frank Herbert. Do Metal (Domine principalmente) ao PsyTrance (Astral Projection, Ananda, e muitos outros)…

John 00 Fleming To Compile Trance Album For Spun

No, we’re not kidding.

This is the man who said of the last 1200 mics album: “I was playing most of the tracks from this awesome album. Nine tracks of pure Psy bliss delivered in a very credible way.”

Of Raja Ram’s Stashbag 3: “You should buy this compilation for just the name alone!! Another great value album of unmixed tracks. You’ll find such names as GMS, 1200 Micrograms and Dino Psaras. A whole range of music from deep n dark to uplifting. Enough here for a full set!”

Of Astrix’s Artcore: “I can honestly say this is the best album that I have ever heard … Astrix is my Trance saviour!”

No need for any humour here folks. All the above reviews were written for some London’s IDJ magazine, and are archived on his website www.john00fleming.com.

His monthly psytrance radio show goes out on Digitally Imported and is then archived on……. Ministry of Sound.

Bom Shankar.

– Did I mention I love psyreviews? You crazy sob should come down to Brazil sometime.

Freguesa bonita não paga, mas também não leva

Olha o precinho do brinquedo:

Microsoft SQL 2005:

  • Enterprise Edition $25,000/processor
  • Standard Edition $6,000/processor
  • Workgroup Edition $3,899/processor
  • Express Edition FREE
  • A ‘vantagem’ é que parece que a Microsoft é mais razoável que a Oracle quando se fala de processadores dual core, a M$ diz que um processador dual core só conta como um processador, enquanto a Oracle se faz de desentendida…

    Alien Project “Apologises Unreservedly” For Accidentally Writing Half-Decent Track

    The Trance Police were called in last night to the weekend residedence of “Dirty” Ari “Stinker” Linker, better known as Alien Project, after a tune was released that was in the words of legendary UK trance DJ Quentin Ponsonby-Smythe “bangin’.”

    The tune was first played by Dutch psy legend DJ Unrlsd, and the crowd went wild. Chaos ensued, and the local hospital confirmed that one punter was overcome with “being impressed” while six more were rushed into the emergency room with “positive vibes.”

    The track, which cannot be named for fear of the damage it might cause, was released on a compilation which cannot be named for fear of the damage it might cause, on a label which cannot be named for fear of the damage it might cause. It features a sample from a film and a bassline, while sources confirmed the BPM was “somewhere in between 143 and 145,” declining to comment further.

    Alien Project issued a statement last week in which he “apologised unreservedly” for the mistake. “It was not my intention to cause offence or damage. I know people expect me to write music that becomes a soundtrack to their going to the bar, having a piss, or getting out a calculator to work out how much they and their housemates owe for the last quarter’s gas bill. On behalf of everyone concerned, I apologise.”

    – once again from the f*cking excellent PsyReviews. Excellent yes, even if he thinks TIP Purple is any good.

    Alien Project Uses Lavatory Unaided

    The world of israeli foundations was shaken to its trance yesterday, when Ari “I’m Not Gary Lineker” Linker managed to use the lavatory unaided.

    “He’s been out of nappies for some time now,” said Astrix, “but this is a real bonus to the scene. The last time i played on stage with him he was wearing Huggies Pull-Ups.”

    It is anticipated that Alien Projects music will still stink.

    – again from the excellent psyreviews

    Israeli Authorities Launch Full-Scale Emergency As Michelle Adamson Not Found On Album

    The world of Israeli Trance was shaken to its very roots yesterday with the news that an album was released on an Israeli label that did NOT feature the vocal talents of British trance wailer Michelle Adamson.

    The female singer, tasty, was unavailable for comment regaring the incident, thought entirely to be an oversight on the part of the label, who has declined to be interviewed.

    An August 2004 poll of Israeli trance producers found that 92% would consider having Michelle in to sing on at least a couple of tunes, “if they thought there was a slight chance of a shag in it.”

    A September 2004 poll of worldwide trance recordbuyers found that 92% would consider buying a record featuring Michelle singing on at least a couple of tunes, “if they thought there was a slight chance of a shag in it.”

    The “27″ year old, envy of every male trance Dj on the planet for having snogged Posford on more than one occasion, has recorded with trance artists such as Beat Hackers and Sub-6. Previously she was the Dido to Shpongle’s Eminem, and also sung in French on the Younger Brother album.

    “How this happened is a disgrace to the industry,” said a statement issued by an unnamed official within the Israeli government’s Ministry For Trance, Fluoro Bracelets And Amazingly Good Pills. “We have placed everything on full alert and will be investigating this matter thoroughly.”

    valeu amigos e orkut

    Queria agradecer, mesmo que de forma impessoal, aqui no blog, todos que me parabenizaram pelo aniversário na semana passada, foram tantos, a grande maioria lembrada pelo Orkut! Valeu Amigos! Valeu Orkut!
    Ganhei um monte de coisa legal, um tênis, meias, camisetas… adoro ganhar coisas que eu não conseguiria comprar sozinho… tipo roupa…. essas coisas…
    Special to Bareh, Bibo & Marião (no sul) e Airtão, que ligaram… Vic e Eric que tentaram agitar a balada…. Tohver por me aguentar mais tempo que julguei ser humanamente possível no Finnegans, André por ser mais sincero, e Dine por ser quem é. Amo todos vcs! Valeu!!!

    Abaixei a cabeça prá Microsoft…

    Graças a um colega da Dine, semana passada peguei uma MSDN Magazine sobre o ASP.NET 2.0. Ontem terminei de baixar o Visual Studio 2005 Beta e o SQL 2005 Beta 2 da MSDN Universal. Tenho que confessar que dessa vez acho que eles acertaram…

    Primeiro o SQL 2005, o qual é essencialmente um Oracle, graças ao novo nível de isolamento “Snapshot”. Replica o problema de rollback segments (“tempdb” explodindo) e adiciona visões consistentes que não criam nem respeitam locks. O upgrade do SQL 2000 é tão fácil quanto backup/restore. O novo SQL Manager Studio é uma fusão do Enterprise Manager com o Query Analyzer. Ainda não vi nada sobre código .NET rodando dentro do SQL 2005, mas isso parece ser bem atraente também. As procedures Transact-SQL continuam rodando como rodavam… resta entender como o novo Snapshot se relaciona com os níveis de isolamento COM+… Abaixo a cabeça para a Microsoft, por ter finalmente feito o que parece ser um RDBMS decente, sem quebrar a compatibilidade.

    O Visual Studio 2005 também surpreendeu. Interface mais lógica, porém parece mais pesado (considerando que é um Beta tá ótimo; não explodiu nenhuma vez). Não consegui mexer muito, mas brinquei bastante com a parte de ASP.NET, usando tanto o webserver interno dele, que é muito conveniente (é como ter o Tomcat/Resin integrado direto no IDEA) como direto no IIS; brinquei de Master Pages, que é um Tiles de pobre, mas funciona bastante bem; escrevi código Code-Beside, com partial classes em C#. Os novos datasources ADO.NET são muito interessantes; o provider do SQL 2005 parece gerar SQL bem menos estúpido; e o datasource ObjectDataSource tem potencial para ser o que sempre sonhei (e parece que eles entenderam o conceito de JavaBeans, finalmente). O mais interessante é que a estrutura de arquivos/diretórios que o VS gerou fez sentido fora do VS; praticamente pediu para ser importado direto no CVS ou Subversion. Abaixo a cabeça para a Microsoft, pois depois de vários anos tive vontade de desenvolver algo usando o framework/tools deles.

    Já tinha visto na Class, mas pude brincar também com os módulos de desenvolvimento de apps para Mobiles da Microsoft; eles simplesmente eliminam toda e qualquer complexidade de se montar apps úteis para Pocket PC 2003, Smartphones etc. Abaixo a cabeça para a Microsoft, pois sei o quanto estúpido você se sente fazendo J2ME; também sei que ela vai dominar o mercado de devices, afinal esses pocket pcs são do caralho, e falam com o Exchange direto via GRPS, e o diretor da sua empresa vai adorar isso.

    Em suma, kudos to Microsoft. Eu ia começar a me enrolar com JavaServer Faces… fica para depois. O grande projeto por enquanto é re-escrever o GeraClasses em PHP5, pensando em targets PHP5, C#, Delphi Win32, e Flash+SOAP (bye bye Remoting).