Dj Basilisk - Circadian Rhytms

"4 decks, 27 songs, 1½ hours, 120 beats per minute, and 13 years of music history"

Created by Dj Basilisk, founder of the Ektoplazm netlabel group, this mix contains mid-tempo Goa trance blended with a wide variety of related styles from dub techno to progressive house. It presents artists such as Banco de Gaia, Cydonia, Total Eclipse, Man with no Name, Doof and many other pioneers of Goatrance. For us old Goaheads it´s truly a trip down memory-lane (and such a beautiful one); for people who didn´t listen to this particular style of music in the 90´s this is an excellent opportunity to be introduced to this magical style of music. This mix is just pure excellence. Go download it NOW. Or so I will hunt you down and kick your ass ;)

Link: http://www.ektoplazm.com/mixes/dj-basilisk-circadian-rhythms

Basilisk has been Djing for over a decade, and apart from that, he also manages three record labels (the eponymous Ektoplazm as well as Drumlore and Omnitropic).  Basilisk spins a variety of styles covering all points of the psychedelic trance spectrum. Every performance is entirely improvised and custom-crafted to fit with the theme of the event and the flow of the night. He is skilled in both vinyl and CD mixing, but now prefers using a laptop and MIDI controller to maximize the creative potential of his sets with harmonic mixing and the use effects. He believes in the classic technoshamanistic concept of “the set as a journey,” and thus prefers to mix up the many styles of psytrance rather than stick to one. Depending on the time slot and nature of the event Basilisk sometimes plays darkpsy, forest music, sometimes full-on, but can also focus a whole set on techtrance or progressive. Old school mid-nineties Goa trance and classic psytrance sets are also available on special request :)

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SISMIC

Sismic is Paolo Nofi, an Italian electronic music producer, born in July 1974. He is just about to finish his first album due out on Crop Circle records and released worldwide. His style is best described as a form of fullon psytrance.. But don´t worry, this is no cheezy shit with vocals and guitars, it is very deep and psychedelic but at the same time pumping, melodic and energetic. Just the way I like it!

Already at the age of 8, with the help of his 8 bit home computer, Paolo and his friends started experimenting with loops and samples, and after 4 years he met the midi machines. At the age of 12 he started to create his first patterns of Techno/Electronic music style with Synthezisers (Yamaha DX21 + drum machine /sequencer Roland TR-505 ). In the early 90's he started to buy and mixing House / Techno / Progressive / trance vinyl from around the world and play with Technics SL 1200 in some parties around Rome. After many years of  self-studies in electronic music, learning most of the popular software for professional productions, he founded with Dj Meko a goa-trance project called Gaiatech and he at the same time started his solo project called SISMIC. The style is oriented towards Full-on morning with some obscure presences and acid lines. Paolo has played at some international festivals in Europe, like Existence Festival (Spain), 070707 Antiworld Festival (south of London), Sonica Electronic Music Festival 2005, 2007, 2009 and his music has also crossed the ocean to Universo Parallelo festival (Brasil). Support his music by listening in to

http://soundcloud.com/sismicstuff

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Kadasarva - Steamagination

Kadasarva is Alex Volkov from Kiev, Ukraina. He has released an excellent album for free on Sun Station Records and available through Ektoplazm, and so you can download HERE. This album was made as a tribute to older psychedelic trance, back when it began to evolve from the classic Goa trance of the 1990s into the high-tech industrial/mechanical sound supported by labels such as Flying Rhino, Twisted, and Blue Room. His influences are artists such as The Cure, Front 242, Aphex Twin, Orbital, Hallucinogen, Koxbox, Shpongle, Korn, Tool, Tequilajazzz, X-dream, Queens of the stone age, U.N.K.L.E. To keep the music authentic to the sound of older goa, no standard presets were used while recording this album, and all sounds and sequences were created by Alex with analog synths and samplers, resulting in "full-power old school psytrance with the sheen of modern production technology".

As soon as the first song - World of Tomorrow - starts to sneak out from the speakers you can quickly hear that Alex has succeeded with what he set out to do with this album: to recreate the non-melodic era of goatrance but still with very high levels of creativity and production. The references and inspiration from the master mr S. Posford himself is obvious in many of the songs (especially when it comes to the basslines, rhytms and quirky sounds that are so in focus in his Hallucinogen - creations). However, this is nothing negative. And the first song is a real nasty stomper! 2nd song - Quaternion - is a bit more minimal and rough, but still with a nice feel and some weird elements. The next one - Cybermind - really embodies the musical heritage from oldschool goa; it´s very psychedelic, is has pumping rhytms, is 10 minutes long and has an interesting break in the middle complete with some nice break beat (now that is something that you don´t hear everyday). This song is also super-intense, crazy and will eventually tweak your brain :P The album continues in the same style, it is high-quality oldschool but with a harder, rougher edge, more experimental and wild, and less fluffy and melodic. I like it! Nr. 6 - Ginger - is also a real treat for your ears and for your mind taking a nice trip to outer space... And so what are you waiting for, fools! Go listen to it now. And see you on the other side!





http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/kadasarva-steamagination
http://sunstation.ru/
http://soundcloud.com/kadasarva

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Lost Theory festival

If you´re a lover of dark/forest and goatrance the Lost Theory festival is surely something you want to consider visiting this year. This festival is held between the 15th and 20th of august in Croatia, close to Deringaj, on the banks of the Otuča (Ooh-tooh-tsjààgh) river. With artists performing such as Furious, Ocelot, Farebi Jalebi, Yudhistira and oldschoolers Cosmosis, Darshan and Asia 2001, it promises to be a hell of party and well worth the 60euro the tickets currently sell for! And the line-up isn´t even complete yet, so expect more goodies to come. The festival will also have a Crossover-floor (with line-up TBA), and a chill-out area (with first name Biosphere presented), and except from this will have a cinema, lectures, restaurant area and a whiskey-bar (yummie!). If you don´t want to hang around the festival for 6 days in a row, the organisers offer other alternatives in areas close by; for an extra fee you can go visit waterfalls, caves, go mountain biking, bungyjumping(!), and play around with electricity in the Nicolai Tesla museum. It´s nice to have something more to look forward to and make it a proper vacation instead of hours and hours of drinking and dancing (which of course also is the shit!). So I hope to see some of you there!

http://www.losttheoryfestival.com/

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Mozza - In Between Vol.2

Time for you peeps to focus your ears this way and listen to another tasty mix. This one has a little bit of everything, starting of with some progressive, going over to more groovy minimal techno in the middle and finishing off with some really nice psychedelics :). It includes music by Allaby, Disco Hooligans, Avalon and Logic Bomb, to name a few - all cleanly, smoothly mixed by Mozza from Serbia.

Mozza is Momir Pandurov and his first contact with Goa & Psychedelic Trance music was in 2001. 3 years later, at the age of 20 he began DJing and organizing parties.. In september of 2007 he founded “Chaotic Beats” organization together with 2 friends. Same year, he became a member of “Wicked Forest” organization and took part in organizing 2nd ("Back 2 Nature", 2008) and 3rd ("Dance With Nature", 2009) edition of "Wicked Forest" festival. He describes his DJ-sets as a mixture of old and new sound, mostly based on psychedelic and progressive music from Nano Records, Neurobiotic, Vagalume, TIP World, Alchemy, Twisted, Kundalini, Aphid, Antu, Suntrip, TesseracTstudio, Iono Music, Iboga, Spin Twist, Plusquam, Tribal Vision, Plastik Park, Flow etc. Support this great Dj by listening to his stuff. Thanks!

http://soundcloud.com/mozza

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Erot & Samsara - Winter Dawn

This excellent 90 minutes chill-mix was released about 1 month ago and it includes music from artists such as Cygna, Hol Baumann, Lauge & Baba Gnohm and Aes Dana. The two persons behind it are Tore Mortensen (Erot) & Christian Borgmann (Dj Samsara), both from Denmark. They have been into the electronic music-scene for many years and are now tied to the Canadian label Altar Records. It started with them meeting at a party and quickly discovering their shared passion for music. And the rest, is as they say history. Now stop reading and go listen to the freaking mix, I tell you, you won´t be disappointed (it´s free for download and everything.

http://soundcloud.com/erotsamsara
http://www.altar-records.com/

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Phobos Azazel - Organistic

"Dive into the energetic sound of psychedelic trance". 

Phobos Azazel is Darko Novevski born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1981. He first heard trance music when he was 15, and started his own creative adventures in his 20´s. Over the last seven years, Phobos Azazel has been focusing on psychedelic tunes with journeys growing deeper and wider with every new excursion. In 2008 he decided to seek more education within the field of music, so he attended SAE Institute in Slovenia and earned an official certification as an electronic music producer. Thus, he can now work as a sound producer/engineering not only in the trance world, but in almost every musical field. He has released several songs on compilations from for example Bhooteshwara records, and Kagdilia records before releasing this - his first album - on Croatian label Lost Theory Records. Here are my favourite tracks from this excellent release bordering between forest/twilight and a bit darker sounds:

1. Specular Reflection - Deep, quirky beginning, with loads of weird chewing sounds, after a while taking off with twisted melodies going in all directions

5. Magnetic Plazma - A bit more uptempo with organic sounds, alien voices and loads of twists and turns building into crazy intense patterns

7. Organistic - More chewing, more intense quirkiness, combined with spooky strings floating around in the background and with an ending turning your brain inside-out, upside down (complete with sirens)

8. Cosmic Pearls - Turning it up a notch, with nice rhythmic sound-patterns, some well-developed melodies connecting - and of course some crunchy twisted sounds, but refined and not all over the place

http://soundcloud.com/usp_mkd
http://www.losttheoryrecords.com/

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Corona - Black To Back

Today I like to point you to a new song that was part of my latest purchase from Beatport. It is a really great minimal/melodic psy tune made by Corona and appears on the digital ep called Polarity out on German label Solar Tech. Corona is also due to release their album Sonar Luminescence on that same label (hopefully) very soon. Hear the preview of that album here.

Corona consists of Magnus Claussen and Mike Davies, both  from South Africa. They started their musical journey in 1998 by forming a band. Soon after they discovered electronic music and Corona was formed in 2001. Their debut-album called Photosphere was released in 2005 on Sanskara records and was released well, and then came a lot of gigs in Europe as well as many of South Africa's top festivals including Earthdance,Vortex and Origin Festival. After a short break from the scene the pair re-united and Corona was reformed. Signed to Solar-Tech records in Germany, they describe their sound as fullon/progressive while maintaining psychedelic roots. They have appeared on numerous compilation and released 2 digital EPs.

http://soundcloud.com/coronamusic 
http://www.solartechrecords.com/ 

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Field Rotation

Field Rotation is an artist from Germany creating beautiful chill-out by combining acoustic and electronic sounds. His musical journeys tend to result in a symbiosis between classical music and more traditional chill-out, often very emotional and touching. He has released on labels such as Fluid Audio (UK), Ultimae Records (FR) and Denovali Records (DE), appearing on compilations Fahrenheit Project Part VII, Imaginary Friends, as well as releasing EPs Regenzeit, Why Things Are Different and the full-length album Acoustic Tales available both on CD and 2xLP. This is perfect music for a Sunday afternoon, or a late evening with red whine and nice conversation :)

http://fieldrotation.de/
http://soundcloud.com/fieldrotation

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Oikeusjyvä

Oikeusjyvä is the alias of Jukka Surakka from Vantaa, Finland, having been written electronic music since the late nineties. His sound is inspired by different genres from trance to ambient, and sometimes even dubby down tempo, jungle, etc. He likes to create "bad ass melodies with nice harmonic touch, aggressive bass lines and powerful drums that will make your legs move like boiled spaghetti on the dance floor".

So far he has played  around Brasil, Finland, Israel, Japan, Russia and Ukraine. Oikeusjyvä has released tracks on Hippie Killer Productions, Adama Records, Random Records and Space Baby Records. He has also released Mp3 format EP albums for download on famous Finnish psytrance label Antiscarp Records and extreme underground freeformtrance netlabel Riitta Records. His debut album 'Oikeusjyvä - Huomentally Unsane' was released on January 2011 at Hippie Killer Productions.

On his soundcloud you can get complete access to a number of his songs as well as hear snippets of others. My favouries are Ny On Sun Aikas - crazy freeform reminding me of the early sound from Austrian label Psy-Harmonics, In The End - great chill with nice rhytms and Was A Bee - really nice melodic, twisted psy-trance. What really stands out in OJ:s music is solid production and his ability to be creative in everything he does, presenting own fresh ideas. I hope we get to hear more from this guy.

http://soundcloud.com/ojsound
http://www.hippiekillerproductions.net/

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