dj Kajola - Freezing

So you want a new psy-mix, eyy? Something for the Saturday evening for the pre-party? Dancing around with your girl and 99 bottles of beer on the wall... I got one for you. Filled with nice minimal, funky, energetic crunchy psy. And with some smooth intense mixing. Intrigued? I bet you are. Just sign here, here and here. Oh, never mind. Just press play on tape. Loading...

Kajola is a Dj and Producer from Vienna, Austria, being at it since 2002. He has released tracks on several labels and compilations and is now working on his debut album. He roots his sound in the alternative-rock-scene and he is also influenced by acts of different other scenes like Moby, Peter Kruder or Air. If Austria would be an Island between Israel and South Africa than this would describe his style of full on and psy. Btw, no animal was harmed when writing this blog. Just a few braincells maybe ;)

http://soundcloud.com/dj-kajola

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Tara Putra - Channel Dub Sumatra

This is a really nice chilly dub track that appears on Tara Putras new album In Dubland recently released on Russian label Gliese581 C Records. It has a warm vibe to it and feels like the perfect background to a barbecue with friends in the park and lots of beers getting all tipsy and stuff :) The complete album is free for download and can be found HERE

Tara Putra is Marcus Straczkowski from Germany and this project began as a three-headed Psytrance-Liveact launched in the mid-'90s, and their first single was released in 2001 called "Dua Orang". In 2005, the album "Groom Mountains" was released on Spiritual Beings Records, produced by Marcus and mainly containing  Psytrance, but also Tara Putra's first Ambient, Chillout and Dub tracks. The EP "Hidden Sense" popped up in 2010. This EP was the first to present the project´s future development with Psybient and Psydub - Creating space and psychedelic atmospheres in a dubby ambience.

http://taraputra.extendr.com/ 

http://gliese-records.com/ 

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Ajja - Tulpa

This album was released on Swizz label Peak Records in March 2012 and the style can be described as a mixture of mid-dark and forest-trance. All the tracks seems to follow a specific recipe in that many of the sounds and leads used are somewhat similar but not the same. And at the same time it is nice to hear artists that invent their own style and then sticks to it without becoming boring. Ajja is a very talented musician/producer and all the sounds are polished and really fits the bill. His music is filled with weird twirls, spirals, twists and turns, and really have a crunchy sci-fi edge to it!  This album really takes the listener on an interesting journey and I advise people that like similar styles to give it a try. I don´t think you will be disappointed. Favourite-tracks are Bazinga, iFriend, Sidewinder (Flying Mix) and Bayaya!

AJJA S.F. LEU splits his time between being a musician/producer/dj, Peak Records label manager, graphic artist and a tattoo artist. He was born in London in 1975, and while growing up with a world-renowned family of tattoo-artists and travellers, he started to play guitar when he was nine years old, at first really into rock’n’roll and funk. By his mid-teens, he had composed, produced and recorded over one hundred original songs and he performed with a number of live bands in different countries and continued to create music and release rock albums for another decade.



At the end of the nineties, his interest gradually shifted towards electronic music, and in 2002, AJJA and musician friends Master Margherita, Dymons and Flooting Grooves created The Peaking Goddess Collective, a chill & psytrance band that fuses live instruments and digital technology. After performing in many parties and festivals and releasing tracks on many compilations, their debut album “Organika” was released on Peak Records in August 2007. In the summer of 2003, AJJA, in collaboration with his partner, visual artist Tanina Munchkina and musicians Dj Gaspard and Master Margherita, founded the psychedelic trance label Peak Records. The same year saw the birth of Yab Yum, the fully digital project shared by AJJA and Dj Gaspard. In 2005, AJJA started a solo project under his own name and he released his first solo night-time track in 2007, followed later the same year by his debut album “PSYCHOGENICA”, on the Irish label Syncronize Records.

http://www.ajja.leufamilyiron.com/ajja/index.php
http://www.peakrec.com/artists/artists.html

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DeeperNET - Another Level

When roaming through the net the other day I stumbled across this excellent chill-song by DeeperNET. I guess you can call it psy-chill, but it also has some trancier elements and very nice melodies. The artist himself calls it a "100% original down-tempo psychedelic electronic and ambient music project". I will definitely have it on repeat for awhile! 

DeeperNET is Andrew Miles, originally from Chicago, but now living in Portland, United States. He is currently working on a new chill-album :)

http://soundcloud.com/deepernet

http://deepernet.blogspot.se/

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Mote. - Dust Particle

"So too, in the macroscopic universe, the human is an

 infinitely small speck, a particle, a mote".

Mote. is Darren Smith from Australia, perhaps more known as Reality Pixie, his alias since 6 years when producing psytrance. This 3 track ep presents his chilly approach to music and it is free for download through ektoplazm: DOWNLOAD

First out is the title track Dust Particle which is very mellow and tentative, using instruments sounding like a classical violin and clave, on a surface of bubbly sounds and spacey floating pads. The second song Widachi has a more sad touch, with a lead reminding me of a music-box and sounds that are both glitchy and vibrating. The song is rooted thanks to a dubby baseline and some tasty broken beats. Final song is Life Is large, which starts out very dreamy with a nice high pitched melody floating around in space. After awhile the song changes direction, and in comes a nice piano, and at the same time it all becomes playful with broken beats and nice changes in rhythms with a glitchy touch. Go have a taste, you won´t regret it!

 

http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/mote-dust-particle

http://soundcloud.com/mote-music

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VA - Psytraveller Vol. 2

This gem was released quite a while ago (October, 2011), but if you´ve missed this free release filled with great music from all genres (45 songs (!), then here is an opportunity for me to point you in the right direction! With talented artists such as Ital, Trold, Antagon, Tsabeat, Grouch and Kino Oko, what can possible go wrong? And with with the compilation spanning so many different genres, from dark to minimal, from full-on psy to finish freestyle, there is sure something for the taste of everyone. Oh and did I mention it was free ;)

Here is the link for downloading: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/psytraveller-vol-2

This album was put together by the Psytraveller crew in association with Sun Station Records. Involved in the project was producers from 45 countries and the material was carefully selected by the experienced international crew members, resulting in a three part compilation spanning more than five hours of airtime that will take listeners on a proper journey from dusk till dawn. With 52 different artists involved this is probably one of the biggest psytrance compilations to day.

Favourite-songs are: Ital - Waves of Nature; Wizack Twizack - The Real System; Jirah Vs Atum - Yin and Yang; Gido - Energija.

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Yar Zaa

Yar zaa is Jose Luis Yarza from Madrid, Spain. I first got to know of his music when I heard Laberinto EP, which was released on Antu Records about half a year ago. I really like his style of psytrance -it´s pretty crunchy and twisted, not too dark or hard, but has a nice flow to it. This here song is his newest one, soon to be released on VA - Digital Frequenz.

Jose Luis Yarza started out listening to music like rock and punk-rock, but it was while he was studying in Berlin in 1998, that he began his life around electronic music in the techno party squats of that city. When he came back to Madrid in 2005 he met some groups involved in the electronic music scene, and starting to DJ seemed like the natural thing to do. He quickly became famous for his powerful sets, thus in 2006 he was invited by Tribe of frog to join the legendary fluo crew, at the same time playing a lot of the major parties on Spain. A year later, Yarza started to experiment in a home studio and create his own style of psytrance under the name of Yar zaa. Since then he has been playing on dance floors around Spain. (Al-Andalus festival, Transition Festival) and also in Portugal and Thailand (Shiva moon Party). Yar zaa has released some tracks and Eps on labels like: Antu recs, Planet Ben records, Zero Gravity records, Trance lab records, and Inner lotus records.

http://soundcloud.com/yarzalien/ 

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