Kalisama - Winter Solstice 2012

A beautiful and versatile chill/downbeat-set by talented Kalisama from Colorado, United States. I heard it the first time on di.fm and loved it straight-away. Just press play, experience and be free...



https://soundcloud.com/kalisama
soundcloud.com/kalisama-native-circuit

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Dreamstalker - Digital Illusions

Dreamstalker is Nikita Stalker from Crimea, which is an autonomous republic within Ukraine. Early 2012, he released his first album called "Eclectronica" for free through Ektoplazm and it received very good feedback. This, his second album - Digital Illusions was released digitally on Altar Records in December 2012.

This album came as a surprise for me since I never heard about the artist before, but it was a pleasant surprise. I found it to be the perfect mix of downbeat and more floaty chill. It is very moody and spreads a very nice vibe; it is melodic, well produced and dreamy. For me it is for sure one of the best chill-albums to be released in a long time.

" Loaded with arcane symbolism, intricate aural tricks and dense layers of meaning, Digital Illusions manages to retain a harmonic warmth and rhythmic sensibility."

http://altar.bandcamp.com/album/digital-illusions-24bits
https://soundcloud.com/dreamstalker

Nukleall - Wormholes Activation

Melodic mellow morning-psychedelics. Give me sunrise/early morning on a packed festival-dancefloor and a beer in my hand. Damn dark season with pissing rain and cold and shit. Anyway. This is good shit!

This song appears on the album by Nukleall called "Hundreds of Years into the Future", and it was released on Blacklite Records in November last year. So it is still pretty new and I don´t think it has gotten the attention it deserves. It is a well-crafted album, very well produced and the more you listen to it, the more it sticks. I hope to catch Nukleall live very soon. It would be such an experience, I´m sure.

Nukleall is Ale Mistretta from Turin, Italy. He also manages Blacklite Records as well as being the sound engineer for Blacklite Studio. His first contact with psytrance came when visiting London for the first time in 1996. He started DJing in 2001 and music production in 2006. He is also working with other artists on 4 different psytrance projects: Junesix, Ghost Signal, Barkode and Rack Riders. Tracks by them have been released by several international music labels nowadays. Nukleall's style can be defined as morning psytrance music with a fat and groovy dancing vein, tightly balanced with a strong psychedelic atmosphere. For more info and music check out his soundcloud below.

https://soundcloud.com/nukleall 

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/blk/blk1cd003.html 

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Va - Druids Gathering

This compilation was released in September by Liquid Tune records. It is full with lovely dark and forest music with artists contributing from many parts of the world and available for free here. It was compiled by Therange Freak, mastered by Petran and the cover is made by Shiva3. The latter´s track is one my favorites of this release.


If you like this track, Shiva3 has recently released a full-length album on Space Baby Records called Full Story. I am sure it is worth while to check out. Other excellent tracks on Druid Gathering are the contributions by Gorm, Therange Freak, Paganopath and Fractal Error. I am sure many forest-freaks out-here will love this compilation, I know I do =)

http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/druids-gathering
http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sre/sre1cd012.html

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Dj Fada - A Journey Through Us

This is one of the chill-sets that was part of the Winter Solstice chill-event at di.fm. I had never heard of this DJ before, and was pleasantly surprised by this journey and the pleasure it gave me.

Dj Fada is Andrea Mendes from São Paulo/SP, Brazil. She got into the electronic music-scene when she started going to festivals in 2003. She is part of a collective project called Cymatic Lab, and also affiliated with Portuguese label Ajnavision records. She explains her mixing as seeking to create "a sonic journey with deep atmospheres and tribal rhythms with hypnotic sounds that elevate the state of consciousness, the Harmonic lines she use in her sets open doors to a world of dancing reflections and personal evolution".

https://soundcloud.com/djfadamusic 

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Digitally Imported Psychill - Winter Solstice 2012

I just like to make you aware of Digitally Imported radio running their Winter Solstice Event as we speak. This means high quality psy-chill in the form of live recordings and dj mixes running non-stop finishing off tomorrow afternoon.

Here is the direct link: http://www.di.fm/calendar/event/21849

This is an annual event and this year Shoom and Bloodwing, the channel directors have managed to gather a superb lineup. Artists such as Aes Dana, Astropilot, Lemonchill and Kukan Dub Lagan, together with Djs such as Cquence, Tampered DNA, ROX and Lorn have all left contributions. So don´t hesitate - tune in now and take part of the chilled vibes!

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Tetrasound - Acidic Molecules

Presenting a great new mix from Tetrasound, alias for polish-born Grzegorz Augustyn, now living in Bristol, UK. There´s a post about him already in June, and since then he has in my opinion improved his mixing to be more smooth. The music included in this mix is also more fitting for my taste. Only sad thing is that no playlist is included but at least the artists included are revealed: Hypnoise, Mental Broadcast, Mind Evolution, Poli, Spectra Sonics, Headroom, Zen Mechanics, Space Vision, Ital, Sonic Species, Ilai, Mechanimal, Yar Za. It includes a few of my personal favorites from 2012, so I highly recommend it.

https://soundcloud.com/tetra-sound

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