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Brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor once had a stroke, and during that episode she had an amazing experience. I think that many of you will find that here experience was very similar to the psychedelic experience. She did however recover from the stroke and being a brain scientist she pondered about her experience. In the video below she explains the experience: Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight Please, moderators, this video is something of the ordinary and probably of interest to many, so don't move it to off-topic.

I liked your mix a lot, great flow and track selection. Will listen to your other mixes too.

I'm glad some of you liked Fontän. That Yellow Moon Band tune was great, I listened to some more of their tunes on youtube, really great stuff. I will definitely get their album. More recommendations like Yellow Moon Band and Fontän are appreciated.

is a Swedish psychedelic electronic rock band, or what ever you would call Younger Brother. Fontän's emphasis is on the rock part, but the electronics are clearly present. I'm not a big rock fan and I dislike the heavy use of guitars in Ozric Tentacles. Fontän has however managed to strike a nice balance between laid back rock and electronic music. Their debut album, Winterwhila, was one of last years best albums: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdkkkiDEZA You can also listen to the album at Spotify (application installation needed). Hope you like it.

I'm sure Mars and the rest of us will be just fine with 320kbps MP3. :-) If you're an XP or Vista user you could use Audacity to record it to WAV and then convert it to FLAC.

Posford sometimes starts his Hallucinogen live sets with a remix of Pink Floyd's On The Run.

I thought I had tracked down all D5 tracks, but this one was new to me. Thanks for sharing Tom, good stuff!

Beautiful stuff

I agree with the recommendation of: Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? Future Sound of London - Lifeforms The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences Celtic Cross - Hicksville (Remastered and Expanded Deluxe Edition) The other recommendations are mostly great albums but lack the voyage quality of the Mystery of the Yeti album. I would also like to add another great voyage album to the recommendations: Tone Tales from Tomorrow, mixed by DJ Coldcut. A deep and beautiful experience. If you like it, you might also want to try the follow up album Tone Tales from Tomorrow Too. I think of the Mystery of the Yeti as a deep and introvert journey, and my final recommendation is the opposite of that, a blissful and extrovert journey, : Irresistible Force, The - It's Tomorrow Already.

I think it's an exaggeration to claim that LSD and MDMA were designed to help people recover from disease. However, some psychologists like Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass) saw a therapeutic value in LSD. You're going to love this book. The intro sample used by Hallucinogen in LSD is Ken Kesey speaking about LSD: "I believe with the advent of acid. We discovered new ways to think and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts of mind. Why is it that people are so afraid of it? What is it about it that scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they are afraid to go in and they don't want us to go in there either because if we go in, there we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control".

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (probably most known for his book The Right Stuff) is Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of modern psychedelic culture, hippies and the origin of rave parties. The book is a biography about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Author Ken Kesey (most known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) partakes in a CIA controlled drug research project at Stanford University (MK Ultra, not known at the time the book was written) and is given LSD amongst other drugs. Kesey experiences amazing things under the influence of the drugs and decides to travel all over the USA, promote LSD and throw parties, until CIA labels him the most dangerous man in the USA. Highly (no pun intended) recommended reading.

That Space Prawn track was amazing! A new Ubar Tmar or Uvantam.com album would be great.

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If it weren't for the Koxbox name these tunes would get little attention. Koxbox should release some of their old school original livesets instead of new school copies.

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Indeed crap.

Jazz + Hip Hop = Trip Hop That's what it used to be called in the 1990's.

Just as the track selection suggests there is no direction at all in this set, it's just a bunch of tracks glued together. I cannot understand how anyone can think of this as a good mix.

Excellent released mixes: Mark Allen - Deck Wizards Goa Gil - Deck Wizards: Kosmokrator Jean Borelli - Deck Wizards: Planet Maya Tsuyoshi Suzuki - Deck Wizards: Core Tsuyoshi Suzuki - Shamanic Trance: Dada Funk Mix Tsuyoshi Suzuki - Trancentral Four - A Trip To Goa Dino Psaras - Distance To Goa 4 CD 2 Excellent downloaded mixes: Basilisk - Nocturnal Wanderlust INr G - Rites Of Animalness Jens M - Hail the Fluffies Lumo - Nirbubg Searcher - Neurotrance Tsuyoshi Suzuki - Live @ JJJ Mixup, Australia - 2000-01-22

I like your mix a lot! The entire mix has a good flow and there is a deep atmosphere through the entire set. I want more!

I have had this compilation for two weeks and I love it as much as you do. No generic ethnic samples, just good vibes and great music.

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I agree that Dreamtime is a beautiful and impressive track, and it deserves more attention. It kind of reminds me of Noosphere's equally great track Carpe Noctem. I do however have a different opinion about Jan Muller's input: the Dreamtime/X-3 single was released the same year as the COP album (1999), so it might actually be that Jan Muller had a very positive effect on their sound. If you compare Dreamtime/X-3 to their track Ultimate (1997) it is obvious that their sound improved a lot, and you can't deny the presence of the 16 note bassline in Dreamtime, a bassline made popular by X-dream. You might dislike the COP album, but the time spent in the studio with Jan Muller might very well be what made Dreamtime such a great track.

If you like Gangguru you should listen to Children of Paradise, they are Gangguru minus Frank Murdock plus Jan Müller (one half of X-dream). Their one and only album Urban Alien is great stuff.

There is nothing wrong with being stuck in 1997. Personally I am pretty much finished with the current so called psytrance releases. If I want new good music I look past psytrance. But let's stay in the golden era for awhile. First recommendation I spend a lot of time collecting individual tracks from the golden era. I have a big CD collection of psytrance from the golden era but I can still find excellent individual tracks. There are gems to be found, believe me. If you collect non album tracks from your favorite artists you will have more or less at least one "new" album by them. I can highly recommend you to track down individual tracks by these artists: Abakus Etnica (the 1995-1998 tracks) Gappeq (2003-2006) Hallucinogen (1995-1997) Hallucinogen (1998-2007) Jaia (2001-2006) Koxbox & Psychopod (1995-1998) Koxbox & Saikopod (2000-2007) Neum Pleiadians (1995-1997) Simon Posfords trance collaborations (1994-2007, 25 tracks) Slinky Wizard (1994-1997) Snake Thing (1996-1998) The Infinity Project (1994-1997, you will be amazed by how many tracks they have released) Total Eclipse (1994-1996, pure magic, better than their albums from the same era) Underhead (1996-1997) You will not regret collecting these individual tracks. Second recommendation Make your own compilations of tracks. Focus on a sound or vibe you like and gather tracks that fit that theme. I have made compilations that fit August nights (my favorite time of the year) and the autumn in general. Third recommendation Since I am a CD collector there are vinyl gems to be found. At the moment I am focusing on labels such as Twisted, Flying Rhino, Dragonfly and Blue Room. I track down tracks that have only been released on vinyl and not on the labels CD albums or compilations. Then I arrange the tracks into new compilations based on year since the sound changes over the years. Happy track hunting!