Eternal Optimist

This is also where I started! The late-night goa mixes by a DJ called Max on France's Fun Radio around 1996-1997. At the time I was more into the uplifting commercial trance like the stuff they played a the street parades in Germany and Switzerland. Then I picked up Hallucinogen's LSD in a shop..... and got immediately hooked. It sounded so much deeper than anything else I'd listened to before. I found it incredible that I could listen several times and find new stuff each time. Also, I'd never had much of an appetiter for dancing (except as a child), but trance was very very different in that respect!! For 2-3 years, I was the only one of my friends who liked electronic music, but I steadily increased my friends' love of trance and finally got them going to parties, in the UK at first, and then internationally (Boom, Samothraki, etc..). Commercial trance - Hallucinogen - Pleidians - Total Eclipse - Logic Bomb - and on chill-out Shpongle and Liquid Sound Design - (zoom to the present) Khetzal, Artifact 303

What a cracking album. Pops your ears open with waves of positivity. I haven't posted here for years, but I felt that I just had to praise this one - almost a democratic obligation given the number of people searching erringly for decent goa

a melancholic chill-out track: Doof - The dark secret of the manky fudge pocket

"Lurker" sounds pretty negative to describe people who like to listen/read but either don't have the time, don't want to or can't (lack of confidence in English) make a response of their own. I don't like that word. PS: I was a "lurker" until recently, and proud of it.

Doof - The dark secret of the manky fudge

OTT Future Sound Of London Shpongle Youth and compilashions: Liquid Sound Design: Mana Medicine, Wider Horizons, etc... Oh, and Mystery of the Yeti 1,2.

bah! the promoters forget about the poor people in rich countries, like me!

Tokyo, Japan Makuhari Messe December 25th Live HALLUCINOGEN (TWISTED RECORDS) SKAZI (CHEMICAL CREW) GMS (SPUN RECORDS) ASTRIX (HOMMEGA) ALIEN vs THE CAT (TIP. WORLD) DJs DIMITRI D.K.N (SOLSTICE MUSIC) DINO (VISION QUEST) RYO (SOLSTICE MUSIC) AMI (VISION QUEST) ------------------------------------------> 10 000 yen!!!! (=$100 or £50) for 9 hours of trance (and that's if you get there early!) I guess trance artists have to make their money somewhere, but his is extreeeme., even for big guns like Mr Posford and GMS. grrrr! boycotting them

that's why you're such a walking encyclopedia on trance, seraph! 2 hours a days average.

Hallucinogen - LSD Astral Projection - Let there be light Logic Bomb - track 4 of "13 crystal skulls" Cosmosis - key to the innerverse SUN Project - space dwarfs Cygnus X - The orange theme (MWNN rmx) Pleiadians - Maia Total Eclipse - Space clinic chill-out OTT - escape from tulse hell Younger Brother - evil and harm (Total Eclipse?) - track 3 of "Mystery of the Yeti 2" Infected Mushroom - Elation Station Banco de Gaia - sixty sixteen

Oh no... bad news... I'm going on a 3-4 month tour of india, after which I'm going to try and settle in Paris, with little money and no job. that sounded ok, but without trance parties, no way!

I'm moving to Paris soon. Is there a rave scene there? I particularly love outdoor forest parties. Are there any nice ones organised around Paris in the summer? (like London's ID-spirla/liquid connective) Have you ever been to a French rave? I'm desperate, tell me about it!

Going to India too (Late Jan - April/May?) Rajasthan - Dehli - Agra - Darjeeling - Calcutta - Pondicherry - Kerala - Goa - Mumbai - Manali. Are any of these places (except for goa) likely to have some open-air parties? Can you recommend any area in particular? I'm looking for a natural, hippy/happy vibe. Also, do you know what my chances are of getting caught smoking dope out there? And is it widely available for purchase generally speaking? (You see, I've been living in Japan for 2 years, cannabis being so expensive here, I feel an urge to make up for my loss somehow )