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First story, then link. So, I found myself sitting half-awake (just tired, not drugged ) in a chill room last night after playing at some party. As I'm floating in and out of consciousness, the DJ happens to put on the track "Inside" from Acid Rockers - one of my absolute favorite psy-d&b tracks, from way back when Blue Room was going down their completely experimental "Freakstyle" path. Perhaps it's not such a proper track for a chill room, mind you (it runs about 165bpm), but the trippy factor makes it perfect for the chilled-out half-dreaming state I was inhabiting. Anyways, hearing the track in such a lucid state reminded me of a mix I made a looooong time ago (2001) when I was really into the whole psy-d&b sounds like you occasionally would hear on Blue Room, 21-3, Symbiosis, Edgecore, Matsuri, etc... When I arrived back home today, I dug around and found the lone copy of the recording I had in my posession - quite scratched but fortunately still readable by my computer. For anybody looking for a total change of pace, this might be up your alley: Dr. Krelm - Krelmstyle - A Psychedelic D&B Mix (right click -> save as) It's by no means a perfect mix - I recorded it more to capture my headspace at the time than to impress anybody or get bookings. That being said, I like it. Maybe only one person other than myself has heard it until now (the guy who dubbed it "Krelmstyle"). Don't expect a tracklist right now. I only remember the names or locations of about half of the tracks and need to spend a lot of time searching through my vinyls & CDs to figure out the others. Most of the labels that the tracks come from are sadly defunct anyways. Just expect a good dose of the labels I mentioned above and artists like Deviant Electronics, Sibilant, Acid Rockers, Eat Static and several others. Please leave any comments here.

Maybe Skazi can help you. I hear that his next DVD project will be a self-help course in "How to live up to your full killlllarrrrrggghhhhh potential". THERE IS HOPE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU!!!!!

Science of the Gods - there are some tracks on that one that capture their whole breakbeat/d&b side perfectly. Funny you should ask for Eat Static recommendations since I just dug out that album about one hour ago.

Were you touching yourself when you wrote that? Otherwise, you are not a true Skazi fan. Poser.

I've also heard (from my imaginary brother's ex-girlfriend's talking pet rat's overgrown tumor) that they both worship satan and keep a herd of young goats to rape before they work in the studio so they can sacrifice them to the dark lord and rub the bloody semen feces all over themselves while they are doing fat lines of blow off of hookers' tits. They get their musical talent from SATAN SATAN SATAN!! Damned gay satanic coke-sniffers (not to be confused with Gay Satanic Hippies which are totally killer)............. But seriously, who the fuck gives a shit what drugs these artists do if they produce kickass music and put on good performances at parties? If they are assholes about it (ie, they get off the plane and demand drugs & superstar treatment) it sort of sucks, but that is rarely the case in this scene. If I buy a CD and dig the music, I don't care if the artist does LSD, blow, speed, ketamine, sniffs glue or does droplets of adrenachrome. My business as a music fan & DJ begins and ends with the music on the CD. (that wasn't a criticism on your topic, Serphish, more directed at the countless people who constantly critisize an artist over alleged drug use - when the drug isn't a psychedelic one) Hey, now that would be cool

I know that both Beckers & the label that released the original (Sprout Music) have absolutely no problem with the remixes. The remixers all got permission from the label and used the original source material. These are proper remixes (even if they suck ), and the releases of these will have all the proper licensing and all that, not the typical bootleg bullshit you hear from too many artists.

That one was on the original release, so I don't count it like the cheeseball full-on remixes.

4 or 5 times (not counting the Klein & Jürgens remix on the original 12" release). Wrecked Machines Dino Psaras Protoculture Ace Ventura There might be another one I'm not remembering.

Where the hell is "Careless Whisper"?!?!?!

Yeah, Tsuyoshi seemed to get back into psy/full-on a couple years ago. I heard him in Germany in April 2004 and he was playing mostly the style I see on this CD. Not so surprising or interesting, IMO. He split his more elektro/techno/house/punk musical side off into another name - Numanoid. Personally, that is his side I am much more interested in hearing since the full-on thing has already been done to death by so many other DJs.

Trentemøller Martinez Jussi Pekka Parikka Cool minimal/tech/electro/click house from Scandanavia.

Fuck yeah. I might add... Hallucinogen - Spiritual Anesthetic The Beast - Spawn Quirk - Ping

Sorry, the broadcast stream is only 128k - it's really rare to ever find an online broadcast with anything above that quality since the bandwidth would be enormous. You should still listen - it sounds fine. And you will be kicking yourself for going to Full Moon instead of Voov.

Broken Symmetry on Mercury Sessions - broadcasting Monday Aug. 15 - http://www.mercurysessions.com Download previous shows at: http://www.krelmatrix.com ____________________________________________ For today's show I am happy to be broadcasting a live recording of the German progressive master D-Nox from the Voov festival in 2005. Having been lucky enough to be on the dancefloor (with about 5000 other freaks) during this set, I can personally attest to the amazing quality of the mix. D-Nox is a man who needs little introduction. An experienced deck wizard for well over a decade, he has garnered much attention worldwide in the last year for his work with studio partner Frank Beckers, which has seen current and forthcoming releases on labels such as Vapour Records, Vapourise, Sprout Music, Plastik Park, Proton Music, Electribe, Iboga Records, Baroque and VP Records. As a constantly-touring DJ, he is a regular visitor to many of the best dancefloors worldwide. In the coming months, you can catch him in Hungary, Portugal, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Turkey, and of course his native Germany. Somewhere along the way, he also finds time to run 2 successful labels - Sprout Music and Plastik Park Records. The set here is the first hour from his set at the famous Voov festival in Germany this year. The Sunday afternoon set closing the "alternative stage" at Voov is arguably one of the best dancefloors a progressive DJ can play for in Germany. 2005 marked the 2nd time in the last 3 years that D-Nox has thoroughly rocked this spot, giving one of the most memorable sets of the summer. Huge thanks to D-Nox for letting me broadcast this fantastic recording! The first hour of the show will be heavy progressive mix from myself, with the recording from D-Nox in the 2nd hour. ____________________________________________ info: Broken Symmetry feat. Dr. Krelm Aug. 15 guest - D-Nox live @ Voov 2005 1st & 3rd Monday of the month 2-4pm (EST), 7-9pm (UK), 20-22:00 (Germany) http://www.mercurysessions.com

Seriously? Regardless of whether or not the music itself is to one's taste, the production on Radio is light years beyond most anything else at the time and still above par for much of what comes out today. Heh - I remember reading an interview with Ticon once where they pretty much called their old project crap. I guess they have learned a lot of studio skills since then.

Anybody who pussed out because of possible bad weather should kick themselves in the ass right now. There was a small bit of rain for about 30 minutes Friday night, then some light rain/mist on Saturday and Sunday morning. Also got a bit chilly Saturday night, but an extra shirt took care of that just fine. Other than that, there was nothing to really complain about with the weather - cloudy & cool, but that's no reason to miss a festival. The sun even came out on Sunday afternoon for the last few hours of the alternative stage. Absolutely perfect during those hours if you ask me. Oh, the rest of the festival was great as well.

Who the fuck needs tea when you have warmed Jägermeister??? Anyways, little more than a day left until we catch our train. The excitement is building in me like the gas after a tex-mex feast. I'm sure that I'll miss any planned meetups, so if you see the guy in the picture below, grab me and say hello. I promise that I don't bite. Satan's Fluffer

Surely you must not be talking about the psytrance scene. The main emphasis seems to be all about getting the killaghhhhhr tracks with smooth (or even passable) mixing given a distant second. If I'm paying money for a party, I expect DJs who play good tracks AND have a sense for smooth transitioning. It's not a one-or-the-other situation.

CD or vinyl version?

I prefer to use the pitch control and gradually ramp it up over several songs. I find sudden changes in bpm to be rather abrupt and try to avoid them whenver possible. But one can vary the tempo 5 bpm over 2-3 songs (pushing it in increments of +0.2%) without it really being noticed so much. Or if you want to do it a little faster, just nudge it 0.5-1.0% or so during a beatless (preferably amelodic) break - it's easier to get away with large changes when there aren't beats or a noticeable melody.

I wouldn't say it makes me enjoy it more or less - the intoxicated effect I get from alcohol allows me to pick up different elements of the music than I would were I sober, tripping, high, or whatever else.

I'll definitely be there - arriving sometime on Friday afternoon. 8 days to go.

I also had a blast at this one. Despite the rain, the music Saturday morning was top-notch - aside from DJ Armpit....er....Axel, who for some reason was playing 145bpm killargh full-on between Atmos & Antix. But Atmos, Antix, Pena and Xibalba all played wonderful sets. I only caught about 15 minutes of SBK's DJ set and none of his live set, unfortunately. Haldolium also sort of disappointed me as well - good music, but too low-energy for the time of day. I love their CD, but I had serious problems getting into their live set. For me, the best DJ set (that hardly anybody else heard) came from Tobias Bayer, who played immediately after Haldolium. I think there were maximum 50 people on the floor at the time, but the entire set was fantastic from start to finish. Dimitri ended up playing Sunday afternoon. I only heard the last few minutes of his set (Beckers - Switch remix), but he had the crowd moving. My only complaint about the festival was with the after-party situation. I was really looking forward to hearing D-Nox, but they schedule him Sunday night for the after-party - after I already had to leave.

It's really not that ridden with vocals. Aside from that awful shithole of a track "Hiding Place" (which has great music but awfully-done vocals), I recall one other track (Le Lascard?) with a bit of vocal treatment which I actually found quite good. But I don't remember much in the way of vocals for the rest of the album. It's actually a fantastic album, aside from the utter failure of "Hiding Place" (I can't stand that track if ya couldn't tell ). Somebody mentioned the new Sub 6 remixes that were released on VP. For me, that is another example of really poorly-treated vocals. They sound like somebody doing a really bad impression of Björk. The Ticon remix is fantastic, musically, but the way the vocal is used *almost* makes me not want to play it. Almost..... Somebody mentioned Xibalba - for me, they are a wonderful example of how I like to hear vocals done in prog/psy. More a part of the track rather than trying to soar over & beyond the music. The vocal track "Fresh" on the Lish album also does a great job. I prefer it when the vocal feels more like another instrument than the traditional way in which vocals dominate pop/rock songs. ......that is unless it's got the wonderful sleaze factor, but I find that more in house.

Broken Symmetry on MS/EB - broadcasting Monday, July 4 - http://www.mercurynation.com Download at: http://www.krelmatrix.com ____________________________________________ Monday's edition of Broken Symmetry is in collaboration with my friends Julee & Troy from Psymbolic Visual Communications - who are organizing the sure to be great GeoLogic Festival in Illinois July 15-17 (featuring a variety of psytrance & IDM artists). If you are anywhere near the midwest US, GeoLogic will definitely be an event to check out - how often to you get to spend a weekend dancing in the middle of a big cave? The guest mix on the show is a *live* recording from one of the main IDM artists at the festival - Texas-based Gift Culture. The Gift Culture project is based on sounds, imagery, and art derived from DSP technology, analogue synthesis, and computer-based non-linear editing. As Gift Culture mastermind Michael Hale explains, "In this day and age, it is possible to sculpt light and sound as if they were clay. Throw a midi-digitizer, sensors, and a video-sampler into the mix and suddenly, you have the power to create fully immersive audio/visual multimedia environments." Gift Culture is the result - his attempts to share his explorations in this multi-dimensional space; to evoke sonic textures from samplers, synthesizers, and DSP algorithms that can only come from those things; a journey to discover their "voices", so to speak, using such techniques as granular synthesis, spectral resynthesis, FFT/IFFT based spectral morphing and interpolation, and whatever other exotic algorithms he can coax out of his myriad machines. Info: http://www.gift-culture.org/ http://www.psymbolic.com/events/ (info for GeoLogic festival) http://www.psymbolic.com/shop/ (preview & buy Gift Culture's CD here) (If all goes as planned with the recording, I'll be featuring a set recorded live at GeoLogic from another artist on the lineup - Kilowatts - for one of my 2-year birthday shows in August) Hour 1: Gift Culture live from Netstockfest Hour 2: Dr. Krelm back in da studio ____________________________________________ info: Broken Symmetry feat. Dr. Krelm Guest for July 4 - Gift Culture *live* from Netstockfest 1st & 3rd Monday of the month 2-4pm (EST), 7-9pm (UK), 20-22:00 (Germany) http://www.mercurynation.com I'll be out of town, so unfortunately no chat this time. download archives at http://www.krelmatrix.com - shows from June 6 & 20 are currently online! Up soon: Kilowatts (Artificial Music Machine) live from GeoLogic! also... Martin H, Karton (Sound Not Scene), Peter Digital (Digital Structures), The Gay Satanic Hippies (Hell), and many others....