the goa constrictor

(I swear that I posted this review in here a few years back when it was originally released, but just in case...) Artist: Pavel Svimba Album: Space Babuska Label: Hippie Killer Productions Link to Pavel's Soundcloud Download here on Ektoplazm (MP3, FLAC, WAV) Review: Hola! I feel that it has been quite a while since I have written a review, and that seems lame, so here is an album that I’d like to recommend! Pavel Svimba is a moniker, but I would have never known that if I didn’t read it somewhere. Since all knowledge is good knowledge, we should maybe file this piece of info somewhere in the vast vaults known as Your Brain. While you are inside of your brain, take a look around. Revisit your life. Revisit your past, your hopes, your dreams. Revisit the smiles of each one of your friends, every single laugh you have heard, and think about those times you bumped your knee or fell because you were in sych a hurry to play as much as you could. Now come back out here and let’s chat. Or better yet, let’s dance! Life is kind of crazy, you know? Shit keeps happening. Life keeps going forward. The real world is becoming more like the Internet and the Internet keeps becoming more like the real world. There is a neverending barrage of New Food Stuffs at fast food chains and marijuana is still illegal in most places for seemingly no good reason. I dunno. Life, it’s trippy. When listening to Space Babuska, you get the feeling that Pavel Svimba has been paying attention to life a bit. He’s certainly paying attention to the music that accompanies life much like Mansell’s scores accompany an Aronofsky movie. Space Babuska is a wonderful and unique blend of various styles of music. From the more Flute-in-Finnish-Forest sounds of Huopatossu Mononen to the DMT Beach Parties of Lemon Slide. From the heavy bass and percussion of Mandalavandalz to even delicately rolling melodies of classic Platipus Records and Goa Trance; this album tweaks them all. BUT! (and this is kind of important) The album also sounds singular and specific. This isn’t an ADHD smash&grab either. The flow of songs on here move quite well from one to the next and yet the tracks vary enough to offer multiple different options for DJs who like to play a variety of styles and different sounding sets. You can listen to the album front to back without feeling like you are just listening to collection of SoundCloud singles or anything like that and it doesn’t get repetitive or monotonous either. I’m not a fan of track-by-track reviews, but I’ll give you a short glimpse of what is inside: The album opens with Free Step On It! and with a classic Goa bubbling sound that leads into a funky muted guitar riff as the beach party takes shape. This leads into some nice orchestral strings and the great morning stomp of Space Babushka. I feel I have heard this song and the birds chirping therein many times, but I haven’t. It is just instantly recognizable and I kind of wish that I had had this with me earlier in the summer at ChxFst211. Then things pick up and we get more fast and upbeat in things. Then we get to the song Narrow Shoulders, which is seriously one of my most favorite songs right now. The deep rock kick and snappy snare mixed with that phat synth and then the lovely Texas-Faggott-meets-Union-Jack-concept-album-from-an-alternate-reality-Platipus-Records comes into play. The song fucking slays me in all the right ways. Good job. Then things keep getting a bit more rockin’ while still retaining its forest gnome sensibilities. The occasional metal guitar stabs, the flutes and percussion choices, the tweaked samples. The Yellow Snail Man -> Fuckin’ Brains sequence gets into some of that Suomi UFO Encounter stuff and then it ends with Teknikal Problems, a short little ditty that kind of wraps things up. . Life is just a moment in time. Life is life. And with that weird ending, I shall close this review. The album is good. It is fun and it is matching my mood right now. There are no bad tracks but there are definitely a couple of massively standout ones too! Maybe life’s days are like this album; never a bad day but definitely some great ones mixed in too… xoxox -A’damn

It's been about a month, I should go ahead and make the track listing easier for you all to see. 3.5hr commitment can be quite the commitment if you don't trust me... Arc 1 Arc 2 Arc 3 If anyone knows of some promoters looking to add a spoonful of Psymply Psychedelic music, please get them in touch with me. It's always nice to bounce a dance floor with people as opposed to just composing mixes in a studio. Cheers

Synchro f-buckets! Totally Rad! Thank you =) I miss Synchro

I doubt that first track is Transwave because I would almost never play two tracks from the same artist back to back. I thought that was lazy djing Second could be some Creamcrop. I should dig through their discography and check it out. Or maybe an Elektrik Orgasm track. I'll get on the hunt. Thanks for the help, even though you KNEW NOTHING! lololol MORE HELP PLEASE! =)

Artist: Texas Faggott Album: Tranz Toilette Label: Bandcamp Link/Buy: rytmimystiikka.bandcamp.com/album/texas-faggott-tranz-toilett Review: You know, it’s been so long since I have written an album review, I almost wondered if I would ever actually do it again. But, then again, I kind of thought that Texas Faggott was over and dead too, so perhaps this is a fitting excuse to write a review. Well, that and the fact that this album is fucking AWESOME. Over the years, Timo has been focusing so much on the Mandalavandalz and Satanic Disney monikers that I kind of assumed that Texas Faggott was over and done with. It servered its purpose, did its time, and was time to let that moniker be put to rest and allow for other monikers to explore the new sounds. But, that’s just kind of stupid. Texas Faggott will always be the top tier moniker for Timo’s music and he may as well use it from time to time. Now, if you follow the discography of Timo’s output, you’ll know that Mandalavandalaz “The King of the Bad Trips” was kind of his last full length release. And it was a solid nutron bomb of psychedelic madness. It’s really hard for me to find most of what is considered “forest” or “dark psy” to be anything but laughable because Timo just fucking NAILED ‘The King of the Bad Trips’ so masterfully. THAT was an album that was dark, twisted, scary, and psychedelic. Where was he to go from there? Well, ‘Tranz Toilette’ is a pretty fucking solid return to form. I’ve had a weird torrid affair with the Psychedelic Dance world for a little while now. Shit was getting boring and stale. I was an emotional pile of rubbish. Things just weren’t coming together properly. Then, over this past winter, I was reborn and recognized my role as King. Since then, I’ve been gobbling up different psychedelic sounds and let me tell you, Tranz Toilette is everything I could have hoped it would be. Timo has a unique skill and take on psychedelic music. He understands the aliens, the sylphs, the massive use of panning, the gated vocals and samples, proper use of a bass line, and of course, all of the weird swirling and chirping alien sounds. The fucker composes extremely gratifying alien rush hour traffic cosmic dance music. In a way, that’s all I need to say. If you’re already a fan of Texas Faggott and the related projects, this new album will not disappoint. If you’re not already a fan, I really don’t know if this is the album that will change your mind. But, maybe you should try again anyway. Timo is of a rare breed in the Psychedelic Trance world; often imitated, never quite copied, always able to bring together the warmth of a morning melody with the darkness of the nastiest twisted music out there. Another A+ for Timo and thanks again for all of the lovely music over the years. xoxox -King Goa Constrictor

Hello! I recently uploaded an old mix of mine to my website and was trying to fill out the track listing for it and two tracks have stumped me. The mix would have been recorded sometime between 2004-6, and the two tracks may have been old, new, or unreleased. I really have no clue. Luckily, they are right next to each other on the mix, so it is pretty easy to listen to both tracks. The mix is called Project Epona 2: Goa All Over Your Face and can be downloaded here: goaconstrictor.com/audio/TheGoaConstrictor-GoaAllOverYourFace.mp3 The tracks I am curious about are between the Deedrah - The Wizard Demo and Eat Static - Epidemic tracks. Roughly the 8min -> 19min markers. If anyone can help out with these two tracks, I'd like to post the complete track listing. Thank you

After a long delay, FABULOUS! Radio is back! FABULOUS! Radio - April 27th, 2013 Download this individual show from here: http://goaconstrictor.com/fabulousradio/FabulousRadio-April272013.mp3 Subscribe to the iTunes Podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fabulous!-radio/id453177437?mt=2 Track lists and other info: https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-goa-constrictor/fabulous-radio-april-27th-2013/508878745837891 More to come... xoxox -King Goa Constrictor

(I'm sorry if this isn't the exact right place for this posting, but I wasn't really sure where else to post it...) goaconstrictor.com/thoughts/goa-party/ Long long ago in a galaxy far far far away, there was a little psychedelic community bubbling about in the Pacific Northwest. One afternoon it was decided that we were all too poor and landlocked to really experience any of the awesome Psychedelic Trance festivals that happened all over the world, so fuck it. Most “live” acts are some blokes on CDJs or, even worse, unplugged gear. We had mad psychedelic-trip-yo-shit-out skills. So we each chose an artist to emulate and then we assembled the Dream Team line up. HALLUCINOGEN TRANSWAVE PRANA KOXBOX PSYCHAOS X-DREAM JUNO REACTOR COSMOSIS MAN WITH NO NAME SUN PROJECT QUIRK ETNICA And then we started promoting the party. That was free. And seemed to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses. HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS EVENT GOING TO TAKE PLACE? It took a little while, but after people got done thinking that I was trying to scam them out of all of that non money they were gonna not pay, we went into the beautiful woods of the Pacific Northwest and channeled some fucking cosmic shit. The sheer number of black light fixtures that we brought for this showed our dedication. Black light wattage should EASILY double the sound wattage. and, since it is the northwest, THE FUCKING RAIN. The stories of the rain, the fire, the flooded tent, the cops impounding the generator, lots of moistnesss. Lots of Psychedelic the way it was meant to be. GOA PARTY was more than a party. It was an adventure. The online flame wars of “intentionality” and how we… how to phrase this properly… let’s just say that a bunch of stupid as fuck hippies thought that we were dicks for having a good time because weird goa music about aliens and swirly stupid noises, to them, was some really deep religious thing and needs to be respected. Fuck that. The following year we did GOA PARTY 2.3 which was a trip backward in time. We started off with that year 2007, and then went backward in time throughout the night and into the morning wherein we ended with 1994. Some photos of GOA PARTY 2.3! The following year was the great TriLOLgy to celebrate Flag Day, two of our dear friends’ wedding, and a special visit from our friend Sean Process, who I consider to be a Portlander that simply is on a long holiday but will return again at some point. It was also the year that the large Penske truck that I was driving through mountain roads slipped on a wet spot and left me nearly dead at the bottom of a mountain. Luckily, the truck rolled into a tree off to the right instead of down the unknown depths of darkness to the left. I still get creeped out on mountain roads now. Then the final GOA PARTY: GO4 P4RTY 4 (in the increasingly inaccurately named GOA PARTY TR1LOLGY series), featured a 25hour marathon set from THE GOA GIL CONSTRICTOR. I figured it was time for someone to challenge the old man to a battle, old school Brooklyn style. He declined. So I decided to play for 25 hours with a couple dozen of my best friends and DJing partners. Every hour, I would tag team a set with a different DJ. I did a few sets alone and then the rest with a well mixed assortment of locals and friends that I have always wanted to play some music with. It was a great experience playing for that long and if anyone would ever let me do it again, I will gladly play another marathon set for people. After that… well… the Goa died. Well, not really. And, regardless, if you made it this far, here is a treat for you. It’s a single long 8 hour recording of the first GOA PARTY. http://goaconstrictor.com/audio/GOAPARTY.mp3 It was a very psychedelic affair and in the middle of a fucking tsunami-like storm, so there are a few technical issues. So, here is this file… Listen to the recording from the first GOA PARTY (which then would change the world…) **Filling in for TRANSWAVE will be none other than our local hero MALACLYPSE **Taking the role of PRANA shall be the wonderfully new addition to our neighborhood ELECTRIC MAYHEM **Bringing the KOXBOX to the NW with slickness and style is the great SHADOWVEX **Being three people at once isn’t easy, but neither is he. SUN PROJECT shall be covered by the magnificent PG13 **The honorable JUNO REACTOR will be brought to life by the only person worthy of such a feat, FRACTALIEN **Filling in the shoes of the very tough ETNICA will be none other than our resident sex machine MARSH MACY **In a move towards alienating himself further, HALLUCINOGEN shall be destroyed by THE GOA CONSTRICTOR **Jizzing all over the wet dreams of X-DREAM is our spiritual leader THE BAD PIONEER 2000 **MAN WITH NO NAME shall be gracefully delivered by a man named ULTRA-TOM **Bringing some PSYCHAOS to your already chaotic night is the obvious choice of MANIFEST **COSMOSIS* once played at his house party, now he gets to play COSMOSIS, give it up for CRISPY* **And, last but not least (although quite possibly the shortest), standing tall for the immortal QUIRK is the lovely GOAPIXIE *(except Ry.N filled in for Crispy as Cosmosis) [editor's note: it appears that the file is solid up until the end of Cosmosis. So you get Hallucinogen -> Cosmosis on this one. Sorry to the later morning performers. I think the recording device had an 8hour limit]

Also, I am beginning to assemble a second compilation for release later this year. If you'd like to possible submit something for consideration of the new compilation, please get in touch! I'd love to hear anything and everything =) Thank you

(I never posted this here, if someone else has already, my apologies) Crop Circle Jerk ektoplazm.com/free-music/crop-circle-jerk 01 - Kixotek - Ouroboros (Fraggle Mix) (100 BPM) 02 - Eat Static - Interceptor (UltraTom Remix) (172 BPM) 03 - Pentti & Enki - Sludge (106 BPM) 04 - Robomate - Trendy Whores (Snyper Remix) (134 BPM) 05 - Melufantti - Ransu The Dog (139 BPM) 06 - Pavel Svimba - The End And Beyond (149 BPM) 07 - Electric Arc - Cherry Blossoms (2012 Coboi Bepop Mix) (126 BPM) 08 - Tasp - Slight Tickling Sensation (128 BPM) 09 - Peroxide Mocha - Around The World (114 BPM) 10 - Fun Toy & Panda Towel feat. Vega Ebbersten - Fiona (120 BPM) 11 - Foxdye - Uphill To A Boring Horizon (120 BPM) Crop Circle Jerk is the first release from the Pacific Northwest’s Psymply Psychedelic Productions. Wishing to take psychedelic trance music out of the confines of single styles, The Goa Constrictor has curated an album of psychedelic sounds that range from slow tribal psychedelic breaks to playful Suomi sounds to slick progressive techno. We feel that it is time to once again make sure that the music we hear is Psymply Psychedelic. Mastered by Thee Bad Pioneer 2000 at Megalow Studios with cover design by PhillyG. WAV/FLAC/MP3 downloads available from Ektoplazm at: ektoplazm.com/free-music/crop-circle-jerk

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the set on Saturday. I wanted to bring something a bit different and fun to the party. Felt like people were into the same grooving ideas that I was. =)

King Goa Constrictor - Hail to the King [::::download::::] (3hr27min/VariableMP3/412MB/©2013) Genre: Psychedelic Trance Like Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, a true King knows when he should stay hidden and be a regular person, and when he should stand tall and claim his throne as the King and lead his people to glory. After taking a two-year break, it is time for me to rise again and claim my rightful throne as the King; King Goa Constrictor. It’s been over two years since I have made a proper psychedelic trance mix and now it’s time for me to unleash the glory and defend my title of King. Every now and then I come across someone else on the Internet trying to claim to be “the goa constrictor” and this simply will not fly. I am The Goa Constrictor. I am your Shaman Goa Constrictor. I am the King Goa Constrictor. You other goa constrictors should really just stop pretending. Anyway, so here is this mix. A three-hour-thirty-minute long journey through the world of the psychedelic. We start things off with a nice gentle groove before we explode into full power psychedelic madness and chaos. Then shit gets bassy, glitched out, and krunked before crashing through some retro glory and then finally calming down and ending with the panty moistener of the summer. So go get yourself a drop of the psychedelic, turn on your mood lighting, and settle in for the night. Hail to the King because shit’s gonna get psychedelic. For full track listing, please head over to: http://goaconstrictor.com/music/hail-to-the-king/ (I prefer for people to experience the mix without knowing what is gonna happen next during the first listen. but it is all posted for everyone who wants the info on the madness being dropped)

...i am very excited to listen to this for the first time with the listeners of my show... =) Thank you!

Good morning! I think it's about time for me to clean my room. There is still a box or two of stuff that I have never unpacked since I moved in January and I have music all over the place. The hurricane of CDs strewn about every surface in the room has made it hard to do anything in this space and the boxes serve as dangerous icebergs in the middle of the night. This is why I feel it is time to clean. I might do some cleaning on the show, I also might do the cleaning just after the show. I dunno. I really don't know what else to put up in this space though... so I am writing about cleaning... maybe you should clean too... FABULOUS! Radio Today: Noon -> 3pm (PDT (GMT-7)) Tune-in Live @ http://goaconstrictor.com/radio RSS/Podcast Info: http://www.goaconstrictor.com/fabulousradio/feed.rss Playlists: http://goaconstrictor.com/playlists To be in touch during the show, drop a line: AIM - goafabulous GChat - fabulousradio Meebo - fabulousradio Email - radio [at] goaconstrictor [dot] com UStream - Live chatting with other listeners How was your holiday? Have fun? Was the weather nice? I went to a Slayer show on Saturday and then kicked some ass in an arm wrestling match. I am the power of rock... or something... Baby dinosaurs never burned a Qur'an xoxox -A'damn

I'll totally disagree with this. An artist is meant to write songs while the mastering house cleans them up and makes them sound as good as possible. I don't necessarily want to listen to music created by someone who masters music. Just like most session musicians suck at writing music but are fantastic at playing it, there are different roles for different people and a person who crafts brilliant music shouldn't need to learn all the ins and outs of proper mastering too.

I hope you realize how terribly inaccurate this statement was. Have you ever been to Europe? The regions in which events were thrown and artists lived, are rather small and local. They have a fairly cheap local airline system too. Flying an artist from Australia, Finland, Japan, or anywhere in Europe, over to America is about a grand per person. In the UK, you could have a party with 7 internationally known and huge artists. To make that happen in the USA, you would need a completely different type of party and scene. Because the UK was able to nurture these artists and this scene 15 years ago, it was able to develop and grow in a way that wasn't happening in the USA. Parties all over the USA have been going off and kicking ass, without profit or prestige, for well over 10-15 years. I'm also rather curious as how you define successful and what it is you're looking for in a scene.

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I think this is where we begin to understand your disclaimer regarding yourself as The album is fantastic. Great Kino Oko variety and style. Great atmosphere and energy. Wonderfully unique and truly a Kino Oko album. People should be buying this up and supporting the artists who dance fantastically on the edges of the paradigms in which their scene is rooted.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING! Wait... Can you feel it... Sense it... It's Friday! And not just any Friday. The Friday of a 3-day weekend (for those of you lucky bastards with jobs)! And on Sunday, here in the USofA, we'll be celebrating our countries independence. You know, it was like the World Cup, only we kicked Britain's ASSES! Then after that ass kicking, well, we're dicks. Human history is riddled with horrific violence, evil, and wrongdoing. We're quite the shitty species, and honestly, I blame religion for it all. So this Sunday, while celebrating your freedom, burn a picture of the Pope or something. Take a shit on Jesus and then spend a moment in silence to mourn the lives of those killed and tortured under the name of some God. oh, and tune-in in to today's show! FABULOUS! Radio Today: 10am -> 1pm (PDT (GMT-7)) Tune-in Live @ http://goaconstrictor.com/radio RSS/Podcast Info: http://www.goaconstrictor.com/fabulousradio/feed.rss Playlists: http://goaconstrictor.com/playlists To be in touch during the show, drop a line: AIM - goafabulous GChat - fabulousradio Meebo - fabulousradio Email - fabulousradio@gmail.com UStream - Live chatting with other listeners It's weird not having a new Catsup! to attend this week. Their idea of shifting it back a few weeks is rather unfortunate to my schedule, but oh well. I' sure there are other things to do this weekend... The teapot demanded freedom... xoxox -A'damn

Hello! The Psymply Psychedelic Team (ChickenHed, Apollos Lute and [inertia labs]) wanted to take a moment to remind you that tickets for this summer's most psychedelically charged event, PSYMPLY PSYCHEDELIC, are going to be going up in price soon! As of Thursday July 01st, tickets will be $35. You may buy them online at http://apolloslute.com/ or in person at Catharsis or Catsup! in July. If you buy them on Wednesday, you can still get them for the low cost of $25 each. We have a large update coming your way next week, so stay tuned for its appearance! Thank you all for your participation and we look forward to seeing you all on the dancefloor soon... -The Psymply Psychedelic Team

GOOD MORNING/AFTERNOON/EVENING! Holy whack unbelievable weather! Yesterday was the solstice and today is summer... and the weather is indeed cooperating! How have you all been? I've been great! A bit busy, which is why I haven't been able to kick it with y'all in a couple of weeks, but I felt the urge to get my swerve on with you all today and am reaching for that damn sky! There is a lot to cover during today's show, including info on this summer's greatest events, newest music, and bestest jokes; but first, let's figure out when the show will air! FABULOUS! Radio Today: 12:12 -> 3:12pm (PDT (GMT-7)) Tune-in Live @ http://goaconstrictor.com/radio RSS/Podcast Info: http://www.goaconstrictor.com/fabulousradio/feed.rss Playlists: http://goaconstrictor.com/playlists To be in touch during the show, drop a line: AIM - goafabulous GChat - fabulousradio Meebo - fabulousradio Email - fabulousradio@gmail.com UStream - Live chatting with other listeners I think it's time to get our Will Smith on... The baby dinosaurs loved summer... xoxox -A'damn

There has been some exciting and big announcements since the original post! I have edited the top post in this thread, but check out http://apolloslute.com for more info! xoxox -A'damn

Was it during the song with the generic Apple Logic Audio error tone? That is indeed some good timing!