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Surely not. We are considering everything, as long as it experiments with something, somehow. We are trying to stay away from clichés and stereotypes so, drek, radio static doesn't necessarily guarantee experimentation I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you all for the interest in this project... Keep those tracks coming! And remember, non-musicians are invited as well!

Hello, We at Psylosophy Records are looking for young creative minds to take part in our next ambitious project, conveniently called Experimentos. Experimentos is an album entirely made of experimental music. Experimental is all the music that somehow experiments inside any or no particular music style. We're looking for innovation, for people who can't see any talent in their own music and for those whose creations have always been overlooked by labels afraid of unsellable music. Further details on this album will be available only to artists interested in taking part. Artists who are not musicians can also manifest their interest in this project. The album has no release date set, will be sold at production-cost and no royalties will be paid. People interested in this must want to take part in an effort to promote music, knowledge and creativity. We are looking to create something that's not a product of a massive consumption society, to which psytrance is currently associated. We want something that somehow fights the trend. But, more than anything else, we want to open your eyes to the fact that you are talented, you just don't know it yet. Send your Experimentos to this e-mail address: collective @ psylosophy (dot) com (Please upload your music somewhere, and send us the link. Attachments will be ignored) Thank you so very much! - Psylosophy Records -------------------------------------- www.psylosophy.com www.theexperimentos.com

Psylosophy Records presents... MIRACULIX LIVE Discoteca Planeta da Noite, Covilhã 3 de Março de 2007 March 3rd '07 Apresentação, pela primeira vez em Portugal, do seu último trabalho, THE ARRIVAL (Alchemy Records) e preview exclusivo do seu terceiro álbum, a editar em 2007! Com uma já extensa carreira, Miraculix traz-nos da Suécia trance psicadélico energético e altamente dançável, carregado de um misticismo muito particular. The portuguese premier of Miraculix's latest work, THE ARRIVAL (Alchemy Records), as well as the exclusive preview of the upcoming third album, to be released in 2007! With quite a career, Miraculix brings us energetic psytrance, full of that peculiar Swedish mysticism. ----- | ----- Live Acts: MIRACULIX (SWE) Digital Psionics Records METHODIC MARBLE (PT) Psylosophy Records DJ's: LOSING CONTROL (PT) Psylosophy Records DELUSIONAL vs KIDAFA (PT) Psylosophy Records ----- | ----- Local: Discoteca Planeta da Noite, Covilhã Location: Planeta da Noite Club, Covilhã Entrada: 7 euros c/ uma bebida Entry: 7 euros w/ one drink Decor: AMET Production & Psylosophy Records Infolines: 96 933 09 16 96 11 727 11 Mais info muito brevemente! More info really soon! Psylosophy.com

Alright, here's a free EP for all you heavy nighttime trance addicts, whatever the hell that is... It's a free 2-track EP by The Galactic Brain & Undertaker, and it's available for FREE download here: WAV FILES (44 KHz / 118 MBs) http://www.psylosophyrecords.com/releases/pslep007/ MP3 FILES (320 Kbs / 32.9 MBs / Requires registration at Sonic-Energy.net) http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/component...d,27/Itemid,69/ Enjoy and leave some thoughts, maybe...

Hi there, Here goes a small preview of an interview we did with DJ Ananda, Red Cells label owner. They've recently released a compilation called Hunters that is seriously blasting off some dancefloors, so why not know more about them? You can read the rest of the interview at Psylosophy.com. It was in a time where the psytrance scene was full of boring music that DJ Ananda had a vision. He saw the chance to get in the market and do something for the music, a chance to get it back on its feet. He surrounded himself of top-notch music makers like Triskell, Phatmatix and Digital Talk and founded Red Cells Records, a french label with some seriously innovative ideas. They've released their debut album, a compilation called Hunters, some time ago and we've decided to go talk to the man behind the label and see what they have in store for us in the future. Check it out! Psylosophy: What is Red Cells, who's the man behind it and how did it come about? Ananda: My name’s is Simon and I am 31 years old. Born in 1974 in Cambodia and living in Paris (France). Red Cells Records is like a dream come true. It’s the psytrance label I’ve launched one and a half years ago alongside my mates Triskell, Phatmatix, Digital Talk and DJ Sayko Yan. You may find interesting news on us via www.redcellsrecords.com . Psylosophy: What leads someone to one day get up and think «Hey, I'm gonna start a label...»? Ananda: Well, as far as I am concerned, I’ve been working with two labels (Turbo trance and Mechanik Sound) from 1999 to 2004. My musical tastes have changed so I decided start the "Red Cells Adventure" in order to promote the music I like. Psylosophy: Your first release just came out: a compilation called Hunters - must I say it's one hell of an album -, featuring some really top-notch artists, mostly from France. How would you describe this release? Ananda: OBRIGADO! I am touched by your words which are pushing me more. This release, which is our first one and hopefully not the last, is a CD that describes a journey through psychedelic trance. I have compiled nine tracks from different artists in order to create a nice "voyage". It was hard because I did listen to a lot of very interesting and good artists before picking the ones I really enjoyed. Psylosophy: What are your plans for future releases: are you gonna keep trying to spread french music worldwide, or will you also be betting on international acts a bit more? Ananda: You are right, Red Cells Records is at the moment composed of French artists only. However, our compilations will always feature foreign atists too. We are a new born label so let’s wait and see what the furure will say... Psylosophy: The album closes with a really neat chillout track by Blue Planet Corporation. I was kind of hoping your interest for downtempo music could result in a dub/chillout album sometime. Is this something we can be expecting in the future from Red Cells? Ananda: I like down tempo music a lot. The idea of producing a chill album has grown in my head. It will hopefully be planned but I don’t know when yet. Psylosophy: Are you interested in discovering new acts and giving them a push? If so, what kind of music are you looking for and how can people send it to you? Ananda: Of course we are doing the best we can to promote music we enjoy most. Therefore discovering new acts outside of France is an aim for us. I do love a lot of psytrance stuff, no matter the styles, as long as it's good music for the body and brain. If your music represents a wonderful and powerful journey, please get in touch with me at ananda@redcellsrecords.com or send your material to: Red Cells Records 31 Rue Ramus 75020 Paris France Psylosophy: How do you feel about the french psytrance scene these days? Ananda: I'd say a lot of new structures (Promoters, labels...) have been created in France during the past three years. Some are really trying to push the music and its culture up and others are doin'g it just for fun. In all cases, France has great musicians and artists, a lot of potential, but we have a lot of difficulties to get authorisations to promote our music. Psylosophy: Fred (Neuromotor) told us, in our last interview, that Paris is the worst place he ever played at. He said, quote: "The crowd is too strange [...] I don't like the way the promoters treat them and the way the people come to the party and act". From your personal experience, would you agree? Ananda: This is his point of view, and I do not agree with him totally. Like everywhere in the world I guess, there are good and bad promoters as well as good and bad party people. Paris is far from being the best place to party but it's deffinitely not a bad one either. If you ask any foreign artists that has played in Paris, most of them will tell you they had a lot of fun. In my case, I’ve been performing in many big and small parties since 1998 and I was satisfied at 90% of my gigs. Maybe in Paris people don’t react as well as he wishes, in regards to his music. It’s true that in Paris most of the parties feature full-on DJs. Psylosophy: What's the best country to party, by the way? Ananda: Well I love Portugal and the friends I have there, the UK , India, Germany has great vibes but I really loved and enjoy performing in Russia and Brazil. Also, Switzerland has some awesome sceneries for outdoor parties and the vibes on the German side are great! Psylosophy: There currently seems to be a label flood, where albums keep coming out just so label DJs and artists can get some gigs. What makes Red Cells different than all these other labels? Ananda: That's an hard question. Hmm, we are trying to produce different stuff than other labels are producing nowadays. But we only promote the music we really enjoy. You should ask this question to the people that have purchased the CD and support us ---------------------------------- Entire interview @ Psylosophy.com

And you can take a sneak peak right here: http://www.appf59.dsl.pipex.com/mp3s-1.htm AND, here's the link to the label's website: http://www.wrongmusic.com

http://www.chaosunlimited.co.uk/cgi-bin/pr...p?LR=WRONGCDR01

Alright, here goes... You can check out some of my stuff right here: www.psylosophy.com/delusional/ Thank yous!

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It's quite faster now! And you can get your own free page right here: http://www.psylosophy.com/artists/index.php If you're looking to find some new music, this is the place as well!

Here goes one more interview. You know the drill: you can get the entire thing @ www.psylosophy.com ----- Whew, watch out for this man. Coming from the always-rising south-african trance scene, Xatrik absolutely smashed our heads off with his debut solo album Project A. Since then, he's jammed up an amazing amount of tracks, been releasing on several international compilations and is now working on his second album. You better watch out for this man, he's coming at ya faster than you can say I have a speech impediment and, before you know it, you'll be jumping around like mad. Oh yeah, you won't even know what hit you - just get ready for his new tunes! Psylosophy: Ok so let's start like we always do: could you please introduce yourself? Xatrik: Hi there, my name is Greg Hamber, a.k.a. Xatrik. I am 27 years old and I come from Johannesburg, South Africa. Psylosophy: How would you describe your music, your style? Xatrik: I see my style as a Mix of Funk Groove and the Technotic... I like very psychedelic sounds and use a lot of effects and dark textures, while still keeping the music playful. Psylosophy: Some people say South-African producers use a techno base with psychedelic effects layered over it, which makes it sound so poweful. Is that true? Xatrik: Yes, to a large degree with the Cape Town producers. I think this is because we all grew up listening to Techno and some of us Hard House... But inevitably moved with what we wanted from the music, which is that dance energy that you get with psychedelic effects. Psylosophy: How is the Psychedelic scene over there? Xatrik: Hmmm, let me think... It's very good! We have Timecode and Nexus Media and lots of great parties. We also live in a beautiful country. Psylosophy: Any plans as to release a second solo album? Xatrik: I have realeased my first album called Project A on Digital Psionics last year (July) and am going to release my second album with the same label later this year. Psylosophy: Can we get some details on that? Xatrik: Yes. My second album is as yet untitled but I'm thinking of calling it Life Insurance for Over 50's. I am going to try and concentrate on making the music less weird and obscure and more energetic. Psylosophy: Oh, I see, so we're having a change of style with the new album... Xatrik: With my first album I just wrote the music that I liked and wasn't thinking at all about dance floors and what people want. But now, after playing some more parties I want to make something that is more accesible to the greater masses but still retain my originality. Most of the gigs I have had came from releasing the 1st album so I would like to keep my Xatrik style in there somehow but my approach to making toonz has changed and I am now more keen to experiment with new ideas and incorporate what I have learnt to make something... dare I say Next Level. Psylosophy: Can you give us an insight on your studio? Xatrik: I've got a Yamaha 01V Digital Mixer, Virus A, Yamaha RS7000 Beatbox, a friend's Nord 3, a Laptop with shitty soundcard and a set of Event 20/20 mid-range speakers Psylosophy: Best party you ever played at...? Xatrik: Shew wee! Hard one... I guess it would have to be a small gig I did in Brighton last year when I was living there. I knew all the people and they really got deep into the music. I had so much fun... half the time I was in the crowd jamming with them. Psylosophy: What about the worst one? Xatrik: Ah, never really had a worst one... I have pressed eject on the CD that was playin a few times and also knocked over some equipment, but I guess it's just amazingly awesome to jam trance to a group of amped people! Even if you make a mistake... Psylosophy: Haha, I agree! Psylosophy: You've produced a few tracks with Slug. Is he a really good friend or do you just find your sound to be extremely compatible? Xatrik: Yeah, we lived together for a few years so we're great friends. We are very compatible when it comes to writing music. We also have a similar sense of humour! Hopefully next year we can write a Xatrik and the Slug album. We are both super keen just busy with other projects at the moment Psylosophy: Good to know, all the best to that project! Psylosophy: Do you have any sideprojects? Xatrik: Yes, a few. One Progressive side project (e are calling ourselves o.N.s) and I have started making some jazzy style breakbeats, like Mr Weeza and Chemical bruv with a guy I live with. I've also started another project with the guys from Alien Safari, who are legendary party throwers in South Africa. Psylosophy: Wow, that's really something. Xatrik: Hehe, thanks bro. Psylosophy: I really like to see producers following different directions as well. Xatrik: I have deceided that this year I want to be as productive as possible. I don't know why, maybe it's because I sit around and smoke too much... Psylosophy: Hahaha, maybe it is my friend... ----- For more: www.psylosophy.com

Well, there are a lot of great samples around that I really love (Shulman's Small Grey Creatures, Talpa's People are Animals, Scorb's Psycore, etc...). However, one that really caught my attention recently is from The Unstables (Goblin vs Pixel). The track's called The Clone and comes in Time and Space pt. 3 and I think it was really well fit in there. "He's smart, he's a friend... You know, he's nice... And you wanna be nice, right? A nice, nice man. And you know what means the most to me? I was on the phone everyday. Everyday, doing what I do best: talking on the telephone! Me, I did that! Why? Because..." "Was it legal? Fuck legal! Am I a nice man? Fuck nice! They say terrible things about me in The Nation? Fuck The Nation! You want to be nice or you want to be effective?! You want to make the law, or subject to it? Choose!" By the way, the sample is from Angels in America.

Right, here goes: I can't really see how you can be a chill-out lover and not love this track, regardless of the fact that Asura's stuff is all pretty much the same, as you put it. Fact is, in my humble opinion, no one has really heard this track if he just listened to it and did not immediately fall in love with it... I don't know, that's just the way I feel and I'm sorry you can't find any beauty in this track (pretty much all of it, by the way). That's the best I can do...

Damn, I'd swear this is a topic for personal opinions and taste. Sorry about that, man. I shall never listen to it again.

Listen to it, you should. There.

01. Shulman - Consciousness Revoked @ 4:45 The piano work here is the most relaxing thing I've ever heard. If you turn off all of the lights in the room, put your stereo real loud and let yourself get caught in the music, you'll see what I mean. 02. Shulman - Random Lifelines @ 5:30 I just can't get enough of this album. This track erally gets to me, especially after 5:30. There's this weird melodic work envolving various kinds of instruments and synths, all completely different from each other, but that create a melodic work too good to be true. 03. Violet Vision - Plastic Wrap @ 2:14 Violet Vision aren't really chill-out. It's a blend of ambient with breakbeat that has a really wide range of influences. This track has gotta be the most ambient track of their second album. It really gets to me, especially the violins and the voice. One of the very few tracks that could make me cry on a stressful day. 04. Hallucinogen - Solstice (Warwick Bassmonkey Mix) @ 1:10 You just gotta love it. The melody that start at approximately 1 minute just takes you away. Minimalistic, but effective nonetheless. 05. Asura - Lost Eden @ 1:26 No comments are necessary here. Those who've listened to this track know what I'm talking about. 06. Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place @ 0:01 Radiohead has these things. This track leaves me speechless, from the first to the last second. 07. Serart - Narina (Bill Laswell RMX) @ 0:01 I doubt anyone around here even knows this track, so I'll save comments. If you have the chance to get your hands on this, please do. It's one of the most outstanding trip-hop/ambient/breakbeat tracks I've heard in a long time. 08. Infected Mushroom - Deeply Disturbed (Violet Vision RMX) @ 3:22 This break at 3:22 just gets to me. Deffinitely the best conversion I've seen from psy into chill-out (breakbeat, to be precise). Really, really great stuff. 09. Ott - Smoked Glass and Chrome @ 1:20 It's often to find that some of the voice samples on Ott's tracks are used by a lot of other artists (how many freakin' times have we heard that guy from Ott's Splitting an Atom?). None ever does a job half as good as the man Ott. This one's one of those tracks. It's just pure musical beauty. 10. Portishead - Roads @ 0:12 Beautiful stuff, no comments necessary. There... Wheew!

Best chill-out album ever is deffinitely Shulman's In Search Of A Meaningful Moment. The mood it creates and the atmospheres it envolves are simply amazing. I also liked Bluetech's album quite a lot. 2004 was a nice year, as far as ambient/chill-out goes. Some of the most interesting albums would have to be, besides the two mentioned above: Aes Dana - Memory Shell, Abakus - That Much Closer to the Sun, Gaudi - Bass, Sweat and Tears, Youth - The Secret Language of Ordinary Objects and the compilation by Aleph Zero, Natural Born Chillers. Oh, Kaya Projects' is nice too. Regarding non-psy: Massive Attack, Funkstörung (any of the tracks they don't screw with crappy rap artists), Radiohead (some of their work is really electronic and chilloutesque), Pink Floyd (not all of it, though), some of Air's stuff, and a few more I can't think of right now.

Maybe it doesn't sound so bad when you don't understand the lyrics... They're really, really bad. I mean, really!!

Worst ever would deffinitely have to be GMS' remix of a track by the Brazilian band Tribalistas: Tudo Mundo. That was a really, really, REALLY bad choice of a track to convert into Psytrance.

V.A. - Booo V.A. - Psychedelically Yours 3 Kindzadza & Friends - 13 Dimension Connection Ctrl Alt Delete, A Little Lunacy and Midnight Storm were also nice, though I'm pretty sure they won't make it to the end of the year amongst the top 25 albums (Or at least, I hope so).

Hey there, Here goes a bit of our interview with Neuromotor, for your viewing pleasure. You can catch the rest of it at our website: www.psylosophy.com. Enjoy! -- There are those who may have thought Neuromotor had vanished in between so many new acts rising in the scene today. Some may have thought he decided to call it a day and stop for good. Well, they were dead wrong. Fred is coming back in full-power, better than ever, and promising an album that just screams out of rage from the first to the last second. We met Fred to discuss a bit about his second album, Bloody Reality, and here's your chance to get to know everything about it. Check it out! Psylosophy: Could you please introduce yourself? Who is Neuromotor? Neuromotor: Neuromotor is Neuromotor-ali, which was an Hip-Hop singer around his thirteen (laughs). Before that I had studied piano and violin... I listened mostly to all kinds of alternative music and also Pop and Funk. Around 15 I fell in love with acid music and, later on around 22, I was promoting parties and DJ'ing myself where I was living at the time, in the Caribean island Guadaloupe. Then I went to Ibiza, where I became resident DJ at the Kumharas and at that point, around December of 99, I decided to take part of this movement within the creation and the production. Psylosophy: You seem to have experienced a lot of different styles through your musical career. Do you feel like they've played an important role (as influences) in achieving the unique and peculiar sound you produce? Neuromotor: I don't know if my sound is kind of unique or something. Actually, I don't listen to trance at all anymore, only Trip Hop, Jazz, Psychedelic Funk and Classic... Well sometimes Pop, depends on the feeling of the day. But yeah, all my musical background inspired me quiet a lot. Actually you'll see in my new album that I've managed to be funky, jazzy and even give it a toich of blues... For sure! Psylosophy: When is this new album coming out? Neuromotor: It should be out soon... Psylosophy: On Mechanik? Neuromotor: No, on Third Eye Records, the Indian label I'm on right now. I'm about to finish the last track. It is a very interesting album for me, this time much more than the first one, 'cause I'm dealing with lots of shit I wanted to talk about. It is kind of a denunciation. Psylosophy: Do you have any name for it yet? Neuromotor: Bloody Reality. Each track treats a sublect and each track will be explained by a page with different pictures and text. It will have a booklet of ten pages. For exemple, there's one track called Bush the Antichrist. Then I'll tell you how and why I feel about it. And nine different tracks like that. Each one of those will represent negative and positive aspects of the subject I'm dealing with. Psylosophy: And how can the music itself relate to the title and the subject of it? Neuromotor: This is about my dreams and my feelings. Somehow I'm trying to get connected as much as I can to the subject. You know, let me explain: all is about resonance. Not to do any kind of spirituality or religious things you know, it's just scientifically sure. Whatever you decide to write, sing, play or even draw, it will create a vibration, electric reaction from your brain. So whatever you want to say or transmit, your energie will do it through your creation. Now that's also why I'll be writing down text and taking pictures here and there to make it more obvious. I also find out the title before I start any tracks, then I'll be able to give a color to this music and make it sound the way I want it to be. Hope you get me... (laughs) Psylosophy: Yeah, I see what you mean. It's actually nice to see people making music with a message, instead of just throwing something together Neuromotor: Yeap. I like the idea too. I need to say something more than just a beat and some sounds. At least throwing in a few words, then people do what they want with it. Psylosophy: Does the album deal with politics only or does it have any other subjects involved? Neuromotor: Well politics, I guess, is everything. How can I talk about love, life, nature, music, philosophy, whatever... It's always about politics. That's the way I see it. Politic is a words where you'll be finding ever the subject of life. So yeah, I'm talking about the children in the world who are manhandle, all sorts of things. This track called Children in the Dark is about those kids who work day and night in India, Korea or Thailand. And about those who are kidnaped or raped. Well, everything... Then one is about the system: something's wrong with it. All about money, power and mind control to help others who have all this and are manipulating the whole world. This is one Dirty Society. Then there's one about the power of love called the Cyclone... Few exemples. Psylosophy: Sounds nice Neuromotor: Let's see when it comes out (laugh) Psylosophy: Haha, yeah. I'm pretty confident it won't be disappointing though Neuromotor: Well I've been working on it for eight months now. I gave everything I had and everything I knew. We'll see how it turns out. The album opens with a Trip Hop Psycho Breakbeat track at 80bpm. Then the rest is full-on psycho. Psylosophy: I always thought Trance would be a great musical style to make this kind of music, that actually has something to say and that tries to make people see there's a lot of things going on in our society right now that shouldn't be. The thing is, unlike other musical styles, Psytrance does not have lyrics (well, at least it didn't... now, not so sure), which can make it difficult to pass a message across. Did you find it hard to overcome this or do you think you don't need any lyrics to get your point across? Neuromotor: I'm sure you don't. It isn't necessary to say anything, it's the way I act when I play and when I give my music to the crowd that does it, a certain attitude. Well, actually, ok you need a few words. I talked a bit at every single party at the end of my set, just saying why I play, explaining my love for the crowd and sending some words of love, peace and unity to this world. So maybe a few words are necessary... not much, though. It's all about energy... The way you give the sound will be understood, I'm sure. Well at least that's my opinion. And for those who buy the CD so they'll read and see the pictures and all, so... -- Check out the complete interview at www.psylosophy.com