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  1. It's always tough to pinpoint the exact moment something changed... if you'd like an easy answer that satisfies most people, Deedrah's Reload (3D Vision Records, 2000) is the first unambiguously full-on psytrance tune with that distinctive rolling bass line. Several other 3D Vision affiliated artists had already blazed the trail; Talamasca's debut album Beyond The Mask certainly has full-on characteristics; Absolum's Regenerate was a super strong tune also released in 2000; and then you've got oddballs like DJ Maël & Manitù's Zergshake. Some others worth considering: Mumbo Jumbo - Weird, Sick, and Twisted (2000); Space Cat's entire Shapes of Sound album (2000); Tristan - Small Paper Squares (2000); Xerox & Freeman & Liquid Metal - In My Brain (2000); and maybe, if you stretch your ears a little, Children of the Doc's Police 106 (1999), fittingly released on one of those old Full-On compilations from Hommega. It is interesting how quickly everything changed too... step forward one year into 2001 and there is no shortage of examples to consider. This is when GMS steps onto the full-on scene (I'd argue all of their pre-2001 releases are still classic gritty GMS), Astrix, Alien Project, Bamboo Forest, Bio-Tonic, Earthling, Logic Bomb (rapidly maturing after the experiments of Headware), Neuromotor, Silicon Sound, Space Buddha, etc., plus many more developments from Deedrah, Talamasca, Nomad (Mael), and the rest of the 3D Vision gang, who I would personally credit for the development of full-on psytrance.
  2. One last mix for 2023, bringing my output this year to nearly 28 hours of new mixcraft... this one is part of an ongoing series of psychedelic techno mixes, with strong emphasis on "techno" this time: Full info and track list on my site as always! https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/silicon-overmind-7/ See you in 2024...
  3. Here's another mix in my ongoing series of long-form, genre-bending journeys... this one centers on new school Goa trance, with excursions into hedonic rave nostalgia, dubby breaks, ambient soundscapes, and more. Full info and track list on my site, as usual! https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/esoteric-expanse-8/
  4. I have a new retrospective mix out now! This one covers the chaotic energy at the turn of the millennium, as the golden age of Goa trance was subsumed beneath the minimal wave, and we witnessed the first hints of what would evolve into darkpsy, forest, and full-on vault onto the world stage. 32 tracks, nearly 3 hours in length, and all smoothly mixed from carefully chosen source material. You'll know most of the names, if not the tracks themselves; Noma, Yumade, Parasense, Bypass Unit, Tim Schuldt, Logic Bomb, Children of Paradise, Shakta, Chi-A.D., Astral Projection, Blue Planet Corporation, and many more... Full track listing and other details can be found on my site: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-meropis/
  5. Yuksek has some real bangers! I love that Icare remix, among many others. Here's another surprising case of evolution... remember Cyan? Nick from Cyan now releases melodic house as Nick Devon (and some of it is pretty great): Oh yeah, and remember Eskimo? I'll let you look up JOYRYDE on your own time...
  6. I would imagine many of these more progressive artists started producing years earlier and probably experimented with more archetypal Goa trance sounds. Moses provides an excellent example of this sort of lost early Danish Goa trance on this album: https://unreleasedgoarecords.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-dawn If you're interested in digging deeper into other early or obscure Danish trance experiments from the 90s, some picks from my collection: Baas Complex - Gyro Baas Complex - Sample Your Mind Construction - Non E Existence Donut Junkie - Transistor Warfare Fuzzy Logic - Mega Goa Knights in Trance - Nights in Trance Oga Syndicate - Argon Pharagonescia - Pharatropic Slipstream - Final Cut
  7. If you expand the field to include minimal/progressive psytrance there are many more great names: Beat Bizarre Emok Fabel Flowjob Genetic Spin Llopis NASA Phony Orphants
  8. Alienated Bypass Unit/Color Box Elysium/Sheyba Gada-Gong Koxbox/Psychopod Mino/Messiah Orichalcum/The Deviant Orion Psygone Reefer Decree/Oryx Shazbatt The Overlords/Ionizer/Sri Hari
  9. Bandcamp subscriptions and Discogs deep dives (especially when pivoting around the real names behind projects) are powerful ways of discovering new music. These days I'm especially interested in the psytrance and Goa manifesting in the rave revivalist underground (for lack of a better term)... there's a parallel universe of sound out there that isn't merely retreading Etnica and Dimension 5 ad nauseum, and it's quite fascinating to go rooting around to find the gems, which ultimately feed into mixcraft. I'd like to think that there's more to music fandom in the 2020s than sharing YouTube links in a Facebook group, ya know?
  10. I am still a regular visitor despite the passage of years. These days I mostly communicate through the medium of mixes, but I also read much of what people post...
  11. This definitely sounds like Darshan, and there are many reasons why good tunes from the 90s were never released. Hope it eventually sees the light of day in full quality, it is quite a banger indeed!
  12. I have another edition in my "Transmissions From Utopia" series out today, detailing musical movements of the past... this one traverses classic Goa trance, ambient techno, progressive house, and IDM from 1996 and earlier. Old school fans will definitely want to check this out: Full info and download links already available on my site: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-avalon/
  13. I also have another mix out for Techgnosis this month! Three hours of the finest in psychedelic techno, minimal psytance, and broken beat experiments to set the mood...
  14. I have a new 2 hour psychedelic techno mix out for Digital Diamonds on Radiozora! I'll eventually post it on my own channels, but for now, here it is...
  15. Here's another installment of the Transmissions From Utopia series, in which I try to capture something of the old magic... in this case, a heady cross-pollination of ambient techno and raging Goa trance circa 1996! You'll hear many classics you know and love, and probably a few you overlooked... so dive in: Full info and other goodies on my site: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-lyonesse/
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