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    Earliest fullon tracks

    in General Psytrance

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    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.

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    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2023

    in DJ Promotion

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    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/

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    Danish Goa/PsyTrance?

    in General Psytrance

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    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

    Member Check In

    in General Psytrance

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    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?

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    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2023

    in DJ Promotion

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    The second chapter in the Intangible Frontiers series goes deeper into a fusion of different musical subcultures and world music traditions. It's mostly rooted in dub techno and progressive trance, but there''s a fair amount of psybient, dark disco, and ambient in there too. Three hours of meticulously-curated slo-mo sounds: 

    Full info, track listing, and download links on my site:

    https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/intangible-frontiers-2/

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2023

    in DJ Promotion

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    Hello all! It's another year so here's a fresh thread for new mixes from yours truly. As always, every mix is curated and recorded with care, drawing upon lossless source material and properly post-processed for maximum sound quality. Guest mixes sometimes start out streaming-only, but everything eventually ends up on my site, usually within 1-6 months.

    Here's the first for 2023, a psychedelic techno mix for Subtrail featuring five selections from Techgnosis Records (among many others):

    For reference, here are some threads from previous years:

     

    Sooo.. What happened? (2022 recap)

    in General Psytrance

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    Reddit, Facebook, Discord, etc. are no great substitute for forums, but forums are often poorly moderated, full of weirdos (see above), and pretty much ghost towns, so...mostly I just enjoy music in isolation, and dedicate myself to mixcraft, exploring new music, and refining my collection (updating metadata, completing discographies, etc.).

    I've been very busy producing high-quality mixes these years, and will be ending 2022 with another 36 hours of content published. All of that can be found on my homepage and the usual places (Mixcloud for HQ audio, SoundCloud for the more social experience).

    I also got into edits and production these years so I'm constantly churning out new versions of classic tracks for my own use and enjoyment. Not sure what I'll be doing with any of these dozens of projects except including them in some old school mixes when I get around to them. I have another three or four commissioned mixes to complete before I get to that though.

    As for reviews, I seldom get the sense that many people read them, and I tend to prefer investing my time in making recommendations on my Facebook page rather than writing reviews these days.

    I also got out of the habit of listening to new releases since I'm already drowning in music. I'll pick up new releases by artists I like but they end up in the listening backlog after being filed, and it sometimes takes years to get to them. Another issue is that albums are slowly becoming a thing of the past... so much of the new music I grow to love are released as singles, or as hidden gems on otherwise bland compilations, which is partly a consequence of being more dance music-oriented. Even so, a bunch of releases from 2022 already caught my ear one way or another:

    - Beyond Expectation compiled by my friend DJ Solitare

    - Club Unity, if you don't mind going further afield than just standard psytrance stuff

    - Filteria - Live With The Lag, but that's an easy one since I'm such a Filteria fan

    - Techgnosis Vol. 6, but I'm biased (as label co-founder)

    - Indoor - Reworks, very close to the originals but brought up to modern standards

    - Chaim - In Trance We Trust, for obvious reasons (I love classic Goa trance + modern progressive house and nu-disco)

    - Dark Elf - True Darkness, one of the very best pure darkpsy releases I've heard in quite some time

    My eclectic tastes are showing, ah?

    Anyway, it was another good year for music, and I'm looking forward to what 2023 brings us!

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    Question about quality of recordings

    in General Psytrance

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    On 12/16/2022 at 8:15 AM, astralprojection said:

    ok heres the deal. if you get a release that you think may be a mp3 in disguise, then open it up in audacity since its free. check out the frequency spectrum.

    if you see a sharp cut at around 20khz, then its most likely an mp3 in disguise. if you see the cut higher up like 22khz, its more likely a lossless format.

    Plenty of studios cut ultra-high frequencies in post-processing since they're typically inaudible (if you're not a dog). The thing to look for is a _sharp_ cut (not a fade) _and_ some evidence of blotchy artifacts in those high frequencies. Of course, it's way easier distinguishing low-bitrate MP3s... for 320k, good luck! It can be very tricky without having a known lossless copy to compare.

    Question about quality of recordings

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    Usually if it's for sale on Bandcamp it is available in lossless quality (but you can download other formats if you wish). Discogs is a bit strange when it comes to digital formats; usually they don't list all that are available, so you shouldn't treat that as a theoretical maximum quality level. It is possible that a label/artist might sell transcodes (MP3s converted to lossless audio, which retain the original audio quality level), but rare in my experience. You can get a sense of this by using a spectral analysis tool like Spek, but it takes some skill to operate. All that being said, for home listening purposes you're probably fine with 320k MP3 quality.

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    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2022

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    I also upgraded to a Mixcloud Pro account and re-uploaded all my more recent mixes (60+ hours worth of content) so everything is accessible in HQ audio quality. Nothing beats downloading files from my site if you care about quality, but if you want to stick to a streaming platform, this is the next best thing. All available here:

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