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    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2022

    in DJ Promotion

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    My latest mix marks a return to heavy psychedelic trance. I've spent most of the last several years exploring all sorts of other styles and really only making glancing contact with modern psytrance but here's four hours of cutting edge sounds, mostly darkpsy, with some twilight full-on and new school Goa trance. As usual for my long-form mixes of the 2020s you can expect some more ambient, breakbeat-oriented, and experimental sounds at the beginning and end, so please listen with an open mind! Full track list and other details can be found on my site: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/esoteric-expanse-6/

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2022

    in DJ Promotion

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    I am also active in producing guest mixes for different channels. I'll eventually post this one on my own site, but for now, if you'd like to hear my tribute to Y2K-era French psytrance, techtrance, and progressive, check out the first 80 minutes of this broadcast:

     

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2022

    in DJ Promotion

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    Hello again! It's a new year so I'm starting another thread for fresh mixes. Everything I'm doing these days is carefully curated, properly mastered, and sourced entirely from lossless audio.

    First up is this Y2K-era progressive mix, but it's not only (or even mainly) progressive psytrance. You'll hear progressive house, progressive trance, and a healthy serving of techno in various forms. As with most of my other long mixes this one builds slowly and has a nice comedown filled with broken beats, IDM, downtempo, and pure ambient.

    Full info and download links are available on my site: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-arcadia/

     

    For reference, here's the thread from last year: 

     

    Basilisk's Essential Selections

    in General Psytrance

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    13 minutes ago, Celaripo said:

    why did you delete all your reviews on psynews? 

    There were outdated and often contained broken links. These days I'd rather self-publish reviews on my own site. I've also learned a lot about music over the years and my taste developed and changed, so it's sometimes a little embarrassing to look at old writing from back in the day, especially during the peak of the "write super long in-depth track-by-track reviews" era :unsure:

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    About 'zenonesque' aka truly psychedelic progressive

    in General Psytrance

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    From my vantage point there was a bit of a rough patch around 2011 to 2014 or so when there was a lot of low-quality, derivative stuff coming out of this quadrant of the psytrance universe... but the style has definitely bounced back (if indeed there was much of a downturn at all) and Zenon itself continues to set standards and inspire. It takes some effort to sort through what comes out of their release cannon though; they've been extremely prolific and it's hard to keep up with the dizzying number of releases they've been pumping out, to say nothing of the dozens of other labels still probing the depths of this murky dark-light-psychedelic-minimalistic fusion space.

    Some projects worth checking out 2016 to present: Airi, Amortalist, ETN, Golikem, Gojja, Grouch, Ivort, Nangijala, Pspiralife, Sourone, Triforce, plus old giants like Sensient and Electrypnose (when he dabbles in this field).

    A few dark selections pulled from my crate:


    Finally, a palate cleanser, in the form of some good ol' slapbass-infused Zenon style murky morning tunage.
     

    There's a ton of great Zenonesque out there... get digging!

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    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2021

    in DJ Promotion

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    OK, here's the last of the three new mixes launching this month; this one delves into deep house and dub techno territory without any overt psytrance influences whatsoever, but if you're in the mood for something smoothy and dreamy, you'll find it rewards attentive listening.
     

     

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2021

    in DJ Promotion

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    I have another new mix premiering today, the first of at least three this month. This one starts super chill but goes harder than most of the other recent mixes I've been pumping out. It peaks with some relatively recent tunes by Cybered, Robert Elster (ex-Vibrasphere), Extrawelt, Solid Snake (ex-Tegma), etc., but also dabbles in Zenonesque murkiness and some of that slick Techgnosis vibe. Oh, and you'll hear a soft tune from Benji (Prometheus) near the beginning, so there's definitely a psy connection here...

    Now available on my site here: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/silicon-overmind-2/

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2021

    in DJ Promotion

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    Sorry about the trouble with download links. I've been receiving sporadic reports that those links don't always work... I'll look into it, but in the meantime, just keep trying :) 

    Most of the new mixes are pretty time-consuming, but I've got a really solid workflow in place, and I record in multiple sessions when I need to, so it all works out. Composing/arranging/practising is probably the biggest time sink. Editing tracks might take some extra time, depending on what material I decide to use (most of my new mixes contain edits, and some of them require many hours of additional work). Recording goes by relatively quickly; I tend to use the first take rather than recording the same sequence multiple times. Post-production can be pretty arduous, particularly since I'm adjusting the level of compression from track to track in Ableton these days. And then there's all the work involved in completely fleshing out track listings, time-stamping the mix to make cue sheets, cover design, authoring promo text, uploading, promotion and whatever else.

    And yeah, some old mixes were ret-conned into my work as DJ Basilisk. At some point I decided I rather not bother with multiple identities, different social media accounts, paying for more than one SoundCloud, etc. I'm also trying to make cross-genre experimentation and ambitious mixcrafting my brand rather than saying "this is my psytrance project" and "this is my house/techno project". Maybe it's foolish from a marketing perspective but since I'm not really playing out much anymore I'm inclined to pursue my musical vision without concern for such things.

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2021

    in DJ Promotion

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    Sure! I have a bunch of Goa trance sets that I would recommend. This one documents high-intensity night-time psychedelic trance of the late 90s: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/blacklight-metropolis/

    This one is in a similar vein but more technoid: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/moonshadow/

    A unique mix exploring 120 BPM Goa trance and compatible styles: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/circadian-rhythms/

    If you just want to be blasted by a bunch of morning classics: https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/regenerate-2011/

    DJ Basilisk Mixes 2021

    in DJ Promotion

    Posted

    My guest mix for Digital Diamonds is now streaming on my channels:

    You can also download the mix and read more information on my site:
    https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/digital-diamonds-podcast-35/

    I also un earthed a classic progressive house set I played a couple of years ago... it's nowhere near as polished as the other new mixes I'm posting but might be of some interest. All tracks from 2002 to 2006 or thereabouts:

     

    It's also available for download from my site:

    https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/prototypes-3/

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