Blair Thaumic

May 19, 2019

A nearly three hour dive into the roots of Goa trance, focused on the years 1992-1994. Goa techno, early trance, or just Goa music; call it what you want, it still kicks.

For this set, I tried to combine the more well-known names of the early days (Juno Reactor, Total Eclipse, Voodoo People) with the obscure and overlooked; I also used some less popular tracks by famous artists. I wonder if anyone can ID them all?

Mixed on two turntables and two CDJs; you'll hear some fuckups here and there, mostly because I'm not good with vinyl. If you can get past that, it's a fairly epic journey IMO.

May 3, 2019

You reminded me of this classic. Probably one of my favorite Seb Taylor tracks.

April 27, 2019

The title track from https://www.discogs.com/Various-Sonic-Anarchy/master/14837 comes to mind. And maybe some Deflo and Ubar Tmar.

IMO, the closest thing to punk Goa is UK acid techno.

December 21, 2018

Discobedience is gooood but Igor Swamp is better

https://hkpnz.bandcamp.com/album/akrabadabra

November 16, 2018

https://singularityhub.com/2018/04/08/can-we-make-a-musical-turing-test/

November 16, 2018

Uptempo:

1. Igor Swamp - Akrabadabra (Hippie Killer Productions/Nullzone)

2. VA - Purple Brain (A.N.A.L.)

3. Espoo Sound Machine - Discobedience (Sound Kitchen)

4. Gangguru - Be Your Own Guru (DAT)

5. Denshi-Danshi - Brain Chemistry (Suntrip)

6. Ray Castle & Collaborators - Mystique Of The Metaverse (Suntrip)

7. Veasna - Spectral Flux (Neogoa)

8. Jayex - Soul Echoes (Surface Tension)

9. Oraalidonitsi - Who Cares About Name (Random)

10. Discolin - Hercule Roilot (Nullzone)

October 15, 2018

Fusion Anomaly: http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

May 28, 2018

(never mind)

May 8, 2018

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Strong-Sun-Moon/release/235708

I didn't see this on the psybreaks list, but it has a few really good ones. Especially the Syzgism track, which is a one-off collab between Ray Castle and a member of Joujouka.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Psy-Harmonics-4-Out-On-The-Full/release/205040

https://www.discogs.com/Ray-Castle-Gourmet-Genre/release/282461

https://www.discogs.com/Squarefeet-Flat-Foot/release/2411815

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Not-My-Cup-Of-Tea/release/80019?ev=rr

https://www.discogs.com/The-Nam-Shub-Of-Enki-Fuck-Piece/release/223986

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Clairaudience/release/89464

https://www.discogs.com/label/8055-Demon-Tea-Recordings and https://www.discogs.com/label/9907-Devic-Craft-Cordings lean toward psybreaks in general; it might be worth digging through their catalog.

May 6, 2018

Try Adu - Drumbas and Step Up.

Tamlin's album has a few good dnb tracks too.

For something older, maybe Green House Effect - Superfly or OVNI - Fountain.

April 24, 2018

2017: https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/arrange-the-molecule-deluxe-edition

2018: https://analrecords.bandcamp.com/album/purple-brain

April 23, 2018

Tokyo is amazing. I spent a month there and feel like I only scratched the surface.

On the 27th you have this psytrance party at Koenji Cave: https://www.djsbarcave.tokyo/single-post/2018/04/03/427-dual-airspace

There's also something happening in Chiba on the 28th with Overdream: http://trancelife.net/event-3244/

Also Psychedelic Garden in Shinjuku has a nice selection of CDs and fluoro clothing. http://www.psychedelicgarden.com/

March 13, 2018

I love this Benza track but the sample couldn't be more unfitting.

March 7, 2018

Let's pour out another round:

February 26, 2018

Yes, let's!

Uptempo:

1. VA - Fluorotronik (Tranceform) https://tranceformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fluorotronik

2. Tangentti - Ten Years After (Foil On) https://foilon.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-after

3. Oraalidonitsi - Avaruusvauvojen iltahämärä (not on label) https://oraalidonitsi.bandcamp.com/album/avaruusvauvojen-iltah-m-r

4. Erätarkastaja - Kolmas erä (Foil On) https://foilon.bandcamp.com/album/kolmas-er

5. VA - audiodrugz (Nullzone) https://nullzone2007.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-audiodrugz-441khz-16bit-standard-ver

6. VA - Vokuhila Mori (Mathematician) https://www.mathematicianrecords.com/vokuhilamori

7. VA - Audio Poppers (Trance Bum) http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/audio-poppers

8. VA - Takamatsu Nightlife (Nullzone) https://nullzone2007.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-takamatsu-nightlife

9. Darth Phader - Acid Faija (People Of The Butterflies) http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/darth-phader-acid-faija

10. Suomies - Jokin tie (not on label) https://suomies.bandcamp.com/releases

Downtempo:

1. Nodens Ictus - The Cozmic Key (not on label) https://nodensictus.bandcamp.com/

February 25, 2018

High Society, Spirit Zone, BTM (VERY underrated label!), and Polytox are the guardians of the German sound.

Nephilim and Hadshot have some very 'robotic' sounding psy too.

I prefer the organic/spacy stuff though Artists like Ololiuqui and Psy Phy 6.

From your description you'd probably like Kopfuss Resonator - SpectR Module and Tarsis - Vacuum. And everything by Der Dritte Raum it sounds like.

February 25, 2018

Thanks for making this topic!

I'm still around, mostly listening to Suomisaundi. I'm a lot more active on Twitter than I am here though.

On 12/28/2017 at 3:39 PM, johnb820 said:

For those curious, as you can see from my soundcloud, I have been producing a ton of shorter, accessible songs mostly of the downtempo variety with the same unusual production ideas/sounds that keep things interesting for me. I know some of you have enjoyed my Goa Trance in the past and I am so appreciative of that. Unfortunately, my life has taken a nose dive and I am not sure I will ever return to psytrance, but I wanted to let you all know what has been happening with me.

I hope you can find a way out of your work situation. I think you're doing some of your best music right now. Whether or not you return to psytrance, what you write has your personal touch, and that's the most important thing for music to have IMHO.

February 24, 2018

Mark Ainley (DJ Solitare) on Stellium:

The track has an amazing array of sounds and textures, with a brilliantly structured introduction that is a chopped-up pastiche of elements that are presented later on in the track. The quasi-orchestral sounding sonorities and rhythmic punctuations give the track a dramatic flavour, while the nasal-sounding synth adds a mystical other-worldly quality. By the time the ‘guitar from outer space’ riff comes in, with a simple and somewhat geometric pattern, things blast into another dimension, and morphing alien voices chime in. After some random squelchy bleeps and radio noise prior to the work’s climax, an alien-sounding synth line seems to download the listener with an Egyptian-Pleiadian-style message and then all of the work’s lines overlay with each other with incredible polyphonic clarity.

A killer full-power track that was a classic night-time mystical stormer back in the 90s – still a timeless, inspired masterpiece!

February 24, 2018

BOTFB loves this track and it's easy to see why; it's minimal yet bonkers at the same time.

Not as twisted, but still pretty manic:

June 22, 2017

Just to be clear, Shlomy is part of Bell Size Park?

I've read somewhere that 80% of Israelis support the occupation. I'll never travel to Israel and I don't buy Israeli products, CDs included, but I wish there was more I could do.

June 20, 2017

I'm going to plug https://soundcloud.com/wakavanha because I can, and because he's really good.

For something older, I've been listening to Midrange Freedom Fighters - Mideranged a lot.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Mideranged/release/584335

June 17, 2017

I actually kind of like the Mahadeva remix. But when it got to the Juno Reactor medley I noped out fast.

June 12, 2017

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June 11, 2017

Love that you're doing this. I'm guessing that some legalistics prevent you from using the artist name? Not that it makes a difference.

When did DAT-trading in Goa become a thing, anyway? Was "You'll Never Know" the first DAT-only Goa hit, or were there contemporaneous or even earlier tracks that never saw the light of day?