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ugh, been listening to full-on thump thump for more than an hour. If Simon doesn't come on soon, I'm giving up and going to bed.

I can NOT get enough of this right now. I create my own happiness every time I listen! =)

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This has been here a week? Somehow I failed to notice... Well, I'm d/ling at .5k/sec, this could take a while. But the tracklist looks ace and I really enjoyed your last mix, basilisk. Sweet cover art too. You make that yourself?

Hey now, don't bring Shulman and Ott into this. They sound nothing like Shpongle or Entheogenic. Well, maybe a little bit similar, but we're discussing Entheogenic. I think I've pretty much nailed down what Entheogenic lacks for me: they need better basslines and beats. Many of their tracks sound like they took a late-90's goa beat and slowed it down to to ambient trance speeds. I don't think it's just my stereo, because any of the other artists mentioned in this thread create incredibly intricate sub-basslines that totally knock my socks off. With Enthegenic, sure they have nice melodies, but I can barely hear the kick drum. Hopefully the remixes will fix this. =)

the problem with the "round robin djing" idea is that I've never heard most of the tracks y'all are using. How am I supposed to know what to play next, if I've never heard what I'm supposed to be mixing out of? I'll stick with the original format for now. Last semester at college, my good friend Adam and I Dj'ed a psy-chill/freestyle radio show on the college's radio station. Some of the better playlists went like this... supposedly a springtime vibe here... Ooze - Quintessence Adham Shaikh - Dubfire Jumbo Layer - The Lily Dub The Orb - Terminus Shpongle - Shpongle Falls Makyo - Pashyanti (deeply dubbed mix) Saafi Brothers - Supervision Total Eclipse - Freefalling Upwards Koxbox - Searching for Psychoactive Herbs Adham Shaikh - Opal Ozric Tentacles - Psychic Chasm Shpongle - Star Shpongled Banner (Brothomstates Remix) Eat Static - Forgotten Rites The Orb - Apple Tree In My Backyard Abakus - California Sunshine DJ Frane - Green Buds in the Springtime Shulman - A New Paradigm one of my most cohesive, yet varied, sets. good flow through various styles of psychedelia: Grateful Dead - Dark Star Can - One More Night Passengers - Slug Sound Tribe Sector Nine - Baraka Flaming Lips - What is the Light? Tortoise - Crest Robert Miles - Paths (FSOL Remix) Nodens Ictus - Gopuram (live version) Amon Tobin - El Wraith FSOL - Among Myselves Eat Static - Salon Kitty Ozrics - Waterfall City Padmasana - Be Where Now Makyo - Behind the Veil Greg Hunter - Siliconnectar (candledance mix) Synaesthesia - Nomads Ishq - Fire Salamander Global Chillage - Moonrise Mystery of the Yeti - Sacred Communication / Yeti Revelation Tangerine Dream - Phaedra started off cool but lost some direction near the end, i think: Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun Waterjuice - Low Room Legion of Green Men - Constellation (Adham Shaikh Warp Time Remix) Saafi Brothers - Wellness Farm Essa 3 - Sundial Keiichi Suzuki - Satellite Serenade Kumba Mela Experiment - Spiritual Journey (Mother Milk Edit) Fluke - OK Astralasia - Unveria Zect Banco de Gaia - Tongue in Chic Ott - Billy the Kid Strikes Back Ozrics - Psychic Chasm Masala - Lucid Dreams Ochi Brothers - Sonic Branches Akira OST - Battle Against Clown Sunny Ade - Ase Earthling & Chicago - B Juno Reactor - Angels & Men Let's keep this thread going, I love the concept! Next I'll cook up some new mixes.

I don't think I'm gonna bother tainting my preconceptions with shitty quality samples. Why bother? I know I'll get this anyway, and I'd rather hear it for the first time under the most favorable circumstances.

mystery of the yeti 1 - tribal gathering 14:29 shpongle - 7th revelation 14:24 makyo - yakshini 20:46 padmasana - universal consciousness 20:21 some spicelab tracks... That's about all I have that vaguely fits in the "trance" genre. There is also of course Orb's 40 minute Blue Room... which is awesome, but not trance. Banco de Gaia has some extended remixes off Last Train to Lhasa: Kincajou (Duck! Asteroid) at 36:09 and 887 (Darkside Return) at 22:32. Those are sorta ambient, but also have trancey parts.

Start with Lifeforms and Dead Cities, those are masterpieces. Accelerator, their first is good too, but very different (mostly funky techno with only the slightest hints of ambient psychedelia). I personally LOVE the Isness/Otherness, but you probably won't enjoy it if you only like electronic music. It's still psychedelic, but more in a Beatles/prog rock fashion. other FSOL recommendations: BBC Radio One Essential Mixes from 1993 and 94, the "Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind" mixtape (I've got a copy recorded from KISS FM in '97), and their remix of Robert Miles's Paths.

Some time back i noticed that there were a lot of awesome tracks that clocked in at exactly 120 bpm. So I present to you my first "120 bpm slow-trance extravaganza," clocking in about an hour if mixed. midival punditz - piya tasteful ethnic vocals and breakbeats start us off aba structure - rescue this is a really drifting and beautiful track, and the beats are solid enough to get the mix moving makyo - nothing is real (headspin mix) now high gear kicks in. this track is why this mix exists. hifi companions - a night in timisoara this track is a respite from the intensity in some ways, but the soaring synths are out of this world moai - crystal elixir rather lengthy and very hypnotic... exactly what we need to get everybody tranced out. check out how the track shifts part way through to prepare for the climaxes of the set younger brother - scanner slow burning badass track with a pounding bassline from the master banco de gaia - lai lah this is the last of the heavily danceable tracks. there is something very melancholy here that lets one know the set is ending soon. talpa - back to dreaming exactly like the track says...this should expunge the final energy of the dj and the dancers and get us ready to chill out again shulman - mushroom therapy i guess we are dreaming now... let shulman's almost idm-like beats wrap around your head, now you can chill for a slightly less trancey but more classy effect, i could alternately go in this direction: hifi companions - a night in timisoara kiwa - pure in motion banco de gaia - lai lah younger brother - scanner unkle - celestial annihilation young american primitive - these waves and total eclipse - nakano ghost could also go in here somewhere, probably nearer the beginning. I'd like to fill this out to maybe 90-120 minutes eventually, and actually try and mix it out (i lack the necessary equipment presently).

Because it's not on the Internet. I think we sometimes look so hard to find things on the Net that we overlook the rest of reality. You could also, umm, record it yourself.

the name "mama matrix most mysterious" piqued my interest (it's a term coined by james joice and mentioned by terence mckenna...), so i looked it up on saikosounds... they have samples but no stock. and wow, this's really good. really really good. gives-simon-posford-a-run for-his-money good (well, almost) i don't hear much trance in this styles.... reminds me of a slower koxbox perhaps? anyways, there's no point to this post except that i dig the music and it's too bad stuff like this is so hard to get. peace

juno reactor's labyrinth has a Lot of live instruments, check the album credits. flutes, strings, bass, vocals - all live. Navras especially - recorded on a hollywood studio sound stage, and that is definitely a live orchestra on there. Oh, and TIPWorld's Crystal Skulls compilations have several tracks with Raja Ram on flute (GMS/1200 Mics sticks out in my mind especially).

i remember downloading a track entitled "Robert Miles and AFX - rare collab" (how pants creamingly-cool would that be?) Eventually turned out to be by some guy named Torley Wong, an autistic 19 year old electronic artist. crazy internets.

now that it's here, maybe someone could take the time for a proper review?

Definitely Starcraft. I hear starcraft all over the place.

I think posford did a couple of hallucinogen tracks partly in 3/4... something off lone deranger maybe? anyways, I don't think that 4/4 trance is intrinsically any hypnotic than breakbeats, it all depends on the repetetiveness and atmospheres that the artist chooses to create. If we are talking hardcore jungle, then no you obviously can't trance dance to that, but i've also got some gorgeous progressive breaks tracks that sit right around 130bpm and sound pretty much just like trance except that they have breakbeats. DJ's should maybe mix it up a little and through the dancefloor a little off balance, eh? but that would disrupt your trance state, eh? well i guess it depends if you are looking for a technically interesting dj set or more of a long shamanic journey type set. also, remember that breakbeats and breakdowns are two different things. almost all dance tracks i have except for maybe some really deep prog stuff cuts out the beats at some points in the track, then builds it back up. if you want a set without breakdowns, then that's not dependent on the style of music: it's dependent on the dj to mix out before the breakdown, make a special edit w/o the breakdown, or just not play tracks like that. examples of the kind of breaks/trance crossover i'm talking about: young american primitive - trance formation lostep - burma (sasha remix) voyager - d.c.d. shiloh - mana

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some degree of harmony between breaks and 4/4 seems to be the way to go. why restrict yourself to one time signature?

i have heard the ochi brothers have played live for prestigious fashion shows, so how about... ochi brothers - lightning storm (121bpm, a 17 minute slow-burner)

tribal house was really big a couple of years ago... almost everything in the prog house scene seemed to be "tribal" then. some of the names I remember from that period are Steve Lawler, Peace Division, and Lexicon Avenue. Lawler is a DJ, he did some cds for Global Underground that I found really boring personally, but ya never know...

basilisk, this is really nicely put together and smooth, i really like this style of prog psy. good flow, that etnoscope track sounds really good and refreshing as the climax.

just watch, in a few years prog house and prog psy will merge not necessarily a good thing...

I've been recently interested in the work of Simon Polinski, of hesious dome and ornament. i have the ornament cd ("bleu") and it's a lot of very slow, glacial rhythms that slow fade out into deep reverberating ambient. very entrancing, i use it to go to sleep. i've seen a new hesius dome in the psy netshops lately - can anyone vouch for it's quality?

Erpland - probably the best older album, back when the Eat Static guys were still part of the band. Less electronic, very space-rock, but unbelievably creative. Waterfall Cities - best of their newer output, more trancey, very polished.