A bit about the inspiration for this mix - the full text and the tracklist are at https://djsolitare.com/old-dogs-new-tricks

I recall an amazing Equinox event in the Autumn of 1995 where Kuni played the whole night and the impression was that a cloud of quantum information would enter the dance floor in the middle of the forest and when it had communicated its message, another would come in and take its place as the old one left, and there was a moment to catch your breath and adjust to the new data entering the space. At times during these events, one had the impression that the music was not music, it was geometrical design and information that was communicating in sonic form. There wasn’t the sense that the DJ was a ‘DJ’ playing ‘music’: rather, the DJ booth was like a cosmic radio tower with an antenna tuned into outer space, picking up signals and transmitting them to those gathered in this tribal gathering.

Each time I play a set, the type of storyline and style of tracks are different, and my approach to transitions depends on track selection and how things line up, though there are general parameters that I always aim for. As a result of my classical training, my emphasis when mixing has been to try to connect more than just the kick but to find matching patterns between tracks and to blend those to create a thread of continuity beyond the percussive elements, at times with kick-matching and at other times not. Usually, it’s a combination of the two, but keeping the rhythm consistent and aiming to have one track ‘hand over’ the space to the next one in a less conventional sense, like multiple speakers reading different chapters from a book that one absorbs through the set.

As I tuned into the more hypnotic and nighttime storyline that emerged as this set evolved, I was drawn to more of that atmospheric cloud-like mixing style, where one track dances with the next along harmonic, rhythmic, and upper-register elements as opposed to the bass-level kick. As I listened with headphones, I was able to let go of the technical focus of the ‘mixing' of two ‘tracks’ and rekindle some of those early impressions of this music being more than just music but combinations of patterns gathered together and presented through sound waves, hearing things not in left-right, high-low mode but all-at-once, like voices coming both from the speakers and the centre of one’s head.

I believe that as we have gotten used to listening to this music at clubs and events over the years, many of us have adapted to a sense-based linear perception of what we’re hearing as opposed to a more embodied dimensional experience, and we can easily listen with a set of standards that can be mechanical rather than holistically musical. I know this has been the case for me, and listening at home can have its pitfalls, as you get used to hearing the music outside of the contextual space for which it was created, and on speakers whose size are inverse proportion to your body than what they would be at an event. But in the right outer and inner space, we can hear these sounds beyond the framework of the familiar and as an expression of something quite outside the ordinary.

All of us experienced some magic in our early years of attending these events - and sometimes since, too! - and it is my hope that these classic tracks in this storyline will enable some of those to be rekindled as they have for me.

DJ Solitare - Old Dogs New Tricks Mix

Tracklist:

Miranda - Phenomena Atlantis Remix (Global Sect Music)
Artifact303 - Mysterious Fantasy (Suntrip Records)
Liquid Flow - Psyonic Storm (Global Sect Music)
Celestial Intelligence - Anapa (Suntrip Records)
Median Project - Mad Space (Global Sect Music)
Cosmic Dimension - Time Beyond The Universe (Suntrip Records)
Astronobios - Spider Web (Global Sect Music)
Clementz - Trilafon (Suntrip Records)
Centavra Project - Journey To Another Worlds (Mix 2017) (Global Sect Music)
Khetzal - Rosin Memories (Suntrip Records)
Atlantis - Cosmic Waves (Global Sect Music)
E-Mantra - Ayahuasca (Suntrip Records)
Cosmic Dimension - Fabric Of Creation (Global Sect Music)
Ephedra & Imba - Emergency Acid System (Suntrip Records)
Nova Fractal, Oxi & E-Mantra - Stargate (Global Sect Music)
Filteria - Dog Days Bliss (Album Edit) (Suntrip Records)
Cosmic Dimension - Altar Of Wisdom (Global Sect Music)
Celestial Intelligence - Distorted Visions (Suntrip Records)
Median Project - Midnight (Global Sect Music)
Clementz - Inner Core (Suntrip Records)
Celestial Intelligence - Infinity (Global Sect Music)
Filteria - Illogical Logic (Suntrip Records)
Fiery Dawn & Alienapia - Screaming Through The Universe (Global Sect Music)
Hypnoxock - Doubling Time (Suntrip Records)
Man With No Name - Possessed Cosmic Dimension Remix (Global Sect Music)
Astral Projection - Let There Be Light Filteria Remix (Suntrip Records)

DaPEACE & Mozza - Suntrip vs Global Sect (2021)

This Matsuri Digital episode presents Mark Dressler aka Drezz aka Nervasystem. Nervasystem is one of the original psytrance artists. He has released many recordings in the genre on labels such as Matsuri, Phantasm, Psychic Deli, Zion 604, Process Productions and Elektrik Orgasm. Nervasystem returned to the scene in the last few years & continues to release new material on his Voodoo Voltage label and others. This promo mix includes the latest releases from Matsuri Digital.

:: Tracklist ::

1. Cyborg Cybin Shakedown
2. Ftumchk
3. Zones
4. Stardust
5. Distorted Waves Of OM (Slight Return)
6. The Unknown Controller
7. 3x + 1
8. The Far Side Of Black Holes
9. Cyclick Qulture (Atom Mix) *Unreleased*
10. Course Correction Cypher

:: More info ::

https://soundcloud.com/nervasystem | https://soundcloud.com/matsuri-digital

https://radiozora.fm/matsuri-digital-series/ep-26-nervasystem/

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NERVASYSTEM | Matsuri Digital Series EP. 26 | 10/04/2022

Take an uplifting look back in time to some hypnotic, acid tech-trance favourites from the last 30 years. A lot of fringe material in here, (including many Platipus hits) much of which came from or was inspired by the beaches of Goa, but not your usual heavily-psychedelic blends. Put a smile on with those dancing shoes and blissfully float away with this hypnotic, tribal and elevating story. ❤️

Tracklist: 
1. POB & Boyd - Luna (Rouge Mix)
2. Thomas P. Heckman - Sleepwalker (Mental Remix)
3. Sunstone II - Deep 2 Refreshing
4. Art of Trance - Monsoon
5. I-Ching & DJ Patrick Reid - Ways of Love
6. Moogwai - A Night Out
7. L.S.G. - Hearts 2003 (Oliver Live remix)
8. Star - Rock Rose
9. Thomas P. Heckman - Blanche
10. F.U.S.E. - Mantrax (Iskandar Bale Edit)
11. Jungle High - Jungle High (Sinai Mix)
12. Paraphobia - Hypnotising
13. Empirion - Drug Music
14. I-Ching & DJ Patrick Reid - Soulstorm
15. Progressive Attack - Hypnoticharmony Pt 1 & 2
16. T World - Anthem
17. Albion - Air (Oliver Lieb remix)
18. POB & X-Avia - The Awakening (Sunday Club’s Extended Lens of Atlantic remix)
19. Quietman - Now & Zen
20. Quietman - The Sleeper (MWNN remix)

Clone604 - Brimming (Morning Acid Trance & Techno)

Dj set Goa Trance by Ratagnan

Tracklist :

001 InnerZone -Sea Of Tranquility
02 Filteria - The Lights of Shibuya
003 Sykespico - Concerta
004 Slavs from Mars - Speed Crusher
005 Mindsphere - The Outer Limits
006 Psysutra - Acid Rush
007 Merr0w - Naïades
008 Toi Doi - Trance
010 Median Project - Human Error
011 JaraLuca - The Ektoplazm
012 Battle of the Future Buddhas - From Nothing
013 Daimon - Codex
014 Sykespico  - Trancologia
015 Afgin - Lucid Feelings
016 Man With No Name - Own the World (Atlantis remix)
017 Battle of the Future Buddhas - Ghost
018 Filteria - Burn
019 Etnica - Microdrive (Hypnoxock Remix)
020 Party Droid - Sound and Fury
021 Fiery Dawn & Atlantis - Prana
021 Psy-H Project - Precession Of The Universe
022 Triquetra - Forget About The Earth
023 Merr0w - Citrus Circus
024 Sykespico - Diwana.

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Very special dj set with a lot of influences. You can expect some techno, some psytrance, some goatrance and some progressive trance.
I played this set at a underground party in Luxemburg a few weeks ago.
tracklist:
Enrico Sanguiliano - Silence (Inner mix)
Charlotte de Witte - Universal Consciousness
Raven - Addiction
Joujouka - Filter Rock (Atmos remix)
Funky Gong  - Through The Past Trip (System 7 remix)
Space Cat & Kido - Kreak pt II (Outsiders remix)
Astral Projection - Let There Be Light (Outsiders remix)
Charlotte de Witte - Kali
Darwish - Cliff Hanger
Prana - Voyager III (Oforia, Tsuyoshi Suzudi, DEDE remix)
Astrix & Rising Dust - Universo
Stellar Force - Acid Daze
Nova Fractal - Common Cold (Screwloose remix)
Nova Fractal & E-Mantra - The Butterfly Effect
Digicult & U-Recken - Into The Heartland (Astral Projection remix)
Power Source - New Sparks (Space Cat edit)
Astral Projection - Into The Void
Oforia - Corona
Sykespiko - Fly
Joseph Capriati - Goa
Alignment - Dream State
Tiesto - Adagio For Strings

Dj Kuririn - Temple Of Tibidi (dj set recorded live in Luxemburg)

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From 1995 - year zero for the emerging Goa  trance scene - the  storming Transformations mix by James Munro, accurately reflecting his DJ set of the time, reproduced here once again by kind permission of Mick Chaos/Chaos Unlimited

James Munro - Tranceformations Mix (Chaos Unlimited CUZ020)
Tracklist: 
A1	Section X - Explorer 1
A2	Koxbox –	Space Traveller
A3	Green Nuns – Conflict
A4	Kundulini – Placebo
A5	Stanley Shanti & The Chillum Masters – Placid
A6	Tomahawk – Plastic Form
A7	Green Nuns – Cor
B1	Total Eclipse – Toxic Caterpillar
B2	X-Dream – This
B3	Koxbox –	Point Of No Return
B4	Koxbox –	Loads Of Flow
B5	Crossbreed – The 7th L
B6	Doof – Born Again
B7	G.C.E. – Uniform Planet

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Dat Mix.. Final Past....

Some timeless classics from the beaches of Goa, the warehouses and clubs of the uk and rest of the world and the vaults of Flying Rhino. Recorded at a beautifully intimate gathering in the mountains of Japan in 2014...a true trip down memory lane...Enjoy!

James Monro-Retro Set@SpaceMandala

My latest dj mix, post-recorded of my gig Bermuda Gathering 2017 ~10th year anniversary~ at the pristine lake Saimaa on 10th September, starting 06:00 in the morning. Featuring tracks from the latest Suntrip Records release from Astral Projection and timeless oldschool classics, this one is surely going to take you for an unforgettable journey! ;) 

Tracklist:

1. Filteria - Filtertraces (Astral Projection Remix)
2. North Central Positronics - The Great Bear
3. Merr0w - Born Underwater
4. Astral Projection - People Can Fly
5. Crossing Mind - Hydrophobic Visions (E-Mantra Remix)
6. RA - Gates of Tiphareth (Antares Remix)
7. Celestial Intelligence - Inevitable Feelings
8. Astrancer - Saturnia
9. Astral Projection - Another World 2017 Mix
10. Hallucinogen - Astral Pancakes
11. Lunar Dawn - Perun's Stones
12. Astral Projection - Let There Be Light (Filteria Remix)
13. E-Rection - Out There We Are Stoned (Imba Remix)
14. Antares - Eureka
15. Lunar Dawn - Golden Arms of Kresnik
16. Intriga - Indian Tonic
17. Psychopod - Dreampod
18. Pleiadians - Alcyone
19. Paradise Connection - Portamento

Bermuda Morning Dewdrops 2017 Season Closing Mix

This was my first set in Tokyo upon moving back in early 1998. I was playing off DATs (digital audio tapes) and hadn't played for a couple of months (the previous set was the Vancouver Art Gallery performance, some film footage of which is on my YouTube channel). I'd received a lot of new music and had only one practice session at a friend's house before the gig. I was really nervous but soon got into the flow and the atmosphere in the room was fantastic. I opted for longer mixes with a focus on the long melodic line, as was often the case with Goa music of the time - and in fact that's how it was composed and meant to be played, according to a number of producers who told me as much.

The set started at around 3am and went until about 5:30. I had intended to start with Beast's 'Spawn', which was still unreleased but a promo of which I'd been sent by Twisted, but the CD player hadn't been hooked up to the mixer, so my ambient intro (the Astralasia track with which I started the 'Future Was Now' mix which is also on my Soundcloud) went on a little longer than expected while I looked for a DAT to mix into it - and that ended up being 'Maia' by the Pleiadians. I only remembered that I'd intended to record my set part-way through the second track, Eco's 'UFOlk', which is where this recording picks up. The set then took a very different direction than expected ... but went exactly where it needed to go.

One of the reasons I love this set so much is that the process I was going through as a DJ - the in-the-moment spontaneity, the emotion, the exploration - really comes through in the performance. This was a time when 'preparing' a set was not done - it was more or less assumed that you would be playing off-the-cuff, perhaps with a sense of where you'd go but not fully, and that in-the-now-ness creativity is some of what 'primed' the music to electrify the dancefloor. As much as I actually had a hard time while I was playing this set and wasn't sure how successful it was, when I listened to the recording I liked what was there... How much of life is like that, where we appreciate things more afterwards instead of in the moment - despite the moments being filled with what we actually wanted? Interestingly, I found that the same synchronicity that characterized my experience behind the decks will start to show up in the room when I play this recording now ... so if I'm ever looking to break through a creative block or experience some cosmic synchronicity, this is a recording that I line up to help me move through it, just as I did back then.

I hope you'll enjoy this, if you haven't heard it before, or enjoy it again if you have...

Track list:

Eco: UFOlk
*X-Dream: Radiohead (remix)
Juno Reactor: Feel The Universe (Otto edit)
Rhythmystec: Stellium
*Infernal Machine: Chainsaw Kerfuffle
*Delta: Traveling at the Speed of Thought
Space Tribe: Machine Elf
Semsis: Planet
Psychopod: Dreampod
*Metal Spark: Sonic Feet
*Cydonia: Mindhunter
*Transwave: Code S9
*Beast: Spawn
X-Dream: Brain Forest
Mandala: Utopia
Spoken sample: an excerpt from a translation of the Japanese poem 'Preface to "Spring and Carnage"' by Kenji Miyazawa that I had recorded for a Japanese electronica band - I never got a copy of the CD but apparently the artist was pretty well-known...

encore - not on this tape: *Space Tribe: The Great Spirit (unreleased original mix)

*unreleased at the time of performance

Spectrum 5-23 Mix

Eternal student of the psychedelic experience and the roots of Goa culture, devoted improvisational storyteller and collector since 1995.

I weave spontaneous sonic journeys using a range of psychedelic threads from late 80s EBM and New Beat through the golden Goa and psychedelic trance years and onwards to the unique contemporary sounds that stay true to the original psychedelic (genki) spirit.

Goa parties are acid parties ❤

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Clone604 - Brimming (Morning Acid Trance & Techno)

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