Join us with Total Eclipse for the third podcast on Blue Room Sounds. 

An alien disco in sync with their new release "Into the new room" out now on Blue Room Sounds.  

Exclusively on Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/release/into-the-new-room/3297274

Universal Release March 26th 2021

Play List

01. Drone Intro

02. Pashupata

03. Equinox

04. Pythagorean Artefact

05. Chaotic Circus (Rigel rmx)

06. The Crucible (Total Eclipse rmx) 

07. Transparent Mind (Braincell rmx)

08. Mystic Tide

09. Solstice

10. Parallel Universe

11. In Merge With Space

12. Morpheus Dream

13. Shamanic Techno

14. Into The New Room

15. Outro

TOTAL ECLIPSE - BLUE ROOM SOUNDS PODCAST 003 - BRSPA011

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

The summer may be slowly behind us but we are still filled with the warmth of our Ozorian reunion’s vibes. Was it a dream or reality, we’d relive it again and again. Here come the OZORA ‘22 recordings, so that we can. Tune in to flashback together with Ree.K' set in The Dome, Dome Zero.

https://soundcloud.com/ree-k2013

https://ozorafestival.eu

Ree.K @ OZORA Festival 2022 | Dome Zero

DJ Mix by OLLIE OLSEN on August 30, 2010
featuring tracks by Shaolin Wooden Men, Wangina & Jeff Mills

Ollie Olsen - The day Jeff Mills met the Shaolin Wooden Men  (Aug 2010)

SUN Project are true pioneers of our scene, rocking the dancefloors since the mid 90s! :) Lots of groove, Acid sounds, distorted guitars and of course, Goa-Trance melodies to make the crowd go wild! And this is exactly what the crowd did on Apsara! Matthias & Marco performed a perfect set of their old stuff there! 
If you want to play their music yourself, make sure to check their 12" vinyl "Crazy Stories" on Suntrip and "Secret Mixes 1996-2000" on Classic Goa Trax! :)

Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/sunproject.official

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/s.u.n.project/

SUN Project - Apsara 2023

It was like a dream. From the moment I was diagnosed with a form of Leukemia, my goal was to play music again. For months and months survival chances were not too big, and dj-ing was a far away fantasy. Untill Surya Spirits. A Belgian festival happening 10km away from the hospital. Almost 3 months I was in the hospital and the doctors understood the importance of this gig so they allowed me to play (and return immediately after). It was magic. It was fantastic. It was all I could dream of. It was... The healing power of music. It was raining cats and dogs untill I started to play (literally) and the sun broke through a few minutes after. The crowd gathered, stomping in the mud while smiling in the sun. I adapted my set to a euphoric, emotional, melodic story. Because that is how I felt in that afternoon sun. Celebrate life! And yes... I knew immediately, yes, this is one of the main reasons why I will heal! Of course there is still a long way to go, but if I am having a bad time, I put myself on the bed, close my eyes and bring the memories back of this gig. Sunshine, happy people and an energy I rarely felt before! Thank you lovely trance tribe, you gave me life and made my life rich! ❤

The tracklist:

1. Chi-a.d. - Healing Magic (Ganesha - 1997)
2. Psychlopedia - Sleepless Nation (Spiral Trax - Vinyl Only - 1997)
3. Radical Distortion - Homo Universalis (Zion604 - 2015)
4. Tripster - Hypnotwist (Distance - 2000)
5. Hypnoxock - Magma (Suntrip Records - 2023)
6. SUN Project - Crazy Stories (1996 Unreleased mix) (Classic Goa Trax - 2021)
7. Digicult & U-Recken - Into The Heartland (Astral Projection Remix) (Spacedock Records - 2015)
8. E-Mantra - Distant Signals (Suntrip Records - 2011)
9. Man With No Name - Reincarnation (Tripster Remix) (Atomic Records - 2000)
10.Semuta - Lucid Eniac (Transient Records - 1999)
11.Celestial Intelligence - Perpetual Energy (Suntrip Records - 2015)
12.Filteria - Made Out Of Trance (Live version) (Unreleased - 2022)
13.Mindsphere - Children of the Sun (Unreleased - 2024)
14.Electric Universe - Transmission (Spirit Zone Recordings - 2002)
15.Dimension 5 - Limitless Dimension (Interstellar Productions - 1998)
16.HMI - Allan Hills 84.001 (Paname Records - 1997)
17.Denshi Danshi - Southern Sign (Goalogique Records - 2014)
18.Quench - Dreams (DICA Edit) - (Unreleased - 2023)
19.Jape Du Marie - Orbit (Flatlife - 2011)
20.Agneton - Achter De Schemering (Unreleased - 2023)
21.Nova Fractal - Mass Extinction (Ovnimoon - 2013)

Anoebis - Surya Spirits - Celebration Of Life

Man With No Name - Voices
Spectral - Moonstone
Total Eclipse - Waiting For A New Life
Bypass Unit - Phaser Galaxy
Dimension 5 - Beyond The Stars
Man With No Name - Teleport
X-Dream - Do You Believe
Pleiadians - Time Dilation
Astral Projection - Kabalah
Ephedra & Imba - Cosmic Harmony
Prana - Alien Pets (Trinodia remix)
GoaTree - Syslit Joint
Frost Raven - Paranormal
J.I.S. - Mind Therapy
Hallucinogen - L.S.D. (Astral Projection remix)
Soul Kontakt - Metric Spaces
Nova Fractal - Common Cold
Ephedra - Creation Of The Moon
Cyan -Alien (peacefull mix)

A Hop Into Goa Festival (dj set recorded live!)

This is a 90-minute studio mix of MINDFIELD and associated projects with tracks from mid to late '90s. Mindfield was formed around 1993 through the collaboration of studio heads Simon Carman and John Ford with trance DJs Mark Allen and Chrisbo, partners in the seminal London Goa party, Pagan. Freshly returned from Goa, the group initially released two classic UK trance EPs, Life Is An Illusion and Solid State, on their homemade ASM label. They soon became key players in the emerging London Goa trance scene, debuting at the iconic Megatripolis party alongside a reading by the late shaman Terence McKenna. They also performed regularly at the groundbreaking trance night Return To The Source, sharing stages with artists such as Hallucinogen, Doof, Psychaos, Juno Reactor, and Man With No Name.  After about a year, Mark left the group to focus on Return To The Source and his new project, Quirk, with Tim Healey. Chrisbo joined Chris Dekker’s Medicine Drum alongside Andy Guthrie. This left John and Simon to continue as Mindfield, releasing their own tracks and collaborating with other artists in the scene, leading to the creation of Phantasm Records.  Tragically, Simon passed away in 1997 after a long battle with leukemia. Since then, John has carried on as Mindfield and as a solo DJ under the name John Phantasm. Over the past 20 years, he has traveled the world, performing at countless parties and events while hosting numerous Phantasm parties across the globe.

1. Mindfield - Ghost On The Highway (Phantasm Records)
2. Mindfield - GreenWorm (Phantasm Records)
3. Silver & Steel - Dreaming Of Disco Valley (Mindfield Live Edit) (Phantasm Records)
4. Sundog - Shatterbox (Phantasm Records)
5. Sundog - Touch The Sun (Phantasm Records)
6. Mindfield - Cosmic Courier (Phantasm Records)
7. Mindfield - Superstition (Phantasm Records)
8. Mindfield - The Knowledge (Phantasm Records)
9. Mindfield - Kishkashta (Phantasm Records)
10. Mindfield - Lets Get Stoned (Phantasm Records)
11. Mindfield - Carnival On Mars (Phantasm Records)
12. Temple Of Dreams - Oscillation (Phantasm Records)
13. Mindfield - 20,000 Worlds In A Perspex Box (Phantasm Records)
14. Mindfield - Odyssey Of The Mind (Phantasm Records)

https://soundcloud.com/mindfield_psy | https://soundcloud.com/phantasmrecords

MINDFIELD | Phantasm Records Series Ep. 11 | 27/12/2024

A reworking of the set that I played at the ZNA Gathering in Portugal on August 4, 2015. The overall flow is basically the same, though there are 3 tracks that I didn't include because they are very rare and unreleased (by X-Dream, Graham Wood, and Hallucinogen), and in two cases here I used the commercially available versions of mixes when I'd played alternate unreleased mixes at the party (Green Nuns 'Conflict' and TIP's remix of KoxBox's 'Too Pure'). I also shifted the order of two tracks as with the current flow the transitions made more sense this way...  Still very much the same story, with just a few variations!

A bit of video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gUy55Y7akA


The tracklist: 

Juno Reactor: Jungle High
Man of the Last Third: Mystery of Imagination
Space Tribe: The Great Spirit
Overlords: Naked People (Man with No Name remix)
The Infinity Project: Alien Airport
Opale: Anaconda's Dance
Hallucinogen: Snaky Shaker
Parasonix: Warp Phaze
The Visitors: Tiny Little Engines of Creation
Shakta: Spiritual Beings in Physical Bodies
Excess Head: Rinky Dinks
KoxBox & Jens: Jungle Walla*
Total Eclipse: Partycles
Storm: Storm (Man with No Name remix)
Excess Head: Another Planet (final mix)*
Doof: Angelina (alternate mix)
Gong: Isle of Everywhere (Total Eclipse remix)
Green Nuns of the Revolution: Conflict
Doof: Destination Bom (alternate mix)
KoxBox: Too Pure (The Infinity Project remix)

*unreleased

#ZNA #ZNAGathering #Goa #GoaTrance #Retro #RetroTrance #RetroGoaTrance

DJ Solitare @ ZNA Gathering Remixed (2015)

A remix of my August 20, 2019 set that closed the Goa Guardians pre-party at the ZNA Gathering in Portugal.

I had agreed to have my set recorded, but unfortunately the device was accidentally set to microphone mode when it was plugged in. The audio recording of the 'air' at the event, complete with cheers and whistles from the crowd, is also uploaded elsewhere on this channel, but this current upload is a high-fidelity remix of the same story flow.

This recording features the first 2 hours or so of my 2.5-hour set, the last half hour of which featured three rare tracks that I am reserving for live appearances only: the legendary 25-minute mix of Slinky Wizard's track Wizard (the DAT title is 'Solar Journey'), the end of which I mixed with the last portion of a 16-minute mix of The Infinity Project's 'Uforica' and the opening of an unpublished mix of Hallucinogen's 'LSD 93' (featuring a different sample than the one used in the released mixes of the track, the one that would later be featured in 'Demention'). For this set remix, I have added a few minutes of these three rare tracks as a kind of closing medley, similar to the final few minutes of my actual set.

You can see some video from the actual set - including more of those closing three tracks than is presented in this remix - at this YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/b14BxC2wDYU

The track list:

Psychopod: Universal Mind
Prana: Primal Orbit
Earglobe: Spherelobe (mix 1)*
Brainman: You Are The Alien (alt mix)*
Total Eclipse: Area 51 (alt mix)*
Tufaan: Probe (Green Nuns rmx)
Doof: We Are Free (Desk mix)
The Infinity Project: Superbooster
Man With No Name: Energy Level 137
Prana: Animamundi
Hallucinogen: Shamanix (early mix)*
Noosphere: 23rd Chromozone (alt mix)*
Transwave: Absolum
The Infinity Project: Squidgy Atomicus
Transwave: Ulysses Voyage 1
Ayahuasca: Propella
Anubis: Rites of Ra
Slinky Wizard: Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen's Moon Strudel rmx)
Etnica: Merkaba

Plus a mashup of excerpts from

Slinky Wizard: Wizard desk mix (aka 'Solar Journey')*
The Infinity Project: Uforica (extended ambient into dance mix)*
Hallucinogen: LSD 93 (mix 4, introduction)*

* unreleased

DJ Solitare @ ZNA - Goa Guardians 2019 remix

Taken from "The Scythe Of Orion," available for free download from ektoplazm.com!

Cybernetika - Impossible Mirage

Basilisk is a veteran multi-genre DJ, co-founder of the psychedelic techno label @Techgnosis-Records alongside @benramamusic, founder of the iconic @Ektoplazm free music portal and label group (including Ektoplazm, Drumlore, and Omnitropic), lossless audio enthusiast, and dedicated archivist and electronic music curator. Originally hailing from Toronto, Canada, he is now based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Psytrance, techno, electro, house, trance, acid, breaks, bass, IDM, ambient—you name it, I probably spin it. My mixes fluidly combine different genres into harmonic journeys that defy convention. I encourage you to browse around and get lost in some of the many sonic microcosms I have meticulously curated over the years. Nearly all mixes posted here are available for download on my homepage.

I am open to invitations to provide guest mixes in a variety of styles as long as the details are interesting. Drop me a line if you have more reach than I do, just be sure to articulate your concept!

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