Mixes made for Global Goa Party, a virtual event that transported listeners to some year in the past. I typically spun at night, so all of these mixes are fairly dark to some degree or another. 100% of the music featured here is pre-Y2K.

Global Goa Party [Retro 1990s Goa Trance Mixes]

Moonshadow is a classic psytrance mix originally composed for the Global Goa Party, a virtual event conceived to “create the soundtrack for a full night (and morning) of old-school Goa trance by ten DJs from all over the world.” The rules were simple: record a mix with music that would have been heard on the dance floor in 1999. I snapped up the 12:30 to 2:00am time slot and spent weeks scouring my collection for the right stuff to hasten the journey into darkness and lunacy. Naturally, this exercise aroused great nostalgia for my own initiation into psytrance culture sometime in 1997 or 1998. Since many of my earliest memories of partying in Toronto were formed at events thrown by the Moonshadow collective I decided to dedicate this mix to DJ Dam, Cyber G, Yohimbe, John Dee, and everyone else who was there in the beginning.

TRACK LIST
Tim Schuldt – Absurd [Aurinko Records]
Cydonia – Cactus [Blue Room Released]
Semsis – Heroes & Madmen [Atomic Records]
X-Dream – Psychomachine [Blue Room Released]
Tarsis – Atomic Children (Remix) [Spirit Zone Recordings]
Spiral Active Project & DJ Goblin – Grounded [Krembo Records]
Mino – 2000 Compatible [Phantasm Records]
Astronomikx – After Life [Flying Rhino Records]
Haldolium – Pi-Symptom [Free Form Records]
Etnica – Mind Altering Drugs [Spirit Zone Recordings]
XV Kilist – Gummi [Spiral Trax]
Growling Mad Scientists – Tentacles of a Jellyfish [TIP Records]
Hux Flux – Idiot [Transient Records]
Koxbox – Life is a Gas (X-Dream Remix) [Blue Room Released]
Children of the Doc – Impossible Vortex [HOM-Mega Productions]
Deedrah – Signé Furax [Question Mark ?ecords]
Infected Mushroom – Return of the Shadows [YoYo Records]
The Delta – Travelling at the Speed of Thought [Blue Room Released]
Growling Mad Scientists – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [TIP Records]
Sandman – End of the World [HOM-Mega Productions]

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Moonshadow

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Moonshadow [Dark Psytrance / Goa Trance Circa 1999]

In Exile is a special mix composed by Basilisk for Global Goa Party 2, a virtual party organized by Marsh at the Goat Ranch, a flashpoint for old school Goa trance fandom. The concept is simple enough: gather up a bunch of seasoned old school veterans and have them mix up a full night of music just as if it were some point in the not-so-distant past. The first event—for which I produced Moonshadow—landed us 1999.

This time we travel back to the year 1996, smack dab in the middle of the Golden Age of Goa trance. Bill Clinton is in the White House, Boris Yeltsin is in the Kremlin, the reigning human chess champion is defeated by a computer for the first time, and tantalizing evidence of life on other worlds captures headlines around the world. I am merely 15 years old, not yet fully initiated into the world of psychedelic trance, although the groundwork is already laid by my adolescent fascination with industrial music, cyberpunk fiction, and early dial-up BBSes. One of the aims of the Global Goa Party project is to provide an experience for those of us who did not have the good fortune to attend psytrance parties back in the day—myself included! (I first heard DJ Nivoc play Goa trance in April of 1996 but had no idea what was going on at the time.) For the 2:00am to 3:30am time slot I did my best to build from a hypnotizing introduction to a seething, storming climax, taking care to end on a high note.

TRACK LIST
The Infinity Project feat. Paul Jackson – Cybertropic [TIP Records] (1995)
Voodoo People – Drop the Bomb (Hint) [TIP Records] (1995)
Slinky Wizard – Wizard [Flying Rhino Records] (1994)
Koxbox – Loads of Flow (Cwithe’s Molecular Mix) [Harthouse] (1995)
Rotortype – I Come in Peace (Hint) [Planet Rhythm Records] (1995)
Etnica – Astral Way [Blue Room Released] (1995)
N.D.M.A. – Vitan (Hint) [Sub Terranean] (1996)
Morphem – Magma [Tunnel Records] (1996)
Cygnus X – Kinderlied (Hint) [Eye Q Records] (1995)
Crop Circles – Full Mental Jackpot [Auracle Records] (1996)
Hallucinogen – Soothsayer (The Lysurgeon Warning Remix feat. Raja Ram & DJ Andre) [TIP Records] (1996)
Phreaky – Tornado [Dragonfly Records] (1996)
Four Carry Nuts – Weird Egg [3rd Ear] (1996)
Green House Effect (Sandman) – Spawn [Melodia Records] (1995)
Cydonia – Screaming Darkness [Blue Room Released] (1996)
Transwave – The Rezwalker (Black Thunder Mix) [Matsuri Productions] (1995)
UX – Life Support Technology [Dragonfly Records] (1996)
Koxbox – Stratosfear [Blue Room Released] (1996)
Hallucinogen – Trancespotter [Flying Rhino Records] (1996)
X-Dream – Panic in Paradise [TIP Records] (1996)
Deviant Electronics – Catharsis [Helix Records] (1997)
Cosmosis – Howling at the Moon [Transient Records] (1996)
Laughing Buddha – Karma [TIP Records] (1997)
Infernal Machine – The Loin King [Twisted Records] (1996)
Paragliders – Paraglide [Superstition Records] (1993)

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In Exile

In Exile [Classic Goa Trance 1993–1996]

Blacklight Metropolis is Basilisk’s contribution to the fifth edition of Global Goa Party, a virtual event organized by Marsh at the Goatranch to simulate an entire night of music from the early years of the psychedelic trance movement. This time around the year is 1997 and the golden age of Goa trance is in full swing, blasting revellers into limitless dimensions of sound with scintillating kaleidoscopic sounds and twisted techno-shamanistic rhythms. Reprising the nocturnal explorations of Moonshadow and In Exile, this expertly mixed collection of mind-bending classics explores the darker side of the genre while journeying through the deepest part of night from 1:30 to 3:30am.

TRACK LIST
Slinky Wizard – Sacred Fist [Flying Rhino Records] (1997)
Orion – Caracol (Hint) [Symbiosis Records] (1997)
Factor – Pol Zirkular [21:3 Records] (1997)
Man of the Last 3rd – Mystery of Imagination [POF Music] (1997)
Juno Reactor – Kaguya Hime (Hint) [Blue Room Released] (1997)
Xenomorph – Telepathic Combat [Koyote Records] (1997)
Cari Lekebusch – Attitydsknäckaren (Hint) [H. Productions] (1997)
The Deviant – Dawn on Epsilon [TIP Records] (1997)
The Infinity Project – Mindboggler (Part 2) [TIP Records] (1997)
Adam Beyer – Compressed (Hint) [Drumcode] (1997)
Synchro – Human Oscillator [TIP Records] (1997)
Orichalcum – The Egg (Hint) [TIP Records] (1997)
Psychopod – Out of Your Mind [TIP Records] (1997)
Prana – Scarab (Snake Thing Remix) (Hint) [Matsuri Productions] (1997)
The Infinity Project – Hyperactive (Acid Rockers Remix) [TIP Records] (1997)
Z – Uncle Mavis (Hint) [TIP Records] (1997)
Menis – Fluff Killer [Koyote Records] (1997)
Xenomorph – Neurotoxin [Koyote Records] (1997)
Slide – Waking Up to Chaos [Transient Records] (1996)
Orion – Akeru [Symbiosis Records] (1997)
Koxbox – Life Is… [Blue Room Released] (1997)
Disco Volante – Chameleon (UX Remix) [Transient Records] (1996)
Kopfuss Resonator & DJ Jörg – Whipbird (Original Mix) [Nephilim Records] (1997)
Darshan – Tranceformation [Flying Rhino Records] (1997)
The Visitors – Tiny Little Engines [Psy-Harmonics] (1996)
Syb Unity Nettwerk – Space Puppy [Flying Rhino Records] (1997)
Sandman – Natural Born Killer [TIP Records] (1997)
Darshan – Duck [Phantasm Records] (1997)
Koxbox – Electronic Brainwash [Blue Room Released] (1997)
Hallucinogen – Gamma Goblins (Part 2) [Twisted Records] (1997)
Cydonia – The Kiddy [Blue Room Released] (1997)
Prana – Scarab (Green Nuns of the Revolution Remix) [Matsuri Productions] (1997)
Doof – Weird Karma [TIP Records] (1996)
Darshan – Mind Merge [Flying Rhino Records] (1997)
Hallucinogen – Space Pussy [Twisted Records] (1996)
Juno Reactor – Conga Fury [Blue Room Released] (1997)

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Blacklight Metropolis

Blacklight Metropolis [Goa Trance / Dark Psytrance Circa 1997]

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!

Properly mastered promos are welcome. Also accepting professional demos for my work with Ektoplazm and Techgnosis.

For bookings, demos, and other inquiries, email me at: basilisk(at)ektoplazm.com