Period pieces documenting sounds from across electronic music history, mostly from the early 1990s to the late 2000s. This playlist is regularly updated to position mixes in chronological order, from oldest to newest. Read the description for each mix to see what time period and style is being showcased. And as always, find full info, track listings, and download links on my website: https://djbasilisk.com

Retrofuturist Mix Collection

Basilisk explores the secret origins of the modern psychedelic techno movement on TRANSMISSIONS FROM HYPERBOREA. This mix is a cross-genre period piece set in the transitional year of 2010, when tech house, neotrance, minimal techno, and progressive psytrance collided and merged to form something vibrant and new. It was an era marked by the infiltration of underground club culture into the open air psytrance festival circuit; dance floors were awash in white noise, rapt with sizzling electric leads, and worked into a frenzy by big swinging beats. Basilisk's growing involvement in this emerging fusion was formalized by the establishment of Drumlore, a Canadian netlabel and event series organized alongside DJ Lexicon, in 2009. This, in turn, lay the groundwork for Techgnosis Records, one of the leading psychedelic techno labels of the 2020s. And so this mix also asks: what is a movement without history? Where do we find our roots?

Plenty of the tracks featured in this mix are now unavailable, deleted from whatever digital download platform originally carried them, sometimes nearly vanishing without a trace. Others are old dance floor stalwarts you will almost certainly recognize if you were raving back in 2010.

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Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, May 2022. Recorded on three decks using Traktor 3 with a Korg Nanokontrol and an Allen & Heath Xone:K2. Post-processed with Audacity, Ableton Live 11, and LoudMax.

Cover image: William Bradford's "An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay", 1871.

Featuring tracks by Voodeax, Onur Özer, Sian, Minilogue, Anna (AKA Boris Brejcha), Antix, D-Nox & Beckers, Butch, Spektre, Dubfire, Henry Saiz, KiloWatts, Fairmont, Guy J, Robert Babicz, Marc Romboy, Gui Boratto, Extrawelt, James Holden, and many more.

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Transmissions From Hyperborea [Psychedelic Techno / Progressive House / Minimal Techno / Neotrance]

Basilisk pays tribute to the early millennial sound of French psytrance, techtrance, and progressive on Ybyzär 19 (@ybyzar), a guest mix commissioned by @me_diafan and broadcast on the Nantes-based @radiody10 in June 2022. This concept mix focuses on the “French touch” of psytrance, with representation by many of the major figures in the scene from 1998 to 2005. The journey begins with Gothic-industrial soundscapes, digs deep into cacophonous techtrance and pumping progressive rhythms, gathers steam with twilight full-on beats, eventually emerging into the morning light with timeless trance melodies and blissful orchestral strings.

All tracks featured here were released from 1998 to 2005. Six tracks included in this mix were edited for quicker transitions, easier layering, or to fix errors in the original recordings. The resulting mix neatly fits onto an 80 minute CD, which was generally the objective back in the early 2000s., when I was releasing mixes like Heliocentric, Nocturnal Wanderlust, Mystic Revelation, etc. The attached photos is yours truly in the second room at Funhuas in Toronto circa 2007, around when I was actually playing some of these tunes 🙃

Mixed in Traktor with a Korg Nanokontrol. Edited and mastered with Audacity, Ableton Live, TDR Nova, and Loudmax.

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TRACK LIST
Holeg & The Spies - Godisnotgoth [Aurinko Records] (2003)
N.T.S.X. - Dreamshot [Atomic Records] (2000)
Cypher - Riding on a White Rabbit [Question Mark ?ecords] (1998)
Cameleon - Love Cricket [XIII BIS Records] (2001)
Authentik - Solid [d.Drum / GTN (Global Trance Network)] (2001)
Synthetic - Cosmos 99 [Twisted Records] (2001)
Three Point Turn - On The Edge [Hadshot Haheizar] (2002)
Tetraktys - Sphere [Zillion Mental Anarchie Records] (2004)
Deedrah - Far and Away [Hadshot Haheizar] (2001)
Bamboo Forest - Still [Spirit Zone Recordings] (2003)
Silicon Sound - Electro Body Music [Neurobiotic Records] (2003)
Altöm - Renegade [Spirit Zone Recordings] (2003)
Talamasca - A Frenchman in Tokyo [Arcadia Music] (2003)
Tikal - Aura [Neurobiotic Records] (2003)
Bamboo Forest - Step By Step [Dragonfly Records] (2002)
G.B.U. - Pura Vida [TIP.World] (2001)
Triptych feat. D-Mush - Mystical Hildegard [Shiva Space Technology] (2003)
Deedrah - Cycles of Life 2003 [MP Records] (2003)
Jaïa - Orchestra 2.0 [Digital Structures] (2005)

Ybyzär 19 [Classic French Techtrance / Full-On / Progressive Psytrance]

Basilisk returns with TRANSMISSIONS FROM ARCADIA, a 4-hour odyssey into deep and progressive forms of house, techno, and trance embedded within a hazy cocoon of broken beats, IDM, downtempo, and ambient, all from around the turn of the millennium. This exercise in genre-fluid nostalgia emphasizes rhythm over melody, avoiding monotony by rotating between diverse yet complimentary sounds intended for the dirty warehouse, summer festival, upscale club, or smoke-filled lounge.

Rave nostalgia is alive and well these days, but most people lavish their attention on the primordial aesthetics and waveforms of the early 1990s. Far less critical attention has been directed on the diversifying sounds of the early 2000s, when digital workstations transformed electronic music production and new movements proliferated throughout global dance culture. This mix aims to connect some of the dots, bridging gaps between contemporaneous scenes that might not have seen much crossover when this music was gleaming and new.

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Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2022. Recorded on three decks using Traktor 3 and a Korg Nanokontrol. Mastered in Ableton Live with LoudMax. Several custom edits were made exclusively for this mix. Cover image: Thomas Cole's The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1834.

Featuring tracks by Monolake, Swayzak, Aril Brikha, Victor Calderone, Marco Carola, SBK, Phony Orphants, FREq, Atmos, S>Range, L.S.G., Art of Trance, Shpongle, Sander Kleinenberg, Man With No Name, Oxia, The Timewriter, Thievery Corporation, Enigma, Adham Shaikh, and many more (nearly 70 in all).

Transmissions From Arcadia [Classic Progressive House / Techno / Progressive Psytrance / Trance]

DJ Basilisk revisits the classic psytrance sound on Transmissions From Valhalla, a monumental 4+ hour journey featuring more than 60 tracks released between 1997 and 2005. This time around the focus is mainly on the many permutations of the “minimal wave” that swept through the scene in the early years of the new millennium. Expect to hear a wide variety of hypnotic atmospheres, quirky rhythms, and brutal beats as the pressure builds toward a raging full-on mind-bending climax. The return path explores the deeper and more sublime side of progressive psytrance before unraveling with shimmering breakbeats and dubbed-out electronica.

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Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, July 2022. Recorded using Traktor 3 with a Korg Nanokontrol. Post-processed with Audacity, Ableton Live 11, and LoudMax. Several custom edits and refixes were made especially for this mix.

Cover image: Karl L. Prinz's "Auf Walhall", 1911.

Featuring tracks by Juno Reactor, Prisoners of the Sun, Necton, Beat Bizarre, Planet B.E.N., Lish, Cosma, BLT, Nuclear Ramjet, Droidlock, Tetraktys, Opsis, The Delta, Sensient, Nerve (M.O.S.), Midi Miliz, Cujorius One, Hujaboy, PPS Project, Three Point Turn, Wizzy Noise, 12 Moons, Setherian, Exanimo, Human Blue, Meller, Mitsumoto, Charm, Speedy J, Deviant Species, Joti Sidhu, Four Carry Nuts, Parasense, Shift, Aphid Moon, Logic Bomb, Prometheus, Tristan, S>Range, Haldolium, Magnetrixx, Ticon, Green House Effect (Sandman), Atmos, Damon Wild, Saafi Brothers, The Orb, and The Future Sound of London.

Transmissions From Valhalla [Classic Y2K-Era Minimal Psytrance / Progressive Psytrance / Techtrance]

This set was recorded live at Re:Generate, the name chosen by the Om Reunion Project to set the mood for their summer solstice gathering in 2011. I was scheduled to play on Sunday morning at the Moon Bass stage, a great little setup in a forest clearing on a beautiful piece of land in Southern Ontario. It felt like the right space and time to take a trip into the history of the psychedelic trance subculture so I mixed up a diverse assortment of old school Goa trance classics after sunrise. As always, this set was completely improvised; absolutely nothing was planned prior to stepping on stage to ready my equipment. This musical experience was co-created with a fantastic crowd of people who emerged from the woods to dance with enthusiasm to these old school gems.

TRACK LIST
Pleiadians – Time Dilation [Matsuri Productions] (1996)
Kaaya – Circular Sanctuary [Dragonfly Records] (1996)
Deviant Electronics – When Then is Now [Helix Records] (1997)
Etnica – Trip Tonite [Blue Room Released] (1996)
Tarsis – The Snake [Spirit Zone Recordings] (1998)
Chi-A.D. – Anno Domini [Nova Tekk] (1999)
Man With No Name – Teleport [Dragonfly Records] (1994)
The Infinity Project – Stimuli [TIP Records] (1994)
Astral Projection – No One Ever Dreams [Transient Records] (1997)
Rainbow Spirit – Prana [Polytox Records] (1995)
Art of Trance – Octopus (Man With No Name Remix) [Platipus Records] (1995)
Hallucinogen – Soothsayer [TIP Records] (1995)
Pleiadians – Merope [Dragonfly Records] (1997)
X-Dream – We Created Our Own Happiness [Tunnel Records] (1996)
Kristian & DJ Cosmix – The Vision (Oforia Remix) [3D Vision Records] (1999)
Phreaky – Over the Moon [Dragonfly Records] (1996)
Transwave – Cycles of Life [Symbiosis Records] (1995)
Green Nuns of the Revolution – Cor [TIP Records] (1995)
MFG – Peaceful Relaxation [Phonokol] (1997)
Chi-A.D. – Astral Warrior (Remix) [Nova Tekk] (1998)
Cosmosis – Telekinetic [Return To The Source] (1996)
Dimension 5 – Limitless Dimension [Blue Moon Productions] (1998)
Hallucinogen – LSD (Live Mix) [Dragonfly Records] (1995)

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Live at Re:Generate 2011

Re:Generate 2011 [Classic Sunday Morning Goa Trance]

Circadian Rhythms is a meditation on the passage of time and an exercise in musical archeology. Mixing live on four decks, Basilisk skillfully blends some of the finest mid-tempo Goa trance classics of the 1990s with dub techno, deep trance, progressive house, psychedelic breakbeats. Holding steady at or around 120 beats per minute, the deep frequencies of this mix evoke the heartbeat of creation, taking the listener on a full journey through day into night and back again.

TRACK LIST
Banco De Gaia – Seti I [Six Degrees Records] (2000)
Turban Bloc – As Above So Below [Blue Room Released] (1997)
Dubbelhelix – Magic Night [Spirit Zone Recordings] (2002)
B-Zet – Le Tonnere Dans Les Plumes Voir [Eye-Q Records] (1995)
Robert Leiner – Out Of Control [Apollo] (1994)
Eternal Basement – Overture [Blue Room Released] (2000)
Cydonia – Narco Nympho [Blue Room Released] (1999)
Orion – Highway [Symbiosis Records] (1997)
Total Eclipse – Nakano Ghost [Twisted Records] (1998)
Elysium & DJ Cosmix – The Vision [Transient Records] (1997)
Zodiac Youth – Fast Forward the Future (Voodoo People Remix) [Dragonfly Records] (1996)
Future Human Unity – Freeway [POF Music] (1998)
Adrenalin Drum – Shadowland [Unnatural Recordings] (1997)
Total Eclipse – Nautilus [Blue Room Released] (1995)
Transwave – Ulysse (Voyage 2) [Distance] (1996)
Man With No Name – Cairo [Concept In Dance] (1996)
Total Eclipse – Time Drops [Blue Room Released] (1996)
Ololiuqui – Electrofant [Spirit Zone Recordings] (1997)
Banco De Gaia – Gamelah (Dub 3) [Planet Dog] (1994)
Djum Djum – Difference (Steng Mix) [Rough Trade Germany] (1990)
Shpongle – Behind Closed Eyelids [TIP Records] (1997)
Prana & Eat Static – Geomantik [Matsuri Productions] (1997)
Saafi Brothers – Sweet Sirenes [Blue Room Released] (1997)
Ascendence – The Lost Track [Qube] (2000)
Doof – Sticks and Stones [Gliss/Dubmission Records] (1998)
Nomads of Dub – Spirals [Twisted Records] (1998)
The Infinity Project – When Sound Becomes Colour [Blue Room Released] (1995)

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Circadian Rhythms

Circadian Rhythms [Midtempo Goa Trance Classics From the 1990s]

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

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