TRANSMISSIONS FROM UTOPIA is a series of retro-futuristic mixes inaugurated by DJ Basilisk in 2022. Every mix in this series explores period of electronic music history, typically around the turn of the millennium, with extra attention directed toward lesser known or appreciated styles and movements. Length varies according to the trajectory of each mix.

Requests for this series are welcome! Currently I'm working on mixes documenting: West Coast progressive house, breaks, and "desert trance" of the 1990s; New Beat and the precursors of Goa trance from 1993 and earlier; a remake (or reinterpretation) of Paul Oakenfold's infamous "Goa Mix"; a return to the quirk minimal techno sound of the 2000s; and several more...

Transmissions From Utopia: Retro-Futuristic Explorations of Vanished Musical Movements

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Psychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy (derived from the Ancient Greek word ψυχή “psyche”, mind; soul; breath; spirit) is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high temporiffs. It appeared in the around in 1990 as with reporting of the trend of Goa trance.

Psychedelic (GOA) Trance and faster stuff

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]

This is a 1 hour cut of our Live-Set played in Berlin at Kater Blau.

Thanks to all the lovely dancing people supporting us and a special thanks to Mira and Kater Blau for the invitation, to us its a dream coming true uploading this set <3

all tracks are written and produced by Mujia & Tajo
Master by Metatext

Tracklist:

Zoe Reijue- Dan de Moon ( Mujia & Tajo Remix)
Mujia & Tajo - Tula
Mujia & Tajo - Haul
Mujia & Tajo - ID. -Unreleased
Mujia & Tajo - Caen ft. Sima Aava
Mujia & Tajo - ID. -Unreleased 
Mujia & Tajo - Lorelu
Mujia & Tajo - Flowers
Al Lindrum & Dolph - Rote Laterne ( Mujia & Tajo Remix
Mujia & Tajo - ID. Unreleased


Mujia & Tajo Live @ Katerblau | Le Grande SaSoMo Acidbogen | 06.06.2022

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.

HQ STREAM ON MIXCLOUD 🔊
https://www.mixcloud.com/Basilisk/transmissions-from-arcadia-hq/

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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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https://www.mixcloud.com/Basilisk/transmissions-from-valhalla-hq/

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https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-valhalla/

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]

DJ Basilisk returns to the ecstatic idealism of the early 1990s on TRANSMISSIONS FROM LYONESSE, the latest in an ongoing series of concept mixes documenting electronic music subcultures of the past. This time around the journey leads from scintillating ambient techno arpeggios and idyllic IDM to the raging heights of full-on Goa trance (and back again). Ultimately the aim is to capture some of the magic of the outdoor festival experience circa 1996, particularly in the UK and continental Europe. Many of these tracks are rough around the edges, and several have been lightly edited and remastered exclusively for this mix.

HQ STREAM ON MIXCLOUD 🔊
https://www.mixcloud.com/Basilisk/transmissions-from-lyonesse/

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Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, March 2023. Recorded using Traktor 3 with a Korg Nanokontrol. Post-processed with Audacity, Ableton Live 11, and LoudMax. Several custom edits were made especially for this mix.

Cover image: Clarkson Frederick Stanfield's "Mount St Michael, Cornwall", 1830.

Featuring tracks by Speedy J, Reload & E621, Holy Ghost, DJ Cosmix & Etnica, Sonic Sufi, Prana, Morphem, X-Dream, Tristan, Eat Static, Underhead, Inscape, Radiotrance, Third Man, The Source Experience, Musicology, and Pentatonik, among many others.

Transmissions From Lyonesse [Goa Trance / Classic Trance / IDM / Ambient Techno / Electronica]

TRANSMISSIONS FROM AVALON is an epic return to the halcyon sound of the early 1990s, meticulously curated and sublimely mixed by DJ Basilisk. This 4 hour journey features tracks produced up until 1996, building from moody ambient, scintillating IDM, and hypnotic techno into acidic and full-on Goa trance, culminating at 150 BPM. Descending from the heights, the mood becomes more tribalistic and transcendent, thickening the vibe with various permutations of progressive trance and euphoric house before unwinding with hazy breakbeats and soothing drones.

HQ STREAM ON MIXCLOUD 🔊
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Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, May 2023. Recorded using Traktor 3 with a Korg Nanokontrol. Post-processed with Audacity, Ableton Live 11, and LoudMax. More than a dozen custom edits were crafted especially for this mix.

Cover image: Conway Castle, North Wales, J. M. W. Turner, 1798.

Featuring tracks by Humate & Rabbit in the Moon, Spacetime Continuum, Autechre, Cari Lekebusch, Vinyl Blair, Cherry Bomb, YMO, The Infinity Project, Nüw Idol, Nervasystem, Hallucinogen, Doof, Cosmosis, Lunar Asylum, Prana, Green Nuns of the Revolution, Deviant Electronics, X-Dream, Medicine Drum, Shiva Chandra, Etnica, Pascal F.E.O.S., Oliver Lieb, Juno Reactor, Banco de Gaia, Link, RAC, Velocette, Time Modem, O Yuki Conjugate, and Global Communication, among many others.

Transmissions From Avalon

Transmissions From Avalon [Goa Trance / Progressive Trance / Ambient Techno / IDM / Electronica]

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✅ Psy Trance: https://spoti.fi/2Q9yZOP
✅ Low BPM: https://spoti.fi/3ecrdfc

PRCAST #036 - Raioz (Set @ Nebula)

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✅ Psy Trance: https://spoti.fi/2Q9yZOP
✅ Low BPM: https://spoti.fi/3ecrdfc

PRCAST #037 - Loudstage (Transição @ Psycologic 7 Anos)

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✅ Psy Trance: spoti.fi/2Q9yZOP
✅ Low BPM: spoti.fi/3ecrdfc

PRCAST #038 - Zeck

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📣 Playlists Spotify:
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✅ Psy Trance: spoti.fi/2Q9yZOP
✅ Low BPM: spoti.fi/3ecrdfc

PRCAST #039 - Prog-Machine (Set @ Pântano Digital)

Once again sharing a playful potpourri of my favorite psychedelic sauces. This is a colorful journey with suspense, atmosphere and action, inviting you to move n’ groove. It’s a journey between 137-145 bpm filled with powerful basslines and fiery melodies - welcome to a heated and vibrant party. Let’s dance! 



Tracklist: 

Hellquist - Intensitivity 2.0 
Akudra - Rusty 
Mechanism, Grumble, Airi - Electric Dreams
Egorythmia, Mr.What - Replicant
Status Zero - Center of The Earth
Pspiralife - Illusion feat. Clockwise
James Monro, Dickster, Bumbling Loons - Spore
Koshiro - Sun Kissed 
Rinkadink, 4i20, 3LMT - Beautiful Hallucinations (Airi Remix)
Audiospazm - Space Machine 
Alchemy Circle, Rabello - Nativus
Dharana - Winds Of Hope
Egorythmia, Synthatic - After Us 
The Greys - Jamming
Fisheye - It_s Coming
Triforce - Elixir Field
Zeridium, Slip Hypnotic - Salade de Thon 
Modus - Organic Panic
Porat - Give Me The Groove

thanks a lot 🖤


FREYA ROSE - DIRTY DANCING ON THE ROOF [zenon, psygressive, progressive set] 137-145 BPM

I'm happy to share these 2,5h of the set I played at Beate Uwe last Sunday with you 🧡 These barefoot gatherings are always filled with so much love and magic 🧡 thank you for all the love shared and the energy on the dance floor, for your kind words and for creating this journey with me. You’ve shown me once again why I love to play music. To bring people together, to offer a space for embodied & genuine connection and spark curiosity to explore our bodies through movement and meet heart to heart on the dance floor. 

What a beautiful way to say goodbye for a little while 🧡 thank you to everyone who has supported me on this journey so far 🌱

Foto: Alexa Hinkelmann

Inke @ Beate Uwe Barfuß [10.03.24]

When Strand turns into a Boiler Room Rave 🥵👯‍♀️ Thank you all for this 4 hour duck closing ride 🦆 was a special one 😍
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DARIOs Boiler Strand @ Sisyphos 🦆

April 2024 Mix

DJ Basilisk revisits the halcyon vibes of mid-90s trance on Transmissions From Elysium, a 2 hour journey through dreamy, progressive, and euphoric soundscapes from a lost age of innocence. For this 7th retrospective mix in the Transmissions series the focus is deep, driving, and emotive trance with occasional forays into techno, IDM, and breaks, all released between 1992 and 1997. Expect some well-worn classics as well as hidden gems, all carefully chosen to capture the carefree optimism of that vanished era.

HQ STREAM ON MIXCLOUD 🔊
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Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, April 2024. Recorded using Traktor 3 with a Korg Nanokontrol. Post-processed with Audacity, Ableton Live 11, and LoudMax. Several custom edits were crafted for this mix.

Cover image: Elisium, Léon Bakst, 1906.

Featuring tracks by Yum Yum, Doug Laurent, Sandoz, Eat Static, Aura, Trancesetters, Leftfield, Dave Angel, Exit EEE, Antiloop, Paul van Dyk, Digital Sun, Blue Planet Corporation, Quietman, L.S.G., The Light, Endora, Way Out West, Innersphere, and The Unlimited Dream Company, among many others.

Transmissions From Elysium

Transmissions From Elysium [Classic Mid-90s Trance / Progressive / Goa / IDM]

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📣 Playlists Spotify:
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✅ Psy Trance: spoti.fi/2Q9yZOP
✅ Low BPM: spoti.fi/3ecrdfc

PRCAST #040 - The Pups (Gravado ao vivo)

In this episode, you can listen to a set from RIX aka Sanjin Osterman, a TesseracTstudio label DJ who loves to bring up twisted dancing tunes with high-energy on the dance floor. He has been into the psychedelic trance scene since 1992 and was part of the Life Celebration Festival in Croatia. RIX has played in many clubs & festivals around Europe, and he is now for more than 8 years a label DJ of the famous label TesseracTstudio founded by Zyce (Nikola Kozic). DJ RIX is known for his energetic performances, his love & passion for psychedelic trance music.

Shift & Simba feat. Judah - Dubmention (Zyce Vs. Flegma RMX)
Disconect - Ascension
Talamasca - Time Simulation (Zyce Vs. Flegma RMX)
Xenoben - Universal Question
Wanted - Atypical
Zyce Vs. Flegma feat. Lucha - Falcon
Parascop - Space Trap
Shivatree & Lunatica - Systems Error
Out Of Range - A Matter Of Time
Wanted - Modern Relativity
Relativ - Vimana
Eddie Bitar - Elements Of Life
Silicon Sound - Pure Reality (Zyce Vs. Flegma RMX)
Xenoben - Serpentine
Zyce Vs. Flegma & Solar Kid - T.R.I.P.P.
Avalon & Flegma - Astral
Reborn - Prediction
Disconect - Hypernova
Protoculture - Avalon (Zyce Vs. Flegma RMX)
Shivatree & Spinal Fusion - Bring It On
Zyce & Sonic Entity - Tidal (Bellatrix RMX)
Boneless & DX - Keep Going

https://soundcloud.com/sanjin-osterman | https://soundcloud.com/tesseractstudio

RIX | TesseractsTudio Series Ep. 62 | 19/04/2024

Hello ❤️

viel Spaß beim Hören meines recordings aus dem Odonien, vom Frühlingsfest mit Praerie x Rebellion der Träumer x Wilde Möhre.  

Danke für diese tolle Party, das war wirklich eine atemberaubende Odonien & Köln Premiere. Danke für den support, die lieben Worte, die Energy und das Tanzen. See and hear you soon. 
Enjoy ☀️

TASCAM DR-40

madmoiselle I Odonien I Frühlingsfest Praerie

Farie&DrapR - Fusion 2024 Trance Floor | FR 14-17Uhr

Wir sind ein Tochter vs. Vater b2b Dj-Duo. Unsere Stylerange geht von trancigem House über Peaktime- & Psytechno bis Psytrance. Tochter Siri macht seit Jahren das Festival des autonomen Zentrums Bargteheide, spielt ebenso lange im HH Raum auf VAs und Vater baq spielt seit 35J. House, Techno und Psy around the globe. 2gether bespielen wir mehrere Channels auf HirschmilchRadio, einem der größten unkommerz. Radios für elektronische Musik im Netz, betrieben von baq und haben dort auch mehrere Shows.

We are a daughter vs. father b2b DJ duo. Our style range goes from trancey house to peaktime & psytechno to psytrance. Daughter Siri has been doing the festival at the autonomous center Bargteheide near Hamburg/Germany for years, has been playing at VAs in the Hamburg area for just as long and father baq has been playing house, techno and psy around the globe for 35 years. 2gether we play several channels on HirschmilchRadio, one of the largest non-commercial radio stations for electronic music on the internet, run by baq and have several shows there too.

http://fariedrapr.de

Farie&DrapR - Fusion 2024

Psy Storm

DJ Basilisk emerges from a long period of esoteric theorizing, conceptual regeneration, and diligent crate-digging to present Hermetic Expanse, a five-hour odyssey into hypnotic realms of underground electronic music. Originally conceived as a vehicle for showcasing the sound of Techgnosis Records (@techgnosis-records), the label he co-founded alongside Ben Rama (@benramamusic) in 2015, this mix features ten of his personal favorites from the label's burgeoning catalog. Situating the Techgnosis vibe in a wider context, this mix also features numerous selections from Digital Diamonds, Digital Structures, Horns and Hoofs Entertainment, Anarkick Records, IbogaTech, Boshke Beats, Zenon Records, and other fellow travellers of the psychedelic techno and minimal psytrance movements. The central core of the mix, a three-hour dance floor workout, was released as Techgnosis Sessions 024, but this full-length and uncut version features an additional two hours of melancholic electro, intricate and effusive IDM, experimental breakbeat techno, and dark ambient. 

Conceived, arranged, recorded, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan. Photo by Brian Wiemer.

ORIGINAL PREMIERE (3 HOUR VERSION)
https://soundcloud.com/techgnosis-records/techgnosis-sessions-24-dj-basilisk

MIXCLOUD HQ 🔊
https://www.mixcloud.com/Basilisk/hermetic-expanse-hq/

FULL INFO/DOWNLOAD ✨
https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/esoteric-expanse-1/

Esoteric Expanse 1

Esoteric Expanse 1 [Psychedelic Techno / Progressive House / Electro / IDM / Ambient]

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