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

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 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]

New track out on Dense Nebula Records VA Journey To Nibiru Vol. 1

Oddrapod - Figment (Original Mix) [Out On Dense Nebula Records]

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.

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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]

New short 1h Dj Set straight from da Darkprog Kitchen.... Enjoy!!

Buy the Ticket
Take the Ride.


Foreach Loop (Kleiman Rmx) - Electrypnose
Cryptic Motions - Sourone
Blisters - Slip Hypnotic
Subconscious - Freedom Fighters, Pspiralife & Hypogeo
Illusions (Nkarsia Rmx) - Brojanowski
Harbaror - Psydewise
Wild Fonction - Okyo & Mojos Ears 
The Birds an the Bleeps (Hypnotic Peafowl Rmx) - Ryanosaurus
Haustorium - Sideways People
Rolls Vvoyce - Psydewise 
Syrens of Dysphoria - Sideways People
Dusk Eclipse - Alchemy Circle
Symbiosis - Algia & Dabug
Contamination - Airi
Labyrythm (Deuteroz Rmx) - Headweller
Life Unfolding - Kolosmo
Sonic Falcon - Okyo
Trip and Groove - Abaracdabra
X-Factor - Mojos Ears & Mogwai
Axolotl Adventures - Under Orenda
Dizzy Transistors - Gaz Mask & Mojos Ears
Watchmen - Symetric
Immersion - Mojos Ears & Mogwai
Apollo - Symetric

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Darkprog Session March 2023

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.

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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]

Vataff Project’s ‘Come and Join’ EP is an immersive ambient dub-techno groover paired with a deeply hypnotic remix from the legendary Saafi Brothers!
Victor Marinov is an esteemed Bulgarian electronic producer with a sound all his own. Having released his debut full length album on the seminal Aleph Zero label as well as producing an EP with Markus Henriksson (Nobodys Home/ Minilogue/ Son Kite, Liquid Sound Design is thrilled to present this single ahead of his upcoming ‘Back to The Forest’ album due this autumn.

Vataff Project has an eclectic experimental sound all his own drawing from elements of ambient, ethno, psychedelic & techno.. all the while mixing electronic beat with traditional Bulgarian and worldwide instruments. His studio is set in the Rodopa mountains in Bulgaria, a place of great spiritual power and home to the legends of Orpheus and a country with a deep mysterious power. The end result bringing profound feelings of ecstasy, dance and ritual which come from the heart, the ancient times, the present and the future.

Web: https://vataffproject.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/vataffproject 
BC: https://vataff.bandcamp.com

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Vataff Project - Come And Join (Saafi Brothers Remix)

// MO:DEM 2023 \\ RECORDINGS // THE SEED \\

Sold-out edition of Mo:Dem Festival 2023 held from 7 to 13 August. We are delighted to share the sounds recorded at The Seed stage.

w/ @matti-p-h-onycat

Everybody talks about the weather... we don't.

Tracklist: 
1. Max Cooper feat. Katrin deBoer & Quentin Collins – Dusk Mass
2. Kim Bernhammar, Daniel Rehn Lomberg - The Voluptuous Dark
3. Delarosa & Asora - Draped Departure
4. Four Tet - Untitled [SAW2 CD1 Track1] (Aphex Twin)
5. Skyphone – Husk
6. Plaid – Wen
7. Dictaphone – Esc. Meetings
8. The United States Of America – Love Song For The Dead Ché
9. Flanger – Mall Warming
10. Sofus Forsberg - 
11. Plaid feat Benet Walsh – Ralome
12. Sofus Forsverg – Igen
13. Band Ane – Nyt Trræck
14. Dictaphone Disconnected
15. Kim Bernhammar & Daniel Rehn Lomberg – Restless Decay
16. B12 – Experiment Camp Alpha
17. Decamera – The Tipping Point
18. The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination – Restless
19. Dacamera – Swiss Cartel 
20. Yokota – From
21. Nic TVG – Las lalalas featuring Julie Poisonlv(quite version)
22. The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination – Concrete Cats
23. Badun – Keet remix
24. David Sylvian; Nine Horses – The Banality of Evil (Burnt Freidman remix)
25. Dictaphone – Tempelhof
26. HAT – Kubrick
27. Phoenecia – Voices In My Lunchbox 
28. Yokota – Neutral 
29. Autechre Lowride
30. Dictaphone – Sonne Free 
31. BOC – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
32. CAN – Last night sleep
33. B12 – Into The Mist 
34. Sofus Forsberg – Venice Beach
35. Metamatics – Somekind
36. 竹村延和 - Let My Fish Loose (Aphex Twin remix)
37. Haruomi Hosono with F.O.E – Medium Composition
38. Software of Seagulls – Adelaide
39. Larry Heard – Micro Gravity
40. Kruzh'em – artcelE 10.01
41. Skalpel – Night
42. Delarosa & Asora – Paz Suite 1
43. Rasmus Fisker – Slices
44. Burnt Freidman - Machine In The Ghoste ft. Barbara Panther
45. Danny Scott Lane -10 O'clock Ride
46. Lamb – Gold(Mr Scruff mix)
47. Plaid – Rat's Step
48. Can – She Brings The Rain
49. Flanger – We move 
50. Telefon Tel Aviv – Introductory Nomenclature
51. Serge Geyzel ft. Karsten Pflum & Matilde Møller – From Here 
52. Delarosa & Asora – Paz Suite 3
53. Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

Seed

P(H)ONYCAT @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2023

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.

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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]

167 bpm to 181 bpm .The Archaic Revival  is a phrase  by Terence McKenna to define what he saw as a 20th century movement and return to the spiritual and ecological sensibilities of Paleolithic and Neolithic plant based shamanism.   .Have a blast .      Hari om.

Archaic revival

Kerrosin @ HUMAN SIBLINGS CORNERSTONE Neuss 2024

Bruno(HU) - Feel My Music (Instrumental Version)

Get On Up And Dance

Áchim  György - a new beginning

I recorded this mixtape about a year ago when Spring slowly started to wake from its slumber, when the moving birds just started to get back, and the birds sang with more force and beauty in the forest nearby the house. I was filled with anticipation and hope, not yet aware how a tiny virus would turn my life and the world upside-down. Well, I´m still here and alive, and this to shall pass. This mix contains music I love and still loves, and I´m humble and thankful for all the musicians that contributed to make this musical journey possible. Never stop making music. I hope all the pieces woven together creates a larger whole, for you to enjoy.

Big love,
Toffe

@toffesvarld

" Morgonen vrider sig stillsamt om i nattens sista mörker

Spindelväv som tidigare speglat månljusets alla spektrum, gnistrar allt starkare i solen

Blommorna här i mitt rum gnuggar grus ur ögonen

Jag undrar om jag någonsin mött så morgonpigga och tacksamma varelser

Ådrorna i bladen dunkar av klorofyll, gröna kvardröjande drömmar
som hade fått drömanalytiker att häpna

Solsken lägger sig på balkongens stengolv som en hord av eldgula kattungar

En enda stor solkatt har färdats genom rymdens tomma mörker

För att överskölja oss med böljande liv
(Vi är en del av solens expansion genom rummet)

Jag hälsar det välkommet, frågar om resan gått bra

Medan jag häller upp kaffe i blått porslin,
en åt mej och en åt ljuset (rymdfararen)

Sedan går vi in på mitt rum och älskar, och efteråt somnar vi i varandras famnar

När jag återigen vaknar har det börjat skymma,
allt som återstår är denna mixen, och en lapp på kylskåpet: Jag älskar dej! "

Navigare 004 - Toffes Värld

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

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

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