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We're kicking off 2022 with this stunning mix from Alex Cicchini aka Don Chich. Originally from Boorloo/Perth, Alex now resides in Naarm/Melbourne - and how lucky we are to have Alex in our neck of the woods! 

Alex is a lover of 90s/00s electronic music, inspired by the sounds of Global Underground, Northern Exposure, Renaissance, Balance and other mix CDs. This vinyl mix is deep, dark and immersive - Sasha & Digweed eat your heart out!! Thank you Alex for this gorg mix <3

Rotations Round 21: Don Chich

Welcome to the first instalment of Don Chich's Mystical Experiences.

This set was recorded live at Hope Street Radio in Collingwood yards on a lovely autumn Saturday afternoon (21/5/22) from 3-5pm. 

"You must think of this as a trip, a sort of voyage of discovery. On the way we’ll find out many fascinating things, and in the end we will no longer be disturbed because you will be you. You have placed yourself into my hands, I am the pilot and the passenger. But instead of going forwards in space, we are going backwards in time."



Don Chich's Mystical Experiences - Volume One

Welcome to the second volume of Don Chich's Mystical Experiences.

This set was recorded live at Hope Street Radio in Collingwood yards on a chilly winters evening on Thursday 14/7/22 from 5-7pm.

Keeping it in the ambient dub realm with a large focus on eastern soundscapes, tribal percussion, female chants, flutes, slow-goa rhythms and rumbling baselines.

The first track is an unreleased song from the 90s I was gifted on tape from a wonderful friend. It features the great minds of Biosphere, The Irresistible Force, Solar Quest, Pete Namlook and Terence McKenna.

"We are approaching the history barrier, and it seems as though our societies, our planet are going to be shaken apart by the encounter. But what we are challenged to do is to redesign the historical spacecraft while it is in flight, so that we evade the compression forces at the end of history, and are able to slid effortlessly into the higher dimensions that beckon beyond the advent of the third millennium.

So I say onward into the imagination, this is where the soul of the collectivity of the humanity lies waiting, singing the siren song at the end of time that summons us out of three dimensional space and into the realm of the transcendent psychedelic millennium. " - Terence McKenna

Mystical Experiences

Don Chich's Mystical Experiences - Volume Two

Hailing from Melbourne Australia, Don Chich  has a natural affinity to the mystical, psychedelic and spiritual sounds of the 90s. He is a true digger and craftsman of ambient, downtempo, chillout, trance, progressive and goa soundscapes.

Don Chich treats us to a driving, powerful and dark progressive and goa journey exploring the depths of the psyche. With a heavy dose of brooding 303s, soaring pads, tasteful stabs and subsonic baselines; this mix transports you to those early mornings on the dark dance floors and warehouses.

Your mind is the only necessity in order to fly.

Hypnosystems 001: Don Chich

Fuaim Mix 017 | Don Chich

Leading Voyage 002 to Plantera is Naarm/Melbourne-based psy-digger, Alex Cicchini aka Don Chich. A phenomenal collector & selector whom we gravitated towards after discovering his 'Mystical Experiences' series. Dive deep into the realms of his extensive record collection. 

Buckle up, Let Go. This one elevates into higher states of consciousness. 

"The Pilgrimage begins in the depths of the cold sea as you float through sprawling coral reefs. You break to the surface; light fills your world as waves cascade and encapsulate you. You journey onwards to the land ahead; vegetation grows ever closer with each step. The scenery changes - water turns to murky mud and mangroves spill across the land as you trudge through the unforgiving swamp. Things turn dark as the trees above close and crows begin sing; there is no turning back you must go on. 

The swamp begins to fade and trees become dense. Wild fauna consumes the earth and flora runs rampant as tribes of animals emerge; you are just a visitor in the Rainforest. Something bites you and your senses begins to change; sound becomes colour and colour becomes sound - Ineffable and mystical experiences of the mind, body and soul.

You awake from your trance; where have you been, what have you seen and how far have you travelled? The forest is no more as the sun beats down, the trees have turned to orange sand and snaking dunes cover the barren land. The desert winds whisper your name; are you delirious or is it God? Is it salvation or is it a mirage? The only sure answer is to continue onward.

Mountains appear in the distance and you sense freedom from the hostile land; a restored faith gives you energy to push forward. You begin your ascent to higher ground in hopes to see civilization and trek the rocky and shrubbery façade. This is the hardest feat yet, your strength wains on this climb towards the peak, but something wonderful, something unexplainable carries you on. You peak the summit; ahead of you is life and civilization, behind you are the landscapes traversed on this journey. It is now time to find rest, peace and reflection before you begin the next chapter of your Pilgrimage" - Don Chich

002 | 'Pilgrimage' by Don Chich

Don Chich is a DJ, Musician and Economist originating from Boorloo (Perth) who now resides in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Don isa digger who co-runs the collectives Faith Invention and Sub Sekt, also hosts a radio show on Area 3000. His musical roots are as a touring guitarist and writer for hardcore and death metal bands in Boorloo’s underground punk scene.

This mix departs from his signature deep and psychedelic sounds, instead Don showcases the sounds of Café Del Naarm. These mix is a collection of songs and records he has enjoyed playing out during the Australian summer, exploring the pleasant old + new sonics of Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, R’n’B, UK Street Soul, Ambient, Downtempo, Balearic, Deep House, Deep Trance and Intelligent Jungle. 

Music best enjoyed on a sunny day with friends!

For more music:
www.discoesencia.com

Don Chich Info:

@donchich

Esencia 060 - Don Chich

Ikigai:deep w/ Kithers feat. Don Chich - 09.06.23

Thankyou to the legends Lewy and Mason for having me on their monthly Noods Radio slot! Sending lots of love from down under💖

This vinyl mix is comprised of early 00's progressive house. 63 minutes of deep, dark and driving tribal rhythms - locked in long blends.

Noods Radio - Plantera takeover (10 May 2024)

Sixteenth Prog Dogs Kiss FM radio show with special guest Don Chich

Prog Dogs #16 - w/ Don Chich

Welcome to the latest version of Dream Software's: Virtual Utopia. The tenth update has been programmed by none other than Don Chich (@donchich), a core member of the corporation - that is, and always will be, close to the heart of the label. The southern hemispheres connoisseur of fine trance (and beyond) never fails to impress with his depth of knowledge, ability to synthesisiacally create detailed imagery in the minds of listeners, and his understanding of pace and progression throughout a set that keeps your desires and expectations in a harmonic symbiosis. Alex is a true creative in sonic storytelling, and this one is a timeless novel.

You plug in and feel the familiar sensation of shifting sensory alignment, preparing you for the program you're about to experience. As the landscape renders realtime and your retinas refocus you eventually make sense of what's in front of you. You accept the safety conditions and enter the program.  A dust-covered voyage through lands of future-past, heavy duty steel panels fitted together to the latest interstellar corporations safety 'standards' line the floor as pathways, half covered by orange sand. The panelwork extends to the external walls of buildings, doors, warehouses, and even vehicles - it must be something to do with the pressure or gravity on this planet? Extreme weather? It's hard to be sure. Either way you board a vehicle that feels as if it's waiting for you; the 30cm thick steel door slides closed behind you with a satisfying pneumatic locking system. An increasing drone of engines reaching power vibrate underneath you, the engines stabilise, and the vehicle slowly heads towards the sky, a heavy orange fog, ascending into a distant unknown.

Endless shimmering displays of various gas clouds, exhibiting far more than the visible light spectrum, populate your peripheral vision as you approach a distant quadrant of the net of reality. Constellations you've only seen and heard of through the Ethernet drift by as you allow the gravitational pull of the local solar systems to steer you through this section of deep space. A metallic asteroid being guided through the expanse of existence. Velocity increases as the sizes and number of planets do; light begins to bend in ways you throught unimaginable, layers of reality slowly tear away like burning holes through paper, and as the pace increases, what's revealed below seems impercievable to anything that exists on a dimension lower than it. It felt like a realm of vibrational egalitarianism emitting a pure omnibenevolence and omniscience that made you feel calm and at peace, an entity that felt familiar yet incomprehensible at the same time.

A computerised female voice explains it's time to turn around and head back to the initial coordinate of the program, and due to the rapid expansion of this part of space we must travel at warp speed to counter-act it. As the GForce increases the outside becomes a true spectacle; photons bending and stretching past you as the mechanics of physics become a series of unanswered questions, the phenomenology of 'now' proves the metaphysicality of existence is just as real as the physical. The vibrational information stored beyond of the quarks of existence is now visible to the naked eye and shares secret formulas of nature's code, only perceivable when you realise there is nothing to percieve.

Powering through the dark expanse at such speeds unveils the fracticality of existence. The mathematics of nature is all based on fractal equations and common series' of organic 'numerical' systems which are processed without the desire to categorise or understand. All of this information is embedded within the nucleus of every atom at a vibrational level. Does this mean music is somewhat a language of nature? Is the never ending, fractally peripheral progression of this program an understanding into natures way of doing? Or is this all something we are all too physical to understand?

Don Chich

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