Eleven

My reworking of the set that I played at the ZNA Gathering on August 19, 2022, from 11 am to 130 pm. 

In the weeks and months leading up to event, I was ruminating over various tracks and ended up with about 8 hours in a shortlist for my 2.5 hour set (and I am never restricted to only the ones in the playlist but those are often the ones I feel more drawn to). As I worked on various flows in practice sessions, I was primarily aware of how I wanted to begin and end: starting with a blend of some excerpts from the three unreleased tracks that closed my 2019 Goa Guardians set (with the intention of making the intervening 3 years 'collapse'), paying homage to Olli with the first kicking track of my set and some others, and having Tiny Little Engines be the climax. 

Although I am generally as known for my access to unreleased music as I am for my meandering storylines, this set was a bit different. A lot of artists continually tell me that the released versions were chosen for a reason: because they are great; and while some unreleased edits are of course amazing, lack of availability is not the only reason to play a track. I am constantly amazed by the astounding music that we have in our genre and I wanted to craft an upbeat story for that middle-of-the-day time of my set, so it was this vibe and character that were primary in my selection ... so even if it might seem to some like something of a selection of popular classics with fewer gear changes than I often incorporate into my sets, it's still (in my opinion) 'all killer, no filler' in a sequence that tells a cohesive flow-filled story, and the crowd was certainly beyond enthusiastic in its response.

I've replaced only one of the unreleased tracks I played at the event with the issued version as I know the artists did not want the unissued mix published.

I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did playing it - it was an unforgettable experience with an incredibly enthusiastic and responsive forest dance floor!

Track list:

(Ambient collage of Wizard, Uforica, and LSD alt mixes)
Space Tribe: Geo Matrix
Pleiadians: Alcyone live (alt mix)
Excess Head: Expo
Laughing Buddha: Karma
Total Eclipse: Chaotic Circus (live in Bordeaux)
Green Nuns of the Revolution: Lost & Found
GMS: Protos Upgrade
Space Tribe: So Deep
Green Nuns of the Revolution: Ring of Fire (extended mix)
Satori: Back to Earth 
Universal Sound: Third I
Man With No Name: Tarantula
Kox Box: Stay Psychedelic
Infernal Machine: The Loin King
Space Tribe: Star Travellers 
Doof: Destination Bom (alt mix)
X-Dream: Freak
Psychopod: Psychopod
The Visitors: Tiny Little Engines of Creation
Psyko Disko: Mon Ami

photo courtesy Sauriêl Creative Photography

DJ Solitare @ ZNA Gathering 2022 remixed

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention with special guest Rahsaan Roland Kirk at The Boston Globe Jazz Festival January 31, 1969.  Recorded by yours truly on a portable Sony reel-to-reel that I smuggled into the event.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers with Rahsaan Roland Kirk at The Boston Globe Jazz Festival 1-31-69

A nearly 3-hour set that I played on Saturday April 8, 2023 at a private event in Ottawa, Canada at the invitation of Clone604. 

I was due to play for two hours and then with one DJ being indisposed that was bumped up to two and a half hours - and then during the party the host asked if I would keep playing a bit longer.

It was a really fun event, small and intimate with a fantastic vibe on the part of the dancers who were really into the Goa sound - a rarity anywhere in Canada these days. 

I hope you enjoy the set featuring a lot of masterpieces released primarily between 1994 and 1996, with a couple from '97 and one from '98:

Arcturus: 1000 Planets
Ayahuasca: New Moon
Man with No Name: Who Is It?
Slinky Wizard: Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen rmx)
The Infinity Project: Oscillator
Juno Reactor: The Heavens
The Infinity Project: Noises from the Darkness
Prana: Pneumatic
Aban Don: Electrifiled Night
Kox Box: Loads of Flow (Molecular Mix)
Voodoo People: Quadsep
Hallucinogen: LSD
The Infinity Project: Uforica (Voodoo People rmx)
The Human League: These Are The Days (Man With No Name rmx)
Slinky Wizard: Wizard
Total Eclipse: Toxic Caterpillar
The Infinity Project: Binary Neuronaut
Psychaos: Soundbeams
Juno Reactor: Kaguya Hime
Infernal Machine: Nocturnal Chainsaw Kerfuffle
Pleiadians: Asterope
Juno Reactor: Silver
The Infinity Project: Wow (mix 4 - unpublished)
Total Eclipse: A Little Bit of Heaven
The Infinity Project: The World of the Acid Dealer
Total Eclipse: Partycles

DJ Solitare @ Celebro Amicis Nox

Eat Static - The Gardens - Boom Festival 2023

My set at a Vancouver Halloween party in 2014 - I haven't posted it until now since there were several unreleased tracks at the time, all but two of which have been released now (one that hasn't is now available for free download by the artist). 

DJ Solitare - Live at '... of Doom!'

Recorded by Jay Mullen (DJ Spoo). Nov/Dec 1994.

Odyssey Tokyo Trance - Jay Mix Side A

Set composto por melodias limpas e harmônicas da nova escola Goa Trance. Musica que faz transcender! 
Desfrutem da psicodelia que a musica proporciona.

Ghantt vs. Phantt - Universo Paralello Festival

Ambient Prog v2 unfinished.

Demos made using ISW's new Forest Frame Drums library!

http://impactsoundworks.com/products/untuned-percussion/forest-frame-drums/

Ambient Prog v2 unfinished.

FormofSpace