While digging through drawers full of old junk one day at my dad’s house, I found some cassette tapes filled with silly home recordings. One tape in particular contained recordings of my sister and I as young children; reading nursery rhymes, telling jokes, inventing bizarre radio stations and other ridiculous shows, plus a wide variety of other incredibly random sound bytes and noises. In other words, I had stumbled upon a sample goldmine!

“1985 EP” is a collection of strange, brooding, electronic rhythms that were inspired by the quirky, nostalgic sounds I sampled from that childhood cassette tape.

Enjoy!

Laughter

The first of a set of year-specific goa-trance mixes I made back in 2004. The series was intended to show off what I thought of as the best tracks released from each year, however the first in the series had tracks that were released earlier than 2004, e.g the opening track by astrix was released in 2002; I fell out of love with trance in the late 90s as the first wave of psychedelic trance didn't really do it for me, but it started to fall out of favour again in the early 2000s and this mix seemed like a good way to catch up. 

Keep an eye out for other releases in this series coming at some point, 

downloads enabled after 100 listens as usual. :)

01 - astrix - freestyle cafe
02 - psycraft - bizzare remake1
03 - infected mushroom - bombat
04 - 1200 mics - www
05 - the alien project - the third revelation
06 - absolum - the stomper4
07 - astrix - crystal sequence
08 - space monkey - flash daddy
09 - psycraft - new move
10 - dickster - dizzy drops
11 - void - 3rd dimension
12 - rinkadink - anyone seen bender
13 - infected mushroom - yanko pitch
14 - prometheus - universe
15 - r.a.m. - midnight snacks
16 - fly agaric - I See Myself (Unmixed Demo Version)
17 - infected mushroom - muse breako rmx
18 - hara gobi - space song
19 - cosmosis - weird sick'n'twisted (cosmosis remix)
20 - pop stream - impact
21 - visual paradox - space spin
22 - alien project - i remember the first time
23 - orion - spider monkey
24 - prometheus - o.k. computer
25 - pop stream - jet browser
26 - rinkadink - hope was closed
27 - rinkadink - syntax & whiskey
28 - logic bomb - hazy mazy cave
29 - space monkey - toxic game
30 - psycraft - the secret of sound
31 - gms vs skazi - shagadelic (amanda l remix)
32 - orion - activity
33 - the good the bad and the ugly - la caixa
34 - growling mad scientists - beetlejuice

Goa 2004 - mixed by jrb

"Redefining the ancient tribal ritual for the 21st century. Dance is active meditation. When we dance we go beyond thought, beyond mind, and beyond our own individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the Trance Dance experience" - Goa Gil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiGFetz_KbY)

The world is full of parties, in jungles, in valleys and mountains, in deserts and fields, and in forests. What do they all sound like?

Production Notes
- This track has morphed several times over its creation. It started out as a remix or retelling of a very old mod track I created in FastTracker2 called 'dead flies', and then morphed in to an experiment in using a reference track as a guide for a track's arrangement. This reference / arrangement experiment worked well, and I quickly had a nicely progressing track, but after a couple of minutes it lead to a dead end. With no coherent 'story' to the track it felt like a jumbled mess of disperate ideas. I added more vocal loops which were again, taken from all over the planet. Persian chants, Tibetan throat singing, south American tribespeople murmerings, and anything else. Separately it sounded cool, but it wasn't until stumbling on the Goa Gil interview that it fell in to place. "24 hours in the forest, everywhere in the world". Now let's start throwing little clips away and trimming the track down... I even threw away the reference track as it had served its purpose. Up until the last editing session the opening vocal hit was different, and the main bass samples still needed an overhaul.

24 Hours In The Forest

Final version of the track previously titled "Untitled No. 2593".

Artist: Infraschall
Title: Machine Code
BPM: 152
Key: Dmin
Year: 2025

Machine Code (Original Mix)

Deep Uplifting Psytrance. 
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English hobbyist DJ and psytrance producer, his head in the clouds and his ears in the psychedelic back allies of the past. Decades ago jrb deejayed with tactile formats - vinyl, CD, mixing desks, now it's all done in software. Not live, non-destructive, remastered and spliced to high heaven. Earlier still jrb made music with the primitive fasttracker2 software music software for the PC, and ran music groups OnyxTrance (nxt), Blackhole (bh) as well as releasing for other internet module labels, such as Chill, Twist, and LoK. In between he released a few bootlegs (mixing vocals from one track with the backing from another track, with often hilarious results).

Some random modules or early DJ mixes from this yesteryear era may appear here from time-to-time... don't be alarmed!

Goa 2004 - mixed by jrb

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