incredible journey that caught me in a stunned groove throughout

this is straight fire!!! got track id for 26:00 ?

Among many crazy and funny things I said (and did) this summer, one sentence glued to my mind: 

LIFE IS A WONDERFUL THING TO WASTE! 

I meant this in a sense of "how much of ourselves are we willingly suffocating to maintain the image THEY have imposed on us so that we can develop, progress and move freely?" Life's too short to maintain that image. Live your life the way you want. Your life is only yours, and if it makes you happy to "waste it", well it's yours to waste!

* Music genre of the mix:

After five or six years I played (almost only) a deep techno set at The Swamp, Mo:Dem Festival. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

In my process of overthinking I labeled my style of (writing and) DJ-ing as BRICOLAGE /ˌbrɪkəˈlɑːʒ/. In the arts, bricolage (French for DIY or do-it-yourself) is "the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work constructed using mixed media." This definition fully and realistically corresponds to what I'm creating, whether it is a text or a DJ set. This definition also fits my punk philosophy and aesthetics.

Peace, love, empathy; #ValVashar

Picture used for collage by Pamp.

Val Vashar At The Swamp, Mo:Dem Festival, 11.08.2022.

@JohnPlazamusic Dj set @ SubRadio Bcn / 30.12.22 / 19.00-20.00

Live Transmission On Fridays from 7 to 9 PM

Check out the full audiovisual set here: https://youtu.be/SHlEYxjqQ_0

Artwork: Rak333l(IG: @ rak333l)

Supported by Suburbia Bcn & Absenta del Raval

John Plaza @ SubRadio Bcn / 30.12.22

Recorded by @kalumet for The Memoir, 2024.
All tracks were written, produced, and mixed by @kalumet.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by Hypnus Records.

All tracks are previously unreleased.

Love and light

Page 119: Kalumet

My live set from last year (2023) at Mo:Dem Festival

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Kalumet @ Mo:Dem Festival (The Swamp stage) 2023

These are audio tracks recorded at The Seed stage, Mo:Dem Festival 2024. Annual demented week took place between 5 - 11 August.

w/ @giorgio-gatti
w/ @marcomental

Play loud and enjoy until our next gathering.

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CONSORZIO OCCHIROSSI @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2024

Selva #8 - Flora invite Solarythm - 22.07.25

Recorded live at The Seed during Mo:Dem Festival 2025 — a space devoted to emerging frequencies and the future of psychedelic sound.

Immerse yourself in the sounds of Mo:Dem Festival 
with @lilianstark
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✨ With love, passion and commitment.
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LILIAN STARK @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2025

Skyward

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Acedepik - Air

Armendariz - This (Original Mix)

My Set from Master of Puppets 2019
All Music by Hans Dunkelkammer
133-136 Bpm

Hans Dunkelkammer at Master of Puppets 2019

Kalumet (aka Ork Monk aka Trevor McGregor aka Arboraetum aka Tiger Punch) is Zoltan Vajda from Hungary. 
One of the oldschool master of storytellers of the psychedelic trance scene. He got involved in the mid 90’s, early enough to see the spreading of trance worldwide, to witness its transforming through the 00’s to our present time. Considering this kind of possession of psychedelic experience, one can never be in doubt to have a very special time when he is playing, be it live act or DJ set.

His musical history goes back to late 80’s, when he grabbed his first accords on the guitar. The bass guitar came in a few years later, and his world of sounds slowly got a shape, influenced by Joy Division, The Clash, Suicidal Tendecies / Infectious Grooves, L.A. Style, The Overlords, U96, Kraftwerk, Front Line Assembly, Yello, Gabor Szabo, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Korai Öröm, Hardfloor, Emmanuel Top, the Ninja Tunes like Herbalizer and Coldcut, Morcheeba, then Green Nuns Of The Revolution, Quirk, X-Dream, Four Carry Nuts, the Matsuri, Dragonfly and Spirit Zone releases, Audio Active, Black Star Liner, Korsakoff, then in the beginning of the last decade, by early Iboga, ZMA, CreamCrop, Disham and Son Kite, and maybe most of all, the traditional / folk music of the whole world.

Having a wide musical culture like this, he never kept his imagination on a short leash. In fact, he is mostly known from his unmistakable manner of creating free-form fusion dance music. Since his first remix in 1998 until this 2018, he released more than hundred tracks on many labels from Chi Recordings through Kagdila, Psylife Music, BrainBusters to Horns And Hoofs, Random Records or Sangoma, he represents a very wide range of styles.

Under different names such as Ork Monk, Trevor McGregor, and Tiger Punch, he traveled through half of the world to perform in special places like a cinema in Donetsk, a laundry in Cologne, a bowling alley in Tokyo, in the catacombs of Buda Castle, in the middle of Kanchanaburi lake near Bangkok, the mountains of Transylvania and Bulgaria, the forests of Lithuania and northern Russia, the magical beaches of Koh Phangan, jungles of Brazil, clubs of Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, London and Moscow, main stages of Ozora, Lost Theory, chill out areas of Boom, Voov, MODEM, Sonica… Eight years ago arrived to Malta to find out what the story is there.

His most significant releases are:
Burlesque album (Halu Beats),
The One Inch Punch album (Random Records),
his compilation Freerunners (Psylife Music),
his Trevor McGregor EP called Flanger City Cowboys (Horns And Hoofs Entertainment),
the Ork Monk EP Speaking Stones,
the Sheer Liquid Wonderment minialbum (Sangoma Records),
the Jungle Juice album(Impulse Audio Records),
Kalumet and the Acid Ocean Sailing Club (Mana Mana Records)
and his latest full-lenght album:
Triptroubadour

Conquered countries: Austria, Brasil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Munster, Greifswald and Voov Festival), Ireland (Dublin and Life Festival), Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malta, Poland, Portugal (Boom Festival 2004, 2010), Romania, Russia (Moscow and Space of Joy), Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia, Thailand, Ukraine (Yalta, Kiev, Carpathians, Donietsk, Laspi, Odessa, Bakchisaray)

booking: shil@susmabeats.com

Kalumet @ Mo:Dem Festival (The Swamp stage) 2023

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