Basilisk

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]

Treat Others Better Then We Treat Ourselves Then Mirror That Goodness Straight Back At Ourselves Its Good To Be Good Live To Love Love To Live Happy Happy Happy Joy Joy Joy Beats Bass Treats XoxOXoxO

Basilisk

Mark Anthony Christopher