Clementz/Zyrtech

A bit about the inspiration for this mix - the full text and the tracklist are at https://djsolitare.com/old-dogs-new-tricks

I recall an amazing Equinox event in the Autumn of 1995 where Kuni played the whole night and the impression was that a cloud of quantum information would enter the dance floor in the middle of the forest and when it had communicated its message, another would come in and take its place as the old one left, and there was a moment to catch your breath and adjust to the new data entering the space. At times during these events, one had the impression that the music was not music, it was geometrical design and information that was communicating in sonic form. There wasn’t the sense that the DJ was a ‘DJ’ playing ‘music’: rather, the DJ booth was like a cosmic radio tower with an antenna tuned into outer space, picking up signals and transmitting them to those gathered in this tribal gathering.

Each time I play a set, the type of storyline and style of tracks are different, and my approach to transitions depends on track selection and how things line up, though there are general parameters that I always aim for. As a result of my classical training, my emphasis when mixing has been to try to connect more than just the kick but to find matching patterns between tracks and to blend those to create a thread of continuity beyond the percussive elements, at times with kick-matching and at other times not. Usually, it’s a combination of the two, but keeping the rhythm consistent and aiming to have one track ‘hand over’ the space to the next one in a less conventional sense, like multiple speakers reading different chapters from a book that one absorbs through the set.

As I tuned into the more hypnotic and nighttime storyline that emerged as this set evolved, I was drawn to more of that atmospheric cloud-like mixing style, where one track dances with the next along harmonic, rhythmic, and upper-register elements as opposed to the bass-level kick. As I listened with headphones, I was able to let go of the technical focus of the ‘mixing' of two ‘tracks’ and rekindle some of those early impressions of this music being more than just music but combinations of patterns gathered together and presented through sound waves, hearing things not in left-right, high-low mode but all-at-once, like voices coming both from the speakers and the centre of one’s head.

I believe that as we have gotten used to listening to this music at clubs and events over the years, many of us have adapted to a sense-based linear perception of what we’re hearing as opposed to a more embodied dimensional experience, and we can easily listen with a set of standards that can be mechanical rather than holistically musical. I know this has been the case for me, and listening at home can have its pitfalls, as you get used to hearing the music outside of the contextual space for which it was created, and on speakers whose size are inverse proportion to your body than what they would be at an event. But in the right outer and inner space, we can hear these sounds beyond the framework of the familiar and as an expression of something quite outside the ordinary.

All of us experienced some magic in our early years of attending these events - and sometimes since, too! - and it is my hope that these classic tracks in this storyline will enable some of those to be rekindled as they have for me.

DJ Solitare - Old Dogs New Tricks Mix

Faloop

Unicorn Fields

Victor Zolotarenko known to the world as Zolod Parasense, one of the members of the legendary Russian project Paranoic Sensations (ParaSense), a spontaneous decision Alex (Aleksey Kurkin) and Zolod write a joint track, in the future will make a huge and invaluable contribution to the development and strengthening of the Russian Psy Trance scene! Zolod - Victor Zolotarenko on the right is an ideologist and founder of the Russian Psy Trance culture, was at the origin "of the School of Psy Trance music." Already in the 98th year, Alex and Zolod play's they first overseas live, at a party in Hungary. Currently Parasense a solo project Alex, which is one of the biggest names in world Psychedelic Trance music. ... 
January 4, 2006, was tragically cut short the life of a talented Russian psytrance-musician Victor Zolotarenko ... Participant projects Parasense, Terminator, Freaking, Big Noise, Burned Processor, Deja Vu Fabrique.

R.I.P Zolod

Parasense - Speech Work

Anima Animus - Thank you Dr Hofmann

Morninghaze

Recording of Nick Taylor & Andrew Till on Evosonic - Paradise FM (Germany) 14 September 1997

Paradise FM - Nick Taylor and Andrew Till (Psy-Harmonics) 14-09-1997

00:00:00 Black Sun – Ligea (1998)
00:05:24 Omputer – Space Midi (1998)
00:09:49 Shakta – Spiritual Beings in Physical Bodies (1997)
00:15:32 Pleiadians – Alcyone (1997)
00:22:08 Oforia – Maximiser (1998)
00:27:25 Total Eclipse – Aliens (1994)
00:33:04 Phreaky – Over the Moon (1996)
00:39:48 Nucleus – Superluminal (1996)
00:43:55 Killing Joke – Jana (Hallucinogenic) 1998
00:49:03 Kaaya – Braindance (1996)


Olho de Shiva - Goa Trance (Dragonfly Records)

Proxeeus - The Outsider (Global Sect, 2025)

We are excited to present the new 2CD album by Jerome Lesterps - a true professor of New School Goa Trance.

Proxeeus music is an absolutely unique phenomenon. The producer’s talent is multifaceted and manifests in various genres.

On the first disc of The Outsider, you will experience an unforgettable epic musical adventure with a high, almost extreme tempo, intertwining space-shattering acid synthesizers with multilayered psychedelic effects. The first part of the album is a guaranteed fragmentation of the dancefloor into molecules and atoms.

After this emotional and epic journey, you will dive into the depths of dark Goa Downtempo with a touch of Dub and Ambient, inspired by various literary works, especially the legendary Howard Lovecraft.

We have also prepared special, exclusive UV merchandise for all Proxeeus fans. The design is done in a dark psychedelic style by our longtime partner Andrey Verner.

Tracklist:

1. Fear Of The Unknown
2. Clanging
3. Even Death May Die
4. Close Contact With The Uttefly Bizarre
5. The Great Old Ones
6. The Outsider
7. The King In Yellow
8. When The Church Bells Ring

1. Awake And Lying Beside A Black Rose
2. The One Reality
3. Nights Of Sorrow
4. By Tonight I Shall Be No More
5. A Slumbering Phantasm
6. Lathi
7. Sona-Nyl
8. Philosophie Du Suicide

Label: Global Sect
Mastering: 4CN-Studios & Zymosis Studio
Artwork: Andrei Verner
Release date: 31 May 2025
Catalogue number: GSMCD025 

Proxeeus - By Tonight I Shall Be No More

Track written & produced by Tim Thick, part of the compilation Saamisaundi Vol.2.
Artists in: Luomuhappo, Texas Faggott, Egosentrifug vs. Scum Unit, Dany Hypnoza, Sonic Bandits, Khaiku, Mussa Kussa, Animaanimus, Melufantti, Tangentti, and Mayawa.
Compiled by Dark El Kante 
Mastered by Max Laine @ Wolfborder Studios 
Artwork by Psypepper

Texas Faggott - Kiinnostus

Oda & Mira

Be the Star you Are

Lonely Star

Sunbeams

Old Sparks

Tidens Tann

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