What started out as a simple experiment running a guitar track from an unfinished @paintedinvoid track through a bunch of effects turned quite unexpectedly into a growling dark ambient Frankenstein monster, which I cobbled together from pieces of other audio experiments I've done over the summer months.

There's plenty of distorted and glitchy elements here, both in the audio, and video; I'd really recommend you watch the YouTube version for the full audiovisual experience. Everything was done in REAPER with its video processor and a bunch of VST plugins, and plenty of both audio and video automation.
I've also made a version of this that's over an hour long, but I'm still undecided if I want to let it loose in the wild :)

YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/KKf9ypigyOA (August 2021 version)
Full quality 24-bit version available as "name your price" from the Bandcamp link

Ambience and sound design by Pauli Harju
Guitar by Petri Varpiola

Updated 22 February 2022 with a slightly better render

Sleep Malfunction (19:19 Version)

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After quite some silence, and a few rather lackluster excursions into goa/psytrance crossover sets, I was invited to play in Tampere, Finland. My previous visit was in 2019, and I knew that now I need to deliver. So I dug deep into my digital record bag, and picked tracks of suitable intensity for a closing set*. And I have to say, I haven't had this much fun playing a DJ set in years. A few small blunders here and there, but minimal imperfections bring a certain charm to a DJ set :)
This set was recorded live at the event.

Tracklist:
Hallucinogen - Astral Pancakes
Triquetra - Escape From The Withered Temple
Morphic Resonance - Chronos (Hypnoxock Remix)
Total Eclipse - Absolute Zero
Veasna - Infrared
Slinky Nuns - Caught In The Zipper
Rhythmystec - Plutonica
Proxeeus - Ephraim Waite
UX - Chameleon (Pixelmorph Mix Reloaded)
Pleiadians - Taygeta
The World Beyond - The Sphere (Ascending Towards Star-Eaters To Become The One)
Profetia - Chaos Theory

*we did play a completely improvised back2back set with Penzoline and A Sentient Being as the actual closing set, but this was decided practically on location, as we weren't sure in advance if we'll have the opportunity to play it.

FullOn42 -Last Day In Paradise- (100% Goa Trance)

This set was played at Kaivohuone, Helsinki, Finland on October 6th 2023. The set has a bit of a dub influenced backbone, and since my time slot was 23-00, there's not much floating ambient in here. This set was recorded live at the event.

Tracklist:
Spatialize - Zen In Frankfurt
Bluetech - Prayers For Rain (Ott Remix)
Key-G - Curled Up Dimensions (Geoglyph Remix)
Globular & Geoglyph - Flight Stimulator
Radioactive Sandwich - Homunculus
Radioactive Sandwich - Melek Taus (Live Edit)
Boucle Infinie - Escape (Cartoon Theory Remix)
Eat Static - Persepolis (Shpongle Static Mix)
Umberloid - Neon Tetra

Trip To Goa 2023

Goa trance since 1997. Something like a DJ since 2010. Exploring mostly goa trance & downtempo. Good music is my life blood, regardless of genre.
I deleted all my DJ sets in June 2022, so this page is a bit desolate right now.
Slowly coming back to DJing after a few years of downtime.

Paul Eye

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