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

Liveset played on a Halloweenparty in Belgium, 2022.


"At length even the stout-hearted would fling themselves to the ground as the hidden menace passed over them, or they would stand, letting their weapons fall from nerveless hands while into their minds a blackness came, and they thought no more of war, but only of hiding and crawling, and of death. "

Artwork by Jan-Willem Vandenberghe.

Face Yourself (Liveset)

This Random Records show features TEXAS FAGGOTT & RRRASTAS with their live sets recorded in Helsinki on 04/17/2021 for the epic Lintutronic streaming. Texas Faggott is a Finnish music duo consisting of Tim Thick and Pentti Slayer. The project was born in 1996 and originally consisted of three members until Francoise Faggott left the band soon after. Their style can be described as Suomi/Finish Psytrance. The “Suomi-saundi” style is derived from the native name for Finland, the original birthplace of this particularly fat, funky, frantic and experimental form of Psychedelic Trance. Rrrastas is another Finnish producer, expert in gastrointestinal performance art that focuses on depressive meditation.

https://soundcloud.com/texasfaggot-music | https://soundcloud.com/rrrastas | https://soundcloud.com/random_records

Atchives

TEXAS FAGGOTT & RRRASTAS | Random Records Series EP. 22 | 12/09/2023

Dark El Kante, aka Jorge Bazan of Spain, is one of the absolute main leading stars of the Suomisaundi genre! Psychedelic trance with a funky and not too serious twist that found its origins in Finland! :) He is the manager of Random Records, the biggest music label only focusing on this genre! :) On Apsara he could spoil us with a set during sunrise and pampered us with the best of the best of this unique genre! :)

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/darkelkante

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dark.elkante

Random Records Facebook: 
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Dark El Kante - Apsara 2023

Patterns, sequences and structures surround us abundantly in both our visible and concealed [sur]realities. The spiraling hypnotic nature of psychedelic music is the auditory touchpoint between these constructs, connecting them in our minds' eye, encouraging our bodies to move to its mystical power.

Dance deep through the mathemagical waves of this energetically-twisted storyline.

Enjoy, and if this mix touches you in some way, please feel free to like, share and comment on your favourite parts. Thanks for listening along! ❤️

Tracklist (Artist - Track Name (Release Title):

1. Nervasystem - Nervacenter (ZNA Gathering Retro - Futuristic Compilation III)
2. BUS - Natural Substance (ZNA Gathering Retro - Futuristic Compilation III)
3.  Ticon - Gurk Burk (Rewind)
4. Cameleon - Love Cricket (Gaia Nine)
5. Wizzy Noise - The Crow (Cybermancy)
6. Tromesa vs Kris - Stereopian (Fill Your Head with Phantasm Vol. 5)
7. Sheyba - Monkeys *Elysium Live Mix (The Live Remixes)
8. Elysium - The Traveler (Into the Void)
9. Elysium - Aliens *Live Mix (The Live Remixes
10. Double Dragon - Bong (Equilibrium)
11. Doof - Double Dragons *Alt Mix (Let’s Turn On)
12. Disco Volante - Contact (Another Taste of Transient)
13. Crossing Mind - Andromeda (The Holographic Paradigm)
14. Celestial - I Want More Life (Psychoactive Scandosounds Vol. 3)
15. Blanka - Whoops! (Revolve - S05)
16. Bisto Boys - Spacerace (Psychedelic Electronica 3)
17. Space Cat - New Horizon (Beam Me Up)
18. Alien Project - The Alien Meeting (Midnight Sun)

The Aftermathematician (Goa Psychedelic Mix)

DJ set played during the Goa Guardians night @ ZNA Gathering, in Portugal.
Date: 16.07.2024

Tracklist:
01- Sab Kuch Milegator - Smoke & Mirrors
02- Ridge Mättökiuas - Skyygelottery
03- Ridge Mättökiuas - Haberdashery
04- Dopeda - Muukalainen
05- Tamlin - Switch
06- Discolin - Space Breakthrough
07- Flying Scorpions - Adhd Adults
08- Aavepyörä - Stone Age Economics & Space Age Tools (2011 remaster)
09- Oraalidonitsi - Life Is Goo
10- Lightaman JR - Kylkimyyry
11- Texas Faggott - Saarnioinen
12- Anima Animus - Chillum Battle
13- Gruuvit Muuvit - Pirun Kiire
14- Tea Chairs - Fuckin’ Alien
15- Squaremeat - Kukko Bill
16- Trio Tetris - Tattarmoshen (Mandalavandalz Remix)
17- Mulletvandalz - Robin Hood
18- Texas Faggott - Soul Aquarium
19- Lightaman JR - Biosynthesis
20- Salakavala - Teboil
21- Squaremeat - Golden Accordion
22- Sab Kuch Milegator - Ignotrancer
23- Club Kooma - Drill
24- Texas Faggott - Mr Lau
25- Mandalavandalz - Bombaybooster
26- Weird Alchemy - Tzump-In (Tea Chairs Remix)
27- Lightaman JR - Poreilevapensas
28- Texas Faggott - The Watcher
29- Oraalidonitsi - Cacca
30- Flying Scorpions - Jet Pilot
31- Igor Swamp - Crouch Backs
32- Toletrancer - Toledance

Dark El Kante @ ZNA Gathering 2024

This fully improvised storyline follows a lone psychonaut on a journey of personal discovery through music into the cosmos and alternate dimensions beyond, then whiplashing back to our Earthly firmament after realizations that astound the psyche and broaden the horizons of his unwitting mind.

It was an unexpected blessing to have been trusted with an extra hour for my Goa Guardians set, and I am grateful for the opportunity to share an unhindered journey through some of my favourite Tunes from the 90s and early 2000s, including some secret weapons.

I am keeping the tracklist unpublished to preserve the unreleased music for the dance floor experience. I hope you enjoy dancing along, and for some—reliving the wonderful experience we shared that night.

Thank you to Frederico & the whole ZNA Crew and Mark Ainley for their invitation and trust to share. I hope to be back again if the stars align. ❤️

Clone604 @ Goa Guardians — ZNA 2024

ANIMA ANIMUS Global@Suomisaundi Online Gathering 2020 Random Records

Recorded at E.M.E.L. Party ( 11.09.2011 ) Portugal
Parasense music 1995 - 2002

Enjoy :)

Parasense Old Fart Set for E.M.E.L. 11.09.2011

This is a mix of some my favorite more abstract Forest Trance tracks. These tracks have been a real zen experience to me and I'm sure they can have the same effect on others while listening to this mix. :) Sometimes an overload of structures can have the same calming effect as total silence... This is the music I would play when I'm booked at a Forest/Dark Psy party in the middle of the night. 

TRACKLIST:
1. Urjasa - Shipwrecked
2. Derango - Deranged
3. Farebi Jalebi - Finding Theory
4. Arjuna - Stand Alone
5. Xabbu - Moonwell
6. Whrikk - Reapers Indigest
7. Freeform Syndicate - Roar Like Thunder
8. Noizebug - Hug A Bug
9. Orestis & Madness Increazzed - Around the Streets
10. Third Eye of Monkey - Whisper of Trees
11. Spore & Shiibashunsuke - Nerenaiii
12. Weirdos - Heisenberg

Psytek Ekata - Dancing To Architecture (Forest)

Released and Unreleased tracks from DHF party in Leipzig.

Liveset @DHF, Leipzig

Hello, welcome to my Soundcloud!

I'm a Belgian DJ active in our Goa scene.  You can pick any set here as a template for what you want at your party. And I will adjust to the lineup. I'm a label DJ at Cronomi and Schlabbaduerst and can play older tracks by these artists and tracks that are in the pipeline for future releases.

I usually play:
- Darkish Goa mixed with Schlab-style Forest and early '00s Psytrance at night
- Trippy melodic Goa during the daytime
- Modern Forest (Sanaton/Ygdrassil style) 

And going from one style to the other is what I like to do the most. :)

For bookings you can send me a pm here.

Psytek Ekata - Dancing To Architecture (Forest)

Psytek(@ Cronomi & Schlabbaduerst)