CosmoNaughty

Bez23 is playing a set of New school Goa

What a twat Simon Posford is, he does nothing really (of any worth) for 10 years then expects us all the snivel at his feet bombarding him with love for the slight possibillity that he might realease some tunes. well fuck off SImon you a coke head ego maniac twat !!!! who hasn't released anything worth listening to in the last decade. * I know some of you are going to say 'what about shpongle' but I think Shpongle are tedious noodly shite.

My main interest in psychedelic music has always been the more downtemp stuff. and I've got to say I think we are in lean times I can't even think what the last release I truely loved was. I think it's all too slow nowadays, the psychedelic chill stuff always had a bit of an outerworldly groove to it. now too many tracks just seem to go nowhere.

there is a good chill out / ambient forum on www.isratrance.com beware those you can't seem to talk at any depth about the music all people want to seem to do is swap download sugestings or just give you a list of their new favourite acts.

There is a act local to me who probally falls into this catagory I don't know have a listen but to me Sporophore which is the project of my friend Kevin Cooke (known as Captain Kevman) there is nothing properly released yet but he has some tracks on here http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ppn/ppn1cd003.html he should be playing out and about a lot more than he is at the moment.

THe 4th KANYINI party and this time down in the cellar we have cutting edge psychedelic trance / goa sounds from : Bez23 (Kulu, Peak records ) - a familiar face on the northern psy scene but he plays nationwide you might've caught sets from him Wickerman to the Glade he has a knack of turning up everywhere. in recent years he has become the dance dj of choice of hoary old space rockers Hawkwind and hes played at a few ...of their events Hawkfest & their psychedelic sundae that was held in Lemington spa. http://www.myspace.com/bez23dorje Jon Kenobi (Psyneumatix records) - living in the midlands but the UK face of Australian Psy label Psyneumatix, his release 'it's about time' is still available in shops http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ppn/ppn1cd003.html he's had a little time of from djing but will be back to show us what's what. http://www.myspace.com/jon_kenobi Boris (Toadstool , Tribe of frog) Psychedelic soldier, always coming up with the goods to make toadstool dancefloors rock, over the last year or so he as also become a regular playing for Bristols Tribe of frog at there club events and summer gatherings in fields. CosmoNaughty And this time upstairs we have our prog bar which will feature DJ's : STARGATE - just back from playing the Beertok festival in Hungary DAVE HEASMAN LOBBY - who has followed the Progressive psy scene since it's first releases. this all takes place at Unplug, digbeth high street, Birmingham , B5 6DY admission £8 on the door or you can buy advance tickets from : www.theticketsellers.co.uk (search for kanyini psy allnighter.) 10pm - 5am great little underground venue. across the road from Birminghams national express station, next door to the institute venue. you can find more info at www.myspace.com/antonkanyini or www.facebook.com/kanyini.psy

But he's not someone you wouldn't expect to be into psy trance, he just looks like your typical goa head. You say he's old but he's probally only the same age as me, mid 40's.

Is this Cohesion anything to do with the night of the same name that used to happen in Birmingham a few years back ?

He's called what Asstrancer he's not part of the poof doof scene is he ?

Everyone has their own thing that they're not too keen on, with me I love psy trance but I've never understood why it has to keep stopping so often in every track, you'd have thought by now you'd have at least one or two tracks that broke this cliche'. Spoken word samples for me rarely make a track fantastic but they can all too often just spoil a track in a second, I don't mind so much the drug guru's and philosophers, but over the last few years the trend of just sticking in wacky samples can have disapointing results, and I hate when you get just some dumb voice going "Bass" or some other dumbfuck thing off the cheapest mainstream dance sample cd. Oh and while I'm getting this off my chest Eminem samples, I've bought a couple of cd's lately with samples of Eminem on them why anyone would want to listen to his awful records in the first place is something that I can never understand, but why why why would anyone want to put him in a psy trance track. One of the offenders of putting Eminem in a track was Bionix on his album, such a hit and miss recording there are 2 good tracks on the whole album the rest of it, it's not that the tunes are awful but it is spoilt by rubbish 'Wacky' samples.

I loved vinyl in my time in the 70's & 80's it was my life, but I really can't see the point in releasing anything on Vinyl now. and I don't know if you remember but it was rubbish - all that hissing, poping and jumping about. and it was very un-green, after it's use you can't really do anything with vinyl apart from stick it in landfill sites. because of it's bulk it's twice the transport costs.

You said that that first sample defines the meaning of the word Koxbox but I'll always wondered. What does Koxbox mean ?

I went to Ozora in 2005 (I played the chill area) and had the time of my life, not just of Ozora it's got to be said we took in a couple of days of Sziget festival which is in BUdapest on route, Sziget is Hungarys version of Glastonbury it's on a fucking massive duck island in the middle of the danube and has the maddest mix of acts I think I saw NIck Cave, Saxon, Bueno Vista social club, the good charlotte and dreadzone all on the same day, we hired a rental car travelled south to Ozora and I've got to say it's still probally my best expierience of trance travelling the music was good (in fact the Electric universe set of that year is the best live set I've ever seen) , the weather was good (even the mental thunder storm on the last night was good) people friendly and vibe generally just what you'd expect from a psy trance festival. Incidently. Close by (in both time & distance) from THis years Ozora there's a festival called Beertok, a couple of friends of mine Uneven Steven and Stargate (from the UK) are playing there, if your in the area at 7e's it's the cheapest weekend long festival you'll find. it's on the last weekend of JUly. As a word of warning by the way don't carry any drugs if you are off the Ozora site. because we had a hire car when we were at Ozora we were driving off the site and down the road to buy crates of beer from a petrol station (the festival beer was cheap but this way was very cheap) on our way out on the friday we got flagged down by the police. They went well over the top pulled all the seats out of the car and by the time they insisted we hand over our passports, I've never been more convinced I was going to be arrested and see nothing but the inside of a foreign prison cell for the resat of the festival but some time later after a rattling expierience they did let us go, leaving us to thank our lucky stars.

Stargate who is starting of our night with some progressive kind of stuff is one of the headline dj's playing the Beertok festival in Hungary , the last weekend of July.

I know what you mean, I still hunt though any second hand cd places I find, and I have had some glorious finds I found the first Makyo album in Birmingham rag market for a couple of pounds it was in a box full of Rod stewart cd's and that kind of thing, so it was an unlikely place to find Makyo. with buying new stuff though there is something lost about not being able to go into a shop and actually look at the latest cd's for sale, when a few uk shops have had times when they've had new releases on sale I'm thinking of THe psychedelic dream temple in LOndon or Eastern Block records in MAnchester the music buying expierience was so much better. (incidently the one no longer exists and the other no longer sells psy)

The only club night in the West Midlands dedicated to playing Psychedelic trance and Goa sounds, This is our Solstice warm up / unofficial Leamington spa peace festival after party. This time playing down in the cellar we have : LORRAINE (Psilocybtribe , Sunrise - Leeds) http://www.myspace.com/lorrainepsilocybetribe CosmoNaughty http://www.myspace.com/djcosmonaughty Captain Kevman (Sporophore) http://www.myspace.com/djcaptainkevman Stargate http://www.myspace.com/stargated At UNPLUG , Digbeth High Street, BIrmingham , B5 6DY. (that's opposite BIrmingham's Digbeth Coach station) 10pm - 5am £8 0n the door advance tickets are on sale For £5 at http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10011537 there is an outdoor smoking area which is close to the dancefloor and the venue has a psy friendly vibe. PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PSY EVENTS !!! PASS ON THIS INFO TO ALL YOUR ONLINE FRIENDS OR ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS PARTY . THANKS

KANYINI @ Unplug , Digbeth high street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B5 6DY. Kicking Psy trance sounds down in the cellar from : Lloyd the positivitist ( Chaos Theory, Swansea ) EARTHMONKEY ( Lucid, Oxford ) COSMONAUGHTY UNEVEN STEVEN 10pm through until 5am admission £8 / £5 with a flyer if you're in the venue before 11pm.

well it's tomorrow, I'm hoping it goes well.

Yeah as you open up this CD it says on the inside cover "this is the greatest goa on earth" or something similar, it's not, the mixing is basic to say the least and from out of the Krunch track into the following tune there is no mixing skills at all, the tracks just collide and the fact that there's 4minutes on cd 1 of the last track and a minute and a half of the same track on cd2 say a lot more about DJ Templetons ego than anything. maybe this CD is just not meant for the likes of me, but who is this cd meant for even youngsters who have just bought something with Shiva behind the decks on the cover to see what it's like would be disapointed with this release. If these tunes are really what get played on the beaches on thailand I'm quite happy to spend my time in rainy cold old BIrmingham (UK) thanks.

On the subject of Elysium, Elysium & cosmix - the vision (the version off that Transient records morning trance compilation that I've forgotten the name of)

I can't comment on the US really I'm based in the UK but what makes a good psy trance club ? here in England I think the best clubs are the small ones.

GEtting closer and closer to the date of this party. I just hope it stops snowing.

I just don't get why producers make this rubbish with vocoder vocals in it cos everyone seems to think it's shit.

That's why I find all that dark stuff unlistenable. The stuff you say you like Cpu and Suria I wouldn't class as dark psy that's just good old psy trance a lot of the dark stuff is horrible it sounds like a brick in a spin dryer.

I did like a couple of the chill out releases on Synergetic