Basilisk

Down in Mexico I went to a restaurant/lounge in an underground cave in the Yucatan... after dinner, went through the tunnels, and they were playing a CD back there... something from Infected Mushroom!

That's the worst news I've heard in a while... damn.

Nope, it probably means the production quality is shit. I am thinking of the Evolution track on Tathata 1... it's just bad. Well, at least its not Eskimo

Many DJs shy away from good music that just happens to be hard to mix... that's a fact. They don't challenge themselves or their audience; they merely cane the mix-by-numbers cut-and-paste stuff because it requires barely any effort and seems to satisfy. I always give props when I hear a DJ try to work in some Juno Reactor, Hux Flux, or Eraser vs Yojalka. That doesn't happen very often, unfortunatly.

I know a few friends who use the site all the time... it has a massive archive of everything you could possibly think of, apparently.

Mike A nailed it I'm sure.... Paranoia, from the excellent album XI... restores my faith in full-on every time

I am testing out a new feature of my site. This link brings up all reviews I have made of any release tagged as containing something dark & melodic: http://www.ektoplazm.com/tag/melodic+reviews+dark It may or may not be useful

People have been diggin' this one, so I will probably do some more like this

TIP World Singles 2002. Bam.

They probably didn't release it because it isn't as good. The same goes for other Etnica unreleased tunes.

That scale looks mighty familiar

Gorgeous track!

It is unreleased... an Etnica remix, I believe. The recording floating around on the net isn't very good. I prefer the original, personally

The new Hujaboy, which I had previously dismissed for being on TIP World. Surprisingly, I am liking it (while going through another regular full-on hating phase)...

Really? I find it kind of seductive, even passionate at times, and definatly cheerful in some moments... maybe I see what you mean though. I voted for Cydonia... gotta pay tribute to my industrial roots I'll be playing something from that album at a party this weekend for sure.

I've been snagging progressive house/electro/tribal/whateverness from Beatport in recent days http://www.ektoplazm.com/blog/digital-musi...t-selections-1/

I went through the full circle of initially being amazed that there was finally a WAV downloading service around, getting angry about the economics, hating the prices and recent sly increase for UK buyers, and around to pleasant wonder at some of the more obscure qualities that the service is bringing to psytrance DJs today. Let me emphasize that once again: DJs. I don't really think this is all that useful for most music buyers, and let's face it - psytrance fans have it good with the CD releases. We get a lot of bang for the buck. Not so in other scenes, where vinyl singles at 12 or 15 dollars a pop remain the norm after all these years. Here is where it gets interesting! For those of us with progressive tastes, Beatport opens up this entire world of music that was previously not readily accessible. Suddenly we can dip into house, electro, techno, and other music styles that border on progressive psychedelic trance - what we simply refer to as "progressive" here in the psytrance world. The end effect is that many DJs are beginning to play material that the psytrance tastemakers - as represented by labels and their representatives - have not included in their various forays into other progressive music forms (think Tribal Vision, the Beat Delight compilation, etc). This means that we can now be our own tastemakers, free to explore countless new possibilities that were, up until now, not easily explored by anyone focusing solely on psychedelic trance. Beatport has a massive catalogue. Where would one begin? I thought about this today and decided to draft up a new piece on my blog, to provide suggestions for psytrance listeners with progressive tastes. Check it out here: Beatport Selections 1.

Catchy, for sure!

Here's mine! http://www.discogs.com/user/Ekto-Basilisk

It only just now occured to me that I put together a mix focusing on dark & melodic psytrance... some of these tracks may interest you. Have a listen here: http://www.ektoplazm.com/audio/mystic-revelation/

PM/email is best for all dealing I have said "screw ebay!" and moved my whole list over to discogs marketplace: http://www.discogs.com/sell/byseller?selle...isk&sort=artist

Heheh.. thanks echo!

Comprehensive, illuminating list. Nice one! Seraph and I agree for years 1993 to 1997... those are pretty much the artists I would have picked for that time...

Hey Hugh, nice to see you at it again. We met way back at Om 2001 when we shared the dub.beautiful stage somewhere in mid-Ontario. I'll have to check these out soon...

Let's not forget this happy character.