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  1. Blair Thaumic
    What an unusual request! Here are a few I can think of: Space Cat - Beam Me Up Particle-X - Ion Space Electric Universe - Waves Pleiadians - IFO MOS - Bug
  2. Blair Thaumic
    Some of Transwave's tracks are pure magic. Hard to choose a favorite but I guess I'll go with the original mix of Rezwalker. Listening to: https://goagalaxy.bandcamp.com/album/planet-discovery and it kicks booty.
  3. Blair Thaumic
    It would be an interesting challenge to have music recommendation threads without any Youtube videos. I suspect it's more than doable... we have Soundcloud, Bandcamp, record labels' own sites, and Discogs entries (and Discogs usually links to Youtube tracks anyway) for just about any artist we want. (And let's not allow Youtube to lull us into a false sense of security... there's still lots of music that's impossible to find in video form!)
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    More about this set: I wanted to use tracks that conveyed a sense of deep space, rather than the usual dark/light or acidic/melodic dichotomies. Some had no outro whatsoever (they just stopped!) and it took a while to figure out how to mix those. I don't usually like to cross fade, and not a single track here is cross faded; in all cases, I let them play out and tried to find something to pair that with. Also, I've never heard any of these tracks in another DJ set. I'm more of a selector than a DJ, but I hope people will give this mix a chance. Tracklist:
  5. Blair Thaumic
    One of the most obscure is now available to the masses https://psyristortrax.bandcamp.com/album/trance-foundation
  6. Blair Thaumic
    High Society was an underappreciated label. You should also check out BTM: http://www.discogs.com/label/3901-BTM-Bochumer-Ton-Manufaktur Both labels specialized in a deep, organic, proto-progressive style of Goa that seems to be unique to the German scene. I love it, there's nothing quite like it today.
  7. Blair Thaumic
    It's a good compilation of back catalogue/deleted material. Especially Parasite Eve and Seven Heavens were worth digging up. The award for most aliases must go to this guy: http://www.discogs.com/artist/160540-Ingmar-Veeck
  8. Blair Thaumic
    Allow me to suggest another angle. Anyone going into this expecting a banging kickdrum, screaming acid, dancefloor trance album is going to be disappointed. This album speaks to Goa's connection with synthpop, and as such, its production and musical content are as they should be. Are you familiar with any of Ray Castle's and Masa's other music? Or the style Ray DJed in late 80s Goa? I'm not saying that to be snobby. This is different from what you usually review and requires a different frame of reference to appreciate.
  9. Blair Thaumic
    Nephilim Records have some underrated ones. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Black-Hole/release/183165 http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Holotropic-Mind/release/99392 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Technobotanic-Tryptamines/release/356404 I like this label too: http://www.discogs.com/label/34704-Tod-Aquarium
  10. Blair Thaumic
    Returning from the void with a set of warm, spacy, moody goa. Carom through the cosmos on a mission to the galactic core, hitting some lesser known spheres of trance along the way. Featuring tracks by Juno Reactor, Mathuresh, Rainbow Spirit, Green House Effect, Vaporum, Controlled Fusion, OVNI, Youth, Aeternum, Ubar Tmar, Klinik, The Infonaut, Mr. Beam, and Digital Sun. Edit: Now with slightly less shit mixing! https://bringthatbeachback.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/indras-billiards/
  11. Blair Thaumic
    Anyone heard this? http://www.discogs.com/Various-Paranoia-Loops-1/release/4255078 It's on the same label that released Ree.K - Far East Frequency, so might be worth a look
  12. Blair Thaumic
    I thought it was "My job is delivering people," like how advertising is sometimes described as delivering people to a product. I'll show myself out now...
  13. Blair Thaumic
    "You know the moon, you know the stars. Do you know Mercury?" "There's something different about Larry" "You ladies from outer space" "Ever-loving mystical chants, not now!" "Might as well smoke flowers, smoke flowers, smoke flowers"
  14. Blair Thaumic
    Is Hi Tech just a new name for Psycore?
  15. Blair Thaumic
    Another option, like Paul Eye said, is to select external mode and just mix using the mixer as usual. So the program is just there to cue up and adjust the pitch of tracks. That's my preference. I don't do any digital 'tricks' when I mix, and I didn't like the loss of nuance and gradualism when I played on a MIDI controller. A better DJ could probably compensate for it, and run circles around me technique wise, but I'm more comfortable manipulating the sound with analog controls. Using Sync is OK but I like transitions with some tension/imperfection, so I rarely bother with it. Also, unless I'm wrong, it seems to me that if you aren't hitting Play *exactly* when two beats match up it's going to be off even with Sync, so it's better to use your own sense of rhythm when mixing in a track.
  16. Blair Thaumic
    These Yellow Eyes. Where did this masterpiece come from? New Born has gone under the radar, seriously. Great to see Cronomi supporting his work.
  17. Blair Thaumic
    We talk a lot about forest and sometimes Suomi here, but how about the Japan-Australia connection? Loads of alternative psy-music that doesn't sound like anything else has come out of those two countries... on the Australian side, Psy-Harmonics, WMS, Demon Tea, and Edgecore, and on the Japanese side, Equinox, Anoyo, and Panorama for example. And those are just the well known labels; then you get into really obscure stuff like this: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Mesmerise-Em/release/727162 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Autumn-Jade/release/642827 Any favorite Aussies or Japanese (besides Ubar Tmar, I think we all know his music) that in your opinion fell through the cracks?
  18. Blair Thaumic
    Too bad Chynacid - Shuriken isn't on there. That was one of my favorite "deleted" tracks of yours. Any chance of seeing a re-release of Acid Chemical Plant/ACPrecorp material?
  19. Blair Thaumic
    For me it's all about Martian Law. Nice to hear something a bit darker from Submoon for a change.
  20. Blair Thaumic
    Well he does release on Parvati, so someone at that label has good taste
  21. Blair Thaumic
    My problem with a lot of Darkpsy isn't that it's unmelodic, but that it's too narrow rhythmically and uses the same kinds of effects too often. Much of it sounds like a version of full-on, just with more sound effects and without the buildup to a lead melody. It's still psytrance, just stripped of its rock and pop influences, which are the elements that make psytrance interesting to me. I liked the Noise Gust album (even if parts of it sounded a little generically psytrance) and I like some Ghreg On Earth and Derango. Also ECT is a musical genius. Not sure if you'd call his tracks darkpsy or not, I just know that they're amazing.
  22. Blair Thaumic
    There's an album cover in there, I just can't figure out where.
  23. Blair Thaumic
    I like it. Reminds me of late 90s morning goa like Moon Tribe.
  24. Blair Thaumic
    1998? :3
  25. Blair Thaumic
    Psybreaks: Digitalis, Eat Static, Exotic Matter, artists on 21-3 Records around 1997/98. Eat Static - Dionysiac comes from 1995, and that's (arguably) a psybreaks track.
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