Taika-Kim

Olivier is very much still making music, or was at least in 2008 when we both played at Khan Altay, he had a very good project called Sacred Tree Portal, very oldschool... I think he was talking with Suntrip too at that point, but now didn't hear from him in a long time, I hope the album comes out eventually... I too love his old stuff a lot! Also the Underhead tracks.

Especially interesting about that thesis is the find that the first goa parties in Finland were already in 1987, even before Pendragon in the UK and whoever anywhere else...

Yes, well as of yet music is not allowed as a thesis in the Helsinki University Some of the tracks you can hear on youtube, and on this radio program they're playing some old stuff, also some untitled tracks whose composer is not known: http://soundcloud.com/back-to-mad/back-2-mad-2012-06-06 Toni is interviewed about the thesis and they play music for two hours, but only in Finnish. About me? Been travelling a bit, but for the past few years other things in life took a lead. But now living with more free time and energy again for music, the new album should be in my hands on the 22nd, one day late for the summer solstice :/ It's a double CD with one new album and the remastered and mixed version of the latest album... Been building a small analog studio, so the sounds are evolving a lot! And feeling more inspired than for years, so there will be music! ..But first I will go travelling for the summer, I need a break from composing, I was working on the album since autumn, and especially the last month was crazy, putting all my time and energy into this...

Cultural and Musical Dimensions of Goa Trance and Early Psychedelic Trance in Finland : The history, translation and localization of an internationally mobile electronic dance-music scene Free download at: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/34536 I 100% recommend this to anybody even remotely interested in the true roots of Finnish trance, and the old days of the scene in the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s. The 300 pages will be over before you know it! Also a lot of pretty hardcore musicologial analysis sections about classic goa trance tracks. And theeee abstract: ---- The history of Goa trance spans trough decades, its first cultural factors having been born in 60's USA and then developed in Goa, India through the 70's and 80's. After some of the same factors matured into sub-cultural traits in the western countries, the new attitudes towards the role of youth in society led to increased travelling and some discarding of the traditional sedentary lifestyles. Goa trance would develop to be the music, the identifier and the culture of full-moon parties and other celebratory meetings of a new group of travelling, globally mobile youth interested in exploratory self-development, self-actualization, mysticism and alternative lifestyles and spirituality. Goa trance came to Finland through movement of these people, by an international group of travellers following a Finnish national Ior Bock from Goa to Finland. Goa trance parties in Sipoo at his summer residence started in 1987 and went on until 1998. From 1988 onwards, a similar process would also start in other countries around the world. By 1992 new groups also going to Goa or similar destinations elsewhere already present would also start organizing Goa trance parties in Finland. First finnish experiments in Goa trance music production were conducted the same year. A historical study incorporating music analysis as the bridge between the cultural and the ethnographical is conducted in this research. It's hypothesis is that a system can be found in Goa trance music and that it reflects and represents the cultural values found by ethnographic methods. It also suggests that this system can then be used to track how Finnish Goa trance music-production and culture reflected the different facets of original and international Goa trance culture and how this transfer and synthesis took place. The study is largely material-based, relying on extensive interviews of important people in the 1990's Goa trance scene of Finland, recording artifacts on DAT-tape and c-cassette, and published musical works from the same time-period. Secondary sources include other, mainly ethnographic writings and articles on the topic and several documentary films. The socio-cultural and anthropologic studies of electronic dance-music cultures by Fikentscher, Thornton, Taylor, St. John, Saldanha, and D'Andrea are the precursors and the academic framework within which this study operates in. In addition to new ethnomusicology, the several fields of scientific methodologies applied to the material favor the cognitive, incorporating the ethnomusicology of John Blacking as well as psychoacoustics and cognitive models of musical experience. General cultural semiotics are likewise applied to support the models of behavior developed. A major part of the study is formed by music analysis. The analysis aims to find a system of characteristics that are common or unique, elements of style and then to apply these in the context of the cultural analysis. All the claims are supported by examples in notation transcribed from the materials. The methods of score-analysis include common ethnomusicological and western methodologies supplemented with modern metric theory from Hasty as adapted to analysis of electronic dance-music by Butler and several methodologies connected to it. The study also develops these methods further to form a suitable set of derived methodologies to better deconstruct the particular musical material at hand. Through the music analysis backed by ethnography, it can be seen that the music of Goa trance is a unique development of western electronic dance-music steered strongly into an oriental and mystic direction, simultaneously preserving much of the early hypnotic qualities of early rave-, acid- and techno music. It is highly functional and tied to facilitating a psychedelic experience in the trance-dance party. The early development of Goa trance music parallels that of rave-music and is interconnected, but also separate to a degree. The most prominent difference is that the music was tied to a copying and trading culture instead of depending on record labels for distribution. Finnish Goa trance music production delivered finished works to the DAT-tape trading circuit by 1995, and released works on CD and vinyl in 1996. The first releases were: 10 Years Loop EP by O*Men, Flippin' Bixies - Sörkkä Sonic and Apollo 3D by GAD. The sound of Flippin' Bixies was a more localized version of Goa trance, much more experimental and also ended up being more influential to the global soundscape that evolved from Goa trance: Psychedelic trance. Music analysis shows that a unique Finnish sound was present already in many of the early works of all these artists, and that it bears a kindredness to the kind of music that was also developing in Australia and Japan. International connections between the local music scenes and high international mobility of their agents led to very rapid exchange of music between the scenes and further development from 1997 onwards was bi-directional with new Finnish Goa-/psychedelic trance bands Texas Faggott and Kolmiokulmiosilmiö on the leading edge of it.

tHis is fucking FANTASTIC"!!!!!!!!!!! God, cool that the old 80s synthpop guy needs to show us how to make good music This is from the first instant better than 90% of computer based electronic music I've been hearing for the past 10 years... Hmm I recently built my first analog modular, and now I regret I didn't do that 10 years ago already... What sounds!"!

Well, my existing digital distribution covers most of those already, I think, and I prefer to manage my own music myself. But thanks for the offer

Well, the prices for 1000 are surprisingly close to 500, so I can just give away the rest of the 500 as promotion The difference is just a few hundred euros, I have asked from about a dozen places... I want to have an ecological packaging, and found something great, a really special interesting folding package from Wewow, from recycled cardboard, and no plastic tray. So that's 3 times more expensive than making the CD in China for 0.4€/piece, but worth it I think... I want to support European industry since here we have at least some laws concering the environment, workers etc. But, hmm so if I print the discs, I myself ship a portion of them to Arabesque for example, and they sell it.. Do they generally return unsold discs if they are left unsold after, like, two years, or is it goodbye to all discs when I relieve them to the distributor, regardless if they get sold or not?

What have people been using? Does it generally pay these days anymore to have distribution agency for CDs? I'm making a 1000 piece run of the next CD, and was wondering if I should try to contact distributors for this... As opposed to licking envelopes for the next 40 months, my house filled with CDs... What kind of deals are there even available for small independent artists...? The again I would like to keep the prices low, so how much do they generally slice off the price for themselves`?

So, I have a very good item here, kept carefully all the years. 15€ + postage. Also: Colours of Shiva 1 - 20€ (TIP Yellow & Orange) Colours of Shiva 2 - 15€ (TIP Blue & Phosphorescent)

Waiting for a review...

Waah, I just stumbled upon this on Bandcamp since I released my album there and wanted to check if there's any other artists there. (just for the record: I've been 100% happy about them, they have a FREE completely automatic multi-format distribution platform for the artist, and it's easy to embed in our own website code...) Anway, as soon as I'm on some faster connection than my wireless G3, I'll check these out for sure! At Bandcamp they're 8,99GBP, which is not expensive IMO. When you buy a CD you are buying the music, not the CD... The manufacturing costs even in small runs are less than an euro for each disk... But I see why people want CDs, I never buy a MP3 if there's a CD version available... But then again I listen to psychedelic folk these days a lot anyway, and CDs are a respected medium in this scene...

Well in this album there is not so much acid or goa style sounds, I wanted to make something more like an organic adventure with some influences from old 60s and 70s synth music like Tangerine Dream and such... But I hope you still like the album

Oops, was missing the download link, added...

No, I think it's better to press "buy now", insert a number between 1000 and one million, and download I like Bandcamp, they handle all the various formats, and even do FLAC, makes it very easy for me compared to trying to keep track of various versions of the tracks on our own server... Anyway, I'm so happy to get the album out, I've been working on it SO long, so now I can finally run out to the hills and have a holiday

Download here OK, the new album is out! Sounds of oldschool goa, progressive trance, experimental folk, sampling and who know what mix. Enjoy (yes, you can still download it for free!) OOPS, DOWNLOAD LINK ADDED!

I'm still not rid of all the material I don't want to hav laying around that I don't listen, so: Mindfield - Odyssey of the Mind - 50€ Yahel - For The People - 20€ The Colours of Shiva 1- 25€ The Colours of Shiva 2 - 15€ OOOD - Breathing Space - 15€ Psychedelic Krembo - 15€ (lots of visible scratches, but plays 100%) Astral Projection - Trust in Trance - 12€ Order Odonata - The Technical Use of Sound in Magick - 12€ (scratched a bit, but plays 100%) Frankfurt Trax volume 3 - 12€ Menis - Temporary Insanity - 8€ Earthtrance - 8€ Electric Universe - Stardriver - 5€ Kuroshiro Current - Innerspce Trauma EP - 5€ The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - 5€ Analog Pussy - Psycho Bitch From Hell - 5€ Feed Your Head vol.2 - 5€ (pahat naarmut) Psychaos - Cause and Effect - 5€ Ka-Sol- Fairytale - 5€ Ypsilon 5 - Binary Sky - €5 Filteria - Sky Input - 5€ Space Tribe - Religious Experience - 5€ Platipus Records - Volume 2 - 5€ free albums: Kopfuss Resonator - Spect-r Module World of Goa Trance

Hey, want to take Mindfield's Odyssey of the Mind Double album in trade for Technossomy?

Hmm, with what? My brains??

I have a bunch of unique hand made fair trade t-shirts for sale, check the pix & prices from here: Aavepyörä homepage

Yes but I don't have an internet connection anymore so I don't have time to hang around in p2p networks Works for me

This has circulated here before probably, but anyway: A big part of the Flying Rhino back catalogue is available for free at their website. Ni,cce

Does somebody want to be a nice kid and point me to the first Infinity Project Vinyls? I would be very interested in hearing those... But these days without a net connection, it's quite hard to hunt for obscurities :/

OK, your favourite album made with a gaming console is now available in MP3 & OGG It's not such an deep album, but anyway something to listen to while waiting for my new album And it was a blast to make!

Well, there's one way to find out

Open source music! 1 - Everything's still fine 2 - Until the lasers of this world blaze no more 3 - Lazy on the best days of summer 4 - Tie ja vaeltaja 5 - Every hippie needs a home or a few 6 - Black stars, white sky 7 - Pirates of Fox Bay 8 - The uncounted scales of the multihued dragon that lies between the dimensions 9 - Survival of the free 10 - Searching for Shambhala 11 - Some reasons to spend time in trains