wizz, bang, boing – paradine psytrance demo mix

My old trusty Sony headphones broke where the headpiece joins the earpiece a while back. I tried gluing them a couple of time but by the third break I knew they would never work out. I got myself a nice pair of Sennheiser HD25 Mk II’s which I’ve always loved. I took them for a test drive this weekend and recorded the result and named it Wizz, Bang, Boing.

It is 2 hour psychedelic trance journey to a damp land inhabited by heavy wild things stomping about bending balloons into fantastic shapes as robot insects flit between the speaker stacks looking for their guitars.

Update: I have moved this 200+ MB mix to adrive.com. You should be able to download it with no problems now!

linkage: download via the demo mix page

diversity music festival 2008 video clips, texada island

DJ Soma rocking the Diversity stage with some sweet Psychedelic sounds

diversity music festival photos 2008, texada island

We were lucky enough to have the opportunity to cruise up to Texada Island for Diversity Electronic Music festival. What an experience! Rolling into a festival by boat and unloading onto the beach to camp is something to experience! Thanks so much to all the lovely people we met and played with – you make it all worthwhile!

linkage: see part 1 here, see part 2 here, main photography page

entheos festival 2008 – video clips

I captured a few short (30 second) video clips while at Entheos Music festival 2008 on my Canon S80 digital camera.

The main dance floor looks pretty dark – but thats what you get under Psychedelic lighting conditions! Enjoy

trance genres – acid through vocal

If you were ever wondering what type of trance you were listening to – this is the list for you. A clearly defined list that covers the full spectrum of trance and the sub-genres including the origins and links to Artist profile who represent the style.

linkage: trance genres via wikipedia

tag galaxy – 3d photo viewer

Another nice photo viewer based around spherical image walls or ‘planets’ I guess. Check it out anyway.

linkage: tag galaxy

piclens – smooth fullscreen picture and video browsing

Cooliris (already known for their webpage preview when you hover over a link) have a plugin available for you browser called Piclens. After installing, with a single click you will be able to transform your flickr or youtube browsing to a beautifully rendered fullscreen photo wall.

Before

After

update July 2008: WordPress does not currently support the Piclens plugin – however you can still leverage it simply by hosting your pics somewhere like Flickr

It’s is actually pretty simple to get Piclens working on your blog. Simply host all your photos on Flickr (or similar piclens supported website). That way the little piclens play button is just visible and working.

So instead of uploading your picture directly to wordpress – upload them to Flickr (there is a good Batch Uploading tool if you upload photos all the time).

Once on Flickr browse to your photo
Right Click – Copy Address (firefox anyway – Internet Explorer may be a little different). Make sure you have the correct picture size selected ie Not the thumbnail
In WordPress create new post
Insert Image
Paste the URL you just copied from Flickr
Add a description
Add a Caption if you want
Insert Image into Post

Thats it! When you publish your post you’ll now see the Piclens icon for any/all pics you have hosted on Flickr.

linkage: download piclens plugin

light pavilion poetry

A clever experiment in Typography which uses the sun to slowly reveal poetry in the shade created by a pavilion with angled perforations. The artist Jiyeon Song explores the concept of Slow Media.

‘Today, people cannot pause even for a few minutes. If a web site takes longer than a few seconds to load in the browser, we move on to another site. Designer and engineers, and scientists put a lot of effort in making things faster. However, our life is finite. Nature has its own speed. Humans cannot control it: we live underneath its providence. Slowness has its own value.

linkage: light pavilion poetry via vaux.net

cassette tape dispenser – revenge of the 80’s

tokyo plastic animation

Here’s a nice musical animation similar to some of the other Japanese drumming animation you may have seen previously.

linkage: tokyo plastic animation

paradine downtempo – demo mix

I am enjoying all the extra time off at the moment as it is giving me some time to do some mixing. I’ve just uploaded a new downtempo demo mix Fluidity. You can find the details on the demo mixes page.

linkage:  download via demo mix page

paradine psytrance demo mix – void that binds

I have just uploaded a new full on Psytrance mix journeying into the Void that Binds. This was recorded the first time I mixed this set. It’s on the quirky side with a solid pace and nice and psychedelic. 144 – 149 BPM. The divshare player doesn’t seem to like it for some reason – but downloaded plays fine

linkage: download via demo page

psytrance festivals europe 2008

There are a couple of phat psytrance festivals this year in Europe. Boom is on this year (it is only every second year) as well as O.z.o.r.a. Ozora is in Hungry from 6th to 8th of August and Boom from the 11th to 18th. If there was ever a month that’d be good to kick up some dust – it’d be August I reckon.

Booms Website

Here’s highlights from the line up for Ozora. (I can’t see one posted for Boom yet – but you know it’ll be even better)

Juno Reactor, Shpongle, Hallucinogen, Alpha, Talamasca, Ott, Asura, Aes Dana, Total Eclipse, Andromeda, Prometheus, Atmos, FREq, Nomad, Blue Planet Corporation, Jaia, Pleiadians, Logic Bomb, Tristan, Neuromotor, Naked Tourist, Doc, Cpc, Laughing Buddha, Horror Place, Allaby, ANS, Highcosmos, Mael, TrippyHippies, Star Sound Orchestra, Nanda, Simon B, Driss, Edoardo, Peter Didjital, Psychotrop, Dj Marios, Shane Gobi, Irgumburgum

linkage: Boom Festival, O.z.o.r.a.

update 10 April:

Tshitraka Project Open Air Festival – July 3 – 9 (Northern Germany)

With 7 days and 6 nights of non stop music and culture we are going to celebrate the festival with an enhanced and refreshed concept, bringing you a carefully selected balance of full on, psychedelic and progressive trance.

Live Acts: Astrix, Basic, Biotouch, Bitmonx, Chakra, Dualsnug, Earsugar, Freakshow, Freakulizer, Galactika, Gms, Klopfgeister, Krunch,Liquid Soul, Pralhad, Sun Control Species, Vaishiyas, Vibrasphere

If you are looking for something a bit more twisted you might want to think about heading to Russia for Khan Altay a solar eclipse festival with both Progressive and full power Psytrance

linkage: Tshitraka Festival

Khan Altay – Solar Eclipse Festival: 25th of July – 2nd of August, Altai mountains, Russia

Khan Altay is a space out of time, a festival of art and creation. We gather here with friends from around the world for the cosmic moment of the total solar eclipse.

In this planetary alignment, a way between worlds is opened in the ancient land of Altay. This moment is guarded by a dragon, whose fiery spirit watches over our dreams from the deep blue heavens.

Live Acts: Astropilot, Bluetech, Electripnose, Fragletrollet, Kraft, Liquid Cristal Fait, Noises of Russia, Ocelot, Reality Pixie, Sattel Battle, Sensient (TBC), Shadow Fx (TBC), Troll Scientists, Tsabeat, Utro-Tra-Tru

linkage: Khan Altay Festival

Psychedelic Circus Open Air Festival Part 10 – 06 June – Mon, 09 June, Strohkirchen, Germany

Live Acts: Rinkadink, Fatali, Penta, Magoon, U-Recken, Day.Din, Nizzel, Midimal, Naked Tourist, Philter, Timedrained, Deeper, Lightsphere, Slackjoint, Audiomatic, Ski Fi, Magnetrixx

linkage: Psychedelic Circus

update 9 May 2008:

Glade Festival – July 18-20 Berkshire (1 hour from London, UK)

The Glade festival originates from a renegade stage at Glastonbury. It has evolved into one of the UK’s finest electronica festivals. You’ll have to be open to other music styles to really get the most out of the event as it isn’t really a Psytrance festival. There are a load of stages and some interesting acts however and I even saw that Pitch Black from NZ’ll be there. If you are in the area and into Electronica – it’ll be worth a listen I’m sure

photo borrowed without permission from Graham Joys photostream on flickr (thanks Graham)

linkage: full details for Glade Festival

Hadra Trance Festival – 25 -27 July, Pontcharra, Isere (France)

There are some nice full on live acts booked for Hadra Trance festival as well as some sublime downtempo acts:

Space Tribe, Cpu, Parasense, Gaudium, The Commercial Hippies, Ldb System,Barak, Reality Grid, Shotu, Psymmetrix, Kularis, Solar Fields, Sine Die, Pirated Machines, Fluid, D_Root, Lunarave, Lumin Feat. Irina Mikhailova, Solar Fields, H.U.V.A Network, Slackbaba, Asura, Terra Nine, Orchid Star, Kick Bong, Secret Vibes, Lipo

linkage: full line up and more info here

update May 13

Fullmoon Festival – 16 – 21st July Wittstock (1 hr from Berlin, Germany)

A long running and well supported and large festival. Expect German precision and some of spectacular deco, sound and lighting.

Seperate stages for full on and progressive psytrance as well as chill out area. Another impressive line up – here’s the list for the full on stage which will cover the lighter melodic sound through the dark nasty stuff for the night time fanatics. Yum Yum:

Star Sounds Orchestra, Juno Reactor, Sun Project, Etnica, Cosmosis, Protoculture, Bizzare Contact, Vibe Tribe, Deedrah, Absolum, Transwave, Space Buddha, Shanti, Electro Sun, Atomic Pulse, Aquatica, Slug, Polaris, Digicult, Atomiculture, D-Maniac, Sick Addiction, Tryambaka, Kindzadza, Electrypnose, Yab Yum, Atriohm, Drury Nevil, Mubali, Noise Gust, Whicked Hayo, Irgum Burgum, Stereographic, Gappeq, Shagma, Slackjoint, Hyperion, Digital Efx

Borrowed without permission from Hotterra.de

linkage: full details at Fullmoon website

Antaris Project – 11 – 14 July (Rhinow, West of Berlin, Germany)

You want to go back to the roots? Well Antairs have been around since the early nineties and this is their 14th festival. The Antiris crew promise an evolved concept and some new deco! Hoo ra!

“Laugh & Dance, it is for your eyes, your ears and your heart !”

Come and be enchanted by the delicious Antaris mix of spiritual ambience, tribal psychedelic music, superfriendly audience, awesome location and a crew devoted to make the festival a magical experience for everyone.

Live Acts: Ace Ventura, Ajja, Braincell, Commercial Hippies, Flooting Grooves, Ganga Giri, Headroom, South Africa Hilight Tribe, Hyper Frequencies, Genepool, Irland Kalyug, Klangstrahler & Tarzan , Master Margherita, Lars Lee, Parasense , Psymmetrix, Sangeet,
Whicked Hayo feat. Hilight Tribe, Yab Yum

linkage: antaris project (english)

Sky Gravity Festival – 30th July – 3 Aug, Sudak, Crimea (Ukraine)

Sky Gravity enters it’s fourth year – with a new venue near Sudak City, Ukraine close to the Black Sea and the warm micro climate. Expect a smaller more intimate gathering

Live Acts: Penta, Ajja, Yab-Yum, Goasia, fungus Funk, Histeria, SynSUN, Overdream, Kadasarva, Saikosarus, Cifroteca, SOM, Madgentel, Liquid Mind Project, Spirit Medicine Project, Nimb, Roof Raiser

“First of all, we would like to mention, that it’s not only event for fans of psytrance, goa, full on, suomi, progressive and break trance, but also for chillout crew, who like such music as ambient, dub, downtempo, idm, electronica, experimental, raggey”

linkage: Sky Gravity festival (english)

updated: 21/05/2008

Psytasia Castle Festival – 6 – 8th June, Schloss Leiben (Austria)

As far as I can tell you’ll be partying in a Castle over a couple of night on three different stages at this new festival from the BassIsland collective.

Live Acts:

Bitkit, Cos Cos, Delysid, Kajola, Khopat, Klopfgeister, Lagun, Luap, Manju, Noise Hunter, Psysex, Rinkadink, Soth, Sun Collector, The Alchemists Dream, The Path, Visionautica, Volu-men

linkage: Psytasia Castle Festival

Spirit Base Festival – 19 – 23 June, Sand Quarry, Rauchenwarth (15 km from Vienna, Austria)

This is Austria’s largest trance festival and 2008 will be the sixth successful year with the motto for this year “Desert Journey to Ancient Cultures”

The multimedia journey of Austria ’s biggest festival of electronic music in 2008 leads us back to the ancient cultures of the South American continent before the cultures of Olmecs, Aztecs, Mayas and Incas

The main stage will be constructed as a Maya temple, from where the magicians of psytrance will fill the dance floor with sound. Four decoration teams are already working on huge presentationsof the pre-Columbian cultures which will enframe the dance floor. Projections up to ten metres high will create fantastic worlds of colour and light. Videoshows by the video artists El Geko, Fade X, The Funny Astronaut and a new act by Visionautica will create a background setting „beaming” the visitors into the fantastic world of Stargate. During the festival there will be fire shows, performances, workshops and further surprises.

Live Acts:

Talamasca , Pixel , Fatali , Rocky , Phanatic , Digicult , Tranan , Alternative , Perplex , Sangeet , Pop , Delysid , Combinations , Slider , Shiva , Ibojima , S , Neelix , True , SKI , Jey , Nizzel , Odiseo , Ix-Lam-At , Trancemission , Human , Klopfgeister , Feuerhake , Vaishiyas , Day.Din , Symphonix , V-tunes , Brisker , Materia , Desert , Visionautica

linkage: Spirit Base Festival

Summer End Festival III – 31 July – 3 August, Tinizong-Rona (Switzerland)

The Summer End festival enters it’s third season and promises an interesting and varied line up. Some very good acts playing on the chill stage as well.

Live Acts:

Silent Hill, Freq, DNA, Injection, Freakulizer, Atma, Liquid Sunshine, Pitch black, KUBA, Slackbaba, Chilled Cquence, Dymons, Flooting Grooves, COSMOSOPHY, Kukan Dub Lagan, Dubrizona, Argaman, Eastern Spirit, Spectral Paradisis, Mercury Fall, Chill Devil, Big Fish Little Fish, Etnomorph

Photos Stolen from Roger

linkage: Summers End Festival

all linkage: Boom Festival, O.z.o.r.a Festival, Tshitraka Festival, Khan Altay Festival, Psychedelic Circus, Hadra Festival, Glade Festival, Fullmoon Festival, Antaris Project, Sky Gravity festival, Psytasia Castle Festival, Spirit Base Festival, Summers End Festival

paradine downtempo demo mix added

I spent a while working on the arrangement of this set as it proved decidedly tricky to get the diversity of tracks to flow together into some sort of coherent whole. Still I’m happy with the outcome. Enjoy!

linkage: jan 2008: paradine dj demo – thorn of crowns (105mb, 1:17 mins), all demo mixes

hang drum electronica

Hang drums are a relatively new comer to the percussion scene developed by a couple of clever Swiss in 2000 and derive their name from the Burmese dialect for hand. Hang drums are capable of producing a wide array of sounds and in this video clip you can hear what can be achieved with a mic and some simple delay effects. Beautiful.

linkage: hang drum on wikipedia, more about hang drums via oddmusic.com