Here is an excellent History of Ambient documentary from Radio 1. It’s full of classic tunes and interviews with the original masters of the genre all woven together. Definitely worth a listen.

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Download it in a variety of formats from here.

If you enjoyed the Future Nurses – Xover To Awesome mix I posted a bit back, then you’ll love this groovy techno/trance mix by DJ Basilisk, curator of the awesome Ektoplazm music site.

http://www.ektoplazm.com/mixes/dj-basilisk-live-at-eclipse-2009/

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This set was recorded live at the 2009 edition of Eclipse, an annual psytrance festival held at the Bonnet Rouge campground in Ste-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau, Québec. My time slot was 9pm to 11pm on the opening night, Friday. Since people were just arriving I opted to play a deep and driving blend of techno and progressive psytrance to warm up the crowd and get everyone excited for the three days and nights of music to come. As with any live recording there are a few imperfections but I am mostly happy with how it all came out. Given how early I was on, many of my friends from Toronto were unable to catch it, so posting this set is also my way of saying “here’s what you missed!”

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If you like this set you might want to check out my Live at Dreamcatcher set!

Photo credit: Tesseract.

Track Listing
01 :: Dominik Eulberg – Sansula (Max Cooper’s Lost In Sound Mix) [Traum Schallplatten]
02 :: Gui Boratto – Matroyshka [Nervous Records]
03 :: SHIN – Folger (Robert Babicz’s Feeling Good Remix) [Yellow Tail]
04 :: Fuzzion – Free Tibet [Boshke Beats]
05 :: Extrawelt – Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese [Traum Schallplatten]
06 :: Moonbeam – Night Traffic [Traum Schallplatten]
07 :: Eelke Kleijn – It All Comes Together (Fiord Remix) [Audio Therapy]
08 :: Max Cooper – Harmonisch Serie [Traum Schallplatten]
09 :: AstroNivo – Nature Of Destiny (Brisker & Magitman Remix) [EchoPlast]
10 :: Dubfire vs Oliver Huntemann – Diablo [Cocoon Recordings]
11 :: Fuzzion – Closer [Boshke Beats]
12 :: Fiord – Get Up Jude (Beckers Remix) [eVapour8 Recordings]
13 :: AstroNivo – Blast Out [Blue Tunes Records]
14 :: Dusty Kid – Lynchesque [Boxer Recordings]
15 :: Tegma – Twister [Tribal Vision Records]
16 :: AstroNivo – From Here [Flow Vinyl]
17 :: RPO & David Weed – Industry (Perfect Stranger Remix) [Tribal Vision Records]
18 :: Riktam & Bansi – Ride The Snake [Plastik Park]
19 :: Audio Junkies – Dark Side Of The Mood [Vertikal Records]
20 :: AstroNivo – Bonanza (SQL Remix) [Tribal Vision Records]
21 :: Beckers & Hatfield – You’re Not Me (Fiord Remix) [Sprout Music]
22 :: Tom Hades – Cinema Club (Wehbba Remix) [Stolen Moments]
23 :: Ido Ophir & Miki Litvak – Shnorkel [eVapour8 Recordings]
24 :: D-Nox & Beckers – Son Of A Pitch [Systematic Recordings]

Recorded at the Salutations to the Soul fundraiser party on June 27, 2009 at the Transcendent Church of Bass, this mix begins with a glitched out Michael Jackson tribute by ArK47, and moves into a solid psydub groove with my usual blend of effects and samples to spice things up. Enjoy!

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Tracklist::
Michael Jackson – Close Your Eyes (ArK47 Edit)
Tripswitch – Calabi Yau
Ten Madison – After the Cut
Nomads of Dub – Spirals
The Kumba Mela Experiment – The Kumba Mela (Himaliayn Dub)
Ott – Smoked Glass and Chrome
Phutureprimitive – Elysium
Kuba – Mura

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Crispy - Salutations To The Soul

The finger-licken’ good folks at Chickenhed and one Pete Ellison have brought yet another wonderful bit of joy and mockery into this often way too serious world of ours. Introducing The Official Chickenhed Stylemaker.

Use the Official Chickenhed Stylemaker machine any time you
must describe your DJ or artist genre to someone!

OR – Use it as inspiration and invent a new musical genre altogether!

Here are my photos and a few short videos from Chillography 201.

 
Chillography 201 was fantastic! Beautiful beats and peeps groovin’ and chillin’ on the picturesque Seattle waterfront. Thanks to everyone that came out and enjoyed the day with us. I’m not sure how to appropriately sum up the positivity and community that I felt out there, but it was awesome. The only thing that could have made it any better would have been the porta potty that the city had promised us.

I hope you all will join us in the fall for Chillography 202.

The entire show was recorded, so I’ll have those sets up for download in a bit.

Here are a couple of great photo sets of the day:
by ECityBlues
by +Russ

Chillography 201 is today! See you at the Myrtle Edwards Park.

Performance schedule ::
12 – 1:20 Crispy
1:20 – 2:40 Lara
2:40 – 4:00 0×86
4:00 – 5:00 EQlateral
5:00 – 6:30 Osiris Indriya
6:30 – 8 Hendrik

 
Check out this sweet new mix from the Future Nurses. It’s a super groovy blend of techno and trance with impeccable mixing and programming. Also, they’ve printed up a boat-load of this mix on CD to pass out at future gigs, so be sure to grab one then. Better yet, download it now from the SoundCloud player below.

Tracklist ::
Future Nurses – Of Scientists and Spirit Guides
Adam K – Question
Ace Ventura – Presence (Khainz Remix)
Fiord – Get Up Jude (Beckers Remix)
Benjamin Halfmann – Close To The Edge
Denis DJ Ico – Plus Minus (Piatto Remix)
Day Din – Dance With Me
Beckers and DNox – Cala A Boca
Neelix – Ask The Right Questions
Yotopia – Offset
Perfict_Stranger – Simple Cells
Francis Preve vs Wolfgang Gartner – Yin
Perfect Stranger – Free Cloud
Felguk – Guess What (Perfect Stranger 24Ghz Paranoia Remix)
RPO vs. David Weed – Your Destiny
Rinkadink vs. Maelstrom – Enough Cash To Escape
Mantrix – Gaia
Digicult vs Fatali – The Return (Alpha F)
Future Nurses – I know this place

The current forecast for Sunday is looking perfect for enjoying chill vibes on the waterfront, and I’m now even more stoked after seeing the great photos from last weekend’s Playground Party in PDX.

Come on out, even for just a bit. This is going to be a great Sunday!