Download » Leave Trace - Live at Chillography 301

For your listening and downloading pleasure is my live Leave Trace set recorded at Chillography 301 on July 31, 2010 at Myrtle Edwards Park, on the lovely Seattle waterfront. This chillin’-in-the-sunshine inspired performance included the premier of several new tunes, including a melodic downtempo remix of “Monday Mimosas”, the spaced-out “Zero G”, and closes with an unofficial Leave Trace downtempo remix of “Canyon Hymn” by post rock gods, Grails.

Enjoy!

Tracklist ::
1. Splendor
2. Breach
3. Monday Mimosas (Chill Then Serve Mix)
4. Shellshock
5. Zero G
6. Grails – Canyon Hymn (Leave Trace Mix)

MONSTER PLANET PART 12

Monday, April 11, 2011
9pm – 1am
21+
The Can Can
Seattle
FREE!

Monster Planet is a live improvisational, experimental, ambient night featuring local musicians, visual artists, and rotating guests with a random Sci-Fi / Horror B-Movie.

Movie theme: WTF

Featuring music by:

GEL-SOL
LEAVE TRACE
BRIAN OBLIVION
WILLIAM MEMPA
BLAKE PETERSON

So come down and enjoy a nice cocktail or two while having your brain fried with sonic bliss and movies so weird that they have to exist in order to keep balance in the universe.

The Can Can is now located on 1st and Pike Street in the Pike Place Market up the stairs by where the fish are thrown.

Happy Hour Absinthe specials all night.

9PM to 1AM, 21+

And it is FREE!

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Keep track of Monster Planet awesome sauce on the official website!
itcamefrommonsterplanet.com
soundcloud.com/monster-planet

Here’s a great live version of one of the many fine tunes Shulman is responsible for. Most “live” performances from electronic musicians sound exactly like they are just playing their CD and pretending to twist really stiff knobs, so I give Shulman extra points for changing it up on stage. I really wish this was the norm, but sadly for most psy musicians it’s not….

Presenting episode 15 of my Psilicon Dreams mix series for Digitally Imported Radio. The first half of the set is some super chill, meditative ambient that I’ve been setting aside for inclusion in a mix for a while now. I could (and should at some point) easily mix an entire set of nearly beatless ambient, but since that is not the true format of the Psychill station which Psilicon Dreams is created for, I pick up the pace and feature a slew of awesome new tracks by newcomer Subaqueous, Ott, Phutureprimitive, and Digital Drop (Isreal). As usual, this episode bounces all around the psychill genre, hopefully showing off the wonderful level of variety in styles that all contribute to this re-blossoming class of music.

Like what you hear? Let me know! And don’t forget you can grab lots of other mixes from my downloads page. You can also subscribe to the Splendid Beats Podcast and never miss another splendid download!

Tune in every second Saturday at 9am US PST/12pm US EST/5pm UK/18:00 Central Europe to catch the newest episode of Psilicon Dreams on Digitally Imported radio.

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Download » Crispy - Psilicon Dreams 15 (March 2011) (1hr 23min, 199MB)

Tracklist ::
01. Enuui – Chimbre feat. Mauxuam & Greg Hunter [free download]
02. Blamstrain – Frame Math [purchase]
03. Invader Tron – Native Planet [free download]
04. Planet Boelex – Suunta [free download]
05. Erothyme and Subaqueous – Nautilus (Erothyme Remix) [free download]
06. Morphonix feat. Irina Mikhailova – Fuzz Machine [purchase]
07. Digital Drop (Israel) – Shakti [purchase]
08. Uth – Reflections of Consciousness [free download]
09. Ott – Adrift in Hilbert Space [purchase]
10. Phutureprimitive – The Changeling [purchase]
11. Mauxuam – Jahnesh [free download]

For this month’s Psilicon Dreams episode, I again explored the fringed edges of the psychill genre. With two cups of bounce, 4 oz. of squigglies, one-and-a-half wobbles (minced), a dash of sub-oontz, and a sprinkle of psydrops (to taste), Psilicon Dreams 14 is a set of grade-A, peak-hour downtempo, meant to get those heads a bobbin’.

Like what you hear? Let me know! And don’t forget you can grab lots of other mixes from my downloads page. You can also subscribe to the Splendid Beats Podcast and never miss another splendid download!

Tune in every second Saturday at 9am US PST/12pm US EST/5pm UK/18:00 Central Europe to catch the newest episode of Psilicon Dreams on Digitally Imported radio.

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Download » Crispy - Psilicon Dreams 14 (February 2011) (1hr 20min, 183MB)

Tracklist ::
01. Grouch – Chops [purchase]
02. SeventhSwami – The Art of Letting Go [purchase]
03. Nagual Sound Experiment – Systema (Coopers Theme) [purchase]
04. Globular – Squabbling Gods [free download]
05. Hol Baumann – Benares (Vârânaçî edit) [purchase]
06. LuneCell – Alkaloid [free download]
07. Shiloh – Bleed [purchase]
08. Greg Hunter and Mauxuam – Hydra.phonica [free download]
09. Mr Projectile – I Am Back [purchase]
10. Invisible Allies – Turquoise Rain Chant [purchase]
11. Tipper – Neuron Huskie [purchase]
12. Sonoio – Not Worth Remembering (Ricard Devine Mix) [free download]
13. Shpongle – Walking Backwards Through The Cosmic Mirror [purchase]
14. Tripswitch – Strange Parallels [purchase]

The Monster Planet audio archives are making their way onto Soundcloud. Please enjoy these momentary snippets of our aural misadventures.

Latest tracks by Monster Planet

Followers of my Psilicon Dreams mix series should recognize the Sun In Aquarius name. I regularly feature his new releases, as they just push all my bassy-psychedelic-ambient-glitch buttons like few others do. And look what I found! A Sun In Aquarius live set. I do love hearing how an artist strings their tracks together to make a set. About the set he says, “A recording taken from my live set at Earth Freq Festival 2011, without the live sampling i perform over the top.” I’m sure that live sampling adds an extra layer of slippery goodness to his music, so it’s too bad that didn’t also get recorded. He must be mixing that stuff in at the main board and this recording is straight from his computer. Still a damn tasty mix, nonetheless, so stap on your snorkels and prepare your mind grapes for a squishin’. SiA is taking us deep with this one.

As I work towards completing my first album, I’m keeping most of my new music secret (or for live sets only) at the moment. However, I would like to share this new slice of deep, ethereal ambient techno with you all. Enjoy!

Hear and Know by Leave Trace

On Saturday, December 18, 2010 Digitally Imported’s Psychill channel celebrated Winter Solstice with an all-day event including DJ sets by Morlack, ROX, DJ Shroom, Majah, AuroraX, Mixtress Bloodwing, and me. It was quite a journey of wintery vibes and a pleasure to make a contribution to.

Available here for download is my Winter Solstice set. It begins deep in a sublime soundscape, including the premier of a new ambient track from me (Leave Trace), and moves its way into a perfect solstice inspired psychill groove.

Like what you hear? Let me know! And don’t forget you can grab lots of other mixes from my downloads page. You can also subscribe to the Splendid Beats Podcast and never miss another splendid download!

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Download » Crispy - DI.FM Psychill Winter Solistice 2010 (1hr 4min, 146MB)

Tracklist ::
01. Inanitas – Endless Hope [free download]
02. Leave Trace – Hear and Know [unreleased]
03. Solar Fields – Air Song (8 am Version) [purchase]
04. Mad Sheer Khan – Concrete Sunblock [purchase]
05. Tetarise – Great Grief [free download]
06. Perfect Blind – Surfacing [free download]
07. Kalpataru Tree – Prayer [purchase]
08. Aes Dana – Blossom [purchase]
09. Celtic Cross – Schwazz (Until Nothing Can Reach Us Mix) [purchase]
10. Son Kite – On Air (Midival Punditz mix) [purchase]
11. Cell – Body Temperature [purchase]

Here it is… Psilicon Dreams 12, my monthly mix of psychedelic downtempo electronica for DI.FM’s Psychill channel, for November 2010. This mix marks the beginning of year 2 for Psilicon Dreams. Crazy… I’d have thought that I would have run out of great music to put in these monthly mixes by now, but I keep being amazed by how much awesome stuff is out there. I’ll keep mixing them as long as it keeps being easy to find the good stuff. When that becomes work, though, that’s when I pull the plug.

This month’s mix was inspired by a growing pile of glitchy/scratchy/squishy tunes that just don’t quite fit within the standard psychill cannon, so I decided to explore the outer edges of the genre, and give these tunes their proper moment of glory.

The track highlights are numerous this month. Starting it all off is the Logic Bomb’s opening track from the classic TIP World release, Twelve. I had kind of forgotten about this release, but now that it is back on my radar, I’m sure other tracks from it’s all star line-up of artists will appear in future mixes.

Following that is another piece from Eitan Reiter’s Places I Miss That I Haven’t Been To. I really love this album and will likely end up including most of it in my mixes. It reminds me a lot of the classics of mid-90s, with its melodic arpeggios and straightforward song construction. It definitely takes be back some a great time for electronica, while modernizing the sound.

Then there’s another Sun In Aquarius track from his Liquid Fix EP. For those of you keeping score at home, I do believe that ol’ Sunny has appeared the most times in all of my mixes. I just can’t get enough of his über-deep explorations of psychedelic bass music.

Jumping a head a few and you’ll get to a new one from Tipper off his absolutely stellar new album Broken Soul Jamboree. Tipper’s brand of hyper produced music is always a cut above most, but his downtempo explorations on this album are really on a whole other level. It’s a shame he doesn’t get more attention in the psychill world, as he’s easily one of the best in the biz.

Out of Tipper comes the opening track from Mr. Projectile’s 2003 release, Sinking. This track really exemplifies the atmospheric and emotional idm that he is so good at creating. This track was a constant in my dj sets when it first came out, and I’m glad to finally get it in a recorded set.

Moving on, I present to you another track from one of my recent favorite releases, Cloudcycle, from Mauxuam and Greg Hunter, with help from Master Margherita, Ishq, and Liguna Lustra. This track is darker than my usual flavor, but it just moves me. The distorted guitar, the perfect head-bobbin’ beat, and all the psychedelic fx make for a killer concoction. More please!

Then to close it all out, and leaving the set on a serious high note, is a track from Nagual Sound Experiment’s epic Invisible Movements release. If you like bass and dub and psychedelia and precision percussion programming, you need this album. I’ve been waiting years for the perfect set to drop this track, and Psilicon Dreams 12 is that set. It’s got an old rave feel, while still keeping all that energy under tight control.

Like what you hear? Let me know! And don’t forget you can grab all off the past Psilicon Dreams mixes from my downloads page. You can also subscribe to the Splendid Beats Podcast and never miss another splendid download!

Tune in every second Saturday at 9am US PST/12pm US EST/5pm UK/18:00 Central Europe to catch the newest episode.

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Download » Crispy - Psilicon Dreams 12 (November 2010) (1hr 13min, 166MB)

Tracklist ::
01. Logic Bomb – A
02. Eitan Reiter – Just Another Night (Part 2)
03. Krusseldorf – Boxing
04. Sun In Aquarius – Enigmatic Vibrations
05. Etnoscope – Floating Feeling [free download]
06. Disia – Phone Knot [free download]
07. Gel-Sol – Glade
08. Warp Technique – Nightbreak (Demba remix)
09. Tipper – Cinder Cone
10. Mr Projectile – You Need
11. Kilowatts – Deliriously
12. Leave Trace – Oh Wow [unreleased]
13. Nalepa – Blue
14. Mauxuam and Greg Hunter – Nimbus [free download]
15. Kalya Scintilla – InLakesh
16. Hibernation – The Littlest Computer
17. Nagual Sound Experiment – Hexorcism