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Categories: Crispy, Events, Videos

Here’s a great capture of the Kinetic 4 event by RnK Productions. I and the Chillography room are featured in the last couple of minutes of the vid. Blow it up to fullscreen and enjoy the HD goodness. :)

Categories: Chill Room, Events, Leave Trace

A huge THANK YOU to all that came out to Monster Planet last night. What a fantastic Monday night turnout! The thrills and chills are to be continued on Second Mondays….

Categories: Cool Hunting, Videos

Wow. Check out this fantastic video of the 2009 OZORA Festival in Hungary. What a nice capture of the event! 2 tickets please. :)

Tons of festival and video info can be found at http://vimeo.com/8458060.

The official OZORA Festival 2009 Video created by Pumpui (www.pumpui.com). 1 hour long music video with 21 mindblowing tracks from well know artists.

tracklist:

Aes Dana – Leylines (Ultimae Rec. 2009)
Hang-drum live opening session performed by Norbert Pável and Christian Amin Varkonyi
Juno Reactor – Mona Lisa Overdrive v2 (Metropolis Rec. 2004)
Solar Fields – Good Times (Ultimae Rec. 2005)
Echotek – Don’t Be (Yoyo Rec. 2006)
Andromeda – Waterworld (Soul Surfer remix) (Yellow Sunshine Explosion Rec. 2005)
Liquid Soul – Prophecy (Yellow Sunshine Explosion Rec. 2008)
Vibrasphere – In control (Tribal Vision Rec. 2007)
Shpongle – The Stamen of the Shamen (Twisted Rec. 2005)
Electric Universe – Silence in Action (Electric Universe Rec. 2008)
Hyper Frequencies – Twisted Latitude (Syncronize Rec. 2007)
Pleadians – Vimana Pt 2 (Harmonia Rec. 2006)
Logic Bomb – Sonic Algebra (Solstice Rec. 2007)
Tristan – Terrordactyl (Nano Rec. 2007)
Man With No Name – Teleport (original mix) (Dragonfly Rec. 2000)
Hallucinogen – Deranger (Twisted Rec. 1996)
Entheogenic – Aranyanyara (Chillcode Rec. 2005)
Carbon Based Lifeforms – Photosynthesis (Ultimae Rec. 2006)
Allaby – Aurorae (Neurobiotic Rec. 2006)
Even11 – All night long (Unreleased)
Atmos – Twin Reaction (Iboga Rec, 2009)
Vibrasphere – Breathing Space (Tribal Vision Rec. 2008)

Categories: Chill Room, Events, Leave Trace

Monster Planet is a live improvisational, experimental, ambient night featuring some of Seattle’s premiere artists and rotating guests backed by random sci-fi and horror B-movies.

This month’s guests:

GEL-SOL
http://gel-sol.blogspot.com/

LEAVE TRACE
http://soundcloud.com/leave-trace/leave-trace-live-at-oscillate-9-9-09

BRIAN OBLIVION
http://soundcloud.com/brian-oblivion

SKOI SIRIUS
http://soundcloud.com/skoisirius

ELECTROSECT

WILLIAM MEMPA

Every 2nd Monday of the month at The Can Can with $5.50 Lucid absinthe and select absinthe cocktail happy hour all night.

And it’s free!

Facebook event post:
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110159109008616&ref=mf

Categories: Chill Room, Crispy, Downloads, Podcast

Here’s the April 2010 installment of Psilicon Dreams, my monthly mix of psychedelic downtempo electronica for DI.FM’s Psychill channel. For this mix, I spelunked the bassier depths of psychill and finished it off with a couple lovely beatless tracks to help send you off peacefully in to dreamland.

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.

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 6 (April 2010) (1hr 28min, 202MB)

Tracklist ::
01. Xerxes – One-Oh-Three (Timeless Edit)
02. Master Margherita – Super Dry
03. Sun In Aquarius – Birds of Prey
04. Androcell – Neurosomatic Circuit (Brain Waves Mix)
05. Ambientium – The Balance
06. Cell – Hanging Masses
07. Kuba – Life’s A Beautiful Beach
08. Squiddhartha – Aight (Balearic Disco Edit)
09. Green Nuns On Ice – The British Are ‘Avin A Laugh
10. Cosmic Fools – Bohemian Atmosphere
11. Solar Fields – The Stones Are Not Too Busy
12. Sync24 – From A to A
13. Evan Bartholomew – Reborn, We Fluctuate And Fade

(When possible, I link out to any free net releases that I’ve used in the set. If you like what you hear, follow the linked tracks, download them, and support the artists with your love!)

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Categories: Chill Room, Crispy

I recorded the April 2010 installment of Psilicon Dreams last night. Expect to hear a set exploring the bassier, dubbier side of psychill, and finishing with a beautiful, beatless cooldown. Tune in to DI.FM’s Psychill channel this Saturday, the 10th, at 9am US PST / 12pm US EST / 5pm UK / 18:00 Central Europe to catch its debut. I’ll post the set here for download later in the weekend.

» More info

Categories: Events, Leave Trace, Photos, Videos

Here are my Chillography at Kinetic 4 photos and videos. Many of them were taken by my lovely wife, so my performance with John Ames received a heavier emphasis than the rest of the event.

Categories: Chill Room, Events, Leave Trace & John Ames

It’s here! Kinetic 4 at the Pacific Science Center. We’ve been planning our portion of this event for sometime now and now it is time to make it all happen. :) Chillography is excited to not only have the best room in the entire PSC for stage (freaking robot dinosaurs!), but also having perhaps our best line-up yet. This will not suck.

Much of my excitement also comes from the fact that John Ames and I get to debut our new music project, A Delicate Moment. We play from 10-11, and have an entire hour of brand-spankin’-new melodic, dubby, psychedelic, downtempo goodness, heavily layered with John’s crazy cello skills. This set has been months in the making and I can’t wait to show off the awesome sauce that we have concocted.

Full event info can be found here: http://www.nwtekno.org/showthread.php?t=142958.

Categories: Events

There are two hot shows this weekend that are sure to put dance in your pants!


 
Tonight, Friday, March 19 is Head|Set with Vibrasphere at Waid’s. I love love love Vibrasphere’s blend of progressive, trance and techno, and word is he’ll be finishing his set with some their über delicious downtempo. They’ve been on my list of bands to see for such a long time now, and tonight I finally get to. :) Bonus points for having this at Waid’s House of Love. Such a great venue. Full event info is here.

Here’s a live(?) Vibrasphere set, from who-knows-when-and-who-knows-where, to get us all in the mood:
Vibrasphere  by  Psyjukebox
 

 
Then, Saturday, March 20 is Joe Nice at Chop Suey. This two-roomed, dubstep/techno show is sure the be a great counterpoint to tonight’s progressive trance extravaganza. I have to be honest… I don’t really know anything about Joe, but my friends who are putting on this event are really excited about him, and I trust them, so I am excited too. Plus, the rest of the line-up, and especially the techno side room are full of great DJs. At $10, I am totally willing to support my friends and expose my ears to some new music. Sounds like a fantastic way to spend a Saturday. Full event info is here.
 
Then Sunday, March 21, I’ll be sleeping in. Please do not disturb.
 
See you on the dancefloor(s)!

Categories: Chill Room, Crispy, Downloads, Podcast

Here’s the March 2010 installment of Psilicon Dreams, my monthly mix of psychedelic downtempo electronica for DI.FM’s Psychill channel. For this mix, I crossed all sorts of genre borders and included psybient, IDM, dubstep, downtempo, psydub, glitch, and a dash of ambient and sloa goa. I’m rather fond of this mix as it feels cohesive, yet covers so much psychill ground.

What do you think? Leave a comment with your thoughts on this amount of genre blending in one set.

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 5 (March 2010) (1hr 30min, 206MB)

Tracklist ::
I Awake – Journey
Capsula – Salviatona
Chronos & C.J. Catalizer – 4 am
Bad Loop – Pinta
Soliquid – Irreversible
Yggdrasil – Amazing Gnejs
SeaMoon – Pink Elephants
Sun In Aquarius – Riders on the Storm
Heyoka – Bubble
edIT – Laundry
Shulman – Odd Reflections
Vibrasphere – Late Winter Storms
Western Rebel Alliance – Spaniard
Younger Brother – Bedtime Story

(When possible, I link out to any free net releases that I’ve used in the set. If you like what you hear, follow the linked tracks, download them, and support the artists with your love!)

Please subscribe to the Splendid Beats Podcast and never miss another splendid download!