A recording of the set that I played at the Apsara Festival in Hungary on Saturday August 12, 2023, from 630pm to 830pm.

I was given a truly wonderful time slot leading into the final full night at the event, from full daylight at 630pm through to full darkness by the time my set ended at a bit after 830pm, enabling me to do a journey through various moods as the light shifted - one of my favourite things to do, as these transitions were among the most memorable parts of my experiences on the dance floor in the 90s.

Things had been super high-energy throughout each day, and I thought it important to provide a bit of breathing space, so I took the risk of starting things a bit more slowly for a gear change in the lead-up to the evening; this led to about half of the dancers leaving for a while, but those who stuck around went through a meandering journey through a range of vibes as well as different speeds - from 130 bpm up to 148 at times, ending at a full-power 140.

I had hoped to play Etnica's Screaming Butterfly just before things got dark, so I observed the shift in light in the previous evenings and fortunately was able to time it just right during the set ... and because the artist after me was a bit delayed setting up, I got to put on the Pleiadians epic classic Maia, which ended up blowing the lid off the party and making for an incredibly ecstatic climax to the set.

I delayed uploading this recording as there are a few unreleased numbers on here and now that one major one has been issued it was easier to consider sharing the set; I additionally opted to make an edit in one of the most exceptional rarities - unfortunately it's become a norm for folks to rip rare tracks off of online mixes and play them out - so for the purposes of home listening, the extended 'desk mix' of Slinky Wizard's Lunar Juice is about half of its full length and has a couple of fades. The rest of the journey is exactly as it was played ... including one challenging transition where the track's 'drift' made precise mixing impossible - very retro DAT-style!

I had a terrific time playing the set and I'm very pleased with the full journey, and I hope you will enjoy it.

A reworking of the set that I played at the VER: Exploring the Roots event in Goa, India on February 3, 2024.

I was given a sunset time slot on the Saturday of the 3-day event and my initial time of 90 minutes expanded to two hours, so I had an opportunity to go in a few different directions. I opted for a few longer, more lyrical mixes in the latter half to provide some breathing room and connect some melodic riffs from one track to the next.

It was a magical event, my first time in Goa and an amazing way to start the 30th anniversary year of my introduction to this global dance movement. I am so grateful and honoured to have had the opportunity to be there, and I am happy to share the story that was shared at the time.

The track list:

Juno Reactor: Guardian Angel

Space Tribe: Machine Elf

The Overlords: All The Naked People (Man with No Name rmx)

Slinky Nuns: Shitty Stick (Better Than A Poke In The Eye With A)

The Infinity Project: Alien Airport

Green Nuns of the Revolution: Ring of Fire (extended mix)

Semsis: Planet (alternate mix)

Arcturus: Compound

The Delta: Traveling at the Speed of Thought

Infernal Machine: The Loin King

Earglobe: Spherelobe

Doof: Destination Bom (alternate mix)

Ayahuasca: Propella

Pleiadians: Maia

Rhythmystec: Stellium

The Visitors: Tiny Little Engines of Creation

Mandala: Utopia

A mix I created at the invitation of Marios Makar of Total Eclipse for his Dice Radio program. It was requested in late September and the due date ended up being days after the attack on a party in our community that has shaken our scene and the world dramatically.

I was not particularly in the mood to hear music but gathered my forces and focused on channeling my emotions and energy into creating this story.

Beginning with the track Reboot (live mix by Etnica & Pleiadians) and ending with Sense of Unity, the new production by Prana (the first time the three musicians from the two incarnations of the group have come together to create a track), I thought that 'Reboot Unity' would be an appropriate title - a concept very much on my mind from the beginning to the end of this mix and very much at the forefront of my thoughts these days with the awful violence and divisiveness that's plaguing the world right now.

May we all experience, embody, and connect with each other from that innate sense of unity that is our true being.

The tracklist:

Etnica & Pleiadians: Reboot (live mix)

Hypnoxock: Mutant Zone

Morphic Resonance: Hypnoman

Hypnoxock: Magma

Shisho: Audio out

Kundalini: Creations

Kox Box: We Are Not Who We Think We Are

Tsuyoshi & Filteria: Time Slip

Atmik: Madness

Etnica & Tsuyoshi: Thunderbolt

Etnica: Microdrive (Hypnoxock remix)

Prana: Sense of Unity

A nearly 3-hour set that I played on Saturday April 8, 2023 at a private event in Ottawa, Canada at the invitation of Clone604.

I was due to play for two hours and then with one DJ being indisposed that was bumped up to two and a half hours - and then during the party the host asked if I would keep playing a bit longer.

It was a really fun event, small and intimate with a fantastic vibe on the part of the dancers who were really into the Goa sound - a rarity anywhere in Canada these days.

I hope you enjoy the set featuring a lot of masterpieces released primarily between 1994 and 1996, with a couple from '97 and one from '98:

Arcturus: 1000 Planets

Ayahuasca: New Moon

Man with No Name: Who Is It?

Slinky Wizard: Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen rmx)

The Infinity Project: Oscillator

Juno Reactor: The Heavens

The Infinity Project: Noises from the Darkness

Prana: Pneumatic

Aban Don: Electrifiled Night

Kox Box: Loads of Flow (Molecular Mix)

Voodoo People: Quadsep

Hallucinogen: LSD

The Infinity Project: Uforica (Voodoo People rmx)

The Human League: These Are The Days (Man With No Name rmx)

Slinky Wizard: Wizard

Total Eclipse: Toxic Caterpillar

The Infinity Project: Binary Neuronaut

Psychaos: Soundbeams

Juno Reactor: Kaguya Hime

Infernal Machine: Nocturnal Chainsaw Kerfuffle

Pleiadians: Asterope

Juno Reactor: Silver

The Infinity Project: Wow (mix 4 - unpublished)

Total Eclipse: A Little Bit of Heaven

The Infinity Project: The World of the Acid Dealer

Total Eclipse: Partycles

My closing set at the November 19, 2022 'Return to the Trance' gig in Ottawa, Canada, recorded directly from the mixing desk.

Organized by Gordon Clone604 (and his crew), who had heard me twice at ZNA Gathering in Portugal, the event was a retro party meant to highlight the best of 90s psychedelic trance.

I was given the closing set to go full 'Goa' with my selection and story - and I did. There were a few favourites here that I'd actually never played out and a few others that I'd not played publicly since the 90s. The crowd was awesome and the vibe top-notch.

I hope you'll enjoy it!

The Infinity Project: Telepathy

Eco: UFOlk

Shanti Druid: Insect-a-traction

Pleiadians: Maia

Rhythmystec: Stellium

Hallucinogen: Soothsayer (Lysurgeon Warning Remix)

Fools & Tools: Itchy & Scratchy (unreleased mix)

Orichalcum: Alien Homes

Prana: Indigo (remix)

Conspiracy Theory: Project Oblivion

Total Eclipse: Waiting For A New Life (Abbaye live 1995)

X-Dream: Do You Believe?

Transwave: Zero Density

X-Dream: Brain Forest

Mandala: Utopia

My reworking of the set that I played at the ZNA Gathering on August 19, 2022, from 11 am to 130 pm.

In the weeks and months leading up to event, I was ruminating over various tracks and ended up with about 8 hours in a shortlist for my 2.5 hour set (and I am never restricted to only the ones in the playlist but those are often the ones I feel more drawn to). As I worked on various flows in practice sessions, I was primarily aware of how I wanted to begin and end: starting with a blend of some excerpts from the three unreleased tracks that closed my 2019 Goa Guardians set (with the intention of making the intervening 3 years 'collapse'), paying homage to Olli with the first kicking track of my set and some others, and having Tiny Little Engines be the climax.

Although I am generally as known for my access to unreleased music as I am for my meandering storylines, this set was a bit different. A lot of artists continually tell me that the released versions were chosen for a reason: because they are great; and while some unreleased edits are of course amazing, lack of availability is not the only reason to play a track. I am constantly amazed by the astounding music that we have in our genre and I wanted to craft an upbeat story for that middle-of-the-day time of my set, so it was this vibe and character that were primary in my selection ... so even if it might seem to some like something of a selection of popular classics with fewer gear changes than I often incorporate into my sets, it's still (in my opinion) 'all killer, no filler' in a sequence that tells a cohesive flow-filled story, and the crowd was certainly beyond enthusiastic in its response.

I've replaced only one of the unreleased tracks I played at the event with the issued version as I know the artists did not want the unissued mix published.

I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did playing it - it was an unforgettable experience with an incredibly enthusiastic and responsive forest dance floor!

Track list:

(Ambient collage of Wizard, Uforica, and LSD alt mixes)

Space Tribe: Geo Matrix

Pleiadians: Alcyone live (alt mix)

Excess Head: Expo

Laughing Buddha: Karma

Total Eclipse: Chaotic Circus (live in Bordeaux)

Green Nuns of the Revolution: Lost & Found

GMS: Protos Upgrade

Space Tribe: So Deep

Green Nuns of the Revolution: Ring of Fire (extended mix)

Satori: Back to Earth

Universal Sound: Third I

Man With No Name: Tarantula

Kox Box: Stay Psychedelic

Infernal Machine: The Loin King

Space Tribe: Star Travellers

Doof: Destination Bom (alt mix)

X-Dream: Freak

Psychopod: Psychopod

The Visitors: Tiny Little Engines of Creation

Psyko Disko: Mon Ami

photo courtesy Sauriêl Creative Photography

I was invited to contribute a mix for Psylicious Radio and we timed the date to coincide with my birthday. Domino provided a mix too (shortly before her own birthday), as well as. the great artist Rigel also delivers a set, as does the wonderful host of the stream, EarthAlien. You can check out the full program here: https://soundcloud.com/psyliciousradio/presents-26-11-21

I wanted to start off with a track by Space Tribe as a hat-tip to our dearly departed Olli, and as I went through a number of tracks I wanted to play, most were in the key of D so I decided that with the cloudy, rainy weather we've been having in Vancouver and the shorter days of this season, a musical Vitamin D injection would be nice to have. So - while I always key mix, this time I didn't shift to relative keys and stuck with just that one for the whole set.

Enjoy the journey and injection!

Space Tribe: In the Hands of the Shaman

The Overlords: Naked People (Man With No Name Full Moon In Disco Valley Remix)

The Infinity Project: Uforica

Space Tribe: Machine Elf

Hallucinogen: Orphic Thrench

Psychaos: Soundbeams

Semsis: Planet

Killing Joke: Jana (Hallucinogen remix)

Pleiadians: Taygeta

Total Eclipse: Toxic Caterpillar

The Infinity Project: Binary Neuronaut

Orichalcum & The Deviant: Dawn of Epsilon

Hallucinogen: Angelic Particles

My mix for the online streaming event Sola Luna-Samothraki 20 Year Reunion, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the legendary Greek party. This online event was dedicated to the memory of Olli Wisdom of Space Tribe, who had submitted his mix just a few days before he died suddenly on August 23, 2021. Olli was my greatest inspiration in the scene and so I was delighted to be invited to participate in this event, which included sets by Total Eclipse, X-Dream, Gabriel LeMar, Jean Borelli, James Monro, and other luminaries from the 90s.

In preparing this mix, I opted for a 'new school' set in a throwback style, with some remixes of psy classics and newer productions that capture the harmonic depth and stylistic variety of the groundbreaking music of the 90s.

The track list:

Tsuyoshi Suzuki & Etnica: Thunderbolt

The Square: Animalia

Man with No Name: Neuro Tunnel (Tsuyoshi Suzuki & Uni remix)

Filteria & Tsuyoshi Suzuki: Time Slip

Astral Projection: Time Began with the Universe (GoKen remix)

Funky Gong: Mind Mirror

Spindrift: Mind Over Energy

Gorovich & Tsuyoshi Suzuki: Oriental Express

Hallucinogen & Hujaboy & Striders: Machine Selves

Iridian: Unexpected Visitors

Kundalini: Kanpai

Bezonance & Solitare: Nirvana

A bit about the inspiration for this mix - the full text and the tracklist are at https://djsolitare.com/old-dogs-new-tricks

I recall an amazing Equinox event in the Autumn of 1995 where Kuni played the whole night and the impression was that a cloud of quantum information would enter the dance floor in the middle of the forest and when it had communicated its message, another would come in and take its place as the old one left, and there was a moment to catch your breath and adjust to the new data entering the space. At times during these events, one had the impression that the music was not music, it was geometrical design and information that was communicating in sonic form. There wasn’t the sense that the DJ was a ‘DJ’ playing ‘music’: rather, the DJ booth was like a cosmic radio tower with an antenna tuned into outer space, picking up signals and transmitting them to those gathered in this tribal gathering.

Each time I play a set, the type of storyline and style of tracks are different, and my approach to transitions depends on track selection and how things line up, though there are general parameters that I always aim for. As a result of my classical training, my emphasis when mixing has been to try to connect more than just the kick but to find matching patterns between tracks and to blend those to create a thread of continuity beyond the percussive elements, at times with kick-matching and at other times not. Usually, it’s a combination of the two, but keeping the rhythm consistent and aiming to have one track ‘hand over’ the space to the next one in a less conventional sense, like multiple speakers reading different chapters from a book that one absorbs through the set.

As I tuned into the more hypnotic and nighttime storyline that emerged as this set evolved, I was drawn to more of that atmospheric cloud-like mixing style, where one track dances with the next along harmonic, rhythmic, and upper-register elements as opposed to the bass-level kick. As I listened with headphones, I was able to let go of the technical focus of the ‘mixing' of two ‘tracks’ and rekindle some of those early impressions of this music being more than just music but combinations of patterns gathered together and presented through sound waves, hearing things not in left-right, high-low mode but all-at-once, like voices coming both from the speakers and the centre of one’s head.

I believe that as we have gotten used to listening to this music at clubs and events over the years, many of us have adapted to a sense-based linear perception of what we’re hearing as opposed to a more embodied dimensional experience, and we can easily listen with a set of standards that can be mechanical rather than holistically musical. I know this has been the case for me, and listening at home can have its pitfalls, as you get used to hearing the music outside of the contextual space for which it was created, and on speakers whose size are inverse proportion to your body than what they would be at an event. But in the right outer and inner space, we can hear these sounds beyond the framework of the familiar and as an expression of something quite outside the ordinary.

All of us experienced some magic in our early years of attending these events - and sometimes since, too! - and it is my hope that these classic tracks in this storyline will enable some of those to be rekindled as they have for me.

A mix produced for GoatRanch.com's fourth annual Global Goa Party, which took place in 2014. The event was themed at 1995 and therefore featuring tracks only made up to and including that year.

For this set, I wanted to go back to the 94-95 branch of 'Goa' where the feeling was more upbeat and bouncy, reflecting the sounds I was familiar with upon my entry into the scene in Tokyo in the Autumn of 1994. I feature some of the slower BPMs from the time, which didn't sound slow at all (the first three tracks here are 130 to 132 but don't sound it). With a mild shift to melodic and a hint of night-time depth, I aimed to keep the overall atmosphere UP, trippy, spacey, and fluffy.

Dynamix: The Rezistor

Ayahuasca: New Moon

Prana: Voyager 2

Slinky Wizard: Wizard

Space Tribe: The Great Spirit (original mix)

North Central Positronics: The Great Bear

Total Eclipse: Toxic Caterpillar (alternate mix)

TIP: Superbooster

Man With No Name: Energy Level 137

Juno Reactor: Man to Ray

Psychaos: Science Fiction

The Overlords: Naked People (Man With No Name remix)

Hallucinogen: Orphic Thrench

Taiyo: Snake

Man With No Name: Moment of Truth (alternate mix)