A retro set I mixed about 7 years ago at a time when SoundCloud was blocking certain mixes because of specific tracks - something that hasn't happened in a while, so I'm presenting it here now. This mix that continues the story of a mix that I played on the Trancendance radio program back then - I was in the flow and wanted to see where the direction of the set could continue if I had more time, and this is what I came up with... Not entirely sure the story is done (is it ever?), but 'Angelic' was a great way to end ...

The Infinity Project: Binary Neuronaut

Psychaos: SETI

Overlords: Naked People (Man With No Name remix)

Space Tribe: Machine Elf

Total Eclipse: Aliens

Excess Head: Another Planet

Cydonia: Screaming Darkness

Prana: Moretsu (Indigo & Baraka mix)

Psychaos: Return Voyage

Juno Reactor: Komit

Hallucinogen: Fluoro Neuro Sponge

The Infinity Project: Oscillator

Juno Reactor: The Heavens

Hallucinogen: Angelic Particles

My set for the Apsara Mini Online Festival on August 16, 2020. I had been due to play at the festival in Romania but as with all other events it was canceled. This set is very different from what I would have played at the festival - these are all released tracks (for my super-rare stuff, you need to hear me in person) - but these are all killers, and this set features a number that I haven't played in a very long time. I hope you enjoy it!

The tracklist:

X-Dream: Do You Believe?

Kox Box: Tribal Oscillation

Conspiracy Theory: Project Oblivion

Prana: Indigo (remix)

Growling Mad Scientists: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Space Tribe: Star Travellers

Prana: Boundless

Earglobe: Spherelobe

Doof: People In UFOs

Green Nuns of the Revolution: Magellanic Cloud

Man With No Name: Possessed

Infernal Machine: The Loin King

Prana: Alien Pets

Etnica: Tribute

Doof: Destination Bom (alternate mix)

Morphem: Loving Spirit

My morning set for the Intergalactic Sunrise streaming event hosted by Intergalactic Productions on the Goa Trance Australia Facebook page on May 2-3, 2020.

I was asked to play a retro set and given the 730am local time slot, so I opted for a somewhat slower melodic set that built up into some more uplifting "hurtle through the cosmos" kind of tracks.

There were some issues setting up the stream and I ended up starting late, and then Facebook cut me off partway through the broadcast, requiring a re-set, so I was a bit unnerved throughout and due to the stress, some of the transitions between tracks weren't timed as smoothly as I'd hoped; I'd considered remixing the set but have opted to keep this 'as is' since the overall atmosphere is still captured and the flow goes pretty well. I opted for longer transitions in general, working with baseline and melodic connections as opposed to just the kick.

The tracklist:

Taiyo (aka Prana): Aquaspace

Etnica: Astral Way

Prana: Voyager III (Voodoo remix)

Slinky Wizard: Wizard

Space Tribe: The Great Spirit

The Infinity Project: Telepathy

Space Tribe: Machine Elf

Psychaos: Science Fiction

Green Nuns of the Revolution: Ring of Fire ('live in New York' mix)

Satori: Back to Earth

The Infinity Project: Alien Airport

Slinky Wizard: Wizard (KoxBox remix)

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

A recording of a livestream set on the Play Goa page on Facebook as part of an online event on April 25, 2020. I had been asked to play night music, so ... that I did: lots of night-time stormers from the 90s, with a dramatic and orchestral atmosphere. Not all night music was 'dark' per se back then - the emphasis was depth and power.

Byte 1: Byte 1

Tim Schuldt: Flower Power

Hallucinogen: Thugs in Tye Dye

The Infinity Project: Noises from the Darkness

Psychaos: Chaos to Order

Ololuiqui: Argonaut

Cydonia with Tim Schuldt: Chrome Android

Fools & Tools: Itchy & Scratchy (unpublished mix)

Juno Reactor: Feel the Universe (Otto edit)

Tim Schuldt: Inner Child

Hallucinogen: Soothsayer (Lysurgeon General remix)

X-Dream: Radiohead (remix of 'Radio')

Juno Reactor: Kayuga Hime

My livestream set for the Psychedelic Virtual Gathering sponsored by Puzzle Effect on Facebook on April 12, 2020.

This retro set features longtime favourites - all released tracks, barring one slightly different alternate mix - largely from the 1994-97 period, key tracks and atmospheres that remind me of my earliest experiences with this music.

There's a glitch at one mixing point but I am keeping the full recording 'as is' as a reflection of how things evolved over the course of the live online event.

Track list:

Space Tribe: In the Hands of the Shaman

Psychaos: Soundbeams

The Infinity Project: Telepathy

Pleiadians: Taygeta (live)

Hallucinogen: LSD

Voodoo People: Quadsep

KoxBox: Loads of Flow (Molecular Mix)

Psychaos: Intellect

Total Eclipse: Toxic Caterpillar

Process: X-1

The Infinity Project: Superbooster

Prana: Moretsu (Baraka and Indigo mix)

Total Eclipse: A Little Bit of Heaven

The Infinity Project: Wow (Mix 4, unpublished)

Man With No Name: Tarantula

KoxBox: Stay Psychedelic

Doof: Mars Needs Women (Just 3 Words mix)

My guest appearance on the Trancendance radio program with host DJ Smiley Mike on December 15, 2019. In this episode, we discuss a little bit of the evolution of Goa trance into modern psytrance, where I make a case for a lot of the great music being produced now while acknowledging some of the issues regarding creativity and originality. I then play an in-studio set:

Disco Hooligans: Hands On (Outer World Elements & Purple remix)

Etnica & Tsuyoshi: Thunderbolt

Spindrift: Transfix

Pleiadians: Magnetic Fields

Total Eclipse: In Merge With Space

Prana: Alien Pets (Prastix & Space Cat 2019 remix)*

* unreleased - presale on Matsuri Digital's Bandcamp on Dec 25

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A glorious ambient mix made by David Dobson in Japan in the '94-'95 season. This mix was produced for the Tokyo-based shop Connected, who every month offered mixtapes for sale, one side being a dance mix, the other side being a downtempo mix.

I met David at a party he organized in October 1994 - the first time that I heard Olli from Space Tribe and my first real exposure to the 'Goa' sound - and he would become a kind of mentor to me during our stay in Japan. He soon left for Bali to go produce the Hikari brand of clothing, but still passed through Japan over the years and we both lived there in 1998-99 when I was more active as a DJ.

This ambient mix has long been one that I consider to be ideal, with a truly evocative atmosphere and brilliant progression of storyline.

Unfortunately I was unable to locate my original cassette purchased from Connected, so this dubbing was made from a copy I had made of that cassette. However, due to what I consider its 'historical importance', I am uploading it to share (privately for now).

A remix of my August 20, 2019 set that closed the Goa Guardians pre-party at the ZNA Gathering in Portugal.

I had agreed to have my set recorded, but unfortunately the device was accidentally set to microphone mode when it was plugged in. The audio recording of the 'air' at the event, complete with cheers and whistles from the crowd, is also uploaded elsewhere on this channel, but this current upload is a high-fidelity remix of the same story flow.

This recording features the first 2 hours or so of my 2.5-hour set, the last half hour of which featured three rare tracks that I am reserving for live appearances only: the legendary 25-minute mix of Slinky Wizard's track Wizard (the DAT title is 'Solar Journey'), the end of which I mixed with the last portion of a 16-minute mix of The Infinity Project's 'Uforica' and the opening of an unpublished mix of Hallucinogen's 'LSD 93' (featuring a different sample than the one used in the released mixes of the track, the one that would later be featured in 'Demention'). For this set remix, I have added a few minutes of these three rare tracks as a kind of closing medley, similar to the final few minutes of my actual set.

You can see some video from the actual set - including more of those closing three tracks than is presented in this remix - at this YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/b14BxC2wDYU

The track list:

Psychopod: Universal Mind

Prana: Primal Orbit

Earglobe: Spherelobe (mix 1)*

Brainman: You Are The Alien (alt mix)*

Total Eclipse: Area 51 (alt mix)*

Tufaan: Probe (Green Nuns rmx)

Doof: We Are Free (Desk mix)

The Infinity Project: Superbooster

Man With No Name: Energy Level 137

Prana: Animamundi

Hallucinogen: Shamanix (early mix)*

Noosphere: 23rd Chromozone (alt mix)*

Transwave: Absolum

The Infinity Project: Squidgy Atomicus

Transwave: Ulysses Voyage 1

Ayahuasca: Propella

Anubis: Rites of Ra

Slinky Wizard: Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen's Moon Strudel rmx)

Etnica: Merkaba

Plus a mashup of excerpts from

Slinky Wizard: Wizard desk mix (aka 'Solar Journey')*

The Infinity Project: Uforica (extended ambient into dance mix)*

Hallucinogen: LSD 93 (mix 4, introduction)*

* unreleased

My guest appearance on the Trancendance program, in which I speak with host DJ Smiley Mike about my recent experience at the ZNA Gathering in Portugal and 'retro' music (and music in general), before and after an in-studio mix (with my mixer still covered in Portuguese party dust) that features part of the flow from my 2.5-hour set at the festival. The tracks featured today:

Transwave: Absolum

The Infinity Project: Squidgy Atomicus

Transwave: Ulysses Voyage 1

Ayahuasca: Propella

Anubis: Rites of Ra

Slinky Wizard: Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen's Moon Strudel rmx)

Etnica: Merkaba

... and a taster of a super special rarity that was part of the closing of my set

The recording of my August 20, 2019 set that closed the Goa Guardians pre-party at the ZNA Gathering in Portugal.

While I had agreed to have my set recorded, unfortunately a button was pushed when the device was plugged in and it recorded via microphone instead of through the sound system, despite its having been connected. This is therefore an audio recording of the 'air' at the event, complete with cheers and whistles from the crowd, which can serve as a bit of compensation for the lack of fidelity of the original recording.

My at-home remix of the set is now available on this page:

https://soundcloud.com/djsolitare/dj-solitare-zna-2019-remix

This recording features the first 2 hours or so of my 2.5-hour set, the last half hour of which featured three rare tracks that I am reserving for live appearances only: the legendary 25-minute mix of Slinky Wizard's track Wizard (the DAT title is 'Solar Journey'), the end of which I mixed with the last portion of a 16-minute mix of The Infinity Project's Uforica and portions of an unpublished mix of Hallucinogen's LSD (featuring a different sample than the one used in mixes of the track).

The track list:

Psychopod: Universal Mind

Prana: Primal Orbit

Earglobe: Spherelobe (mix 1)*

Brainman: You Are The Alien (alt mix)*

Total Eclipse: Area 51 (alt mix)*

Tufaan: Probe (Green Nuns rmx)

Doof: We Are Free (Desk mix)

The Infinity Project: Superbooster

Man With No Name: Energy Level 137

Prana: Animamundi

Hallucinogen: Shamanix (early mix)*

Noosphere: 23rd Chromozone (alt mix)*

Transwave: Absolum

The Infinity Project: Squidgy Atomicus

Transwave: Ulysses Voyage 1

Ayahuasca: Propella

Anubis: Rites of Ra

Slinky Wizard: Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen's Moon Strudel rmx)

Etnica: Merkaba

not on this recording:

Slinky Wizard: Wizard desk mix (aka 'Solar Journey')

The Infinity Project: Uforica (extended ambient into dance mix)

Hallucinogen: LSD 93 (mix 4, introduction)