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the end of which I mixed with the last portion of a 16-minute mix of The Infinity Project's Uforica and portions of an unpublished mix of Hallucinogen's LSD (featuring a different sample than the one used in mixes of the track).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)

A guest appearance on citr.ca's Trancendance program, in which I speak with host DJ Smiley Mike about my recent experience playing in Belgium, as well as general discussions about the scene, such as DJ set length, the impact of the internet on parties, and so on. The tracks featured in my in-studio mix:

Sandman: Living in the Now

Xerox: Force of Life

Predators: Inverse Gravity (Martian Arts/Black Noise rmx)

SO5: Human Creation

Kox Box: We're Not Who We Think We Are (Ajja rmx)

Tron vs MTheory: Disorderly Tidy

Kox Box: Ghost Line

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A spoken introduction to my own introduction to psychedelic trance in Tokyo in 1994, the second of several podcasts that will explore the underground scene as it was evolving at the time and my experiences at this formative events and with some of the key producers and performers.

This second episode discusses the afterglow of my first mindblowing experiences at hearing this music and moves into the first time I heard Tsuyoshi Suzuki (in November 1994), the first CD I bought a few weeks later, the first mixtape I received, and the first Space Tribe clothing I bought... which came along with an introductory discussion about this scene from someone internationally active in it. Included in this presentation are a few representative tracks from the period.

A spoken introduction to my own introduction to psychedelic trance in Tokyo in 1994, the first of several podcasts that will explore the underground scene as it was evolving at the time and my experiences at this formative events and with some of the key producers and performers. This first episode discusses the two first times I heard this genre of music and the profound impression these experiences had ... Yet to come is how that interest continued to deepen and key musical insights within my first year of attending events.

Image of the Genki batik, painted by Sachi Dawanima