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The first edition of Psychedelic Traveller Magazine is available in print and for download (available here). It contains essays and scene reports from every country that contains a psytrance community. Since its a free magazine the print edition is small, and the PsyTraveler website contains additional stories, links to parties, and more in-depth information [...]

(via cityweekend)
Mainland China has been one of the places on earth where psychedelic trance culture has not taken root. The gradual loosening of cultural restrictions over the past 10 years, including the re-absorption of Hong Kong into the country, has perhaps increased tolerance to the point where the first psytrance club in Beijing is now [...]

Onyx lounge has two outdoor balcony’s in a very intimate space nestled inside of a neighborhood in Bed Stuy brooklyn. This party is about love, peace, light and mainly the cutting edge newer styles of psytrance music known as electro and progressive as well as the finer styles of full-on.
Lets treat our ears to some [...]

These photos were taken at the Shpongle show at the Fillmore on May 2nd 2009 by Dana of Sonic Beating. Simon Postford dropped some tasty tunes and some unreleased tracks that left the audience floored. Before the show Dana had the pleasure of meeting Glenn Weikert and the rest of Arche Dream Humankind (the dancers). [...]

The Best Goatrance & Psytrance, 1995-2009
DJ Basilisk’s Essential Selections is a project chronicling the goa trance movement as it evolved, marking it year-by-year with significant albums and tracks released in each.
The main focus of this project is psychedelic trance, with an assortment of downtempo, progressive, and techno releases. The scope is the entire history of [...]

On April 10th, 2009 (Good Friday) the Philadelphia Shamanista Initiative held a private party to raise funds for the coming open-air party season. The fae folk were out in full force, as evidenced by the photo below.

Also notable on this spring evening was a raucous group wedding ceremony held by Winkel & Balktick.

Watch a remix of The Animatrix set to progressive psytrance by Dave Dittmer.

In three parts.

A golem is an animated being created entirely from inanimate matter (usually mud). In many tales, the Golem is inscribed with magic or religious words that keep it animated. Writing the Hebrew word “Emet” on its forehead activates it. By erasing the first letter, the golem is deactivated. Golems were a creation of those who were very holy and strove to approach God, and in that pursuit would gain some of God’s wisdom and power.

Shaman Dhia’s Golem is created from light, not mud. It is the first version depicting the chakras, nadis, and aura of a healthy, living, human system, including unseen geometries extending beyond the body.

Anya played at Psyforia on February 28th, 2009  then recorded this set live on Green Radio in Boston a few days later. She evolves from deco artist to DJ and pulls Sonic Beating forward.

Tracklist
Highko – Beast
Parasense – Do The Job
Pogo & Dickster – The Hoff
Digital Talk – ?
Priciples of Flight – Gloopy Gum Gum
Neuromotor – [...]

Photos from the Psyforia party in Boston, February 28th, 2009.