Soma in a Shirt
Posted December 1, 2008 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 2 Comments
Support netradio by buying a SomaFM shirt SomaFM streams electronic music on the Internet. They play good independently-produced tracks, but since they are a legitimate business they must pay heavy fees to the RIAA. SomaFM has been raising money since summer to cover their operating costs and they are still in debt. As of November …
actuate: afterparties
Posted December 27, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 1 Comment
The New Year’s Eve afterparties picking up where Actuate lets off: Burners & freeks can head over to Libation for 8… a party + a french toast breakfast, featuring ARROW FRIARTUCK MANNY You’ll have two ways to get into the Disorient afterparty at a reduced rate. We’ll have password-stamped flyers available at Actuate, which you …
partypics from the SEED Gallery in Newark
Posted December 17, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 2 Comments
the SEED collective is a newly-liberated art space in grim Newark, New Jersey. The psytrance community of NJ (psyNJ, technically) has been helping out with fundraising trance parties. Here are some photos from the event held on December 16th, 2007. Word has it there will be another dance party this coming weekend, this time with …
psychedelic summer festival guide
Posted June 11, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 0 Comments
The 2007 (and first) edition of the North American Summer Psy Festival Guide is up. There are a total of sixteen eighteen twenty multi-day gatherings this summer. I’ve listed them chronologically, with no distinction made between psy-only, psy-friendly, or TAZ festivals. Response has been so positive. I will certainly do this again next year. Read …
Spectra revisited
Posted April 21, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 4 Comments
A bit of local trance history. Before the Current Era (2005 – ?) chronicled so diligently here at di.onys.us, in the first years of the new millennium it was the Spectra and Omnitribe collectives that best served underground psychedelic trance music to the NY community. “The two crews worked both together and independently – bringing …
[mix] alienswede – live at activate
Posted April 7, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 0 Comments
Eiwe Lingefors of Alienswede shared his latest mix with the psyNY community. He played here in New York this past Wednesday at the weekly Activate party held in the Sapphire Lounge.
The mix is available for download.
Netfound poetics
Posted March 31, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 0 Comments
I came across this while investigating the local tribe out here in Seattle. In deep appreciation of those who shine… …I raise high my glass of wine. A patient smile can win you kin from strangers who have walked the mile to join the game. You tame the troubled, drifting hearts who wonder at the …
Links for 2007-01-13
Posted January 14, 2007 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 0 Comments
Hyperspace Studios</a The Art of Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman to psychedelic entheogen entheocentric visuals art artist graphics ars_psychedelia … 23 hours ago Wikinomics How collaborative neural networks will change the world to economics collaboration communitas community book… 1 day ago Transaction Net: Local Exchange Trading Systems – LETS Community-based currency models. What better way …
streaming old-school
Posted December 27, 2006 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 0 Comments
Tomorrow night on di.fm, Kri, one of the musical minds in the TOUCH Samadhi collective, will be streaming his latest mix. It is a look back at the sounds we heard back when psytrance first was first taking shape, back when it was known as goa. When: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:00 pm – 4:00 …
new year's eve in new york
Posted December 26, 2006 / By Steven Xavier Solipse / 0 Comments
For those looking for a party on the psychedelic side this New Year’s, the brothers behind Alladin Project will be continuing their fine tradition of hosting New York City’s largest holiday trance party. The usual psychedelic NYE perks apply: champagne at midnight, fruit and breads to break fast in the morning, exceptionally poorsighted security at …