Basilisk/Ektoplazm
@djbasilisk.com
Ektoplazm founder/Techgnosis co-founder, multi-genre electronic music curator-archivist and studio lizard based in Taipei, Taiwan. Strictly anti-fascist.
https://soundcloud.com/djbasilisk
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https://ektoplazm.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/djbasilisk
https://djbasilisk.com/
https://ektoplazm.bandcamp.com
Modern psytrance culture emphasizes escapism and an extreme aversion to "politics" as core values. This hasn't always been the case; witness Astral Projection contributing "Free Tibet" to this benefit compilation in 1996! Why "Free Tibet" but not "Free Palestine"? www.discogs.com/release/7785...
Various - Techno For Tibet Vol. 1
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of "Techno For Tibet Vol. 1" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Modern psytrance culture emphasizes escapism and an extreme aversion to "politics" as core values. This hasn't always been the case; witness Astral Projection contributing "Free Tibet" to this benefit compilation in 1996! Why "Free Tibet" but not "Free Palestine"? www.discogs.com/release/7785...
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Enjoy this trip
Enjoy this trip
Enjoy this trip
And it is a trip
Enjoy this trip
Enjoy this trip
And it is a trip
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Enjoy this trip
Enjoy this trip
Enjoy this trip
And it is a trip
Enjoy this trip
Enjoy this trip
And it is a trip
Ishkur's guide to electronic music showcases the wrong mental model to use when thinking about musical evolution. Music, like most culture, evolves rhizomatically, more like bacteria or plants than vertebrates. This effect is especially pronounced under globalization and pervasive internet use.
September 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ishkur's guide to electronic music showcases the wrong mental model to use when thinking about musical evolution. Music, like most culture, evolves rhizomatically, more like bacteria or plants than vertebrates. This effect is especially pronounced under globalization and pervasive internet use.
Into psytrance at all? For too long leading voices in this subculture have been silent about (or even openly supportive of) Israeli war crimes and the ongoing genocide. Sign this open letter of solidarity with the Palestinian people (and be sure to confirm by email)! openletter.earth/psytrance-in...
Psytrance in Solidarity
openletter.earth
September 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Into psytrance at all? For too long leading voices in this subculture have been silent about (or even openly supportive of) Israeli war crimes and the ongoing genocide. Sign this open letter of solidarity with the Palestinian people (and be sure to confirm by email)! openletter.earth/psytrance-in...
RA dropping an absolutely scathing evisceration of gentrified Afro house and the blandness of mainstream club culture in 2025. ra.co/features/4469
The Great Regression · Feature ⟋ RA
We've all seen it: Keinemusik's dead crowds, Ibiza VIP platforms, Euro-washed Afro house. 2020s mainstream clubbing is an algorithm-smoothed spectacle that rewards mediocrity. Yet it's booming. Rachel...
ra.co
September 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
RA dropping an absolutely scathing evisceration of gentrified Afro house and the blandness of mainstream club culture in 2025. ra.co/features/4469
Essential reading about "psywashing", the process by which global psytrance culture is captured by Israeli ultranationalists to deflect criticism of (and ultimately legitimize) the ongoing genocide. Major festivals are complicit in their silence and booking choices. In Spanish but easily translated.
🇮🇱Own Spirit y ‘psywashing’: cuando la cultura trance sirve para legitimar a Israel y el genocidio en Gaza.
✍🏻María Giaever y José Angulo Fernández.
🎨 @sanchosomalo.bsky.social
https://elsal.to/43997
✍🏻María Giaever y José Angulo Fernández.
🎨 @sanchosomalo.bsky.social
https://elsal.to/43997
September 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Essential reading about "psywashing", the process by which global psytrance culture is captured by Israeli ultranationalists to deflect criticism of (and ultimately legitimize) the ongoing genocide. Major festivals are complicit in their silence and booking choices. In Spanish but easily translated.
TRiP was my introduction to psychedelic trance fandom and discourse online. It was active from around 1996 to 2000 and offered taste-making music reviews, event listings, and pseudonymous discussion forums. Before it went offline I archived everything... it makes for a fascinating time capsule 👽
![Screenshot of a music review page on TRiP circa 2000. This is the slightly older format in yellow on black. The review is for Deviant Electronics - Brainwashing Is Childs [sic] Play.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybirkjdb6jla4rkqzgzytjfj/bafkreidmw5o5e5rc2qutet4clfwkvguhcaoe5xep237hyhvds2xq6hgvym@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
TRiP was my introduction to psychedelic trance fandom and discourse online. It was active from around 1996 to 2000 and offered taste-making music reviews, event listings, and pseudonymous discussion forums. Before it went offline I archived everything... it makes for a fascinating time capsule 👽
Back in the late 1990s I was so into spinning wax that I actually went to the trouble (and expense) of pressing a dubplate to mix some CD-only tracks: Jaïa - Maï Maï and Nuclear Ramjet - La Chevauchée Fantastique. I wonder where it ended up?
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Back in the late 1990s I was so into spinning wax that I actually went to the trouble (and expense) of pressing a dubplate to mix some CD-only tracks: Jaïa - Maï Maï and Nuclear Ramjet - La Chevauchée Fantastique. I wonder where it ended up?
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
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Middle East crisis – live updates
A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts.
It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
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We're continuing to grow our cooperative network and reached a new milestone. 1,000 Labels.
Independent labels, artists, supporters, and workers are all joining together to build something needed after two corporate sales: a collectively-owned Bandcamp successor.
Independent labels, artists, supporters, and workers are all joining together to build something needed after two corporate sales: a collectively-owned Bandcamp successor.
September 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We're continuing to grow our cooperative network and reached a new milestone. 1,000 Labels.
Independent labels, artists, supporters, and workers are all joining together to build something needed after two corporate sales: a collectively-owned Bandcamp successor.
Independent labels, artists, supporters, and workers are all joining together to build something needed after two corporate sales: a collectively-owned Bandcamp successor.
Sven Väth swimming with dolphins in this idyllic early 90s chill-out music video is quite the vibe 🐬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZKV...
Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (1993) HQ
YouTube video by skv90s
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Sven Väth swimming with dolphins in this idyllic early 90s chill-out music video is quite the vibe 🐬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZKV...
My old friend Ukiro started a new channel to discuss record collecting and hi-fi audio gear... but mostly music! This video is something I *really* resonate with; collecting can easily become hoarding, and it's very possible to take this hobby to unhealthy extremes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJK0...
I have 6000 records. How did I choose them?
YouTube video by ukiro music
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My old friend Ukiro started a new channel to discuss record collecting and hi-fi audio gear... but mostly music! This video is something I *really* resonate with; collecting can easily become hoarding, and it's very possible to take this hobby to unhealthy extremes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJK0...
I found these cassette tape scans in a retro trance group on Facebook. Apparently they're from Goa Gil's collection and, judging by the track listings, probably date to the 1987 or 1988 season. It's a fascinating blend of early new beat, electro-industrial dance, and acid house.
September 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I found these cassette tape scans in a retro trance group on Facebook. Apparently they're from Goa Gil's collection and, judging by the track listings, probably date to the 1987 or 1988 season. It's a fascinating blend of early new beat, electro-industrial dance, and acid house.
I miss many things about the early 2000s but burning, marking up, and maintaining CDs is not really one of those. I had a policy of never bringing originals to gigs so I used to carry two huge binders with 256 CDs apiece.
August 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I miss many things about the early 2000s but burning, marking up, and maintaining CDs is not really one of those. I had a policy of never bringing originals to gigs so I used to carry two huge binders with 256 CDs apiece.
My music library has a list configured to deduplicate tracks based on audio CRC-32 values... and out of 300k+ files there is, amazingly, one unexpected collision!
The surprising couple? Atom Heart's pounding Urban Primitivism - 684 and MentalImage - Uninhabited Planet from the Gliese 581C netlabel.
The surprising couple? Atom Heart's pounding Urban Primitivism - 684 and MentalImage - Uninhabited Planet from the Gliese 581C netlabel.
August 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My music library has a list configured to deduplicate tracks based on audio CRC-32 values... and out of 300k+ files there is, amazingly, one unexpected collision!
The surprising couple? Atom Heart's pounding Urban Primitivism - 684 and MentalImage - Uninhabited Planet from the Gliese 581C netlabel.
The surprising couple? Atom Heart's pounding Urban Primitivism - 684 and MentalImage - Uninhabited Planet from the Gliese 581C netlabel.
I love how hi-tech chews up the music of last century and spits it out of a railgun at escape velocity. Recognize that vocal sample? soundcloud.com/multidimensi...
Xenarius Vs Laserbreak - Lunar Chronicles
GET IT @ BANDCAMP: https://multidimensionalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/xenarius-future-chronicles
Multidimensional Music is proud and happy to present the Debut album of Xenarius and Friends
soundcloud.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I love how hi-tech chews up the music of last century and spits it out of a railgun at escape velocity. Recognize that vocal sample? soundcloud.com/multidimensi...
Browsing the Active Meditation catalogue and stumbled upon Skoll Streik, a hard-as-nails darkpsy tune by label boss Demoniac Insomniac, sampling Greta Thunberg! "We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not..."
activemeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-fea...
activemeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-fea...
No Fear Kali Is Here, by Demoniac Insomniac
11 track album
activemeditationmusic.bandcamp.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Browsing the Active Meditation catalogue and stumbled upon Skoll Streik, a hard-as-nails darkpsy tune by label boss Demoniac Insomniac, sampling Greta Thunberg! "We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not..."
activemeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-fea...
activemeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-fea...
Sometimes you just have to marvel at the incredible kitschiness of 90s rave music. Gotta love the state-of-the-art 3D graphics in the video too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jH...
Celtic Kings Of Rock - Rave The Brave
YouTube video by Luke L
www.youtube.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Sometimes you just have to marvel at the incredible kitschiness of 90s rave music. Gotta love the state-of-the-art 3D graphics in the video too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jH...
The psytrance subreddit is going "no politics" to smother support for Palestine and criticism of Israel's genocide, plenty of which seems sparked by the recent drama of Skazi pulling out of Tomorrowland.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." 💡
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." 💡
July 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The psytrance subreddit is going "no politics" to smother support for Palestine and criticism of Israel's genocide, plenty of which seems sparked by the recent drama of Skazi pulling out of Tomorrowland.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." 💡
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." 💡
Catching up on what Irori Music put out since Ektoplazm went into hibernation and this hi-tech release from 2020 is an immediate WOW signal. It ticks all the boxes: killer bass-heavy beats, transcendent atmospheres, a good balance of glitch and groove. irorimusic.bandcamp.com/album/cronoc...
Cronocrator (16-bit), by Zendumm
7 track album
irorimusic.bandcamp.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Catching up on what Irori Music put out since Ektoplazm went into hibernation and this hi-tech release from 2020 is an immediate WOW signal. It ticks all the boxes: killer bass-heavy beats, transcendent atmospheres, a good balance of glitch and groove. irorimusic.bandcamp.com/album/cronoc...
Skazi cancels himself at Tomorrowland. Given his overt and unapologetic support of Israel's genocide in Gaza why was he even invited in the first place? www.belganewsagency.eu/israeli-dj-s...
Israeli DJ Skazi cancels performance at Tomorrowland
Israeli DJ Skazi has cancelled his performance at Tomorrowland due to "security considerations", following controversy over his support for the...
www.belganewsagency.eu
July 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Skazi cancels himself at Tomorrowland. Given his overt and unapologetic support of Israel's genocide in Gaza why was he even invited in the first place? www.belganewsagency.eu/israeli-dj-s...
This is perfection ✨️
I love how this shitpost is psytrance.
Happy Monday welcome to the Clippy Rave
July 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is perfection ✨️
This record from Out of Orbit Recordings really flew under the radar all these years... but it's obvious this is a pseudonym for some more well-known producer(s). Rendez-Vous at Night certainly sounds like Anders Trentemøller! Maybe the others are Martinez.
www.discogs.com/release/5880...
www.discogs.com/release/5880...
Ibn Al-Khimiya - Rendez-Vous At Night
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2005 Vinyl release of "Rendez-Vous At Night" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This record from Out of Orbit Recordings really flew under the radar all these years... but it's obvious this is a pseudonym for some more well-known producer(s). Rendez-Vous at Night certainly sounds like Anders Trentemøller! Maybe the others are Martinez.
www.discogs.com/release/5880...
www.discogs.com/release/5880...
@stanthemanchan.bsky.social Nice to see you here! Cool pfp too 🦋
July 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@stanthemanchan.bsky.social Nice to see you here! Cool pfp too 🦋
Just purchased 15 rare old tunes from JunoDownload and it's a small miracle none are transcodes or vinyl rips.
July 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Just purchased 15 rare old tunes from JunoDownload and it's a small miracle none are transcodes or vinyl rips.