The Nexus of 2024

Tag: psytrance

  • Notes from Underground: The Dark Before the Dawn

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    Dancing in the darkness, Your deepest desires … Do you know why you’re here? Do you think you have control? — Lexicon Avenue, Why R U Here? What a week. What a month. Hard to believe I’m back on the fast track in the Silicon Valley startup scene.  Shipping!  Hiring!  Organizational issues!  Interpersonal conflicts!  Planning! …

  • Notes from Underground: Digging Out

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    To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered … We will save you We will save you We will save you From your selves — Robot Revolution (Say no to SOPA remix), Virtual Light vs. Wizack Twizack vs. ?, San Francisco over the holidays was a lot of fun but by early January we…

  • Notes from Underground: Eclipse

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    End-of-year schedule overload led to an intense week, complete with meetings trickling over to the weekend.  Sigh.   But Friday afternoon was sunny, so I knocked off early and went for a walk in the woods.  After dinner I took a short nap and a good thing too. What leads to a pivot? You don’t just…

  • Notes from Underground: NanoEvolution

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    Yeah really.  DJ Anomaly keeps getting better and better, the crowd was totally into it, the lighting made everybody look good, and at 5 a.m. cinnamon rolls appeared as if by magic … epic indeed! We had both spent most of the week sitting and working so had a lot of pent-up energy.  D had…

  • Notes from Underground: IllumiNation, Travelling, and Transition II

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    Why yes, I have been quiet for a while now that you mention it.  We spent almost a month on the road, starting with Sacramento for a privacy coalition meeting,  and SF for Olli Wisdom at Space 550.  We had juggled our plans to be at IllumiNation, and it was totally the right call.  …

  • Notes from Underground: Equinox+One and Solitude

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    Summer ended quickly in Seattle this year. One day it was sunny and 80 degrees; the next it was cloudy and 60. DJ Anomaly’s Thursday night Equinox+One marked the official start of fall with a great set — and some familiar faces. “Hey, I remember seeing you years ago at Infected Mushroom and Astral Projection…

  • Notes from Underground: Interim

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    It had been a week of solid work so by the time the weekend came around we were both more than ready for a break.  Friday night was 80s night at The Atrium … the champagne flowed freely and the hits just kept on coming, everything from Head over Heels to Two of Hearts (!),…

  • Notes from Underground: Intention and Transition

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    After last Saturday’s inflection point, the week was filled with writing, outlining, and business modeling.  Oh and Google+ of course.   Anxiously masculinity under threat, structural oppression, and nymwars … no shortage of interesting topics!  In a depressing kind of way, that is. So once again I was ready for the weekend.  Friday night, we dropped…

  • Notes from Underground: Darkness and Inflection

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    “When a corporation acquires great power, the use — or misuse — of that power is everything. Will it be used for the greater good, or for selfish and destructive means? Now this is a question we must all ask ourselves. Why? Because we are Google.” —Evolution (nymwars remix), Skyloops, remixed by anonymous It was…

  • Notes from Underground: Inoculation

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    Once again it had been a long week. Friday afternoon we went out to happy hour, then took a nap and danced for a few hours at Gibbous. And lucky us: Saturday night, DJ Anomaly was back at the Atrium for Inoculation. w00t! Like a snake that simply uncoils itself form its own not, passion…

  • Notes from Underground: Perseids and Assimilation

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    How time flies when you’re having fun! After another quick trip to the Bay Area for some wine tasting in Sonoma, we’re back in Seattle for the full moon, meteor showers, and back-to-back DJ Anomaly shows at The Atrium. w00t! Professionally, once again a lot’s happened since my last post on The Union of Bliss…

  • Notes from Underground: The Union of Bliss and Emptiness

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    A lot’s happened since Anomalous: Seattle Startup Weekend, a friend’s wedding, Pink Saturday and Pride in San Francisco (with sets by Liam Shy and Psysas!), Death Guild, Spook at Synchronize, Strangelove, the SF Mime Troupe in Dolores Park on the Fourth of July … after 10 days in San Francisco, we drove back to Seattle…

  • Notes from Underground: Anomalous at the Atrium

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    Tonight’s the Atrium’s official opening night, with DJ Anomaly headlining.  The venue’s really taken shape over the last few months and it’s been great to be a part of it.   There’s so much to like about it, including the way the lighting makes everybody look good.  Four friends drove up from California, reminding us of…

  • Notes from Underground: Retox, the Nexus Fire Ball at Space 550, and DJ Anomaly at ‘Beyond Rapture’

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    So between activism, NWEN, and qweries, I’ve been working hard but not killing myself — and still taking lots of time to have fun, hang out with friends, and get sleep. And the universe has been aligning. Life is good. — from DJ Anomaly and the Mysterious Voice of Ra Life has continued to be…

  • Save the Rave: Stop Surveillance in San Francisco

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    Hot on the heels of last month’s joint San Francisco Youth and Entertainment Commission’s hearing on electronic dance music, we’re back with a sequel.   Now, in what Jim Harper of Cato calls a “jaw-dropping attack on privacy and free assembly“, the San Francisco Police Department has proposed onerous new conditions for permitting for all…

  • Notes from Underground: DJ Anomaly and the Mysterious Voice of Ra at The Atrium

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    Wow!  We were bumming about missing last night’s PULSE in San Francisco with the legendary Green Nuns of the Revolution and Dutch.  But then we discovered that DJ Anomaly’s in the Seattle area tonight at one of our favorite venues.  I heart psytrance. After spending almost a month in SF, we were both glad to…

  • Notes from Underground: April Fool’s Day

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    It’s been a hectic few weeks.   It started with cleaning out our SF apartment, creating more space in the apartment — and attacking the storeroom from Hades in the garage.   We had put some stuff in there in 1991 when we moved into the apartment and then more in 1999 and then our Burning Man…

  • Save the Rave: AB74 improves, SFPD asks for ID Scans and Surveillance Cameras

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    Two days after the San Francisco Youth and Entertainment Commission’s hearing on electronic dance music at San Francisco City Hall, Hillary posted the amended language of AB74 in the Save the Rave Facebook group.  It’s a huge change.  Instead of criminalizing all electronic dance music events over 3 1/2 hours long the way the original…

  • Save the Rave at City Hall: Next Stop Sacramento?

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    At one point, a speaker was criticizing AB74, and a commissioner asked “are you ready to go to Sacramento?” The room erupted in cheers so loud that I couldn’t actually hear what the speaker said, but I’m pretty sure the answer was “yes”. Sounds like a good idea to me. Can’t wait for the afterparty!

  • Tonight: Save the Rave — live at City Hall!

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    “We’re dealing with the most difficult-to-motivate generation ever. People today feel so powerless, like they can’t have an impact on anything that matters. But you can! So one of the things I’m trying to share with the community is that when you come together, we can make a difference. ” – Save the Rave organizer…