Tag: psytrance
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Notes from Underground: Transformation, Intersections, and the Road to Ultra
With qw3ries and the intersection between writing, activism, entrepreneurship, psytrance, and transformation (and in so many other ways), I’m not just rejecting choices but finding ways to synthesize and combine them. — from DJ Anomaly at the party without a name Indeed! It’s looking like my startup qw3ries‘ first forays into helping everybody get answers…
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Notes from Underground: DJ Anomaly at the party without a name
It was so underground that there weren’t any flyers and it didn’t even have a Facebook group. A tiny venue with headliners who we’ve seen at DNA Lounge and Barnevald, with DJ Anomaly opening and closing. The music was fantastic, amazing visuals, incredible depth, great colors. I heart psytrance. I was in a great mood…
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Notes from Underground: I’m noticing a pattern here …
Hey, guess what? Civil liberties activism and psytrance! Back in 2008, It’s the Fourth of July and we’re fighting for our civil liberties was written the day after Senator Obama responded to Get FISA Right’s open letter. It was a great moment in grassroots civil liberties activism, and the bonds we formed then have remained. …
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Notes from Underground: Vibration spanning the decades (New Years Weekend 2010/2011)
Last New Year’s Eve, the card for the “final outcome” in my Tarot reading was Temperance, which represents vibration.*  And what a coincidence: guess what tonight’s psytrance party is called? It’s been a long decade. Ten years ago, things were spiralling down: the dot-com crash, a stolen presidential election, with Enron and 9/11 fast approaching.  …
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Notes from Underground: Psymbolic and Entheogenic Garden. Hail Eris! All Hail Discrodia!
An experiment, a (net)work in progress, a meta-level solution, a work of art… e-luminatus Another Geomagnetic party at the Gingerbread House, and then Arjuna at a downtown venue I haven’t been before … time to take a quick break from the infowar and civil disobedience for a weekend of psytrance in San Francisco!
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Notes from underground: Electro-convulsive therapy (Mad Maxx and Space Tribe at Geomagnetic.tv’s Phantasmagoria)
Olli Wisdom was good, Mad Maxx was better, and Saturnia, Witchdokta, Michael Liu, Sausee and of course Spook all rocked. It wasn’t real crowded so the density on the dancefloor was perfect all night long. My glow-in-the-dark nails got rave reviews and my brand new pink Golas proved quite comfortable for dancing. Yay! The first…
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Notes from underground: Psylebrating good times
I eased back into things slowly after our vacation, visiting LA to see my brother and his family and then San Diego to meet a Facebook friend and hang out with D, who was launching PrivacyActivism’s graphic novel Networked: Carabella on the Run at ComiCon. How cool is that? By the end of July, it…
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Notes from underground: heading into the home stretch
It’s another Geomagnetic.tv party, this time at the Gingerbread House — which is open for business again, apparently having gotten its permits in order. San Francisco’s “War on Fun” has even gotten coverage in Reason magazine; as Lois Beckett asks in SF Weekly, is it enforcement or harrassment? Hopefully it’ll all be copacetic tonight …
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Notes from underground: Kinetic 4 at the Pacific Science Center
Okay, it might be stretching it a little to call it “underground” … still, Infinite Connections’ parties at the Pacific Science Center are always great fun. Promoters Amanita and Osiris Indriya are also the guys behind Hotwired, Seattle’s psytrance monthly, and know how to create a great vibe. The setting is amazing … Insect Trance,…
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Notes from underground: Warmth for Valentine’s Day
So tonight, and the rest of the weekend, I’ll be choosing desire over fear, trusting my intuition, trying not to analyze things too much, falling through the limitations of intelligence into pure and simple creativity, and bringing inner ecstasy back into my consciousness. And hopefully that’ll set the rhythm up for the entire year —…
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Tales from underground: HOTwired Seattle!
This’ll be the first time we’ve been to Seattle’s psytrance monthly HOTwired since it moved to Waid’s a couple of months ago. Aminata and Osiris Indriya, Lara, Blue Spectral Monkey … and it goes to 4 a.m. w00t! Time to dance!!!!!
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Notes from underground: from the Awful Aughts to a blue moon and an embarassment of riches (New Year’s weekend 2009/2010)
Wow! The psytrance scene tends to be feast or famine, but this is ridiculous! With New Year’s Eve falling on a blue moon and a Thursday night, there’s so many options for the weekend that it’s hard to know what to do. Good problem to have!
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It’s Goa Gil’s birthday … and we’re *still* fighting for our civil liberties!
… keep your eyes open for a river, once you pass the river, the driveway will be the first right after the river. There is a Scarecrow on the mailbox at the edge of the driveway. Follow the driveway to your destiny 🙂 — from the direction to Goa Gil’s birthday party Stop me if…
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Notes from underground: five years later (Space Tribe at Geomagnetic.tv’s Psyonesis)
As the sample Olli Wisdom started his set with phrased it, “To infinity – and beyond!” [At the set’s climax] a song built around the guitar part from Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (with a minor change in the only lyric: “I want my LSD”) had the whole crowd playing air guitar. “You gotta be…
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Notes from underground: Love and Devotion — and social network activism on Valentine’s Day
Last week’s Psylebration, rescheduled after permitting problems, debuted the cool new Sera Phi Healing Center. Tonight, it’s Rastaliens — psychedelic trance from Switzerland!
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Notes from underground: Beat University @ Supperclub
From Pyramind’s announcement: Beat University is a non-profit partnership between San Francisco institutions Pyramind, LoveFest and Supperclub to raise money for the only dedicated electronic music scholarship fund in the entire U.S. The quarterly series of electro, house, and trance parties at top dance venue Supperclub will donate all of its proceeds to help up-and-coming…
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Notes from underground, 2008/2009
What a difference a year makes … the venue’s the same, another New Year’s Eve at SomArts in SF, and Liam’s playing again in the psytrance room. The rest of the world, and my frame of mind? Very different. I’ve been rereading a lot of my posts from the last year as we work on…
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Notes from underground: Geo-solstice
Eight inches of snow in Seattle wreaked havoc with our travel plans but the good news is that I wound up getting to go to the Geo-solstice, at the Gingerbread House, geomagetic.tv’s party celebrating nine years with the Phoenix Family. Solid sets from Saturnia and Witchdokta and then a great one from Dr. Spook. Good…
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Notes from underground: the weekend after
Psymbolic 4, at the Gingerbread House in SF. Liam Shy, Dr. Spook, Predators (with their CD as a bonus) … it had been a long week so we left at about 3 a.m. and missed the last few DJs, but a fine night nonetheless. As we said our goodbyes to Spook on the way out,…
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Notes from underground (Hallowe’en pre-election version)
Last year on Hallowe’en , right before my last day at Microsoft, I wrote Hallowe’en’s always been one of our favorite holidays, and of course our hood is one of the best places to celebrate it. We’re both in a fairly low-key mood tonight, so rather than trick-or-treating, we’ll have a nice relaxing dinner, perhaps…