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Jean Paul Gaultier: SS96 'Cyberbaba/Cyberhippie' Collection Tribal Tattoo Print Short-Sleeve Shirt (1996)

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Today's compilation:

Trance Psyberdelic 1997 Goa Trance / Psytrance

I honestly really couldn't tell you what the differences between Goa trance and psytrance are. They seem to be used interchangeably to describe the same type of psychedelic dance music, and for those that claim to listen to both, everyone seems to have a different opinion about what makes one and what makes the other. At the end of the day, It's all kind of inane and mind-numbing since there's no consensus, but Goa trance is a highly acidic form of trance that originated in the tiny coastal Indian state of Goa in the early 90s. Tourists from Europe then found their way to its beach raves and brought it back home, and Paul Oakenfold popularized it further in December of 1994 with the airing of his Essential Mix aka the Goa Mix on BBC Radio 1. In the US, it also found favor among both the cyberhippies and Silicon Valley-types who took psychedelics, and those two walks of life would coalesce together at Burning Man and provide a platform for the music in the Nevada desert. And for some reason, in the late 90s, it seems that people started labeling Goa trance as psytrance too 🤷‍♂️.

So, while I've never been able to say that I genuinely like this stuff, there are a couple tunes on this 1997 comp from the often underwhelming, LA-based Moonshine Music that actually managed to resonate with me a little bit. Trance Psyberdelic has a dark vibe to it, overall, and it seems to put its best foot forward with its 10-minute opener in "Dominion," by UX. But you have to endure all this fast and corny, acid stab-addled, eyeroll-inducing muck to get to its most transcendent part, which occurs in the second half, when a complete changing of the rhythm seems to suddenly occur.

I guess what Goa and psy basically come down to, though, is that you either fall prey to the foundational beds of acid stabs and squelches or you don't. And I definitely don't. And I love a thick, layered, textured, intricate sound where there's all these little pieces that make a dance track whole, and when pretty much any other genre does it, I'm blown away by it. But that's just not the case for me with this music here. Goa/psy appears to be an acquired taste, and while I've found a very small handful of tunes over the years that I do enjoy to some degree, I don't think I'll ever actually end up acquiring that taste.

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never stop dreaming

[cyberhippyofficial-blog]

Don't forget to check out my remix of Safe In Sound by @sexwhalesmusic and @i.am.omri. I worked my butt off in this one and Im so proud of it and would love all the support. The link is in my bio. Lemme know what you guys think :) #edm #chill #electro #electrohouse #trap #dubstep #drumstep #remix #bootleg #cyberhippy #soundcloud #safeinsound

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This is how I record sets now. #ontheroad @mrkgmusic on driving duties gives me the chance to record my long-awaited new mix, on the way to @alldayidreamintheclouds and @natureofmusic at @stereomontreal after. Shaping up to be a stellar weekend! #alldayimix #inthecar #djlife #cyberhippie (at Ontario Highway 401)

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Why Him?

Regie: John Hamburg         Gesehen am: 17.01.2017                 Wertung: 04/10

„Ich wollte dich nur beschützen.“

Eigentlich machte ja schon der Trailer von „Why Him?“ eine eher schwachen Eindruck. Die ausgelutschte Story vom etwas grimmigen Schwiegervater, der den Freund der Tochter nicht ausstehen kann im tausendsten Aufguss. Dennoch ertappte man sich bei dem ein oder anderen Grinsen und das ganze wirkte dann doch auf irgendwie charmante Art bescheuert, so das man am Ende mal einen Blick riskieren wollte. Gesagt, getan.

Im Kino zeigt sich dann auch, dass der Eindruck aus dem Trailer ziemlich genau ins Schwarze getroffen hat. Die Handlung und die Figuren sind einfach nur total dämlich. Die Gags sind in der der ersten Hälfte jedoch durchaus auf charmante Art bescheuert und können den einen oder anderen Lacher auslösen. An vielen Stellen wirken auch diese aber viel zu gewollt und versanden einfach nur im Fäkalismus. Auch das kann durchaus gut gemacht sein, man denke etwa nur an „Dirty Grandpa“, bei „Why Him?“ hat der Zuschauer aber bei Weitem nicht so viel Spaß wie James Franco, der seinen durchgeknallten, manchmal leicht zurück geblieben wirkenden Cyberhippie mit sichtlicher Freude spielt. Nach der zu erwartenden Versöhnung am Ende kommt es dann aber noch einmal richtig Dicke, als Gene Simmons und Paul Stanley von KISS ihren eigenen Mythos mit dem peinlichsten Gastauftritt aller Zeiten demontieren. Was zum Teufel war da los? Hollywood, you can be evil!    

Rico Handorf

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1990s Downtempo Playlist

Small update here to my slowly growing playlist of 90s downtempo tunes, with two fantastic additions from ‘93 and ‘94 to the Spotify version, both of which serve as some excellent, wholly engrossing, and lush chillout room fare 😌.

First song comes off of a cyberhippy compilation that was put out by the FFRR label called California Dreaming, which highlighted this psychedelic current of great electronic music that was coming out of the Golden State in the early 90s. It has a song on it called “Transmit Liberation,” by San Francisco group Single Cell Orchestra, and it’s an over 9-and-a-half minute piece of slow-moving, trip hoppy bliss.

Other song comes from a compilation put out by legendary Frankfurt label Harthouse, which was far more known for its trance and techno tunes. But this song, off of their Dark Hearts - Volume 1 compilation is by none other than Frankfurt’s own Oliver Lieb, who’s operating under his Ambush moniker here to deliver us some majestic, cinematic aquatica in a song called “Casablanca.” It’s a song you could picture soundtracking a dramatic, slow-mo cannon battle between two ships or something. And it has a tribal element to it too, with its drumbeat.

Single Cell Orchestra - “Transmit Liberation” The Ambush - “Casablanca”

And for the YouTube version of this playlist, I added those two songs plus another one from that California Dreaming comp that’s not on Spotify. It’s called “Cantamilla,” by an eclectic guy who was originally from Chicago but eventually made his way to Los Angeles named Tranquility Bass. In ‘94 he had a song appear on the Mo’ Wax label’s iconic Headz compilation, and in ‘97 he had an album that was released on Astralwerks, but before any of that happened, “Cantamilla” appeared on that California Dreaming comp. It’s a super chill trip hop tune with nice strings, sweet keys, and sampled bits of Cuban and Indian vocals. Pure early 90s downtempo and trip hop excellence.

Tranquility Bass - “Cantamilla”

Playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, here’s where things stand, currently. You can choose to listen to the Spotify version of this playlist, which is at 33 songs and just under 3-and-a-half hours, or you can choose to listen to the YouTube version, which is at 56 songs and over 6 hours. I understand that Spotify is the more convenient option, but you know what the actual correct choice is here 😁.

And if both 3-and-a-half and 6 hours both sound way too long to you, don’t worry, because I’ve got a much shorter playlist of just downtempo tunes from 1993 as well, which clocks in at a little over an hour and 40 minutes.

1993 Downtempo: YouTube / YouTube Music

Enjoy this small update!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!  

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1990s Trip Hop Playlist

Hey, guess what? Today’s my birthday! And for my birthday, it would be super cool if you liked and reblogged this 90s trip hop playlist update post I’m about to write! So, here goes!

This week’s update is a lot similar to last week’s 90s downtempo playlist update. There’s similarities between the two genres (in fact, Wikipedia says they’re synonymous), but they are indeed somewhat different, despite there sometimes being overlap between the two. And for this week, there’s overlap. For this Spotify playlist, I added one song: “Transmit Liberation,” by San Francisco’s Single Cell Orchestra, which comes off of a cyberhippy comp from the FFRR label called California Dreaming that highlighted a certain psychedelic current of great electronic music that was coming out of the Golden State in the early 90s. The song’s an over 9-and-a-half minute piece of slow-moving, trip hoppy bliss 😊.

Single Cell Orchestra - “Transmit Liberation”

And for the YouTube version of this playlist, I added that Single Cell Orchestra song, plus another one from that California Dreaming comp that’s not on Spotify. It’s called “Cantamilla,” by an eclectic guy who was originally from Chicago but eventually made his way to Los Angeles named Tranquility Bass. In ‘94 he had a song appear on the Mo’ Wax label’s iconic Headz compilation, and in ‘97 he had an album that was released on Astralwerks, but before any of that happened, “Cantamilla” appeared on that California Dreaming comp. It’s a super chill trip hop tune with nice strings, sweet keys, and sampled bits of Cuban and Indian vocals. Pure early 90s downtempo and trip hop excellence 😌.

Tranquility Bass - “Cantamilla”

Playlist is also on YouTube Music

Now, last week I neglected to mention the play counts for both of these tunes. Between both Spotify and YouTube, the full over 9-and-a-half-minute version of “Transmit Liberation” has totaled about 46.6K plays, but the play count for Tranquility Bass’s “Cantamilla” on YouTube, across all its different near 7-minute uploads, is way higher, having amassed around 245.4K plays. A lot of times I post pretty obscure tracks, but these two seem to be a bit more popular. Plus, a shortened version of “Transmit Liberation” is included on a Cafe del Mar comp from 2017 too, and that version has over 335.3K plays on Spotify! 😯 So, a lot of people seem to be missing out on this much longer version then!

So, here’s where things currently stand: the Spotify version of this playlist is at 34 songs and a little over 3 hours, but the YouTube version is at 58 songs and a little over 5 and-a-half hours! And while this week’s playlist update overlaps with last week’s 90s downtempo update, there’s really not *too* much overlap between the two playlists, overall. So, consider following/liking both!

1990s Downtempo: Spotify / YouTube / YouTube Music

Will be updating other playlists with other dope songs from this California Dreaming comp over the next few weeks, so if you dig this cyberhippy vibe, I’ve got more on the way.

Enjoy this small update in the meantime, though!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!    

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1990s Trance Playlist

Got a small update for this 1990s trance playlist that I’m slowly building here, with two tracks that, for now, will properly be serving as bookends. I always like to chronologize these playlists of mine, so you can sort of witness an evolution of a certain type of music, but coincidentally, this pair of adds works just as well as an opener and closer, almost as if I was putting together some sort of 90s trance DJ mix myself 😊.

So, first add comes from a compilation I’ve been posting about every Sunday for the past few weeks now: 1994′s California Dreaming, which was put out by the FFRR label, and did an awesome job of showcasing this electronically eclectic, early 90s cyberhippy phenomenon that was emanating from the Golden State at the time. The song’s called “3 Nudes (Having Sax on Acid),” by Hawke, and if that title suggests something super intense and sexual to you, don’t be fooled, because it’s actually a mildly chill tune 😌. And it has a bit more of a housey backbeat to it too, and is much slower than your typical trance tune as well, but with the way it’s constructed, it’s definitely still way more trance than it is house. Hawke, aka Gavin Hardkiss, would grow to become a staple of the San Francisco dance scene, along with his pals Robbie and Scott Hardkiss, but this track that originally comes off his own debut 12-inch only currently has about 13.3K+ streams on Spotify, which is criminally low, if you ask me.

Other add I have is just an all-time progressive trance classic banger: DJ Tiësto’s “In Search of Sunrise” remix of Delerium’s “Silence,” which features the one and only Sarah McLachlan on vocals. Originally, I had planned to include this one on a forthcoming early 2000s trance/progressive trance playlist, but through conducting a whole lot of research to recently flesh out a pretty lengthy post about this very song, I learned that, although it was officially released in 2000, it was actually pressed to acetate in 1999, meaning that, since this song was actually made in the 90s, I’m categorizing it as a 90s trance song. And I’m not really much of a Tiësto fan, especially since the term ‘EDM’ got coined, but he delivered an undeniably stunning monster of a tune with this particular remix of his. And the play count for it across both Spotify and YouTube is in the tens of millions. Not obscure in the slightest.

Hawke - “3 Nudes (Having Sax on Acid)” Delerium - “Silence (DJ Tiësto’s In Search of Sunrise remix)”

And for the YouTube playlist, I added those two songs, plus another one that can’t be found on Spotify at all: an intense and psychedelic drum-hypnotic remix of Laurent Garnier’s “Planet Sex” that was done by German trance and techno legend Sven Väth, and the Wozniak to his Jobs, Ralf Hildenbeutel. Earlier, I mentioned how, by its name, Hawke’s “3 Nudes (Having Sax on Acid)” might sound like something that’s intense and sexual, but this one actually is 😅. And across its multiple uploads on YouTube, it’s at about 28.5K plays. Kinda low, considering how good it is!

Laurent Garnier - “Planet Sex (S&R In Psycho Sex On Planet Earth Mix)”

Playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, here’s where things currently stand with this playlist: it’s still in its very early stages, but we’re now at 12 songs on Spotify, which clocks in at about an hour and 40 minutes, and 16 songs on YouTube, which clocks in at about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Spotify’s pretty decent with their trance catalog, especially as the genre really started to blow up towards the latter half of the 90s, but YouTube will always have more.

Enjoy this little update!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!    

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1990s House Playlist

Got some adds this week for this 1990s house playlist that I’m slowly building. At some point down the line it’s going to be, by far, my longest playlist, but we’re not even close to reaching that point yet 😅.

The two adds for the Spotify version come from Warp Records, who appear to have opened up some more of their catalog to Spotify since the last time I updated this playlist. Warp is synonymous with the explosion of IDM and ambient techno, putting that stuff on the map with an incredible 1992 compilation called Artificial Intelligence, but around that same time, they also released a less appreciated comp for the acid warehouse crowd called Tequila Slammers and the Jump Jump Groove Generation, which features a bunch of sick early 90s house bangers. Some of them were already on this playlist, but with this update, I was also able to add “You Can’t Stop the Groove,” by Coco Steel & Lovebomb, and “Happiness,” by Nightmares on Wax, the latter of whom is way more known as a downtempo and trip hop entity than a house one. And both tunes are currently sitting at under 1,000 plays, so let’s change that!

Coco Steel & Lovebomb - “You Can’t Stop the Groove” Nightmares on Wax - “Happiness”

And those two songs have been on the YouTube version of this playlist since jump, but I also added a couple others to it that aren’t on Spotify as well with this update. First is a song that comes off of a comp I have been repeatedly posting about every Sunday now for the past month or so: the FFRR label’s California Dreaming, a 1993 release that showcased an eclectic crop of psychedelic cyberhippy electronic music that was emanating out of the Golden State at the time. This song is by a Bay Area native named Aquatherium (he’s also gone by B. McCarthy), and it’s an early 90s, hypnotic, tribal house, floor-filling monster called “Feelin’ Real Good (Aqua’s Trance Mix).” And across its couple different uploads on YouTube, it’s currently sitting at about 4,800 plays. Pretty low!

And the other add is the most obscure of this batch, one that a certain someone had to upload to YouTube themselves. It comes off a 1999 12-inch compilation from the Paris-based Basenotic Records called Bakchich EP #4 and it’s by a guy who’s originally from Chicago named James Curd, who, earlier in his career, went by Jimminy Cricket. His song’s called “Testing & Balancing” and uses a bunch of pitched-up samples from the Al Green early 70s soul classic, “Love and Happiness.” And it’s only at a little over 100 plays, so give it some love!

Aquatherium - “Feelin’ Real Good (Aqua’s Trance Mix)” Jimminy Cricket - “Testing & Balancing”

Playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, here’s where we currently are with this thing: the Spotify version of this playlist is currently at 15 songs and is an hour and 45 minutes long, but the YouTube version is nearly double that, with 29 songs at almost 3 and a half hours. Yet another electronic genre and decade that the Spotify library is severely lacking in 🥱. So, you know which of these two options is the better one.

Enjoy this update!

More to come, eventually! Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!  

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Young American Primitive - "The Reality of Nature" California Dreaming Song released in 1993. Compilation released in 1994. Breakbeat

Good morning 🌅. Here's something dope from a a Bay Area guy named Young American Primitive, who ended up getting some shine off of another tune of his called “These Waves” back in '96, after it appeared on Sasha & Digweed’s classic Northern Exposure dance mix. A few years before Y.A.P. managed to drum up a bunch of attention for that song, though, he made “The Reality of Nature,” a sci-fi-majestic, acid-psychedelic breakbeat ride that he released on a 12-inch single a couple months after his self-titled debut album in ‘93. And then the following year, it ended up on a comp from the FFRR label called California Dreaming, which set out to showcase a certain cyberhippy crop of eclectic electronic music that was coming out of the Golden State at the time.

Thing really ascends at the 5:07 mark. Just wait for those synths to hit! 😌

[aries-harin]

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