Liveset from Geologic coming soon.

I have ran into some technical difficulties transferring my recorded live set from Geologic to the computer. It appears that my Mini-disc does not transfer via USB. I will have to manually record through the audio out onto my computer a 70 minute live set. To make matters worse I do not have my computer up and running. I will have to record it onto another computer, with recording software I am not familiar with and then try to transfer it over.

This is going to be a headache, I can feel it already.

Back From Geologic.

Well I'm back from Geologic. Wow, well where to begin.

First off it was a good event, but the conditions were really rough.

90+ degrees, on and off rain, super muggy, muddy, no running water, 6 hour drive. I was wet for 3 days straight due to heat, humidity, and pouring water on myself. I planned for this and went through 9 pairs of socks and shirts in 3 days.

The event was a lot of fun and the artists were really great. We got there around 4:00 on Friday, pitched our tent in Camp Pink Flamingo where many of the other artists were pitched as well. The camp was at the top of the hill. The whole stage/area was basically a 800 foot drop spiraling down into a cave area.

Our camp was right next to the chillout stage, which was good meaning I could actually get some sleep.

The Goa stage was in the cave and the IDM stage was at another encampment near an abandoned bus and shed. It was cool because they had the line scribbled on a torn up cardboard box saying; "Ghetto ass IDM lineup"

they then ran out of room on the page going downwards and wrote the last 5 artists (including myself) sideways in the margin. Hilarious, but I didn't get a picture of it unfortunately.

On Sat, people partied so hard Friday night that they were collapsed in the heat on Saturday. Looked like homeless people. The heat was so bad that everyone gathered in the cave to stay cool, but were all sleeping with 12,000 watts of Psytrance and Goa blaring.

Saturday night was good, not as many people dancing however because everyone over partied the night before. The IDM had a good showing this night because everyone wanted to just chillout in their chairs with tiki lamps, getting high and so forth.

Monday was again hot, humid and overcast. I got up early, packed up my stuff and then headed down to play my set. Ironically when I got there no one was playing. The artist supposed to be in the IDM stage was bumped to the main stage, so I started early. I got about 1hr30mins to play which was nice.

It started to rain right when I finished up so I packed up quickly and then go out of there for the nice long 6 hour drive back to Chicago.

I will post again with pictures later tonight and with a recording of my set later this week hopefully after I transfer it off of MD.

Post any Q's u got.

Geologic July 15th-17th. Only 7 days away.

Just a reminder that Geologic is coming up 7 days. I will be performing on the Chillout/IDM stage from 9am-10am Sunday July 17th.

It is located at
Shawnee Saltpetre Cave Natural Amphitheater
3747 Highway 127Murphysboro, IL 62966
GPS coordinates: Latitude 37.652625 degrees N Longitude -89.321541 degrees W

Details can be found at .:http://chilluminati.org:.

Tickets are only $30 up until July 13th, and then are $55 at the gate.
Pictures of the venue can be found here: http://touchsamadhi.com/gallery/Shawnee-cave

Hope to see you there.

Everything Back to Normal

Well thank goodness everything is back to normal. Blogger has been on their toes and actually fixed a problem in a timely fashion!!! Who would have known that was possible?

In case anyone is curious what the problem was in regards to how many blogs were being messed up, or if you need to fix your own blog, the Blogger staff has posted information at the following links:

http://status.blogger.com/

http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/06/layout-solutions.html

Formatting Problems

As you can see there are some formatting issues with my blog. Blogger has suddenly changed its API coding, and this has messed things up significantly for my blog.

I have thrown in a temporary fix, which now centers the posts, they were about 4 feet down the page before, so at least everything is readable.

I will try to find out what the problem is as soon as I can.

UPDATE: Blogger has stated that they recognize the problem and they are working on it. Status.Blogger.com I am going to temporarily refrain from making any adjustments or postings until the problem is resolved by blogger. I dont want to screw up my templete anymore then it is, and I have to wait to see how blogger responds.

Thanks for being patient.

Sequencer/Studio List updated

I have updated my sequencer and software studio list. I have added several new programs to the list and all links are now hyperlinks.

visit my software blog link to the left, or go directly to the archive of the list via this link:
.:Studio/Sequencer List:.

If you find any broken links, and I am sure there are some, please email me or IM me to let me know.

Midwest Electronic Music Festival Done and Over

Well the MEMS festival is done and over with. I had a really great time and loved meeting all of the other artists. The jam session went great and I think people had a great time trying out new gear and experimenting with hardware if they never had before. I know I enjoyed playing with an Elektron Monomachine.

All of the artists were great. Each brought a unique and different sound, as well as playing style.
Big props goes out to Scott Kellogg aka. Glaive for actually walking the walk and setting up this LivePA meet up.

I have just posted some photos of the event in my photoblog to the right. Video clips and audio recordings of the event will be up shortly. So stick around.

July 15th-17th: Geologic Murphysburo Illinois. Shawnee Cave Amphitheatre

.:Chilluminati.org:Geologic/Aestival:.


The Chilluminati present GeoLogic An Aestival Festival July 15-17 2005 @ Shawnee Cave Amphitheatre, southern Illinois

An open air camping festival brought to life with consciousness, harmony and mind-expanding music & visuals...A celebration of summer spirit

Over forty Goa, Psychedelic trance and IDM acts and DJs, playing at Shawnee Saltpetre Cave, "Nature's Own Amphitheatre" Illinois' largest bluff shelter with strange rock formations, a roaring waterfall & nature trails.

Three Days and two nights of psychedelic sound, visuals, art, fire dancing

PSY Stage
LIVE P.A.

Neuromotor/ESXS - Mechanik Sound Records [Barcelona, Spain] Note: Neuromotor is playing Friday night July 15th

Initialization String - [Dallas, TX]

Bastard & Lost Baba - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

Jetlux - Divine Balance Records [Los Angeles, CA]

Artificial Life Preserver - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

Bob Traphek - Sonic Beating, Changmian, Zia-Trance [Boston, MA]

Binary - Sonic Beating, Changmian [Boston, MA]

Blue Spectral Monkey - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]


DJ

Derby - TOUCH Samadhi [Chicago, IL]

Jeto - Divine Balance [Los Angeles, CA]

Konflux - Divine Balance [Los Angeles, CA]

Kaiser Soze - PTLF [Milwaukee, WI]

Kri - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

Pituko - Nepol Records/Amandas Dreamscape [St. Louis, MO]

Shai - Divine Balance [Chicago, IL]

S.O.T. - TOUCH Samadhi [Chicago, IL]

Underfoot - Audiognomes [Madison, WI]

IDM / Downtempo Stage

LIVE P.A.

Atomly - Atomiq [Chicago]

Curtis Chip - Zod, Schematic [Milwaukee, WI] -

Dennis Rodgers - 112 Crew, Robots [New York, NY]

Dewey Decimal - Zod, 37h3r [Milwaukee, WI]

Dynamic Interplay [Bloomington, IN]

Emotional Joystick - Zod [Minneapolis, MN]

Gift Culture [Dallas, TX]

James Patrick - Vital Vinyl [Minneapolis, MN]

John Alan [Milwaukee, WI]

Kero - Det.Und, BPitch, Shitkatapult, Ghostly, Low Res [Detroit, MI]

KiloWatts [Philadelphia, PA]

Miles Tilmann - Consumer's Research, Toytronic, sub:marine [Chicago]

Samonik - The Shell Studios [Milwaukee, WI, New York, NY]

Signal Drift - Wobblyhead [Milwaukee, WI]

Turing Test - Wobblyhead [Milwaukee, WI]

Unit - Caipirinha, Co.Ad.Audio [New York, NY]


DJ

Alex - TOUCH Samadhi [TN]

Andrew Rasse aka Butane - Alphahouse, FoundSound [St. Louis, MO]

Dan Mnookin - Proton Radio [Chicago]

Destro - Zod [Milwaukee, WI]

Rick S - Interlobate Milwaukee, WI]

Screendoor - Niche [Milwaukee, WI]

Sean O'Neal / Someone Else - Tuning Spork, FoundSound, Musik Krause [Philadelphia, PA]

T-Nek and Redshift - Megablastffresh [Milwaukee, WI]

Viberaider - Zod - [Milwaukee]


psyoptic mindstimuli decor by The Devotee TOUCH Samadhi
interactive projected visuals by Psymbolic
Fire performance by SPUNN
Magazines by Brilliantly Mad Magazine
Sound by Nuclear Subs
Thanks to Psymbolic.com for help with registrations and promotion

Time & Location
When:Noon Friday, July 15th - 10 a.m. Sunday, July 17th, RAIN or SHINE
Where: Shawnee Saltpetre Cave, "Nature's Own Amphitheatre"
Illinois' largest bluff shelter with strange rock formations, a roaring waterfall & nature trails, located 6 miles south of Murphysboro, on Illinois Route 127.

Shawnee Saltpetre Cave Natural Amphitheater
3747 Highway 127
Murphysboro, IL 62966



Ticket Prices
18+ (unless accompanied by parent)
Children under 12 (accompanied by parent) FREE
Camping, parking included in admission fee

Until June 1st (limited availability) $30
June 1 (or when $30 tickets run out) - July 14 $45
@ Gate: $55

Please Visit the Event page >>HERE<< To Purchase Tickets.
(The Paypal recipient for registration will show as troy (AT) psymbolic (DOT) com.)

Directions
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Camping, lodging
You don't have to camp to attend the event. Here is a list of motels in nearby Carbondale.

Campers, prepare for rugged camping. Tents only - no RVs, trailers or campers allowed.

LEAVE NO TRACE. All participants are required to clean their own campsite and place all trash and garbage in provided dumpster. Participants who do not keep their campsite clean or caught littering may be asked to leave.

Water, ice and food can be purchased from Shawnee Cave Amphitheatre.

Ground fires are permitted only at six designated fire circles within the campground. Firewood is available for purchase.

Glass bottles are completely forbidden within the park. Bringing glass bottles into the park can be grounds for removal of participants. We reserve the right to search the vehicles of attendees for the presence of glass containers.

Nothing illegal is allowed in the park.

No ins and outs from the park after midnight.

The organizers of this event, and the owner of Shawnee Cave, can remove attendees for any reason.

No independent sound stages allowed.

No pets allowed.

Portapotties are provided.

Wander around the property, especially at night, at your own risk. There are many dangerous trails. Be careful.

Vending
Vending is encouraged at this event. The fee for vending is $50, on top of your admission fee. Please contact us at crew (AT) chilluminati (DOT) org with your vending proposal. Vending proposals must be submitted to us by July 1, 2005 to be considered.

.:Chilluminati.org:Geologic/Aestival:.

Music to whet your appetite

Yes that is the correct spelling....

Anyways I have promised that I would be putting up a music section and links to some media files. I have not done that. Yes I know, I am a terrible blogger, person, musician, promoter.....Whatever.

Anyways to appease some people I have decided to post a couple of links tracks online from my Dynamic Interplay Project. I hope you enjoy them.

Retrograde
A quasi 8bit sounding song using non-8bit gear.

The Space Between our Minds
A simple ambient piece featuring some chopped and looped spoken vocals and feedback effects. The sounds at the beginning might remind you of star trek.

For the Good Old Days
A song written reflecting elements of the classic rave scene from the nineteen nineties, mixed with smooth and sad atmospherics. The purpose is reminisce about how good the music scene was in those days, and how so much has happened to dilute the music to its present state today.