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Sunday, August 3rd - Green Sector & Psytribe Host - WISHING WELL 2 at Woodley Park
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Swell (aka Psyclops)
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Posted : Aug 5, 2008 04:41
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Thanks for all the support guys. I appreciate every single one of you(except Kiva...ha!)
Matter of fact, it was the best mix of the day!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah! Yahoo! Somebody stop me!
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Swell (aka Psyclops)
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Posted : Aug 5, 2008 05:15
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By the way, Kahn, how much did you donate?
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KEVIN_
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Posted : Aug 5, 2008 12:30
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On 2008-08-04 20:29, konflux wrote:
I am opposed to the use of the term 'dark' in this context. The music might be heavy or hard beat-wise, but not dark. These days 'dark' refers to over 150 bpm Gothic rock meets gabber type of music. What we were playing at the park was merely edgy, "un-fluffy", and sometimes melodic psytrance.
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This "dark" business has done nothing but confuse me. As far as I have been able to find out, there is no such thing as dark psytrance! Twisted, crazy, or manic, but nobody plays dark nor can they define it for me. If it's beats per minute, then I now possess such a recording, given to me by a producer at the TripleCancerMoon gathering a couple of weeks ago. The very first track of Prakriy Engine is "Secret Society" and it must be at least 150 beats per minute if not 200. The next track "Polyphonia" is slightly slower, but more to my liking. I have yet to get to the third track, but will try sometime this week. If this music fits the defintion of "dark", then I will authoritvely state that I heard no dark psytrance played at the Wishing Well 2 this Sunday. At the Gemini Festival, Goldilocks gave me a CD to listen to so that I might learn what dark psytrance is. I have yet to play it as it's in MP3 format, but I will eventually get some equipment a little more modern than the Laserdisc player that I have and will give her disc a spin on the stereo. If anybody here was also at the TripleCancerMoon gathering a couple of weeks ago and heard Bodhi or Dylalien, perhaps you might tell me if some, most, or all of the music they played that morning would be considered dark psytrance? I liked a lot of it. The beats were fast, maybe a little faster than what was played at the Wishing Well. It certainly has a different vibe to it, and I think I understand now why some people are really put off by it. It has a relentless drive to it. It is made for putting you in a trance and keeping you there. Or psychedelics! Hmm, that is its name, ain't it?  It also seems to focus my attention inward while being part of the group. A kind of tribal bonding through a test of endurance. It, like the music played this Sunday, will on occasion get us all hopping and going. The psytrance music at the Wishing Well made me feel more as a part of the group while not thinking so much about my inner feelings at the time and just experiencing the whole of it while being happy to be there at the time it was playing.
As for the end of Kiva's set, this was my favorite time of the whole day. The party I had been to early in the morning and late Saturday night had taken some of my energy from me, but I was up for Earthbag, most of Willy, and then nappy time. Sorry, Swell and Scenator. I wasn't sleeping the whole time, but I doubt if you could see me twitching my feet or flailing my arms while I was laying on my pad in the shade behind the dancefloor. After Kiva was on for a little while I got up and went behind the DJ booth. Yep, lots of dust was a-flying on the dancefloor. The crowd was in that happy hopping mode that makes it so fun to be there. Next thing you know I am there helping as I didn't think there was enough dust being made. I may not know what the name of that last part of Kiva's set is called as far as a subgroup of psytrance, but that sound with that crowd is just about perfect for me. I realize that Kiva doesn't just put the disc in and play it. I know this because I saw him twisting knobs and dancing while he was playing it. You want to hear it played like that, then you have to be there to hear it played like that. No wonder the DJ's almost always have a pair of monitors pointing right at them. When this music is played, it seems to me the music from earlier in the day has an effect upon how I experience what is currently being played, it kind of prepares my mind and body for it. Least ways, it does for me. I really like when once I get to that frame of mind that it will sometimes continue from DJ to DJ hour after hour as they hand the baton to the next, which can happen at an overnight gathering like the previous Sunday at Psytribe's Nature Effect. Had me going for many hours there. Starting with Swell's alterego that night. Looks like some of the same co-conspirators were at this Wishing Well gathering, with Konflux there that night too. I think a definition of when it was a good gathering is if the music continued to be good and I couldn't continue to dance because of fatigue or pain. When I leave feeling refreshed and not tired, I can say for sure that the party played music I didn't like. This is my problem, not the DJs. You can be the best DJ in the world, but it is up to me to like what you play. Earlier at the other party I had been at, they played music of types I hadn't heard before. I just couldn't get it going for most it. I tried, as I remember it was not so long ago I had never heard of psytrance or progressive and I had to try it too. I wasn't used to not getting warm at a dance party. I had the same shirt on when Willy started the last set! I feel quite lucky to have found these crews and tribes and hear you play this music. And all the people that come and make it that much better too. Happy, happy. I think the DJs show what they know when they play music that I and others like in such a way that we didn't realize that we liked it as much as we do. They guide us on our journey. They need us as we need them, a synergy happens. I've noticed that sometimes when I'm dancing the DJs will get some energy from us out on the floor and it seems like an experience for them similar to what happens to me at times. The best times I've had in my now sixteen events that I've been at have been when this happens at the same time for dancers/listens and DJs. Lots of energy just pouring out of the people right back at the speakers.
On a sad note, I lost my keys when I left them in the portapotty. Anyone happen to find them? Let me know, I'll drive over as soon as possible at your convenience to pick them up. What a knucklehead I am!  That's why I keep just the one key on my neck with the rest left behind. I'm not even sure why I had them with me when I set them down. I had no need for them. OH well. Those keys are the best lag I've ever had for hopscotch. I'm toast now. I won't be able to get into the safe deposit box and get the secret decoder ring out for emergencies, either.
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The Dawn Patrol leaves at dusk!
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Posted : Aug 5, 2008 23:24
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On 2008-08-04 20:29, konflux wrote:
I am opposed to the use of the term 'dark' in this context. The music might be heavy or hard beat-wise, but not dark. These days 'dark' refers to over 150 bpm Gothic rock meets gabber type of music. What we were playing at the park was merely edgy,
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the bpm is the only thing i cant agree with u vasilinka cuz dark music there is in all kind of bpm but anyways i really like your set i think it was an energetic hit for wodlly park
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kahn
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Posted : Aug 7, 2008 08:58
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In terms of the dark comments, I know nothing truly DARK was played... I guess I mean darkER or hardER.
In regards to Vasily's set, I suppose I would say it wasn't Dark, and it was melodic. But the kind of melodies were more "haunting;" darker melodies but not necessarily dark music. Anyway I liked it whatever it was. 
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Positive Reaction
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Posted : Aug 7, 2008 09:03
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I loved it! Party party party! Gooooood one! I felt the positive vibes flowing into the earth! Only we can create the changes for the next generation! -Michael |
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scenator
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Posted : Aug 12, 2008 03:01
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good times as always at the park... |
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KEVIN_
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Posted : Aug 18, 2008 07:28
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Happy note!
My keys were found and given to Trevor. By way of circuitous routing I picked them up in Mar Vista after being separated from them for ten days. Thank you to whoever found them and made sure they got to the right person to help me out.
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