Delicious is one of the world’s most popular social bookmarking sites. Out of curiosity I looked up their top ten psytrance bookmarks. Here they are (minus a bunch of pirate MP3 blogs):

1. Philosomatika, a popular Internet radio station, with 339 bookmarks.
2. Psyshop, the well-known mail order shop, with 210 bookmarks.
3. PsyDB, DJ Core’s incredible database of psytrance releases new and old, with 150 bookmarks.
4. Goabase, a German party portal and community, with 136 bookmarks.
5. Ektoplazm, free music portal and psytrance netlabel, with 116 bookmarks.
6. Psyradio, another Internet radio station, with 93 bookmarks.
7. Psynews, an online community and informal home to a lot of old school Goa trance fans, with 86 bookmarks.
8. Isratrance, another big forum, with 65 bookmarks.
9. Triplag, a radio station and record label dedicated to the dark side of psytrance, with 58 bookmarks.
10. Psychedelik, a French radio station with 57 bookmarks.

What can we learn from this? People really like Internet radio, that’s what! It is also interesting to note what sites are not on the list. Consider these top-ranked psytrance sites and their respective bookmark numbers (in brackets): Australiens (25), Saikosounds (24), Cytopia (22), Mushroom Magazine (18), Boom Festival (17), Chaishop (15), and PsyMusic UK (4). From what I know these are some of the biggest psytrance sites in the world. I wonder why they aren’t bookmarked more often? Of course, there is nothing remotely scientific about this cursory study of Delicious bookmarking habits! This is merely food for thought (and, perhaps, discussion).

What do you think? Are there any other popular (and legal) psytrance sites that haven’t been mentioned here?

Photo credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.

Last weekend the Shakti and Neuromantix collectives combined forces to organize a free open air psytrance festival in Southeastern Ontario: All Stars. I arrived without expectations but was immediately impressed by the awesome stage design (pictured above). Given that it was a small-scale event mainly attended by friends and family it was one of the most stress-free weekends I’ve had in a while, and for that I give my thanks to all involved. The sound system was perfect for the size of the event and the land–well, I found it to be the among most ideal festival locations I have been to in Eastern Canada. Let’s hope for a return next year!

More photos of the event are available on Flickr or Facebook.

After playing four festivals this year–Sacred Earth, Entheos, Eclipse, and All Stars–I am gearing up for my fifth and final open air event of the season: Harvest. Barring any unforeseen changes to the schedule I will be playing the closing set at the psytrance stage–a perfect time for the techno/psytrance crossover style that I have been so into this summer. You can read a bit more about it in a recent post, Exploring the Borderlands of Techno and Psytrance, or hear it in action in my Eclipse 2009 set. Since I have done a lot more digging this month–unearthing all sorts of killer tunes in the process–I have prepared another chart listing 25 progressive favourites from recent weeks:

Animaltek – Extatix (Solead Remix) [Wolf Music]
Applescal – In The Mirror (Max Cooper Remix) [Traum Schallplatten]
AstroNivo – From Here (Miki Litvak Remix) [Flow Vinyl]
Cody & Beshell – Speakerhook (AstroNivo Remix) [Omnis Recordings]
D-Nox & Beckers – Cala A Boca (Gabe Remix) [Sprout Music]
D-Sens – Elsewhere [BUS Records]
Daniel Marques – LoudMouth [Lo Kik Records]
Eitan Reiter – Ups & Downs (Perfect Stranger Re-Edit) [Iboga Records]
Erphun – Pesadilla Hermosa (Fiord Remix) [Audio Therapy]
Fiord – Chaser [eVapour8 Recordings]
Henry Saiz – The Snake’s Speech [Paradigma]
Ido Ophir & Miki Litvak – Meshugaim [HOMmega Productions]
Khainz – Distance [KumQuat Tunes]
Lisset & Voltaxx – Sunrise Over Mali (D-Nox & Beckers Big Room Mix) [Leaders Of The New School]
Magitman – Yeahhh [Tribal Vision Records]
Moonbeam – When Tears Are Dropping From The Sky (Max Cooper’s Slave Remix) [Traum Schallplatten]
Prime Time – 2 High (Signore Dito Remix) [KumQuat Tunes]
Sinisa Tamamovic – Pueblo (Wehbba Remix) [Night Light]
Sleek – Crank [Flow Records]
SQL – Distorted Reality [SK Supreme Records]
Stephan Bodzin – Mustang [Systematic Recordings]
Synthetic – Wall-E [IBZ Recordings]
Virgil Enzinger – Brainwash [Impact Mechanics]
Wombat – Helo (A. Balter Remix) [Open Records]
Yapacc – Karma Of Battlefield [WIR]

You can also hear ten of these tracks on my Juno chart for August 2009 for what it’s worth.

Previous chart: July 2009.

Since the first DARKRAVE vs PANIC was such a success we are doing it again on the Thanksgiving Long Weekend. Strictly 19+ event.

Two worlds collide to bring you the best long weekend event EVER!!!

The future vs the past, modern beats vs classic tracks. 2 rooms – 2 vibes – 2 much fun

Sunday Oct 11, 2009
DARKRAVE vs PANIC II
Reverb – 651 Queen St West – Toronto
doors at 10pm-4am 19+
$5 before 11pm $10 after
http://www.djlazarus.com
Darkrave facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2265471444
Panic facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8256055823

Reverb: DARKRAVE
Basilisk (tech trance) http://www.ektoplazm.com
Phink (psy trance)
DJ Lazarus (ebm/industrial)
Jimi Lamort (electro)

Holy Joe’s: PANIC – the Ultimate Retro Party
(retro 80′s & 90′s, new wave, brit, ska, manchester, and your requests)
Griz
DJ Lazarus
Peachy Keen

**Please bring a food donation for Daily Bread Food Bank**