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.