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September 2006 Update
(Blog) Author: Basilisk :: Posted: September 13th, 2006 :: 320 views
The Canadian summer is nearly over, local festival season is drawing to a close, and the annual ebb and flow of psytrance releases has reached a low point. I have been finding more and more time to put into the site, so it is time for another update of all the miscellaneous things going on around here.
Harvest Festival, the last major outdoor event of the season, is coming up this weekend. A couple of updates have been appended to the post; read up if you are planning to attend. BLA is hosting the psytrance stage in the hay bales this year – not the barn, thankfully! I’ll be opening things up around 9:00pm, so it’s a great excuse to dig into deep proggy “psyhouse” or something like it. I am thinking of sneaking something eminently familiar into the start of my set, so keep an ear out for that ;)
I have implemented several new features to improve the site. You have probably noticed the changes to the top menu bar and side navigation; hopefully everything is much easier to access now. I have done a fair amount of work on the reviews section, which now features little icons of CDs and vinyl to clearly indicate the format of a release. A new option on near the top of the screen links to a list of the newest reviews, in descending order. Reviews now have their own RSS feed, which opens up the possibility of having my work syndicated on other web sites. Interested site owners are welcome to contact me. Aside from that, check out the gallery, which features over 1,500 images, including plenty of event photos, covers, and flyers.
August was a particularly busy month for me. It began with the Eclipse Festival in Quebec, which was all right, but not quite as good as last year. Musically I enjoyed Nuclear Ramjet’s Mission to Sedna live set on Saturday night, and Jaïa put on an excellent show Sunday morning. After that it was off to B.C. for two weeks, which was absolutely wonderful. There were even more adventures when I returned, finishing up with the Samadhi Festival on the Labour day long weekend. Catching Jaïa a second time was just as good as the first time around.
Spündar shot a short video clip during my Saturday morning set at Samadhi (the tune in the background is Koxbox – Geomancer 2004). On the subject of video, another search turned up a brief video from Magikal Intentions back in June. What a flashback!
One week after Samadhi, the Shakti crew put on a great event at a two-room venue on St. Clair West in Toronto. Birthday boy Prosect/Sonify and NASA ripped it up for hours! That night was definitely some of the best music I’ve heard all summer.
That is all I have for you this time around… stay tuned for more to come as I really dig into the wordsmithing this fall!
