Psytrance DJ Solitare
Spectrum 5-23 Mix

A set that I played at a 'Spectrum' party in Tokyo on May 23, 1998. I was playing off DATs (digital audio tapes) and hadn't played for a couple of months - I'd received a lot of new music and had only one practice session at a friend's house before the gig. I was really nervous but got into the flow and the atmosphere was fantastic. I opted for longer mixes with a focus on the long melodic line.

The set started at around 3am and went until about 5:30. I had intended to start with Beast's 'Spawn', which was still unreleased, but the CD player hadn't been hooked up, so my ambient intro (the Astralasia track I started the 'Future Was Now' mix on this site with) went on a little longer while I looked for a DAT to mix into it - and that was 'Maia' by the Pleiadians. I only remembered that I'd intended to record my set part-way through the second track, Eco's 'UFOlk', which is where this recording picks up.

Track list:

Eco: UFOlk
X-Dream: Radiohead (remix)
Juno Reactor: Feel The Universe (Otto edit)
Rhythmystec: Stellium
Infernal Machine: Chainsaw Kerfuffle
Delta: Traveling at the Speed of Thought
Space Tribe: Machine Elf
Semsis: Planet
Psychopod: Dreampod
Metal Spark: Sonic Feet
Cydonia: Mindhunter
Transwave: Code S9
*Beast: Spawn
X-Dream: Brain Forest
Mandala: Utopia
Spoken sample: an excerpt from a translation of the Japanese poem 'Preface to "Spring and Carnage"' by Kenji Miyazawa that I had recorded for a Japanese electronica band - I never got a copy of the CD but apparently the artist was pretty well-known...

encore - not on this tape: *Space Tribe: The Great Spirit (unreleased original mix)

*unreleased at the time of performance