Transmissions From Valhalla ⁄ DJ Basilisk

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DJ Basilisk revisits the classic psytrance sound on Transmissions From Valhalla, a monumental 4+ hour journey featuring more than 60 tracks released between 1997 and 2005. This time around the focus is mainly on the many permutations of the “minimal wave” that swept through the scene in the early years of the new millennium. Expect to hear a wide variety of hypnotic atmospheres, quirky rhythms, and brutal beats as the pressure builds toward a raging full-on mind-bending climax. The return path explores the deeper and more sublime side of progressive psytrance before unraveling with shimmering breakbeats and dubbed-out electronica.

Track Listing

01 Architect - Pastgate Hymen Records, 1998
02 Luke Slater - Let Eat All Vanbrook NovaMute, 1999
03 Black Lung - Karmageddon Psy-Harmonics / Ant-Zen Records, 2005
04 Juno Reactor - Nitrogen Part 2 Blue Room Released, 2000
05 Blowfish - Active Compound Surreal Audio, 2003
06 Taksi - Mal Was Anderes Taksi, 2003
07 Sender Berlin - Reise Zum Mond Tresor, 2002
08 Prisoners of the Sun - Candy From The Strange Side Sunset Recordings, 2001
09 Necton - Bongraiders Spirit Zone Recordings, 2001
10 Snug as a Bug - Digestive (Péa Remix) Shpastic Elastic Records, 2000
11 Beat Bizarre - Monochrome Iboga Records, 2001
12 Planet B.E.N. & Spiralkinda - Triple Helix (Midi Furz) Naja Records, 1997
13 Lish - Hollywood Superstar U.S.T.A. / Phonokol, 2002
14 Cosma - Find Out YoYo Records, 2001
15 BLT & Digital Manta - If You Call It, It Will Come MDMA Records, 2002
16 Nuclear Ramjet - Delta 1.73 / 1.2 Ascend Recordings, 2001
17 Droidlock - People I Meet Flow Records, 2001
18 Tetraktys - Mechanical Unit Sub Machine Records, 2001
19 Opsis - Everything Zillion Mental Anarchie Records, 2002
20 Ticon - Lo-Mi-Hi (Atmos Remix) Digital Structures, 2002
21 The Delta - Send In ...Send Back d.Drum / GTN, 2001
22 Sensient - Sublime Groove Zone Records, 2005
23 Nerve - Channel 59 Pinwheel Records, 2000
24 Midi Miliz - Cream Atomic Records, 2001
25 Cujorius One - 95.5 Radio Joint Zenon Records, 2004
26 Hujaboy - The Day HOM-Mega Productions, 2002
27 PPS Project - Complex Hadshot Haheizar, 2003
28 Three Point Turn - Klush Kingdom Jester Records, 2006
29 Wizzy Noise - Radius Candyflip Records, 2002
30 12 Moons - Bad Pets Digital Structures, 2001
31 Setherian - Vectra in Bedrock Glowing Flame Records, 2004
32 Exanimo - Fear and Loathing Neurobiotic Records, 2002
33 Overlap - Deep Diving Zillion Mental Anarchie Records, 2004
34 Human Blue - Screwdriver Tribal Vision Records, 2005
35 Meller - Valhalla Tribal Vision Records, 2004
36 Wizzy Noise - Tripoid 3D Vision Records, 2000
37 Mitsumoto - Wiggly Hedgehog Feedback Recordings, 2004
38 Charm - Bipolar Electrode Psyristor Trax, 2004
39 Speedy J - Tannga NovaMute, 2003
40 Charasmatix vs. Deviant Species - Equilibrium II Ambivalent Records, 2002
41 Joti Sidhu - Free Radical Atomic Records, 2001
42 Four Carry Nuts - Mechanical Age Aurinko Records, 2004
43 Droidlock - Order The Future Wirikuta Recordings, 2005
44 Parasense - Made On Mars Sirius Records, 2005
45 Shift - Xtrasensory (Remix) Nexus Media, 2004
46 Aphid Moon & Lucas - Dark Star TIP.World, 2005
47 Logic Bomb - Glitter TIP.World, 2001
48 Prometheus - Snakes & Ladders Twisted Records, 2002
49 Tristan & Allaby - Lateral Thinking Nano Records, 2004
50 S>Range - Serial Overtypes Spiral Trax, 2000
51 Haldolium - The Peal (Local Mix) Spirit Zone Recordings, 2001
52 Magnetrixx - Zuversucht Tatsu Recordings, 2003
53 Ticon - Rattle Snake (Lolli Pop Remix) Hadshot Haheizar, 2001
54 Green House Effect - Global Warming HOM-Mega Productions, 2001
55 Atmos - Average Beverage Spiral Trax, 2000
56 Monika Kruse @ Voodooamt - Ground Zero Terminal M, 2001
57 Reefer Decree - Curved Air (P-Woland Remix) Digital Structures / Iboga Records, 2002
58 Damon Wild - Downtown World (Part 2) Kanzleramt, 2003
59 Freq - Xirtam Substance, 1997
60 Angelfish - Glow Qube, 2001
61 Subtonal - Deep Sea Divin Mikrolux, 2002
62 Chari Chari - Enter The Metal Circle (Spacer Remix) File Records, 1999
63 Saafi Brothers - Mystical Chants Blue Room Released, 2000
64 Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon (The Orb's "Beach Blanket Bimbo Land" Mix) Nothing Records, 1997
65 The Future Sound of London - Cascade (Part 2) Virgin, 1993

Notes

Conceived, arranged, mixed, and mastered by DJ Basilisk in Taipei, Taiwan, July 2022.
Recorded with Traktor 3 and a Korg Nanokontrol.
Mastered in Ableton Live using TDR Nova and LoudMax; wave surgery conducted with Audacity.
Cover image: Karl L. Prinz’s Auf Walhall, 1911.
This mix was originally based on a set I performed at Round in Toronto in 2019. As usual things got out of hand and not until Sublime does this mix touch on material actually played at that show. For years I kept notes under the working title Hogtown Special.
Several tracks appear here in remastered form: Monochrome, Bad Pets, Tannga, and Ground Zero.
I made several custom edits and refixes for this mix: Candy From The Strange Side was edited for length and lightly remastered; Mechanical Unit was remastered and the dial-up modem sound was made slightly less ear-piercing; Vectra In Bedrock was remastered to address some peculiar phasing issues; Tripoid was edited to fit and remastered for stereo depth; Cascade (Part 2) was remastered and shortened to fit; Screwdriver and Glow were declicked.
I’ve been meaning to open a mix with Juno Reactor’s Nitrogen Part 2 for ages, not knowing that Chrisbo had already done so on Explorations 2: The Travel Bug for Return to the Source. After realizing this I decided to introduce the mix with some broken beat excursions to set the mood.
The combination of Blowfish and Taksi is one I’ve used as far back as 2005; it also appears in an unreleased live recording from an event by the name of Organic Tumbleweed.
Triple Helix was really ahead of the curve, being released in 1997 while much of the rest of the core material hails from 2000 or later.
Cream is one of the very first techtrance tunes I ever liked. I was such a devout and hardcore melodic Goa trance fan that my initial reaction to the minimal wave was scorn and derision, but Midi Miliz began to change all that.
I previously featured Valhalla on Mystical Revelation in 2006.
The Orb’s sublime remix of Radio Babylon is one of the tunes that got me into electronic music. As soon as I saw how well it matched with Mystical Chants I knew I had to make use of it.
Several tracks featured here are lesser known side projects of more famous artist: Blowfish (Graham Wood of The Infinity Project); Nerve (Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom); and Green House Effects (Sandman).
Perhaps contrary to expectations, Xirtam is produced by Freq (Sean Deason), not FREq (Aran Gallagher).