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Midcoastal North American psy trance resources
- Planetary psychedelic trance forum forum.isratrance.com
- Midwest Trance Yahoo Group
- Goa Spirit - Midwestern psychedelic trance
- Midwest Psy on Tribe
- ubersonic.org (Iowa EDM)
- groups.yahoo.com/group/scevents Subconscious Collective - Iowa psy events
- madfam.com (Madison, Wisconsin EDM)
- Detroit Luv forum
- St. Louis raver EDM forum
- LouiPimps EDM forum
- 417 Vibe EDM forum Southwest Missouri
- Urbana-Champaign Drum N Bass forum
- mw-raves.org (Midwest Raves)
- Subscribe to Midwest Raves
- Subscribe to Midwest Raves Calendar
- Midwest Underground forum
- Midwest Ravers forum
- Midwest EDM forum
- Outlawed Productions, EDM events, etc. forum
- technofor.us Midwestern EDM, techno
- Minnesota vibe EDM forum, news
- Midwest Burners, mobilizing Burning Man and psytrance for Kansas
- Midwest Burners Yahoo Group
- Toymaker Music Productions, a general very active EDM production group; mostly Illinois and Wisconsin events
- T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Chicago and East Coast DJ hit squad
- Divine Balance Records, Los Angeles/Chicago
- Audiognomes, Madison, Wisconsin
- TrancePsyndicate, central Illinois
- Goa Head Productions, Ohio
- Nepol Records, based in St. Louis
- Amandas Dreamscape, based in St. Louis; some club events and puts on outdoor festivals in Bolivia
- Ohmbience, Tennessee
- Esoteric Gen, Arkansas
- Mistical Productions, Texas
- Dan Efex, Chicago, email danefex (AT) danefex (DOT) com
- Synchronous Oscillation Technology, Touch Samadhi, Chicago, emailsynchronous (AT) comcast (DOT) net
- Shai - Divine Balance Records, Los Angeles/Chicago, emaildivinebalancerecords (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
- Derby, Touch Samadhi, Chicago, email derby604 (AT) gmail (DOT) com
- Kaiser Soze - PTLF / Massive (Milwaukee, WI), email ksoze604 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
- Underfoot, Audiognomes (Madison, WI), email djunderfoot (AT) gmail (DOT) com
- Storm, Audiognomes, email djstorm23 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
- GeaL, Audiognomes, email ajwalters(AT)gmail(DOT)com
- nascent, Audiognomes
- DJ Scorpio, Zodiac Productions, email cdjscorpio (AT) comcast (DOT) net
- Psygomin, Wisconsin, email psygomin (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
- toki, Audiognomes
- Cyrax, True Family Unit(tfu), email MetalHed5 (AT) aol (DOT) com
- Divraj, Divine Balance, Third Eye Records, email divraj (AT) gmail (DOT) com
- DJ Robyo - Audiognomes [Rockford, IL]
- PsiloPsyBen - Audiognomes [Madison, WI], email: psilopsyben (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
- Pituko - Nepol Records/Amandas Dreamscape [St. Louis, MO]
- Alex - TOUCH Samadhi [TN]
- DJ Granddaddy [Milwaukee WI]
- Balance [Little Rock, Arkansas]
- Shagee of Esoteric Generation [Arkansas]
- Freedom of Esoteric Generation [Arkansas]
- Alberto of Cosmic Traveler [Columbus, OH]
- Malachi of Goahead Productions [Akron, OH]
- Meghan of Goahead Productions [Norton, OH]
- Uzi of Goahead Productions [Cleveland, OH]
- Gift Culture Dallas, TX
- Initialization String Dallas, TX
- Dynamic Interplay [Bloomington, IN]
- Psymbolic Visual Communications, Provides event decor, interactive projected visuals, design, jewelry, sculpture, contemporary & psy-arts…Unlock to enjoy.
- Paka Paka Light Show, Milwaukee based video, animation, and light projection art crew.
- Priestess, Chicago Deco artist, email Priestess (AT) chilluminati (DOT) org
- Marisa Butterfly Goddess (DECO) of Goahead Productions [Ohio]
- Roman (DECO) of Goahead Productions [Ohio]
- Stas (DECO) of Goahead Productions [Ohio]
- Wileycat (VJ) of Goahead Productions [Ohio]
- Serena aka Doodlbug ~ www.doodlbug.com [Asheville, North Carolina]
- Eclipse Festival - near Montreal, Quebec
- Harvest Festival, September, Cobourg (near Toronto), Ontario, 9 hour drive from Chicago, psytrance, weekend camping outdoor festival
- Samadhi Festival - Quebec - www.ganesha.ca
- Om Community
- Psyfreaks - Canadian French/English psytrance forum
- XVI - Canada parties, raves, nightlife
- Canada Raves
- Montreal, Canada rave resource
- Connect Festival - happens August, in Regina, SK; about 22 hour drive from Chitown
- Tribal Harmonix - Tribal music and culture, with a Canadian emphasis.
- Tribe Magazine, about the Canada EDM and night scene
Planetary Psytrance
Check out PSYTRANCE on del.icio.us
- Trance Addict, a good source for Chicago-area trance events (not just psy)tranceaddict.com
- www.psynews.org General psy goa discussion of music, artists, culture. Not a regional or events site.
- Trip Out NYC, the largest U.S. psytrance newsletter
- Southern Goa Tribe
- Tribe for Atlanta Goa scene (maintained by Moksa)
- http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/goaden
- www.metameme.org
- www.mindflux.us
- www.buddhabomb.net
- www.spacedub.org
- One Tribe
- Psytrance / Goa
- 604
- Organic Cyberians/Goa Trance Seekers
- Entrance Magazine
- Psy-candy
- Gaian Mind
- T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi
- Mushroom Magazine
- Psy Mag
- Machine Elf’s Trance Americana - guide to what’s happening in North America
- EnTrance Magazine
- Intershroom Magazine
- BEST: saikosounds.com. Good for music but also for clothing and wall hangings. Clothing offered: ladies hot pants, T-shirts
- Chaos Unlimited, UK. Music.
- Chaos Existence; music; they have psy clothing too.
- GOOD (some complaints): psyshop.com; music they have psy clothing too.
- Psymbolic, providing a selection of CDs, Digital Album Downloads, and DVDs from performing artists that have participated in Chilluminati events.
- Cytopia Records; Cytopia is a web-based label for psychedelic trance and ambient/chill dub music by unsigned artists. “We sell psytrance as download and offer 100% streamed previews, our files are sold in full mastered WAV format or 320kbs for slow connections. We also support new artists which is a big part of why we started the project, but recently more established artists have been sending us music… “
- israel-music.com. Some CDs you will not find elsewhere.
- www.trance-shop.com
- www.beatspace.com
- www.wirikuta.at
- www.juno.co.uk
- www.psystall.co.uk
- http://midijum-records.shoppingserver.de
- Light toys
- Cool Neon, cheapest source of El-Wire
  PSY CLOTHING
- Psychedelic t-shirts from Severyn, NYC deco artist.
- XLR8.nl psychedelic trance and dance culture clothing, fashion
  http://www.clubthings.com/index.html
- ClubThings.com: Club gear for a global culture
- Zia-Trance T-Shirts
- Space Tribe, THE BEST psychedelic clothing and other stuff. Based in Australia, shipping cost can be steep.
- UK’s Cyberdog party clothing line. Really great, expensive, interesting. My favorite after Spacetribe.
- Turbo Trance Wear. AWESOME. 2006 discovery. Also this link.
- Mental Peace. Really great, beautiful designs and many clothing options. My third favorite after Spacetribe and Cyberdog.
- Liberty Trance Sommaire shirts Very cool.
- Pagan Productions A few really interesting psychedelic designs.
- Trance Shop, good psychedelic clothing and other stuff.
- Psydeways, another very cool psy clothing and gear vendor based in Australia.
- Shaman Electro Wear, interesting psy clothing and gear vendor based in Germany.
- plastikwrap, good selection of party/cyber clothing both men and women.
- Misumi, party clothes mostly for women, based in Sweden.
- Gaian Mind Bazaar, featuring designs by SPACE TRIBE, GADO GADO VIENNA, PAGAN PRODUCTIONS. Cool stuff for what they have, but catch as catch can with selection and sizes.
- UV Glowin, Chicago based Amy will make custom UV and El-wire clothing. You work with her to design it. Very cool person and good work. I own one piece so far that she has made.
- Rasta Basta, basic T-shirts with some Indian or psychedelic themes
- Psy Reviews clothing, basic T-shirts with some Indian or psychedelic themes
- Link database that may lead you to more psy clothes, or not.
- The Tagzania map, tag “psytrance”
- Good del.icio.us tags: psytrance, psychedelic+trance
- Good tags for psychedelic trance festivals on del.icio.us: psyfest;psytrance+festival; psychedelic+festival.
- Burning Man - Not a psytrance festival, but lots of trance here and much much more. Moving away from psytrance somewhat since 2005.
- Burning Flipside, a Texas regional Burn but with strong psy/goa musical representation. Probably the largest regional Burn.
- boom - Portugal - http://www.boomfestival.org/
- voov - Germany - http://www.voov-experience.com/
- Earthcore Global Carnival - Australia - www.earthcore.com.au
- Tribeadelic - Australia - www.tribeadelic.com
- Rainbow Serpent - Australia - www.rainbowserpent.net
- Glastonbury Festival - UK - www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
- Glade Festival - UK - www.gladefestival.com
- Alien Safari events - South Africa - aliensafari.net
- Astralogue Goa and psytrance discography. Very useful.
- Goacidia CD database discography
- Triplag 24/7 webradio broadcast, dedicated to full-on, dark & twisted psytrance.
- ZIA-Trance, out of Boston
- Can Trance Dance Save the Planet? Must read essay on the spiritual / occult aspects of psychedelic trance with heavy reference to the ideas of Gurdjieff.
- Great article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about the influence of Burning Man on San Francisco trance. Recommended read.
- Machine Elf’s North American psytrance links
- Machine Elf’s New York psytrance links
- New York’sBody Temple
- New York’sTDC
- San Francisco’sConsortium of Collective Consciousness (CCC)
- Boston Psyforia
- Maryland’s Konvocation
- Machine Elf’s hilarious guide to the archetypes who inhabit psytrance scenes. Highly recommended.
- Burning Man ePlaya, a good source of local psychedelic events
- psyreviews.org Music reviews
- Goa scene pictures from around the planet
- goatrance.de Home of Goabase (party database) and Goacidia (discography). This is a cool noncommercial site and is highly recommended for a planet view of the scene. Good calendar.
- Chai Shop A pretty good planet database of psy trance party, artist, link and other information. They have a party calendar.
- Psychedelic Mind Expander Psy Trance database, mostly artists and music. Has a good and easy to use links section. Not a good party calendar.
- Interzone - Nice Swiss psy link database
- Doof Central A beautiful, nicely designed psytrance community website with emphasis on Melbourne, Australia. I think this is a good template for how to use Mambo. Not cluttered, easy to find what you need.
- trance.net Mostly Norway party reviews, artists, links, but pretty heavily Scandinavian in emphasis.
- tranceculture.com UK-centric psychedelic trance event and news site. Very easy to navigate and use, highly recommended.Less useful links
- Psychedelic Planet A Danish site, mostly music and planet links. No calendar, not really the easiest links to use.
- Psylinks - German psytrance linkbase, very scattered and not very useful, at least in my opinion. Not sure it is being kept current.
- puregoa.de German psytrance site. I didn’t find it useful. Too cluttered.
- spraci.com, an excellent EDM events list
- ravelinks.com
- Hyperreal rave and party ultimate source
- globalbeatz Planetary raves and clubbing
- djfix.com, a rave listing with EDM news, forums, events
- Ambient music news and discussion
- electrofreaks.com, IDM and chill forum
- Static Beats electronic music news, forums, links, downloads, events
- Electronic Scene networking for electronic music artists, also event listing
- iVibes electronic music news, forums, event listing
- Phocas Magazine electronic music news and calendar
- Soul Seeker MP3 filesharing
- DJ Forums The best place for all things dj
- EarthDance. Earthdance is an organization that organizes parties across the planet that occur on the same night; proceeds go to worthy causes.
- dancesafe.org Dance Safe, safe use of psychoactives Deco Artists and Resources
- Psygarden psychedelic art gallery.
- Planetary deco artist Robbie
- Visionary art of Luke Brown. Check out his UV painted statues HERE or HERE
- Psychedelic backdrop artist NOS
- Japanese deco artist Mizue Kataoka, did deco at Gaian Mind 2005. Email her at elafm (AT) earthlink (DOT) net
- Asheville family deco artist Devotee of TOUCHSamadhi
- The Deco Secrets of Tubular crin REVEALED
- Famous NYC deco artist Severyn
- Nagual Creations, from Spain.VJs and Psychedelic Video, Animation
- www.psymbolic.com - This catalytic duo (Julee & Troy) create Live Interactive Visual Environments. Since 1999, they have become large-scale A/V event curators and they continue to push their means of expression through their video compositions and the realtime surrounding spectacles. Always providing a customized thematic projection/ performance of synchronous moments of meaning and inspiration.
- VJ Central The best place for all things vj - live visuals
- Spot Works, Website for psytrance VJ Scott Draves (San Francisco). Scott is the creator of Electric Sheep
- Geomagnetic, website for DJ Spook (San Francisco), one of the creative forces behind the classic psychedelic trance documentary Liquid Crystal Vision
Chicagoland

Chicagoland recurring noncommercial, “quasi trance” dance events

These do not generally feature psychedelic trance or any other kind of electronic trance. In fact there may be no electronic music of any kind. These events are often guided by some kind of alternate spiritual structure. You might hear drumming, world music, chanting, and the music may be interrupted by yoga, ritual, and other New Age isms. They are worth checking out because there is plenty of creativity here, and they are generally dance-oriented events.

TranceZenDance http://www.tzdtribe.com A long-running dance event that floats around Chicago between different venues.

First friday of the month: Eight:18@Unity. This is a generally high energy dance event at Unity Temple church. Music alternates with yoga, New Age ritual. http://www.unitychicago.org/calendar

Another first friday event: First Fridays at Museum of Contemporary Art. This is mostly house music. A cool venue but not the strongest dance event. http://www.mcachicago.com

Sanctuary at Lake Street Church in Evanston. I haven’t been to this event.

Best Chicago clubs (IMHO)

Smart Bar The coolest bar for those who just want to dance. Great local DJs.
Vision Nightclub Vision has the most money to bring in top talent and European DJs, but it can get very crowded and is a meat market, very swanky. Good for mainstream commercial trance.
Sound Bar Good acts but a swanky club with dress code. Good for mainstream commercial trance.
Neo The only club that still routinely spins industrial music.

Other cool Chicago resources
- Chicagoland Consciousness Cafe (C3), consciousness and psychedelic networking resource
- UR Magazine, Chicago nightlife free weekly
- Global Adrenaline, Chicago clubbing, after parties, Ibiza and Miami style parties
- Pure Future, driving force behind much Chicago commercial club trance, most Friday nights at Sound Bar.
- Club Planet forums, associated with Pure Future.
- Chi-tech edm calendar
- Chicago experimental electronic music forum
- Gothic Council of Chicago Yes, there is still a gothic and industrial scene in the city.
- Gothic Council Y! Group
- Chicago Electro Y! Group - dark electro, EBM, etc. Cool list.
- Red Planet - email list for industrial and goth Chicago music
- American Gothic Productions. Dark electro scene.
- Positive Groove Productions
- Chicago House Music
- Everything 0, Chicago nightlife
- Asian Elements, nightlife for Chicago Asian community
- Chicagovue - nightlife for Chicago Russian community
- Chicago Israeli community
- Chicago events, from the Israeli consul
- Flavorpill Chicago - Flavorpill picks for Chicago entertainment
- Gapers Block - Chicago entertainment weblog
- Fengi Chicago Art Events calendar
- Bedno - Chicago entertainment weblog
- Chicago entertainment - Metromix
- Craigs List Chicago
- Pistal Magazine, Chicago fashion/activism
- Subsystence, Chicago arts community weblog
- Spunn, Chicago’s premier fire troupe

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