OUIM.net rediscovered

I recently rediscovered OUIM net.label, loaded with psychedelic listening pleasures. The home page has 3 music streams and between the releases and DJ sets, almost 100 well curated psychedelia titles to download.

I'm reminded of an old favorite by Fairytale, released the week before Christmas, it sounds like a drunken Christmas party at first. Soon it wanders into my neighborhood in Vancouver, with a dialog about our seabus transit ferries and lo fi soundscapes that's accompanied by a joyful thumping sound and the ancient chanting of First Nations people that used to make the crossing in canoes.

Fairytale: Native Tales

Cardamar Music

I stumbled upon the mixes at the Cardamar Music website the other day. Hours of listening pleasure there.

Globe Spinning

Psytrance Day

I returned to listen to an old favorite today, Flower Powder, who keep a great collection of DJ mixes on their blog. They also perform live mixes psystream radio and tribalmixes radio. Other psytrance radio I like is the Digitally Imported chillout channel, and HBR1.

A recent Flower Powder mix from the Chill Bill series on tribal mixes:

Flower Powder: Chill Bill #3

DJ Maer

I continue to enjoy mixes by San Francisco local, DJ Maer. He is involved in several net music websites, including OEM Radio and the Dub Beautiful Collective net label.

Samples:

DJ Maer: Where No Dub Fears To Tread

Adham Shaikh with Shankar: Tongu - Mbira Remix (Live)

Flower Powder

A DJ from Sweden, Flower Powder, offers psytrance, and progressive mixes and more. You can can find much of their catalog at their page on the Internet Archive. A sample: Mexikhali.

Oh Canada!

The closest I can get to hearing great music at the Duncan Garage Showroom is to tune in on CBC Radio 3. They offer a steady stream of made in Canada tunes, a playlist tool (hear your favorites again), and a playlist sharing/ranking system. All free, courtesy of Canadian taxpayers -- which includes me!

There's also a weekly podcast this week featuring authentic Canadian J-pop sounds from Toronto by Shinjuku Zulu.

Spacemusic.nl podcasts

A weekly podcast in m4a format by TC of Rotterdam -- you can find an interview with TC on this Talking Portraits podcast. Last year he did his podcasts in mp3, this is the the best of spacemusic for 2005.

Mike D.'s website

Mike D. does a weekly show on the cosmic lounge channel at digitally imported. Mike D.'s website features past programs in the listening area, and there's lots to read about the musicians he features.

Holland's Bahamut

40 minute mix (dark ambient) found at psynews.org. Personally, I'd put that in the dronology genre -- whatever! Definitely worth a listen. (Oh... regarding that download link -- find the countdown timer -- wait for an advert to pop up over it -- close the advert -- download the file! Yow!!! There should be a better way.)

Vancouver's DJ Jaspa

75 minute mix (progressive/trance) found at trugroovez.com.

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From Gjunkie... ambient/chillout podcasts... hear the latest podcast... and watch a fave Sigur Rós tune on Gjunkie's rambling page.

May 31, 2009 Update: podcasts still available here.