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Hi Everyone,

Here is a new mix that I hope you enjoy.  It is a definitely a new sound for me.  Think 1920’s Swing but remade into Electro/House.  I will get the playlist up later.

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Cheers,
Bryan

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Its been way too long since I got any new music up. This mix has a lot of my favorite tracks. Hopefully you will groove on it as much as I do.

Bryan

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Wow, several months and suddenly a bunch of new music.  I hope you like it – this one is a 3 hour journey through the ambient and chill sounds of the Yeti.

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Finally, after so many months I finally got a new mix out!  This one starts off house with the classic Frankie Knuckles, Whistle Song and ends progressive.

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Here is my latest mix.

It is a Chill/Ambient mix that starts and ends with a definitive San Francisco artist – Young American Primitive (aka Greg Scanavino).  The two tracks are from Greg’s only CD that we released back in the mid 90’s on my now defunct label, ZoeMagick Records.  It was truly an amazing time in San Francisco.  A time when magic was in the air and everyone felt there was nothing they couldn’t do.

I met Greg one Sunday morning at the EndUp in San Francisco in the 90’s.  He was telling me all about his music so we went to his car where he popped in a cassette tape into the player and we listed to “Over and Out”.  The next day he went to work crafting an entire album which we released a few months later.  The first track on this mix is called “Sunrise” which represents a time when Greg was intern working for the Navy on an underwater listening project (Greg is very smart).  Many times they worked through the night finishing just before dawn.  This song is how Greg describes that moment when the sea is as calm as glass and the morning sun breaks over horizon in that instance of beauty.

Sadly, it has been almost 15 years and I have lost touch with Greg.

I hope you enjoy, and always, would love to hear what you think.

-Bryan

 

Playlist

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1 Sunrise – Young American Primitive
2 Touched By The Sun – Rusch & Elusive’s Chill Out Mix Edit Envio
3 Tears Don’t Fall – Original Mix Cyrus
4 Ether Aesthetics feat. Vocals By Nevena Nikolova & Kaval By Venzislav Dikov – Original Mix Kliment
5 Drive feat. Melody Gough – Original Mix Jaytech
6 Crystalline feat. Vocals By Nevena Nikolova & Milena Sergueeva – Original Mix Kliment
7 Universe Alchemy feat. Vocal By Milena Sergueeva – Original Mix Kliment
8 Serenade – Katoey Ambient Mix Marga Sol
9 Spacebird – Ambient Mix Ilay Mosolov
10 1000 Mile Drift feat. Brother J – Simon Flower’s Lost At Sea Mix Pitch Black
11 Bird Soul – Ornithomancy Mix Pitch Black
12 Travels To The In?nite feat. Flute By Aura Rascon And Mantra Vocal By Pavel Terziiski
13 Communicate – Original Mix Chris Lake
14 Falling People – Original Mix Dousk
15 Ever Forever Sensibility – Original Mix Cyrus
16 Anagram – Dousk
17 Over and Out – Young American Primitive

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Hey Everyone, 

Here is a progressive trance mix.  I have been enjoying it while riding and this week with the 8′ of new snow it should be nice.

As always, would love to hear any feedback.

12″ of love…

Bryan

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Here is my latest mix, it was made for my dear friends Helen and Greg. With my new blog format, please leave comments on what you think…

Here is the playlist:

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1 Finding Ground – Original Mix Christopher Willits
2 Chill In Natura Chilled C’Quence
3 The 79 Years – Original Mix Dezarate
4 Caffe Express – Original Mix Dezarate
5 Dem Cowboys – Original Mix Illuminus
6 Freefall Pitch Black [Nz]
7 Planted Sounds From The Ground
8 Finding Ground – Original Mix Christopher Willits
9 The Legacy Chilled C’Quence
10 Don´t Stop – Original Mix Blank & Jones, Claudia Brucken
11 La Noche – Original Mix Dezarate
12 Subraum – Original Mix Sixty4
13 Waterlove feat. Guitars by BCraack – Absance Remix Lank
14 Waterlove feat. Guitars by BCraack – Forteba Lank

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Here is a non-dance music mix that I did for my friend Jonathan called Beautiful Day which features Queen, the Carpenters, a wonderful black woman covering Prince and Cyndie Lauper, Doris Day, and samples from Strangers with Candy.  I hope you like it.

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reprint from the San Francisco Examiner, Image Section, 2-16-1992

The Ecstatic Cybernetic Amino Acid Test
By Cynthia Robins

By five minutes after midnight, New Year’s Eve, the music has been going for three hours. Bu the party is just starting to build. By 2 a.m., 6,000 bodies are shoehorned into a cavernous space below San Francisco’s Fashion Center, buffeted, embraced and engulfed by sound and lights caroming off the concrete walls, floors, and ceilings.

Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in _Fantasia_, the DJ directs the flow of energy with controlled waves of sound. Prancing like a high priest in front of dual turntables and a control panel whose decibel levels constantly violate the red line, he weaves a seemless skein, a solid blanket of sound. He is an electronic shaman. No one escapes his spell. Relentless, the music is almost all bass – a _boom_ da _boom_ do _boom_ da _boom_ cranked to marrow-boiling levels, plunging ahead at fetal heartbeat cadence. An incessant 118-126 beats per minute tickled incidentally by featureless vocals and snatches of sampled riffs and melodies. The beat soaks your shoes, enters your feet like a tidal surge and then charges up your body to attack your groin. If you have one ounce of rhythm, you gotta dance. If you don’t, you gotta leave.

The lights synch with the sound — pulsing, whipping, whirling. Video screens televise live crowd shots overlaid with psychedelic fractal pattern. Laser-green light rays explode on the floor like shattered snakes. Smoke machines spew faux fog through which Intellebeam spots direct shards of color and white light, fragmenting on bodies, walls, and ceiling like an akak barrage in Baghdad.

The total sensory environment wraps the dancers in a techno-cocoon. It is disco inferno, psychedelic apocalypse.

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In 1992 I started ZoeMagik records with my partner Jim Hopkins from Twitch Records.  I was 23 and full of spunk thinking that I there was nothing in the world I could not do.  Not having any clue about what would be involved in starting a record label, I set out to do just that.

It was an amazing time to be living in San Francisco – full of wonder and excitement, energy seemed to crackle in the air, and it was not just us.  All around the city were colonies of creatively like minded people coming together making amazing sights and sounds and objects.  It really was a City of Tribes.

So I ordered a book about the music industry, including a book from Nolo Press on how to do your own recording and publishing contracts and licensing agreements.

Stuff we produced included the following:

• Young American Primitive
• Alien DreamTime Video with Terrence McKenna
• TastiBox
• Daisey Glow
• Single Cell Orchestra
• Essa3

Shortly after forming ZoeMagik Records, we started up a second independent label called City of Tribes Records aiming at World music as only Northern California could interpret it.  This included the following:

• Lights In A Fat City
• TranceMission
• The Beasts of Paradise
• Stephen Kent