The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for "mind," ψυχη (psyche), and "manifest," δηλειν (delein). A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are one of the stations on the spectrum of experiences elicited by psychedelic substances. On that same spectrum will be found hallucinations, distortions o ...

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X-Dream are Marcus Christian Maichel (born May 1968) and Jan Müller (born February 1970); they are also known as Rough and Rush. They are producers of psychedelic trance music and hail from Hamburg, Germany. Although their music retains the 4/4 drum patterns of Goa trance music and has a dependence on riffs, X-Dream have a unique sounds different from most other artists in the genre. They are well-known for their high quality of ...

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This article is about the band, Crop Circles, for information about the controversial phenomenon, see crop circle. Crop Circles was a collaboration between the psychedelic trance band Etnica and a Milanese group called Lotus Omega (Francesco D'Amato and Filippo Scrimizzi). An album, entitled "Tetrahedron", should have been released around 1998, but the project was abandoned because the British label Auracle Recordings went bankrupt. Their most famous work is Full Mental Jackpot (wordplay on Full Metal Jacket). It is a fast track at 138 bpm, wit ...

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Celtic Cross was an unusual collaboration of Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle), Martin Glover (bassist from Killing Joke), Saul Davies (violinist from the James band), and Chester (Baba G). The style of music was not psychedelic trance (although it is sometimes considered a psychedelic trance album), but rather ambient/dub. The cover of the Hicksville album was designed by Mark Neal, the same artist who worked on Posford's Twisted and ...

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Raja Ram is a musician and the owner of the UK record label TIP World. He was born Ronald Rothfield in 1941 in Melbourne, Australia. Raja Ram left Australia in the 1950s to begin the hippie trail. He returned to Australia later and studied flute at the Melbourne Conservatory. Raja Ram also went to New York in 1965 to study jazz. He was a member of the band Quintessence in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Shortly after, Raja Ram was forced to retire for personal reasons and became an envelope salesman. In the 1980s, he dec ...

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Delta may refer to: Δ or δ, a letter of the Greek alphabet. See delta (letter) A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river, roughly in shape of Δ. See river delta, also Mississippi delta, California Delta region, Nile Delta. Δ, symbol in math, to express a change or difference in values, e.g. ΔT or dT = temperature change. In mathematical finance delta, δ, is one of "The Greeks"; delta measures the sensitivity of the value of a derivati ...

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The word irritant may refer to: Something that causes irritation, often a chemical substance. Irritant, a 2002 psychedelic trance album by X-Dream. Other related archives2002, Irritant, X-Dream, chemical substance, irritation, psychedelic trance

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The Beatnik counterculture included ideas of changed consciousness, shared with writers like Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley, whose book The Doors of Perception explored the idea of drugs stripping away barriers to thought and exposing unfiltered reality. Certain drugs including LSD were not illegal, and one of those experimenting was Ken Kesey who took part as a medical guinea pig in experiments with "psychomimetic" drugs in the late 1950s, and went on to gather like-minded people calling themselves the Merry Pranksters whose attempts to spread the message of psychedelic drugs developed into the Acid Tests of th ...

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Psychedelic music, Psychedelic music - History, Psychedelic music - U.S.A. in the 60s, Psychedelic music - Britain in the 60s, Psychedelic music - The end of the 60s, Psychedelic music - More recent bands

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Infected Mushroom are one of the most popular pioneers of the psychedelic trance (or 'Psytrance') genre, this has been attributed to both their constantly evolving style of music and also to their tendency to use catchier, more accessible melodies than the more eccentric 'tripped-out' melodies used in most other psytrance music. Both Erez and Amit (Duvdev) are classically trained musicians, and this may explain the difference in the melodies they construct. The Gathering (1999) was the breakthrough debut album for the group with the s ...

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The Koxbox gained considerable popularity within the psytrance scene. Their work was of exceptional quality and differentiated them from most groups of the time. They used innovative sounds that make the Koxbox music characteristic to trained ears. They had a preference for rich, melodic tunes, and this was much appreciated at a time when the Goa sub-genre was the most popular psytrance style. They have remixed tracks by Juno Reactor and Slinky Wizard. Their tracks Fuel On, Ambivalentino, and Midnight Till The End appear in the danish movie Pusher. The later track was produced esp ...

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Koxbox, Koxbox - History, Koxbox - Music, Koxbox - Discography

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Most electronic dance music tracks released are produced with certain features that are favourable for DJs to beatmatch records togher with an almost seamless sound to it. Unlike the obvious song structures of genres like hard house or Hi-NRG, the peaks and troughs in a progressive dance track tend to be less obvious. Layering different sounds on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of th ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Progressive drum & bass, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Most electronic dance music tracks released are produced with certain features that are favourable for DJs to beatmatch records togher with an almost seamless sound to it. Unlike the obvious song structures of genres like hard house or Hi-NRG, the peaks and troughs in a progressive dance track tend to be less obvious. Layering different sounds on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of th ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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In June 1992, a defense contractor General Dynamics employee, Michael Lauffenburger, was arrested for inserting a logic bomb that would delete vital rocket project data. It was alleged that his plan was to return as a highly-paid consultant to fix the problem once it triggered. The bomb was stumbled on by another employee of the company. Lauffenburger was charged with computer tampering and attempted fraud and faced potential fines of $500,000 and ...

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Logic bomb, Logic bomb - Historic logic bombs

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The three hour film was extremely difficult to make due to theatrical constraints during the occupation. Noted critic Pauline Kael wrote "that the starving extras made away with some of the banquets before they could be photographed". Carné and Prevert hid some of the key reels of film from the occupying forces, hoping that Paris would be liberated by the time the film was completed. The occupying Nazi administration imposed a maximum time limit of 90 minutes for feature films. As a result of this the film was split into its two part ...

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Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton met as drummer and keyboard player (respectively) for the Ozric Tentacles, a long-standing psychedelic "space-rock" band from Somerset. Although the Ozric Tentacles incorporated elements of electronic music, Pepler and Hinton were drawn towards the rave-oriented dance music. Merv explained: "There we were in Ozrics doing all this technically impressive, weird music with mad timings, and getting really involved with it, and this experiment that became Eat Static was a good excuse to ignore all that, get the synths ...

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The music has its roots in the popularity of the Goa state in India in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie mecca, although the actual Goa trance style did not appear until early 1990s. As the tourist influx tapered off in the 1970s and 1980s, however, a core group remained in Goa, concentrating on developments in music along with other pursuits such as yoga and recreational drug use. The music that would eventually be known as Goa trance did not evolve from one single genre, but was inspired mainly by Industrial music/EBM like Front L ...

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Goa trance music, Goa trance music - History, Goa trance music - The sound of Goa trance, Goa trance music - Goa trance parties, Goa trance music - Goa trance in popular culture, Goa trance music - Typical Goa trance music tracks, Goa trance music - Popular Goa trance artists and albums, Goa trance music - 1993, Goa trance music - 1994, Goa trance music - 1995, Goa trance music - 1996, Goa trance music - 1997, Goa trance music - 1998, Goa trance music - 1999, Goa trance music - 2000, Goa trance music - 2001, Goa trance music - 2002, Goa trance music - 2003, Goa trance music - 2004, Goa trance music - 2005

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Israeli music is an integral part of society. Many of the most popular songs are called Shierei Eretz Israel Hay'shana Ve Hatova [Ereẓ Yiśrāʼēl hay-yəshānāh wə-haṭ-ṭoḇāh, ארץ ישׂראל הישנה והטובה] (Songs of the Good Old Land of Israel), and are Hebrew songs set to Russian and Slavic melodies. The youth and kibbutz movements have played a major role in Israeli musical development, and in ...

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Music of Israel, Music of Israel - History, Music of Israel - Styles, Music of Israel - National/Folk Music, Music of Israel - Classical music, Music of Israel - Rock, Music of Israel - Pop, Music of Israel - Heavy metal and alternative rock, Music of Israel - Ethnic music, Music of Israel - Mizrahi music, Music of Israel - Hip hop and rap, Music of Israel - Trance

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Eat Static - CD. Abduction (Planet Dog Records 1993) Implant (Planet Dog Records 1994) Epsylon (Mammoth Records 1995) Science of the Gods (Planet Dog Records 1997) B-World (Planet Dog Records 1998) Alien EPs (Mesmobeat Records 1999) DecaDance (Mesmobeat Records 1999) Crash and Burn! (Mesmobeat Records 2000) Prepare Your Spirit (Mesmobeat Records 2000) In ...

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Eat Static, Eat Static - History, Eat Static - Musicology, Eat Static - Discography, Eat Static - CD, Eat Static - Other projects

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DJs who play progressive sounds include: John Digweed Sasha Brian Transeau James Holden Nick Warren James Zabiela Sander Kleinenberg Deep Dish Jimmy van M Steve Porter Danny Tenaglia Luke Chable Sector7seven Moshic Andrew Casric Progressive music producers: Timo Maas Hybrid (band) Way Out West Suspender Infusion Shiloh (group) See also:

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Progressive house has its origins in Britain in the early 1990s, with the output of the Guerrilla record label and Leftfield's first singles (particularly "Song of Life") inspiring, according to various accounts, either Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle fame or then Mixmag editor Dom Phillips to coin the term. In 1992, what was to be the first superclub, Renaissance threw open its doors in the small mining town of Mansfield, and its DJs - particularly Sasha and the then-unknown John Digweed - were instrumental in pushing the sound in it ...

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