The results of the Ektoplazm Free Music Survey 2009 are in! Big thanks go out to the 385 visitors who responded to the call in the month of January. The survey had two main parts: one section for voting on the best release of the year and another section designed to gather some feedback about the Ektoplazm web site and netlabel. Here I present the results of […]
The psytrance industry is a motley collection of small businesses that don’t always play well together; allegations of misconduct are commonplace in this scene. These petty disputes are frequently made public on big international forums like Isratrance, particularly when disgruntled artists, lacking any other method of recourse, decide to expose shady label […]
All Stars Festival – Deco by Neuromantix Welcome to the 2010 edition of Ektoplazm’s annual North American Festival Guide. Here you will find a listing of various outdoor gatherings at least somewhat associated with the psychedelic trance subculture in Canada and the United States. Many more festivals will be added to this list as details are announced! Faeri […]
The Bolivian netlabel Neurotrance Records is back with another dazzling psychedelic trance release designed to set your mind on fire! Compiled by Hyper Drive, Highway To Eternity will guide you on a cosmic journey into the past, present, and future, where matter and the soul are allied, and one right path leads to our destiny. Uniting genuinely psychedelic f […]
With a full moon overhead it is time for another blinding compilation from the UK netlabel Cosmogenesis Recordings. 29 Full Moons continues the sonic countdown to 2012 with a global line-up of full-on psytrance producers keen to blast your mind and body into ecstatic overdrive. As always you can expect to hear energetic tunes in a variety of modes, from upbe […]
The Finnish psytrance collective People Of The Butterflies returns with Sauce Masculino, the full-length debut of Bechamel Boyz, a “world famous boy band” that demonstrates the typical Finnish disregard for anything even remotely serious. It isn’t clear from the absurd promo text exactly who is behind this strange project (although Astroschnautzer appears to […]
I rely on a lot of different applications and utilities to keep this web site running and the free music flowing. Here I have compiled a list of some of the more important software that I use to publish music and maintain this web site. This list is for my reference as much as yours; I will be referring back to this post whenever I am travelling and wish to […]
Swampology features four stunning works of forest music by Lithuanian psytrance producer DoHm (Domas Gudelis) and Cenotes, a collaboration between DoHm and P.Tale. After the great success of Under The Moss, the first psytrance compilation from Lithuania, Ektoplazm contacted DoHm to release more of his deeply hypnotic night-time music—and this is the result! […]
SeaMoon is the solo project of Simon Neumann, a German artist specializing in exotic psychedelic downtempo beats. With five years of production experiments behind him, SeaMoon is ready to make a big splash with his aptly-named debut, A Twisted Downbeat Adventure, released on the Chillbasement netlabel. This release contains five tracks loaded with swampy org […]
The Voodoo GoAttack EP is the first release by Grand-Cheff, a new school Goa trance artist from France. Directly inspired by the mid-nineties Goa trance sound, this rough and ready release is filled with whirling psychedelic melodies, brash bass lines, tribal rhythms, and humorous references to movies and video games. Featuring cover design by Imba and maste […]