I like to make mooz sick and it a-makez me happy, and Ive been working at it for a hwile, lots of trials and even more errors, stabs in teh dark, in the light, and in tones btwn too...

I started out my musical life being the son of a bluegrass fiddler, continued it via music class in grade school (Mr Carlton set me on this path, and its only been recently that I realized that) and 4 years of playing clarinet.

Discovered electronic music in early high school, was instantly hooked, sadly being an EDM fan in Winnemucca in 1997 meant that I was pretty much THE EDM fan in Winnmeucca :P, so parties and all that weren't available, but the music stirred my soul... Saw some old goa vids around then too, Man With No Name, Juno Reactor, and Eat STatic chief among them. Not long after MTV became the garbage heap it is now I discovered Impulse tracker and the whole demoscene-modtracking thing which made it realistic for The EDM Fan of Winnemucca to have a means to hear obscure tracks as well as try my hand at writing some myself (had no idea what i was doing).

Things went odd for a few years... Then in 2001 I happened to be working a data entry job that let me listen to music on the computer I was using, and decided to look for EDM webradio, and this stuff whose name stuck out as interesting years before popped into my head, 'goa trance'. Found Philosomatika, and I never looked back.

Then more odd years, and in 04 finally got to hear psychedelic trance at parties, began to learn about artists making it, and, the best thing that ever happened to me; discovered Renoise, before that I was using ModPlug.

Renoise made it suddenly realistic for me, a silly nerd from teh sticks of Nevada who had never taken modtracking seriously but loved the DIY attitude of the culture and became familiar with the tracker interface, to ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO MAKE REAL, PROFESSIONAL QUALITY MUSIC WITHOUT HAVING TO LEARN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT DAW.

But then i found i had no idea what exactly I wanted to be making, but was having fun learning how nonetheless. Then I started to collect CDs, and in 06 got a CDJ setup, and spent the next year, at least, learning to mix, rarely opening Renoise at all. I feel that gave me a very (VERY) clear idea of the basics of psytrance and EDM structure in general, which made visualizing and imagining entire song concepts, rather than individual elements, so much easier. For someone like myself as shy as Ive been in the past, knowing no other EDM enthusiasts, no idea who to ask on the internet... That was the best teacher i could have found.

Then sat back down to Renoise, and wrote Toiyabe, shortly followed by TDE (both available here). And suddenly I had tracks made by me that were similar enough to released material that I felt comfortable calling it Psychedelic Trance :D :D :D

The rest is a series of discovering bad habits I never realized I had, mistakes I never noticed, and all the little subtle things that let the music open up and breathe. TDE, Toiyabe and the Carp all have had at least 5 revisions over the years, updated as Ive reached new skill levels, but the original ideas and writing, and for the most part all the original synth work, are intact, which I still find to be amazing. I never really thought when working on them after initial writing that they had that much going on...

Even now though, I still have Wow moments when a track starts to gel together and show itself. I guess I still feel sorta like Im still learning, but from what I can tell thats the name of the game of Life, especially in art and other labors of the soul...

But its constantly surprising. And as I heard once, a lifetime of surprises is ultimately far more interesting than a life of ordered routine.

ANYWAY.

Have some music! :D

Writing, production, and rough mastering-like post processing by Joseph Kastelic, made in Reno and copylefted 2006-2011.