This week is CiTR Radio’s annual fund raising campaign. Last year was a huge success! Your donations helped us smash my last year’s goal of $300 by raising $1,800 towards the station goal of $30,000. With your help, Trancendance was the second highest contributing show.

There are two significant new initiatives underway at CiTR right now, with a third on the horizon. These are the kinds of things your donation may help fund:

CiTR has one of the most respected music libraries in Canada, especially catering to underground, indie and Canadian artists. We have extensive CD and vinyl collections, and we are currently digitizing those into a massive digital library that will greatly improve access and searchability for our on-air DJs and volunteer members.

CiTR just launched a new DJ training program where students can sign up for a free month-long course on how to DJ dance and hip-hop music. The initial launch was extremely well received with over 150 people signing up within the first 2 hours.

In 2012 UBC will break ground on a new Student Union Building which will be the new home of CiTR starting in 2014. This is very exciting for CiTR members and, while UBC will be paying for the construction and basic furnishings, we will be looking to save some money to help improve our new home.

Trancendance first aired in 2001, which means the show is now celebrating its 10 year anniversary.

In the past year our Facebook fan page has grown from 1300 members to 3919 members, from all over the world.

We feature the music-only version of our best shows on our SoundCloud page were they often receive over 1000 plays.

SO….

It would really mean a lot to us and to CiTR if you could help out with a donation. The powers at be seem to have increased our goal to $1,800 after last year’s massive success, but we would be extremely grateful for any amount that you are able to contribute. We have pledged $60 towards the goal for our show, which will contribute to the station’s overall goal of $35,000.

PLEASE…

Donate by PHONE by calling (604) 822-8648 and telling the person who takes your call that it is for the show Trancendance.

OR…

Donate by INTERNET

Thank you so much!

dj Smiley Mike & dj Caddyshack

Trancendance on CiTR 101.9fm
Sundays 10pm – Midnight
Trancendance.net

Spirit Base has become the largest psychedelic trance festival in Austria since its inception in 2007. More than 5,000 visitors from all over Europe came in 2010. After eight years in a quarry in the south of Vienna, Spirit Base moves to a forest near Ernstbrunn where a Stone Age village was built for a TV production. The main floor, this year will be designed by several decoration teams, and there will be some visual surprises. Projections of Sikanda, 3D Visuals, UV decorations and special laser shows from Germany and Austria will transform the forest into a fantasy landscape. More than 100 international DJs and live acts from 20 countries are booked. The focus of the line-up is again on Progressive Trance, but Full-on, Dark-Psy, Oldschool and spacey Ambient are not be forgotten. In addition to the main floor there is a big chillout tent, as well as a third dance floor, which alternates in tempo with the main floor.

Most artists come from Israel, Germany, Austria and several European countries, but also from some South American countries. Among the world-famous live acts and DJs are:

• Dino Psaras
• Bamboo Forest
• Ananda Shake
• U-Recken
• Klopfgeister
• Protonica
• Neelix
• Alpha
• Symphonix
• Shane Goby

…and many, many more!

Also, the local elite of DJs and Trance producers will be given a lot of space. A 40-meter chillout tent is hosted by Vienna’s Psy-DJ Gobayashi and his Astral Zone.

VJ Sikanda is famous for its gigantic projections that show the cultures of the world on all available surfaces. The “Funny Astronaut” and his team have been known for years for the light magic in Viennese clubs and on the Austrian Paradise Festival that takes place again later in July this year. Austria’s best decorative Psytrance artist Calaquendi and several artist teams will again provide huge and bright paintings and three-dimensional masterpieces of art. Fire shows, fireworks and performances round off the comprehensive offer.

For more information visit: www.spirit-base.at

With summer fast approaching, there seems to be lots of chatter about which music festivals people are going to. If I had the chance to go to any electronic music festival in 2011, my choice would be the 2011 O.Z.O.R.A. Festival in Hungary. This psychedelic tribal gathering has first took place in 1999 when 30 thousand people gathered to celebrate a total Sun eclipse in the area: the famous Solipse.

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This year, the festival will be held from Aug 2-7,2011 and features an amazing line-up of live electronic music acts including:

• Ace Ventura

• Man With No Name (One of my old favourites!)

• Ovnimoon (One of my new favourites!)

• Protoculture

• Suntree (Another new favourite)

• Union Jack (One of my all-time favourites)

• X-Dream (Yes, another old favourite)

…and many, many others!

Here is the Full Main Stage Line-up at Ozora 2011

Here’s the info for Tickets to Ozora Festival 2011 in Hungary

If you are lucky enough to join the tribe and visit the OZORA Psychedelic Trance Festival this year, please send me some photos and a few words about your experience. I would love to share them here!

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Recently I’ve been on a bit of a progressive psytrance kick. And it seems like the listeners are into too. My Alien Abduction mix has been the most favourited mix on my Soundcloud profile. Here’s my current Top 10 Psygressive Trance tracks.

Symphonix – People of the Dawn (ARW Mix)
Ovnimoon – Galactic Mantra (Liquid Soul Remix)
E-Clip – Reactor
Vice – Royal Shadow
Suntree – Back to the Source
Ace Ventura – Genesis
Suntree – Private Guide (Album Edit)
ARW – Time is Not Free
Astrix – Just in Time
Ace Ventura – Baby Boom

Update! Now you can hear some of these tracks in my latest progressive psytrance mix: We Are You

This week Trancendance will be giving away 2 pairs of VIP tickets to rising star and Black Hole Recordings artist Steve Kaetzel at Shine Nightclub on Friday January 28, 2011, brought to you by Elite One Productions and PH1. Whether he’s remixing some of the world’s top producers or treading new ground in live performance, Steve Kaetzel is quickly rising through the ranks in the electronic dance music community. With a steady stream of releases on the legendary Black Hole Recordings and a growing catalog of remixes including the likes of Moonbeam and Zoo Brazil, DJs and clubgoers around the globe are taking swift notice of this multitalented artist.

To win the tickets you need to be listening live to Trancendance during our Sunday Jan 23rd broadcast, from 10pm – Midnight. In Vancouver, you can tune in at CiTR 101.9fm or you can tune in on-line.