Music Is My Drug : Psychedelic Trance

A documentary from 1995, and therefore one of the earliest attempts to document the scene that centered on Goa in the 1990s. The first part of the film takes up Japan, the production of synths by the Roland coproration, even visiting the factory and looking at a new model. There is an interview with Organix, The second half of the film focuses on the party scene in India in the early and mid-90s. It takes up the movements between Isreal and India of party people, which was huge when I was in India in the 90s. The thing is, the Isrealis I met were not interested in the politics of the region. In fact they were against the whole bloody thing. But they had no choice. Isreal is a machine that eats its own young. The Trance scene was a higher plane. Here is a window on it.

Oils on the Water (1985)

Here's the entire Oils on the Water concert from Goat Island in Sydney Harbour from 1985. I was 16 when this was broadcast. I had been listening to Midnight Oil for over a year. I had been introduced to them by a girl I had a brief thing with, and we went on to become lifelong friends (its been over 40 years now anyway). Midnight Oil changed reality for me. Prior to hearing their music I was a good little colonial boy. When I was 12 I wrote a 10 page essay on Winston Churchill, from an admiration. When I was 15 I won a school writing prize for a story about nuclear war being conducted like a cricket match. That change was largely due to the 1982 Midnight Oil album 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. Songs like US Forces taught a generation of Australians about the history of their nation that was not being taught in school. I was told in school that Aboriginal Australians were an "evolutionary dead end" and they would die out. It was only a matter of time. My discovery of Midnight Oil was the beginning of my awareness. It was shown on national television and broadcast in stereo simulcast on Radio JJJ - it was the 10th birthday for the station. Enjoy and think of Rob Hirst the drummer who died yesterday.

The Secret of Roan Inish

The Secret of Roan Inish is a 1994 independent fantasy-adventure film written and directed by John Sayles. It is based on the 1957 novel Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry.

It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies—seals that can shed their skins to become human. The story, set on the west coast of Ulster in the north-west of Ireland, is about Fiona, a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon near the island of Roan Inish, where the selkies are rumored to reside. It is a family legend that her younger brother was swept away in his infancy and raised by a selkie. Part of the film takes place in Donegal Town.

Spiral Tribe

 Spiral Tribe! [Rare] Exclusive interview that was given to BBC's Dance Energy programme [1991] about the for's and against's regarding the free party scene that was happening at the time! 👈😵‍💫👉 #Spiraltribe #Freeparty23 #Rave #Terratech

The Acid House

Three twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities, and insect life by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh.