"Audiognomes : We're not your garden variety party people." We're a pint-sized, nonprofit organization devoted to promoting psychedelic trance in and around Madison, WI. As DJs, we wish to dispel the stereotype of the "too-cool, brooding, inaccessible recluse", acting instead as humble conduits to a sound that needs to be heard. As such, our aim is to break down barriers to this terrifically wicked music and provide means to enjoy it in Mad-City.
Nonprofit Policy -- While the venues we use may require a nominal cover charge, any and all cash Audiognomes might recoup goes back into the community via the purchase of music. Pirated music (promotional material aside) gives us little satisfaction. We believe that if we don't support the recording artists, they will eventually stop recording.

"Open-Bag" Policy -- At Audiognome events, we don't just want you to experience psy with us. We want you to take it home. That's why we're more than happy to furnish complete tracklists of what we play, as well as information on vendors that sell it. We share...because we care :)

What is Psychedelic Trance?

Psychedelic Trance or Psy-Trance emerged from the Goa Trance sound that went through a brief, but intense period of popularity in the mid-nineties. Goa, on the west coast of India, has been a destination and a home to westerners in pursuit of a new musical consciousness through dancing for over 30 years. The music at the parties on the beaches and in the jungles around Goa progressed from Reggae, Dub and Psychedelic Rock in the 70s, to early House, Techno and Industrial sounds in the 80s.

Eventually a fusion of different genres of electronic music occurred and Goa trance was born. Whereas traditional music is essentially ordered sounds generated via instruments of a fixed timbre (piano, violin, drums, strings etc), Goa trance, which eventually would become Psy-trance, is comprised predominately of sounds generated by frequency manipulations of notes. The manipulation of the harmonics produces obscure pitches and effects that are foreign and novel to the human ear.

Yet while the nature of the music is artificial, the experience of dancing to Psy-trance is almost as natural as tribal dances and Shamans. Today Psy-trance is a global phenomenon, with DJs and producers from Israel, the US, Sweden, Germany, India, Japan, China, and more. Parties involve a real sense of community on a multicultural level.

http://tribes.tribe.net/audiognomes