Color Organ Tracks

On another thread stormchas3r mentioned that he likes to use the Color Organ with hard techno tracks.

stormchas3r, would you recommend some specific songs that you find work well with the Color Organ and provide Amazon links to them? I have thought this would be a good thing for people to share their experiences with.

I personally have a soft spot for cinematic PsyTrance music like Juno Reactor. Songs off Beyond the Infinite for instance work really well with the Color Organ. I also like modern psychedelic like Entheogenic. Love Letters to the Soul off Gaia Sophia is really nice.

High tempo but spacious are unique to find but as a rule are what work best for brainwave entrainment ranges.

In a classic rock vein La Villa Strangiato and Xanadu from Rush for instance are trippy experiences with the Color Organ or Echoes from Pink Floyd.

I would be very interested to hear those tracks you like. Please others chime in with tracks you like too.

Best,
Scott

Another amazing experience with the Color Organ is listening to Tool - Parabol / Parabola from Lateralus. Especially if you have seen the Alex Grey video... some of those shapes are in there... I swear, it is freaky. Quick tip: if you don't get enough red (or too much red) then adjust the Equalizer in your audio player about 2khz either higher or lower.

Absolutely Scott!

I actually listened to what you recommended on the PsyTrance side of things and I dig it. Currently downloading a few albums now. :)
Here a few of my favorite songs that I like in the Hard Dance/Trance, Schranz side of things. Since the BPM is in the higher class of 150+, the ColorOrgan has a lot going on, but in an amazing way.

Daniela Haverbeck Magnetar This one is my favorite.

Greg Notill Et's Calling

Barbers I Like Hard

Luca Anolini Universe of Harmony

Proteus Fist of the Northstar

Buchecha I miss you

Relocate Spirit This song is a tad slower but has an incredible uplifting effect. Let me know if you experience it.

This is just a tad of what I have. If you would like more recommendations feel free to ask. Thank you and look forward to hearing more suggestions.

Like Scott I am a fan of the Psybient genre ( psychedlic ambient ) which tends to mix organic often acoustic sounds with electronic sound sources and vocals and sounds often of a world music nature .

For deeper ambient beatless music with AVS , I love any project by Matt Hillier ( aka Ishq, Elve and Ishvara ) . I've cited here before Elve - Emerald as one of my favorites for color organ `journeys ' . I have encoded this and many others with the MindExlprere Color Organ application .

For more beat driven music you can't go past the 5 albums by Isreali duo `Shulman ' - warning - highly psycho-active !
My favorite album is `In Search of a Meaningful Moment '

Here is a Youtube link to one of the tracks off the album with an amazing fan made video - run full screen .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIAgp41re3M

Enjoy .

Yeah, Shulman is great. And we mustn't forget Sphongle. Haven't heard Elve I'll buy it tonight for my journey as we are on the same page. Also Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers is amazing.

+1 for Floyd for sure. Funny you should mention that. It happens to be one I have been discretly working on. As I am just scratching the surface at the moment and leaping at the hurdles sometimes presented before me, sometimes landing flat on my face, sometimes going off on a tangent and learning valuable lessons along the way, and many times just ending up with an interesting accident. My "Echos" track will not be finished for a while, I fear, but I hope to be able to do the entire Live at Pompeii set. DSOTM is on my goal radar as well. Have to admit I have given In a gadda da vida more than a passing thought as well.

Thank for all the recommendations guys, looks like I have some more exploring to do....

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I like thisone (parts of it not all):"Lorn - Ancient Realms XII - Atlantis (Downtempo/Psybient/Chillout Mix) "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oXtRKAu-Ds
But be careful if you listen the whole piece in one session you might easily land in "GaGaLand"........
and thisone Pleiadian Friend (Remastered Edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGICDz4qbd4
Cheers
Esthy

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Yeah, Shulman is great. And we mustn't forget Sphongle. Haven't heard Elve I'll buy it tonight for my journey as we are on the same page. Also Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers is amazing.

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Yeah, Shulman is great. And we mustn't forget Sphongle. Haven't heard Elve I'll buy it tonight for my journey as we are on the same page. Also Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers is amazing.

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Scott : I was lucky to see Shpongle live in full concert mode a couple of years ago - this is a great concert video if you haven't seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2rW-rNgC0. Yes - have all the CBL albums.

I can recommend Ishq- Orchid ( 2001) as a great intro to the Ishq sound .

Elve - " Emerald" is a real journey of the deep - I found it goes really well with visualisation sessions on my Procyon . Can be appreciated best by going the full album without distraction and good headphones- . Soundscapes of alien ancient forests and facilitating realms of entheogenic plant spirit communication.... ( according to the author :) ) . I found the 200% fast response to be best with the color organ although the version I made using Mind Explorer has a much lower threshold for light activation and more full and continuous light show .

It would be great if a future release of the colour organ on the kasina had a manually adjustable light response threshold which would allow a richer experience on ambient music that is not so strong on rhythmic peaks but plenty of textural richness to trigger the lights.

Mark

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Just wanted to say thank you for the recommendations of Juno Reactor, entheogenic, shulman and of course Shpongle. I love every bit of it. You have opened my eyes to more trance type music that I never knew existed.


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Thanks all, for the suggestions, lots of 'new' music for me to catch up with, as well. I have a large collection of ambient electronic music myself, not so much recent material, and there may be a way to update the Kasina in the future to flicker adequately while the ColorOrgan controls the color mix...

In-a-gadda-da-vida... we came close to licensing this from Rhino Records and converting to audiostrobe back in the 90s, maybe time to consider that again. The nice thing about licensing older music is the costs start becoming more reasonable. Anyway, that drum solo would surely be an interesting trip with the ColorOrgan, think I'll check that out over the weekend. And Pink Floyd's 'Last Days of Pompeii' remains one of my favorite music DVDs, they were definitely at their prime then.

This is a great thread,cool to see enthusiasm for psytrance and Psybient music which i enjoy nonstop! Some of my favorites currently are Cabieri ,eastern sun,AES Dana, Bird of Prey, Desert Dwellers,Koan,and shpongle which is on tour now with some awesome lights and visuals by Zebler. It is awesome to see the light grow into a synthesia with music and the world of psytrance! Thank you all for this awesome community on this forum of brain entrainment.

I bow to you, I am unworthy!
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I just played around with the Colour Organ mode by throwing some of my favourite tracks onto the Kasina memory card. I had a lot of fun but probably won't get much sleep tonight as I'm completely light-overdosed now ;-)

Mike Oldfield - "Arrival" and Massive Attack - "Girl I Love You" look really nice and are enjoyable.
But Muse - "Madness" is a total winner, throwing out showers of endorphine, and Paul van Dyk's "Crush" honestly feels as if it was programmed for the device - starts mellow for the first minute with some green/blue and then explodes into fountains of warm red.

Really impressed here :-)
So wondering if any of you have discovered some tracks that work miraculously well on Colour Organ mode.

I used Audacity to transform my Apple files into MP3s - for some reason, three of them don't work, even though they were generated just like the others (Kasina Firmware 1.17). Happy to send one of the troublemakers over if you want to check this out.

Super fun, right? The Color Organ and DV glasses can be amazing. It adds a whole new dimension to music. The best tracks for the CO have some percussion in them. The cymbals (high frequencies) trigger the reds. When they are clean and crisp they can create nice stimulation tracks. Hihats are often played as 8th or 16th notes in relation to the music and their speed can fall into the theta range and for faster music, alpha.

What is good to look for and can be challenging to find is rhythmic music that is relaxing or ethereal is some way. That is why we talk a lot about psyambient or trance tracks. That kind of spacey electronic music has the blissful characteristics which work well. World music with percussion also works.

Please share other tracks that you like.

Keep in mind that you can stream music from your computer to the Kasina by USB or with a smartphone through an 3.5mm audio cable. Thus, you can use services like YouTube, Soundcloud, Amazon Prime Music, Spotify, etc to find good tracks. Then transfer the best ones to the card.

When you encoded mp3 files be sure you are using CBR (constant bit rate) for the encoding and not VBR (variable bit rate) This might be why some of your tracks aren't playing. Do you get any error or do they just not play or show up?

Best,
Scott

Hi Scott,

thanks for giving my isolated orphan post a new home ;-)

Regarding the "streaming through computer" - I did that at the beginning and later on to test new tracks - but all of them happened to be below par. Then I suspected that for some reason KASINA may prefer titles on the SD card, and indeed - the results were far superior! So to anyone out there who hasn't found this feature intriguing yet, just try and move some files over to the card and give it a try. (BTW, volume level output on my computer was on maximum, so too low signal didn't seem to be the problem - but then, in Europe, volume levels are restricted in gadgets, so this may not be an issue in the U.S.)

Thanks for the tip regarding CBR and VBR - I will make sure to only encode in CBR for KASINA purposes in the future. That said, I checked the tracks that put me under the endorphine spell yesterday, and some of them are encoded via VBR! On the other side, some of the new CBR tracks aren't working. The error message is always "unsupported file format".

Best regards
Michael

@ Mike:

The AUX Volume is set to 7 by default. You will Need to go to Settings > Audio Settings and turn the AUX Volume up to 10. This will cause that Audio material which is being streamed via AUX port is being percieved significantly louder by the KASINA - which again lets the KASINA Color Organ respond more sensitive to your music and generate brighter light patterns. Same true for AS and SS files being streamed via AUX port. Those need a higher AUX volume as well for recognizing the AS/SS Trigger signals more sensitively and thus generating brighter visuals. The AUX Volume default setting of 7 actually makes more sense for use of Audio material with KBS Sessions.

All the best
Claudius

Thanks for the additional info, Claudius :-)

Scott turned out to be correct regarding VBR files causing the problem - while the troublemakers were encoded via Audacity as MP3 CBR, I had used itunes files as sources - which turned out to be VBR when I checked those encoding options today. So I re-sourced these songs from my original CDs, importing them straight to CBR format, and they all work perfectly now.

Checking out some of the psytrance references here :-) and discovered my favourite track ever works fine as well - Radiohead's "Pyramid Song". Cymbals kick in in the second half, providing me with my beloved showers of red.

Thanks all for your input - love this community!
Michael

Cowgirl by Underworld is big fun, too :-)

Some tracks lead to a wide chaotic explosion on all channels throughout the track, which I don't find overly exciting and whixh seems to habituate quickly. Sometimes though, the music accidentially is produced in a way that hits the right notes to provide some kind of structure with regards to the light show.

You might want to play with EQ settings on your music. They can affect the color organ output quite a lot.

Thank you Scott, hadn't even thought of EQ manipulation - will give that a try when I'm playing around with this feature next time :-)
Mostly though, I'm using AUX only to explore whether tracks work well - and put my favorites directly on the MicroSD card of the KASINA as I like the mobility aspect a lot.

On that note, two more recommendations that I deemed worthy to be included in my KASINA memory card ;-)

- Steve Roach: Depart at sunrise (from the excellent The Road Eternal album)
- Chemical Brothers: Snow

Both start out in blue and green, and only later become more rhythmic and explore the warm color palette.

Tracks like this might be great with ColorOrgan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uzh0Myb5_0


Definitely hammered dulcimer music with tempo changes.