Psylab BURNING MAN Fundraiser!

Just got back from Firefly, and I want to thank each and every one of you for making it such a fantastic time! Special thanks to Sonic Beating and SMGU for hosting our performances on Friday and Saturday, and all of you who came out and danced, hooped, spun, or listened in the trees ;)

So I say lets have a reunion!!
Come to the Milky Way this Friday July 11th to help PSYLAB get to BURNING MAN for the very first time at our Burning Man or Bust Fundraiser!! Featuring a live performance by Psylab, plus Glitch crew/SMGU members Nora Borealis, Rainbow Unicorn, VJ Bonk, and Sean Stevens! It'll be a night not to miss - and you should come out, because we miss YOU already! :)

Firely time

...is upon us again, and for all you magical creatures venturing into the deep and sparkling woods of northern vermont, Psylab will be providing beats once more for all your fantastical woodland antics at SMGU, Saturday night, 2-3 a.m.

There is also a rumor of a surprise Psylab sunrise set at Sonic Beating, perhaps the morning of, or before,
but'cha didn't hear it from me ;) ;) May the golden rays of dawn guide you to your sonic delights!

I'll also be throwin' down some bumpin' beats at SB (schedule tba onsite) and then some slinky grooves over at the Chill camp....
perhaps I will see u shimmy!

For those back home, I'll be back Monday!

Can't wait to see you all at the bestest picnic ever!

- E -

Gone to Gaian Mind

For my peeps back home wondering where the heck I am...
I am away at the Gaian Mind Summer Festival with Psylab! Four days and nights of outdoor camping, visionary artists and speakers, workshops, and dancing my ass off to psytrance in Southern PA ;). We're performing Friday night, 9pm to Midnight (just as the Solstice moon arises) and then touring through CT on our way home. I'm -very- excited...
and...I'll be back Monday!

Happy Summer everybody!
xo - E -

PSYLAB in NYC this weekend

For all our NYC friends,
we miss you so much that we're gonna play 2+hours of music JUST for YOU!

This Saturday, May 24th,
Psylab hosts the official New Deal afterparty!
Doors are at 11pm - and the night goes on and on 'til we just can't play no' mo'!

Kenney's Castaways, Greenich Village, NYC

Finish your night with us. We love you! ;)
- Eartha -

PSYLAB seeks Burning Man venues!

That's right! Psylab is coming to the playa this year, and we'd love to play in YOUR camp!
For those of you not familiar with Psylab, we are a 100% Live Electronic / Psychedelic/ Techno amalgamy of dance-able electronic genres, with smooth flowing sets from start to finish. Our essence includes trance / house / techno / drum'n'bass / psy/goa trance / dubstep ...and beyond...

Psylab aims to bridge the gap between all the many different genres of EDM under the stars, showing that it all comes from the same place, and every psylab set flows according to intuition and immediate setting - so our sound is adaptable to your camp's special groove and style!! ;)

Psylab has shared the stage with such notable acts as: Shpongle, Bassnectar, the Glitch Mob, Spiro, Thievery Corporation, The Disco Biscuits, The New Deal, Hallucinogen, X-Dream, DJ Frankie Bones, DJ Dara, Protoculture, Paradigm, Eg-Bot, DIJJITAL AMBIENCE, and many many more...

For more info on us, check out myspace.com/psylab & www.psylabunderground.com

Give us a shout if you'd like to have us!
We'd love to share in the playa magic with you!

For booking contact:
Eartha Harris - eartha dot harris at gmail dot com
Joe Giglio - joe at psylabunderground dot com

Please feel free to forward to interested parties and appropriate Burning Man lists :)
Many thanks! and hope to see you on the playa dancefloor!
- Eartha -

Upcoming Psylab show dates

Things are picking up now that spring has sprung. The next months are filled with shows - Hope to see you on the dancefloor! ;)

"Psylab presents - the 2008 spring/summer tour featuring; Steve, Vizzie, Joe, & Eartha Harris - www.myspace.com/projectspheremusic. You can count on experiencing the same style of amazing beats, grooves, & psychedelic sounds/visuals that you've come to expect at a typical Psylab show, but with a different nuance. We've been working on some fun new arrangements, & will be doing a lot of improvisation – so come on out & get yer groove on!" —Psylab

Sat. 4/19 • WERS "Revolutions" Midnight - 3am

Wed. 4/23 • Village Underground II - The Estate, Boylston Street, Boston MA

Thurs. 5/1 • Liquid - North Hampton, MA

Sat. 5/3 • Eidolon 5 Festival at Beardslee Castle, Little Falls NY

Thurs. 5/8 • The Stone Church -Newmarket, NH

Sat. 5/24 • The official New Deal afterparty! - Greenich Village, NYC, NY

Thurs 6/19-6/22 • GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL 2008!!!
Four Quarters, Central PENN.

Fri. 6/28 • Jambaloosa Festival, PENN.

Sat. 6/29 • Hartford, CT

Sat. 7/4-7/7 • FIREFLY FESTIVAL, Northern VT.

Fri. 7/11 • Psylab BURNING MAN FUNDRAISER - Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, MA

Free Tix to Psylab tonight!

+ the Gently Brothers + VJ Bonk + Shadow Dancers + Resident DJs Brother Cleve and Enrique Florendo with Hannah Thiem on violin

FREE TIX GIVEAWAY TONIGHT (mon.) ON WZBC, 90.3 FM TO VILLAGE UNDERGROUND!!!
WED. 4.23.08 @ the Estate, Boston, MA

The Gently Brothers, featured act for Village Underground II, are hosting a radio show on WZBC -the Green, and giving away 10 free tickets to Village Underground tonight.

Tune in to their show at 90.3FM starting at 10pm.
They'll do a break at 11pm and the first 10 callers get a FREE TICKET to Village Underground II.

Call **617-552-4686**
First 10 callers get a free ticket to VILLAGE UNDERGROUND on Wed., April 23, 2008

"Today is the Day"

Ever have those days when you don't stop at the cross walk because you know the light will turn in your favor?
When waiting for the T, you stare straight ahead as it rolls in, because you know the door will open right in front of you. And not only are you aware of it, but you're aware how cool it is to be aware of it, and then aware that the guy next to you notices that you're aware of it too? ;)
One of those days where ya feel like you control the Matrix?
Yeah, I know you know what I'm talking about.
Those days are nice.
Those days are not everyday, but when they happen, it's so hard to imagine life could be any other way.

I used to think those days were random, but now I believe they flourish out of little decisions we make constantly, perhaps that we are not even aware of....

Earlier this week I got some distressing news, which made me not sleep, which made me cranky and kinda down, which of course, then made me susceptible to the cold going around, which made me even more cranky - now with an annoying cough. Then yesterday as I dragged my sorry ass into my bedroom, pouting that I was home sick on a Saturday night, I stood between my bed and my studio and had a moment. To my left was my big, warm, fluffy velvet bed to dive into, hide from the world, and return to wonderland and drift away into sweet nothingness. To the right, my studio. Black desks, speakers, computers, piles of cables, gear, cds. You know. Not so comfy when you have a cold and are running a fever. But I was so pissed off about being sick (and grumpy about the other stuff from the week) (and new things I was making up to be grumpy about) that I decided against the fucking bed and opted to slam out an hour-long, on-the-fly, progressive DJ set to see how deep the rabbit hole would go. Which I recorded. And which surprising enough, I love - probably because I wasn't thinking about anything while I was making it. No party, no crowd. Just making it with out thinking.

Over the course of that hour, my cold diminished drastically.

Then at midnight I opened a fortune cookie. It said "Today is the day you let it go."

My mind raced over all the things I could possibly "let go" of.
So I started letting go off the most immediate - trivial stuff from that very day.
Then the stuff from the week. Then the stuff from the past month, winter, year...I just let it go.
Everything just was how it was, is how it is, happened how it happened, all how it was supposed to happen even if I couldn't see the whole picture. Lessons were taught and learned. Such is the river.

And then I felt it...I felt it flow through me, flowing from this gloriously beautiful place of simultaneously loving and not giving a damn at the same time. And I thought back to Vizzie's samples from American Beauty at the beginning of our gig last Saturday at Good Life...
"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me...
but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world.
Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much,
and my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...
...and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it,
and then it flowwwwwwsss thrrrrough mmmeee liiiiike rrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn..."
(that's how it sounds on the recording of the show thanks to Ed's mad sample wrangling skillz)

Since that moment,
since that fortune cookie,
I've reaped all the benefits of after you've "let it all go".

Psylab jamming tonight - absolutely fantastic. Everything just....dead on, flowing through, note for note, level for level (thanks Joe!!)
(and again, we recorded it - so glad) Feeling very prepped for this Thursday's show in Burlington VT, and our spring tour
(which Ill go more into more in another post, probably having something to do with Psylab, Karate Kid, Star Wars, and Dirty Dancing) (no I'm not kidding, just wait and see.)

Conversations last night with friends that I had been missing, and will now see soon.

Wishes over the past year I had made, now popping into little truths here and there like the bulbs popping up outside.

Random encounters with aquaintances on the T that had just the piece of info I (or they) were wondering about.

My cold very quickly diminishing into what feels like nothing.

T doors opening right in front of me.

And the light turning in my favor as I cross the street.

I know everyday isn't like today, but I like to write about it when it is, because, I think, everyday can be.
It's important to remember. I need to remember. youtube.com/watch

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