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In the new film The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the trial of Arne Johnson is explored. Johnson is on trial for murder. His defense: not guilty by way of demonic possession.

There have been other instances of this defense outside the U.S., but unfortunately for Johnson, Judge Robert Callahan refused his defense due to its unexplainable nature. Johnsons attorney then plead self defense instead in order to get around the halting of their demonic defense.

While admitting hes not sure whether demon possession is possible, Callahan said, He knows its not a legal defense and considers evidence of it irrelevant, unprovable and needlessly confusing to a jury, The Courant reported.

In an interview with People, Johnsons girlfriend at the time, Debbie Glatzel explained Johnsons behavior and how it was similar to her brothers possession.

[He] would go into a trance, Glatzel told People. He would growl and say he saw the beast. Later he would have no memory of it. It was just like David.

According to the family, Johnsons possession began after he told the demons inhabiting Davids body to take him instead during an exorcism. Not long after said exorcism, Johnson killed Alan Bono with a pocket knife on Feb. 16, 1981, according to the Virginia law archives.

In an interview at the time of the murder, Glatzel explained how Johnson prompted the demons to enter him.

He wanted to do what he could to help David, Glatzel said. He said, Im not afraid of you. Ill fight you. I said, Oh my God, Cheyenne, why did you say that? He said, I dont like to see your brother like that.

Arne was eventually found guilty of first degree manslaughter and sentenced to 10 to 20 years. He served five years of his sentence due to good behavior and married Debbie while imprisoned.

There are few other reported cases of attempted defenses of demonic possession, but on the flip side many people who attempt to perform exorcisms that end badly are left with murder charges.

Skeptics of demonic possession are quick to deny the defendants claims after a death caused by an exorcism and because of this, there is a continued question of how to handle such cases. Due to the inability to prove or deny possession, like Johnsons judge, many judges find the claims to be unable to stand in court.

Something used in the film by Ed Warren, a demonologist who aided Arne Johnson, was the fact that people are sworn in on a Bible in court. Therefore, he believed it was unfair to accept the realness of God but not the Devil.

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From: Ghent, BelgiumDJ style: Techno, acid and related.Best known for: Tomorrowland 2018 Main Stage/New Form live streams in lockdown.Fave tune of 2021: WNDRLST Vertigo.Rising star DJ/producer of 2021: Indira Paganotto.

Charlotte de Witte is one of the most recognisable techno DJs on the planet, and in ordinary times plays hundreds of gigs a year. Rather than revelling in time off during the pandemic, though, she kept on working to expand and evolve her KNTXT empire.

This year alone there have been two new solo EPs on the label, a chart-topping remix with Enrico Sangiuliano, a historic live stream from the Italian Formula 1 race track Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello (where she also got to drive around in a Ferrari), various themed playlist hook-ups with Apple Music, and even a boutique clothing range in collaboration with Belgian activewear brand 42I54. She also briefly opened up the label for demo submissions as part of her unspoken mission to diversify techno.

I think this year was a good opportunity to try and explore other things, Charlotte says with a smile over Zoom. Obviously, I couldnt go on tours, and didnt have so many shows, so it wasreally nice to stretch my arms and see what other things I could get involved with. At this point, the Belgian shouts out the behind-the-scenes team who help bring her ideas to life. She says she gets as creative as possible with them and sees no real limits as to what can be done. Although the music will always be the main focus, it doesnt have to be the only focus.

This year, that music took on a certain trance element, with her more recent Asura EP being lit up by psychedelic influences that take her back to her roots. As a youngster, Charlotte would go to all manner of acid, hardcore and trance raves, and when she first started DJing she was all about electro. She remembers those experiences fondly, and thats why their influence hascrept into her work this year.

My whole background is such a variety of electronic music that revolves around techno, so for me, its really nice to sometimes be in touch with where I come from, she says. I dont thinkanyone making music should necessarily limit themselves because something is considered not techno enough. What the hell does that mean anyway? If you just feel like doing something, Ithink you should. Its interesting to sometimes reach out to another type of electronic music that shows where you come from and show that storyline a bit.

Her biggest tune this year was the remix of Age Of Love by Age of Love, produced with Enrico Sangiuliano. Its an homage, she says, mindful of certain corners of the internet who claim Charlotte shouldnt have touched such a classic because it cannot be bettered. We were just having fun in lockdown. We didnt want to improve anything, we just wanted to pay respect with a contemporary tribute to that remix.

After winning a DJ competition 11 years ago, aged just 16, life has been pretty much non-stop for the Ghent-born artist. She has gone from being a next-gen DJ Mag cover star in 2017 to now winning the Alternative Top 100 DJs poll for the second year in a row.

This award is not the only good news Charlotte has had in the last 12 months. At the end of 2020, she got engaged to Italian DJ and producer Enrico Sangiuliano. Its not the easiest job to combine with any type of social life, she explains. I mean, youre never synchronised with anyone since youre always away at the weekend, so its very tough to maintain friendships or relationships. But it looks like now it has just worked out fine.

The idea of a small wedding somewhere in the near future, followed by a bigger celebration down the line, is what appeals to Charlotte. But it might not quite match the scale of the upcomingKNTXT parties she has just announced, with the biggest ever set to take place in her hometown of Ghent at Flanders Expo, the former home of Belgiums legendary I Love Techno event, in February 2022.

I just love it all, she says of what motivates her most, having already achieved so much at a young age. Being with sweaty bodies in the club, feeling the music, travelling, trying localfoods around the world. Its just an insanely exciting adrenaline rush. That said, one thing she did take from the last year was that she needs to make better decisions to preserve herphysical and mental health and ensure career longevity. Before, I would fly from the East Coast to the West Coast of the US on consecutive days. Thats just too demanding, its not humane.

Over Charlottes shoulder in the background is a DJ bag, packed and ready for weekend gigs in France and then Switzerland. Unlike many high-level DJs, she still checks new music for herself,every single day of the week, and reloads her SD cards with whatever she finds. I still love doing that, but what has become more difficult these days is actually going to the club myself and enjoying the music from the dancefloor.

While thats a pleasure shes missing out on herself, its one she provides each and every weekend for fans all over the world.

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Hailing from Denmark, Terry Golden is somewhat of a veteran in the dance music industry, with almost 30 years of knowledge under his belt DJing and Producing in the electronic music scene.

With musical influences built from various genres and artists who have helped to shape Terrys sound today, you can thank the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, and some of his more recent influences like David Guettas Future Rave sound, which Terry homed in on and took in his own direction.

Terry Golden offers up fresh and unique music as he merges his different techniques and experiences to create truly ear-catching music. Terrys sound is best described as a powerful mixture of genres like Big Room, Trance, House, and Progressive all mixed with a bit of Terry Golden flavour. Terrys fanbase is growing day by day and will soon reach staggering heights, so keep an eye out for this rising talent.

1. What software is best to use for beginners?

I use Ableton, as its very easy to use and has a lot of plugins are included. Its also great for recording live performance, has many easy-to-use advanced functions. I guess all DAWs has some pros and cons, so my suggestion for a new music producer is to try them out (Most have a 1-month free trial or something)

2. What are the essentials a budding producer needs to start making music without breaking the bank?

You need a descend pair of monitors, good headphones, a DAW like Ableton and I would suggest a midi keyboard.

3. Have you got any suggestions for books/YouTube channels people learn from?

I will suggest http://www.digitaldjtips.com then both have some great DJ courses and production courses for all levels, all done with the video, and very affordable prices. YouTube is also a great source, but many videos can be a bit of wasted time So I mainly use YouTube if I am missing something specific

4. What is your advice on sampling?

Great tool for builds, but dont get too carried away you dont need to sample to make great music, but if used creatively, it can be one of does things that really set off your track. So my advice is if you are new, dont think too much about it, start adding it in at a later stage. Learning the basic mixing skills, understanding reverb, EQ, and all in all master how to scruple your sound image is far more important

5. Which part of the track should you start with?

I always start with the drop and melodic parts, then it is easier to add everything else afterward

6. What plugins are best to download first?

Start to add a good synth, I use Serum mostly you need to have a good synth to make electronic music. My next go-to software is Fabfilter (Great EQ, Limiter, etc), Valhalla (Delay, reverb), and Izotope Ozone suite (Great for you master and stem masters)

7. Got any tips on mastering that iconic Big Room sound?

Bass, Kick, and synth are the essentials. Its actually not in your master, its in your mix it all happens. The master will just add that extra on top. Use layering both for you basses and synth to give them this fat and wide sound (That technique is something you can learn from YouTube or most production courses) Them sidechaining bass and kick and use EQ to make all track pop in you your face, thats what I am doing. After that FX effect to add extra tension and and and .

But if your mixdown doesnt sound good, no master will make it sound good. The best recommendation is to always use 1 or 2 reference tracks, so help you set the different sounds in the mix

8. Do you think its necessary to learn how to mix and master?

If have to be a good mixer to make great music, thats just my opinion, but you dont have to be a mastering engineer, you can outsource that part to a pro, so at first concentrate on learning the mixing parts, then mastering can some later or never

9. As a DJ, is there anything producers should avoid doing in their tracks that could be annoying for DJ sets?

Not really, but it is always nice to have 8-16 bars in the beginning and end, just with the beat and not so most melody. Its always harder to mix a song that ends with a vocal part or a drop etc. But like music producing, as a DJ you will always find a way

10. What should a producer do if theyre struggling to find inspiration?

Listen to a lot of music, and maybe from different genres that the genre where you make music, that when sometimes something magical can appear.

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Jon Hopkins next album has been timed perfectly to last the exact length of a ketamine trip, according to the producer.

Hopkins, whos previously produced records alongside Brian Eno and Coldplay, is releasing an ambient track on November 12 said to encourage a new genre of music.

Music for Psychedelic Therapy is the name of his next release, which is tailored to recent psychedelic research revealing that ketamine could prevent the furthering of mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

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Breakthrough studies over recent years have pushed the drug into the limelight, now aiding in the opening of treatment centres across the globe, including one which recently opened in Bristol offering ketamine therapy.

Hopkins is amongst those pushing this new research, particularly in conjunction with music. Music for Psychedelic Therapy will last the exact length of a ketamine trip, while combining that with psychedelic visuals in track videos and artwork.

"Were entering an era where this kind of therapy is going to be legal and widespread, and you need to have music for it, Hopkins told The Guardian. "Ive got to be really careful of sounding too grandiose, but it really feels to me like there is a frontier here a new genre of music.

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The producer played the new record live to an audience of 200 people in Austin, Texas, as part of a ceremonial concert earlier this month.

Although psychedelics werent allowed at the live event, hundreds of enthusiasts gathered to experience Hopkins latest release in a candlelit warehouse, laying across yoga mats in a meditative trance.

An excerpt from Music for Psychedelic Therapy is out now. Listen to it below, and pre-order it here.

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KITCHENER On July 5, 1962, medium Thomas Lacey was performing a seance in the basement of a Kitchener home when the spirit of a pilot entered the room.

He was the pilot of a Pan Am plane that had crashed in South America.

He knew he was dead because he was the pilot of the plane. He knew the plane was crashing, said Nick Richbell, a history PhD student at University of Waterloo studying spiritualism in the Waterloo Region.

But the passengers, according to him, didnt know.

Laceys group used the seance to help the passengers pass over. After doing more research into the plane crash, Richbell said he wasnt able to find an exact match.

Its interesting to try and connect the pieces together when you start looking into it, he said.

From 1960 to 1966, over 150 similar seances by Laceys Kitchener circle were recorded on reel-to-reel audio tape.

Based on records, seances were performed by the group starting in 1924 until Laceys death in 1966.

The archival material was donated to the University of Waterloo Library by a professor named Stanley McMullin.

With access to documents and audio reels as the head of the Special Collection and Archives at the University of Waterloo, Richbell has been studying this history for the past three years.

He said the one to two hour seances were performed in a house that still stands on Frederick Street in Kitchener.

It was owned by a businessman called Otto Smith, said Richbell.

Otto was formerly a vice principal of a school here in Kitchener and then he moved into insurance sales. He was quite a well-known character in town.

Seances would be held in Smiths basement.

Richbell describes a medium like Lacey as a person that would go into a trance state, similar to sleeping or being hypnotized. The spirits take over and use the mediums voice because spirits dont have a voice box, he said. Everyone else in the group was there to maintain the energy in the room and ask questions to the spirits.

Lacey was born in England on Nov. 4, 1895 and moved to Canada in 1923.

His first documented spirit connection in Kitchener was recorded in 1924 it was a lecture he gave while in a trance state.

Lacey was an engineer by day and a medium by night. While there were others that got paid for their work communicating with spirits, Richbell said Lacey did it as a hobby.

He and his wife Edith, were very down to earth, from reading comments from people who knew them, said Richbell.

Richbell said the seances would open with Smith playing the organ which he played at a Lutheran Church in downtown Kitchener.

Smith tape recorded the seances. The date would be announced, then Smith would then name everyone in the circle, which Richbell said transitioned to the usual sitters are present over time.

When you have the same people in the seance, it builds up a certain energy, which is believed to help the medium bring the spirits through, said Richbell.

One to two times a week, seances were done in either the dark or red light, with a spirit trumpet in the middle of the room. The spirit trumpet was an aluminum cone about a metre long.

Its alleged that the spirit energy would move these trumpets around the room, said Richbell. He said the trumpet would sometimes tap people on the head or items would appear in the mouth of the trumpet, such as a rose.

At the end of the seance, descriptions or names of the spirits that had appeared would be written on the back of the reel to reel machine box.

There were three main types of seances in Laceys circle. Masters night involved calling on dead scholars and philosophers to have discussions. The other was called visiting night, where dead relatives would visit the circle.

Thomas group was most interested, I think, in the philosophical discussions, said Richbell. He would channel people such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Ghandi at some point, and the people in the circle would be having a conversation with their spirit.

The third was called rescue night, where the seance circle would help spirits move across the light.

It wasnt that they were trapped between one world and the other. Spirits just didnt realize they had died, said Richbell.

Next steps for his research are looking into how the practice of seances has changed by speaking with mediums and people organizing the circles today.

Richbell said he is more interested in the people involved, rather than the seances themselves.

I havent figured out how did Thomas Lacey discover he was a medium? Did this happen in the UK before he moved here or did he moved here suddenly? Did he suddenly realize he could channel dead people? said Richbell.

Theres lots of unanswered questions, which is what keeps me going.

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It has been a few years since the global success of Great Spirit (well over a hundred million streams on Spotify) and United (over 40 million Spotify streams), but Armin van Buuren and Vini Vici havent lost any of the momentum since.

Both acts have been turning heads with a myriad of dance floor bangers and high-profile collabs, and they now raise the bar even higher with an incredible artwork design, a music video shot during the A State Of Trance ADE event at AFAS Live, and of course a super-energetic record designed to blast sound systems to bits: Yama (feat. Tribal Dance & Natalie Wamba).

Featuring the uplifting vocal chants of Tribal Dance and Natalie Wamba, Yama instantly makes its mark as a ground-shaking collision of Armin van Buuren and Vini Vicis globally renowned signature sounds. From the uplifting and openhearted intro to the inevitably colossal beat drop, this track is sure to cause some serious dance floor damage with every play.

Armin van Buuren: I had a blast working with Vini Vici on Great Spirit and United back in 2016 and 2018, and although a few years had passed since, I always felt that itd be great to do a third collab. So we all jumped at the opportunity when it finally arose and Yama is the outcome. Our trademark sounds are especially compatible and Im positive Yama will be ruling dance floors for a long time to come.

Vini Vici: Dropping this tune b2b with Armin van Buuren during last weeks ASOT event was an amazing experience, and were super excited about our third collaboration! It took us a while to produce this song and we did it during the crux of the pandemic. Needless to say, it took a lot of hard work to get this final result.

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After premiering it during their impromptu B2B set at the ASOT x ADE Special show,Armin van Buurenand Vini Vicihave excitingly decided to continue their winning streak of energetic and iconic collaborations, this time with the tribal-feeling Yama.

First uniting together on the unforgettable Great Spirit, Armin van Buuren and Vini Vici then saw that their collaborative efforts were too magical to only be seen once, thus releasing United not long after. Both collaborations proved to be more than successful, gaining well over hundreds of millions of streams together. Fast forward some years later to now, and today theyre continuing this saga.

I had a blast working with Vini Vici on Great Spirit and United back in 2016 and 2018, and although a few years had passed since, I always felt that itd be great to do a third collab. So we all jumped at the opportunity when it finally arose and Yama is the outcome. Our trademark sounds are especially compatible and Im positive Yama will be ruling dance floors for a long time to come. Armin van Buuren

Yama enlists the vocal supports of Tribal Dance and Natalie Wamba, who each offer a tribal and cinematic appeal to the track. Of course, Armin and Vini Vicis signature sounds are a match made in heaven but this is showcased even further with the different layers and emotions to the complex and detailed track. One on hand, listeners are treated to that relentless psytrance sound which threatens to disturb the earths core, but on the other hand there are cinematic leads which give us the uplifting trance sound we all love.

Dropping this tune b2b with Armin van Buuren during last weeks ASOT event was an amazing experience, and were super excited about our third collaboration! It took us a while to produce this song and we did it during the crux of the pandemic. Needless to say, it took a lot of hard work to get this final result. added Vini Vici

All in all this is one fantastic production, and features impressive art work and a music video (filmed at ASOT at AFAS Live in Amsterdam) to go with it. Watch that video below, and stream the track here.

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