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Unless theres a day off from work, most dont give a damn about historical anniversaries. Nov. 9, 1989, saw the fall of the Berlin Wall. That date, exactly 30 years ago this month, spurred the reunification of East and West Germany and East and West Berlin.

Born Matthias Paul, the trance legend known as Paul van Dyk was a Berliner decades before the world flocked in squads to Kreuzberg for techno benders. He was born and raised in communist East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic. He was there for some of Berlins worst days and relishes its comeback.

Modern-day Berlin is tolerant. Whatever your imagination might concoct, it's probably happening somewhere on a dance floor in one of the capital citys 24-hour nightclubs. The German government deserves props for subsidizing its nightclubs. The city leans heavily on tourism and embraces its permissive night culture. The world, particularly the electronic music world, loves Berlin, and its popularity is surging like a PVD bass line. Van Dyks hometown is full-on peaking.

The day the Berlin Wall was demolished was particularly meaningful to DJ Paul Van Dyk.

Justin Leighton, courtesy Germany Tourism

International musicians flock to the German capital for its liberal ways and reasonable rent. Inspiration is on the sidewalks and graffiti-covered toilet walls. A sticker in the bathroom at Barbie Deinhoffs bar in the Kreuzberg neighborhood reads, Dear Tourists, you are driving up the cost of a beer and rent. Go home and puke in your own streets. Another sticker near the bar says, Im not superficial, I like penetration.

DJ-producers leverage their work in Berlin to boost their careers and fill touring schedules. Britain-born Scuba is Berghain nightclub certified. Hamburg native Matthias Meyer circles the globe as a Watergate nightclub delegate for Watergate Showcases, which offer a glimpse of the magic happening at the club overlooking the Spree River. For those who cant get to Germany Berlin will come to you. Matador, from Dublin, says his Berlin days were essential to his career. TheRfs Du Sol trio moved to the Friedrichshain neighborhood to record their second album, Bloom.

I was the only one in the band that got into Berghain, Rfs Du Sol drummer James Hunt told the Observer in July. Wed go to the clubs, get inspired, go home and make music.

Thats the burgeoning Berlin of today. Its full story, however, has a hideous beginning. Nazi mayhem lingered decades after Hitlers death. The city's comeback started 30 years ago when its Inner German Border and Berlin Wall were demolished. The Berlin Wall encircled West Berlin, which created an "island of freedom." The Inner German Border that separated East and West Germany stretched 1,393 kilometers from the Baltic Sea in the north to Czechoslovakia in the south. West Berlin was 161 kilometers east of the Inner German Border, a dot of freedom surrounded by Soviet-backed repression.

More than 1,000 people died trying to escape from East Germany to the West. In 1962, about a year after the Berlin Wall was raised, Helmut Kulbeik and Peter Fechter took their chances. They jumped from a building into "the death strip," an East German-monitored area. They ran for a wall near Kreuzberg. Both attempted to climb a fence more than 2 meters tall and topped with barbed wire. Kulbeik was successful. Hanging to the fence, Fechter was shot in the pelvis by East German guards and fell to the ground. He begged for help for more than an hour. His initial screams became murmurs and then silence. A crowd of a few hundred West Berliners watched Fechter bleed to death. Eventually East German soldiers scooped his lifeless body and carried him away.

To make matters worse, Germanys two walls, the Inner German Border and Berlin Wall, intensified through the years. East Germany added 14-centimeter spikes that would pierce through a shoe into a foot. Mines, auto-firing guns and killer dogs were also added.

Others we met in Germany, like East Berliner Peter Barsch, were not deterred by the wall. He recalls the time when a friend approached with an escape idea. She was pregnant by a West Berliner and wanted to flee. Her idea was to jump in the Spree with fins, snorkel and mask on a foggy night and swim 1.6 kilometers up the river and cross to West Berlin.

My friend was a very good swimmer. She was going to school to train for swimming, but then she refused to take the vitamins they were giving the athletes, so they kicked her out. Perhaps she didnt want to grow a mustache, Barsch says with a laugh.

Barsch and friend waited for a rainy, foggy night. When they got into the Spree the cold water felt like piercing swords. Barsch chuckles again recalling the sound of his friends chattering teeth.

I was kind of mad at her because her teeth were rattling and making too much noise, but it was so cold and of course she was expecting a child so I understood, he adds.

If noticed in the river, they would have been shot. The water was murky and neither could see anything. The masks and snorkels were pointless and were left behind. They swam with their heads above water like rats. A stronger swimmer, she led the way toward a parked East German boat. As they quietly approached the boat, its engine fired and lights beamed.

I continued to swim, but assumed we were caught. In my mind I gave up, but then the boat drove away without noticing us at all, Barsch says.

The East Germans landed near Kreuzberg and climbed out of the river. Barsch knew the escape was successful when he saw a Mercedes-Benz near the shore. There are no Mercedes in East Berlin.

Today, Paul van Dyks Vandit Records headquarters sits on the west bank of the Spree River, not far from where Barsch and friend escaped. Thirty-one years ago, his office would have been in the American-occupied zone of West Berlin. Inside, turntables, headphones, records and CDs are scattered about. His office walls are garnished with DJ awards and album sales plaques. At one point in our conversation, Van Dyk stands, walks to the window and points across the Spree to a gray building where his school was. He motions to his childhood home, not far from the same spot. His dad left when van Dyk was about 5, and he was raised by his mom.

Van Dyk describes his mother as a functional artist. She wasnt the type of architect who designed the entire building, but rather the smaller things inside. But she encouraged curiosity in her son. East Germanys secret police, the Stasi, didnt appreciate his inquisitive ways. Van Dyk learned years after the fall of the Berlin Wall that the Stasi were keeping tabs on him.

I had two teachers in grade school that always looked after me, they helped me get through those times," Van Dyk says. "Years later after the wall was down, one of those teachers shared with me that the Stasi felt that my mother and I were incorrect socialists.

School was a problem for the curious lad. He wasn't a bad student but struggled particularly with curriculum that focused on East German pride, which reeked of disgust for everything in the West. Van Dyk had family living happily in the West, and the young DJ took it upon himself to prepare a comparative analysis of East and West for his class.

I occasionally spoke with grandparents, aunts and uncles in West Germany, they seemed happy. ... Looking back, this was very risky and stupid, but it seemed like the right thing to do, Van Dyk says. I asked my grandmother to go to the supermarket and write down the cost of milk, butter, bread and cold cuts, the basics, also the average rent and average salary. Then I did the same for East Germany. In class I didnt try to sell my opinion or anything, but I created a chart with the numbers which showed a 1-to-8 ratio better in the West.

Van Dyk was suspended from school for two days. He later started hanging out at underground clubs where they played The Smiths and Depeche Mode. These werent nightclubs like in the West, but little basements underground in the purest sense. There were the regulars who came out. Sometimes, someone wouldnt show up anymore.

A mothers intuition is keen. It was time to get the hell out of town. In 1987, when Van Dyk was 15, his mom submitted the Antrag zur stndigen Ausreise aus der DDR, the application for permanent departure from the German Democratic Republic. Two years later in early November 1989, a week before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Van Dyk and his mother left East Berlin with one suitcase each, as refugees.

I dont have too many things from my childhood like photos or other memories because a warm jacket was more important, he adds. We had to leave. I think [my mother] knew that for political reasons I would end up in jail.

If chaos is good for art, then Berlin was a real-life big bang theory, an explosion of epic proportions. Within a few years, electronic music club culture exploded, Germany reunified and its people came together.

Freedom is often taken for granted, but not for the Vandit Records label boss. He revels in the ability to create his idea of quality music the sounds he hears in his head. He presented his first album, 45 RPM, in December 1994, just five years after Germanys reunification.

For An Angel, an all-time classic along with quality tunes such as Emergency and A Magical Moment are on that debut imprint. Other anthems followed, such as "We Are Alive," "Nothing But You" and the beloved "Another Way." Twenty-plus years later, Van Dyk released From Then On in 2017 and Music Rescues Me in 2018, his seventh and eighth full-length trance albums. These two were released after a near-death accident in 2016 when he fell off the stage during a gig. Van Dyk is an unfathomable producer of quality music with an immunity to rest. His Dallas show at Stereo Live on Saturday, Nov. 23, is the ninth stop on a 12-show North American tour.

Dance music fans are typically proud of their origins. Their initial club experiences are sacred. Its hard to imagine a scenario more special than recently liberated Germans coming together on dance floors in late 1989.

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Preparations are under way for one of the biggest days on the Perth calendar, the Christmas lights switch-on.

Saturday November 16 is set to be a day of celebration in the Fair City, with a parade, fireworks display and three stages of entertainment from acts to suit all tastes.

The main stage, compered by Stephen Mulhern, will host star-studded acts including Basil Brush, Atomic Kitten, Dario G and Nina Nesbitt.

The King Edward Street stage will give local community groups the chance to show off their talents, with the childrens stage offering family fun in the afternoon before reopening at 6.45pm with non-child entertainment.

Our guide below gives you all need to know about the event, which is part of Perth Winter Festival.

Parade and lights switch-on

The Christmas Parade starts from Thimblerow car park at 5.30pm and will wind its way down to the main stage on Tay Street where local youngster Lily Douglas and Provost Dennis Melloy will switch on the Christmas Lights at 6.15pm.

The switch-on will be followed by an impressive fireworks display over the River Tay.

Main stage, Tay Street

2pm Main stage opens

2pm 2.30pm The McAndrews Sisters

2.45pm 3.45pm Last Orders

3.45pm 4.45pm Boomin

4.50pm 6.05pm The Giants of British Rock

6pm Principles Arrive from Parade

6.15pm Lights Switch On & Fireworks

6.25pm 6.40pm Stephen Mulhern and Basil Brush

6.40pm 7.10pm Atomic Kitten featuring Natasha Hamilton and Liz Mclarnon

7.10pm 8.05pm Winter Clubland Classics hosted by Dario G, N Trance and Alice DJ

8.05pm 8.35pm Nina Nesbitt

End Lionel Vinyl & Stephen Mulhern Closedown

Childrens stage, Horsecross Plaza, Mill Street

Opening hours: 12noon 5pm. Stage re-opens, not as the childrens stage, at 6.45pm

12noon Introduction by Mark Conroy, compere

12noon 12.20pm Cobblers the Clown

12.25pm 12.55pm Basil Brush

1pm 1.30pm Chloe Ashe

1.35pm 2.50pm Mother Goose

2.55pm 3.25pm Its Chico Time

3.30pm 4pm Basil Brush

4pm 4.30pm The Julie Young Dancers

4.35pm 5.15pm Christmas Pop Party

Evening performances (not as childrens stage)

6.45pm Introduction by Mark Conroy, compere

6.45pm 7.25pm Woodrow Wilson

7.30pm 8.30pm Lee Memphis King as Elvis: The Vegas Show

King Edward Street Stage

12noon Introduction by Colin Baird, compere

12.05pm 12.20pm Inspire Dance Studios

12.25pm 12.45pm Alan Sweeney

12.50pm 1.05pm Layla Cooke

1.10pm 1.30pm Fair City Baton Twirlers

1.35pm 1.50pm AdLib Youth Performers

1.55pm 2.05pm RG Dance

2.10pm 2.30pm Perth College

2.35pm 2.45pm CC Dance

2.50pm 3.05pm AdLib Adult Performers

3.10pm 3.25pm Letham Majorettes

3.30pm 3.45pm Perth Amateur Operatic Society

3.50pm 4.05pm Phoenix All Stars

4.10pm 4.30pm Will from Sweeney Todd

4.35pm 5pm Dynamic Dance

Evening performances

6.45pm 7.30pm Mike Lee

7.35pm 8.30pm Boomin

Stephen MulhernStephen Mulhern is a presenter, entertainer, and magician, best known for presenting television programmes for ITV, including Britains Got More Talent, the behind the scenes support series from Britains Got Talent. He also co-hosts the Sunday breakfast programme on Heart Radio, alongside Emma Willis.

Atomic KittenThroughout the noughties, Atomic Kitten flew the flag as the biggest girl group in Europe, selling over 8 million records and selling out arenas globally. This feisty and fun-loving pop group had a number of Top 10 Hits, including Right Now, See Ya, I Want Your Love, Whole Again, and a cover of The Bangles Eternal Flame. Atomic Kitten original members Liz McClarnon and Natasha Hamilton are alive and purring and ready to take you on a high octane journey through all their hits.

Nina NesbittNina is a Scottish singer and songwriter best known for her single Stay Out and her wonderful cover of Fleetwood Macs Dont Stop for the John Lewis advertising campaign. Her first EP The Apple Tree was released in April 2012 and in February this year Nina released her second studio album The Sun will Come Up, the Seasons will Change.

Dario GDario G is the stage name of English musician Paul Spencer. Dario G was originally a trio, who are best known for their 1997 hit Sunchyme, which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The group formed in Cheshire, England and consisted of three DJs and producers Scott Rosser, Paul Spencer and Stephen Spencer.

N-TranceN-Trance is a British electronic music group who were formed by Kevin OToole and Dale Longworth in 1991. The group has sold over 5 million records worldwide and some of their hit singles include Set You Free, Forever, as well as covers of the popular 1970s disco songs Stayin Alive, D.I.S.C.O., Shake Ya Body , and Da Ya Think Im Sexy?.

Alice DJAlice Deejay is a Dutch trance-pop project founded and produced by Wessel van Diepen, Dennis van den Driesschen, Sebastiaan Molijn and Eelke Kalberg. They are best known for their 1999 single Better Off Alone, which was a worldwide success.

Last OrdersLast Orders formed in 2011 as classic rock tribute band with the intention of doing rock staples along the line of Guns n Roses and AC/DC. Initially for comedy effect, acts like ABBA and everyday pop songs started to come into the mix and before they knew it a party mix blend of rock and pop, fun and bouncy, singalong songs created an energetic and entertaining live set.

Giants of British RockFeaturing original members of Uriah Heep, Bad Company, Whitesnake, FM and Thunder. Classic Rock Hits played by the musicians who played on the originals!

Basil BrushBasil Brush is the timeless mischievous character with an outstanding ability to entertain and make people of all ages laugh. Hes cheeky, charming, naughty, quick-witted, scheming and foxy! Celebrating 50 years in entertainment, his show was BAFTA nominated and voted Best Comedy Show on TV. Boom! Boom!

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Multiple therapists in Iowa City use hypnosis as a means of treating certain patients.

Mariana Garces, ColumnistNovember 13, 2019

Most people see hypnosis as a stage act where the performer brings audience members to the stage, puts them in a hypnotic trance, and manipulates them to execute silly acts in order to entertain the crowd.

Yet, hypnosis is much more profound than a simple performance. After all, it can be used as a form of therapy, known as hypnotherapy, and it has alleviated many people of their problems. Hypnotherapy can be used to boost self-esteem, treat mental and physical health, and treat addictions.

I primarily use hypnosis to help clients with anxiety and depression, said Jeff Whittlesey, a psychotherapist at the Counseling Center of Iowa City. Hypnosis can be used for symptomatic relief, making short-term psychotherapy more efficient, as well as for unconscious exploration for clients needing more understanding of how they developed problems in order to be relieved of them.

Clinical hypnosis works by having the patient reach a deep relaxation state to achieve a clinical goal. This is normally achieved by the practitioner using various methods to induce hypnosis.

At any rate, while the psychotherapy client is in trance, suggestions are given for symptom relief and problem resolution, often including post-hypnotic suggestions for feeling and functioning better after the session, Whittlesey said.

Angela Amias is a psychotherapist who practices hypnosis at Eastwind Healing Center. She said there are some situations and conditions where hypnotherapy would prove counterproductive or even hurtful to the patient.

Hypnosis isnt useful for every problem and there are times when its contraindicated, Amias said in an email to The Daily Iowan. [An example is] when someone is suffering from a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia.

There are also some negative effects that can be triggered from going into hypnosis. Amias explained how patients can recover traumatic memories that may be real or imagined, which can be an upsetting experience for people.

Naturally, after watching an act of stage hypnosis, it is normal for audience members to form preconceived notions about hypnosis, such as the possibility of being stuck in a trance forever or that the hypnotist can make you do anything they want to.

ts not actually true that hypnosis has this sort of power, Amias said. In fact, we will all come out of hypnosis immediately if the hypnotherapist gives a hypnotic suggestion that doesnt actually match our goals for ourselves.

Hypnosis is poorly presented through stage acts. Yet, it is essential to look past the negative stereotypes of hypnosis especially when it has many scientific benefits and can provide relief for many problems we may be going through.

I believe that hypnosis is an intentional way of tapping into the creative unconscious, which is a master problem solver, Amias said. We are all far more brilliant creative problem solvers than we realize when we are overusing our thinking, rational, logical minds.

Columns reflect the opinions of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Editorial Board, The Daily Iowan, or other organizations in which the author may be involved.

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Armin van Buuren's A State Of Trance (ASOT) will return to Ultra next year,which takes place on the 20th, 21st and 22nd March.

Celebrating a decade at Miami's Ultra festival, ASOT will take place for the first time on a Saturday in 2020, which returns to Bayfront Park after a short stint at Virginia Key.

Check out the tweet from van Buuren below, who announced the news to the "Trance Family" at the weekend.

Ultra Worldwide will kick into action in February with a return to India, as well as a debut event in Abu Dhabi, amongst its international tour plans for 2020.

The festival also announced in 2020 that Ultra would be dedicated to decreasing the environmental impact of the event, with the Mission: Home initiative including a significant decrease in single-use plastics, an enhanced recycling program and a "leave no trace" policy.

Trance Family, are you ready? @asot returns to @ultra for its 10th Anniversary in Miami this March, taking place on a Saturday for the very first time! #ASOTMIA pic.twitter.com/EXyK3sjyKt

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Nazriya Nazim is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Malayalam movies. She has also starred in Tamil movies. She made her acting debut in the 2006 drama movie Palunka. Her lead role in the movies began with the 2013 Malayalam movie Maad Dad. She will next be seen in the Malayalam language movie Trance in the year 2020. Read more to know about her look in the movie.

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In the photo, Nazriya Nazim posted on Twitter, sheis seen wearing a multicoloured tropical dress.She has put on rectangle-shaped shades and is smokinga cigarette. The photo is filled with smoke of various colours.It also has two statues of guardian angels in the background.Trance is an upcoming Indian Malayalam language movie set to release in 2020. It featured Fahadh Faasil in the lead role. The movie is directed by Anwar Rasheed. The movie is set to release on December 20, 2019. According to a report, Trance is one of the most expensive movies in the Mollywood.

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Nazriya Naseem was featured in the 2014 comedy romance movieBangalore Days. The movie featured Nazriya Nazim,Nivin Pauly, and Dulquer Salmaan in the lead roles. The movie was rated 8.3out of 10 by the Internet Movie Database. It is one of the best movies by the actor. Nazriya Nazim's marriage withFahadh Faasil was fixed while they were filming for this movie. The actor was also seen in the movieNeramwhich is a 2013 action thriller movie by the actor. The movie was rated 7.5 out of 10 by IMDb. The movie featuredNivin Pauly,Nazriya Nazim, and Lalu Alex in the lead roles. The movie revolves around a young man who is trying his best to escape from a loan shark.

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Studiolo highlights trance and prog house tracks that were often played at the wrong speed by Italian, German and Austrian DJs.

The style, most associated with the Italian DJs Daniele Baldelli and Beppe Loda, was established in Italy in the early '80s. Their sets combined disco with new wave, industrial, kosmische and more, with heavy influence from African, Brazilian and Caribbean music.

Studiolo: The '90s Afro Cosmic Era focuses on the lesser-known second wave of this phenomenon, when the sound had spread from Italy to Austria and Germany. The music shifted towards trance and progressive house, which DJs would often play at the wrong speed, sticking to a tempo of between 100 and 110 BPM. The compilation was curated by Versatile Records affiliate Ygal Ohayon (who also contributes an edit), and it features eight tracks from Stefan Egger, DJ Fred, Claudio Diva, Zendy and more. It's out in January of next year.

Listen to Mamukata's "Tantawina" from 1995.

Antinote will release Studiolo: The '90s Afro Cosmic Era in January 2020.

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We sat down with GAIA to chat about the importance of an alias, how theyve approached their past performances, and explore the Moons of Jupiter!

The duo comprised of Armin van Buuren and Benno de Goeij, better known as GAIA, continues to wow audiences worldwide with trance anthems and the unique black robes they don during live performances. Together, theyve combined they produced some of the biggest dance anthems over the past three decades and just a few months ago GAIA unfurled the map to the Moons of Jupiter.

If you are unfamiliar with Gaia, dont fret. First, swing by the history piece we wrote earlier this year before the album dropped where we acquaint you with the first Gaia tune, 4 Elements, and bring you up to speed with all the majesty before Moons of Jupiter. If you missed out on reading the review for Moons of Jupiter, we recommend reading that as well.

After a year of experiencing the journey GAIA brought with their first album, we were fortunate enough to receive the chance to sit down and explore how two icons of the industry continue to make waves. So stream theMoons Of Jupiter below or on your favorite platform, and read on as we dive intothe realm of GAIA and grow deeper in the lore of trance legends.

GAIA boils down to our roots as producers, and the sound of GAIA is the sound that inspired us to start producing music ourselves. And thats also how we decide if the music gets released under the GAIA alias or not. It has to fit a certain mold, our mold. It has to be GAIA.

I think its a good tool to redefine creative boundaries and to manipulate peoples expectations. Fans will always tie a name to a certain sound, and its hard to change that idea once it has settled in. An alias could help artists venture into a different direction without having to revoke the music they created before.

Definitely more creative freedom, although it rarely is as anonymous as people may think. In this digital age, people can find practically anything on the internet, so keeping an alias secret is next to impossible. But even if people know whos behind an alias, theyll still (somewhat) regard it as a different entity.

As an artist, it can help you step off the beaten path without actually having to do start the entire journey from the beginning again. And nowadays, were openly doing interviews as GAIA. So even though people know that its us who are behind GAIA, theyre still ready to accept that the sound is different from the music wed play or create under other monikers.

It should always be about the music. Especially with all the big festivals around, where its almost more about cool show elements and sick stage production than the music itself, I think its great when theres less focus on WHO is playing and more focus on WHAT the performer is playing.

The music is always the most important part for me, both as a performer and a fan, and I think that should always take center stage. Choosing a more sober approach to performing is a great way to shift that focus, I believe. And its not easy because the robes are very HOT..

During this week, Amsterdam is packed with tens of thousands of music lovers, ranging from devoted fans to those looking to build a career in music themselves. The city streets are oozing with passion for music during these days, and I love that. Im always looking to show my face whenever I can, and Ive got some great projects running myself as well. I even launched a limited-edition escape room to celebrate the release of my seventh artist album, Balance.

To be honest, I was a bit nervous. It was the first time for us to take the stage in this new setting and there was no knowing how the crowd would respond, especially since they were used to somewhat trancier stuff being released under the GAIA alias. In hindsight, I had no reason to be nervous at all. The crowd was phenomenal, and we had an amazing time on stage.

We first did the live show in Paradiso and then did the album arrangement. We could then take the crowds reaction into consideration when arranging the album. Limiting ourselves to one plugin was simply for a practical reason: we didnt want to drain the CPU of theMacBooks.Especially in a live environment, these can get very hot.

Also, I felt it was liberating in a way to have just one plugin. We really had to dig under the hood of the software to get the most out of NIs Massivesynth. But that had anotheradvantage: we got to know the plugin in and out!

To us, its what being an artist is all about. Were always looking to do (and create) what inspires us, and to discover new sounds to work with. Its a very exciting process and one that gives me the energy to do what I do. The world of music is much more magical than people believe it to be. You just have to be willing to see beyond your own box.

I think we both wanted to make an album inspired by the sounds we love as electronic music lovers. In a way, Moons of Jupiteris more the result of letting go of pre-set styles. We just made music. Letting go of any expectations or pre-determined styles was liberating. In a way, I think it serves as a testament to the heroes that inspired us to become electronic music producers ourselves, like Daft Punk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Jon Hopkins, Speedy J., Chris Liebing, Oliver Lieb, System 7, etc.

Thats actually a tough question to answer. Well be doing more live shows in the future, and keep experimenting in the studio to see how we can further the sound of GAIA. I cant really predict iftheres going to be another album soon, but who knows. The universe has so much more to offer than just the moons of Jupiter.

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They did not have to go this hard.

NCIS is currently in its seventeenth season, despite there being no evidence that anyone has once tuned in on purpose. No one watches NCIS (except Trump voters, apparently); it simply happens in front of you, reaching out from the TV, theVideodromeof crime procedurals.

The shows theme song, however, does not simply happen. An intense psy-trance trackwritten by Numeriklab(who seem to have done nothing else), the NCIS Theme pulsates with way too much energy for this show.

The theme is better suited to a cybergoth day-rave under a bridge than the opening to a show about internal US Navy crime investigations. Thankfully, the conceptual approach behind the two-disc approach of NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack (Volume One) provides context.

While Disc 1, called Special Agent, offers songs from Oasis, Bob Dylan and Dashboard Confessional, Disc 2, Abbys Lab, is inspired by Pauly Perrettes goth forensic character. The theme, then, is something Abby would listen to.Abby was the differing element between the show and the thousands of its kind, including JAG, which is where it spun off from so it makes sense they signpost that right from the start of the show.

Abby is now gone, as Perrette said goodbye to the show in 2018 after suggesting a series of physical assaults led her to leave. ButNCIS continues.

So in ode to Perrettes character, put on your best baggy chained pants and listen to the bestNCIS remixes while drinking a slurpee and thinking about how NCIS was originally calledNavy NCIS, aka Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Metal band Ministry re-upped the theme song for the Abbys Lab disc of the official soundtrack, flecking it out with heavy guitar riffs. Halfway through, some industrial clangs come in underneath, and the BPM is kicked right up.

We would imagine Abby would listen to this song while waking up and putting her hair into side ponytails, possibly gnawing on the bones of a racoon.

There are so many fan-made remixes of the NCIS theme on YouTube. This one is by ReVeRsE, which is very cool. In it, they slow things down a little and let the airiness of the songs outro play out a bit, centring the piano for a searching break between the build-ups.

One commenter calls it very Russian, and we get it. Sure, theres a Euro-trance element here, sure, but this remix sounds most Russian through its coldness and irreparable sense of yearning.

If NCIS Theme remixes could win a Nobel prize, there would be an uproar if Theme Bootleg RainDropz! meets HardfuiZ Booty edit didnt take the medal. This hardstyle remix is like the NCIS team: unwavering and relentless in their cause to make the world a better place.

YouTuber MODIFICA7E uploaded this dubstep-lite remake in 2012, writing that they triedgiving the song a completely different feel, even though the melodies are pretty much the same as in the original. The end result should have been used in The Beach instead of Mobys Porcelain.

Jared Richards is a staff writer at Junkee, and is available to DJ your next event, provided that event be NCIS-themed. He is on Twitter.

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MILWAUKEE In 2019, alternative methods of self help and integrative medicine are becoming more and more popular. CBD products are found in large department stores. Yoga, while it has been prevalent in American culture for a long time, is still growing in popularity. Meditation is common, but there is one type of meditation that is gaining steam in Milwaukee and the United States. It's called Gong Bath Meditation.

"There's a lot of sound and it sounds really good," Andrew Royal, a psychotherapist and host of gong baths, said in simple terms.

It's a form of sound or music therapy.

The participant lays down on a yoga mat. They can use a pillow and/or blanket for added comfort. The host of the meditation will hit a gong, and the swelling sound and reverberations are meant to relax you.

"We dim the lights and then start to play and then let the sounds carry us all to whoever it needs to," Royal said.

These aren't small echoes either. The gong creates a thick and full sound that reverberates throughout the room and you can feel it in your chest.

Plus, there is no sheet music or specific song. It is all improvised, his partner and fellow practitioner Adriana Royal, said.

"It's usually just receiving the sound and responding to it," Adriana Royal, an acupuncturist, said.

Both can play at once or they can switch off playing the two gongs they own. They have different sized and textured mallets which they use to generate various sounds and frequencies. Some mallets are large, hollow, and soft. Others are small, dense, and hard.

"Size and also the density of it will create loud or softer sounds," Adriana said.

The setting of a gong bath is designed to create maximum comfort to allow the participant to loose themselves in the sound.

"We try to not describe at all what's going to happen, but we ask people to be receptive as they can be to whatever it is that's going to happen," Andrew Royal said.

Both Royals noted that gong baths can have various effects on a person. While the goal is to put you in an almost sedated-trance-like-state, that doesn't mean your mind will go blank.

"(Two people) laying right next to each other on the floor, and one person says something like it was so loud I could barely stand it and then the person next to them says I thought it was really quiet," Andrew Royal said.

The first descriptions of gongs dates back to 6th century China; however, it is believed that gongs were used for thousands of years before that. In the 1790's, gongs were used in western European orchestra performances. It's unclear when they became a specific meditative practice or brought to the U.S., but gongs have always been used for ceremonial, musical, and religious purposes.

"There (are) some people who know this is not like a secret anymore," Andrew Royal said.

Now, gong baths are gaining popularity in the U.S. and Milwaukee. There are some of the places that offer gong bath meditations in southeast Wisconsin including:

Gong baths can also be done during commemorative times. The Royals have hosted meditations at baptisms, birthdays, and memorial services.

"Literally we are holding space for people to meditate together," Adriana Royal said.

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