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Shakta
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Shakti (shùk´tê, shäk´-) noun
Hinduism.
1. The active, manifest power that creates the universe.
2. The consort of the male expression of the divine, especially of the god Shiva.
[Sanskrit saktih, from saknoti, he is strong.]

The creative force, recognized as being sexual in nature, is therefore often represented in images of sexual union; a practice very similar to Tantra. Different sub-schools may use teachings which mirror this on the physical plane by using sexuality in their rituals, others see it as mere symbology and reject all actual
union.

One of the features that clearly delineates the difference between Tantra and Shakta is the fact that the latter teachings always regard the feminine principle, Shakti or Devi, as supreme, whereas in Tantra the devotee is more or less free to choose whether she or he takes a male or female deity as personal yidam.

Personnel:
Sebastian Taylor
aka Somaton, Digitalis

• _Atar.i.p._  MP3 off of _The Warp Experience_ compilation on Dragonfly (2000)
• _Anatomic Maneuver_ MP3 by Shakta & Cosmosis
• _Falling Down_ MP3 (192k) by Shakta & Digitalis
• reference film _Falling Down_ - faces: Robert Duvall, Michael Douglas
• _Odyssey Of The Mind (Shakta Remix)_ by Mindfield off of _Odyssey Of The Mind CDx2 on Phantasm (2000)
• _No Conspiracy_ MP3 (192k) off of _Order Odonata 6_ compilation on Dragonfly (2001)
• sample: "This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that ? Big Brother is not watching you." - from the film _Cube_ (vhs/ntsc)

• _Indra's Net_ MP3 off of _Psychic Deli vol. I_ 12"
• _Shakta_ by Digitalis off of s/t 12" on Imperial Dancefloor
• _Solar Nomads_ MP3 off of _Eternal Frequency_ compilation 12"x3 on Phantasm
• sample: "We drift through the universe..."; "...pushed on by the solar winds"; "From planet to planet..." - Leonard Nimoy from from the film _Invasion Of The Body Snatchers_ (vhs/ntsc) (1978)  
• _Tritone Frenzy_ off of _Psychedelic Electronica 2_ compilation 12"x2 on Psychic Deli (1999)
• _Dogma Freak_
• _Penumbra_ MP3 (192k) off of _Creeping Ambivalent Tendencies_ compilation CD on Ambivalent (2002)
• _Present Moment (Electric Tease remix)_ by  In R Voice + Shakta on Return To The Source
• _Amtheremin (Shakta Remix)_ by Tetra Clash

• _Silicon Trip_ 12"x3 on Dragonfly (1997)

 
 

• temporal shift
• inner polarity
• _Lepton Head pt III_
•  sample:   - from film _Little Man Tate_ - face: Jodie Foster

  "What did you just call me? - Lepton.
   -What the hell is that? - You wouldn't understand.
   -Wow, wait a minute, speak slowly then!
   - Ok. A lepton is a z particle.
   - So?
   - Do you know what protons and electrons are?
   - Yeah...
   - Okay, what are they?
   - Those teeny tiny things that atoms are made of?
   - Well leptons are even smaller..." 
• _The Neuromancer_
• _Spiritual Beings In Physical Bodies_
• sample: "Purity of the membrane that exists between worlds, the seen and the unseen, the physical and the spiritual.  And that we are spiritual beings in physical bodies." 
• ion tribe
• _Silicon Trip_
• sample: "Don't go mystical or paranoid on me -  NOT NOW! That computer thinks, but we're the ones in control." 
• shakti shakta (edit)
• _The Enlightened Ape_  on Dragonfly/Nova Tekk (1999)

 
• 01. The Future Is Now
• 02. Human Life
• 03. _Space Flowers_ MP3
• samples from the film _Invasion Of The Body Snatchers_ (vhs/ntsc)(1978):

"I have seen these flowers all over -  they're growing like parasites on other plants, all of a sudden. Where are they coming from?" - Brooke Adams;
"... outer space?" - Donald Sutherland;
"What are you talking about? A space flower?" - Jeff Goldblum
"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?" - Veronica Cartwright
"I've never expected metal ships." - Jeff Goldblum
 
• 04. Of The Essence
• 05. Zevel Boy
• 06. Between Worlds
• 07. Life Circles
• 08. The Enlightened Ape
• 09. _Brainwash Nation_ MP3 (160k)
• sample: "The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye; therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain...  Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality. And reality is less than television."  - from the film _Videodrome_ (vhs/ntsc) directed by David Cronenberg
• _Out Of Sight_ on Dragonfly 2001

• 05'44" _Amazon_ MP3 (192k)
• 08'40" _Threads_
• 08'08" _Next Stop Kawaguchi_ MP3 (192k)
• 08'28" _Dirty Bouka_
• 09'21" _Questions_ MP3 (192k)
• sample: "Questions..." by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) to Chiu in the film _Blade Runner_ (1982)
• 06'24" _Too Close (Digitalis)_
• 07'08" _Quiet Science_ MP3 (192k)
• 05'38" _Answers_
• samples: "morphology... incept dates... questions... longevity..." by Roy Batty to Chiu
• 06'03" _System 16_
• 06'33" _Out Of Sight_
• 00'39" Bonus Track
• _Cosmic Trigger/Silicon Trip_ 12" on Dragonfly (1997)
• _Of The Essence/Zevel Boy_ 12" on Dragonfly (1999)
• _Lepton Head Part II/Tri Kay MP3 (256k) 12" on Celtic

Collaboration with Ping Pong on the track, _Between The Nothing_ which samples from the film,_Altered States_:

sample: "First you will see a spot.  The spot will become a crack.  This is the crack between the nothing...   and out of this nothing will come  your unborn soul." 

off of _Deck Wizards: Goa Gil - Kosmokrator_ on Psychic Deli 1996

• book _Shakti - The Spiritual Science of DNA_ by E.J. Gold (1973)
• release _Implant_ CD by Eat Static on Ultimate (1994) recorded and mixed at Shakta and Heliosphere Studios February/March 1994

  

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