History of Radial Engine Tribe.



The introduction:

Hello, I am Rob, the creator The Radial Engine Tribe. The way i found this cool sound and underground scene was really quite by accident. I had been touring with the Grateful Dead for 10 years and then Jerry died. I was kinda lost at this point, but still loved traveling and Jam bands. I had discovered the Disco Biscuits, an awesome Jam Band from Pennsylvania and one fateful night after a 4 hour jam by, I was blown away. I had run out of beer and said to these cool kids I was hangin' with that I had to resupply. They told me not to take too long because there was an awesome DJ coming up next. I was dumbstruck. DJ??? I'm thinking a wedding DJ, lol. So I resupplied and went back down to the stage. Boom!!! Found my friends and just then Simon Posford goes on for a Hallucinogen set. Holy wow! I was completely blown away by this sound that I had never heard before in my life. I danced the night away with some really cool folks and was just awestruck over the whole thing. I HAD DISCOVERED PSYTRANCE! So the next night I saw Eat Static, a UK duo and was completely blown away once again. Wow, I had actually found what I was looking for. A totally amazing scene I never knew about. I decided when I got home, I'm going to learn how to DJ and make some cool parties.

The Beginnings:

Little did I know, you can't really find Psytrance at your local record stores. I found lots of Trance, some of which was good, but not the psychedelic variety. Eventually online I found (now defunct) Saiko Sounds from Hong Kong. You could listen to about a half a track and they had some nice write ups on the actually producer and lots of history on them. I made my 1st order of about 10 CD's and they came in 3 days! Wow! I had never imagined this was such a flourishing scene, just NOT in the USA. So I bought a sound system, a mixer and CDJ's and down the PsyRoad I went. My 1st party was in the beginning of November 2006 at my Aunt's farm. About 10 people showed and we had a blast, until I realized I had blown 2 brand new active JBL 15's subs. Not knowing about brown power, I just figured that the generator has plugs, so just plug it in and let it rip. Big learning experience, lol. I eventually found some local EDM people, who helped me figure stuff out, they were Drum and Bass, House and Techno DJ's, but not Psytrance. So I did some mixed parties and eventually started finding people who were into Psytrance. My parties improved greatly. I found, I really preferred 90% Psytrance and just a bit of other stuff. I did a big series of parties at my Aunt Nancy's Farm in Upstate NY I called "Back Field to the Future" because we used her beautiful back field and my future was Psytrance. We did a few all night blasters and then the cops started showing up, bummer. So I found another Farm in Fonda NY where we continued the series and added Spring into the Future.