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Trance (prounced trans) (noun). Defintion: A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.
tr.v., tranced, tranc·ing, tranc·es.
To put into a trance; entrance.
According to Gilbert Rouget (1980), a trance is a "temporary state of altered consciousness that obeys a cultural model." In the Middle Ages this term was applied to the agonies of death and the Passion of Christ. The word trance appeared in connection with the fakirs in a supplement to the first edition of the book Neurhypnologie by James Braid, the British doctor who popularized hypnotism. It was also used at the end of the nineteenth century to refer to the state of depersonalized mediums embodying the spirits of other people. From the perspective of physicians and psychologists of that era, exotic, spiritualistic, or Catholic trances could be explained in terms of provoked somnambulism, hypnosis, hysteria, or neurosis, notions that seemed to give a scientific explanation for these phenomena. Sigmund Freud associated himself with this tradition to some degree when he entitled one of his articles "A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis" (1923).
This perspective was reversed when ethnologists such as Alfred Métraux, Michel Leiris, or Roger Bastide began to use this term, which in their view was less ethnocentric, less psychologizing, or less psychiatric in tone than the words hypnosis or hysteria. Trance became the general term for experiences, rites, and beliefs relating to possession, shamanism, ecstasy, or divination observed in other cultures. From then on, magnetic somnambulism, hypnosis, and even psychoanalysis were seen as coming out of an Occidental trance culture. Thus, in The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949/1969), Claude Lévi-Strauss described psychoanalysis as a "modern form of shamanism."
While the question of a psychology or a psychoanalysis of the trance continues to be raised, it has been given away, in many contemporary studies, to that of the relationship between the individual and the cultural realms.
Jim Carson blends old school and new school house & rave with a grittiness that is ripe for the dancefloor. The renegade commando, remixer, DJ, house music producer Jim Carson (aka Bodylickin' Bootleggers) is at it non-stop with his funky, bangin beats. Since 1996, Carson has been a force to be both reckoned with and beloved on the decks. Falling in love with the electronic house music sound at events like "Nocturnal Wonderland," and "Dr. Freecloud's Mixing Lab's 1 Year Anniversary Party," it was not long before Carson picked up a pair of Technics 1200s and moved from LA to Santa Barbara. Rocking the party town of Isla Vista with his funky acid house and funky breaks from 1998 to 2000, Carson developed a reputation for providing the best in house, trance, and breaks. In early 2000, Carson would return to LA to rock and groove raves and clubs like Club Blue, Liquid Butterfly, the Masterdome, The Orange Show Fairgrounds, 31 Flaverz @ The Fox Theatre in Pomona, and Vibrations Within in San Bernardino.
Carson has traveled the globe and back keeping girlies dizzy and dancers entranced with his uplifting and funky rhythms. Always funky and always fresh, Jim Carson, once known as DJ Mad Hatter, is one of LA's most talented dance music artists. As a member of Icon Collective and one of LA's veteran house music and breaks DJs of the early 21st century, Jim Carson is on the rise as the international ambassador of cutting edge, high-energy, funky, electro dance music.
Carson has shared stages with some of the world's biggest dance and urban music artists including Gabriel & Dresden (Spundae, Circus Disco), Donald Glaude (Nympho/Sky Sushi), Frankie Bones (Cafe Sureal at E2 in Chicago), Scooter & Lavelle (Chemistry/Avalon), The Wu-Tang Clan (Oracle 3; Orangeshow Fairgrounds), and DJ Ruff & DJ Peran (Afterhour Power/Avalon). In North America, he has traveled to play gigs in South Beach Miami (Wet Grooves-Shelbourne Hotel), New Orleans (740), Calgary (SEX), Edmonton (Twilight Afterhours), and Las Vegas (Empire Ballroom, Drais, and Seven) to name a few. In 2007, Carson secured a residency with FunXion Entertainment and continues to represent FunXion -- one of the West Coast's leading dance music establishments in 2008. Other alias you may recognize Carson's work by are Barney Rumble, DJ Illicit, and Higher State. A name to be trusted with delivering booty shakin' funky house music, juicy high charged electro-funk grooves, progressive house, and breaks, Carson crosses the musical spectrum from deep and soulful house to pumping high charged electro house, techno, progressive, and trance. Carson credits early '90s rave DJs Jason Blakemore, Jesse Brooks, Fester & Oscure, and DJ Lindsey as sources of inspiration to pursue the art of DJing.
Mastering the North American dance club scene as one of the most inspiring and funky programmers of euphoric dance sets, Carson creates magical moments on the dancefloor, connecting with the audience and inspiring new fans and DJs alike. Once again in 2008, Carson is leading the charge as a DJ that plays from his heart and soul to connect with the audience. A resident and special guest at many nightclubs across the US including Avalon, Spundae, Deep, After Hour Power, and Grand Avenue, Carson gives the fans what they want to hear -- deep, soulful, driving, electro, progressive, and wonky music that sends hands waving in the air. Booties shaking on down to the ground, breaking boundaries and sending groovers into total ecstasy, electro-chemically charged endorphins are sure to rush through your body when JIM CARSON drops the needle on the record and pumps your body full of bass. There is no other sound quite like the energy and funk of JIM CARSON behind the decks. Watch for this superstar DJ to climb the dance charts in 2008 with his own original electronic music productions and productions with collaborator Arthur Galestian under the monikers Carson & Galestian and Bodylickin' Bootleggers.
"Jim Carson is one bad ass DJ!!!" -- Dave Dresden of Gabriel & Dresden
"Jim Carson has more than what it takes to be one of the top producers in the electronic music industry." -- David Alexander, Icon Underground, Icon Collective
"Jim Carson is one funky white boy when he drops the needle on the record!!!" -- Abstract aka Christopher Wight, Icon Underground, Icon Collective
"Jim Carson has experience you can hear and feel out on the dancefloor." -- Joy Basu, recording artist
Activities Jim Carson enjoys when not DJing or produce music include skydiving, hiking, modern dance, hip hop dance, jazz dance, improv comedy, acting, kundalini yoga, and working out. Jim Carson is a certified personal trainer (NCCPT) and is CPR Certified for both Adult and Infant. You can see Jim Carson in the new ABC Family Show "The Middleman" playing a cop in episodes 2 and 4.
Jim Carson is a skilled guitarist and bass player who has played in various bands throughout the 1990s and early 21st Century which have included members of The Ataris, Eve 6, and other popular bands.
"Each soul has a role to play. Each human has something to say. May consciousness prevail so we can come through the veil of arrogance and ignorance to the joy and happiness of life. May we count our blessings to be beautiful, bountiful and blissful." - Yogi Bhajan
"Your life work is a statement of Who You Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it?" -- Neale Donald Walsch
"Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, -- that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit every where, which still is built on purely illusory foundations. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure." -- Henry David Thoreau "Walden" excerpt from Chapter 2
"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are." -- Don Miguel Ruiz
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I've got great respect for Sen. McCain, great respect, but I don't like the way Republicans have taken this country. Every time I hear the word 'conservative,' it makes me sick to my stomach, because they're really just fake Christians, as I call them. That's all they are. I think they want to be judge and jury. Like, I'm for gay marriage. It's none of my business if gay people want to get married. I'm pro-choice. And I think these Christians, first of all, they're not supposed to judge other people. But they're the most hypocritical judge of people we have in the country. And it bugs the hell out of me. They act like they're Christians. They're not forgiving at all." -- Charles Barkley
"[W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation." -- Ernest Becker
"One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough." -- Gay Hendricks
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -- H. Jackson Browne:
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there." -- H. L. Mencken
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." -- Henry David Thoreau
"It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can. It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can to justice and equality. Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can. We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea -- Yes. We. Can." -- Barack Hussein Obama
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Jim Carson & great friend DJ Jeffrey Jeff @ Electric Daisy Carnival 2008
Ciao , how's life ? Hope all is great there. Just wanted to let you know that we have a new release out on Sweetleaf Recordings that is actually #15 on the BEATPORT's Deep House CHART, feel free to listen to it on our page and eventually send us your feedback if you like... Cheers
Aloha Jim Carson..nice 2 meet you online as well. Mahalo 4 finding&adding me yea. :o) U da kine brah! And in référence 2 your message: ViC?? Yes, I am that weird guy's girlfriend. Haha. Hes awesome. Well take care lots of aLoha! Aiisha~Marie
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