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G O A G I L & A R I A N E |
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Gil grew up in the middle of the San Francisco music scene of the sixties; he then left to journey to India in 1969. Having been a musician all his life and then doing intense Yogic practices with Gurus in the Himalayas he tried to unite the two, (Music and Yoga), into One Spirit befitting this Age. The result was the Goa Full Moon parties, and his concept of „Redefining the Ancient Tribal Ritual for the 21st Century“. His focus is in trying to use the party situation as a medium to uplift the consciousness of the participants through the Trance Dance Experience.
He met Ariane in Goa in 1985. They have been together constantly ever since. Ariane’s keen interest in African Djembe drumming and West African Traditional Dance has also had a big influence on the development and direction of Gil’s musical tastes and concepts. Gil & Ariane’s current musical project is The Nommos, and their goal is to combine Psychedelic Trance with West African Traditional Drumming in the True Spirit of the Ancients. For info on releases by the Nommos, Gil & Ariane’s work with Kode IV, and Gil’s DJ Mix CD’s please visit the DISKOGRAPHY page.
Gil & Ariane continue to travel all over the planet to bring to the people The True Goa Spirit in the form of their marathon Trance Dance events.
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R I C A (Rave XXXperience-Brazil) |
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Rica is, nowadays, one of the most important names of the brazilian eletronic scene. His trajectory can be considered, at least, bombastic:In 1996 he organized the first rave XXXperience, now the most important and successful brazilian rave.
In 1997he made his first presentation as a Dj. Putting together his mixing technics with great musical taste and undeniable charism, Dj Rica has been driving people crazy in the places where he has been playing.
He went on trips around the world - Dj Rica improved his musical style and nowadays he plays a mix of psychedelic and progressive trance.
When he was coming back from his european tour, Rica introduced in the market his album "Rave XXXperience" by Trama records, wich is considered the best seller of the trance albums. Also, Rica has presented his sets at lots of cafes and bars in S„o Paulo. In these places he plays another musical style that mixes etnics rhythms with ambients ones…
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S T E F A N L U D L E Y |
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Stefan Ludley was born 1969 in Frankfurt am Main. His mother infected him with the „technovirus“, when he was 6 Years old, with good, old Jean-Michelle Jarre Records like Equinox .
1983 he started djing in different Youthclubs. He collected sounds like skinny puppy, front 242, chris and cosey and of course acidhouse . In the early 90 er, when trance and techno where hosted in frankfurt in legendaery clubs like the omen and dorian gray, he was the pioneer of the psycedelic trance sound in the rhein-main area.
Since 1997, he was member and resident of the nada-brahma party community. He made his first remix with Substance T and played on differend trance festivals all over europe. In 1999 he founded the first Psycedelic Trance label hosted in Frankfurt am Main ( Psylofant Records ) toghether with germans famous femaile live act Lava 303.
His style is always different and depense a lot on the audience, he is playing for. He is allways prepaired to play a full-on psy set or fluffy morning sounds or what ever the pleople want to hear.
“ It's not me who is playing, it's the audience. I am just the key between them and the Universe…“
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E L Z I S C O |
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Francisco Oyarce, born Chilenean, age 36, lives in Hamburg.
El Zisco himself describes his music as “Psy-Tech”: “I’m very much influenced by the English scene, as well as by many House-Techno DJs, which is audible within my kind of Trance.” His first production with “freier orbit” will be partly released with Freeform records, summer of 2003.
“I started what I do now five years ago, initially at small private parties and eventually at festivals such as Fusion or Berlin’s Hanfparade. My productions, however, have their own preceeding story: Like many people I know, I used to play in rock bands for which I also composed songs. One day I had the idea of using my Atari computer to make music. Initially being very experimental, I started to be interested in Trance and Techno music around 1993, without really knowing it myself. A couple of years later when I started visiting those parties, I realized what it was that I’d been looking for! This “realization” was a long process which is still my companion today.
Selected appearances:
Hanfparade Berlin, FUSION, Phonodrom HH, Tonwerk HH, Juice Club HH, Flora HH
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C O S M I X |
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Cosmix, Dj since 1992 played worldwide on the biggest trancefestivals such as Voov(Germany), Gaia(France), Solipse(hungary, Ibiza, london,Tokio,Rio de Janeirro.
Produced with X Dream, Etnica, and Kristian (Elysium)
Mainly psytrance but changed his style lately into more groovy progressive uk trance, global underground.
Last release on Society Fx(Berlin) , a remix e.p. with "der dritte raum". Before "Now and Ever" released on Sunset Records in 2002.
Party Production of "Electric Sunsation" in Rio de Janeiro.
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DJ S A M @ Chaishop.com |
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Thomas Samuel Jankowski aka DJ Sam @ Chaishop.com is one of the founders of Chaishop.com - world's no. 1 website for trance culture.
Chaishop’s and Sam’s aim is to connect and inspire the international trance community. To accomplish this Sam played at around 100 parties in many countries including Mexico, Portugal, Brasil, Hungary, Greece, USA, India, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Austria and of course Germany.
His style is powerful groovy trance with a positive touch. He likes to tell a story with times to freak out and times to flow in hypnotic grooves. Mixing is as important as variety.
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Z - K E Y |
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Frank, DJ Z-Key, Aquarius, born in Aurich (Ostfriesland).
I started making music at the age of fourteen, voice and guitar. In the 90s i played insome bands. In the winter of 2000 I came to the Goatrance scene andfell in love with this kind of music. After two years of party and dancing I started as a DJ. My first set I played on the Livaga-Trance in 2002 and so the story began.
Now the Berlin people know my name...
My style goes from Progressive to Full-On, but I also like to play Ambient, too. I like it tuneful. For the future, I wish that once I will send you on the trip, you always wished to be...
Love & Peace, DJ Z-Key
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H I G H - K O |
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Hello, im High-Ko, im living in Berlin and im 28 years old. Since my first Goa- Party i am full into this music. I collect psy-trance since '96. I started Dj-ing pretty late, first i was making world-wide decoration under the name Speyeders for a couple of years. Then I started organizing parties under the name Trancemosphere. I had the luck of having 2 cd players at home, so I had the chance to practice a lot. In the winter of 2000/01 i was playing in Thailand for 5 months in clubs and jungleparties. When I came back to germany then I started playing on many partys in germany too. Around the same time I started to produce my first tracks as well and further developed my skills as a producer. One of the first projects was together with Dj Shawnodese (Amsterdam) under the name Ganjahoppers, my own solo-project is named High-Ko.
The season after I went to Goa, were I met some very intresting people and i played a few times there around at local parties. I like to play full on Night sound, but its no problem to play in day time too, but it will be Psychedelic...
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C O S M I C T O N E |
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Cosmic Tone is Roei Nissan - located up in the peaceful northern city Naharia (Israel).
Roei Nissan (24 yr's) was introduced to trance music in 1996, as a child he played the keyboard and the guitar and was surrounded by music through his life. During the end of 99 he set out on a trip in the far east for close to 3 years, he visited, lived, dj'ed and organized parties in Thailand, Laos (first ever full moon there), Goa and across India, Australia , Africa (eclipse 2001) etc...
Cosmic Tone in its original formation consisted of 2 partners who set together the sound and produced Cosmic tones debut release “Overwhelming”. Noga & Nissan were introduced to each other by a mutual friend and started adding elements to tracks they each composed independently.
While sitting and playing their live set to a good friend - Cosma (RIP), which was delighted with what he heard, he was asked to think of a name; he thought of - Electric Tone. Something Cosmic was missing, Cosmic Tone fit perfectly. Their interpretation of Cosmic tone is parallel to the way they describe their music: "spacey, emotional with uncompromising sound which is always explored deeper and deeper".
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E L E M E N T |
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"element - druck erzeugt kreativität! element sind ein wahrlich interessantes projekt. marc engemann, 28, und dieter gerbe, 34, sind die beiden jungs aus dem sauerland. sie reißen ihr erstes album und kochen auf einem niveau, daß auch für langzeitaktivisten ungewöhnlich hoch wäre. beeindruckende musik, klasse produziert. progressiver trance, am puls der zeit, nicht überkandidelt und künstlich minimal, eher eine feine mischung, mit dezentem einsatz von melodie, percussiv, deep, druckvoll..." |
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http://www.element.de
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H A L D O L I U M |
Haldolium are Mario Reinsch & Mark Lorenzen
The first contact we got with psy-trance was in 1993 when we met us by chance at a "psy-trance party" in northern germany. after two years of dancing, celebrating, collecting records and dj-ing we decided to produce our own music. mario allready played in classical rock bands bass and lead guitar. so the musical knowledge was given.
the first synthesizers we bought were two cs1x, korg ms20, doepfer 404, waldorf pulse. an old used atari with cracked cubase v2.1 got the part of the sequencer. that was in 1996.
in 1997 friends asked us if we want to play live at their party. our live set there consisted out of two seperate midi-systems with two sequencers which were synchonized. each system was completly indepent. all drums, percussions, basses were buildt by one of the cs1x's. additional the second midi-system played leads and extra drums. breaks and fills were made by muting the midi-parts on the sequencer. the quality of the set was not really good, but noone noticed.....
more gigs followed. fusion, goa-head, .....
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T R A N S E F E L D |
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trancefeld, Philipp Dransfeld, born on 7.4.1975 in Bielefeld /Germany and grew up there.
After playing guitar in rockbands in the early nineties I found my love to trance in 1994. By buying an atari-computer and the first sythesizer I started to produce electronic music in a bedroom-studio. I did this as a hobby until I moved in 1996 to cologne to learn audio-engeneering and work in this job.
With the first release in 2001 and the following releases on sunset, noom, plastik park, earregular, plusquam, manta and millenium trancefeld became a well known name for a driving, progressive sound, that can be heard since the beginning of 2002 also live.
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M A G N E T R I X X |
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Magnetrixx started to be well known since he released "trittschall", his debut album, which was an big success, as he didnt expected. magnetrixx own an very unique style, his warm and groovy basslines combined with weird totally kneaded sounds, which are mostly created by himself, found a lot of friends all over very quickly. He is an total soundfetishist.
Releases:
12" "Intraferences/Trockenmasse" (tatsu rec.)
12" "Graviton/Attractor" (leviathan rec.)
12" "Knopfzelle/Thyristor" (tatsu rec.)
12" "Tohuwabohu/Zigzagg" (tatsu rec.)
several tracks on several compilations
on tatsu rec. and midijum rec.
Album "Trittschall" (tatsu rec.)
Album "Phase Shift" tatsu rec.)
Together with his partner Djane Morgana, the project morganixx was founded to create some more melodic stuff. The first released 12" "Tropfen" was an big success and like magnetrixx, the people started to like this project too.
Releases:
12" "Tropfen/Egal/Soeiniges" (midijum rec.)
several tracks on compilations on midijum rec. and ZYX rec.
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S A M B O D R O M O |
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Special live-performance - Come and see...!
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W A K T U L O O P A |
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Creates atmospheric ambient moods in an intelligent way, using alternative electronical sounds, rhythms and spheres containing elements of many different music genres.
Since more than 6 years he’s been known in and outside of germany for his awesome flavour of laidback mellow tunes and his guided audio journeys into undiscovered spaces. Without loosing his sense of humor, he makes the listener forget time.
Further on, his first CD will be released in march 2003 on Mindsound Rec.
…and there’s more to come !
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http://www.waktuloopa.de |
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M A F A I Z A |
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… an Indian woman who grew up in London and now based in India for the last 7 years. She has been djing in these years with a broad range of musical tastes from ambient to celebrational uplifting trance, particularly influenced by the flavours of India- past, present and progressive... a cyberorganic fusion of sounds that touches the heart... female energy, soft and soothing, nourishing, inviting and inspiring.
She believes in joy and celebration gathering a new global community and that the passion of music is the heartbeat of our new generation.
At the moment Faiza just finished a documentary about women and music, featuring tracks written by Solarquest and produced by her. She is continually djing at magical parties all over the world, at last at the “Samothraki“ Greece, “Boombamela” Israel, “Las Dalias” Ibiza, „KitKatClub“ Berlin, „Atisha“ Hamburg and “Astral Phoenix” London.
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G A B R I E L L E M A R [Saafi Bros.]
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Being internationally known for his involvement in groundbreaking projects such as the Saafi Brothers, Aural Float, a.o., Gabriel Le Mar received wide acclaim for his genre crossing dub to downbeat productions. Frankfurt based producer Gabriel Le Mar presents with SHORT STORIES his fourth solo album.
The techno roots of his home town lend themselves directly to Gabriel Le Mar1s fusion of chill out and dance music styles. From this home base he has made wide ranging contacts as a remix artist †as well, having produced for the likes of †Anne Clark, Sven V‰th, Bob Marley, F4 and others. On SHORT STORIES †the selected tracks form a progressive journey through electro breaks, dance beats and magnetising instrumental atmospheres.
As a DJ and producer Gabriel Le Mar seeks to integrate inspiring moments from his travels and live appearances into his music. Combined with a passion for dub and trip hop, the rhythmic roots in his sound are hard to ignore and crosses the definitions between dance and listening music.
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J O S E P H D I S C O |
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Joseph Disco, born 1979 and lives in Cologne, Germany.
Joseph Disco started out playing in 1999 as a progressive trance dj in Munich, his home town, under the name MaxWell.
In 2001 he started his own label LoveSonicDisco-Records. MaxWell though, soon ceased to exist, cause after starting the label he fast developed a taste for UK trance leading him into the hands of the seducing groovy tech-house sounds, which is what you will hear coming from the decks of dj Joseph Disco this very day, and the change of musical taste, naturally, brought a change of name along with it.
In 2002 as the decision came to move his roots from Munich to Cologne, he became resident in the local club, Playground, where he can still be found behind the turntables, as well as in other clubs and at parties all over Germany.
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L U K A S T A I D O V E L V E T |
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You climb the stairs made of heavy stone...weathered statues look down upon you...the shamen have formed a circle...reflections of the pounding bounce from ancient stone walls...monkey kings fan air at the bushdoctor...Terence McK. visualizes himself as a six-armed, three-dimensional holography obove the heads of the lama delegation...the khalif lies deep and heavy on blue and red silk cushions...monsoon clouds...a mothership, flanked by 3 phosphorizing flying objects drifts over our heads...the dervish dancers turn and turn...traces of dreampaths in the sand...fakirs dancing on the glowing coal...Sirius, deep down on the marvelous sky blinks a message in morse code...
Lukas Taido Velvet
Since 1986 bands, electronic projects, studiosessions. Together with his friend Aci, and besides all the other lovely people involved, they make the Excalibur festival take place and come to life.
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S C H L A F C O L A +
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Schlafcola are 3 guys from Wiesbaden and Berlin. They basically perform their own definition of ambient and chillout music. While they are using Cds and records for mixing, effectboards and their own samples are used to influence the sound. The style is very open minded and goes from deep Chillout to Psydub. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!
Am frühen Abend werden uns Schlafcola Marsroboter aus Berlin und Wiesbaden mit chilligem Downbeat, psychedelischem Dub, Worldmusik Aspekten und spacigen Soundsamples in den Orbit schicken. Eine innovative Crew, die aus Vinyl, Sample-Material und Effektger‰t immer wieder neuartige und einmalige Klangerlebnissse nur für den Moment kreiert.
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C O L O P H O N Y |
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. . . is that mixture of abandoned improvisation ofspharic violin music and groovy downbeats from vinyl. Colophony, that is Stefan-X and Miko Mikulicz - since about three years now they play together.
Miko has studied violine and piano and has taken his diploma in these subjects. studio works at M.A.R.S (Thomas D - Fanta 4), Klangstrahler (2 CDs), Panama Red.
Stefan-X is a professional in ambient, chillout und downbeats. He regularly organizes chill-sundays at the Schaubar Frankfurt/Main.
Releases: Im:pulse Chill & Lounge Grooves (mix compilation, Terminal 68).
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