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| Overlap - Planet B.E.N. Records
- Russia |
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Overlap (Russia) consists
of two people: Michael Puchkov and Slava Bogachov.
Michael's first started writing trance music in 1996.
In 1998 he turned to making trance, and in 2000 he had
his first release under the name Neogen on a German label
Hadshot Haheizar Records.
Slava Bogachov also started to make trance music in 1998,
under the name Neoris together with his friend Kirill
Poltavetz. In 2000 they had their first release on the
famous UK label Phantasm Records.
The guys met in 2001 during a contest for upcoming Russian
trance artists, held in one of Moscow's clubs. They decided
to try making some tracks together and as a result Overlap
was born.
In 2002 Overlap signed with a well known Greek label ZMA
Records. ZMA have released their debut album 6th Sense,
which has received very good feedback from trance lovers
from all over the world.
In last 2 years Overlap released tracks on famous labels
like: Planet Ben, Nano, Turbo Trance, ZMA, Harmonia, YSE
and many more.
In 2006 they signed with Planet Ben Records. Overlap's
second album is going to be released on the label in 2007.
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| Tikal
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - France |

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Tikal is Vincent Bernal,
born 1977, living near paris (France). He has a guitarist/percussionist
background and he moved to composing electronic music
5 years ago. His music is melodic groovy morning stuff,
perfect for outdoor parties. It`s a fresh new style
with new ideas and lot of unusual samples and sounds
and strong ethnical and tribal elements.
His first and second albums, Ritual Cycle and Carnaval,
released on Neurobiotic Records, was one of the most
successful albums of 2004 and 2006. Since then, he played
all over the world including France, Italy, Japan, Germany,
Brazil,South Africa ,Sweden, Denmark,Israel ,Russia,
England, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Greece and Switzerland
performing in some of the most important events worldwide
such as Full Moon Festival in Germany, Universo Paralello
in Brazil, Sonica in Italy and Vortex Captown. During
this time, Tikal released tracks on some of the most
important labels around such as Spirit Zone, Nano Records,
Dragonfly and Mind Control always receiving huge feedbacks
from trancers around the world.
His 3nd album (Cosmic Dragon) features 10 tracks in
the typical Tikal style, full of feelings and emotions.
9 dancefloor friendly tracks, including a remix of sunshine
middle east and 2 collaboration tracks,1 with bamboo
forest and one with the new upcoming artist (dual core)
from israel ending with 1 downtempo/chill out track.
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| Animalis
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Animalis
- is Lazutkin Ilya (artist, producer, dj and remixer).
Ilya was born in Saratov, Russia in 1987. He has a diploma
in music art. In childhood when he was 6, he began playing
guitar. He finished musical school in 2003. Since the
first time he had heard electro music in Moscow in 2005,
and he started to experiment with the music. That was
the ground for establishing his "Electric Project".
As a result of becoming more professional and skilled
in music composing, Ilya has changed his project name
to Animalis since October 2007. The tunefulness, power,
energy and quality of his music as well as its unique
style distinguishes him from other Russian Psytrance
artists. That is his music determines morning mood and
hot night.
In April 2007 he began to perform in Moscow trance
events with Live and Dj sets. That year Ilya became
the official resident the Moscow promo group "Synthetic
Dreams Promotion". Since this time he played in
countless trance events, shared the stage with well
known psytrance artists like a Dino Psaras, Krome Angels,
Talamasca, Xerox & Illumination, Dado, Shanti, Visual
Contact, Cosmosis, Vibe Tribe, Tocadisco, DNA, Atmos,
Ananda Shake, Nexus, Space Buddha, Lamat, Insomnia,
Psychotic Micro, Hujaboy, Sesto Sento, Bizzare Contact,
Time Lock, System Nipel, PTX, Ferbi Boys, X.P. VooDoo,
Dynamic, Ultravoice, Gataka, Beat Hackers, Massive,
Loud, Phanatic, Azax Syndrome etc...
In June 2008 he joined forces with the label ON THE
MOVE MUSIC based in Hollywood, California and released
his first EP entitled "Star Galaxy".
In September 2008 he became official resident the PLANET
B.E.N. records based in Hamburg, Germany and is preparing
for his 2nd EP "Perfect Effect".
At this moment Animalis plays at different trance events
on weekly bases emitting great splash of energy and
emotions to more and more people. Lately Ilya spends
great deal of time on working his debut album - "Sly
technology" that will be published in beginning
of 2009. |
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| ENIGMATRONIC
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |


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Enigmatronic is the solo
project of Raone Demicheli, started now in 2008, looking
forward to develop the cutest edge psychedelic trance.
After several releases in his side project "Freak
Factory", Raone decided to take one step ahead
and define his own conception of the music.
His very first tracks as Engimatronic are already
beeing played worldwide with intense sucess.
www.myspace.com/enigmatronicmusic |
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| Strange Doctors
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |

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Reynaldo Reis, graduated guitar player, with an incredible rock band background, got in touch with electronic music around the year 2000. He first started a project djing big hits and playing guitar solos in top of it. Right after he started producing trance as Mind Vision, and played in some of the biggest brazilians festival such as Trancedence and EMF. After it, one of his most usual studio mates, Viram had lead him in a new producing level, exploring classic progressive trance.
That is where Strange Doctors come, with a purpose to show the classical line of progressive trance, with strong basses line, always looking for new sounds and virtuous mixture of electronic music. His first releases were already remarkable pieces in the progressive scene and he is already being considered among the top team of progressive trance in the whole globe.
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| BitShift
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany |

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Bitshift is Till Schauder
based in north Germany. In 2003, he started the music
project Bitshift. From a young age Till has been playing
different instruments like Drums and Percussions. In
1998 his main interest changed to electronic music and
he started producing his own tracks and playing as a
DJ/liveact in local parties.
Till always tried to create his own style witch combines
a pumping and rhythmical action with extra unique elements.
Till is also an Event/Sound Engineer which positively
exposes him to various musical influences. Bitshift
music is categorized under Progressive & electro
with strong elements of Techno. The sound of Bitshift
is very groovy with a strong atmospheric and deep harmonic
component.
Bitshit's Live Act is well designed for the dance floor
and especially fits large outdoor sound systems.
www.bitshift-project.com
www.myspace.com/bitshiftproject
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| Bio-Tonic / Planet B.E.N. Records - Japan |
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IBorn in 2000 in Reims (France), BIO-TONIC is Jerome Lecoq and Julien Lecoq, two french brothers. After acting as a trio for 7 years with their friend J. Brizard , the brothers have been keeping on acting as a duo since 2007.
They have released four albums on Solstice Music : Elektrik Colors (2001), On the Rox (2003), Divina (2004) and Klash (2006).
Several Bio-tracks became quite famous ("the 3rd link", "play it", "on the rox" remixed by GMS and more recently "fly away" on their fourth album “Klash”).
The duo also released tracks on various labels (Solstice Music, Agitato, TIP world, Harmonia, Spirit Zone, Flow records, Etnicanet and many more).
Their impressive Live-Act has been a huge sucess in Japan for many years, as well as in many countries around the globe such as UK, Spain, Greece, France, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal...
Now living in Japan, they are involved in other musical projects, they’ve made two tracks for the famous video game Tourist Trophy on Playstation 2, and they created an electro project in 2008 : Broz.korP, which is becoming a respected live-act on the electro scene remixing the top 5 ranked American DJ Scotty Boy and appearing on the Playstation 3 “HOME/Dress” soundtrack.
In 2009, Bio-Tonic is releasing their fifth studio album "Music For Animals" on Planet Ben Recordings.
Groovy and melodic, the new Bio-Tonic sound is a melting of deep emotions with a stylish french touch... definitely full-on.
As they always did by the past, they keep on composing original music, far away from monotonous trance tracks and affirming their own style. |
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| BBP
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |

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The brazilian
DJ and producer Bruno Barudi , have been consolidated
as one of the best in his country, causing extremely
and impressive reactions to the public.
After presenting in the states of Rio de Janeiro and
Minas Gerais, Bruno Barudi earned the status of "A
Phenomenon to be discovered" due a peculiarity
in his productions: the versatility, which are ensuring
a busy calendar between the best festivals of the four
corners of the country.
In his songs demand mix elements from all genres of
electronic music, following a natural tendency of development
of the scene, making the dance floor remains always
lively.
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| Arkadius
& Li´l Momo / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany |

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We are 2 german Psy-Trance
Dj´s and absolutly Music lovers ***
Our Name is *Arkadius & Li´l Momo* and we
are a fantastic team. Dj Arkadius is 26 years and Djane
Li´l Momo is 23 years old. Since the end of 2001
we realized that not only our love,just also our colorful
and individual taste in music stuff "GOA - Psychedelic
Trance". Very fit well together.
During the night, we want to play our unique Favorites..
the Full-on Sound with special Psychedelic Trance and
rock Elements to enchant the audience.
On the early morning hours we play like jagged Morning-Tunes,
to salute the freaks with the rising sun! We are almost
booked only together, because everybody feels that we
are happy and well, to give all our love and energy,
on the music in our Dj-Set...
In Our Dj sets we always play PingPong.... we always
play alternating ... so its a lot of fun on Stage ****
www.myspace.com/harzbeatjunkys |
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| Dj
Howing / Planet B.E.N. Records - Israel |

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Ron Zukerman
also known as DJ Howing is one of the most recognized
DJs in the Psychedelic Trance scene of Beer Sheva in Israel.
Ron started his journey into Psychedelic Trance in the
beginning of 1995. After getting his first Psychedelic
Trance cd he discovered a brand new genre of electronic
music that had a different sound, something he was waiting
to hear all is life.
From that day he developed a big passion for this kind
of music. He started collecting cds and vinyls and visited
Trance parties all over Israel. Ron´s big breakthrough
was two years ago, when he was asked to join club Chika
as a resident playing with the best Artists and DJ's from
the Israeli and the international Trance scene. |
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| Erotic
Dream / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |

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Erotic Dream
is a project developed by Guilherme Felipe da Silva
Filho and Rodrigo Póvoa. They had their first
contact with electronic music in 2002. At that time,
the raves have begun to expand throughout all Brasilia
city where they live.
Over these years, they have searched to know and to
learn about the rhythms that shake the raves. With several
friends DJs and producers in scene, they have their
interest called to work with this.
In 2005, Guilherme went to Belo Horizonte in order to
learn more by working in the best music studio of that
city. In 2006, he returned to Brasilia and met Rodrigo,
who was already doing his experiences with progressive
trance. Then, they decided to join themselves to develop
this project.
At last, after months into a studio, they presented
their first production. Thus that they launched their
work, they had a big surprise with the great public
recognition. 2007 was a lucky year: they presented their
work in many parties, beside national and international
artists of a very good concept. Last year they launched
also a virtual album called Progressive sensations,
which was the starting point of the live. |
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| Life
Extension / Planet B.E.N. Records - France |

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The project Life Extension
was born in Paris in 2002 from the meeting of two Djs
well known in the Parisian scene: Dj Stenman and Dj
Olive. Very active in the French psytrance scene, Life
Extension has been performing in front of massive crowd
during events such as: TBE, Osmoses, Gaia, Dayglo parties,
etc... Their very first track, 'Ticket to The Moon',
was a success without being sold !!! Since then, they
released several tracks on international labels such
as Mind Control (FR), Digital Oracle (Portugal), Shiva
Space Technology (Germany), Utopia (Israel), Arcadia
(Japan), Transient (UK), Morphonic (FR),Mahogany (FR),
Avigmatic (FR),Dacru Rec (Bel), Escape Rec (Fr). They
also collaborated with Talamasca on the track 'Unknown'
(released on the album 'Made In Trance') and 'State
of confusion' (on the label Digital Oracle) and many
more like Bamboo Forest, XSI... The released of their
first album “Side Effects” on Avigmatic
Records in 2007, brought them an international recognition
with several gigs in: Japan (arcadia), Russia (synthetic
dreams), Portugal, Germany (full moon festival, Antaris
project festival), Belgium, Denmark (Sonnenklang festival)
and many more parties in the world. Their second album
will be released at the end of this year 2008. With
more than ten years in the psychedelic trance music,
Life Extension has been influenced by artists such as
GMS, Talamasca, Astrix..... Creating their own unique
Full On style: powerful melodies with “impossible
not to dance” bass lines, Life Extension is definitively
a new force in the International Psytrance World.
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| Skunk
Beat / Planet B.E.N. Records - Guatemala |

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Oscar Castañeda
also known as Dj Skunk Beat was born in Guatemala City,
Guatemala on the 07.10.1982 without knowing that music
was the path he had to follow for the rest of his life.
During childhood, he was influenced by new age, funk
and disco music that his parents used to play all day.
Guatemala is a really small country and it is hard to
find a big scene of everything but pop. When starting
to develop his personality during puberty, rock and
grunge dominated his musical horizon, musical genres
which somewhat had a scene in Guatemala and developed
a sense of belonging. He wanted to make a change, so
he started to actively take part in a punk band as a
guitar player. Everything was going well until in the
year 2002 he discovered electronic music and has been
hooked since.
He started djing and organizing psychedelic trance events
in Central America at the end of 2002 and moved to Hamburg,
Germany to continue his dj carreer in 2004. His dj sets
can range from progressive trance to progressive house
and electro to minimal techno. Blending these styles
together into one tripadelic experience is his specialty.
In the last two years he has been touring Europe and
discovered that electronic music has so much to offer.
In 2006 he co-founded Chaishop Records - a trance label
focused on showcasing new talents in trance music.
Now he joined Planet B.E.N. records as A&R &
Booking Manager. |
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| Psyfullohms
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |

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Psyfullohms is Tiago Valadares
from Brazil.
He grow up immerse in music being a drummer in many
Punk Rock Bands.
At 17 years old he felt in love with psytrance and started
develop his own beats.
After a graduating in "Digital Audio" he is
now ready and hot to hit the market.
http://www.myspace.com/psyfullohms
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Salamander / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany |

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DJ Salamander alias Stephan
Salamon was born in the south of Germany..
At a very young age he was already fascinated by electronic
music…
When he was 15 years old he started DJ`ing and began to
play at psytrance parties in southern Germany…
After a couple of years of successful gigs he has played
under the underground label ``mindtravelagency``…
His special mix - containing crunchy dark noises, pumping
and pressing basslines and melodic influences - always
drives the dancefloor crazy…
Now Salamander is sitting in his studio writing his
first tracks…. |
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| Mantik
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany |

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Mantik is Arne Liedtke
from "Sailing City" Kiel, Germany.
Since his first release "The Believer" on
Headroom Productions in 2002 he released on different
international labels like Zenon, Plastik Park, Horns
and Hoofs, Midijum and some more. He was also a part
of TriOptimum together with Unique Freak and Morja,
which played on several events around germany.
Arne considers trance to be a state of mind and a concept
of arranging music, not a fixed formular. Therefore
he is bringing up elements from various electronic music
genres in his productions, but everytime with his special
flavour within. From time to time he is working together
with BitShift, especially to perfom on stage with their
unique fusion of liveacting, sampling and digital djing. |
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| Max
Grillo / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |

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Dj Max Grillo
was born in, Belo Horizonte city Brazil and hás
been following the evolution of the e-music scene in
Brazil since the 90s. In 1998 he started using pick-ups
and started playing in provates parties just for fun.
In 2201 he became a professional dj and played in his
first party na never stopped playing.
Max Grillo hás been playing in many parties
clubs and festivals in Brazil, playing alougside the
beste artists of the world e-music scene. Max hás
already played in Universo Pralello, Festival Fora do
Tempo, Cachoeira Alta, EarthDance, Flowers, Tribe, Deputamadre
, Label Club, Club A among others.
Since 2007 Max Grillo is parto f the indoor party crew
of TANTRA and is residente of one of his city´s
best club LABEL CLUB. Where he plays a soung that ranges
from progressive to minimal.
Howing technique charisma and a storng vibrant set
max grillo is one of the biggest name of contry.
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| Interactive
Noise / Planet B.E.N. Records - Mexico |

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Interactive noise is hugo
venegas, originally from Mexico City, begins to get
involved with the music at an early age, with only 14
years old decides to create music on a home computer,
experienced in many genres of electronic music, achieving
produce many tracks of the genera "synth pop"
, "new wave" , "techno, house" ,
"big beat" , "trip hop" and "ambient".
In the year 2003 is when starts to produce trance, experiencing
in the genre, studying musical language and digital audio
is like the achieves a style genuine and fresh. This style
is located within the subgenre electronico progressive
inserting in it, elements of other sub-genre as "Psy-trance",
"Techno", "Minimal", "Electro"
, "House", "Break" and "Dance".
In this way it is born as "INTERACTIVE NOISE"
.Throughout his musical career achieves bring his live
act at many festivals in the Mexican republic, as well
as publish some of their tracks with different labels.
He is currently working on his first Album. |
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Pedro Gomide/ Planet B.E.N. Records - USA / Brazil |

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Born in Brazil, Pedro was
strongly influenced by the diverse and deeply rooted
traditions of his country. His ideals of unification
begin in this rich culture. Throughout his life, Pedro
has lived in countries on three continents, giving him
a broad global perspective. Pedro participated in the
development of the trance scene in Brazil, by being
one of premiere Chill-Out DJs playing at festivals throughout
the country and producing indoor/outdoor events that
incorporated workshops and performances. When in New
York, he was the resident DJ and special events coordinator
for CoSM, co-creating the EntheoCentric Salon parties
with Alex Grey. He has performed in events such as Universo
Paralello, Trancendence, Burning Man, Tribe, Symbiosis,
Ypy-Poty, Klatu just to mention some.
When playing, he uses Ableton Live to mix dub, lounge,
glitch and trip-hop for a chiller vibe or minimal techno,
electro and house for a dance setting. Fusing these
styles with strong rhythmic influences from Brazil.
With bass driven tracks, interchanging minimalist sounds,
modern tribal rhythms and richly distorted synth he
creates an uplifting experience through the spectrum
of electronic music.
With a productive spring in San Francisco, Pedro joined
Symbiosis, produced and performed at events such as
How Weird Street Faire, Yuri’s Night Bay Area
at NASA and SeedSource 1.0. He is now touring Brazil
and Europe, playing at Trancendence, Tribe, Boom and
many more events followed by the participation on the
production of the Liminal Village with Naasko for Boom
Festival. |
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| Tacit
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil |

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Tacit is a progressive
trance project developed by Felipe Rossi from Brasil.
He was born in 1981 and had his first contact with eletronic
music in 1997, at Trancoso (BA).
Since then, he began to frequent some festivals and
to interest in play as Dj. In 2000 he started playing
Dj set in small parties, and in coming years, he came
to focus only on producing their own songs. With the
help of friends he started producing other projects,
but only in 2005 he was ready to devote to his project
Tacit.
Tacit already worked on remixes of great artist as Sensifeel
(France) and SunCollector (Switzerland). He played his
live act in Brasilia and in cities of São Paulo.
Nowadays Tacit project is affiliated with top label
Planet B.E.N Records based in Germany, and will be release
his fist EP.
More information:
www.myspace.com/tacitprog
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| Taktell
/ Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany |

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Taktell is an uprising
German Progressive act found by Bjarne R. who starts
his musical carrer in the end of the 90th by playing
lots of gigs in Germany under Tempest and DJ Bjarne.
He always prefers pumping progressive Tunes with strong
basslines in his sets as far as his musical productions.
Over the years the sound gets more influence of slower
Electromusic and the mannor finally changes into TAKTELL.
Nowadays he frequently releases tracks on Planet B.E.N
Records, and is also known for remixing different artist.
In the following year the debut album will be finished,
so be curious!
www.taktell-music.de
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Mael aka Nomad - Mind Control / Planet B.E.N. Records
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Djing since 1992, DJ Mael
has began to play in Paris, and became quickly one of
the well known DJs of the “Parisian scene”.
His beat on beat mixing technic was his force, and all
the foreigner DJs who came to play in the parties in France
where he was playing used to be positivly surprised by
this “local DJ”...
But for the guitar player he was, playing the music of
others was not a final goal. He made his first collaborations
with his friend from school, DJ Lestat (aka Talamasca),
and DJ Christof (Absolum) under the name of Elixir.
After the big success of this collaboration, they decided
all together to make the quite famous 3D Vision label,
where Mael gave his first tries as a single producer under
the name of Nomad and made this label one of the most
respected of the actual trance scene. After now two albums,
"Hyperactive" and "Mad Attack", Nomad
is now reaching another level, where the highest sound
quality meets with his most pumping sequences!!!
Mind control is naturally the next step for him; this
label, created with Ttalamasca, will give him another
opportunity to show that his specific style, who contributed
to make the reputation of the "French pressure”
, deserves the full-on time of the party! And that‘s
why he is the specialist of the night time in the mind
control label parties... |
| Dino
Psaras - Vision Quest / Planet B.E.N. Records - U.K. |
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It was the
1988 underground Acid House party scene that kick started
fifteen year-old Dino into DJing. Then, with an eclectic
set of drum ‘n bass, Detroit and Belgian techno
and Acid House music, he further satiated his passion
for playing to dance hungry crowds in Brighton, Bournemouth,
London and Bristol, alongside Sasha and Digweed.
The early nineties saw him DJ at hardcore techno parties
with the likes of Mr C, Weatherall, Groove Rider, Todd
Terry, Tony Humphries, Adamski and Carl Cox, whilst
enjoying a monthly residency at Baba G’s (Massive
Attack) Bristol club and regular bookings at DIY festivals
and Tonka parties.
In 1992 Dino was invited to go on Primal Scream’s
Screamadelica tour with Paul Oakenfold and Mark Moore.
He was then voted amongst the Top 20 up-and-coming House
DJs in the world by MixMag. The next year, Dino travelled
to India where he discovered Psychedelic Trance - a
catalyst for change in his musical direction. Back in
London he met Youth who made him the first Dragonfly
DJ. Whilst at the label Dino also met the other signed
talents of Martin Freeland (Man With No Name), Ben Watkins
(Juno Reactor) and Simon Posford, and determined to
not only play music but to create it as well. Under
the three different monikers of Phreaky, Cydonia and
Ayahusca, Dino collaborated to spawn his own brand of
trance. Ayuhusca ( with Joti Sidhu and Steve Ronan)
remixed ‘Rise’, the first release by Paul
Oakenfold on his Perfecto Fluoro label. It wasn’t
long before Dino was recognised as one of the best DJs
in this scene.
From 1994 onwards Dino DJ’d around the globe:
in Australia at the first Rainbow Serpent party, in
America at Burning Man ’95 and ‘96, at the
Berlin Love Parade and at indoor venues and outdoor
parties in South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Paris, Belgrade,
Israel Japan, Yugoslavia and Goa. Not forgetting of
course back home in good ol’ Brighton with Sven
Vath.
In London he started his own club, ‘ACID –
A Concept In Dance’ with Ian St Paul (Spectrum,
Future) and Mike Maguire (Juno Reactor), which was acclaimed
as one of the first trance nights in London. A legendary
label of the same name sprang up to release the first
tracks of artists such as Man With No Name, Paul Jackson,
Universal Sound, Cydonia, Ayahuasca and Psychaos. The
label’s eponymous album ‘A.C.I.D.’
is one of the highest selling trance albums to date.
It was around this time that Dino bumped into an old
friend from Brighton, Simon Gahari to whose boss at
B&W, Robert, Dino introduced most of the major artists
in the scene: Juno Reactor, X Dream, KoxBox, Total Eclipse,
MWNN – the Blue Room label was born. Along with
his brother and two other partners Dino established
his own Atomic label in order to differentiate and evolve
his sonic preferences. His intent was to achieve high
quality sound as opposed to what was then called Goa
Trance music, which had little production and was in
danger of sounding like the same track over again. Atomic
released tracks from artists such as Tim Schuldz, Morphem,
Semsis, MWNN, Cydonia and Tortured Brain (Dino’s
first solo project) before closing down due to the typical
malaise of distribution difficulties. Nevertheless,
the label managed to release an initial compilation
entitled ‘Kiss The Future’ along with nine
albums spanning chill-out to techno.
Dino’s first solo album is entitled ‘Dino
Psaras – Lick It’, released on Ocktava Records;
a collection of varied tracks to be both savoured on
the sofa and pumped out at parties. Most are solo ventures
but there are collaborations with MWNN, X Dream and
Raz Helalat, as well Keith Emmerson’s (ELP) son
Aaron on keyboards. Current projects include ‘Mosquito’
(with Raz Helalat and Ian Rive (Cydonia)) who are working
towards an album that harnesses the vocal talents of
Diane Charlemagne (Moby) on one of its tracks and Val
(Groove Armada) on another. The trio also have a Tech
House album coming out with Visionquest, one of the
biggest trance organisations in Japan.
Recently Dino has remixed for Tim Schuldt and Serge
(Antidote) and is working on tracks for Chemical Crew.
He has also found time to begin his next solo album
that will be released by Visionquest Tokyo. It promises
more banging sounds for the dance floor but maintains
a unique edge; one that dispels any notions of monotony
and continues to keep Dino a cut above the rest.
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Kei Fujishiro is one of
the true veterans of Tokyo's psychedelic trance scene.
He first began to DJ in 1990, spinning techno and trance
as a regular at Tokyo's legendary Club 3D. In 1995 when
the Goa Trance wave swept through Tokyo, Kei embraced
it. He was a resident DJ of the Time Trance crew, one
of the first to do parties in Tokyo, where he played
alongside such legendary artists as Astral Projection,
Transwave, Total Eclipse, GPIS, and many more.
Trips around the world have seen Kei play at many major
trance hotspots, such as the squat parties in Germany,
parties in Nepal, Bangladesh and in Hong Kong. In 2001
Kei focused his energies an Cluintrix, a music store
and cafe in Tokyo, which has rapidly become an insitution
in Japan, being Tokyo's only purely psytrance store.
Kei has recently also begun to produce music, and together
with Kuromitsu he has created the Indigo Explorer project,
Indigo Explorer is inspired by the roots of psychedelic
trance, and combines it with modern ideas and production
values to create a fresh sound.
Keys DJ style is a very emotional psychedelic story,
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Insonic / Planet B.E.N. Records Brazil.
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Insonic is the solo project
of Mario Cezzare Angelicola Chiodi, native of São
Paulo (ítalo-Brazilian),27 years.
Gotten passionate for music since child, when he used
to sing in a Punk's band . Later, in 1994, it knew music
electronic, starting to mix jungle at the night clubs.
Moved away from music for professional reasons, MCezzare
had its first contact with the Psytrance in 2000, was
love the first sight. To know Trance was enough reason
so that Mario, with the aid of the DJ's Voide (Fuzzy
Project) and Aharon (Israzil), knew the CDJ's and so
soon it started to perceive that this would come to
be part of its life.
In 2001 already with its home studio, and with I assist
it of producers Enzio (Mad Hatters), Chico (Killer Buds/Insect
Seeker), Daniel (Mad Hattters), Leonardo (Cosmonet)
and Marcelo (Red Sun) started to play in his dj sets
some of its productions, in the Dancefloors for where
it passed, what it finished relieving a great number
of parties and sufficient notoriety for the artist.
The search for the quality and new perspectives allied
to the vast experience acquired in the many dancefloors
for where it passed as resident of Nucleos TRANCESP
and PSY PRIVET, resulted in October of 2004 in the creation
of project INSONIC with intention to bring some innovations
to the Brazilian scene of Psytrance: Powerfull Sped
up basslines and memorable melodies are the main characteristics
of this project, that counts on influences of artists
as: Shanti, D-Tek, Ion, Gms, Atomic Pulse, Cyber Cartel,
Space Buddah, Cosmonet, Mad Hatters, Killer Buds, Spectrum,
Infected Mushroom, Xerox, Yahel, Altom, Polaris, GMS,
Red Sun, Alternative Control, Astral Projection, Protoculture,
among others.
Since its launching, in September of 2006, the project
has received many compliments in the parties for where
it presented and good commentaries concerning about
the tracks, that they present a mature and current conception,
that it sends to the golden times of the Goa Trance
without leaving of side the characteristic High Tech
and the futurism of the Psytrance of today. ???The Relese
of project INSONIC relieved absolute success in parties
as as: Sizoga Festival, Day Dream, TranceSP, Space Trance,
Just, Tantra, Alien Trip, Psycho Trip; having played
live acts to the side of famous artists like: GMS, X-Noise,
Black & White, Digital Tribe, Skulptor, Audio-X,
Mad Hatters, Red Sun, Vibra, Lifestyle, 2HI,Killer Buds,
Hyperceptiom, Insect Seeker, Space Wagon, Xtatic, Spectical,
N.O.S, Energetic, Stereo FX, The Cannibal Barbecue,
Tropical HighLight, U-Turn, System Overload, Midi Space,
Demonizz, Minoide, Fuzzy Project, Empulse, GroovyTech,
Act Sense, among others?
At the moment, M.Cezzare comes working hard in the
improvement of its techniques, launching some musics
to the side of Great names of the Psytrance (foreseen
for Compilations in June of 2007,(more info soon...)
searching new influences that they aim at to surprise
the public in intense and marcante way, beyond if concentrating
in the studio for the launching of its new live: REDSONIC,
a fusing with a recognized Brazilian Poject named RED
SUN, and promise to raise the vibration at the dancefloors
to the highest levels.
?Insonic is Releasing some musics besides great named
of the scene such as Nomad, Overlap, Planet B.E.N.,
Evoice, Nanotech, DJ Pin, Patchbay , soon ..
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Nanotech / Planet B.E.N. Records Mexico |
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A new project based in
the Mexico City what arise at the middle of 2006, between
Salvador Chavez & Cesar Perez, two good friends
whom decide explore together the path of the electronic
music production.
With the influence of alternative kinds of music like
the Dark Electro, EBM, Synth Pop, Intelligent Noise,
Drum n’ Bass, Industrial, Trance, etc...
Nanot3ch is the fusion of all this styles, predominating
the Psy Trance, giving to origin a very flowed music,
with meticulous sequences very good joined and structured,
a pump and heavy bass line, groove sounds and rhythmic
harmonics, giving an original concept to each track
what is finished.
Nanot3ch was fighting in this last year to give a live
act with high quality, energetic music and intensity
on the stage, connecting with the people in a very special
way, what give’em the opportunity to play in some
of the most important festivals in Mexico and many other
parties in the Country, showing them eclecticism and
force.
For now, rest so much to know about this great duo,
for sure, u can see them so active in this days, between
parties, compilations, reviews and many other news...
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David Durst aka D-Tek / Mexico |
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David Durst from Mexico
City is one of the best and most important DJ's and
producers in the well expanding psy-trance scene in
Mexico. He began his career in 1987 as a DJ, by mid-90’s
he started producing music, experimenting on many diverse
styles until it inevitably evolved into trance music.
As the new century arrived David had already released
tracks on well known labels such as Tip, Maia, Neurobiotic,
Sony music, Shiva Space Japan, Transient, AP records,
Spun records, Trama records Brazil and Exotic Native
Japan.
“Earth technologies”, his first album, was
released in 2003 and immediately became a top selling
choice for trance enthusiasts and DJ’s all over
the world.
So far, D-tek’s live act (as well as David’s
famous groundbreaking DJ sets) have been presented in
parties and festivals in Japan, Israel, Costa Rica,
San Francisco/USA, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil,
Canada and all over Mexico sharing a place on stage
among most of the best recognized international trance
artists worldwide.
Today he’s still working on producing more and
more quality tracks and being signed up for future presentations
around the globe.
David in 2005 released on four of our compilations,"Planetary
Nation Vol.1", "Spiritual Rhythms of Psytrance"
Vol.1 and 2 as well as “Generation of Psytrance
Vol.1”.
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Lestat aka Talamasca / France |
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Cedric
Dassulle, aka Dj Lestat, is now Djing for more than 12
years… Bbeing resident dj in some prestigious club
in paris, the Rex club, in 1995 and 1996, he reached the
top level of the French scene with the “cybernetic
trance” parties he made there every weeks…
But it is when he began to produce his own music under
the name of Talamasca, at the end of 1996, that the rest
of the world discovered this “french guy”,
who made everytime the dance floor crazy !!!
From then, he is playing every week end in parties, on
every possible place of the planet where trance have some
fans !!! He also made a lot of collaborations with great
artists like Spacecat, Infected Mushrooms, Skazi, GMS,
or Eskimo, and he released today more than 100 tracks
on different labels, containig some hits like 'Come On',
'Speaking Robot', 'The 5th revelation'...
His collaboration with Mael and Christof inside 3d Vision
contributed to make of this label one of the most successfull
and respected of our actual trance scene.
Mind Control is logically the next step for him, a label
where he will be abble to work with all the friends he
met everywhere he travelled this last 6 years.
'Beyond the mask', 'Musica Divinorum' and 'Zodiac' were
the three album from where are released such hits like
'The Hunted Becomes the Hunter', 'Time Simulation', or
'Aries' and now , Talamasca is bringing us his 4th album,
'Made in Trance' , produced with some other French artists,
and expect from this album to be his most successful one.
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| Sirius Issness
- Mindcontrol / Planet B.E.N. Rec / France & Spain |
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Sirius Isness is the full
on morning psychedelic trance project of Davina and
Max. Davina, 28 years old, was born in France but grew
up in New Caledonia, an island between Australia and
New Zealand. Max, 27 years old, was born in California,
but spent half of his life in France.
They started making music together in the year 2000,
and released their first track as Sirius Isness in the
year 2003. Since then, getting impressive feedback from
the public, they have been making more and more tracks
released on important labels such as : Mind Control
Recs, SPUN, 3D Vision, Solstice, Spirit Zone, Moon Spirits,
Dragonfly, Neurobiotic, Phantasm Recs, Crystal Matrix,
Sirius Recs,Transient, Space Ttribe music, Yellow Sunshine
Explosion, ZMA, Agitato Recs, and many more ...
Their first album "Resolution of Duality"
came out in May of 2004 on Moon Spirits Recs, and was
the big suprise of the year with amazing melodies and
production quality for the full on morning lovers.
In the year 2005, Max and Davina were really proud to
present their second album "BREAKING THE MATRIX",
released in April 2005 on Mind Control records. They
have been playing their Live set and DJ set all around
the planet at big events in Japan, Brazil, Mexico, France,
New Caledonia , Russia, Switzerland, Australia, England,
Morrocco, Spain, Portugal, Canada, USA, Hungary, Denmark,
Italy and many more, and rocking dance floors with their
incredible energy on stage, and this new concept of
a man and a woman working together!
For this new Year 2006, Max and Davina are releasing
many tracks on different compilations and made many
new collaborations expected to be released this current
year, now living in Barcelona, Spain. And they are proud
to annouce that they are currently working on their
third Sirius isness album intensely!
Get ready for it ...
www.siriusisness.com
www.mindcontrolrecords.com
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Yo-Yo - Artfreaktion & Planet B.E.N. Records / Russia |
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Yo-Yo is Olga Bekman, she was
born in Moscow, Russia. First time has met with psytrance
in 1996 on one of the mad parties, passed in one of the
most well-known clubs of Moscow.
At that time she already listened to experimental electronic
music, loved breakbeats and many other things. Since her
childhood days Olga could not live without music and knew
that in future it would be part of her life.
After awhile she was very much carried away with this
direction of music, and she became DJ. Olga was to be
informed up to people on dancefloor to something especial,
that people would feel music and received unforgettable
impressions from its performances.
And it has turned out, Olga has started to play various
clubs, has travelled the majority of cities of Russia
with the performances and all sets Yo-Yo were always something
special and interesting. Beautiful appearance and excellent
skill mixing it always spends public through deep travel
to the musical future. In the future where there are no
borders of our imagination.
Since 2002 is the representative and booking manager
biggest in moscow party organizers Artfreaktion. (www.artfreaktion.ru)
In 2004 Olga has borrowed own musical in the project
in full on style and as has begun work above new records
label which basis will consist from chill out, ambient
and freestyles sounds.
Now, already after a lot years she is of became one
of the most popular dj Russia, has visited many countries,
participated in many festivals, but much still ahead.
Prefers full-on trance and psy-prog. music style.
Coming soon opening new official web site www.yo-yo.dj
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- Planet B.E.N. Records / Israel |
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el-Aviv based Alon Brilant
have been influenced by music, from rock to psychedelic
trance. Since 1995, he started DJing at trance parties
and always been attracted to The Sound of the psychedelic
Morning trance. He started producing music after he
graduated in 2003 inspired by Artists such as COSMA
(RIP), S-RANGE and LOGIC BOMB.
It always has been important to him to incorporate emotions
in his music .SUNTREE is his solo project and he have
also been working with Kobi Avraham a.k.a ANTIGRAVITY,
on a side project, named TRIPLE VIEW.
Recently he signed as a musician in a Gaming company
called Real Dice
creating the music and the Sound FX for games and releasing
his debut album soon
@Planet B.E.N. Records
For More information:
www.myspace.com/suntree
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- Planet B.E.N. Records / Brazil |
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Daniel Romano aka Puzzle is originally
from Brazil. He began to produce psy-trance in earlies
1999 . Coming from a classical guitarrist , jazz, Fusion
and Progressive rock background, became quickly one
of the well known acts of his city Belo Horizonte. After
work in the studio with some artists like CPU, Eskimo,
Mekkanikka , Shanti , Inner Action , Rinkadink , 220v
to name few, Puzzle is very well oriented into his music
.Developing a uplifting groove sound with nice atmospheres
and sharp leads . Daniel is also working on his side
project Flexable with Sam ( C.P.U)
He's now in the studio working on his debut album.
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.....In the year 2000,
when the newest club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was
about to be opened, their managers looked for somebody
that would be responsable for the entire sound track
of the new place. As they invited Rafael Mendes, a student
at that time, they asked him to use his many years of
music collection to give an eletronic atmosphere to
the weekly night that was about to happen. Is that when
it rises Dj Pin, at first making sets in all kind of
eletronic music, soon he transformed that night in one
of the first weekly psytrance residence in Brazil.
As the project established itself, Pin start to play
in all the main parties in his city. In 2001 he performed
all over the country and started to be seen as one of
the main djs from his state. At the same time he was
part of the organization of memorable parties in Belo
Horizonte, putting the city forever in the international
route of psytrance. Soon he was invited to play in many
different label party as TIP World, Com.Pact, Chemical
Crew, among others.
In 2002 he was already performing in some of the biggest
festivals in Brazil as Universo Parallelo, Cachoeira
Alta and Sunvibe. As 2003 arrived, Pin was the only
dj outside Sao Paulo to be among the revelations of
the year of the Balada Planet poll, the biggest eletronic
music website in Brazil. In this same year he made a
mini-tour in Europe performing in England and Wales.
In 2004 he was responsable for the promotion in Brazil
of the Son Kite collection "Colours". In this
same year he started to produce the “Carga Eletronica”,
weekly psytrance radio show, broadcasted to a 3 million
people range with the best of psytrance music and culture;
one of the first psy radio shows in the country. At
the same time he started a residence with Trance Movement
(www.trancemovement.com), one of the biggest party organizers
in Brazil.
Later, on 2005, Pin was invite to be part of Planet
BEN Records (www.planet-ben.net) crew and started to
perform all over the country in partys for until 10.000
people. In 2006 he shared the stage with mainstream
eletronic artists such Fat Boy Slim and Sasha. He also
became one of the only psytrance artists in the whole
globe to play at the Creamfields Festival. In this same
year he was a highlight at Indian Spirit Festival in
Germany and at Earthdance Chile. At that time, Pin was
also invited to join the legendary TIP World crew.
Early 2007 he had his first track released in a collaboration
with Puzzle and its now working in a live act between
his gigs.
Pin had shared the stage with an endless list of artits,
including all the main psytrance ones, as 1200 Mics,
Infected Mushroom, Skazi, GBU, SUN Project, Atmos, Son
Kite, Tristan and Dino Psaras, just to name few.
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Gen.6 - Planet B.E.N. Records / Sweden |
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A short bio about Paulina Cewe - Gen.6
Paulina Cewe (Gen.6) is a dj and producer based in Stockholm,
Sweden, that's mainly focused on psychedelic trance and
tech-house.
She knows how to tame the electronic sounds and make
them follow her every command. By playing at clubs and
events ranging from Docklands in Stockholm, Sweden to
the Dinamo in Tel Aviv, Israel - Paulina has established
her own style by blending tech-house, progressive and
psychedlic trance since year 2000. Her previous apperances
include countries like Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany,
Poland, Estonia, Portugal, Switzerland, England to name
a few.
At present date the continous search for an interaction
with the crowd, and a constant connection with the trance
and techno community, enables her to entwine the different
changes and flows both on the dancefloor and on the
electronic-scene as a whole. Her appetite for beat and
rhythm is always fueled by the fascinating and evolving
sound of electronic music.
As a producer Paulina aims to create an atmosphere
of her own. The blend of tribal through progressive,
melodic yet minimal, classical still futuristic, moves
her through genres and entwining them all together.
In the year 2002 her debute album "Genesis"
was released on the Swedish trance label Creon Records.
She has since then released tracks on compilations alongside
artists such as Pulsedriver, Blank & Jones, Timo
Maas, Tiesto, ATB, Antiloop etc. Other releases include
remixes of "Phasefour - Moments" for Norwegian
psytrancelabel Freetransform and a remix of the french
electronicaband "Trisomie 21 - Red or Green"
for Belgian Alfa matrix records.
Being one of few female producers that's also DJing
both tech-house and psychedlic trance, she puts an effort
into making her dj sets innovative by using external
equipment such as Stantons final scratch combined with
Korgs kaos pad II.
Paulina has perfomed as a dj and/or live alongside
artists such as:
Alien Project - Astral Projection - X-Dream - Man With
No Name - Wizzy Noise - Miraculix - Infected Mushroom
- Orchidea - John 00 Flemming - Lady Dana - Dark Soho
- Sun Project - Marco Menichelli - Son Kite - Anti -
Etnica - Logic Bomb - Headroom - Hertz - Hardcell -
Johan Bacto - Delta - Agnelli & Nelson - Proteus
- S-Range - Noma - Element -Ticon - Etnoscope - Procs
- System Beat - Johann Bley - Silent Sphere - Goma -
Reefer Decree - Neotone - Genetic Spin - Micro Dot -
Kino Oko - Yumade - Hux Flux - Shiva Chandra - Star
Sound Orchestra - Mino - Eatstatic - Haldolium - Beat
Bizzare - Biotonic - PPS Project - Opsis - Yahel - Absolum
- Earthling - Sub6 - Skazi - Onix - Ptx - Suria - Menog
- Paranormal Attack - Shrink - Christian Varela - Dave
Angel - Elite Force - Marco Bailey - Neil Lundstrumm
- Pascal Feos - Rhythm Division - Mario Piu - Psilodump
- Richie Hawtin - Thomas Heckman - Cari Lekebusch -
and others
Full listing of previous and upcoming gigs:
www.gen6.com
and www.paulinacewe.com
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DJ Mogg - Planet B.E.N. Records
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Dj Mogg is the pseudonym
of Paulo Gameyski born during a cold winter in Bulgaria.
At the age of 4 his mother decided to return to her home
country so they moved to Portugal where Paulo started
to grow with the local culture and values. After 13 years
lost in the middle of buildings and standard rules of
the Portuguese society Paulo started to listen to electronic
music with friends in some underground parties, from that
moment he noticed that this kind of music was his passion…..
Influenced in the beginning by artists like Logic Bomb,
Yahel, Kox Box, Astral Projection, Atmos, Elements and
others, Paulo moved his soul to this special world and
by starting to get more in the scene he meet the wizards
of this music who persuaded him to start spinning when
they noticed he had a good hear.
The main line he likes to spin is psychedelic neo full-on
where high production level is required. To listen, he
likes progressive music, full-on trance and also chill
out. The deep space atmosphere he likes to create in the
dancefloors and clean mixes are his special gifts to the
dancers.
He got his first booking in Bulgaria where he played with
the best names of there like Vataff Project and Disham
after that he his been playing with producers like Nomad,
D-Tek, Planet Ben, Inner Action, Tikal, Blanka, Audiotec,
Fatali, Xibalba, Lish, Sensifeel, Symphonix, Space Safari,
Mapusa Mapusa and with Dj´s like James Monro, Bakke,
Fabio, Dick Trevor, among others…
Nowadays Dj Mogg is affiliated with top label Planet BEN
Records based in Germany www.planet-ben.net and Japan
www.planet-ben.jp
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Xhoan Guga a.k.a. T-GROUND
is the man behind the T.U.G. / TiranaUnderground, which
together with other dj's and friends, forms the only crew
organising underground party's in Albania since 1998,
bringing all these years the freshest electronic music
in Tirana and surroundings, always having in mind the
creation of a proper scene. On 1-4 september of 05 he
joint forces with other albanian electronic lovers to
organize the first electronic music festival in Durres,
Albania. He has a long journey with electronic music,
with his first direct contact in 1993, when living in
Germany. That seed was plantet forever, so he dedicated
most of his time listening to new stuff. He loves quality
tunes of every style, but loves the edgy/techy side of
psy-trance. Also in his free time, he is working on his
own trackz. He studied IT and works as a graphic designer.
www.tiranaunderground.com
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DJ Joseph was born in 1978
at the westcoast of sweden, now living in Gothenburg.
As a young kid Joseph understood that music was of big
interrest. Soon he realized that making kasset-mix-tapes
was a lot of fun. He worked hard and bought his first
mixer at 12 years of age and started playing techno and
disco music.
In the mid 90’s he hooked up with Detroit techno
DJ Marcus Bang a.k.a. Ego and went to big underground
techno- and goa-parties. He soon realized that underground
music was the key to get the partypeople uplifted with.
After having played in various underground parties since
the late 90’s he got to be organizing and promoting
underground parties both in doore, and in the twisted
woods of Gothenburgh. He is also one of the four owners
of the big Scandinavian psy-community - www.swedish-mushroom.com.
Nowdays Joseph plays melodic full-on with and hypnotic
progressive feeling but also enjoys to play other genres
and ajusts the tempo depending on if it’s day
or night.
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Genesis - Planet B.E.N. Records / Mexico (Spain) |
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The organic team was spawned
in the depths of the concrete system which is
known as Mexico City. United since childhood, the duo
grew up together creating a fusion of sound which would
manifest itself in many forms.
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