ARTISTS
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Live Acts

Animalis (Russia)
BBP (Brazil)
Bio-Tonic (Japan)
BitShift (Germany)
Enigmatronic (Brazil)
Erotic Dream (Brazil)
D-Tek aka DJ David Durst (Mexico)
Dino Psaras (UK)
Interactive Noise (Mexico)
Insonic (Brazil)
Life Extension (France)
Mantik (Germany)
Nanot3ch (Mexico)
Nomad aka DJ Mael (France)
Overlap (Russia)
Planet B.E.N.
(Germany)
Psyfullohms (Brazil)
Puzzle (Brazil)
Sirius Issness (France)
Slug (South Africa)
Strange Doctors (Brazil)

Suntree (Israel)
Tacit (Brazil)

Taktell (Germany)
Talamasca aka DJ Lestat (France)
Tikal (France)

 


DJ's

Arkadius & Li´l Momo (Germany)
Bisturi (Albania)
Silverrush (Serbia)
Howing (Israel)
David Durst (Mexico)

Davina (Sirius Issness) (France)
Dino Psaras (UK)
El-Tani (Albania)
Gen.6 (Sweden)
Pedro Gomide (USA / Brazil)
Joseph (Sweden)
Kei Fujishiro (Japan)
Mael aka Nomad (France)
Max Grillo (Brazil)
Maxx (Sirius Issness) (France)

Mikari (Germany)
Mogg Fanatik (Portugal)
Pin (Brasil)
Planet B.E.N. (Germany)
Skunk Beat (Guatemala)
T-Ground (Albania)
Yo-Yo (Russia)

Salamander (Germany)

 
   
Overlap - Planet B.E.N. Records - Russia

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.
 
Tikal / Planet B.E.N. Records - France


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.

 

 
Animalis / Planet B.E.N. Records - Russia

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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.

 
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

 
Strange Doctors / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil


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.

 

 
BitShift / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany


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

 

 
Bio-Tonic / Planet B.E.N. Records - Japan



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.

 
BBP / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil


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.

 
Arkadius & Li´l Momo / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany


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

 
Dj Howing / Planet B.E.N. Records - Israel


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.
 
Erotic Dream / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil


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.

 
Life Extension / Planet B.E.N. Records - France


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.

 

 
Skunk Beat / Planet B.E.N. Records - Guatemala


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.

 
Psyfullohms / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil


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


 

 
DJ Salamander / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany


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….

 
Mantik / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany


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.

 
Max Grillo / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil


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.


 
Interactive Noise / Planet B.E.N. Records - Mexico


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.
 
DJ Pedro Gomide/ Planet B.E.N. Records - USA / Brazil


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.

 
Tacit / Planet B.E.N. Records - Brazil


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


 

 
Taktell / Planet B.E.N. Records - Germany


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
 
DJ Mael aka Nomad - Mind Control / Planet B.E.N. Records - France

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.

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.

     
DJ Kei Fujishiro / Planet B.E.N. Records - Tokyo.

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, generating smooth waves of groove in the morning.

Insonic / Planet B.E.N. Records Brazil.

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 ..

Nanotech / Planet B.E.N. Records Mexico 

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...

     
DJ David Durst aka D-Tek / Mexico

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”.

www.d-tek.com.mx

     
DJ Lestat aka Talamasca / France

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.
     
Sirius Issness - Mindcontrol / Planet B.E.N. Rec / France & Spain

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


 
DJ Yo-Yo - Artfreaktion & Planet B.E.N. Records / Russia

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

     
Suntree - Planet B.E.N. Records / Israel

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

     
Puzzle - Planet B.E.N. Records / Brazil

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.

     
DJ Pin - Planet B.E.N. Records / Brazil

.....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.

     
DJ Gen.6 - Planet B.E.N. Records / Sweden

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

     
DJ Mogg - Planet B.E.N. Records / Portugal

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

     
DJ T-Ground - Planet B.E.N. Records / Albania

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



     
DJ Joseph - Planet B.E.N. Records / Sweden

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.



     
Bio Genesis - Planet B.E.N. Records / Mexico (Spain)

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.
Mikeldi Murguia