Sketchy Steve is a Brighton based DJ. He has changed his preferred style from Psy Trance to Techno recently and is a promoter for Sicknote a Brighton based techno night. Influences include Carl Falk, Ritchie Hawtin, Dave The Drummer, T Rex, NIN, David Moleon and Ministry. Currently has a 9-12 Monday slot on upfrontdance.net, a local dance music radio station.
There are four bands named Pandora's Box:
1) a Hungarian hard rock band formed in 1980
2) a Jim Steinman studio group, formed in 1989
3) a Philippine nu metal heavy metal band featured in the MusikMAX BICOL compilation CD.
4) a Psytrance duo from Argentina producing darkish sounds. 1)In 1979 Gyula Vikidál left the legendary band P.Mobil and entered Dinamit. A year after Sándor Bencsik "Samu" (lead guitars) and István Cserháty "Pityi" (Hammond organ) left P.Mobil as well and formed a new band named Pandora's Box after the title of a Procol Harum. The
Psymmetrix are 28 year old Alastair Crowther and 31 year old Richie (Asimilon) Elmes, both Yellow Star Geminis from South East of England. They have been writing music together now for almost two years, after initialy deciding to formulate a live "versus" set in December 2004, their conflicting musical styles brought about the synthesis of a new collaboration, that month they slaved in the studio with the newly born twin headed monster to create their first 7 tracks which met with great success at their debut in the Liquid Connective Trance Room @ Liquid Futures, December 31st 2004.
In 2000 O.V.N.I was formed when the members of the Alfa-Matrix break beat band, Seize, decided to swap roles and do something a little darker, this time with Steven taking the lead vocals and Sandrine and Rosie on bass and keyboards respectively. O.V.N.I started out with the name Spermwhale, but decided to change it when hunting for a label.
There are 2 bands listed under the name Halcyon; 1) Halcyon is a Tampa, Fl based band featuring Deb Hunseder & Steph Callahan (both guitars & vocals) and Alvon Griffin on percussion. They met at a party after a softball tournament. Deb was playing the guitar and Steph sang. They have been playing together since. Halcyon has attracted a large following, selling out shows wherever they go. While they play most of their gigs in the southeastern part of the U.S., they venture out to Chicago, Portland OR, and other places around the country.
The Temptation is one of the most recent projects on Progressive Trance in Brazil. It was founded in the first trimester of 2006, with a purpose of showing an interesting and virtuous mixture of electronic and acoustical, rescuing the values of the Brazilian popular music, as the great masters of the psychedelic culture, the Pink Floyd. Represented by DJ CH5 (Rodrigo Salomão), one of the pioneers of the Progressive scenario in the country and also by Gustavo Ribeiro (Foka) who came from the project Full On...
There are 8 artists with the same name: 1) Shift was a two membered, Singapore based instrumental rock band made up of current members of Scavenger's Daughter, Prey With Me, and 7AM. The duo (neither of whom are Singaporean) released two demos (Songs to Break the Chains, Rejected Stereo), and enjoyed some success with the single "Pot Noodle Part II". They reached their peak playing to around 200 people, at the Tanglin Plugged festival. However, the band was forced to break up, as guitarist Deva Rao shifted his base of operation to Shanghai, China, leaving drummer Alex Curran to focus on 7AM.
Astralasia are a magnificent blend of ambient –dub and tribal house and a few other influences thrown in for good measure. The band, which initially grew as an offshoot of the Magic Mushroom Band, has released a number of well-received albums. Initially the band were only a part time affair with most of the members concerning themselves with the Magic Mushroom Band however their debut album caused quite a stir and the band were encouraged to continue Astralasia alongside the Mushroom Band.
Meet freak no.1 - Itay Avraham (24), and freak no.2 Itay Dangur(27). The Freak Show's secret studios are based in Holon, 500 meters from BNE's headquarters. The freaks have been living and breathing music throughout their lives since early childhood having been raised with music all around them. Much of their inspiration comes from black music and hip hop, with more up to date electro & trance mixing in, reflected in their upcoming tunes.