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The Commercial Hippies

The Commercial Hippies , (Anton Raubenheimer and Gareth Tacon), started their musical history together, DJing breakbeat at various parties, in and around Cape Town South Africa. After a couple years of DJing, the two (garethT & Anton) decided to try their hand at producing and soon after the concept of The Commercial Hippies was born. Their first track Where Dreams Come From received a great response from trance lovers around the world and instantly caught the attention of many a psy-trance ear.

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HIVE

Hive a.k.a. Michael Petrie (born December, 1974) is a Los Angeles-based DJ, producer and record label owner who has contributed to dozens of recordings in the drum and bass musical genre. His Violence Recordings label is regarded as the premiere drum-and-bass label in the United States. His mixes have been used throughout popular media, although he is not particularly well known. Hive is on the Matrix soundtrack, and his songs are also used in several television shows. He has produced four albums, his latest being "Bedlam" which he released in 2002.

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Bubble

There are multiple artists called Bubble: 1 - Bubble - Karen Bagdasarov and Guy Sarnat are two musicians from the Israeli jazz, trance and electro scene, who met in the SNS-records studio in 2004.
Guy got into trance at age of 15. He started producing music in his home studio and graduated the Music School in Tel Aviv.
Karen started his musical career at the age of 5 starting out by learning to play the saxophone, later he graduated the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, where he became a professional musician.

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Poizon

Poison Project was born in Portugal in 2002, created by Adelino Afonso and Mário Rodrigues - two long time friends who developed their fascination for music and got in touch with techno and trance parties, where their passion for electronic sounds first arose. They soon joined together to form Poizon, taking it more and more seriously each day. Since the moment they aquired good studio equipment, they were allowed to increase the quality of their productions and also enhance their working techniques and music style...

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Quasar

There are at least four artists called Quasar... (I) A British Progressive Rock band (II) A Psytrance musician (III) A Funeral Doom Metal band from Russia (IV) A three-piece Progressive/Psychedelic Extreme Metal band from Australia. I: QUASAR was formed in 1979 by founder Keith Turner. They found themselves to be amongst a movement of British bands during the early 1980s, including Marillion, Pendragon, Twelfth Night, Solstice and Pallas, that continued in the progressive rock style created by 1970s bands such as Genesis and Yes.

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Cortex

Four (or more) artists have gone by the name Cortex: a French jazz-funk group from the 70s, a Swedish punk band, a Spanish metalcore band and a experimental Belgian project by Alain Neffe. 1. A French jazz funk group from the seventies.
Key members were Alain Mion (Piano) and Alain Gandolfi (drums, percussion). Cortex recorded several albums and singles for the Sonodisc label. 2 albums got re-issued: 'Troupeau Bleu' (on 'Dare-Dare') and 'Volume 2' (on 'Follow Me'). 2. A Swedish punk or post-punk band from Gothenburg.

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Zetan Spore

Zetan Spore was originally formed in West Cornwall, UK by Ian Hasdell in 1995. After being inspired by psychedelic rock in the late 80's and it's evolution into early dance acts such as Eat Static and Astralasia, and then by the birth of psytrance in the first half of the 90's, Ian bought a second hand Amiga 1200 computer and started arranging samples to form his own style of psychedelic dance music.

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Blackout

5 bands go by the name of Blackout; one Polish "big-beat" group (created by Tadeusz Nalepa in 1965, changed the name for Breakout in 1967), a RAC band from Wales, one hardcore punk band from New Zealand, one from Chile, one from Seattle, and one from the Midwest.
The following refers to the latter: Blackout is an explosive force in the Midwest music scene. This five piece, all-original, hard rock group was founded in 2002 by nationally acclaimed drummer Rick Lorek.

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