Fearsome Engine is turbo-charged, pedal to the metal, full-on psychedelic, furious fun-loving, nitrous-igniting, mind-expanding, combusting consciousness, nucleonic, slabathonic, accelerator generator, driving force beyond the within, Fearsome Engine is the mutant hybrid creation of Laughing Buddha and Tristan; two of the most long standing and respected artists on the psychedelic trance scene.
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.
Gappeq is a psychedelic trance project from Czech Republic. By the age of 17 he started to explore the realm of making electronic music, whether it be DnB, Breakbreat, Trance, Ambient, or Dub. By 1999 he had joined the band SM Lomoz as a keyboardist, and finally went onto starting to write both goa and psytrance by 2001. He released many tracks on Sundance Records, Ketuh Records, Oxygen Records and Vertigo and done a lot of sounds and music for TV advertisements, independent movies, and websites. In 2006 he completed Audio Engineering at SAE Sydney.
Ganga Giri mixes red natural elements with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience. Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, the music is a pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound. Ganga himself is a rhythmic didjeridu virtuoso and percussionist -- an inspired music creator whose passion brings people together in celebration of nowness in newness, a modern day corroboree for all!
1) Massive is the new full on trance psychedelic solo project of Davina Elmosnino (also the woman behind the projects Sirius Isnes and Davina). Davina, 29 years old, was born in France but grew up in New Caledonia, a French island between Australia and New Zealand. She started to make music in the year 2000, and released her first track as Sirius Isness in 2003. Since then she made 3 Sirius Isness albums with Max Peterson, released on important labels such as Mind Control Records, Phantasm Records and Moon Spirits, and an impressive number of tracks for compilations all over the world.
Omsphere (Jay OM / Journey / Crocodile Rangers / Star~Trip) is the progressive solo project of, Milan born but now London based, Giampiero 'Jay' Mastino, label manager of Free-Spirit Records. Jay forged his earliest psychedelic-rock influences playing guitar in local bars in Milan. His romance with the decks began in the late 80's whilst working for a local radio station where he was given the opportunity to spin his first record. This love firmly in place the move to London followed in 1998.
Onkel Dunkel is also known as Monno Wurtz from Grapes of Wrath (Parvati Records). Originally started up in 2003, the Onkel Dunkel project has been in hiatus mode up until 2005 where it slowly but surely worked it´s way from imagination to sequencer and in 2007 on to releasing material. Inspiration comes from everywhere possible, as well as sound sources of all manners. Above all else a love of organic synth sounds and electronics.
Behind the production of symphonix are the brothers Sirko Wötanowski (28) & Stephan Wötanowski (25) Wötanowski from northern Germany, better known as dj montagu & dj golkonda. They started in 1998 with djing & organizing events. They based Tshitraka and the first Tshitraka Party was in the beginning of 1999 in a small club. This Project grows up to the Tshitraka Project Open Air Festival, which is every year in northern germany. Their famous indoor party event is called Amarasya.
At least five bands have used the name "Akasha." The first was a Norwegian spacey, electronic prog band, who recorded one album in 1977. For more information on the band, visit progarchives.com. The second Akasha is a Swedish group consisting of five women. The group was inspired by Sri Chinmoy's poetry and songs, and started to sing and play together in 1982. Since then the group has been giving concerts in Sweden regularly and has also been on tours in Finland, France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.