Zodiac Youth
Zodiac Youth is the name of Youth (Martin Glover) and Zodiac Mindwarp's (Mark Manning) collaborative project. They are best known for their 1990's releases on Youth's Dragonfly Records, the most notable result of this project being the excellent remix album "Devil's Circus" released in 1997. The excellent remixes by well known psychedelic trance artists like Elysium, Man With No Name, Hallucinogen, Black Sun, Johann and Voodoo People resulted in a very diverse and interesting release at the time.
Psychonaut
There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Psychonaut was a ritual ambient project formed in 1997. Changed name (and musical style) to Psychonaut 75 in 2001. 2) Influenced by psychedelic experiences and meetings the trance-project Psychonaut was born. It consists of two members (Dr. Balser, Lothar H.), which started making music in the early 90's. They released some tracks on Trance-Compilations like Goahead, Planet Goa, Chakra etc.
Asura
There are 6 artists with the name Asura. [1] Ambient Trance project by Charles Farewell
[2] Los Angeles based IDM/Hip-Hop producer Ryan York (who also releases under his own name)
[3] A German black metal band.
[4] An Indian death/black metal band.
[5] An Italian symphonic black/gothic metal band.
[6] An Ukrainian raw black metal/ambient band. [1] France-based Asura (ambient trance, signed to Ultimae Records):
Roberto
Roberto started his musical journey in January 2000 using his precious savings at the age of 16 to buy his first set of turntables. After perfecting his craft for a few years he decided that production was the way forward. After a prolonged stint exploring the spectrum of electronica, he found that he was gravitating towards house and techno. Producers such as Steve Rachmad, Samuel L Session and Robert Hood were drawing his attention, and their influence can be heard in his production work today.
RAZ
1. Raz is Raz Kfir from Israel, a master of psytrance. His debut album Twisted fairytale on Sundance Records offers us new perspectives into powerful melodic trance. His music is filled to the brim with power, ecstatic emotion and brooding atmosphere, layered with bass lines so phat you can carve your Sunday roast on them. The melodies are unique & rich and uplifting, and some also take on a distinctive sinister dark edge…producing a war inspired apocalyptic “The world is ending” vibe. taken from http://www.sundance23.com/RAZmedia.htm
Ion
There are five artists called ION. (1)ION (correctly: Íon) is a new project of ex-Anathema, Duncan Patterson.
Duncan Patterson career traces back to the early 90's, when he began his musical incursions as a member of Anathema, a group that would pioneer and remain as forerunners of the unique Doom Metal genre throughout that decade.
Patterson would later also become involved with Antimatter, a project which would find him developing his age-old talent for emotional and atmospheric song-writing into new formats...
Slack Baba
A melting pot of fluid grooves and swirling psychedelic melodies, blended with a healthy dose of dubby phatness and a touch of the ethnic, Slackbaba's music draws the listener through a labyrinth of pulsing rhythms and mind-altering sonic states. Jonny's debut album on Liquid Records, ‘…and the beat goes om…’ demonstrates his skills of sound manipulation and organic instrumentation with a new take on psychedelic electronica, combining quality production and skilful musicianship with an ability to cross genres tastefully.
Menog
Musician since almost his birth, played from guitar to Drums in his Metal Band in early 90´s. His introduction and interest for electronic music started in 1997,his first Boom Festival Experience in 1998 made him think about doing this type of music. Five years later, in 2003, Dani released his first album "Natural Behaviour" under the name Menog on the label Starsounds Rec. from Greece. Menog is one of the founders and manager of Spectral Records.