Eat Static were formed in 1989 by Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton, then drummer and synth player respectively for the band Ozric Tentacles. They were joined by Steve Everitt, a library musician and occasional Ozric member. The band made a name for themselves on the Megadog/'live' techno scene of the early '90s, playing alongside the likes of Orbital, Underworld and Aphex Twin.
They were the first signings to Megadog-offshoot Planet Dog records, releasing their debut album 'Abduction' in 1993. In 1994 Steve Everitt retired from the group's live performances, though he has continued to collaborate in the studio. Since then the band have played hundreds of gigs worldwide and become one the most respected and spectacular live dance acts around. They have been voted 'Best Dance Act' in the NME, achieved a top twenty album, headlined the first dance tent at Glastonbury in 1995 and recorded two Peel sessions. Whilst essentially a sci-fi influenced, trance/techno outfit, they have also incorporated drum and bass, breakbeat, latin, garage and ambient styles into their sound at various stages. In the past few years the band have become heavily involved with the psy-trance scene, playing parties and festivals the world over and releasing numerous tracks on trance compilations.
Merv has also recently collaborated with the likes of Steve Jolliffe (Tangerine Dream), Will White (Propellerheads) and Simon Posford (Hallucinogen). In addition, Joie plays with Here & Now, Zubzub (with ex-Ozrics bassist Zia) and Dream Machine (alongside former Ozric flautist Jumping John). Both Joie and Merv also occasionally play live with Ozrics leader Ed Wynne under the guise of Nodens Ictus and have recently been playing with the Ozrics again. Eat Static released their long-awaited new album 'De-Classified' through ..Solstice Music.. in July 2007. In February 2008 it was announced that Joie would be leaving the group in order to spend more time with his family. Now going it alone, Merv released a downtempo Eat Static album entitled 'Back to Earth' in July 2008, followed by a string of festival appearances.
The next project will be the 20th Anniversary album plus a break-beat orientated album under the name Dendron (the follow up to 2003's 'Supernatural Jazz').Mesmobeat has also sprung back into life and Merv will be releasing a string of other people's work,the first being Groovuscule with his album 'Theatre'.. Watch this (my)space for more details as well as keeping an eye on www.mesmobeat.com..
Formed in december 2006, the guys had a clear idea of what they wanted...not to sound like anyone else. .. In an era, where cloned copies are made of each successful producer,where music lost it´s soul, just to become a mere income, these guys have the nerve to state: “... we´re not gonna sound like anyone else, we won´t stick to formulas, and we´ll make music for the fun of it, and for everyone to enjoy...” .. And that´s exactly what they´re doing.
One track may have minimal influences, while the other borders techno, some will be sung, some will be downtempo , and some will be just pure experimentation.
This attitude has made them some nice friends in the music industry, such as Hernan Cattáneo, Sasha, Satoshi Tomiie, Laurent Garnier, Anthony Pappa, Nick Warren, Ben Watt & Oliver Klein to name but a few.
Also, prestigious record labels such as Urbantorque, Triptik, Sprout & Kumquat Tunes have released several of their tracks, and some of them made it into Beatport´s Top 10 chart.
Most recently, the duo worked alongside Hernan Cattaneo on 6 tracks for his new Masters Series album on Renaissance. Some of those songs will surface on Hernan Cattaneo´s own label, Sudbeat.
This year will also see the guys work on a full album to be played live with 2 laptops, 2 controllers, assorted fx & keyboards and a drum pad, for those Terry Bozio moments.
As the guys themselves state in their website: “... we could bore you with why we chose Soundexile as our name, but we know that in the end, the music is the only thing that matters. We put our hearts and souls into each song, and we benefit from the diversity of influences each one of us has, to break the barriers of genre and style, and make a different type of electronica.
Incolumis is Jani Rantanten, finnish electronic music producer with very distinctive dark and underground style.
Born 23 Sep 1981 and raised in Finland, Incolumis is an active participant in the international electronic music scene. He currently produces music under three different aliases (Incolumis, Outgate & Yaraform), participating in two on-line labels (Starfleet Records & Sublogic Corporation), as well as being signed to and producing original music for Black Tiger Recordings (BTR), Nth Degree Records vinyl releases published by Nice Kitty Music Entertainment Ltd. in Canada and the United States, also having production released on famous John ‘00’ Fleming label J00F.
In the summer of 2001, after almost five years of composing and producing, Incolumis took his music to the next level by building a professional music studio from which the massive tracks “At the Gates”, “North Stone”, “Karma”, “Tsunami” and many others were created.
Later on in 2006 his production “One with Sanctuary” got to Armin van Buuren himself and apperead in his regular radioshow A State Of Trance. Having played it twice in his show, he confessed, “I’m not doing many charts, but if I had a chance to make a chart, this would definitely be my number one at the moment”. In the spring of 2006 “One with sanctuary” was featured on A State Of Trance yearly compilation.
Jani also collaborated to establish two other dance-orientated projects Raastin and Dualfire with Antti Lampinen.
David Durst is a Mexico City native who started his endeavor in the infinite universe of electronica all the way back in 1987.
His audio engineering career, his extensive studio work, his professional DJing and his key role playing synths for his Electro 7 band, drove him to become one of the leading and most pioneering artists shaping the Mexican trance scene of the day. By the turn of the millennium, D-Tek was releasing tracks on all the World's major psytrance labels.
Who can't remember his exceptional first hit single Psychedelic Cowboy on TipWorld's Assassinations? His first album, Earth Technologies, was a storming release and instantly became a top choice for trance connoisseurs and DJs all over the globe. Since then, David's powerful live act has been heard all around the planet and all over Mexico, along with his highly acclaimed DJ sets, cross-tying with only the greatest artists alive. David is currently developing new and exciting sounds that are taking his project skywards onto a totally new level as he works on his third artist album.
So keep a close eye on D-Tek, because once he rockets off the surface of the Earth, you won't be able to catch him at all!
Audio X is one of the Southeast USA's premiere Hardcore artists, emerging onto the scene in late 2005 with releases on Addictive Vinyl and Audio Reanimation. Later hardcore releases followed with the relaunch of AC Slater's label, Pitched Up Recordings, and the ensuing album, "Plains, Trains, and Alcohol Bills: A Compilation of Excess", as well as with the critically-acclaimed Electronica Exposed family of labels and an appearance on the OneFive compilation, "Hardcore Underground 2".
First introduced to the rave sound in the early nineties with The Prodigy's album, Experience, Audio X has been a lifelong fan of electronic music. He began producing in the late 90s, at first toying with trackers to create old school mashups, and then moving on to more advanced MIDI studios in 2001 and eventually enrolling at Middle Tennessee State University to study Sound Engineering. Taking influences from Old Skool, Happy Hardcore, Jungle, Psy Trance, and the dark, twisted atmospheres of Finnish Freeform, Audio X delivers a diverse, unique experience in an otherwise stagnant hardcore scene.
One of the most innovating and experimenting artists in the Trance scene, Anthony Sillfors, aka S-Range has performed Live and DJ-Sets in almost every country around the World, including Brazil, USA, Japan, Israel, Mexico, Australia, and all over Europe. With four albums under his belt, the Swedish artist started producing trance and sending his own sonic frequencies throughout the world with his hypnotic music that brings nice harmonies and a huge sound scape influenced by science fiction books and movies.
After his hugely popular debut album, 2001, Anthony Sillfors released Space, another piece of sci-fi sample laden high-energy morning trance, and, in 2005, his third acclaimed album, Another Theory, came out in a limited promo edition, which never got official released edition, mastered by Kevin Metcalfe. Celebrating a decade of music producing, Anthony Sillfors released a remix album in 2009, named "Remixed Memories", which brings re-edits of S-Range's classics signed by top trance artists such as Atomic Pulse, Zen Mechanics, Mad Maxx (fr. Sirius Isness), Sangeet, and many others. Under all these years of career as a producer, Anthony Sillfors has sold more than 800 000 copies of his music featured on Albums, Singles, V/A compilations and Digital downloads.
Over the next year, S-Range has a busy release schedule ahead. Starting with the long awaited 5th album, which work-title is Spaceport Sweden. S>Range plans to release this record early in 2011, continuing the journey through his unique style of "Sci-Fi" Trance. Diversifying styles, he will also release a progressive album in the lower BPM regions under the artist name alias Tony Silver. Anthony was a part of Team Cubase for almost 10 years, a relationship with his former Sponsors Steinberg Media Technology, one of the major suppliers of Music applications, including the award winning Cubase 5.
Today Anthony has joined the Presonus team with their music application Studio One, which is developed by Wolfgang Kundrus, who was one of the masterminds behind Cubase. The producer is now building his new Pro studio which is also designed for 5.1 surround mixing and production. In this new work environment, Anthony intends to write a new page in history of electronic music. Expect nothing more than the finest and highest quality productions from this Swedish top artist.
Rodrigo Raggi is a Progressive - Psychedelic trance musician from Mexico that performs under the name Visua.
He has published tracks within prevalent trance labels around the globe, including IBOGA, Spin Twist Records, Planet B.E.N. Records, Iono music, Midijum Records, Blue tunes, Yellow Sunshine Explosion, Groove Zone and Plusquam records. He has collaborated in tracks with projects of many countrys such as Gaudium, Aerospace, Zen Mechanics, Motion Drive, Vibrasphere, Liquid Soul, Ocean, Sun Control Species and S-Range.
Mexican Producer & Dj with almost 10 years of experience. He is one of the pioneers on his region of the trance movement. He started to mix tracks playing in friends house were he developed hi skills, technics of mixing. After this, he started to get more involved in electronic music, audio production, and start growing up in the scene as a top dj.
He start to play in local parties and raves, after some time of maturity, he started to get interested in more sofisticated sounds among the trance, and start to mess up with techno and house musics founding in this last one the favorite to mix and create, working by the side of many producer friends of the scene, he travels fist time to sao paulo in 2008 to work in a friends studio as an assitant, and play in some partys in the brazilian territory after this first time he gets all his experience concreted and start to produce music by the professional way, after one year of working hard in the studio in mexico, he came back in 2009 to Brazil to play in several party, getting also another assitant job in one studio in sao paulo, and singing contract for music realesing by "Lo-Kik" Recordings.
The most important house & techno label nowadays in brazilian territory, besides playing on several hotspots in mexico & brazil, his talent has been taking him to play in important festivals and clubs such as Soulvision Festival (www.soulvision.art.br), Native (www.native.art.br), Lowsession (www.lowsession.art.br) important clubs as Delux-e, Bazuah, Club A, Baoba, Porto del Forte, Target.
Reshef Harari and Adi Ashkenazi is behind the ambitious project aiming to conquer the global stage with their crunchy pumping progressive trance music. The boys have created a style and an expression, which is rarely found in such a high quality.
Quantize has previously released music with Domo records for whom they in 2007 compiled the CD “Stepping forward”. Blue Tunes Records had the pleasure to release the lovely Womanizer remix from early 2008. Also in 2008 a digital download EP was released on Iboga with the track skywalker along a remix by Virb and Padd (ex frogacult). A track which also was featured on the iboga compilation Set:8 Electronic ballroom.
Quantize has also written a marvellous remix of the Ace Ventura / Intelabeam effort “The john”, due out on Iboga at the autumn of 2008. On the album the boys have on three tracks collaborated with some fellow countrymen, namely BLT and Ace ventura as well as O-Grinker.
Get ready for some serious and super well produced progressive Psy-trance from Quantize and Iboga Records.
Buttersonic is the solo project of Shahaf Efrat from Israel (Also known for his fullon project “Freedom Fighters”). Buttersonic project was created back in 2006, when Shahaf decided to take the bpm down, and kick the groove up. Step after step he managed to craft his own style while blending ground breaking Progressive Trance, Electro & House.
During the last 2 years, Shahaf has been working hard in his studio, crafting his own sound which so far took the world by storm with releases all over in labels such as: Tribal Vision, Blue Tunes, Spintwist, Iono, Domo & Yellow Sunshine Explosion, while touring the world in places such as: Brazil, Japan, Mexico, England, France, Portugal, Russia, Italy, Turkey & Israel. As for the moment, Buttersonic is working on his debut album that will be released around 2009.
With this repertoire, the future seems greater then ever for this young artist. .. .. ....Releases.... : .. Buttersonic - Ear Peaks | Spintwist Records .. Buttersonic & Aquaspace - True Colors | Y.s.e Records .. Buttersonic - Passion | Domo Records .. V-Tunes - Simple, Dirty & Side Chained (Buttersonic & Quantize Remix) | Domo Records .. Buttersonic - Ear Peaks | Blue Tunes Records .. Buttersonic - Flowers | Spintwist Records .. Buttersonic - Ear Peaks (Duca Remix) | Tribal Vision Records .. Buttersonic & Quantize - Think Different | Blue Tunes Records .. Buttersonic - Ear Peaks (Mute Remix) | Iono Records
Born in 1973, Germany, grown up in a musical family, piano lessons from the age of 4 to 16, starting DJing + producing music in 1995, 2001 first album with GMO" "Einblick" / Nova Tekk, 2004 second GMO album "Groovy day" / YSE-Rec., coming soon 1st Minoru album@ IONO Music.
I'm working as a Full-Time-Educator, Producer, DJ + Dad IONO Music welcomes the year 2009 with a new excellent version of the popular "Private Rooms Sessions" series. Minoru is the other musical face of trance old-stager Olaf Gretzmacher, the man behind the legendary GMO project who has already successfully released three album works with well known labels like Millennium Records. Minuro is the Japanese word for "seed" or "naked truth". Therefore Olaf consequently bounded his music on the constituents of modern electronic music - you will listen to decent but driving basslines, warm melodies combined with tricky sound details, constructed in tidy arrangements.
Minoru's music is based on Olaf's musical education and his mellowed technical skills. His debut album is a collection of 10 warm and intelligent tracks, presented as modern electro and techno grooves, but never forgetting his roots in trance. Influenced by GMO's unique defined style, this amazing album can be either enjoyed at home or on the misty-eyed progressive trance floor. With no doubt Minoru will be your swinging companion for a long time. Check it out!
Slow Control is the Project of Taicir S. Elias a.k.a. Tarta. Starting as a DJ in the mid-2004, Tarta always enjoyed the line of Full On overhanging groove to Progressive Trance.
After attending college in Advertising, decided to enter the time of electronic music. Instead of indulging in the Progressive, Tarta brings in their productions heavy bass grooves and subtle at the same time following the line of true Progressive Trance and following the trends with sounds of Electro, Minimal and Tech-House, Slow Control brings melodies in their songs striking rhythms and bass lines sour, creating his own style of psychedelic music.
In three years with the project Slow Control, Taicir has performed alongside big names such as Progressive Trance Strange Doctors, Analog Drink, among others Neelix
SmokeSign is also PsychoActive.
PsychoActive is the solo project of Kristofer (Krysalis) Mosher. Born in Guatemala City in 1985, he was adopted, saved from death and brought to North America where he was raised with a rich musical background ranging from Punk Rock to Blues to The Eurythmics. Trained as a professional lead vocalist from the age of 2, his form has always been deeply rooted in rich melody. Although fresh to the world of PsyTrance (first hearing Dark Psy in '05) he brings a renewed life to the Genre, while at the same time taking us back to our Goa, Tribal and Spiritual origins.. weaving a deep and beautiful audio journey paired with an ecstatic stage presence that must be experienced live.
Recognized by many as one of the most celebrated Psy artists in his niche of the USA, PsychoActive has been a part of the Underground Electronic Music community in Eugene for a decade, and is going on year 3 as a Psytrance and Psy Breaks DJ as well as a very talented young producer. Melodic Psytrance was introduced to him by Agent Epsylon aka Planewalker (Astral Force Records/Metakinetics) in 2006 while at a summer gathering by the name of Illuminated Forest, he then began mixing the heavy, glitchy and resinous sounds of Aggressive and Full On with the rolling, electric bass lines and victorious leads of Melodic Psytrance, creating his own unique style. In the Fall of 2009 PsychoActive began his journey as a creator of the Music, and in a few short months he has already remixed tracks for some of the most well known names in the Trance circuit; Including: Peacemaker, SynSUN, Eat Static, Mekkanikka and Tikal.
PsychoActive has played in Various gatherings in the Northwest, his first set was in 2007 (Contact festival June 22nd-24th, Salem Oregon) at a three stage multi day gathering where he performed Saturday's sunrise set on a 20,000 watt Turbo TDX sound system. He has also loaned his music to the healing community, playing a set at the Emerald Empire Hempfest '07 (July 21st Eugene, OR) in collaberation with Deko. As a DJ he has played at gatherings with other artists such as MADD MAXX, PLANEWALKER, RANDOM, MUBALI, THE FRACTAL COWBOYS, FACEHEAD, RICK PRESTON, NATHAN STEWART, FOREST AVERY, HECTOR VILLANEUVA, Freaks Of Nature, Squee, Secret Society, Jeigh Baldwin, Psunspot, DJ Penguin, DJ Eep, Know One, Amanita, Sofa King Cool, Andrew Mataus, James Renegade, Luke Mandala and many others..
As a promoter Kris owned one of the biggest production labels in Eugene for three years (WAO EVENTS) and helped with countless events in Oregon. With the guidance of Planewalker he was also a major force in the creation of the Oregon Full On/Melodic scene. Continually working to bring Psy to Oregon, PsychoActive spends most of his time networking, making music and helping promote gatherings of love and light.
Sienis is a soloproject by Eki Jokisalo, born with Finnish roots year 1981 in the southern parts of Stockholm, Sweden... The inspiration and ideas for this project came during a visit in Goa, India after the shift to the new millenium..... Now, with influences from every soundwave, he creates music that is focused on making the dancefloors go wild & crazy in a psychedelic frenzy with hard, funky, weird & twisted electronic party psy..... There has been more than a dozen compilation releases by Sienis on many labels across the world, along with the debut album 'From A Nutter Perspective' and his recently released 2nd album 'Seriously Unserious' !!!
OUT NOW !!! Sienis - Seriously Unserious (Peyotii Recordings)..
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) featured 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. now he s about to realesed one compilation call planetary nation 05 compiled by him and dj pin from brazil that will contend 2 cds.. one psytrance cd and the other one progressive.. will be out very soon
Shpongle live at the roundhouse in london 2009.
