Safi Connection

Safi Connection

Biography

Safi Connection is Mishel Bitton. Mishel first started to make music back in ‘97, where he released an album under the project “Sonichaos” . The Sonichaos album presented a very melodic approach that fitted the times back than. This album was released through Planet Music, a sub-label of B.N.E, a major player in the international Trance scene.

Few months after the release of “Sonichaos” Mishel teamed with Avi peled, together they came up with the “Todra” project, which had a much more matured musical approach. This project was instantly signed for the Krembo Records label and was released in ‘98 with great responds worldwide.
From that moment on Mishel started spining music around the world and from exploring the international markets and trends Mishel felt that he must bring his ideas into life but with a whole new perspective and so he changed his musical direction and progressed to what everyone knows today as “Safi Connection”.

Mishel started to work on the “Safi Connection” project in 2001, along with Tamir Ozana(a.k.a – Atomic Pulse), after polishing their first few tracks they signed a deal for an album to DJ Dede’s own label “Spectrum Music” and in early 2002 the debut “Safi Connection” album, “Prince Of Paranoia” came to life.

This album was distributed world wide through MDMA(r.i.p) and it has created a mega buzz for “Safi Connection”’s music and shows, reviews and interviews came out in all the respected media, magazines, internet, dj’s charts and more.

Cycle Sphere

Cycle Sphere

Biography

Cycle Sphere A.K.A. Udi Bitton (Dui to is friends) working is way up the psytrance scene for the last 4 years djing over israel. In 2004 he started to produce his first tracks, raw, underground and very original material.

it was not long then after thet when he hooked up with Eskimo in the studio and it was then thet the Cycle Sphere sound was born. Since then Cycle Sphere has released over 9 monster tracks like ``12 MONKEYS`` (Featuring Eskimo) and the CYCLE SPHERE remix to the classic ``ADDICTIVE SOLUTION`` and a monster collaboration track with Eskimo on part 1 of his album ``Balloonatic`` on labels all over the world including labels such as Phantasm Records UK, Phonokol Israel, Hadra France, Vision quest Japan, Trade Sound Brasil, and fire distributation Japan. It's not just the labels thet has noticed the new kid on the block, before even releasing is first album Cycle Sphere has played in JAPAN over 8 times, a 2 tours arround brasil in 2005 & 2006, & the new tour of 2007 Including Main Live act in XXXPERIENCE & Cosmic Space , Switzerland, France, Denmark, Portugal, Hungary, UK, Mexico, Greece, Israel and has upcoming bookings in Australia, Sweden and much more.

Cycle Sphere as launch his debut album ``CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT``` featuring 9 unreleased monster tracks Featuring collaborations with Eskimo and Dynamic, and a new V/A Album Including all the best artist like Eskimo, Alien Project, Space Cat, Bliss, Dynamic & more.

Atomic Pulse

Atomic Pulse

Biography

Tamir Ozana started out his music career at the age of 16 when he bought his first synthesizer - Virus. He went on to discover Rock music before becoming Creasy with synthesizers, computers and Trance music.

After finishing studying sound engineering at the age of 18, he started to establish all the things that he learned through the years. He was first introduced to the PsyTrance scene by Dede Nachmias a.k.a Dj Dede, of Spectrum Music.

Tamir wrote his first Hit with Astrix, “Valirus”. The track was picked up by DJ Eyal (Hommega Rec.Israel), The track was remixed by Sub 6 and got released by T.I.P Rec. His sound was instantly recognizable as his Dance style, a blend of full on grooves, Dance structures, and epic “Psy” melodies. His 2nd hit was written 3 months after, a 2nd track with Astrix “Optical Vibes” that was released also by Hommega rec “Full On 3” compilation.

This sound was refined over the next year, with his signing to Spectrum Music and the subsequent release of numerous tracks such as “lucid Dreams”, “Im Real”,”Activety” I Know What i Saw”, “360 Degrees”, “Scientific Reality”, “Robotnico” and “Visions”, released on Spectrum Music.

The debut album (2002), “The SAFI Collection”, followed closely afterwards, featuring dance floor success’s such as “Digital Self”, “Elements”, “Monster D.N.A”, and a remix of the aforementioned “Prince Of paranoia, the hit - Of Safi Connection.

Dino Psaras

Dino Psaras

Biography

Dino Psaras started his DJ career back in 1988 DJing with the likes of Carl Cox in small warehouse parties in the south of England playing a wide variety of dance music from acid house to techno .

His career took a sudden change in direction in 1992.

After travelling in India he was exposed to the outdoor underground trance scene with its new found energy. Since this time he went on to DJ at some of the first underground psychedelic trance parties in London called A.C.I.D.( a concept in dance ), playing alongside Mike Maguire(Juno Reactor). From this he found his way into producing his own music working with Steve Ronan & Joti Sidhu to form one of the first psychedelic dance acts ” Ayahuasca “. Since these early days he has gone to become one of the worlds premier trance DJs playing in parties around the world including : London , New York , Paris , Tokyo , South Africa , South America , Burning Man Festival - Nevada Desert , Australia , New Zealand & all over Europe .

Dino , as one third of Cydonia has just completed their debut album “Haunted World” out on Blueroom , released summer 1999.

The experience he gained from performing at almost every dancefloor of the planet, makes him one of the top djs on the Techno-Trance scene.

His appearances at Samothraki Dance Festival dancefloor bring him straight to Oktava Records for releasing his debut album “Lick It” in 2003 contains 9 full on tracks written and produced at his studio in Brighton.

Fatali

Fatali

Biography

Eitan Carmi, better known as FATALI, is regarded one of Israel’s emerging artists. Born in 1984 in the city of Nazareth, Fatali discovered electronic music.
at the age of 13 and was instantly captivated by the wonders of music production.
He first started fooling around with the impulse tracker software, and at the age of 16, after discovering the wonders of the MIDI world, he began producing original music professionally.

Over the years, Fatali has developed an original & unique sound - fresh and powerful, ranging from deep progressive Trance with hints & bits of Full-On Trance, yet always melodic and perfectly synchronized for the dance floor.

After releasing his debut album (Moments) in 2003 on the UK label Alchemy, Fatali was signed to BNE’s label – YoYo Records, where he released his second & third studio albums (Faith 2005/ Dawn 2006), becoming both instant classics & international best sellers.

Summer 2007 has exposed Fatali’s talent once again with ‘Re Construct’, the highly anticipated remix project, featuring cooperation with the most celebrated & biggest names in the Electronic music industry (some for the first time on an Israeli label) Mixed to perfection, this remixes album is Fatali’s most colorful studio work to date and features an endless range of musical spectrums.

Beat Hackers

Beat Hackers

Biography

From the southern part of Israel comes the best kept Israeli secret, Beat Hackers. Miki Bibas and Guy Peled, having produced music for many years prior, began to produce music together under the name Beat Hackers in 2000. They have released a few tracks on U.S.T.A (Underground Sound Of Tel Aviv). Miki Babas has since left the group, leaving Guy Peled to produce/play solo gigs since around the end of 2007

Xerox & Illumination

Xerox & Illumination

Biography

Xerox & Illumination are Moshe Keinan and Amir Dvir from Israel. Xerox released 4 albums: Xerox & Freeman - “Human Race” (1998), Xerox - “Freestyle” (1999), Maskalin - “Way of life” (2001) and Xerox - “Frequency drive” (2002). Illumination is Amir Dvir, a talented artist and sound technician of the first degree. He started making trance music under the name Luminus and released 3 albums: Luminus - “Journey into your dream” (1998), Luminus - “Hypnotica” (2000) and Luminus vs. Perplex - “Plexus” (2001).

The due joined forces in 2002 and since then released tracks in leading compilations of labels such as T.I.P world, HOMmega, Spun and Crystal Matrix. Their joint venture albums – “Temporary insanity” (2004) and “XI” (2005) delivered Psychedelic trance fused with mettalic sounds and highly influenced from the techno & breakbeat genres. A new formula with a huge production of action packed epic music fitting both morning and night time moods.

This new direction of the due was outstanding and it was not long before the biggest names in the scene Like Astrix, 1200mics, Etnica, Domestic & X-noiZe came knocking for remixes. In between the Brazil, Japan and European tours, XI are spending all their spare time in the studio working on a collaboration track with Astrix and on their new album which is schedueled to be released in 2007.

Gataka

Gataka

Biography

Gataka is Matan Kadosh, a psychedelic trance artist from Afula in the northern part of Israel. Gataka is considered by many to be one of the leading artists of modern day psytrance. Matan started playing psytrance at the age of 15 and has immense experience under his belt. He is also part of the popular psytrance project Sesto Sento along with Aviram Saharai and Itai Spector, both from Afula also.

Popular tracks by Gataka are ‘Disco Jockey’ (with Patrick) and ‘Isralizer’.

Along with other psytrance artists like Panick, Dynamic, Melicia, and Nissimyani, Gataka forms Phonokol Record’s excellent artist team. His first album ‘Drop The Mask’ came out in 2003 and was greeted with enthusiasm. It was a showcase of Matan’s part groovy, part funky, part twisted, and all psytrancy style. Tracks like ‘Boomby Boom’ and ‘Let It Beat’ brought great variation to the dance floors.


In the September of 2004 Gataka’s second album ‘Home Made Madness’ was released and pleased eager psytrance fans. Tracks like ‘Tribeadelic’ (With Liquid Head) and ‘Disko Jockey’ (With Patrick) were instant hits and have frequently featured in various compilations since then. The album also featured Gataka’s own mix of ‘Dive To Drive’, a track by Sesto Sento. Home Made Madness sealed Matan’s growing reputation.


Continuing his trend of an album a year, Matan came firing from all cylinders in October 2005 with ‘In Trance We Trust’, his best so far. The album contains mainly full on morning psytrance but there is awesome variation in them and each track offers something fresh.

Perplex

Perplex

There are three artists called Perplex:

Biography

1. Israeli psytrance artist
2. Swedish pop band
3. Polish avant-garde jazz trio

Perplex, who is also known as Ronen Dahan, was born 1974 in Haifa, Israel. He grew up in small community near Tel Aviv. By the age of 14 he had started a small rock band, in which he played the guitar and was the lead singer. His main influences back then were Depeche Mode and other new wave artists who were all the rage at the time.

With 17 years of age, he went on his tour of Australia and Europe. When he got back to Israel. The first Techno had arrived from Northern Europe to which he felt attracted.

Shortly after, in 1993 Trance also came to the Middle East in a big way. He immediately liked this style even more. Sven Vath and the likes of Slinky Wizard gave his ears something he had never heard before. He quickly dropped the band and became a DJ collecting records from the likes of The Infinity Project and Matsuri records. By then other artists also came creeping in from Goa to Israel.

He began using DAT, since this new music was more underground on not available on vinyl. His local heroes in those days were Gay Sabag and Avi Nissim. When he was 21 years old he made his first trip to Goa. It was there that Trance Music took over his whole life and he met Riktam and Bansi (GMS) for the first time.

After that Perplex followed his dream to make music and has produced till today 9 albums and more then 3 dozen compilation’s in the main labels in the world of psy & electronic such as Spun rec, Hommega rec, BNE rec, Phonokol rec, Fineplay rec Jp, Compact rec, Utopia rec, And the list is long … 
In these days Perplex is producing New DVD “Around The World”, 45 min of Music and Parties from the entire world.

Human Blue

Human Blue

Biography

Human Blue is a psychedelic trance/ambient project of Dag Wallins from Sweden. He is known for his warm progressive morning sound.

More info at: Human Blue Official Website

Sun Control Species

Sun Control Species

Biography

Sun Control Species is Andrew Davidson (aka Drooid and Wombat), a progressive psytrance artist from Melbourne, Australia.

He has become a standard amongst the australian trance scene since the turn of the millenium. A fully accredited musician and engineer, working from ‘98 to 2000 as a commercial sound engineer and producer in Sydney, he eventually left to pursue his own music career. After deciding against joining a ‘boy band’ the project SCS was born.

Andrew has in recent years been considered to be at the forefront of writers in the progressive trance scene down under. Now he is fully ready to conquer the rest of the world with his deep and heartfelt music. Andrew is known for his engagement and thought through productions, putting a lot of effort and detail in every section of his compositions.

His debut album ‘Scienza Nuova’ was released in June 2007 on Iboga Records.

Now based in Melbourne, his countless perfomances and tireless travels all across australias thriving scene, has brought a solid reputation for the unique style and feel SCS brings to the table.

Released on progressive labels like Zenon, Sub-machine and Zma, Domo, and firmly working with IBOGA, remixing artists such as FREq, Antix and Behind Blue Eyes, SCS is an all-rounder who’s deep, emotional and uplifting music has been inspiring people ‘on’ and ‘off’ dance floors for years.

Tegma

Tegma

Biography

Behind the music of Tegma are Omar Chelly and Jason Orfanidis, both born and raised in the Swedish town of Malmoe. In 1998, they started their first common project, Epsilon, which focused on melodic trance. Two years later, however, they completely fell in love with the new wave of progressive and minimal psytrance, leading to the birth of the brand new act called Tegma. Since then, they have released about 40 tracks on CD compilations and vinyls of various labels, in addition to three full-length albums, Encoded/Decoded (Digital Structures 2002), 002: Avantgarde (Candyflip Records 2005) and recent Around the World in 80 Minutes on Tribal Vision Records. Both guys also work under their moniker “Homer N Lazon”, focusing on progressive and electro house.

Flowjob

Flowjob

Biography

Flowjob is Joakim Hjørne & Mads Tinggaard from Copenhagen/Roskilde. The project was first started by Joakim at the beginning of 2002 and released that very same year a 12” “Super Duper Supernova”/”Fandango” on German label “Love Sonic Disco”. After some time in the studio came the follow up: “Fluff me Tender” on Iboga’s famous compilation from 2003 “FX”. And it was later that year that the forces reunited and Mads Tinggaard, became a part of the project.

The 2 of them used to play in a band together long time ago. Mads was the drummer and Joakim the guitarist and it was obvious that they had to make elektronic music together aswell since they have been devoted to trance/house since 1993.

They started to develop their own caracteristic style which roughly can be described as housy morning trance with a possitive uplifting feeling. Their constant hard work in the studio has resolved in releases on Iboga, Tribal Vision, Millenium, and a track on Midjum made together with Luca off “4 Winds Circle”. Now the time has come to their debut album, which is promised to be an interresting journey in styles and soundscapes.

One thing is for sure though: Their mission is to lift you up and make you dance with a big smile on your face. The Flowjob Album “Support Normality” is being released on the 1st March 2006 on Iboga records.

Neelix

Biography

One could say that the creative act of piecing together several ideas by using the computer is kind of golden thread in the life of Henrik Twardzik: Originally the native of Hamburg used to do compositing works for film productions, following a regular job.

It was 1999, when something happened that should change his life: Basically he heard a song. But “Klein Aber Doctor” made him so much stoked, that he finally decided to get into producing music himself.

His first track he recorded was “Neelix - The Fourth”, released on a NOVA TEKK compilation called Maverixx in 2002, which was followed by numerous releases on different labels from all around the globe.

Having a creative vein on the one hand and heaps of experience with clicking the mouse buttons hundreds of times per day, piling up sequences on a computer screen on the other, he moved forward pretty fast. His first releases rapidly gained popularity and simultaneously Henrik got more and more enthusiastic about producing music. Taking the necessary actions as a result of that made his girlfriend pronouncing a certain phrase more and more often: Get a proper job again! Well, today she doesn’t say that any more.

Following the patterns of classical Progressive Trance at first and playing to its referee’s whistle, Henrik slowly but constantly developed a very own style. His album “No Way To Leave” from 2005 marks a turning point in his musical career: With this one he founded his own school of Trance music, consequently following the paradigm of Progressive in the very original meaning of this term.

Today Henrik is blissfully happy with getting a remarkable positive feedback from Trance fans all around the world and even being asked to produce music for TV commercials and popular movies.

Until now Henrik has released 2 albums and many singles, his third album is already finished, mastered and was to be released on the 30th of March, 2009 on Millennium Records. Henrik belongs also to the founders of the Hamburg based label Glamour Studios.

He has already played at many big open air and indoor events in Germany and in countries like Sweden, Hungary, Denmark, Greece, Swiss, Austria, U.K., Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Mexico to mention only some of them.





Neelix

Ace Ventura

Ace Ventura

Biography

Ace Ventura is Yoni Oshrat, a 31-year old Israeli with a rich musical background. Born in a musical family (his father is a famous Israeli composer and song writer, for instance behind the Eurovision song “Halelujah”) and previously working in the TV and movie-industry as a sound producer before he discovered trance in the beginning of the nineties.

After that things moved quick for Yoni - after DJ’ing for years, he teamed up with his friend Dj Goblin to form the Children of the doc project which later changed name to Psysex - together they released 3 critically-acclaimed full length albums on HOM-Mega Productions, and played a big part in establishing Israel as one of the most important trance-countries on the globe.

After several years of intense touring, playing at some of the biggest parties and festivals worldwide, Yoni’s taste moved more and more towards the slower, groovier side of music though, and from 2006 he is no longer a part of the Psysex project. Instead he has started 2 new projects: Schatsi, which is an electro-project, already getting featured on releases from Hadshot and Mylo’s Breastfed Recordings, while being spinned by the likes of Jhon Digweed, and of course, Ace Ventura. Yoni is fond of all major sides of the progressive scene, and it shines through in his Ace ventura project, which best can be described as deep, tribal and pumping progressive psytrance - pure dynamite on the dance floor.

Symphonix

Symphonix

Biography

(1998 – present)
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. After since years playing in several parties, like Indian Spirit, Atmospheres, Antaris, Voov, Two Moons, Arvika and etc. it was a question of the time that they start to produce their own music, to create their own ideas.The style of them is groovy progressive trance with psychedelic elements.

The first track from Symphonix was released on Midijum Records. And after releasing tracks on various compilations on labels like Plusquam Records, Millennium Rec, AP Records, Midijum Records, Novatekk Records, Sinn-Tec Records and more. They start to work on the first Symphonix debut album, which is released now at Blue Tunes Records. In the beginning of 2006 they formed their own label Blue Tunes Records with the debüt release Amarasya Vol2. Watch out for releases in the future!

Also they started their sideproject True Lies. The style of these project is progressive house with electro influences and you can find already releases at Blue Tunes, Echoes and Candyflip Records. The debut album is going to be released in february at Candyflip Records. Some other relevant activities from them is the work for labels, they compiled already compilations, like Amarasya, Tshitraka Project & many more.

Yotopia

Yotopia

Biography

Yotopia are Jonathan Rimon and Tomer Dayan, from Tel Aviv, Israel. They were found and invited to flow stable after Pena heard them playing live in Israel and was totally surprised by their sound and the reaction they had made to the dancefloor.

Yotopia provide full tribalish progressive journey that is characterized by endless percussions, spacey atmosphere and psychedelic leads, all wrapped in a flowing and shaking groove driven by fat bass lines and kicks.

Point Blank is their debut album which introduces the psy community to fresh, intelligent and extremely uplifting beats

Perfect Stranger

Perfect Stranger

Biography

There are 3 artists/bands that been using the name Perfect Stranger.

1. With a unique lineup, signature sound and brand-new album, Perfect Stranger is remaining anything but silent.

The band’s two accomplished lead singer/songwriters and dueling lead guitars produces a look and sound that is stretching boundaries and making lots of noise in the Texas music scene.

Originally founded in 1986 in Carthage, Texas by Shayne Morrison and Richard Raines, Perfect Stranger signed with Nashville’s Curb Records in 1995 and released “You Have the Right to Remain Silent”.

In 1997, Perfect Stranger was nominated for new group of the year by the Academy of Country Music (ACM). After releasing its second album, “The Hits,” in 2001, and selling nearly a half million records with Curb over seven years, Richard Raines had to leave the band.

Perfect Stranger continued to tour when Shayne Morrison recruited Chad Ware (lead guitar) and Clint Williams (lead vocals and guitar) in 2002. With lead singer / guitarist Marcus Eldridge (formerly of Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros) and drummer Doug Martin (formerly with Ezra Charles) joining in 2008, Perfect Stranger now features a signature, new country sound that appeals to a wide audience.

Antix

Antix

Biography

Behind the successful production of Antix are the brothers Hayden and Barton Strom. Making music together since 1999 and are today working full time as producers in their Slowburning Studios, Auckland New Zealand.

What has made Antix such a success? Here’s a little view of their backgrounds that has for sure shaped them as producers. Both Barton and Hayden were introduced to music at a young age, listening to music from their parent’s vast record collections. They quickly became addicted to the hypnotic sounds of trance in ‘95 when a friend handed them a tape urging them to check it out. Barton instantly purchased a mixer and started DJ’ing at small parties in the growing Auckland scene. Six months later he had moved to Japan to buy studio equipment and teach himself the art of production, where Hayden later joined him.

Together they returned to New Zealand, setting up various studios around Auckland and refining a sound, which really came together once they moved to the West Coast of the North Island and set up Slow Burning Studios in ‘99. The sound that seemed to evolve was a kind of minimal organic groove influenced by the European sound being played by DJ Philipp from Plastik Park and Anti from Spiral Trax. It wasn’t long before a connection was made when Philipp toured Australia and New Zealand in 2000, and Antix were signed for their first 12” (Rainstick) on Plastik Park. Since then Antix have published almost 50 works.

Atmos

Atmos

Biography

Originally from Poland, Atmos (Tomasz Balicki) is a Swedish progressive/psychedelic trance producer. He is most famous for his 1999 hit, “The Only Process”, and of course klein aber doctor, released on various compilations.

Along with other Swedish artists like Noma, Vibrasphere and Human Blue, Atmos was responsible for introducing and popularizing the new minimal and progressive form of psytrance circa 2000. His music is characterized by a combination of deep pulsating beats and basslines with subtle understated melodies and soaring atmospheric sounds, as heard especially on his debut album “Headcleaner”. His follow-up 2004 album “2nd Brigade” achieved great success with tracks “Raumwelt Signal”, “KNS” and “Transmission In Vain”

“Tour de Trance” was released in 2008 on Spiral Trax - a release awaited very eagerly indeed by thousands of fans worldwide. All in all, the album is even slower than its predecessor, but the pulsation and the sheer funky danceability remain very much intact - in fact, they have been honed to perfection.