Dina Psaras – It was the 1988 underground Acid House party scene that kick started fifteen year-old Dino into DJing. Then, with an eclectic set of drum ‘n bass, Detroit and Belgian techno and Acid House music, he further satiated his passion for playing to dance hungry crowds in Brighton, Bournemouth, London and Bristol, alongside Sasha and Digweed. The early nineties saw him DJ at hardcore techno parties with the likes of Mr C, Weatherall, Groove Rider, Todd Terry, Tony Humphries, Adamski and Carl Cox, whilst enjoying a monthly residency at Baba G’s (Massive Attack) Bristol club and regular bookings at DIY festivals and Tonka parties. In 1992 Dino was invited to go on Primal Scream’s Screamadelica tour with Paul Oakenfold and Mark Moore. He was then voted amongst the Top 20 up-and-coming House DJs in the world by MixMag. The next year, Dino travelled to India where he discovered Psychedelic Trance – a catalyst for change in his musical direction. Back in London he met Youth who made him the first Dragonfly DJ. Whilst at the label Dino also met the other signed talents of Martin Freeland (Man With No Name), Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor) and Simon Posford, and determined to not only play music but to create it as well. Under the three different monikers of Phreaky, Cydonia and Ayahusca, Dino collaborated to spawn his own brand of trance. Ayuhusca ( with Joti Sidhu and Steve Ronan) remixed ‘Rise’, the first release by Paul Oakenfold on his Perfecto Fluoro label. It wasn’t long before Dino was recognised as one of the best DJs in this scene.From 1994 onwards Dino DJ’d around the globe: in Australia at the first Rainbow Serpent party, in America at Burning Man ’95 and ‘96, at the Berlin Love Parade and at indoor venues and outdoor parties in South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Paris, Belgrade, Israel Japan, Yugoslavia and Goa. Not forgetting of course back home in good ol’ Brighton with Sven Vath. In London he started his own club, ‘ACID – A Concept In Dance’ with Ian St Paul (Spectrum, Future) and Mike Maguire (Juno Reactor), which was acclaimed as one of the first trance nights in London. A legendary label of the same name sprang up to release the first tracks of artists such as Man With No Name, Paul Jackson, Universal Sound, Cydonia, Ayahuasca and Psychaos. The label’s eponymous album ‘A.C.I.D.’ is one of the highest selling trance albums to date. It was around this time that Dino bumped into an old friend from Brighton, Simon Gahari to whose boss at B&W, Robert, Dino introduced most of the major artists in the scene: Juno Reactor, X Dream, KoxBox, Total Eclipse, MWNN – the Blue Room label was born. Along with his brother and two other partners Dino established his own Atomic label in order to differentiate and evolve his sonic preferences. His intent was to achieve high quality sound as opposed to what was then called Goa Trance music, which had little production and was in danger of sounding like the same track over again. Atomic released tracks from artists such as Tim Schuldz, Morphem, Semsis, MWNN, Cydonia and Tortured Brain (Dino’s first solo project) before closing down due to the typical malaise of distribution difficulties. Nevertheless, the label managed to release an initial compilation entitled ‘Kiss The Future’ along with nine albums spanning chill-out to techno. Dino’s first solo album is entitled ‘Dino Psaras – Lick It’, released on Ocktava Records; a collection of varied tracks to be both savoured on the sofa and pumped out at parties. Most are solo ventures but there are collaborations with MWNN, X Dream and Raz Helalat, as well Keith Emmerson’s (ELP) son Aaron on keyboards. Current projects include ‘Mosquito’ (with Raz Helalat and Ian Rive (Cydonia)) who are working towards an album that harnesses the vocal talents of Diane Charlemagne (Moby) on one of its tracks and Val (Groove Armada) on another. The trio also have a Tech House album coming out with Visionquest, one of the biggest trance organisations in Japan.
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Enigmatronic – is the solo project of Raone Demicheli, started now in 2008, looking forward to develop the cutest edge psychedelic trance. After several releases in his side project “Freak Factory”, Raone decided to take one step ahead and define his own conception of the music. His very first tracks as Engimatronic are already beeing played worldwide with intense sucess.
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Erotic Dream – Erotic Dream is a project developed by Guilherme Felipe da Silva Filho and Rodrigo Póvoa. They had their first contact with electronic music in 2002. At that time, the raves have begun to expand throughout all Brasilia city where they live. Over these years, they have searched to know and to learn about the rhythms that shake the raves. With several friends DJs and producers in scene, they have their interest called to work with this. In 2005, Guilherme went to Belo Horizonte in order to learn more by working in the best music studio of that city. In 2006, he returned to Brasilia and met Rodrigo, who was already doing his experiences with progressive trance. Then, they decided to join themselves to develop this project. At last, after months into a studio, they presented their first production. Thus that they launched their work, they had a big surprise with the great public recognition. 2007 was a lucky year: they presented their work in many parties, beside national and international artists of a very good concept. Last year they launched also a virtual album called Progressive sensations, which was the starting point of the live.
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Nomad – MAEL aka NOMAD, real name “Farid Merbouche”, was born in France in 1974, Self-taught guitar player , he started djing in Paris , from hardcore scene to trancecore in the 90′s. Maël became here quickly one of the good names of the « parisian » scene . Bringing his personnallity with a special technique of mixing Psytrance Vinyls, when DAT tapes were the only way to communicate this music. After this relation with the dancefloor ,Maël investigate himself into the music production to finalize a dream : create his own music! In 1996 , Maël created a band with Lestat aka Talamasca and christof drouillet aka ABSOLUM. They decided together in 1996 to create the most popular french label : 3D Vision , bringing Mael to play dj sets in every possible corner of the globe like Tokyo,Newyork,TelAviv,Mexico,Brazil,South Africa, Australia,India,and all Europe…”Nomad”, is the Mael’s solo project, and appear in 1998. 2 albums : “Hyperactive” and “Mad attack” ,both on the 3d vision label ( plus a full discography in many compilations.) History of Nomad’s project collaborations : – ELIXIR (Talamasca/Absolum/Nomad) – C.R.M.B(Christof, Rycktam,Mael,Bansi) – Talamasca vs nomad – Astrix vs Atomic pulse vs Nomad His project “NOMAD” is coming back with serious intentions to break dancefloors all over the planet “PsyTrance”
Psyfullohms – Psyfullohms is Tiago Valadares music project and he lives in Para de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil He grow up immerse in music being a drummer in many Punk Rock Bands. At 17 years old he felt in love with psytrance and started develop his own beats. After a graduating in “Digital Audio” he is now ready and hot to hit the market.