Djs and Janes
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DJ Bisturi – Ermir Puka or Ermir P. aka Bisturi was born in 1978 in Tirana, the capital of Albania. He was introduced at music at the early age of 15 when he played guitar and piano for a short period of time. At the age of 18 he was listening to alternative/metal and hardcore, this was the time that he met T-Ground (Xhoan Guga). T-Ground introduced him to electronic music and they spent most of their time listening to Evosonic radio and different names like Astral Projection, GMS, Green Nuns of Revolution etc. After some time Bisturi and T-Ground decided to organise different GOA/Psy events in their hometown and so they created Tirana UnderGround (TUG), the only real GOA/Psy event organizer in Albania for the moment. Bisturi is the main DJ of TUG and has played in different locations and parties organized in Albania. He played in the Adriatic Underground Festival (AUF), the first electronic festival in Albania, and than onStay Human Festival 2007 in South Albania. Both events organised by Tirana UnderGround. Ermir P. plays all kind of psy-trance but he loves the proggy-techy side of trance and his favorite artist are Son Kite, Ticon, Freq, Midi miliz, X-Dream etc.
From 2004 till now, among other 2 DJs from TUG (T-Ground and El-Tani) he is representing Planet B.E.N Records for Albania. On the late 2003-2004 Ermir P. as a member of AlbanianDj, he met with Pit (Petrit Ahmeti) and both decided to gave birth to Electro-Alb. Since 2007 Ermir P. plays Minimal Tech in Wesekraft events organised by Electro-Alb. In April 2008 Ermir P. was introduced to the guys of Radio Be94. The only one non-commercial radio at the time speaking in Tirana. He was the first one to play live in Radio Be94, giving way to the Saturday Guest DJ Night that takes place now every Saturday at Radio Be94. In October 2008, Ermir P. aka Bisturi, after a long period of “dreaming”, founded the Divan – Your mind! Radio. Radio Divan is an online radio that plays continues music 24/7. The main genres of music are Ambient, Chill out, Lo-Fi, Jazz, Techno, Minimal, Deep, PsyTrance, Drum N Bass. After 22:00 you can hear Ermir P. are other DJs like Iv Mici, Dusko Janevski, Hallucinated Neighbor, Nick Katana play live Techno, Minimal, House and Psytrance for 1-3 hours. Ermir P. has finished his studies in Computer Science and for the moment lives in Bonn/Germany.
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DJ David Durst - D-Tek, whose everyday name is David Durst, is a Mexico City native. Having started DJing in 1987, in less than a decade he has built himself up to be one of the leading and most pioneering artists shaping the Mexican trance scene today. By the turn of the millenium, D-Tek was releasing tracks on all the major world psy-trance labels . His first album, “Earth Technologies”, exploded onto the world and instantly became a top choice for trance conoisseurs and DJs all over the globe. Since then, David’s live act has performed, and is scheduled to perform, all over Mexico and elsewhere in the globe from Japan to Brazil to the US and Canada as well as all over eastern and western Europe, not to mention his highly popular DJ sets. His performances and discography cross ties with all the greatest artists of recent years.. In short, David Durst AKA D-Tek has established a reputation as an extraordinary producer and performer across the globe.
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DJ Dino 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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DJ Joseph – DJ Joseph was born in 1978 at the west coast of Sweden, now living in Gothenburg. As a young kid Joseph understood that music was of big interest. Soon he realized that making cassette-mix-tapes was a lot of fun. He worked hard and bought his first mixer at 12 years of age and started playing techno and disco music. In the mid 90’s he hooked up with Detroit techno DJ Marcus Bang a.k.a. Ego and went to big underground techno- and Goa-parties. He soon realized that underground music was the key to get the party people uplifted with. After having played in various underground parties since the late 90’s he got to be organizing and promoting underground parties both in door, and in the twisted woods of Gothenburg. He is also one of the four founders of the big Scandinavian psy-community – www.swedish-mushroom.com. Joseph is signed to the famous Planet B.E.N Records, how has bin releasing quality albums and track for over a decade. www.planet-ben.net He has bin work together with Ben Wierzoch, the label manger for some years now witch has resulted in some nice label and release party’s, and some nice gigs. In 2007 The Planet B.E.N Records Digital was lunched, A sub label that only releases music tracks digital on sites like beatport, i tunes, audio jelly, ect, ect… Joseph works with the digital label, and is the front figure for the progressive division. Soon to be releasing, a new progressive compilation in the end of year 2007. He also runs the famous club in Gothenburg Called Lokita, www.lokita.se together with Futeki and Divax. The club has a big focus on playing progressive and tribal electro Rhythms. With new ground breaking artist, from around the globe. Nowdays Joseph plays melodic full-on, with and hypnotic progressive feeling. But he is also known for his massive progressive sets, playing hard progressive beats to twisted electro beats. But also enjoys to play other genres and adjusts the tempo depending on if it’s day or night. Ring now he’s heavenly working on a new progressive Compilation on Planet B.E.N Digital, to be released in November 2007.
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DJ Kei Fujishiro – Kei Fujishiro is one of the true veterans of Tokyo’s psychedelic trance scene. He first began to DJ in 1990, spinning techno and trance as a regular at Tokyo’s legendary Club 3D. In 1995 when the Goa Trance wave swept through Tokyo, Kei embraced it. He was a resident DJ of the Time Trance crew, one of the first to do parties in Tokyo, where he played alongside such legendary artists as Astral Projection, Transwave, Total Eclipse, GMS, and many more. Trips around the world have seen Kei play at many major trance hotspots, such as the squat parties in Germany, parties in Nepal, Bangladesh and in Hong Kong. In 2001 Kei focused his energies an QUINTRIX, a music store and cafe in Tokyo, which has rapidly become an insitution in Japan, being Tokyo’s only purely psytrance store. Kei has recently also begun to produce music, and together with Kuromitsu he has created the Indigo Explorer project, Indigo Explorer is inspired by the roots of psychedelic trance, and combines it with modern ideas and production values to create a fresh sound. Kei’s DJ style is a very emotional psychedelic story, generating smooth waves of groove in the morning.
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DJ Max Grillo - Max Grillo is originally from Brazil. He was interested in the electronic scene of Minas Gerais since it begins and he accompanies all the evolution until the current days. In 1998 he met the plays disks and he began to play at several parties from Belo Horizonte, with several styles of electronic music. In 2001 he began to play psytrance and ever since he didn’t stop more. Today it presents a set returned for progressive trance involving the public with his charisma and mixing techniques and he has a special set of electro that has been playing at nightclubs. He was already present with his set in the main parties of Belo Horizonte and in clubs of several cities of the state and of the country playing beside great names of the national and international electronic scene. In 2005 he played for the first time in a festival, opening the Festival de Música Quantika and he had presence on main floor of the Cachoeira Alta Dance Festival in 2006. In 2007 he played at the most importants festivals of Brazil being present in Cachoeira Alta Dance Festival, Festival Fora do Tempo and he will show this year his sound on Universo Paralello.
DJ Mikari
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DJ Mikari - The sensitive, handsome ears of Mikari,christioned Michael Righetti,first perceived the sounds of the world in the year 1974.
Finely tuned as an professional sound engineer in Duesseldorf,Germany, they were,so to speak,ea(r)ger for new acoustic dimensions.The Psy Trance scene was to offer this and much more…
Surfing the sound waves all over Europe for the last 7 year,Mikari developed a keen sense for this style of music and advanced to weave his own distinct carpet of sounds.
After experimenting in smaller clubs, he entered the domain of the FX Sessoins in the Wuppertaler Butan Club as resident DJ an continued on to perform at the following venues:
- Lagoona / Muenster
- Summer X-Plosion / Münster
- Synchron Club / Dortmund
- Shanti Lounge / Dortmund
- Experimental Dose OA / Bochum Mikari spins selective, progressive full on sets,tantalizing the membranes of the heares receptive organs of sound, releasing the heart and soul to tumble in the garden of fractal vegetation.
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DJ PINDJ PIN
DJ PIN - In the year 2000, when the newest club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was about to be opened, their managers looked for somebody that would be responsible for the entire sound track of the new place. As they invited Rafael Mendes, a student at that time, they asked him to use his many years of music collection to give an electronic atmosphere to the weekly night that was about to happen. Is that when it rises Dj Pin, at first making sets in all kind of electronic music, soon he transformed that night in one of the first weekly psytrance residence in Brazil. As the project established itself, Pin start to play in all the main parties in his city. In 2001 he performed all over the country and started to be seen as one of the main djs from his state. At the same time he was part of the organization of memorable parties in Belo Horizonte, putting the city forever in the international route of psytrance. Soon he was invited to play in many different label party as TIP World, Com.Pact, Chemical Crew, among others. In 2002 he was already performing in some of the biggest festivals in Brazil as Universo Parallelo, Cachoeira Alta and Sunvibe. As 2003 arrived, Pin was the only dj outside Sao Paulo to be among the revelations of the year of the Balada Planet poll, the biggest electronic music website in Brazil. In this same year he made a mini-tour in Europe performing in England and Wales. In 2004 he was responsible for the promotion in Brazil of the Son Kite collection “Colours”. In this same year he started to produce the “Carga Eletronica”, weekly psytrance radio show, broadcasted to a 3 million people range with the best of psytrance music and culture; one of the first psy radio shows in the country. At the same time he started a residence with Trance Movement (www.trancemovement.com), one of the biggest party organizers in Brazil. Later, on 2005, Pin was invite to be part of Planet BEN Records (www.planet-ben.net) crew and started to perform all over the country in partys for until 10.000 people. In 2006 he became one of the only psytrance artists in the whole globe to play at the Creamfields Festival. In this same year he was a highlight at Indian Spirit Festival in Germany and at Earthdance Chile. At that time, Pin was also invited to join the legendary TIP World crew. Early 2007 he had his first track released in a collaboration with Puzzle. More productions to come soon. Since 2008 Pin is doing the Artists & Repertoire management for Planet B.E.N. Records.
DJ Salamander
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DJ Salamander - DJ Salamander alias Stephan Salamon was born in the south of Germany. At a very young age he was already fascinated by electronic music. When he was 15 years old he started DJ`ing and began to play at psytrance parties in southern Germany. After a couple of years of successful gigs he has played under the underground label mindtravelagency. His special mix – containing crunchy dark noises, pumping and pressing basslines and melodic influences – always drives the dancefloor crazy.Now Salamander is sitting in his studio writing his first tracks.
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DJ Skunkbeat - Oscar Castañeda also known as Dj Skunk Beat was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala on the 07.10.1982 without knowing that music was the path he had to follow for the rest of his life. During childhood, he was influenced by new age, funk and disco music that his parents used to play all day. Guatemala is a really small country and it is hard to find a big scene of everything but pop. When starting to develop his personality during puberty, rock and grunge dominated his musical horizon, musical genres which somewhat had a scene in Guatemala and developed a sense of belonging. He wanted to make a change, so he started to actively take part in a punk band as a guitar player. Everything was going well until in the year 2002 he discovered electronic music and has been hooked since. He started djing and organizing psychedelic trance events in Central America at the end of 2002 and moved to Hamburg, Germany to continue his dj carreer in 2004. His dj sets can range from progressive trance to progressive house and electro to minimal techno. Blending these styles together into one tripadelic experience is his specialty. In the last two years he has been touring Europe and discovered that electronic music has so much to offer. In 2006 he co-founded Chaishop Records – a trance label focused on showcasing new talents in trance music.
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Djane Paulina Cewe - Paulina Cewe (Gen.6) is a dj and producer based in Stockholm, Sweden, that’s mainly focused on psychedelic trance and tech-house.She knows how to tame the electronic sounds and make them follow her every command. By playing at clubs and events ranging from Docklands in Stockholm, Sweden to the Dinamo in Tel Aviv, Israel – Paulina has established her own style by blending tech-house, progressive and psychedlic trance since year 2000. Her previous apperances include countries like Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Portugal,Switzerland, England to name a few. At present date the continous search for an interaction with the crowd, and a constant connection with the trance and techno community, enables her to entwine the different changes and flows both on the dancefloor and on the electronic-scene as a whole. Her appetite for beat and rhythm is always fueled by the fascinating and evolving sound of electronic music. As a producer Paulina aims to create an atmosphere of her own. The blend of tribal through progressive, melodic yet minimal, classical still futuristic, moves her through genres and entwining them all together. In the year 2002 her debute album “Genesis” was released on the Swedish trance label Creon Records. She has since then released tracks on compilations alongside artists such as Pulsedriver, Blank & Jones, Timo Maas, Tiesto, ATB, Antiloop etc. Other releases include remixes of “Phasefour – Moments” for Norwegian psytrancelabel Freetransform and a remix of the french electronicaband “Trisomie 21 – Red or Green” for Belgian Alfa matrix records. Being one of few female producers that’s also DJing both tech-house and psychedlic trance, she puts an effort into making her dj sets innovative by using external equipment such as Stantons final scratch combined with Korgs kaos pad II.
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Miss Yo-Yo - Olga Bekman – Djane Miss Yo-Yo. Radio and TV anchorperson. She is a girl-music. She is beautiful and talented. Olga was born in Moscow, Russia. She is a Dj and Producer. First time has met with electronic music in 1996 on one of the mad parties, passed in one of the most well-known clubs of Moscow. Since her childhood days Olga could not live without music and knew that in future it would be part of her life. After awhile she was very much carried away with this direction of music, and she became DJ. Olga was to be informed up to people on dancefloor to something especial, that people would feel music and received unforgettable impressions from its performances. And it has turned out, Olga has started to play various clubs, has travelled the majority of cities of Russia with the performances and all sets Yo-Yo were always something special and interesting. Beautiful appearance and excellent skill mixing it always spends public through deep travel to the musical future. In the future where there are no borders of our imagination. Since 2002 is the representative and booking manager biggest in moscow party organizers Artfreaktion. In 2004 Olga has borrowed own musical in the project in trance style and as has begun work above new records label. Since 2006 a resident of the Planet B.E.N. Records (Germany).
Now, already after a lot years she is of became one of the most popular dj Russia, has visited many countries, participated in many festivals of the world.
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