Today for Flashback Friday, another formative influence in the evolution of psychedelic trance: Prana, with their classic track ‘Starchild’. Prana’s first incarnation featured Tsuyoshi Suzuki and Nick Taylor, who had previously written music under the project names ‘Blissed’ (with Takehiro Tokuda) and ‘Taiyo’. Tsuyoshi and Nick were living in Tokyo and were profoundly influenced...

Today’s Flashback Friday features a track by another formative artist in the psychedelic trance scene with a highly individual sound: Quadsep by Voodoo People. Paul Jackson, the brilliant musician behind this project, released his first single in 1993. In addition to solo tracks as Voodoo People and Genetic, Jackson also did some terrific collaborations with Joti...

This week’s Flashback Friday features a tremendously important project in the evolution of psychedelic trance: the French trio known as Total Eclipse. The band was formed in 1992 by Serge Souque, Stephane Holweck (who was a member of Juno Reactor at the time), and Loic van Poucke. What is most striking about Total Eclipse’s output is the...

This week’s Flashback Friday features a collaboration between a few artists who would become major players in the psychedelic trance scene. As explored last week, in 1993, Joti Sidhu – inspired by the playing of Mike Maguire of Juno Reactor and Serge Souque of Total Eclipse – turned his attention to the emerging Goa...