This week’s Flashback Friday features another much beloved artist from the trance scene who is no longer active in the genre but whose place in the pantheon of producers is indisputable: Doof. Producer Nick Barber was in Goa in the early 90s and strongly inspired by what he correctly sensed was a burgeoning global movement...

Today’s Flashback Friday features another incredibly important project on the psychedelic trance scene that was active in the formative years of the movement: the Italian group Etnica. Originally consisting of four members – Max Lanfranconi, Maurizio Begotti, Carlo Paterno, and Andrea Rizzo – who had known each other since the 1980s, Etnica released their first...

For this week’s Flashback Friday, a group whose distinctive signature sound was immediately recognizable in the early years of the trance scene: Transwave. This French project was formed by Christof Drouillet and Frédéric Holyszewski in 1994 – the two musicians had been introduced by a mutual friend, Greg Bailay, who had produced music himself under...

This week’s Flashback Friday features an artist who has had a massive impact on the scene (and on my own experience of it), and not just in terms of music: Space Tribe. Olli Wisdom was a member of the glam/gothic band Specimen in London in the 80s, but towards the end of that decade was...