This week – the final Flashback Friday of 2016 – a beloved artist’s 1997 release that encapsulates the essence of our global movement: Shakta’s classic track ‘Spiritual Beings in Physical Bodies’. A versatile musician producing various styles that include breakbeat, world music, psychedelic trance, and more orchestral downtempo music under projects that include Kaya Project,...

This edition, two long-time producers and DJs with distinctive sounds in a classic early track: Kristian Thinning Andersen & Jean Borelli with their amazing Sheyba track ‘Into the Fourth Dimension’. A long-time DJ and producer of various styles, Kristian used the moniker Chris Anderson to get around a contract with Nova Zembla in the...

This week’s edition of Flashback Fridays features an artist with a particular flavour different from what was often heard in the more mainstream Goa sound: the great German producer Tim Schuldt. Already playing the guitar at the age of 7 and in metal and grunge bands starting at 12, Schuldt would later shift to the...

One of the most beloved trance projects whose music evolved through a variety of styles is the German project known as X-Dream, presented here with their huge hit, ‘Create Your Own Happiness’. Marcus Maichel and Jan Müller first met in 1989 – Maichel had already been making electronic music from 1986 – and released...