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...

This week, a beloved project that brought fantastic uplifting vibes in the early years of the scene, the terrific British band ‘Green Nuns of the Revolution’. With their first productions taking place in 1994 (though partying in Goa had started some time before), the band largely consisted of Dick Trevor (still very active as a...

This week for Flashback Friday, a project that was active in the formative years of the scene and went through various shifts in membership and style: Slinky Wizard, with the title track from their first EP, ‘Wizard’. The first Slinky Wizard track, ‘The Rising’, was composed by Adam Boyd and Dominic Lamb in 1992....

This week’s Flashback Friday features another formative project from psychedelic trance’s early years with their unique style: KoxBox. While Hallucinogen is often thought of as having produced the first psychedelic trance album with his classic Twisted, KoxBox’s incredible Forever After was released on the Harthouse label (far from being a Goa label) several months...

This week, a short-lived project by two important musicians in the formative years of the Goa period… Nick Taylor and Ray Castle’s collaborative ‘Rhythmystec’ project, with their epic track ‘Stellium’. Nick Taylor had been involved in the early years of the scene, partying to DJ Kudo’s music with his friend Tsuyoshi Suzuki at the Yellow...

This week for Flashback Friday, an important project who were (and still are) groundbreakers and ambassadors for a particular branch of psychedelic trance music: the Israeli project Astral Projection. Prior to this project’s incarnation, Lior Perlmutter and Avi Nissim began producing music in Israel as SFX in 1989. They spent some time together in New York, where...

This week’s Flashback Friday features another much beloved artist from the trance scene who is no longer active in the genre but whose place in the pantheon of producers is indisputable: Doof.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...