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...

This week’s Flashback Friday features a formative artist with an immediately identifiable sound signature: Joti Sidhu aka Psychaos. Involved in the London underground music scene in the early 1990s, Joti turned his attention to the psychedelic trance scene after heard Mike Maguire of Juno Reactor and Serge Souque of Total Eclipse in 1993. After making a...

This week’s Flashback Friday is a tribute to one of the formative influences in the popular Goa sound, Man With No Name (who does have a name: Martin Freeland). Freeland started out as a techno producer but soon became one of the leading artists in the emerging Goa scene, with a style that fused anthemic...

This week, one of the most popular of all Goa trance tracks: Hallucinogen’s LSD, first issued as a Dragonfly single and then on the legendary Order Odonata compilation in 1994, a year before his ‘Twisted’ album was released on the same label. Simon Posford had been working as an engineer at Youth’s Butterfly Studios...

This week, an all-time classic by one of the most influential projects of the genre: Binary Neuronaut by The Infinity Project. The project featured Raja Ram, who had been a flautist in the massively popular band Quintessence in the 1960s (they sold out Royal Albert Hall in London), together with Graham Wood – and...

In our second edition of Flashback Fridays, a classic track issued in 1994 called ‘Alcatraz’ by Electrotete, a project that featured Juno Reactor’s Ben Watkins together with Nick Burton (who was also in Juno). Juno Reactor has always defied boundaries in the electronica scene, not fitting as neatly into specific stylistic categories – as stated last...

When I was invited to perform at the fantastic ZNA Gathering in Portugal that took place in August 2015, I was also asked if I would contribute on their Facebook page some historical introductions and overviews of the psychedelic trance music that Goa fans love so much. Having entered the scene myself in 1994 – a...