Adi is the imagination of Aditya Arora of New Delhi. His explorations with sound exploded with cutting edge releases on several globally distributed labels as Adi/Violent. With sounds covering both the night and day of psychedelic music, Adi pushed further into other genres, integrating Electro and Progressive moods with his own. His current repertoire spans the gamut of the BPM scale with club friendly electro-psychedelic dance music and glitch-breaks while still playing with harder and freakier sounds as was with his latest remix for Japanese producer Far East Ghost.

http://www.myspace.com/audiopop
http://www.myspace.com/illegalradioactivity

Aghori TanTriK is a dark psytrance project of Sid. Sid gives an open minded psychedelic sound experience about the life of being an Aghori Tantrik. Aghori Tantriks are holy men from India who believe in liberation from the illusion of this existence by embracing the dark side just as much as the positive side of society. They worship Kali (the goddess of destruction), drink from human skulls and engage in ancient tribal rituals which would appear as a big taboo and totally unthinkable in today’s society. This music project is famous for its powerful driving bass-lines, atmospheres which throw you into surreal worlds and beautifully crafted dark tunes which guide your consciousness through madness, excitement, aggression and craziness.

http://www.myspace.com/aghoritantrik

Psytrance by Vikram Vidyaranya Panduranga from Bangalore. Co-founder of Vantara Vichitra Records, Vikram studied sound engineering at SAE in Byron Bay after which he unleashed the sounds under alias Alien Trancesistor. The future promises some strong collaborations and releases.

http://www.myspace.com/alientrancesistor

Arpit Paliwal a.k.a Allegoric-Psynce was born on 12/12/1986 in Jaipur, India. He was introduced to electronic music at early age of 15 and fell in love at once with the mind wobbling sounds. Being introduced to the magical world of psychedelics in Goa changed the perception of music and life for him. He’s received a diploma in Audio Engineering from SAE, Mumbai and has been experimenting with new electronic sounds and fresh methods to make psychedelic music.

http://www.myspace.com/allegoricpsynce

Audio Psykosis is solo project of Rishi from India. Born on the 11th of October 1987, Rishi grew up surrounded by musicians in his family. One night at the age of 15 he found himself in Goa and learnt about the deeper, darker and harder frequencies of the Earth. He started experimenting with music software the very next day. At the age of 17 after realising the software could re-create what he’d heard, Rishi started writing psytrance as Audio Psykosis. His intention is to help people find answers they’re looking for, through thoughts induced by his sound. His inspiration comes from the deep corners of the forests and the experience of living. More recently Rishi has been writing slower music for chillout spaces under the name Agama.

http://www.myspace.com/audiopsykosis

Blood Clot is Nader Balooch from Mumbai, India. Having grown up listening to different genres of trance and finally evolving to psychedelic trance, he began the learning process of making psychedlic sounds in 2005. With the help of a lot of friends online from different countries he steadily began writing psytrance and is exploring it as a hobby. Most of his inspiration relies on old school tracks and collaborating with others to keep himself in the learning process.

http://www.myspace.com/bloodcl0t

The man behind the project Braindrop is Sumith Suresh, a versatile trance music producer from India.

Music being his biggest passion since childhood, he soon started playing the guitar at the age of 13. As the years passed by he found himself playing in bands in school and his liking for more sinister sounds grew day by day. Having an intriguing curiosity for futuristic sounds, he stumbled upon electronic music and was completely blown away by the endless genre-bending possibilities the style had to offer. With a wide range of influences such as acid house, techno, breaks, drum n bass, trance, industrial to name a few he eventually started dabbling with computer based music production and hasn’t looked back ever since.

Since his debut in 2005 he has extensively performed throughout India, Middle East and South East Asia at various clubs and festivals. Being one of the most sought after producer/djs in the country in the genre his unique style has also led him to perform alongside the likes of Juno Reactor, Atmos, D-Nox, Sensient.

In the past few years he has released music on several compilations on various labels such as Omveda Records, Soundkraft Records, Shanti Jatra Music, Occulta Records amongst others. His style, a unique blend of futuristic rhythms with an organic touch has gathered him much attention over the years.

Feeling the need to explore more diverse territories, in 2009 he starts Occulta Records, a label dedicated to push the more slower and progressive side of psychedelic trance which on its debut release received rave reviews worldwide.

In 2011, he also joins Psylife Music, the diverse label headed by Para Halu. He will also release his debut album through them to be scheduled sometime in 2012.

hhttp://www.myspace.com/braindropsounds

Cacofonix has been instilling the psychedelic underground since 2004. A proponent of the underground goa and night-time disciplines he has played on lineups alongside Atriohm, Parasense, Already Maged, Samadhi,Full Face, Psychoson, Saikozaurus, Papiyan, Reality Pixie, Crazy Ducks, Psyborginal, White Wizard, Sabai Sabai, Munke across India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Currently producing psychedelic trance under the name ‘Cacofonix’ and a dark ambient project called ‘Shakahari’, Vineeth is also co-founder of Vantara Vichitra Records.

http://www.myspace.com/cacofonix13

Chillumafia Collective are Damon (Poland), Robyo (USA), Yidam (India) & Soumya (India). DJ, Live instrumentals, Live PA for downtempo, dub, glitch, bass, and deviant music.

http://chillumafia.com

Contra-Frequency is the solo project of Nitesh Batra from Kolkata. He started DJing at the age of 17, a career which exposed him to the Indian club circuit and electronic music. His connection to psychedelic sounds led to the creation of the Contra-Frequency project. Nitesh produces full-on music that is influenced by Goatrance and Psybreaks with DJ sets supporting acts like U-Recken, Paul Taylor, Crazy Ducks and Braindrop. Lately he’s been working on a Live-Set in collaboration with Indian classical vocalists.

http://soundcloud.com/contra-frequency

Devang ‘Devic’ Dedhia is originally from Bombay, currently living in California, USA. He had an affinity towards music since an early age and was introduced to Goa Trance in 1995. His friend Ganeshaa introduced him to computer based audio production soon after.

Devic is a diverse producer making psytrance, ambient and Asian underground music. His sound is always vibrating progression with its own story to tell and its own experience to reveal.

http://facebook.com/devic.sounds

Dhvani is the forest psytrance project of Vinay Daswani from Kolkata. India. Vinay tuned into the sonic evolution of various electronic music genres/sub-genres such as psytrance, ambient and progressive house in 2005, and has been swirling along the same groovy frequency ever since. His project Dhvani is deeply inspired by the various sounds of nature, the forest, the wind, and how they come together in perfect harmony to create rhythm and groove. His DJ sets contain deep atmospheres, psychedelic leads and multi-layered sonic patterns, weaved together with solid grooves that send the listener into a power-packed psychedelic frenzy and transforms the dance floor into ritualistic tribal zone.

http://soundcloud.com/dhvani-muzik

Farebi Jalebi is Adip Butalia from Melbourne, Australia. Born in India, Adip moved to Melbourne in 2005 where he has spent the last few years producing and playing his own sounds. FJ has played for various floors across India & Australia and over the last 2 years has released his solo compositions on labels such as Bhooteshwara Records (Macedonia), Real Vision Music (Germany), Mighty Quinn Records (Japan/USA), Digital Shiva Power (Japan), Soundkraft Records (Australia), Liquid Frequency (India) and the prestigious Parvati records (Denmark). FJ’s music production started in early 2007 inspired by the styles of many pioneers groovy dark psy across the world. Ever since, he has been developing a flavour of his own and no matter how much he tries, his restless mind does not let him settle with a typical formula. Despite being deep and driving , each track has a different flavour and tells a different story with bouncy basslines, weird scapes and dripping sounds. His music is groovy, powerful and dancefloor oriented with a mix of love and insanity. Farebi Jalebi also has some interesting collaborations with other projects such as Biosynthesis (Magic Seeds) and Ankur which have and will be released soon.

http://www.myspace.com/farebijaleb

Fuzulu is the psychedelic trance project of Ehsan Kamran from Bombay, India.
His sound is power full and driving. His influences include projects like Kindzadza, Grapes Of Wrath, Derango, Drone Bixie, Digital Talk, Paps, Parasense, Xenomorph, Jahbo, Meteloids & Droidsect among others and his style has adapted to keep the most demanding dancefloors vibrating with energy.

http://www.soundcloud.com/fuzulu

Ganeshaa is a solo project by Ankit Lall from India. He has been producing, playing and journeying with electronica for the past 4 years and finds himself drawn to his roots in Indian classical music. As a result, he has spent time working with several musicians especially those with Afro-Cuban and Jazz backgrounds. The Ganeshaa project is inspired by the sounds of the world whilst on the search for harmonic balance between electronica and the classical definition of music. The sound is best described as an ever changing state of soundscapes, melodies and rhythms. Ankit’s electronic persona has a strong affinity to Goatrance, Psy-ambient, Progressive House and Lounge. He has played as a DJ at various clubs, outdoor parties and festivals and is working on his own live-set and album for liquidfrequency. Ankit is also a bamboo flautist, an instrument maker, a professional audio engineer and is designing and building his own studio, ‘Aural Vision’ in Kolkata.
http://www.myspace.com/ganeshaaelectronica

Hydropanic is a duo project driven by brothers Rishabh & Pratik of India. Created from heavy psychedelic musical experiences, this project brings together the sound of the earth, wild species and a vision of another space. Layered with organic effects, Hydropanic sets you tunneling through your mind and to a time where nature rules over the realm of man.

http://www.myspace.com/hydropanic

Liquid = Abstract.
Noize = Loud uncontrolled sonic frequencies.
Vinay Menon A.K.A LiquidNoize born in 1975 in Bombay, started his romance with music at an early age screaming for a rock band for seven years. Goa, 1991: after their gig Vinay and his band mates were taken to the famous disco valley… by a cabbie.

“Virgin to the concept till then; it was here that he had his first psychedelic sunrise and heard music which was alien.”

After years of dancing to the music, understanding structures and going through the various changes in the sound, he decided to create and program his own ideas into Bytes. Today he works out of Israel and is producing and playing under the project name LiquidNoize and a new project ‘Fiber Mutants’ with a close friend Aviel A.K.A AVL. also producing ambient, world, lounge, acid jazz and psy funk.

“Trance a state of mind. Dance is active meditation. The music, the catalyst, forever unpredictable, forever changing, providing a soundscape to travel at high speeds with your eyes closed.”

http://www.myspace.com/liquidnoize

MunkE is the project of Udhav Sharma, from Chennai , India . Udhav developed a love for music at a young age, and has always had a passion for creating and developing his own trademark style and sounds, across different genres. He started learning drums, keyboards and guitar at the age of 14 and entered the local rock scene in south India . In a few years, he started specializing in drums and guitar and toured with a few metal bands all across India . After visiting Goa a few times, his love for psychedelic trance started growing. Following his passion, he started DJing and slowly moved to producing his original compositions. Today he produces a variety of styles, from twilight, dark and even ambient music.In the summer of 2006, along with Abhi and Sahil he founded Namaha Records and Quantum Frog Records soon after.

http://www.myspace.com/munkesoundz

Ouroboros is a project created by Ritesh from New Delhi to explore electronica in all its psychedelic colours. His work uses a medium of glitch and melodic lines to create surrealist soundscapes and bizzare psychedelic experiences. Together with Adi they form the first and next generation of Indian psytrance producers fusing chop-shop psytrance ideology with the aesthetics of electo-pop, funk, and Japanese space-cab music.

http://www.myspace.com/musicouroboros

Phrike is the psytrance project of Tilak Goswami from Bombay. Tilak aka Bad Sector has been pushing heavy psychedelic music by producing and releasing music via his label Nocturnal Wizardz Records. The label released a massive compilation and the first free online psytrance release from India titled 06.06.06.

The project Triamera features Tilak Goswami collaborating with Jigar Shah (Silent Horror).

http://www.myspace.com/phrike

Jigar ‘Silent Horror’ Shah is a psychedelic trance producer based in Pune, India. He released his first track on Devils Mind Records debut compilation, Refused in 2005. Having developed a very distinct sound, Jigar’s music quickly became very sought-after which in turn resulted in dozens of tracks coming out on various labels in the following years. Years of work finally paid off and his debut album, Nemesis, was put out by Devils Mind Records in September 2007.

In February 2009, Jigar put out a CD EP, Patterns EP, which was based on the concept of releasing his latest sounds in a limited edition only. Four years after the release of his debut album, Séance was delivered to shops worldwide, which may well be the first psychedelic trance album ever written and produced at sea.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Silent-Horror/118531434879032

Spiral was born on 15th March 1987 and by the age of 15 he heard psytrance for the first time, influenced by likes of Droidlock, Psyside, Paps, Droidsect and Navajo. A year later he started his experiments on Fruity Loops and created 3 unreleased amateur albums. It wasn’t until 2005 that he joined Temple Twister Records of India and stirred up massive destruction in his hometown – Bombay. Now working with high vicious BPMs, high pitched frequencies, phat liquid organic leads and atmospheres, his music can be described best as dark mechanical dance-floor chaos!

“BLAST UR BRAINS!!!!!”

Spirals side projects : Freak Volume Warriors (vs TerraTech), gibrALTER ( Solo project focusing on deeper darker journeys) and Piimpachinka (vs cach (tgb))

http://www.myspace.com/leptospiralosis