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Allaby

Matt Allaby is a trance producer from Manchester in the UK. His unique sound has been forged through his background in the acid house scene in the 'Madchester' nineties and the years following where Matt played his part in the beginnings of the Northern psytrance scene.
He was a resident dj and co-promoter of the 'Sunrise' party in Manchester from its creation in 1997. This became a launch pad for his studio work which first saw fruition on Spiral Trax in 2002.
Before discovering dance music Matt played drums in bands of various styles from the age of 11.

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Joti Sidhu

Joti Sidhu is one of the pioneers of psychedelic trance.
He started making music in 1992 and his first tracks have been released as ayahuasca, together with dino psaras and steve ronan. after leaving ayahuasca, joti started his solo act psychaos, whose first legendary release psychaos "psychaos" was on the new concept in dance "tribal science" in 1995. this was when things really started to pick up in the scene.

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Double Dragon

There are two artists with the name Double Dragon. Double Dragon is an electro group hailing from France. They have provided the scores for both the horror films Last Caress (2012) & Blackaria (2009). Double Dragon is a metal band from South Australia.
Forming in 2002 in Adelaide, South Australia, Double Dragon have seen a handful of line-up changes, which has helped to define the Double Dragon sound today. They have supported such bands as Slayer, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage, and Mastodon, Soilwork, The Haunted, Carcass, to name a few.

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Union Jack

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Union Jack are Simon Berry and Claudio Giussani, a trance music project from England. Best know for releasing the classic trance album "There Will Be No Armageddon". Founded in 1993, the duo has focused on acid and tech trance and has been closely associated with the Platipus record label. Their singles "Two Full Moons and a Trout" and "Red Herring" saw much club play in the early nineties."

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Hallucinogen

Hallucinogen is Simon Posford, a producer of goa/psychedelic trance music from England. His first album, Twisted is being considered as one of the most influential goa trance albums in the history of the genre. The follow-ups, "Deranger" EP and "The Lone Deranger" album only cemented his influence. Simon Posford is also known for his collaboration with Raja Ram, together they form the cult psychedelic chillout act Shpongle.

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Talamasca

1. Talamasca (Cedric Dassulle, also known as DJ Lestat) is a psychedelic trance project based in Paris, France. Dassulle played piano for over 13 years before starting his career as DJ in 1992. Talamasca in Latin means "animal mask". Dassulle got the name from the secret society of psychic detectives in author Anne Rice's famous Vampire Chronicles. The same goes for his DJ moniker, Lestat, which was the name of the main character in the series. Lestat aso drew inspiration from the books when he created his record label, which he named Mind Control Records.

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Master Margherita

Master Margherita is a musician based in Switzerland. Since 1988, he has been very active in the european music scene where his first steps were as a bass player in various Rock'n'Roll bands. But in 1994 he started composing tracks which mixed and matched live instruments with all sorts of electronic " devices ". This experimentation saw a change of musical direction for him into the world of " ambient " soundscapes. Since then his talent has been appreciated in many styles, from french text songs, to experimental techno, via ethnic grooves and reggae.

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Voice of Cod

Voice Of Cod are Colin Bennun (OOOD, Unconscious Collective) and Andrew Humphries (Organic Records / Zuloop) and who started making music in together in 2003 after meeting at a party in London. Their tunes can only be described as dance floor shredding psytrance, with a bouncy feel and an uplifting vibe. All of their releases have been praised by punters and DJs alike, with hits such as 'We Are Free' (Organic), 'The Art of Funk Shui' (Transient), 'Heart of Gold' (Liquid) and the powerfully uplifting 'Just a Ride' on Organic's Tsunami Benefit compilation.

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Felguk

Felipe Lozinsky and Gustavo Rozenthal, aka Felguk, form the new project of Brazilian electro-house that since 2006, is showing a work that exalts very technical, creativity and talent primarily. His songs are so marked, which has won the international record labels, and remixed by artists as Neelix, Electrixx, Aaren San and Miles Dyson. Their distinct bass-led style electro-house is marked by lines of low and melodic variety of percussions and bass, which is spiced with different styles such as rock, pop, and funk.

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Zodiac Youth

Zodiac Youth is the name of Youth (Martin Glover) and Zodiac Mindwarp's (Mark Manning) collaborative project. They are best known for their 1990's releases on Youth's Dragonfly Records, the most notable result of this project being the excellent remix album "Devil's Circus" released in 1997. The excellent remixes by well known psychedelic trance artists like Elysium, Man With No Name, Hallucinogen, Black Sun, Johann and Voodoo People resulted in a very diverse and interesting release at the time.

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