We´re leaving April behind with another showcase from the artist roster of Tangra Festival taking place in Bulgaria around Summer Solstice in June. Elastic Vision is a dj from Cyprus representing Chakradelic Records, and he is doing a dj-set on mainfloor.
His style of music is a blend of harder psy, and more twisted crunchy forest style. He discovered electronic music in ´95 and started his turntable-journey in 2002. My bet is that we will see and hear him early morning with this kind of music, and I am really looking forward to grooving to his stuff.
This song has already put itself at a special place in my heart, which I´m sure the whole album will after spending some time with it. This already feels like a special gem in music, created by an artist not afraid of doing his own thing; listening to his soul, instead of thinking of how the music shall sound.
Zoungla is Costa Damoulianos from Quebec, Canada. learning the piano already at the same age as learning the alphabet. As he grew older he went on to learn other instruments such a the bassguitar and drums, and at the age of 17 he attended Vanier
Music School to learn jazz guitar. It was when his father introduced
him to a tape mixer, that Costa first found his love
for mixing and producing music and he quickly moved on to electronic composition. His influences can be traced to various styles of music such as Pink Floyd, Ott,
Shpongle, Jeff Martin, Dream Theater, Argaman, Rush, Hans Zimmer, Pain
of Salvation, Yanni, Devin Townsend and Koji Kondo. He describes his music as a blend of "ethnic sounds of the past with
futuristic electronic tones, extremes from silly to sad, dark to bright,
calm to intense and serious to fun."
His album can be downloaded be free through Ektoplazm and if you really like his music feel free to donate money to Costa directly via his Bandcamp.
Astropilot is Dmitriy Redko, from Kyiv, Ukraine. He is imo one of the best and well-known artists in the field of melodic downtempo/psy-chill with numerous releases to his name, including "Fruits Of The Imagination", "Solar Walk", "Here And Now", and "Star Walk". All and all he as released 8 albums, all on famous Altar Records. I´m really looking forward to hearing him live, and we can expect some really emotional deep ambient and atmospheric uptempo.
Dsompa from Hamburg, Germany, is label-dj for Peak Records, and we can expect some night-time sounds as well as other blends of harder psy-music.
He discovered the electronic music scene in the late nineties and after visiting his first tranceparty he was bewitched with the culture, art and the sound. From 2007 till today he played nearly all over Europe including Festivals like Trimurti (Russia), Tangra (Bulgaria), Utopia „After Boom“ (Portugal), Fullmoon (Germany), Lost Theory (Croatia), Voltron (Turkey), Tundra & Yaga (Lithuania).
Presenting Freaky G - which is Kim Dueland from Silkeborg, Denmark. This is a nice mix blending hard psychedelic with forest sounds! The tracklist includes music from such artists as Mussy Moody, Sprocket, Therange Frek, Vertical and Petran.
Kim has lived in Silkeborg his entire life (born in 1982) where he enjoys nature and psychedelic music. He has been listening to electronic music since the age of 21 and started playing around with turntables 3 years later, favouring psytrance, progg and chill. He mostly 2- 3 hour sets of dark and forest trance, also representing triplag music.
One of my current chill-favourites - Radioactive Sandwich, continues to share emotional creations with us. This song appears on split EP, that these guys have released together with another of my favs - Globular. Crazy dubby vibe at it´s best!
Cosmic Dimension consists of Antonio Simonovski and Denis Bogdanovski residing in Kumanovo, Macedonia. They make high energy, very melodic goatrance and have released music on popular goa-label Suntrip Records from Belgium.
My hope is to hear their music during day-time on the festival, when their music will be perfect! :)
Since I´m doing a chill-out set @ this festival set in Bulgaria, and been asked to help out with promotion I´ve decided to do an ongoing series of post about the artists playing there. First out is Aodioiboa from Germany doing a live-set. Andreas is also part of the decoproject called Cosmicwalkers, but in 2004 he also got into producing music. His music is a mixture of styles and he describes himself as a musician influenced by a lot of styles. For me it sounds like a symbiosis of dark/forest with more traditional melodic psytrance. His latest album - You Are God - has just been released on the label littleBIGsensations. Here is a preview:
His previous album -13531 - with tracks from 2008 - 2011 is now available trough Ektoplazm if you go HERE.
