GMSF2K5 - Artists

Stone Circle Stage
(Psy-Trance/Progressive Trance)

JAIA
(Digital Structures - France)
The act JAIA is the project of the French producer Yannis Kamarinos, formed in 1995 with Jean-Michel Blanchet and first oriented Psy-Trance and Downtempo. Since 2000 Yannis is working alone under JAIA name, and today JAIA’s music is more orientated to Progressive House and Progressive Trance (and still Downtempo too). JAIA has already released an album “Blue Energy” in 1998 (Cross/EastWest/Nova Tekk), which has been re-released in 2000 on the Japanese label Dakini. JAIA released several 12" singles too, as well as numerous tracks on various label compilations, such as Island, Iboga, Wagram, Milan, Flying Rhino, T.I.P. World, and many others. The new album "Fiction" will be released in May 2005 on Digital Structures. Yannis has collaborated with other producers-DJ’s such as DADO, WIZY NOISE, and SILICON SOUND. He has remixed famous artists like the French singer MYLENE FARMER – including her last two singles "C’est Une Belle Journée" and "Pardonne-Moi" (Polydor/Universal) - with BLUE PLANET CORPORATION, the Moroccan singer TYOUSSI (Fairway/SonyMusic), and the French pop band JPEX (Wagram). JAIA also has been remixed by TOTAL ECLIPSE, MINIL:OGUE, and JIMMY VAN M for example. He is also working with Oneletronic, a company making sound libraries for cinema and TV, collaborating with other artists like JOHN DIGWEED, OLIVER LIEB, NICK WARREN, and SASHA. Since 1997 Yannis has been performing live in Europe, Japan, Israel, Canada, and in the United States. He has played at many big gatherings like Return to the Source in London, Solstice in Japan, and the Samothraki Dance Festival in Greece.

ANTIX
(Iboga Records - New Zealand)
Based in Auckland New Zealand, Barton and Hayden Strom are the producers behind the project ANTIX. The Strom brother’s dedication to pushing their style in new directions in the ever evolving Progressive Trance genre has made them one of the emerging acts to watch for in their scene. Both Barton and Hayden were introduced to music at a young age listening, to music from their parent’s vast record collections. They quickly became addicted to the hypnotic sounds of Trance in '95 when a friend handed them a tape urging them to check it out. Barton instantly purchased a mixer and started DJ'ing at small parties in the growing Auckland scene. Six months later he had moved to Japan to buy studio equipment and teach himself the art of production, and Hayden later joined him. Together they returned to New Zealand, setting up various studios around Auckland and refining a sound, which really came together once they moved to the West Coast of the North Island and set up Slow Burning Studios in '99. The sound that seemed to evolve was a kind of minimal organic groove influenced by the European sound being played by DJ PHILIPP from Plastik Park and ANTI from Spiral Trax. It wasn't long before a connection was made when Philipp toured Australia and New Zealand in 2000, and ANTIX were signed for their first 12", "Rainstick," on Plastik Park. Over the years the two have managed to put a few of the "big ones" under their belts, playing the U-Site Fusion Festival in Germany, The Boom in Portugal, and The Rainbow Serpent in Australia. And now three years down the line, ANTIX completed their long awaited debut album "Lull" released on the Danish label Iboga Records. The duo are currently touring the globe for the third year, they are only half way to completing this tour, but so far its been a huge success, playing parties in Denmark, Sweden, Croatia, Japan, the Voov Festival 2003 in Germany and then in London, where they played alongside other respected kiwi artists for the annual New Zealand music night at club Fabric. And now to continue the tour ANTIX will play in Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Austria and then to finish in France. On top of this they’ve also been involved in Auckland label Manta. The label has just released its second 12" and third compilation "Subduction" featuring a excellent selection of New Zealand and international, Progressive/Psy-Trance which are all available from Cyberculture Records at (www.cyberculture.co.nz). So at last... Here comes the second full length album from ANTIX - "Twin Cost Discovery." Since their first album - "Lull" - released on Iboga Records in June 2003, ANTIX had major success with their very groovy and unique style. They have been playing their live set at a great number of events and have made a very good name for themselves in the scene. Now two years later, Iboga Records is proud to be releasing another well produced album. From start to end the Strom brothers take you on a journey deep into their soundscapes. You can truly tell that ANTIX has spent many hours making this album come true, and once again they surprise with their style, going in a new direction.

DEVIANT SPECIES
(Ambivalent Records - London)
DEVIANT SPECIES are the England based electronic duo who are currently touring Japan consisting of Santos De Castro and Paul Wright. Consistently releasing their unique take on the London Techno sound for the past five years, they are now preparing to release their third album, "In the Hands of the Randomiser," later this year on Ambivalent Records. From the Warlock Studios comes the long-awaited album by DEVIANT SPECIES. No need for introductions, once more you will be treated to nine quality-consistent cuts of dark and minimal psychedelia for the blackest hours of the night. In this third album installment by DEVIANT SPECIES the band is now only made up of Santos De Castro with collaborations with ex-DEVIANT SPECIES member Paul Konrad Wright (now of N.R.S. fame) and ground-breaking producer Ady Connor from SCORB. The atmosphere prevailing here is hard, with tinges of Industrial and Ambient intros and outros that cross-over giving the album a continuous flow. It all kicks off with "Voice of Thard," a chugging and spatial number that builds up to a ripping chorus. "Pincushion Man" continues with galloping intensity where "...Thard" left off moving relentlessly to a climatic final before "Shellless" ebbs in soothingly with an overture of peerless Gothic beauty. The tight pulse is quickly restored leading to a frantic groove that allows you to breathe with its interspersed waves of noise. On a slightly softer tip "Thermal Boundaries" follows with an infectious beat that gradually gathers momentum to trancing-out effect. In a similar rolling yet relaxed vein enters "The Retinal Circus," which has been doing the bootleg rounds in an earlier unfinished version titled "The Abyss." To follow, "In the Hands of the Randomiser" is the first collaboration between DEVIANT SPECIES and SCORB, a powerful track that starts with an Industrial soundscape and steamrolls forward into a roaring pay-off. For the darkest hour "A Night to Dismember" brings the proceedings to total mayhem before the forces of light emerge. "Portal to Balojax" is a 3-minute-plus unwinding ambient piece and serves as a prologue to "The Entrapment of John Dory," the only morning track in the album and the second DEVIANT SPECIES vs. SCORB outing, a delicate cut destined to be a classic.

DJ EDOARDO
(Neurobiotic Records/Sonica 2005 - Italy)
EDOARDO is the main man behind Neurobiotic Records. He started DJing 10 years ago playing Techno at parties in Rome. After three years, he went to his first Trance party and decided to move in that direction, so, he started playing Psy-Trance, the first one in Rome. Being one of the top DJ's around today, he played gigs all over Europe (Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Denmark, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Russia, Holland, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria), Brazil, United States, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. From small parties to huge festivals like Samothraki Dance Festival, Voov Experience, Full Moon Festival, Shiva Moon, Solaris, Universo Paralello, he is constantly touring the world spreading the Neurobiotic virus. His style is a mix of futuristic Psy-Trance with House, Progressive, and electronic breaks and beats. Giving great importance to the mixing, he creates a flowing liquid psychedelic soundscape. In 2004, he created Indica Music, Chillout/Downtempo label together with DJ JOSKO and he's currently busy in the preparation of Sonica 2005, the first electronic music festival in Italy.

KENJI WILLIAMS
(ABA Structures - USA/Japan)
Techno-wizard KENJI WILLIAMS is world-renowned for his cutting-edge improvisational compositions blending electronic beats, classical violin, and mind-bending visuals. From the first ever "Illusion" EP release reaching a global audience of nearly 100,000 in collaboration with JOHN DIGWEED's Bedrock label, to Ambient releases with top labels such as Flying Rhino and Interchill, to the latest full length Tech-House, Tech-Trance album "Faces of Epiphany," the network of recognition is growing. Combining unique skills in film and music, KENJI WILLIAMS has earned international film awards from the CSC to Sundance, and has been featured in the press such as XLR8R, Jwave, Tokyo FM, and Apple.com. Director of three films to date, "Moment Utopia," "Vision Quest 2002," and the latest project "WORLDSPIRIT," collaborating with world-renowned spiritual artist, ALEX GREY, KENJI WILLIAMS is establishing himself as a forward thinking audio visual artist of the soul.

ALLEN
(Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
As one of North America’s leading Psy-Trance DJs, ALLEN is famous for his mind-bending sets and his ability to work the dancefloor into a frenzy.

GAVIN
(Digital Structures/Spectra - Sweden)

LOST BABA & THE BASTARD*
(T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi - Asheville)
With the coming together of Lost Baba (Kri) and The Bastard (Alex) the
Trance world is finally seeing a thorough fusion of its spiritual and
its technical sides. Both skilled DJs and musicians, a set with Lost
Baba and The Bastard is guaranteed to be technically excellent, full in
your head, while still emotionally deep. Their ever-growing body of
original tracks will catch your ear, open your mind, and allow you to
feel further into your individual Trance journey. And all along you
couldn’t stop your body from moving if you wanted to.

KIFE
(OmniTribe - NYC)

KNOB
(Alladin Project - NYC)

ALBERTO
(Cosmic Traveler - Columbus)

BINARY
(Sonic Beating - Boston)

North Crook Stage
(Downtempo)

ANDROCELL
(Celestial Dragon Recordings - Arizona)
When awareness rendezvous with emotion, here is where one finds the heart of ANDROCELL. Tyler "Quasga" Smith (formerly of PRABHAMANDALA) created ANDROCELL as an aural habitat for all cognizant beings who experience the emotional palette of chilled, psychedelic wonder that awaits inside his music. The debut album, "Emotivision," reveals the first Downtempo offerings from the ANDROCELL studio. Nine Dub-enriched, sonic, soul stories for the universal traveler, these melodic tales tell of beautiful scenes and moody dreams. Featuring visionary album cover art in digipak design plus a bonus 8-page gallery booklet of select digital works all created by Quasga. Along with digital mastering by leading Psybient artist, YANIV SHULMAN, this album belongs in every serious chillers collection.

KRIS NORTHERN
(Phidelity/T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi - San Francisco)
Kris Northern aka phidelity is a veteran psy-chill DJ/producer from
San Francisco. Hailing back from the early 90's rave scene, Kris
developed the taste for psychedelic soundscapes and beats primarily
of the storytelling flavor and has since forged his own unique style
of mixing incorporating a wide pallette of musical styles and tying
his sets together with theme based storytelling elements.

BUFFER
(M-Laboratories - Baltimore)

ELEKTRONKIND
(Digital Yeti Studios - Baltimore)

BLUE SPECTRAL MONKEY
(T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi - Asheville)
BSM has been collecting and DJing music since 1998. Constantly on the quest
for new and innovative sounds, also producing some tunes of his own... you
never know what you'll get. Spanning many realms of sound, including; deep
dark, groovy techy, wacky trippy trance, to all forms of downbeat; from
tweaked beatless, to thick psychedelic dub, to glitchy IDM, to who knows
what to call it, that is his soundscape. 30 states and counting, BSM is
taking the country by storm, with a devoted energy, and a fresh approach to
spinning music... always reaching beyond the standard, further into the psyche.

ADIA THE LO-FI PRINCESS
(Big Bottom Beats - Victoria)
"Adia flew in from Victoria BC Canada where she has been rockin' the
funky beats since 1999. Her passions for indulging and yoga give her music a
conscious, organic, and all-good vibe. Hip hop is way more fun when
you've got a blender drink in hand and the sun is shining. Join us by the
river fora musical cocktail."

MONO MONO
(Soular Records - Philadelphia)

MATYAS
(Reality Engine - NYC)
"My vision is to create an interactive audio visual experience utilizing the ritual of dance.
The goal is to break the bonds of conventional media presentation.
My art is not meant for entertainment alone; it is a journey on sound and light vibrations into the depths of consciousness,
from where we may have a better perspective on our own existence."

PEDRO
(Reality Engine - NYC)
A mix of ancient sounds and digital music with the intention to uplift the
energies in a groovy dubadelic driven experimental ambiance.

ANDREW LIGHT
(Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)

SOLOMOON
(Metameme - Denver)
Solomoon discovered a much larger world in 1993 when a greater level
of awareness came to him wrapped in a package called trance-ambient
music. He immediately knew this was a timeless language that
transcended not only musical genres, but also cultures and the
delicate timeline of humanity. Spinning since 1994, he sees this
music as a boundless medium of communication that is ever-advancing
into an understanding of the wisdom of our ancestors. Combining
intelligent melodies with primal rhythms, he uses this artistic
language as a path of transcendentalism.

BOIPEBA
(Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
Having grown up on psychedelic rock and funk, BOIPEBA caught the
psytrance bug in Jerusalem in 1997, and the patterns morphed as they
unfolded ever since. His musical journey has taken him around the world and to outer and inner space.
BOIPEBA most recently returned from South America, where he spread his
psychedelic message for 5 months in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.
His dark, hard-driven sets pull dancers deeper into their night,
tickling their spines, and pulling the rug from underneath their feet.

BOTTOM DWELLERS
(Members Camp - Four Quarters)
This TechnoShamanic Kollectiv has gathered amongst the natives of 4QF, where they have found a place they call home.
Finding common ground in music and spirituality, spending time drumming and dancing around the fire together.
Though they still remain 4 different personalities spinning 4 different styles of music.

EG~BOT
(Gaian Mind/Psy-Planet - Philadelphia)
Eg~Bot is Just Starting to make his mark in the Psy-Trance scene.
Featured on the latest Soular Compilation with Philly's own Onnomon, and a few parties later...
Eg~Bot is slowly but surely getting ready to put his ideas and experiences into his debut album.
Always on the cutting edge of music, expect the unexpected as Eg-Bot takes you on his twisted journey.

NOD
(T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi/PTLF - Asheville)
Nod began his explorations of electronic music listening to the
twisted, psychedelic Rock of the Ozric Tentacles as a wee hippie lad.
T hroughout the years, his ears have traversed far stranger realms of
ambiance ranging from Dub to Trip Hop to grinding drones and everywhere in between.
There's always something new going on in the land of Nod...

EIM
(Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
Gaian Mind resident and sometime vertebra, EIM intends with the music he plays
to purvey that with a dynamic invoking the conjugation of apparent antipodes.

STEVE-O
(GoaBabies - NYC/Ricon)
Feeding the world one platter at a time.

DEET
(Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
Pure. An endogenous part of every enthusiast. A molecular psychodrama of cause and AFFECT.
A grand scale EFFECT. Genre-spanning original recordings. Chillout/deep listening DJ sets.

DAN COVAN*
(DanCovan.org - NYC)
Dan Covan drove a van to Afganistan getting a
tan, playing music, and bringing people together to
dance and share in the Cosmic Romance... Then he
woke up from his dream and he was living in New York
City, the Capital of Modern Materialism, where he was
born nearly 33 years ago. Current projects include
ONNOMON, Sosh's Music Collective, Trancebreath, Body
Temple, Chill Pod India and Spiritual Beings. His
musical mission is to stay connected to the ever
changing moment as it moves and grooves.

MARK*
(Tranceponder.org - USA)
Again composing
A novel dedication
Purely for the space.

CORAL*
(T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi - NYC)
Coral first started DJ'ing in 1999, in Eugene Oregon. Once she heard Psy-Trance she became completely immersed, inspired with the sounds and could never imagine spinning anything else. Her love for Psy-Trance has pushed her forward - enticing crowds to experience an emotionally charged psychedelic journey on the dance floor. Coral moved to the East Coast and was drawn into the Touch Samadhi fold where she met many talented DJ's and producers that were just as obsessed as she is. Coral recently relocated to New York City and continued her amazing journey playing along side numerous psytrancers to include: Astral Projection, Hux Flux, Talamasca, Spirallianz, and Midimiliz. Grasping any opportunity she gets- she releases her passion and energy for psytrance on the dance floor and moves the crowd to nonstop dancing.

DJ FRED*
(Reality Engine - Brazil)

MIZUE (deco)
(Japan)
MIZUE has just returned from a journey through South America and
brought back with her a series of all-new psychedelic artwork she
created exclusively for Gaian Mind Summer Festival 2005 with real-time
inspiration from the various cultures, landscapes, plant life,
wildlife, and other unusual things she encountered on the way.

REALITY ENGINE (visuals)
(Reality Engine - NYC)
"REALITY ENGINE is an organization of multi media artists specializing in site specific audio visual installations. Founded in 2001, REALITY ENGINE works with specialized teams of inspired artists, to uniquely present ideas and concepts. Our goal is to bridge the gap between technology and imagination."