JP

JP (a.k.a. Joao Paulo) is from the magical land of Bahia, Brazil. He started DJing at the age of eleven in Arraial d’Ajuda, next to Raja Ram and Max Lanfranconi, and within a few years has become a highly demanded artist, at many big parties and festivals all around Brazil. As a member of TIP World for many years, JP has been touring constantly, delivering the most innovative full-on morning sound of Brazil, along with some of the biggest and most established names such as Raja Ram, GMS, 1200 Mics, Earthling, Wrecked Machines, Eskimo, Astrix, Shanti, Dimitri, Dado, Dino Psaras, Etnica and many others. In late 2006, JP has joined forces with Medusa Records and will release his debut album “Evolution of minds”…A true journey into the morning sound.

NEUROMOTOR

Neuromotor is the project started in 1998 by “Frederick-Ali Talaa” who in the beginning of 2008 was joined by “Patrick Vogel”.

Frederick-Ali Talaa has been a legend in the psy-trance scene for many years. At a very early age he started learning the piano and violin and started his music career as a singer in a hip-hop band. At his first rave party in 1985, he fell in love with this music and culture. In 1995, he moved to the Caribbean, where he organized numerous beach parties by playing “Dat”. On his return to Europe, he landed in Ibiza where he was resident at the khumaras club. Soon after he opened his own studio and started expressing his ideas and passion through his music. The Neuromotor project was born in 1998 with the first track called “after effect”, which was followed by many releases in many different labels around the globe, as well as his two albums “Neurodamage” and “Bloody Reality”. At the end of 2001 and until the end of 2007, Frederick was the owner of “Mechanik Records”.

Patrick Vogel is a professional guitar player, vocalist and programmer and also a professional in mixing and mastering. His first band “Big Zingo” hit the French charts in 1987, while he was still a student at Lyon’s jazz school. In 1996, he got his bachelor degree in sound engineering and instantly entered the music industry by making music for Sony, many games such as “SimCity”, as well as many popular TV shows. At the same year he started an advance course in writing and composing, which made him a teacher. In 1997 the “Patman” project was born, a band involved into “electrorock” that enjoyed great success and was licensed by Sony music. Since 1999, “Pat” has advanced his production skills and has been a programmer, teacher and trainer for more than 100 bands, dealing with countless singles and albums arrangements.

The new Neuromotor album soon on its way by Medusa Records!

BLANKA

Blanka (a.k.a. Dubi Elkayam) was exposed to music from a very early age as he comes from a family of musicians. Drumming from the age of nine helped him to join Israeli rock bands were he also released a rock album in "Hed Arzi", one of the leading Israeli music labels. In between working at different studios, music companies and TV stations, Dubi discovered the trance scene and culture. His success in Israel came long before he released his first track through playing almost every weekend in the Israeli deserts and forests. Blanka released his first EP, "Dragon" in early 2003, as well as many powerful hallucinative tracks on many compilations. His first album, "Infinity", saw the light at the end of 2003, were his second album “Satisfaction” was released in 2005. Both albums have delivered a lot of energy in many dance floors around the globe. His third album “Free Flow” was the step forward to new musical dimensions that Dubi has gain through the years has passed.

PAINKILLER

Painkiller is the solo project of Roy Engel coming out from Barcelona. Roy has been playing piano and drums since his childhood. He got introduced to the electronic scene from his friend Lior Pearlmuter (Astral Projection) and since then he has been experimenting with the production. A few years later, he moved to San Francisco, where he met Samy (CPU), Nikka (Mekkanikka) and Max and Davina (Sirius Isness). At that time Roy was making a more progressive sound. After some time, Roy (ex-member of Inner Action) met with Nitsan and then the Inner Action project born. Since then, they started making full-on and have been participated to many international festivals along many famous and well respected artists. The Painkiller project can be described as the ultimate power full-on cutting edge music. With more than 15 released tracks and many more to come, are you ready to kill the pain?

Origin: Israel
Style: Trance

BEYONDECLIPTICA

Beyondecliptica (a.k.a. Marko Radovanovic) is a new promising talent from Belgrade (Serbia). He started playing drums, bass and guitar in 1999 and since then his music has evolved. In 2001 he decided to make the step towards the electronic scene and since then he has been working hard to develop his own unique style. Influenced by big names such as GMS and 1200 Micrograms, he’s music can be described as the ultimate powerful dancefloor full-on. Medusa Records is proud to sign this emerging new talent and soon expect the unexpected.

Origin: Serbia
Style: Trance

SYSTEM BROTHERS

System Brothers (a.k.a. Ata & Hie Petillo) are two brothers from Trancoso (Brazil). Since 2000 the full-on scene has been growing rapidly in Brazil, the System Brothers project was born. At this time the brothers were djing in parties all around Bahia. Since then, they have been playing in the biggest festivals around Brazil including massive global events such as Trancendence, Universso Paralello, Tranceformation, Celebra Brazil and Cachoeira Alta. Their music is characterised by its bass lines and full-on melodies. They have also released tracks on numerous known record labels.

Origin: Brazil
Style: Morning Trance

INNER ACTION

Inner Action (a.k.a. Nitsan Shachaf) is from the north of Israel and has been involved in music for many years. The Inner Action project was formed five years ago in Berkeley (California) and in 2001 moved to Barcelona (Spain). Since then, Inner Action has been combining he’s technology and musical background to develop he’s unique skills and sound. Inner Action can be described as powerful and uplifting. Until today he has released many tracks on different compilations on all known international labels around the globe and has also released he’s first album (with ex-member Roy Engel). Currently, Inner Action collaborates with many international artists.

Origin: Israel
Style: Trance

PSYCHE LOGOS

The concept of this project is to go beyond the frontiers, amplifying the vision of those who listen, through a new experience which will be complete and spiritual, where the entire universe becomes music. The mind behind “Psyche Logos” is Cassio Centurion, musician and producer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1999 discovered the “psytrance” and soon started his first project. He studied music and composition at the music college, with composer and maestro Rodrigo Vitta. Beside the guitar, Cassio also plays piano, drums, bass and saxophone. His main musical influences come from jazz, blues, classical music, bossa nova, progressive rock and every kind of electronic music. During the years, he's been working as audio engineer, mastering engineer, musical producer and as a musician of EMI Brazil, completing seventeen years of studies and work in music and professional audio. In 2004 he started his current solo project "Psyche Logos" and since then he has played next to many well known artists. In the beginning of 2008, Cassio has joined up with Medusa Records and now is working on his debut album.

Origin: Brazil
Style: Trance

BIO GENESIS

Bio Genesis is the freshest and one of the most exciting new projects coming out from Mexico. Behind Bio Genesis is Mikeldi Murguia & Carlos Perez, born in Mexico and currently living in Spain. United since childhood, the duo grew up together creating a fusion of sound which would manifest itself in many forms. Mikeldi and Carlos began making music together about 7 years ago. They both started a rock band and played together in various local spots for quite some time. After a few years of playing together, they realized the limitations they were facing. Since they got introduced into the psytrance scene, a totally new light upon music creation came up and their interest for music as well as for the quality & diversity of sound developed rapidly. Bio Genesis has been producing psy-trance for about 2 years now and have brought together various elements of the more morning as well as the crunchy night sounds, all mixed together in one superb strong and powerful psychedelic fusion of both distinctive styles together. Their sounds are built upon throbbing phat and groovy basslines and pumped forward by dynamic bashing beats, which in the end composes a strong irresistible fusion of frequencies that create the ultimate hybrid bio-genetic sound.

Origin: Mexico
Style: Trance

XENZODIAK

Xenzodiak (a.k.a. Albert Xenzo) is the new talent from Lisbon (Portugal). He has been involved in music since he was 13 years old by playing bass and drums. Always around funk, jazz and metal music, Xenzo was playing in jam sessions until he discovered the full-on scene. By that time he had built his own studio, and after working hard he is here to present his own powerful story. His music can be described as storming full-on, by its full-on grooves and twisted sounds and melodies. Xenzodiak has played at numerous parties alongside known national and international artists. Watch out for this new talent.

TWISTED REACTION

Twisted ReAction (a.k.a. Edvin Alperavitch) was born in Lithuania but has been living in Israel for the past ten years. At the age of twelve he got introduced to the electronic scene and since then he has been experimenting with music production. Ever since he built his own professional studio, he has worked hard until finally the Twisted ReAction project was born. The styles of trance he is making are both morning and night time, always characterised by futurist sounds, great bass lines, twisted sounds and groove pads. He has already released many tracks on many labels such as Sigma, Tokyo X-Ray, Pixan, Shivlink, YSE, Goa Records, Geomagnetic, Boundless Music, Enigmatic Sound, Sundance Records, Planet Ben and many more.  His debut album "Action" was released on Geomagnetic and his second album, which consists of two parts “Androids Never Dream Pt.1” & “Androids Never Dream Pt.2”, will be released on Medusa Records.

Origin: Lithuania
Style: Trance

SINGLE DOSE

Single Dose (a.k.a. Felipe Eduardo Moya) has been one of the mainstream DJs and artists of Minas Gerais since 1999, where his first gigs were at the state of Bahia. Few years later, he played in all big festivals in Brazil such as Earthdance, Festival da Independência, Universo Paralello, TIP World, Orion, Etnica Festival, Shagadelic, Megavonts, Samsara Trance Festival and has played next to names such as Alien Project, Raja Ram, Shane Gobi, Silicon Sound, Wrecked Machines, Max Lafranconi, Mack, Pixel, Dimitri Nakov, Shanti Matkin and many more to mention. His style can be described as morning sound, always dancy and powerful, coming out of the colorful lines of energetic dance groovy music.

Origin: Brazil
Style: Trance

HYT

HYT (a.k.a. Henry T.) is the new talented dj & producer from Belem (Brazil). He has been djing since 1996 and start with the production since 2000. Henry is the master of full-on night pumping music, mixed with dance psychedelic rhythms of his region. He’s music is always dancy and has proved the true vibe of psychedelic at every dancefloor he has played so far. HYT has played in all big festivals around his region and all around Brazil, along many established artists such as Void, Infected Mushroom, Pixel, Skazi, GMS, Eskimo, CPU, Shift, Paranormal Attack, Dimitri Nakov, Rica Amaral and Dj Feio. Since 2005, HYT’s music has been played by many top class djs around the globe and certainly HYT is the new upcoming name from the magic land of Brazil. Medusa welcomes you on board, please fasten your seatbelt.

Origin: Brazil
Style: Trance

ARTSENSE

Artsense (a.k.a. Vladislav Malkov) was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1998, he started experimenting with a variety of different styles and in 2000 he was greatly interested in learning the guitar. Since then, Vladislav has been experimenting and in 2006 the Artsense project was born. His music can be described as fresh, melodic, atmospheric and definitely full-on… so get prepared for the new waves, in the art of music!

Origin: Russia
Style: Trance

DECERTO

Decerto (a.k.a. Kostas Denegris) was born and brought up in Athens, Greece. At the very early age, he learnt to play the piano and soon after the guitar. Kostas has always been keen to learn and has so far finished a course in music production and released many tracks on Discobole records as part of different projects. His tracks are characterised by serious leads and atmospheres, potent bass lines and exuberant vibes.

Origin:Greece
Style: Trance

FREAKFACTORY

FreakFactory (a.k.a. Rudney & Raone) is the new morning-sound project coming from Bahia, Brazil. The project was formed in the middle of 2006 and since they have start playing all around Brazil they have been enjoying a great attention. Their music can be described as the clear full-on morning sound, with playful basslines and joyful melodies. Never too hard, never too light, FreakFactory is on its way from the sunshine.

Origin: Brazil
Style: Morning Trance