Psychedelic trance: Encyclopedia II - Psychedelic trance - Psychedelic trance artists and projects

Psychedelic trance - Psychedelic trance artists and projects

Psychedelic trance is often produced in a collaboration between two or more artists, called a "project". Somewhat different from other genres of music is the fact that one artist could be part of as much as ten or more projects, often simulteneously. Each different combination of artists almost always has a unique name. For example X-Dream (Jan Muller and Marcus Maichel) and Planet B.E.N. (Ben Wierzoch) are two well known projects from Germany. The collaboration between Jan and Ben is called Organic Noise and the collaboration between Marcus and Ben is called Fools and Tools. This partly accounts for the large number of psychedelic trance projects.

As shown above the names of projects made up of the same artists can often be unrelated, although this is not always the case. For example, many projects involving Infected Mushroom are often prefixed with the word "Infected" or postfixed with the word "Mushroom" (Examples: Domestic Mushroom, Infected Astrix).

Making things even more confusing is the fact that the same exact artist or group of artists will sometimes go under different project names to showcase different variations of their music.

Very few psychedelic trance artists release albums under their own name (Tim Schuldt is one exception). Instead, the name of the project is sometimes chosen to describe the theme of the music being produced. Not surprisingly, Crop Circles and Pleiadians releases are focused on the topic of space travel.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Psychedelic trance artists and projects", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki