Changing Wind - Divasonic Interview


Divasonic is Lynda Arnold, a Bay Area vocalist, classical multi-instrumentalist and an artist that defines new paths in music. Her vocal performance and lyrics are as intricate as the instrumentation that she uses. We are re ...

The Bus, The Bribe, The Shrine: Aphrodesia goes to Afrobeat Mecca on Lagos by Bus


Watching a large van of gesticulating American musicians in hot pursuit of Nigerian soldiers is an uncommon site in the city of Lagos. But the members of San Francisco band Aphrodesia had no choice. The band’s new album, Lagos by Bus, (released on Cyberset Music)— which uses Afrobeat as a backbo ...

Interview with Mystical Sun

Mystical Sun has delighted the world with lush melodic music for over a decade. One of the first artists to have success using the MP3 format, Mystical Sun has always been at the cutting edge of music and technology. Cyberset's Justin Weiner recently talked with Richard of Mystical Sun about his ...

Mystical Sun FAQ



MYSTICAL SUN FAQ
(Last updated 01/01/2007)


Q:  What is Mystical Sun?
A:  Mystical Sun is the moniker of a recording artist who produces cinematic and deep electronic / ambient / chill / world / groove mu ...

Interview with Single Cell Orchestra

Miguel Fierro, aka Single Cell Orchestra, has been a constant influence in the electronic music scene since his first release, a remix of Rozalla’s “Everybody's Free (to feel good)” in 1992. In January 1993 he released his first solo work, "The Liberated EP" on Zoemagik, and a colorful and ecle ...

Stephen Kent

by Robert Phoenix

In the Global-music scene Stephen Kent is among the most established musicians playing the didgeridoo in a contemporary context. As a solo artist, Kent has produced 3 albums: Songs From the Burnt Earth, Landing, and most recently, Treea double CD tha ...

Quirk

Electronic Sonic Junkies
Interview by Michael Gosney

Quirk`s [January] 1999 album Quality Control on Matsuri is a milestone in the new impossible-to-categorize music emerging from the psy-trance cybercircles, funky grooves, digital soundz, steel guitar, vocals, on and on. With ...

DJ TeeBee

Black Science Labs Magician
Interview by Ms.E & Adam Ohana

With an unmatched source of energy and precision, he is a master of two turntables, the production studio and Kung Fu! The music transmitting from TeeBee hits like a bold of lightning but the difference is that this it`s boun ...

DJ Craze

DJ Craze: World's Greatest DJ - 3X DMC World Champion
Reported by Stephanie Smiley of PUSH MEDIA

DJ Craze is on a rampage...

On September 22nd - at MOVEMENT (Rumba Bar) in London - DJ Craze played to a packed and jumping crowd, following a s ...

DJ Spooky

Watch that Man: The Many Phases of Paul D. Miller
By Robert Phoenix

I first spied DJ Spooky (AKA Paul D. Miller) at the final New Music Seminar in 1994. He was on a panel of ambient eggheads that included Tom Middleton of Global Communication, Silent`s Kim Cascone and the ubiquitous ...

Richie Hawtin

Stretching Boundaries: Plastikman Loosens Up
Words by Robert Phoenix

"Plastikman was created in the dirty cracks, in the dirty warehouses in Detroit. That`s where he came from."

Richie Hawtin (a.k.a. Plastikman) stretched across the Canadian/US border in the late Eightie ...

Goa Gil

From the Family Dog in 60s SF to Goa, India to the global psy-trance movement...
The Interview by Michael Gosney

Goa Gil is widely credited with popularizing the original "Goa Trance" sound which has evolved into today`s psychedelic trance. Gil began his journey in the Bay Area, b ...

The Secret Life of Trance

Investigating the Cross-Cultural Connection Between Music and Religious Experience
by Robin Sylvan

Music fills the air and deep rhythms lock into an irresistable groove. Swept up in the beat, the dancers enter into profound altered states of consciousness, surrendering to the ecstasy ...

Raja Ram

The UK`s psychedelic muse... is Shpongled.
The Interview by Michael Gosney

Raja Ram is one of the deep lights in the UK trance scene. The Infinity Project was an early beacon of light, and the vibe continues big time at the turn of the millennium with many projects and events and ...

Tracking the Tribe

By Jonathan Zwickel

As a band that plays over 300 gigs a year, Sector 9 isn`t easy to pin down for an interview. But get the guys talking and prepare for a conversation that you`ll never forget. Radio-V talks to Sound Tribe Sector 9`s Hunter Brown and David Murphy about settling d ...

Terence McKenna

Dreaming Awake at the End of Time

"Everything is a blessing and everything comes as a gift. And I don`t regret anything about the situation I find myself in. If psychedelics don`t ready you for the great beyond, then I don`t know what really does. And we`re all under sentence of `movin ...

Trance Dancing with Shiva Nataraj

A Day in the Life of a Devadasi
by Nikki Lastreto

You`ve seen him a million times, the dancing deity in the ring of fire, the image of the Hindu god Shiva Nataraj. His gentle face radiates compassion while his ecstatic movements manifest primal rhythmic energy, or Shakti, and ref ...

Groove

Are you feeling it?
Interview with Writer/Director Greg Harrison by Ms. E

What a landmark to witness the unfolding of this truly authentic portrayal of the colorful, emotional, electronically-charged nocturnal journey of rave culture. Groove is an independentl ...

The World According to Moby

Moby: Vegan, Christian, Proto-Punk, Self-Exposing Enfant Terrible who twisted bits of the Twin Peaks soundtrack into one of the first Techno hits (?Go?) is riding the crest of a newfound popularity with the breakthrough release of Play. Voted one of the top 99 albums of the Nineties by Spin, the opi ...

The DJ Speaks

13 mixmasters reveal their personal philosophies of musical expression...


TOMAS

+What`s your take on the dynamic of the Trinity: Producer/DJ/Dancer, what makes that complete?

 There is some energy, you might call it "inspiration" that a producer fee ...