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ALEX M.O.R.P.H.: “Music is the Key. Melodies are the Path. 
Beats are Universal”.

Since the mid 90s Alex M.O.R.P.H has set out to shapeshift within the dance scene as per his alias, leaving no facet of trance unturned and showing the top of the tree is a position that he’s grown rather fond of. Even in a time where stats and streams, followers and figures are pushed to the front, the maths behind M.O.R.P.H’s staying power are frankly mind-boggling. ‘Not All Superheroes Wear Capes’ said the man on his 2016 album – but M.O.R.P.H. is deserving of honours fit for a king. “Passion, discipline, a lot of hard work, and most importantly the love for music”, ensure his crown never slips.

From collaborations with Paul van Dyk and Armin van Buuren (both of whom have always repped M.O.R.P.H. to the fullest), to remixes of Dash Berlin, Gareth Emery, Aly & Fila and Faithless, M.O.R.P.H. is the epitome of can’t stop-won’t stop, earning VIP entry to the globe’s most in-demand clubs and arenas as he continues with the energy and passion of his 1996 self when the Seelenlandschaften imprint came calling. It’s telling that M.O.R.P.H. being the first and only German DJ to play New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden, puts his touring and gig commitments in a different league considering his knocking-out-the-park performances at Cream Ibiza, Mayday, Ultra Music Festival and the ubiquitous A State of Trance spectaculars. Godskitchen, Ushuaia Ibiza, Space Miami, his own HeavensGate takeovers – all mega-scale spaces the German has commanded with ease and never taken for granted, delivering shows and sets living long in the memory while leaving you fiending for his next throb of beats. 

With M.O.R.P.H. still on a high-riding rollercoaster after all these years, cruising through ‘Sunset Boulevard’ while keeping the vibe at ‘Maximum Overdrive’, he has never lost sight of the true goal in life: “find your personal balance, keep things in line – and don’t risk your health!” A true exponent of knowing the scene never sits still, M.O.R.P.H.’s longevity and get-up-and-go overlaps into his handling of the Universal Nation label and podcast series: the man eats, sleeps and breathes music. Global lockdown may have forced a temporary timeout, but it only stirred creativity and tapped into other production processes, ready for when the world was good to go again.

Anyone with a keen ear for the High Contrast label over the last 18 months or so will have heard M.O.R.P.H. hiding in plain sight with a surefire supply of thrills and spills, adding to his reputation as a master of sounds under multiple names maintaining both melodic and attacking instincts. Again it’s all about balance and the right way of going about keeping things simple: “it’s just so important that all elements fit together well: that’s how you keep the atmosphere instead of just adding some big and loud synths in the break that rips the audience in two. It might work fine on the dancefloor, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not how I do things”. Always an in-demand remixer, if you’re given the keys to take on hall-of-famers such as ‘Madagascar’ by Art of Trance and ‘Carte Blanche’ by Veracocha, you know you’ve been doing something right. “One thing has never changed – a heart beating for music”.
 
Back to those statistics. M.O.R.P.H. is an all-time trance bestseller on Beatport and has twice entered the fabled DJ Mag Top 100 list. With a calculator-smashing amount of productions, remixes, compilation mixes and single of the year awards, M.O.R.P.H. has proved time and again his music is for the masses, with streams for favourites such as ‘An Angel’s Love’ and ‘The Reason’ racing into the millions upon millions. On top of being A State of Trance go-to guy and a Vandit Records MVP, he has released on major movers such as Ministry of Sound and Armada. And M.O.R.P.H. isn’t done yet. “I want to get trance back there where it belongs - to the main stages, to more people, sharing with them how gorgeous our music is, and how essential it is to experience it together”. With two new singles reflecting his worldwide adventures - ‘Calling Berlin’ and ‘Calling San Francisco’ – and another album in the pipeline, you believe Alex M.O.R.P.H. is still the man to make all these things happen.

Psychedelic music from independent, unique artists.
We are a Cape Town based music Collective, focused on providing quality underground music to our listeners.

🎶 La música nos une | Music unites us 🌍
Canal de música y cultura Trance Psicodélica. / Channel of music and culture Psychedelic Trance.

Find all the music from the Hadra Trance Festival here! Lives & Djsets from past editions, playlists to discover the program, podcasts and compilations !

The Hadra association was founded in Grenoble in 2001 by a group of fans of electronic music and in particular psychedelic trance. Etymologically, the “hadra” designates, in Arabic, the collective trance as it is practiced during the ceremonies of Moroccan religious brotherhoods, in particular the Issawas.

The association began from its creation to organize “psytrance parties” that gathered 300 to 400 people in the Grenoble region, in an adapted and legal framework, to allow access for all to a culture still too little known and also the meeting and exchange between the public and the local and international artists invited for the occasion.
 
In 2005, the Hadra Trance Festival was born: a unique event in terms of its organization, the values it defends, but above all by its eclectic and multidisciplinary program that mixes musicians, video artists, visual artists and performers.
 
Over the years, the festival has become the biggest celebration of Trance culture in France and is now recognized as a reference in Europe and around the world. Over the years, the festival has conquered the hearts of the ever-growing number of festival-goers.  The Hadra Trance Festival is one of the rare big international psytrance festivals to be non-profit-making: all the festival’s proceeds are reinvested in the associative project.

Receiving data from random creative psychedelic neuro connections, world wild artists will take you on a journey of digital and analog soundscapes not yet explored by mankind. 
These spiritual beat seekers travel on a progressive journey exploring freaky dark progressive and techno elements, among others. 

With underground as our target and with creativity for strength, we emerge to entertain you and save your ears from sameness. 

Interested in Booking one of our artists? Want to send a demo?

contact@padangrecords.net

MGMT: angelica@carino.agency
Bookings: avril@futura-artists.com - meri@futura-artists.com

Occulta Records is a dark progressive psytrance label founded by Braindrop in 2009.
Since it's inception it has grown to be one of the most respectable imprints within the genre with a truly global audience.
Drawing inspiration from the deep and technical side of progressive trance we aim to create a platform to showcase modern forms of progressive electronic music with a firm focus on quality and innovation. 

Info / bookings / demos : occultarecords (at) gmail (.) com

DEMO POLICY : Please listen to our catalog carefully before sending. Send 3-4 tracks as Soundcloud private playlists to the above email. NO DOWNLOAD links. If you are making your first steps with music production, take your time , polish your skills and send us when you are ready. If the music fits, we will be in touch with you.

Find our roster here : https://etherealdecibel.com/artistes/

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Ethereal Decibel Records

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