Janux @ ShivaValley, GOA - Dec 2015

Janux, one of the founders of Sola Luna Festival, rises from the original Goa scene from the early 1980's, where he was part of the early roots of the Goa Trance & Psytrance family. He finally started DJing in 1998, and is signed with Forestdelic Records since 2025, and before that with Looney Moon Records from 2014-2025.  Earlier he was with Third Eye Records & Mechanik Records.

Janux ::the name comes from 'Janus', a mythical Roman god who has two faces: one dark, one light - one looking into the past, one looking into the future.

Janux is a night & twilight specialist, and a powerful Dj who can read any situation and play the perfect vibe for that space & time. Janux's style ranges from high energy trippy night music, to magical twilight, to strong & psychedelic morning sounds. His high energy performances packed full with killer mixing, sorcery, and dance power, transform the party into a powerful entity. 

His roots in music started in the mid 80's in Goa where he was a kid experiencing the early roots of the trance scene, and being in Goa every season for most of his life, and has also lived in Denmark, USA, London, Amsterdam, Bombay, and Goa. He has been DJing since 1998. 

Janux has played at parties and festivals all over the world including Boom Festival 2016, Ozora 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, Antaris 2015, 2016, 2023, Free Earth 2019, 2023, 2024, Sola Luna 2025, Modem 2016, Hadra 2014, Universal Religion, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, Tree of Life 2014, Hilltop Festival 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, Jungle Calling Festival @ Origens, WAO Festival 2015, Human Evolution 2015, Landjuweel Festival, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024,  Hilltop NYE more than 10 times from 2003 till 2023.

His Dj journey has put him behind the decks in NYC (where he started the Dj collective & party org. called “Sound Species”), Portugal, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Italy, Germany, Hungary, France, Oslo, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Nepal, Thailand, GOA (Hilltop, ShivaValley, Dream Beach, Origens, Pinakin, Chronicle, 9 Bar, Curlies, UV Bar, Bamboo Forest, Disco Valley), and many other places in India (Bombay, Bangalore, Delhi, Calcutta, Madras, Pune, Nasik) 

Janux hosted all the big psytrance parties that happen in Bombay, where he was the head of music programming at the legendary Blue Frog, the only club in India that did regular Psy nights with domestic & international artists. (and also various other electronic genres, and live bands across multiple genres as well)

Janux has also opened Goa’s first professional music production & recording studio. 

https://www.facebook.com/DjJanux
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/145486600
http://www.looney-moon.com/

www.facebook.com/StudioRaGoaMusicProductionRecording 
www.facebook.com/RaMusicRa (live music curation for festivals)

🗝️experiemental slambient darkpsy ritual🗝️