LOOPBABA LIVE (escape Festival 2013)

The maha spheric heart of the solar system

Ishikawa is Angad Kapoor from Mumbai, India and now based in San Francisco, USA. At age 14, he first came into contact with psytrance listening to Infected Mushroom’s Psycho and that was the beginning of a lifelong obsession. Over the years his interest grew in music for the twilight hours featuring music from the likes of Scorb, Digital Talk, and Rubix Qube alongside his first love that was epic morning and full on music paced. In 2010 he decided to join Phonix Records with the intent of promoting upcoming artists and above all – pushing nothing but good music. Since then he has gone to play at a number of festivals - Equinox (USA), Caracha Experience (Mexico), The Great Funspiracy (Canada) to name a few. In 2011, he joined the legendary Mechanik Records family till it finally closed down. Today he has diversified his sound palette into groovy forest music from the likes Blacklite Records, Looney Moon Records and Bom Shanka Music running from 148-152 bpm. His mixes have been regularly featured on a number of radio streams now, Radio Schizoid (India) where he helped organize show & interviews, Pump Up The Volume (France), Boomadelic (Israel), The Cheeky Grin (Australia) and Babaganousha (Germany).  Fast forward to 2019 Ishikawa proudly manages Phonix Records as well as represents Kaos Krew Records as a DJ. In 2020, Ishikawa also created a new DJ alias -Saturate- focused on melodic house music for slower grooves. Today, with 11 compilations to his name, over 50 releases overseen on home label Phonix Records - Ishikawa is at his happiest listening, sharing and spreading psytrance music.

Loopbaba is the downtempo electronic music side of Apo from New Delhi producing music with styles ranging from chill out, reggae, reggae dub, drum and bass, as well as deep house / techno and ambient dance music. His festival performances take the crowd through vivid connections between different genres of music. Known most for Dub, Loopbaba infuses roots reggae with contemporary forms of beat and bass music . 

Releases: 'Obscurity (Music from the vaults of 2002-2011)' (CD 2011)
                 'Luminosity (Music from the vaults of 2004-2014)' (CD July 2014)
Festivals: Area 79 (New Delhi), Escape (Naukutchiyatal), VH1 Supersonic (Goa), Ragasthan (Khuri Dunes), Celeste Festival (Musoorie)

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