MrGasmask - Clear Intent

- Tribe | Acid | Tekno | Trance
- Near Dresden

one of two Subway Shamans

www.mrgasmask.com
www.facebook.com/SubwayShamans/

[ info & bookings ]
weird planet agency : booking@weird-planet.eu

* Didart-Didart Techno , On : YouTube ... .

Oh, Hi. Let me tell you a story about my love for crazy music.

For most of my life I've been a relatively quiet and reserved person. However if you were to listen to the tracks shared on my profile you'd probably think the exact opposite. As far back as 2008, when I was just 11 years old, I had an interest in 'hard' music. At that time it was heavy metal and rap. Anyone who knows me personally should know this all too well! To this day I don't know why I enjoy this kind of music as much as I do, and I find that almost as fascinating as the music itself.

My journey with electronic music began in late 2009 with GTA 4's Electro Choc radio station. At first I didn't know how to find similar heavy electro songs, but that all changed in the summer of 2011 when a good friend of mine sent me First of the Year by Skrillex. From the moment I heard the sound of Skrillex I was hooked. In the years since I was first introduced to electronic music via GTA 4 and Skrillex, I've discovered and fallen in love with many different artists and genres...

From 2011-2013 I listened mostly to dubstep, drum & bass and trap, and artists such as Knife Party, Datsik, Kill The Noise, Dirtyphonics, Noisia, and of course Skrillex. In late 2013 I was searching for remixes of 'Make It Bun Dem' when I found Coone's remix. Finding this remix wasn't just finding a new song, it was finding a completely new style of music: hardstyle. The first few hardstyle artists I discovered were Headhunterz, Coone, and Zatox, and I just couldn't get enough of the hard, loud, and fast bass. 

I started listening to a lot of hardstyle and trap artists during 2014 such as LNY TNZ, Yellow Claw, Davoodi, and Kayzo. Towards the end of 2014 I took an interest in some house producers whose music had never really caught my attention in the past. These were artists such as DVBBS, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, and VINAI, although I was particularly interested in their heavier tracks and 'hard' edits. I also discovered psytrance and hard house this year, but my interest in these genres wouldn't peak for almost a year later.

In early 2015, I was listening to a lot of Audiofreq, Botnek, and DJ Isaac, among other artists. One of these other artists was Paraform, who gave me a proper introduction into the strange and trippy world of psychedelic trance with his mesmerising tunes. I soon discovered Infected Mushroom, as well as artists such as Astrix and Electric Universe. Around the same time I started listening to psytrance, I was also listening to a lot of hard house, and artists such as Junkie Kid and Calixto.

In April 2016, Hard Psy by Starx & VVL was released, and it has had a profound influence on my music taste in the two years since its release. The fusion of hardstyle and psytrance, two of my favourite genres, is irresistible. To this day it remains one of the genres I listen to the most. In 2017 I discovered Murdock, a local artist who produces and promotes a variety of dance music from techno to rawstyle. His taste in music has helped shape my own in the time since discovering him. Throughout 2017 I listened mainly to hardpsy but also gained an increased interest in techno and tech-house. 

Towards the end of 2018 I was browsing the techno charts when by chance I discovered a song that was not in fact techno, but tekno. This track, No Magic, No Miracles, combined the structure of techno, the psychedelia of trance, and a kick-drum similar to hardstyle in a manner which blew my mind. My love for "acid" music such as acid tekno and acid core is an evolution of my love for psychedelic trance, and MrGasmask has even been kind enough to provide a few tracks that blur the lines between the two. Throughout 2019 I listened to a lot of Ling Ling, MrGasmask and Enko, with tekno, hardpsy, and rawstyle being the genres I listened the most.

2020 has primarily been a continuation of my music interests from 2019. Hardstyle and various related genres such as rawstyle, hardcore and hardpsy/psystyle continue to be my most trusted source of bass. I have also been listening to a growing number of artists who are pushing the boundaries of hard dance music and electronic music in general. KAMI and C-NETIK being two of these artists. Hybrid tracks between various forms of hard dance music and trap/dubstep/dnb are commonplace amongst my collection for the first time; testimony to the increase in production value over the years. Another aspect of my finds in 2020 which differs to previous years is that I struggle to define a lot of tracks by a genre less generic than "hard dance music". Experimental tracks that go beyond the norm of hardstyle, psytrance and techno have entered my life, with tunes such as This is a Test (TACCERS Edit), MrGasmask - Salvation and KAMI - HARDBEAT MARKET 2019 providing enough stimulation to launch a large animal some distance into the air and enough variety to confuse a magician.

Shoutout to a few artists who deserve a mention: The Prodigy, Vini Vici, Fifty Caliber Snax, Angerfist, and Camelphat.