Iftach Yakar was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and lived an ordinary life. Until one day, several years ago, De Duck emerged. No one knows where it came from, but this cute-looking rubber duck placed itself on top of Iftach's head. Using it as a host, he took over his mind and began producing electronic music. Quickly enough, De Duck became drawn to Psytrance like a duck to a pond. It wasn't long until he decided that making Progressive-Psychedelic-Trance should be his main focus. His spectrum of influences stretches from Progressive Rock to Glitch, from Jazz to modern Psytrance.
Apart from the music, De Duck is also a duck scientist. He specializes in building his own custom midi-hardware and synth modifications. This makes his live act unique and mesmerizing!
De Duck hosted a weekly show on Glitch.FM internet radio for a year. He has played in most major clubs, venues and festivals in Israel and also around the world.
Booking & info: TheDuck4212@gmail.com

Amir, Also well known for his other project "Xerox & Illumination", is an active producer in the psy scene since 1998,
A talented musician and a top-notch sound engineer,  Released 7 studio albums and played in almost every spot around the globe, Now proud to present you his new solo project "Born Sleepy", the style as he describes is  "A mixture between new generation progressive beats and the good old goa trance atmosphere i grew up on"

Born Sleepy's First EP will be released soon on HOMmega Prod.
Stay tuned for more tunes and info coming soon!!

Official Fanpage :

http://www.facebook.com/BornSleepy

A true force in the Psytrance world and beyond it, Yoni Oshrat, better known as Ace Ventura, isn't just a DJ and producer - he's an experience. For over two decades, his infectious energy has ignited dance floors worldwide. From intimate clubs to headlining major festivals, Ace Ventura has captivated audiences with his signature style. His music is characterised by a fusion of hard, pumping dancefloor oriented themes and deeper, groovier influences, always immersed in psychedelia. As a DJ his diverse musical tastes and vast musical knowledge enables him to create unique sonic experiences. In times when lineups consist mostly of short producer sets, Yoni pushes the envelope to play long sets that tell a real story, going back to the origins of DJ culture.

His passion for psytrance extends far beyond music. Alongside Liquid Soul, he co-founded Psy-Nation, a global movement encompassing a monthly radio show/podcast and a travelling party line. This dedication to the genre fosters community and discovery for psytrance enthusiasts everywhere.

While psytrance is his domain, Ace Ventura's musical curiosity extends to downtempo and dub universes.  This deep appreciation for diverse electronic styles adds another layer to his artistry, evident in his acclaimed "Ace Ventura in Dub" sets.

Ace Ventura isn't confined to the booth. Beyond solo ventures, he collaborates on successful projects like Alpha Portal (with Astrix), Alien Art (with Captain Hook), Liquid Ace (with Liquid Soul), and Acid Punks (with Outsiders), each project offering a different sound adventure.

For Bookings:
Worldwide: bergsounds@gmail.com


Israel-based artist Berg—a.k.a. Shlomi Berg—has entertained hundreds of thousands of followers around the world. His performances encompass a half-dozen of the world’s most acclaimed—and massive—dance parties, including A State Of Trance (ASOT), Dreamstate (EDC), Tribe and XXXperience.

At the age of 29, Berg has already become one of the globe’s leading acts—over the course of eight years, when the sonic mixologist first launched his name brand. His ability to bring a crowd to its feet with hands waving in unison, as well as his mad beats, have fans from nearly every nation in the world pleading for him to make an appearance.

Across the time Berg has been consolidating his own style based on the desire to mix different sounds that brought inspiration, being able to take it to a new level which gave him the opportunity to collaborate with different artists such like Neelix, Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Bryan Kearney just to name few of them, releasing amazing tunes into well known labels like Armada, Spin Twist Records, and so Blue Tunes Records, in which he is currently signed up.

Berg has released four EPs and 2 album projects where we can find some of his worldwide hits like Bayaka and Randa.

Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

alt-J are Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Thom Green. They returned in 2022 with their latest album, The Dream.  

alt-J are one of the most successful British bands of the millennium. Their 2012 Mercury Prize and Ivor Novello Award-winning debut An Awesome Wave, was followed two years later by their number one, GRAMMY and BRIT Award-nominated album This Is All Yours. Released in 2017, RELAXER flew straight into the top 10 of the UK album chart ahead of a summer of major international shows - including a headline show at London’s O2 Arena and headline performances at numerous festivals - and became their second album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize.

Bookings & contact via bmssrecords@gmail.com
Get my music here: https://bmssrecords.bandcamp.com/

Europe based Boom Shankar is a Dj for Psychedelic Trance, the label manager of BMSS Records, a mover, groover and event creator within Europe and Asia.

Having been initiated into the Goa Trance scene in the early Nineties and by travelling the globe ever since, his sets are a mirror of the constant melting pot of fundamental Psytrance characteristics.

Whether he is guiding the dance floor from the sunset through the night, from a peaking full moon into the sunrise, from the morning into a sun-blessed day, or closing a festival with one of his extended sets, the outcome is always a voyage filled with a depth and an energy that allows the crowd to experience a sense of freedom and a full expression of their self through Trance.

Energetic, ecstatic, transcendental, deep, mature, hypnotic and clearly distinguishable. Eye to eye with a unique and captivating smile.

Due to an experience of nearly 30 years behind the decks, and by having played at a plethora of underground & major events worldwide, he has developed a full understanding of the flow and the energies of each dance floor and is fully flexible in terms of "styles" which he considers a separation necessary to overcome. "Keeping it holistic" describes his approach to Psychedelic Trance probably best.

Through his fully improvised impromptu sets, he is able to interact personally with each dance floor, taking the audience on a trans-formative journey. His sets are not a performance, they are a direct form of communication through music, not a monologue but a full dialogue with the dancefloor which can last up to 12 hours. All of those journeys are unique and created in this specific moment in sync with the energy and the vibe of each dancefloor, a characteristic of the original approach to Djing Armin considers essential and necessary to keeping alive.

For Boom Shankar, this process of mutual giving and receiving between the Dj and the audience has led to rewarding and meaningful feedback from festivals like BOOM and Insomnia in Portugal, Universo Paralello in Brazil, Fusion, VooV, Indian Spirit and Antaris in Germany, Ozora and S.U.N. in Hungary, Glade in the UK, Summer never Ends, Reisefieber and Timegate in Switzerland, Hadra and Son Libre in France, Vortex in South Africa, Doof and Moksha in Israel, Transahara in Morocco, Transylvania Calling in Romania, Ometeotl, Poison and Fractal Dimension in Mexico, Universal Religion in Nepal and VER and Hill Top in India.

Memorable performances include headlining events in clubs from New York to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Montreal to Mexico City, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Shenzen, Osaka and Seoul to London, Berlin, Beirut and Tel Aviv, Cape Town to Melbourne, Bangalore and Goa and in nearly every other major venue and Trance epicentre in the world.

Besides this, Boom Shankar is the label manager of BMSS Records, where he has released a dozen best-selling compilations so far:

Transmissions, Transition, Cosmic Connections, the Trancendance triptych series (Prologue - Denouement - Epilogue), Trancefusion 1 and Trancefusion 2, the 20 years anniversary double CD compilation Return to the Source I and Return to the Source II and Ailiphilia Chapter 1 and 2.

Those compilations featured artists such as Aes Dana, Braincell, Tristan, Technossomy, Etnica, Pleiadians, Hux Flux, Total Eclipse, Sonic Species & Avalon, Eat Static, Pogo, Lucas & Mechanimal, Egorythmia, Ovnimoon, Atmos, Cosmosis, Electrypnose, Hujaboy, Captain Hook, Headroom & Zen Mechanics, Entheogenic, Talpa, Martian Arts, Outsiders, ManMadeMan, Hypnoise or Hypnocoustics alongside all BMSS Records residents.

In addition, Boom Shankar is part of the S.U.N. Festival crew in Hungary, the Alice im Wummerland party series in Germany, Moon Mountain family in Thailand, Belantara Festival in Malaysia and a dozen other projects in which he contributes his energy and time in order to promote psychedelic culture globally as a true ambassador of Trance.

Festivals appearances:

ADMC (South Korea / 2023)
Alice im Wummerland (Germany / 2010 - 2021)
Antaris Project (Germany / 2009 / 2012)
Atlas Festival (2018 / Italy)
Atlas Connection Festival (Italy / 2022)
Ayata Festival (Turkey / 2015)
Bachblyten Festival (Germany / 2023)
Belantara Festival (Malaysia / 2013 - 2021)
Bioritme Festival (Spain / 2016)
Black Moon Festival (Italy / 2011 / 2015)
BOOM Festival (Portugal / 2022)
Camakavum Festival (Germany / 2018)
Connection Festival (Spain / 2013 / 2014 / 2015)
Desert Dance Festival (Egypt / Multiple)
Doof Festival (Israel / 2013 / 2016)
Earth Garden Festival (Malta / 2012 - 2023)
Elementra Festival (Switzerland / 2017)
Era Festival (Canada / 2022)
Esoteric Festival (Australia / 2019)
Fantasia Festival (Italy / 2023)
Free Life Festival (Canada / 2019)
Freqs of Nature Festival (Germany / 2014)
Full Moon / Black Moon (Thailand / 2002 / 2019 / 2020)
Funny Moon Festival (Czech / Multiple)
Fusion Festival (Germany / 2013 / 2016 / 2022)
Genesis Festival (USA / 2013)
Glade Festival (UK / 2012)
Hadra Festival (France / Multiple)
Half Moon Festival (Thailand / Multiple)
Hexaplex Festival (Lebanon / 2015 / 2016)
Imaginaria (Italy / 2013 / 2014)
Indian Spirit Festival (Germany / Multiple)
Insomnia Festival (Portugal / Multiple)
Kannibalen Massaker (Germany / 2008 - 2016)
Klika of Happiness (Israel / Multiple)
Lost in Paradise Festival (Thailand / 2014 - 2017)
Lost in Paradise (New Zealand / 2019)
Magic Castle of Mesocco (Switzerland / 2004 - 2008)
Maitreya Festival (Australia / 2016)
Moon Mountain (Thailand / 2011 - 2024)
Mumush Festival (Romania / 2023)
Nayama Gathering (Armenia / 2023)
Neon Festival (Turkey / 2015)
New Vision Festival (Cambodia / 2020)
Odyssee NYE Festival (Germany / Multiple)
Ometeotl Festival (Mexico / 2015)
Omnia Festival (Canada / 2021)
Ozora Festival (Hungary / 2011)
Paradise Festival (Austria / 2010)
Paradise Waterfalls (Thailand / 2001 / 2002)
Poison Festival (Mexico / 2018)
PsyFi Festival (Netherlands / 2016 / 2017)
PsyTribe (USA / Multiple)
Rebirth of the Sun (Israel / 2012)
Reisefieber Festival (Switzerland / Multiple)
Ressuraction Festival (Cambodia / 2013)
Shankra Festival (Switzerland / 2015 / 2017 / 2019)
Shanti Gravity Festival (Cambodia / 2020)
Son Libre Festival (France / 2023)
Space Odyssey (Mexico / Multiple)
Spirit Base Festival (Czech / Multiple)
Spirit Tribe (China / 2015 / 2017 / 2018)
S.U.N. Festival (Hungary / 2013 - 2024)
Somuna Festival (Switzerland / 2010 / 2012)
Summer Never Ends Festival (Switzerland / 2009 / 2013)
The Experience Festival (Thailand / 2014)
Timegate (Switzerland / 2012 / 2014)
Trance Odyssey (Portugal/ 2024)
Trance Plants (USA / 2016)
Transahara (Morocco / 2013)
Transition Festival (Spain / 2007 - 2015 / 2023 / 2024)
Transylvania Calling (Romania / 2007)
Tree of Life Festival (Greece / 2017)
Tribal Dance (Japan / 2015)
Twisted Grove (Portugal / 2023)
Universal Religion (Nepal / 2015)
Universo Paralello (Brazil / 2022 / 2023)
VER Festival (Goa / 2023 / 2024)
VOOV Experience (Germany / 2014 - 2023)
Vortex Open Source (South Africa / Multiple)
Waldfrieden Hai in den Mai (Germany / 2013)
Way of Life Festival (Serbia / Multiple)
World Trance Festival (France / 2020)
Zagoa Festival (Morocco / 2014)

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Gaudium's Upcoming Gigs
Sat 10 Dec, 16 
Out Bauru, tba, Bauru, Brazil
Sat 17 Dec, 16 
Dantesk, Eurexpo, Chassieu, France
Sat 11 Feb, 17 
Iboga 20 Years, Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sat 18 Feb, 17 
Central Park, Babette Club, Zurich, Switzerland
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2004 was the year that two old friends, Andreas and Denis, decided to hit the studio to have some fun. After a couple of days the first tune was created and they were both very happy with the result. They decided to continue making music together and so Gaudium was born. Gaudium is the Latin word for satisfaction which is basically what music should be to the ears.

Both Andreas and Denis have been involved in several music projects before they decided to start producing together. At the end of 2004 the Swedish record label Spiral Trax heard a Gaudium track that really caught their attention and that became the start of the first album Nordic Nature. The album was released during the summer 2005 and received great reviews from both fans and critics all over the world, some even claiming it to be the best progressive release of the year (!)

The year after the album was released turned out to be a very productive time for Gaudium and they released tracks on labels like Flow, Plusquam, Sinn-Tech and Yellow Sunshine Explosion. Remixes on tracks by artists like Ace Ventura, Sensifeel, Visua and Symphonix were also made. 

Gaudium creates music that can be described as progressive psychedelic trance with elements of both house and techno. This attracts an audience that is used to the sounds of Spiral Trax, Iboga and Digital Structures as well as the crowd that are more familiar with harder progressive house such as Marc O’Tool and Krüger & Coyle.

In 2006 after the sad news that Spiral Trax label group stopped existing Gaudium went back to the studio to focus on not going down with the ship. A new album started to take shape and a record deal with the highly respected Danish label Iboga was made.

Gaudium is a name you will hear a lot from in the future. New remixes, performances around the world and fresh material produced for the second album will be presented. Stay tuned and make sure not to miss any of it :)

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