Profound - Pagans tale (WIP)

A solo project focused on energetic and psychedelic Psytrance.

The latest mix is Fire Distinguisher and it's set at about 148bpm, starting with high energy that gets more psychedelic as it progresses.

Label manager at State Alchemy Music
Live act: Compos Mentis 

Passionate psychedelic trance Producer and DJ hailing out of Cape Town, South Africa. A lover for all things weird, freaky and psychedelic. 
My two projects focus on my two different tastes for psychedelic music. Profound focuses on the groovier side of the spectrum with a full-on twist. The DJ project was created in 2016 where I started performing across the psy-circuit in Cape Town. In 2018 I received my first big festival booking at the well renown Alien Safari, shortly after I started receiving bookings for multiple different festivals across different cities in South Africa. In 2020 the project was booked for the largest Psychedelic festival in Africa - Origin Festival by Nano Records. The Profound project ranges anywhere from 144-148 and is versatile to cover various time slots at a festival.

Lysandros is my Live Project where I focus on a dark, organic sound that aspires to take the listener out of their mental and provides space for them to get lost in the music. This project draws major inspiration from the record label Sangoma Records as they capture that organic, tribal sound throughout their label. I first fell deep into psychedelic music when I discovered the label and I often found myself on a dancefloor just craving the intense atmosphere the Sangoma sound creates. This project will range anywhere from 150-156 and will focus on a dark atmospheric approach with eerie atmospheres waving through the forest coupled by interesting conversation between the leads. 

Resume:
Outdoor Festival Bookings: 
.Origin Festival 2020 (Nano Records)
.Vortex Parallel Universe - Easter Vortex
.Vortex Parallel Universe Awakening 
.Organik - Love Project 2019, 2020
.Organik - Gaian Dream 2019
.Echo gatherings, Valley of Spirits 2019 (Garden Route)
.Alien Safari - The Little Forest NYE Festival 2019/2020
.Alien Safari - Wild Spirits 2018
.Moksha Festival - 2018 (Johannesburg) 
.New years Revolution - 2017/2018,  2018/2019, 2019/2020 (Johannesburg)

Track releases:
Digital Shaman Records, Brahmasutra Records, Psynopticz Records, Predator Records, Arobealis Records

So we got lost in the Asian jungle for a couple of years, this is what we found.

Xed is the psytrance project by the Founder of Patronus records, Cedric Marugg. He discovered the psytrance scene and started playing DJ-Sets at local parties in 2016 and got himself immersed deeply into everything about it, due to falling in love with the music and dancing. After some parties he decided to organize his own events in the Swiss mountains and gather experience organizing raves. After two years of DJing he decided to dive into music production and started developing his skills with help by some of his friends (Mirror Engine, Metrix, Yaroc a.m.m.). Cedric quickly learned and distinguished himself as having a unique style very early on. 

As time went on, next to putting in lots of time into the record label, his production only grew more mature and clean, not loosing a bit in creative ideas. Wild, unorthodox breaks, funky stinging raygun sounds, poisonous acid stabs, reckless alien space battles and all the gud spacey shit included. Fun but yet introspective psychedelia, but undoubtedly different, generating excitement through sheer overflow of creative and brain-twirling patterns and grooves. Blasting as loud as possible is a moral obligation. 

He had the honor to play at some big events like the Sangoma Night in Zürich, Utopia Festival in Ticino, Sundaze festival,Burning Mountain, Reisefieber Festival & Sensory Spectrum in Oman. Patronus Records has been founded officially in 2018 and since then, Cedric, with all the fire in his heart, has been continuously putting great effort and work into it. His goals are always growing as an individual. He's driven by the idea of giving music lovers and dancers a smile, as well as hosting a family of like-minded people and giving them soil to grow on.

Tredecim and Datura (TreUra music) psychedelic music project from germany.



Profound - Pagans tale (WIP)

Profound | Compos Mentis - State Alchemy Music