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His journey in the trance scene began Feb 2003. Progressing from the dance floor to DJ’ing in Dec 2004 and producing psytrance music from Aug 2007. His first gig was in Mozambique, and since then he has played both in Jhb and Cape Town at indoor and outdoor events. He has also been producing Psytrance as ‘Synthetic Alkaloid’. As a result of his chance encounter with trance he found purpose and direction in his life and through his DJ’ing and live music he endeavours to touch as many lives as he can to help others on their journey through trance. As with any journey there is a short and a long version. Short Version: 
Introduced to Psy trance by Moog of Mushroom Mafia in Feb 2003. Played his first gig on Macanetta Island in Mozambique Dec 2003. Progressed from playing morning and late afternoon trance to full on night time Psytrance. Trip’s night time psytrance sets have taken dance floors by storm both in Jhb and CT. He takes his dance floor on a journey and the enthusiasm, energy and passion that he puts into his sets are contagious. His sets get young, old school, male and female trancers onto the dance floor. He supports both international and South African artists and always searches for fresh new material when playing a gig. He has played for most of the production companies in Jhb e.g. Black Feet, Red Eye, Spring Chicken E Radio, TechnoTribe, 4Tune Records, G.A.S.S. Earthdance, Dragonfly, Fu Cha, Psychedelic Mansions, Orbit, Noisy Radicals, Project Pulsate, Thorn Fest and even formed his own production company, “Psychotic Productions’. Also played at various clubs e.g. Horror Café, Submission, DJ Club, CCHQ, Tempos, Safari Inn, Rock Bar, Truth, Le Mix Room and The Bridge Diner.
After meeting with Dave Love, Frozen Ghost and Hiyarant of Disasterpiece Records in Jul 2008 Trip spread his wings and flew to CT Aug 2008 to do a crash course in Q-Base with Barry and Stuart. Also got to do a few gigs in Cape Town through Dave Love. On his next trip he met up with Calvin aka Switchchache and has since been a regular guest DJ at Psynopticz. He has played for production companies Psynopticz (Bang Bang Club and Butterfly Studios), Electric Gnome and at the clubs Gonzos, Evolution, Embargos and Roots. Trip has been on line ups with the likes of Moog, StarSpine, Regan, Shift, Hydraglyph, Artifakt , Digital Dream, Cooks, Zirken, Wobblz, Bruce, Dean Fuel, Frozen Ghost, Hiyarant, Dirty Motion, Zion Linguist, Deliriant, SignLanguage, Fright Rate, Terror Mental, Phyx, Brethren, Switchcache, Plusminus, Tune Raider, Humerous, EMP. Gonzo, Sonic, Broken Toy, Headroom, Zezia, CMYK, Manifesto, Boogey Monster, Ironstein, Cold Turkey, Rabdom L, Insaneacyde, , Parallax, Psysymetrix, Bazooka Boy, Illuminati, Gwen C to name but a few!! Never forgetting the trancers who have supported him over the years he is always up for doing gigs at private events. Trip has an insatiable love of trance, give him a sound system and some decks and he will go out there and give it horns.. 2013 promises to be an exciting year, filled with challenges, collaborations, releases and producing new tunes. He embraces the year ahead and hopes to see all of those who support him on the dance floor smiling and stomping to the beats. P.L.U.R.

Musically inclined from a very young age, Iain Wylder’s music career started classically, when he learnt to play the piano, flute and violin at school. His interest in the genre of EDM started in 1992 listening to local weekend dance shows and it was in 1997 that he took to the decks for the 1st time. Having been a co-creator of the very successful TrancePort & Over-Board Boat events and forming the TrancePortation, TranceAfrica & Drumming 4 Africa online radio shows as well as having a previous residency at Truth Night Club, you can be assured that all your Trance based itches will be well scratched with this Tequila guzzling bwot.

MORE about me ;)

What's to tell ? I drink a lot of tequila and currently live my dream playing music :) Currently a co-producer alongside a STERLING crew on South Africa's only Trance based Radio show called Sunset Dance - www.facebook.com/SunsetDanceSA... I'm also one of the ReBirth founders - www.facebook.com/RebirthPartySA which is a monthly Trance event @ ESP in Jozi & I've recently secured a weekly residency there ;) www.facebook.com/ESP.NightClub 



With a long-lived passion for underground electronic music, Senjo took to the stage in 2011 to bring crowds a differentiating, uplifting and energetic sound with her Techno & Psytek sets. Having given a demo to SA Techno guru Nick Grater, she was invited to play a couple of gigs and is now a proud member of the Teknotribe family.

For Senjo the essence of being is captured in those moments of sharing her love for music with a crowd that responds with the same passion. Although Techno & Psytek are her genres of choice when playing as Senjo, she also enjoys connecting with people on all planes through any other underground electronic music including Psy Trance, Drum & Bass & Chill Out.


In the mid to late 1990's I fell in love with the electronic dance music movement, House music to be specific. I was a teenager, mesmerised by this connection, unity and general spiritual communion which spontaneously manifested amongst a large (sometimes even only small dedicated, anti-establishment driven) room. I immediately fell in love with the emotional language which is spoken in the background of a great track. .

Started DJ'ing in 2011. Blessed with gigs both in the commercial and underground S-African market. I held several residencies at various leading establishments over a two year period. My focus since shifted to developing my own signature sound. 

 I take pride out of the versatility that my sets/performances are well known for. I get involved with my passion. Every moment, every beat and track which I select has a direct emotional tie to how I am feeling.





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Broken Toy is James Copeland from Cape Town, South Africa. 

His unique take on producing fullon psytrance with a twisted and quirky edge has earned him his position as one of the most low, down and dirty dancefloor manipulators in the scene today. Combining a forward thinking attitude with respect to the oldschool, you can expect a hard-hitting yet groovy dancefloor experience mixing elements of funk, indie-electro, and rocking psytrance.

ITs hard to imagine, but 2013 already marks 10 years of Broken Toy! Having started his career back in 2001 as a member of the project “Damage”, he was one of the pioneers of the South African psytrance scene alongside such artists as Rinkadink, Protoculture, and Shift. Soon after, he started the Broken Toy solo project and joined Uk based Alchemy records back in 2003.

Since then he has released over 70 tracks on various labels such as Nano, Spun, Timecode, Solar tech, etc and 2 full length albums on Alchemy records - his self-titled debut album and 2007`s “The low, down, dirty sound of…”

He has toured to over 20 countries and has played at major festivals all over the world such as Boom festival in Portugal, Glade festival in the UK, Full Moon festival in Germany, SOnica in Italy, Universo Parallelo in Brazil as well as all the major parties in South Africa such as Origin, Rezonance, Vortex, H20, Alien Safari, etc. 

2010 saw him branching out in 2 new directions - going back to his roots as a metal guitarist and bass player with his tongue-in-cheek psy-rock project “Super evil” and also with an electro breaks project called “Nesono”. More recently in 2011, he`s taken things down a notch and made some Swing/gypsy-jazz flavoured tech house in his new self titled project, James Copeland.

With so many creative outlets, an uncluttered and refined vision of Broken Toy has emerged in 2013, set to ignite dancefloors across the world once more. Look out for a new album as well as the Broken Toy 10 year anniversary VA featuring remixes by all his friends across the globe out soon! 

Stay tuned and enjoy!

DJ Gavo

Mansion Records, Technik & Digdeep Creative

Naturally Progressive

GIVE ME TEQUILA, PUT ME ON THE DECKS AND ENJOY THE RIDE - IT’S GOING TO GET MESSY!

This is the philosophy that Gavo lives for. He proves it every time he is behind the decks, bringing forth a mixture of deep tech sounds with hard progressive bass lines that hit straight into your soul, not to mention the vocal selections he loves adding to his sets.

From the age of 14, the Port Elizabeth underground dance scene had a hold on Gavo. He had the privilege of growing up amongst legends of the South African dance scene.
Three legendary DJ’s are behind the making of this young and talented DJ - Richard Quin, PE’s Progressive Trance Legend, taught Gavo the fine touches that have sculptured him into being such an ‘in your face’ DJ Denton “Bunter” Wilmot, arguably one of the greatest DJ’s ever in South Africa, guided and passed on knowledge to Gavo that very few will ever have the opportunity of learning and Munro Munnik, The Legend – need we say more? With these three geniuses always giving advice and passing on knowledge and support whenever it was needed, he has advanced to being one of the top progressive dance DJ’s in the country, taking over a legacy set by his mentors.

Gavo is strongly influenced by international DJs & producers such as Moshic (Living God), Dave Seaman, John Digweed, Nigel Dawson, Pete Bones, Atmos, Glenn Morrison, Liquid Soul, Freq, Ballroom, Lustral, Minilogue, Ace Ventura, Medway, Behind Blue Eyes, Piece Process, Perfect Stranger, Chab, Emok and Tatana - just to mention a few!

The highlight of Gavo’s career has been teaming up with DJ Thalia, SA’s Prog Queen. Together they have created Progressive MESS to promote underground Progressive Dance Music which Gavo and Thalia both live for and believe in. They also host their very own show on Dance Web radio called Underground Revival with progressive MESS, where they feature only the best in Local & International Underground Talent from across the globe.

His continuous efforts and dedication is fuelled by his passion for Progressive Music - Progressive Music, The Foundation – we LOVE it, we LIVE for it, we CLUB for it!! 

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