Raja Ram (plays the flute on the tracks, amonst other things)is an Australian who wound up on the beaches of Goa in the 70's. he's always been into music of one sort or another and when all the 'trance heads' started arriving in Goa in the late 80's -early 90's, he became engrossed in the new sounds. He still plays DJ sets, tho I havnt seen him for 7 years or so now. (Im in New Zealand)
Simon Posford is a pure genius when it comes to arranging sounds and samples into a sonic landscape. He's got a finger in many musical pies. As far as I know he's till living in the UK. (Used to be near an old US missile base)
I used to spend a lot of time in the London/Indian/Thai trance scene and DJ'd now and then. but since moving to NZ, took up surfing, and cant be bothered to stay up at parties all night any more.(Age!)
Ive still got heaps of the old music tho. If you want to chase down some gems, let me reccomend stuff by ;
The Saafi Brothers Infected Mushroom X-Dream for starters....
Maybe not what you're used to but, if you play any of that stuff on a GOOD system, it'll blow your sox off.
Record labels to check would be
Dragonfly (Youth who was the bassist from Killing Joke. Another WICKED band, started the label in Brixton UK)
TIP records has lots of good stuff. they used to do some of the most rockin' parties in all sortsa dodgy venues in London...Aaaah good times.
It all might be a bit more psycedelic than your used to, but give it a go. let me know what you think.
Its all a bit of history for me now, but by the stone in my chillum, the late 80's-90's were some of the best times I've had that i can only just remember......
Ps. I was runnin around in LOTRO the other nite and saw a toon named Shpongle. I asked if there was a connecetion, and the guy said he was from Alaska and I was the first person he had ever spoken to who had ever heard of them.
MMoRPG's! bringing the world together.....
Edited, Jun 28th 2007 1:44am by paulsol Edited, Jun 28th 2007 4:14am by paulsol
