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Psychedelic Trance Biggie Ajja to Play

The diverse electronica fanatics of Mumbai have another great electronica performance to look forward to in the upcoming months. Apart from massive number of electronica gigs happening in the city featuring the who’s who of the global dance music industry, the city would be playing host to Psychedelic Trance producer Ajja this March.

Blue Frog, the city’s most happening venue when it comes to events would play host to a performance by this popular psychedelic trance music producer. The event is going to be held on 1st March, 2013.

Ajja is a psychedelic trance music artist who has been around in the scene for many year now. Born in London, 1975, he has spent a large part of his life roaming the planet with world renowned family of tattoo artists and travelers.

He is a founding member of The Peaking Goddess Collective, a chillout & psytrance band . He is also one of the founding members of popular night-time psytrance duo, Yab Yum which he continues on his own currently.

He released his debut album “Psychogenica” in november 2007 on Syncronize Reords. He released his latest release “Tulpa” on Peak Records early last year. He has received much appreciation since then, both for his music as well as for live performances. His music is high quality ranging around 150 bpm and has a lot of funky grooves. A dancefloor mechanic, he knows how to get the party rocking. Ajja has been part of and has played at major psychedelic trance music events such as Boom, Universo Paralello, Glade, Antaris, Sonica and Full Moon Festival. Apart from being a top notch producer, Ajja is a nice guy.he also engages in making tattoos, works as a graphic artist and label manager at Peak Records.

Ajja has been touring the country around this time from a couple of years now. Though this would be the first time that he would be performing in Mumbai. He has already performed numerous times in Goa, Bangalore, Nepal and some other cities of the country.

Peak Records is a Switzerland based Psychedelic Trance music record label. Been around since 2003 it is switzerland’s first psychedelic trance label. It is the outcome of the combined efforts of musician Ajja S.F. Leu, Dj Gaspard, Master Margherita and visual artist Tanina Munchkina.  The label is mainly oriented towards releasing full-on night-time trance music. It also ventures into chillout downtempo music from time to time. Other artist on this label are Electrypnose, Flooting Groves, Drumatik, Amazon, Master Margerita, Govinda.

Ajja is also slated to play @ Pebble, Bangalore on 24th Ferbruary. This event is a promo party for Universal Religion, a massive psychedelic trance festival that takes place in Nepal every year. He is going to play a three hour set at this event. For Information on event details and tickets contact: +919819216386 or +91 9916233334 So if one is a psychedelic music enthusiast or just want to hear good electronic music or wants to know what’s contemporary in the Psytrance music circuit come by to blue frog on the 1st of next month. Tickets for the event would be available at the venue.