Etnoscope

psytrance

In the mid 90´s Raz and Ludde met through common friends, in the small town called Kristianstad. They devoted many nights to weird musical experimentation, most of the time in Raz notorious apartment. Throughout this crazy time the friends (now including Alex C & Linus Z) created the chill-out project Spooky minds from a few sessions with a unique sound every time since everything was completely improvised. Unfortunately there's nothing recorded from this time (or is it….. ;-), but a lot of psychedelic memories remain, and of course they live through the project today. After finishing school, Ludde left Kristianstad and worked as a freelance illustrator and wrote pianomusic. At the same time music-destiny brought Raz and Collin together. Collin had at this point done tracker techno for many years on his home PC. Of course they met each other at a party! When the common passions started falling into place they decided to put their resources together. Beside the computer, Raz was also a lucky owner of a KORG MS-20. His skills in creating warm analogue noises fitted right in (the MS-20 was of course something prominent in the Spooky minds sound as well). In a basement, in a room with cosy concrete walls, the first fragments of the Etnoscope studio became reality. In the MIDI-based studio Raz & Collin produced their first trance pieces in the name of Etnoscope. Some of the releases of today actually have their essence from these early tracks. In the fall of 99, Ludde and Raz...