Etnica
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Etnica is a project originally formed by Carlo Paterno, Max Lanfranconi, Maurizio Begotti, and Andrea Rizzo. They are a very well known Goa trance
project from Italy
.
Their first EP was published on Brainstorm label in 1995, and was entitled Big Dust in Chapora Fort. Their first album, The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light, was out the same year on the German
label High Society. This helped the band build a solid reputation in the Psychedelic trance
scene.
Their second album, the classic Alien Protein
, was released in 1996 on Blue Room Released
.
Carlo had the idea of launching a party-oriented side project, Pleiadians. Starting off with an EP on Symbiosis Records in 1995, they have thus far produced two albums Identified Flying Object (1997), and Family of Light (1999) in which Carlo was partially involved. Their first album, I.F.O. was produced by Carlo during the summer of '96 to be finalized with the other band members in September of the same year, but released only a year after on Dragonfly Records.
They also had a side project in 1997, Crop Circles, that was a collaboration with another Italian band, Lotus Omega. This project's name echoes the fact that their music incorporates mostly sci-fi themes, not unlike the work they did as Pleiadians.
Since 1999 the band has changed their sound to be up to the modern standards of production, following the worldwide trends and trying to achieve a more mature sound, after successfully proving that they could realize some of the best goa trance tracks ever.
Their fourth album, Nitrox (2001) is the result of this evolution and worked really well on the dance-floors at the time of release.
The following album, Chrome (2002) displayed a further development in sound production and clarity and was so successful that they released two versions, one for Europe and one for Japan.
Their sixth Etnica album Sharp (2004) was liked by old time fans too as it featured a return of melodies, like they did in the past times, but still showed a crystal clear and professional production.
In 2006 a seventh album was released, featuring all their best hits remixed by the most famous psytrance producers of the millennium. This one was highly acclaimed by every fan worldwide.
The Pleiadians project was relaunched in 2006 with the release of a third opus, an album called Seven Sisters, that delivered many sci-fi oriented tracks, released on Harmonia Records.
Etnica are still very active in the scene and weekly performing DJ sets and Live sets all around the world.
Goa trance
Goa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM...
project from Italy
Italy
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.
1992-1998
Max Lanfranconi, Maurizio Begotti, Carlo Paterno and Andrea Rizzo met during various parties in Italy at the end of the 1980s. Altogether they started to compose music in the early 90s as The Etnica Band but before that Max had already released as co-producer two singles in the mid-80's on an independent Italian label (Time Out). Max was also famous in Milan for the organization of the famous Dance All Night parties, the first official parties in Italy to last till the morning lights. Andrea had a solid classical music background that combined with the melodies of Carlo and Maurizio's sense of arrangement would soon lead to the production of some of the most classics goa trance tracks.Their first EP was published on Brainstorm label in 1995, and was entitled Big Dust in Chapora Fort. Their first album, The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light, was out the same year on the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
label High Society. This helped the band build a solid reputation in the Psychedelic trance
Psychedelic trance
Psychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. It appeared in the mainstream in 1995 as with reporting of the trend of Goa trance. The genre offers variety...
scene.
Their second album, the classic Alien Protein
Alien Protein
- Track listing :# “Screaming Butterfly” – 8:38# “Chakra Active 8” – 7:49# “Party Droid” – 8:39# “Z-Plane Sunrise” – 8:56# “Microdrive” – 8:42# “Starship 101” – 8:43# “Deep East” – 7:05# “Trip Tonite” – 9:06...
, was released in 1996 on Blue Room Released
Blue Room Released
Blue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from Bowers & Wilkins, British loudspeaker company. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April 1995 and...
.
Carlo had the idea of launching a party-oriented side project, Pleiadians. Starting off with an EP on Symbiosis Records in 1995, they have thus far produced two albums Identified Flying Object (1997), and Family of Light (1999) in which Carlo was partially involved. Their first album, I.F.O. was produced by Carlo during the summer of '96 to be finalized with the other band members in September of the same year, but released only a year after on Dragonfly Records.
They also had a side project in 1997, Crop Circles, that was a collaboration with another Italian band, Lotus Omega. This project's name echoes the fact that their music incorporates mostly sci-fi themes, not unlike the work they did as Pleiadians.
1998-present
In 1998 the band moved its studios to Ibiza were the project would be carried on by Max and Maurizio only. After the writing of their third full length album Equator (1999), Andrea left the band as well.Since 1999 the band has changed their sound to be up to the modern standards of production, following the worldwide trends and trying to achieve a more mature sound, after successfully proving that they could realize some of the best goa trance tracks ever.
Their fourth album, Nitrox (2001) is the result of this evolution and worked really well on the dance-floors at the time of release.
The following album, Chrome (2002) displayed a further development in sound production and clarity and was so successful that they released two versions, one for Europe and one for Japan.
Their sixth Etnica album Sharp (2004) was liked by old time fans too as it featured a return of melodies, like they did in the past times, but still showed a crystal clear and professional production.
In 2006 a seventh album was released, featuring all their best hits remixed by the most famous psytrance producers of the millennium. This one was highly acclaimed by every fan worldwide.
The Pleiadians project was relaunched in 2006 with the release of a third opus, an album called Seven Sisters, that delivered many sci-fi oriented tracks, released on Harmonia Records.
Etnica are still very active in the scene and weekly performing DJ sets and Live sets all around the world.
EPs
- The Italian (Spirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994. Spirit Zone was home to notable projects such as Electric Universe, Etnica, and Space Tribe.As of 2005 Spirit Zone Recordings is defunct....
1995) - Tribute (Blue Room ReleasedBlue Room ReleasedBlue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from Bowers & Wilkins, British loudspeaker company. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April 1995 and...
1995) - Starship 101 (Blue Room ReleasedBlue Room ReleasedBlue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from Bowers & Wilkins, British loudspeaker company. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April 1995 and...
1996) - Plastic (Blue Room ReleasedBlue Room ReleasedBlue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from Bowers & Wilkins, British loudspeaker company. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April 1995 and...
1997) - Polar (Spirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994. Spirit Zone was home to notable projects such as Electric Universe, Etnica, and Space Tribe.As of 2005 Spirit Zone Recordings is defunct....
1999) - Andromeda (Spirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994. Spirit Zone was home to notable projects such as Electric Universe, Etnica, and Space Tribe.As of 2005 Spirit Zone Recordings is defunct....
2000) - Hell's Kitchen (MDMT Records 2000)
- B Sirius (Spirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994. Spirit Zone was home to notable projects such as Electric Universe, Etnica, and Space Tribe.As of 2005 Spirit Zone Recordings is defunct....
2002) - Tracktor Activity (Etnicanet Records 2003)
Albums
- The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light (High Society Records 1995)
- Alien ProteinAlien Protein- Track listing :# “Screaming Butterfly” – 8:38# “Chakra Active 8” – 7:49# “Party Droid” – 8:39# “Z-Plane Sunrise” – 8:56# “Microdrive” – 8:42# “Starship 101” – 8:43# “Deep East” – 7:05# “Trip Tonite” – 9:06...
(Blue Room ReleasedBlue Room ReleasedBlue Room Released was an independent record label from London, UK. It operated from 1994 until 2002.It was led by Simon Ghahary and had solid financial backing from Bowers & Wilkins, British loudspeaker company. Their first compilation titled “Outside The Reactor” was released in April 1995 and...
1996) - Equator (Spirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994. Spirit Zone was home to notable projects such as Electric Universe, Etnica, and Space Tribe.As of 2005 Spirit Zone Recordings is defunct....
1999) - Nitrox (Spirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone RecordsSpirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994. Spirit Zone was home to notable projects such as Electric Universe, Etnica, and Space Tribe.As of 2005 Spirit Zone Recordings is defunct....
2001) - Chrome (Solstice Music 2002)
- Chrome (Western Edition) (Etnicanet Records 2002)
- SharpSharp (Etnica album)Sharp is an album by the Italian group Etnica released in 2004.- Track listing :# "Automatik" – 8:02# "Inner Space " – 7:45# "Eros" – 8:21# "Machine" – 9:08# "Planet X" – 9:19# "B.A.S." – 6:51# "Sharp" – 7:28# "Photonic" – 10:25...
(Solstice Music 2004) - TotemismTotemism - Etnica Remixed 1996-2006 (Etnica album)Totemism is a Goa Trance album by the Psychedelic Trance Italian group Etnica released in 2007.- Track listing :# “Dominator” – 7:34# “Automatik” – 8:21# “Totemism” – 7:26...
(Etnicanet Records 2007)