Shiva Shidapu are Erez Eizen (Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

) and Jörg Kessler aka DJ Jörg

DJ Jorg

DJ Jörg or Shiva are the stage names of Jörg Kessler, a German psychedelic trance pioneer and label manager of "Shiva Space Technology" and "Shiva Space Japan"....

 (Germany

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...

), a goa trance

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.

The original name of the group should have been that of their second album "ShivaSidpao" but there was a misunderstanding over a long distance telephone conversation between Tibet and Germany, which ended up registering the group's name as Shiva Shidapu. After a few releases with the name, it was too late to change it for the second album. Therefore, the releases after the second album kept using the name Shiva Shidapu, or Shidapu, while this name did not appear anywhere in the second album.

In this album there is also the explanation of the name's meaning:
Shiva - Hindu god of destruction and reconstruction.
Sidpao - astrological Tibetan calendar

Discography

• The Album (Shiva Space Technology 1998)
• Light of Shidapu (Shiva Space Technology 1999)