babag

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you can listen to my mixes online here: mahamaya.ch/sound_e.html
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About me:

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namaskar and hello
my name is george rafailis. i’m originally greek - from corfu island - but was born and lived most of my life here in switzerland and in asia, mainly thailand and india.
i got many nicknames or alteregoes but the most known one is babag - with which i'm known in my restaurant mahamaya and as dj.
music was always my big love and since 1988 i worked in clubs, promoted live gigs and events, worked as music agent and had a small record label for 2years. but after 12years of this business i ‚retired’ and i’m actually running an indian restaurant together with a indian friend here in berne – the mahamaya. a dream (the restaurant) i had since a lot of years, after my extensive travels to india and southeastasia came true.
in asia i first came into contact with psytrance music 1993. i loved it right away. i could not believe my ears and the response of my heart to it. since then it has been a love affair with this kind of music, but with the years i also started to listen more and more ambient and chilled tunes. this music played and plays all the time at home and in the restaurant and much more places i am, more.
since my retirement from the promoting, i started djing again. the main music i play are ambient, progressive and minimal with that progressive twist.i play and played at many private and semi-private parties & events, but also in the QC swiss sunday chill sessions, or at the lounge of queersicht 05 & 07 (an intl. filmfestival here), as well at places like the mumbai palace, gurtenfestival 06,07,08 & 09, at the lounge b21 of the htl. zurichberg in zurich 06 - 09 (chill’in with a view), bar rouge in basel and in the mahamaya of course. most local places and clubs in berne - like the wasserwerk club, sous-soul, isc, reitschule, formbar, dampfzentrale, progr, bassment and some more. mahamaya shanti sunday events, fraka sound switzerland, fullmoon festival germany 2005 & 06, universo paralello festival 07/08, bahia, brazil, boom festival 08, portugal, boutique 08, playground 08/09, club elf, bassment, streetparade 09, aurora festival 09, greece, duo club, bienne, ambonight, berne, mystica 2010, gurtenfestival 2010, presenting the chill-lineup @ summer never ends festival 2010, organiser of all cosmic soundscapes 2007 - 10, dbar - athens, greece.gurtenfestival 2011 (wow!), mokka, thun, ittheplace, athens, psychedelic carneval 6, xtra, zurich, mahamaya blend 2011, universo paralello 2011/12, kapitel, bern, gurtenfestival 2012.

people seems to love my sound and i love to please people with it and to bring smiles into their faces. what more can a dj want to be happy of his set and the music he is playing for the crowd.
the spectrum of the music is big and varies, like in every genre – just one walk out of many - into the ocean of ambient & contemporary electronic music.