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The nineties drew to a close when a new style evolved from the original Psy Trance scene:
Rather dry, reduced tunes, characterized by percussion sounds, single sound effects,
melodies and a straight line but still very strong and driving appeared to be kind of “Psychedelic for grownups”. Progressive Trance was born. Just around this moment brothers
Sirko und Stefan Wötanowski from North Germany started DJing, focusing on this new style
that soon experienced a gorgeous blossom. But this was actually just the beginning of their
very strong commitment to the scene. In 1999 they organized their first “Tshitraka” party in a
club, which became a very frisky evening with around 500 people attending. Already one
year later Tshitraka had turned to an open air festival with a four-digit number of visitors.
During the following years this event became internationally renowned as the festival for
Progressive Trance, featuring fantastic lineups from year to year and becoming one of the
classical Trance festivals in the European outdoor season. Already now Montagu and Golkonda
had a major influence on the German Progressive scene which also led to an ever growing
number of bookings to international destinations. But still there was energy and passion left
for their very own interpretation of modern Progressive music, so they started producing their
own stuff under the moniker Symphonix. Fed from heaps of DJ experiences on world wide
dance floors, also this project became rapidly very successful. Already being international
DJs and producers as well as promoters now, Montagu and Golkonda found it to be kind of
decent to start an own label, too. So since 2006 Blue Tunes Records delivers frequently
sophisticated, always up-to-date Progressive Trance. And just to have this list complete,
the two brothers run another club music influenced project named True Lies and are involved
in various other acts as well.
As this short outline reveals, there are few persons being that diversely involved into the
Progressive Trance scene since its very early days like Montagu and Golkonda are.
Their lifestyle is high-class Trance music and quite everything that has to do with it for
breakfast, lunch and dinner. Their vast experience with the music and the scene and their
numerous journeys around the world have a major influence on their DJ sets which can
be described as up-to-date Progressive Trance with a sometimes housey or electroid
edge, depending on the time and atmosphere on a dance floor.
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