| Profile: | Mindsphere ( Ali AKGUN) was born in Istanbul 1976.He started his musical career in the mid 90's playing guitar and singing in his heavy metal band. After playing around a lot of concerts, he needed a new sound like electronica. In 1996, he got a master cd called "Goa Trax", then his life went towards that spiritual way. After that, he bought some equipment and started to produce Goa trance and Ambient music. His first live act was in 2003, and he really felt something that he never could describe before. After seeing people dance and what they wanted from the music, he continued his songs that way, he felt all the energy in them. Some people call his music oriental spiritual melodic psychedelic trance, but he can't give a name and category to his music. For him it's like living in a painful life and his feelings goes out that way. But sure it is % 100 Goa trance way ! because he can describe himself with those spiritual melodies. Year 2005 Ali created first Turkish Goa Psychedelic Trance web portal Psyturk.com to integrated Turkey Goa Psy scene.After some years, a label called "Metapsychic Records" found him and released his first album Inner Cyclone on the true way. And it gets great feedbacks from true Goa trance lovers!The other side he has another project called ''Mindphoria'' style between ambient and spacely down tempo .These days he gives an ambient track called ''Frozen Sleep'' to a compilation from Suntrip Records 10 th years celebration album''Opus Iridium''.He is still playing live acts in different places around the world. |
