Messenger of Dionysos · Mused by Apollo

In ancient times, Satyr was the horned and horny messenger of Eleusinian forest god Dionysos. He mesmerized the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute and made them dance till broad daylight. In our common present, the spirit of Satyr inhabits the body of a human boy.

Searching for a new way to spread the vibe of the forest, by Dionysian decree, Satyr switched to SL and CDJ instruments, which fit the job quite nicely. Apart from those, he employs the tools Apollo chose: a blank screen and virtual ink, to jot down all he likes to think - hence this his satellite here, orbiting Earth's blogosphere!

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T.I.P. Records

3D compilation Psychopod - Headlines EP Infinite Excursions 2 compilation

T.I.P. Records (1994 - 1998)

without a single doubt, one of the most influential record labels when it comes to the evolution of sound in goatrance, the style of music preceding psychedelic trance (psytrance in short newspeak, shorter and even more newspoken as psy). this label was initiated by Graham Wood and Raja Ram, frontmen of former musical formation The Infinity Project, together with Richard Bloor and Ian St Paul. the label was discontinued when the distributor Flying Records went bankrupt.

yellow compilation orange compilation blue compilation

the yellow, orange and blue compilations (covers above)
are just a few of the landmark releases on TIP Records.

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The Infinity Project - Feeling Weird

Graham Wood is now producing
psychedelic trance and breaks
under the alias Blowfish together
with Tony Stapleton.


Raja Ram took it to a different edge, creating the TIP World record label with Richard Bloor, and continued his musicalcareer as flute-player and adlib skat-brat (amongst other positions), cooperating with keyboard and studio-wizard Simon Posford aka Hallucinogen, as the ambidelic formation Shpongle.


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? what is Satyr

! in ancient times, Satyr roamed the Eleusinian forests as the horned and horny messenger of Dionysos - the god of ritual intoxication - who dispatched him to mesmerize the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute, and made them dance till broad daylight.

? where is Satyr

! in our recent past, Satyr reincarnated in the concrete jungle of Amsterdam as a DJ. At age ten, he recorded his first mix, displaying his love for early hip hop and electro, and soon his tapes were in high demand. After the Second Summer Of Love, he got turned on by new dimensions of synthetic sound and ventured into the realms of ambient, acid-house, techno and trance music, never looking back ever since.

? does he still play flute

! the Panflute has become an artefact in captivity, held safe and sound in the archeological archive of the Vatican. Yet, since them high-n-mighty early 1990s, Satyr became increasingly skilled as a player of the SL & CDJ instruments, spinning various styles of musica eclectronica, embracing a wide range of the bpm spectrum with remarkable sparkle.

Notoriously difficult to pigeonhole yet sharply focused on and specialized in ambient, chillout, psytrance & deep atmospheric techno; entertaining events for 5 to 50.000 people, by serving his spicy melange of clean cuts and dirty grooves, mixing it down and grinding it up from raw to smooth.

A few memorable events ecstasized by Satyr:
Amsterdam Dance Event (NL), Atmosphere (Berlin), Ballonnenfeest (NL), Burning Man (USA), Club A (Sao Paulo), Dance Valley (NL), Love & Magic (Oslo), Metsafestiwaal (Finland), Pan-O-Rama Festival (La Gomera), The Pi Club (Berlin), Q-Base (Germany), Senseblender Festival (Belgium), Universo Paralello (Bahia / Brazil), VooV Experience (Germany), and many more in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, USA & all over The Netherlands.*

* a detailed gigographic list might appear later



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