Mindphaser (7)

Psychedelic trance music DJ and party organizer from Athens, Greece. Iraklis Mindphaser started his musical career in 1991, playing breakbeat and techno from vinyls, in small Athens parties. In 1992 he played at his first big (open air) party, Special Grooves of DJs, while in 1994 he created his first party team, called Rave Crew, with whom he organized a number of parties. By the end of 1996, after finishing a sound engineering school, he started working for Floorfiller Productions, in the production department. Apart from the valuable knowledge and experience he gained, he also had the opportunity to play with famous DJs, like Paul Oakenfold, Sasha and Nick Warren among others. During the years 1997 - 1998, he played in the biggest Athenian clubs and was resident DJ of the popular, London-based [l11718] and Renaissance parties that took place in Greece for the first time, in Corfu, Crete, Athens and Thessaloniki. In 1998 he started Mindphaser Music Trips, from which he got his nickname. In 2000 he founded Natural High, a psychedelic trance music mobile party team, based in Athens. Since then on, he has been the resident DJ, main organizer and mastermind of more than 340 Natural High events, which hosted famous acts of the scene, like Etnica, Koxbox, Total Eclipse, Goa Gil, [a4748], [a27716], [a48177], Joti Sidhu, Lunarave and Atriohm among many others plus a number of less known projects and artists from Greece and abroad. Natural High has also collaborated with Void Network, Loopsnoo Records, Exposure Productions. Iraklis has played in many major festivals in Greece, like SolaLuna and Samothraki, Aurora Festival, Halkidiki Dance Festival and a number of free, urban festivals and events in Athens. He has also played in Cyprus and in Goa, India in 2013. He had also a key role in the publication of dancephotocopy, a free trance fanzine in 2005, which was the trance voice of Greece and Cyprus in print. E-mail: dancephotocopy@gmail.com