Mattias Jarestad

Born in Borås, Sweden in 1975, Mattias Jarestad started his musical journey as a guitarist at the age of 16 and played for various hard rock and death metal bands. In the early 90’s, he transitioned to electronic music and started to produce Goa Trance in 1994 using at first Propellerheads ReBirth, and then more advanced sequencing in Cubase with VST plugins and instruments. When Reason came out, he became a beta tester for Propellerheads and a skilled programmer. He first produced several Goa Trance tracks under the alias “X-Telligence” with Roland MC-505, Evolution MK-149 midi keyboard, ReBirth 2.01, SoundBlaster awe32, Pentium II 300. Some of these were available, only in low quality, on the MP3.com platform. In 1999, Mattias decided to change his artist name to “PsyTrix” as his style took a more psychedelic direction.