De-Fect

Swedish Goa Trance project. The project name derives from "The Effect". The first tracks were produced with FastTracker2, before upgrading to Cubase and midi-keyboard/VST, and published on the Trax In Space platform where they got the attention of Emil Hansson (Psychedelic Hamster) and Daniel Sunebring (Govinda), two other young Swedish producers who had formed "Goaarchive" in late December 1999 and invited Rickard to join in. Rickard contributed to this collective with tracks regularly published on their MP3.com page; some of these were featured on the Goaarchive DAM CD album "Psychedelic Pleasures" in 2000. In 2001, Rickard was among the finalists of the first psynews.org contest with two tracks: "Germs, Germs, Psychedelic Germs" and "Bouncing Shrooms and Giggleing Gnomes". De-fect played live during Swedish indoor and forest events, often around Gothenburg, such as "Euphoria", "Mystiska hålet I marken" (The Mystery Hole in the Ground), "Wizardry of the Woods", "Under the Bridge" party in Malmö, and more.