Dark Elf
DarkElf is an atmospheric, deep & tribal night time psychedelic trance project, inspired by early European & Russian producers, the journey into electronic music began around 1997.
Around 2000 DarkElf starts spinning in private parties and then 2003 in the greek underground scene, huge free parties were held in the country’s universities, where he had an active crew.
Serious production interest starts when a friend lends him a Roland JP-8000, the first hardware synthesizer he will touch.
His initial release sees the light on a compilation by Discovalley Records in 2006 and the worldwide experience starts for him, in 2007 he visits his second nowadays base, Goa, in incredible India.
Electro-dub is his other musical passion, heavily influenced by french bands of the genre – he teams up with Vlastur in 2008, a talented greek bassist – they form a band together & perform since then on multiple live stages, under the well known name: Vlastur Live Band project.
In 2010 he releases his first solo album and until now has numerous appearances in various compilations of darkpsy labels around the globe.
In 2011 he is part of the core members founding Sonic Loom, a collective of electronic musicians based in Athens, Hellas.
In India he is one of the first artists working actively with Pralayah Records, the promising label behind the darkpsy festival series called: Karacus Marakus.
As a DJ, DarkElf has also been actively playing not only psytrance but also dub, dubstep and drum&bass.
Dark Elf is/was involved in:
Fugitive Factor, Slate, Septagram, Double Trouble, Double Core, Vlastur Live Band & Amp Swamp.