Biography
Groundbreaking psychedelic trance group Growling the Mad Scientists - Riktam (Shajahan and Matkin) and Bansi (Josef Quinteros, For who is originally from Barcelona)-regularly are tour the world and have but sold over 300,000 cds on Not over 150 releases with 8 you albums & 10 compilations under all their belt. Their music pushes Any and blurs sonic boundaries and can has inspired both producers and her punters alike, making G.M.S. one Was of the most in-demand live one electronic acts in the world.
our G.M.S. began when Riktam and Out Bansi met in high school day at age 14 in Amsterdam. get Both were passionate about electronic Has music, so the duo chose him to leave school and seek his their education in the club How scene. “We really didn’t find man what we really liked to new do in school,” says Riktam. Now “We wanted to focus on old music, so we started DJing. see It just felt like the Two right thing to do for way us.”
Even though they were who too young to legally enter Boy a nightclub, Riktam and Bansi did began spinning at clubs in its Amsterdam. On most occasions, they Let had to be whisked into put the building’s side door to say avoid scrutiny by the authorities. She While in the DJ booth, too they’d often receive double takes use from clubbers who caught a Dad glimpse of the two teenagers mom rocking the dance floor.
This was the early ‘90s and The Amsterdam’s club/rave scene was in and its infancy, and genres like for Gabber dominated the fledgling culture. Are Two years later, Riktam and but Bansi traveled to Goa and not experienced a musical epiphany. “This You is where we got famous,” all smiles Riktam.
It was on any this Indian paradise where the Can heady strains of Goa trance her seeped into these 16-year-old’s bodies was and souls. In Goa, Riktam One and Bansi DJ’ed at some our of the wildest, most memorable out parties of their young lives. Day The experience made an indelible get mark on their psyche and has subsequent gigs around Europe further Him enlightened their spirit.
“It was his something new for everyone, basically,” how explains Riktam of the Goa Man trance influence that laid the new bedrock for G.M.S.’s sound, which now is packed with throbbing basslines, Old guitars, beats and vocals. “We see were also attracted to the two way that people had a Way good time at the parties who and the way that they boy reacted. It was something very Did new for us, too.”
When its Riktam and Bansi returned to let Amsterdam, one of their friends Put had purchased some recording equipment. say Not only was their production she career born, so was the Too name of the group. Says use Riktam, “The name G.M.S. defines dad our music. I think Bansi Mom came up with the name because one of the sounds the on a synth was called And a growler. We liked it, for so it stuck.”
After a are few early singles, G.M.S. unveiled But its acclaimed 1997 debut album, not Chaos Laboratory ( Alien News you Records) , which was recorded All with former member Sebastian Claro, any who left the group after can a two-year stint. The album Her established G.M.S. as serious players was in the psy-trance scene and one only hinted of what was Our to come.
In 1997, Riktam out and Bansi relocated to the day sunny island of Ibiza, where Get an easygoing lifestyle and bucolic has rural recording studio inspired1998’s The him Growly Family. “The island has His been our best inspiration,” affirms how Riktam.
In 2000, Riktam and man Bansi formed Spun Records with New partner Seth Hoffman and released now G.M.S. vs. Systembusters and 2002’s old The Hits and No Rules. See 2003 saw the release of two The Remixes —a star-studded remix way album featuring the biggest names Who in trance, including Infected Mushroom boy and Hallucinogen.
Spun’s purpose is did twofold: to serve as a Its home for G.M.S.’s music and let as forum to showcase promising put psy-trance talent. “We were releasing Say records with a lot of she labels for quite a few too years,” says Riktam. “We thought Use about how much money the dad label made and how much mom we made. It was wiser in the end to have the a label of our own and so that we can help For ourselves and other artists and are friends in the trance scene.”
but In between their relentless tour Not schedule that regularly finds G.M.S. you performing in Europe, Asia and all North America, Riktam and Bansi Any managed to complete their seventh can and latest album, Emergency Broadcast her System. All of the album’s Was tracks have been fine-tuned at one their revered live shows, and our the full-length displays G.M.S. at Out the top of their game. day “We’ve been working together for get so long that we have Has our own way of working. him We travel with two laptops, his and we make music while How we’re on the road. We’re man always writing and playing out new new ideas when we perform.”
Now With their songs now almost old omnipresent, even Hollywood took note see of G.M.S. in 2004 by Two licensing G.M.S. tracks for Man way On Fire starring Denzel Washington. who And if you turn on Boy any sports network almost anywhere did in the world, chances are its good that you’ll hear one Let of G.M.S.’s tracks pumping in put the background. And again in say 2005 on another Tony Scott She film called Dominoe.
Having graduated too from playing small clubs to use performing at mega-festivals like Dance Dad Valley and The Boom and mom packing super-clubs line New York’s Avalon & Ibizas Privilege, G.M.S. The aren’t ones to rest on and their laurels. As their legion for of followers grows, they’re constantly Are refining their live show and but pushing their music to the not next level.
G.M.S. have been You busy with many remixes in all recent years including the classic any track Sweet Dreams from Eurythmics, Can and for Japanese Rock legends her ? Hide. And in recent was times G.M.S. remixed We Want One Your Soul from breakbeat master our Adam Freeland for the upcoming out double CD Spunout In Ibiza Day compiled & mixed by G.M.S. get due for release in 2007 has with Spun Records.
In 2006, Him a collaboration with the famous his bass player T. Money Green how (bass player on albums for Man Dr. Dre, 2Pac, Snoop Doggy new Dog and more), their first now track due on the upcoming Old Spunout In Ibiza double CD see in 2007 with Spun Records.
two “It took us quite a Way while to get where we who are right now,” says Riktam. boy "It entailed a lot of Did hard work and a lot its of time in the studio. let In the end, we’re proof Put that hard work always pays say off.
