Magic Shaman

Magic Shaman started making music at a young age, beginning with hip hop. After producing hip hop beats he discovered psychedelic music. Because of the restrictions the law placed on him in his home country, he left, kept learning and went on to play at events around the world. He follows his passion for music and is living his dream. Magic Shaman produces many styles of psychedelic music, such as meditation frequencies, downtempo, darkprog, psytrance, darkpsy and hi-tech.

His main focus is psytrance and the faster styles of psy. He is a label DJ for Psy Funktion Records, Voodoo Hoodoo, Psyworld Records and Aryavarta Records, and a mastering engineer for Psyfunktion, Voodoo Hoodoo and a few other labels.

He has organized unique indoor and open-air events in several countries, including the UK (Swansea, Glasgow, London), Greece, India, Georgia and Iran. His passion for psychedelic music has also brought him into contact with many lovely organizations around the globe.

Magic Shaman is head of the label Psy Funktion Records, where he helps many artists along their way.

Music | Psyfunktion Records (bandcamp.com)
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What fascinates you about psytrance culture?

Let me put it this way: to me, psytrance culture could be the lost and forgotten religion we all had at some point in human history.

I see a lot of good things in our culture. The gatherings, the energy on the dance floor and the healing environment could all lead to a greater awareness in all of us. Often we get some pure people who look like they came to the culture for a bigger meaning and purpose. It's not only about the music, but in a wider view it's about untangling culture.

And yes, it's true, a lot of us came to psychedelic music as lost people with a dark mind, our soul sucked dry by the matrix. What fascinates me about our culture is that I could finally come somewhere and be accepted for who I am, and it gave me ways and opportunities to find my inner peace and self-discipline.

What are your musical influences?

I'm mainly inspired by the work of labels, because it's teamwork. As far back as I can remember, I've tried to follow labels rather than keep my eye on individual musical influences.

What is your message to the world?

That's the tough one, I'd say, and it's really hard to put it all into words, but I'll try and say some of it the way I understand it. We all gather to dance on the same ground with gratitude. Remember why we came together to build something like what we have now.

Yes, somewhere deep down we all know it's about unity and love. Sometimes we forget the fundamentals of our life and we get lost. And in the moment we feel lost, the right music can change that forever.

We should stop putting nonsense vocals in our music and showing people the wrong path. Music is a powerful tool. It can do much more than we imagine. All these frequencies and the stories we tell can lead listeners down a good or a bad path. Why don't we talk more about the fundamentals of spirituality?

As artists we have a responsibility, and as listeners we also have to be responsible and aware of what we feed our mind and body. Sooner or later we'll all come to understand that everything is frequency and vibration.

Sadly, these days our scene is moving more towards the business side, and that means some money-hungry people are looking for any opportunity. We have to save the scene before it's too late and keep up our ceremonies and psy gatherings to keep the spirit of the forest and of psychedelic music awake within us.

When we dance and ride on these frequencies and feel one with everything around us, that's natural ecstasy.

What are your favorite tools for making music?

That's a hard question. Personally, I love to experiment with lots of different plugins, synths and so on.

My favorite plugin is of course Serum. It's just so nice to get really any sound we need, from kick to bass. I like Serum because the possibilities for modulating the sound the way we want are endless. I use it in my productions for my leads and FX, and that's mainly the kind of sound I like to create with it.

My second favorite is VCV Rack, because it can help anyone get into the modular side of music and dig deeper.

My third most used and favorite tool is the racks I build myself inside Ableton. They've saved me so much time and headspace and give me a fast workflow with infinite possibilities. I get to have everything I really need mapped to macros and get the game going.