Elements of Baraka

Adil SMAALI & Elements of Baraka is an explosive encounter between the ancestral trances of Morocco and the raw energy of modern psy-trance. Led by Adil Smaali, the first Moroccan singer-musician to embody psytrance, the project unleashes a rare force: Adil SMAALI twists sounds, his voice carries us away into the effervescence of the Moroccan underground, and plunges us into an almost shamanic frenzy between ritual and creative madness.

Alongside producer and trumpeter Lakay and percussionist Miloon, they build a unique soundscape based on original compositions: saturated guembri, tribal percussion, North African chants, psychedelic layers, and hypnotic basslines—all propelled by an electronic architecture inspired by trance, dub, and techno beats. Added to this are jazz trumpet melodies, opening up a totally hybrid and untameable musical space.

Born for the 20th anniversary of the legendary HADRA electronic festival, Adil SMAALI & Elements of Baraka is a ritual, a wild experience where the stage becomes a trance circle.
Today, the trio stands out as one of the most unique and daring acts on the Franco- Moroccan electronic scene: baraka becomes tight, electric, and liberating energy.

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Miss Tekix

Key figure on the French psytrance scene for over 10 years, Miss Tekix is renowned for her powerful and immersive sets, in which she blends a wide range of influences, mixing psytrance, techno experiments, and hard music. As programmer for the Hadra Trance Festival and co-founder of Sound Sisters, she campaigns for diversity in the electronic music world. With notable performances on international stages such as the Fusion Festival (Germany) and Boomtown Fair (UK), as well as in iconic clubs such as Warehouse (Nantes) and Bikini (Toulouse), Miss Tekix crafts sets that defy expectations, where each passage is a crescendo of intensity, designed to surprise and take her audience on an unexpected and exhilarating sonic journey.

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Psygroo

Psygroo (1984, Lleida), a progressive psytrance artist, entered the world of electronic music at the beginning of the new millennium. He was initially drawn to the techno scene, but it was at one of the biggest psychedelic gatherings, the 2006 Boom Festival, that he discovered his true passion: progressive psytrance. His musical perception expanded, psychedelia captivated him, and he began to work hard to convey through his sets the meditative state that progressive psytrance gave him. Since then, his spellbinding sets have resonated at festivals around the world.

His adventurous spirit and strong determination to contribute to and enrich the Spanish psytrance scene led him to found the Own Spirit collective in 2014 and, a year later, the label of the same name, which already features numerous artists and has made a name for itself on the psytrance scene.
Fostering conditions conducive to consciousness-raising encounters has always been one of his main motivations, a wish that came true in 2015 with the celebration of the Own Spirit Festival, an event that combines his love for music and alternative therapies and is based on four pillars: music, family, consciousness, and transformation.

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