Celestial Ancestors, by Splendor

Celestial Ancestors

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1.	Ethereal Entity 06:21	buy track
2.	Genetic Benefit 07:00	buy track
3.	Third Eye 06:26	buy track
4.	Away From Everything 06:10	buy track
5.	Genetic 06:10	buy track
6.	Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde 09:02	buy track
7.	Celestial Ancestors 08:04	buy track
8.	End Of Everything 06:07	buy track
9.	Untitled 06:49	buy track
10.	In 10 Cities (B.R.R.) 06:29	buy track

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Unreleased Goa Records is honored to release the prodigious music of Splendor, a Goa Trance project based in Kalamata, Greece. Nikos Moundreas started DJing at the age of 16, mainly breaks tracks from Prodigy and other famous bands. He soon demonstrated impressive skills on mixing vinyl, in the form of a storytelling. He then founded a party team called ‘The Future Sound’, that organized events every Sunday afternoon at the Glam Club of Kalamata. The name of his party organization was also used for a radio show he successfully hosted on Melody FM.

An established DJ, Nikos had access to a lot of classic Goa Trance releases by Transwave, Etnica, Psychaos and others. When Nikos attended a party with Tsuyoshi Suzuki and Sid Shanti in Athens he heard for the first time the track ‘Whipbird’ by Kopfuss Resonator, which made a lasting impression on him. He became increasingly attracted by more heavy techno sounds, Scandinavian and forest music released on Nephilim, Spiral Trax, Atomic Records, Psy-Harmonics labels, and got in his hands a number of vinyls from Noise Records in Thessaloniki. This motivated him to produce Goa Trance music under the Splendor moniker.

In 1999, at the age of 20, Nikos composed all ten tracks featured in the present album. Being very passionate about production, he "locked" himself inside his studio and spent unlimited hours on these tracks using Cubase and the Re-Wire plugin of Propellerheads (TB-303, TR-909, TR-808). Initially he only used a MIDI and later added some synths that he acquired. His first tracks were sent to Greg Staikos, a famous radio DJ from Athens, who got very enthusiastic after listening to them. ‘Celestial Ancestors’ and ‘Third Eye’ were subsequently featured on Greg's mixed compilation ‘Psychedelic Tunes’ for Lemon Magazine in 2000. Nikos mainly performed as Splendor at small local venues, before he transitioned to techno and house music.

Unfortunately, Nikos lost all the tracks he produced at that time after a hard drive crash, except three that were copied on a Demo CD-R. Miraculously, the other seven tracks were retrieved from secondary sources. However two tracks of the CD-R were found in a very deteriorated state and therefore versions copied on Mini Disc were preferred so as not to compromise the quality of the release.

Unreleased Goa Records would like to thank deeply Hlias Kouroupis and Despina Astralfairy Kanellopoulou without whom this release would have simply never happened.

Tracklist:

01. Ethereal Entity
02. Genetic Benefit
03. Third Eye
04. Away From Everything
05. Genetic
06. Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
07. Celestial Ancestors
08. End Of Everything
09. Untitled
10. In 10 Cities (B.R.R.)

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released February 28, 2022

Credits :

All tracks written and produced by: Nikos Moundreas
Mastered by: Kobi Harosh
Audio restoration (all tracks) by: Federico Draeke
Artwork by: Papier rouge
Executive producers: Hlias Kouroupis, Despina Astralfairy Kanellopoulou, Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 029

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