Artistname: DJ Nel-Sun / Mind Distortion System (Jara dos Santos Nelson) Location: Belgium

After growing up in Brussels, in 1994 Nelson discovered psytrance when
friends took him to the first Boom festival (he hasn’t missed one since)
in his native Portugal. After that, he began to attend Portuguese
parties and to travel, and Nelson was exposed to all types of trance. In
1998, he began to DJ “darker” psychedelic music. Back in Belgium, he
began producing as Mind Distortion System, but his limited computer
background (and financial resources) meant that it took some time to
achieve technical quality that matched his artistic vision.

In 2002, he co-founded Mystical Druids Society (party promotion) and
still organizes parties whenever possible. Then, at the Freaky Dragons
Festival in 2005, DJ Chrysalid (Trishula) and Karim a.k.a. Baba Jelly
“discovered” Nelson when they heard his DJ set. He remains close friends
with both and collaborates musically with Karim on a regular basis (so
expect more from this duo!).

After joining Trishula in 2005, Nelson spent 2 years tirelessly
perfecting his sound and developing his debut album, while also playing
DJ and live sets around the globe at events ranging from Moondust in
India to Psycrowdelica in Germany. Tracks from his soon-to-be-released
album, “He Claims to be Not Human,” are already being played by a few
(trusted!) DJs. Recent feedback from Goa: /“The people are dancing like
goblins!” /

As the BPMs go up and controversy swirls around what “dark” psychedelic
trance actually is, Nelson remains focused on producing psychedelic
music with a definite night-time flavour…as a good friend said, “Call it
alien trance.”

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