There are two artists under the name 'Sidhartha'.

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1: Ukrainian artist Andrey Kiritchenko has a side project that focusses on glitchy IDM.

2: Sidhartha aka dj Eksco

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Genre: Psychedelic

Country: Portugal

Record Label: Metatron Production

Label Type: Independent

Website: http://www.metatron-production.com

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Francisco was born in Portugal and soon took influences from his family musicians. Sidhartha a.k.a. dj Eksco, soon become interested by music and that learning will had it pace through the classical piano where he acquired his first notions about musical composition. Looking forward to innovate he started playing the guitar, expanding his universe of possibilities, taking part in several musical projects.

Growing with the new studio recording technologies made him connect to electronic music becoming interested with the virtual studio technology and composition methods.

In 1995, the big boom of the electronic and dance music movement in Europe, took him to attend to festivals and events directioned to the psychedelic culture. In 1996, he started mixing Drum&Bass with Vinyl records and finaly, in 1998, he started getting trance music and since then turned admiring psytrance playing sets in bars, clubs and festivals.

Being connected to deejaying, Sidhartha is developing psychedelic fullon music both in his solo project as well as his side project Karma Crop with Vasco Pedrosa. Also working and developing Luxor and Hexagnum music project wich includes several kinds of styles that go from groovy ambience, tribal electro, psychedelic downtempo and breakbeat.

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Discography

Albums:

Sidhartha - Reverse Mode CD

Metatron Production CD002 / 2005

VA - Kagdelicious

Compiled by dj Eksco / 2004

Tracks in compilations:

Sidhartha - Highpnosis

VA - Brain Chemistry / 2006

Sidhartha - Brain Chemistry

VA - Brain Chemistry / 2006

Sidhartha - The Rush

VA - Psychic Chakra / 2006

Karma Crop - Killer Crop

VA - Need for speed 2 / 2006

Technodrome vs Karma Crop - Ignition

VA - Need for speed 2 / 2006

Luxor - Mexican Theme

VA - Need for speed 2 / 2006

Sidhartha - Tranceform

VA - Need for speed 2 / 2006

Sidhartha vs Mushgutta

Sudden Shifts VA - Goa Girl YSE Label / 2005

Sidhartha - Whispers

VA - Supra Sphere Psytropic Records /2005

Karma Crop - Efficient Compositive

VA - Need for Speed / 2005

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International touring:

08/04/2006 - Feeless Sound Sytem

Sidhartha & Karma Crop Live / Russia

31/12/2005 - Bajlumpakal NYE

Sidhartha & Hexagnum Live / Mexico

10/09/2005 - Feeless Sound Sytem

Sidhartha Live / Russia

09/09/2005 - ZVUK3000 and T-Paradox group

Sidhartha Live / Russia

17/07/2005 - Russian Full Moon Gathering

Sidhartha Live / Russia

23/10/2003 - EMMA festival Aarhus

23.-26. okt / Denmark

31/01/2003 - Sunvibe Festival

Brazil

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Digital Audio Workstation:

- Macintosh PowerbookG4

- PC AMD 2700; 1GB ram memory

- Matrox dualgraphic card

- RME Hammerfall Soundcard 24bit / 96 kHz

- Focus Rite Voice Master Pro

- Alesis 3630 Kompressor

- Alesis Midiverb

- Nordlead keyboard

- Audio Acústica / Mixer

- SoundTech - Pro Audio speakers

- Soundtech - Pro Audio amplifier

- M-Audio BX8 Studio Monitors

- CIE CS Series Stereo surround monitoring

- Matshita CDR 8122 Master burner

- LG GCE-8527B Master burner

- Asus DVDR Master burner

- Maxtor Mobile HDD

- Variety of mics

- Mastering Software

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