Entheogenic is a musical project consisting of Piers Oak-Rhind and Helmut Glavar that crosses musical style boundaries. Since the early 1980s, the Austrian musician and songwriter Helmut Glavar has founded a variety of bands, ranging from punk and funk to new wave and drums-and-bass. Piers Oak-Rhind was born in England and has been a sound designer, programmer and musician since the early 1990s. He studied guitar at the London School of Guitar. According to the two members, the music mixes "coloristic electrophonics" with "impressionistic orchestra-like sound". The use of both eastern and western vocals,

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-sounding instruments, and an array of synthesizers built the foundation of the Entheogenic sound.

History

Background

Entheogenic was formed in 1999 by producer, engineer, and songwriter Piers Oak-Rhind and Helmut Glavar. The duo met while working for

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(a former producer of music-studio software and hardware such as

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, acquired by

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in 2002). The name ''Entheogenic'' is derived from the term ''

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'' coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists and mythology scholars to describe psychedelic substances used in a religious or shamanic context.

German "Chill-Out" charts

In November 2003, Entheogenic's second album, '' Spontaneous Illumination'', released on the

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label C.O.R.N. Recordings, was the first psy-chill album ever to make it to number 1 in the German charts, where it remained Number 1 for 8 weeks and stayed in the Top 10 for an additional 12 weeks.

Discography

Albums

* ''

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'' ( 3dVISION 2002) * '' Spontaneous Illumination'' ( C.O.R.N. Recordings 2003) * '' Dialogue of the Speakers'' ( Chillcode 2005) * ''

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'' ( Chillcode 2006) * '' Flight of the Urubus'' ( USR 2008) * ''Gaia Sophia'' (USR 2011) * ''Anthropomorphic'' (Universal Symbiosis Records, 2013) * ''Enthymesis'' (2014) * ''A Singularity Encoded'' (2015) * ''Dreamtime Physics'' (2017) * ''Kykeon'' (2018) * ''Hypatia'' (2019) * ''Animism'' (2020) * ''Meltwater Pulse 1B'' (2021) * ''Kailash'' (2023) * ''Oddiyana'' (2024)

Singles and contributions for compilations

* Liquid Universe - Entheogenic * Sideways (Jong rmx) - Chiller Vol. 1 - Chillcode Records * Kashmir day trip (Kuba rmx)- Chiller Vol. 1 - Chillcode Records * Sideways - Kumhara Lounge Ibiza Vol 5 Distant Eyes - Ibiza Chillout Special Classic Mix Edition 3 Golden Cap - Downbeat Liquid Vol.1 - Chillcode Records Sacred Man - Goa Trance Vol.5 - Yellow Sunshine Explosion Spaced (Shulman rmx) Random Thoughts - Aleph Zero Records Spaced - Cosmophilia Vol.2 - Cosmophilia Walking on Air - Quality Relaxation - Chill Tribe Records We are One - Muladhara "AC" - 666 Records Ground Luminosity - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Habitual Overtones - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Pagan Dream Machine - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Mindless - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Invisible Landscape - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Twilight Eyes - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Spaced - Global Psychedelic Trance Vol.9 - Spirit Zone Recordings Invisible Landscape - Module 01 - 3dVISION / Relax

References

External links

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Entheogenic interview on Trance.net
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