Never Forget presents 22 November 2025
Entry 15 euro + beer
Blue Planet Corporation Live Set
The Odyssey of Gabriel Masurel
Gabriel Masurel stands as one of the quiet visionaries of the Goa and psychedelic trance movement, a figure whose music carved its own constellation across the 1990s electronic sky. Emerging from France at a time when electronic experimentation was still taking root outside the Anglo-German axis, he embodied a rare ability: to translate cosmic imagination into soundscapes that were both precise and infinite.
Long before his name became a hallmark of Goa trance, Masurel’s world was anchored in rhythm. As a drummer in the 1980s, he trained his ear in the language of percussion, the pulse that drives all music. When the electronic wave swept through Europe, he saw not just machines but portals — devices capable of channeling entire atmospheres. He began composing tracks that broke with linear dance formulas, weaving melody, texture, and hypnotic rhythm into journeys rather than just songs.
The name Blue Planet Corporation was less an alias and more a statement of intent: a musical enterprise devoted to exploring Earth as a living organism in constant communication with the cosmos. Where other Goa producers pursued frenetic layers and maximal psychedelic energy, Masurel sought clarity, purity, and elevation. His tracks often sounded like transmissions intercepted from some deep-space civilization, simultaneously alien and deeply human.
Throughout the 1990s, his releases became touchstones of the genre. Tracks like Overbloody Flood and Xoco circulated on dancefloors across Europe, Japan, and Israel, instantly recognizable for their crystalline melodies and weightless propulsion. His 1999 album Blue Planet distilled this vision — not just another trance record, but a document of an era when Goa was maturing into a global phenomenon. It carried within it the optimism of the millennial horizon, where technology, nature, and spirit seemed to converge.
Yet Masurel was never bound by genre borders. His later work extended into ambient and downtempo, exploring silence as much as rhythm, atmosphere as much as pulse. In these works, the listener could hear the echo of his drumming roots and his fascination with electronic timbre, sculpted into soundscapes for contemplation rather than dance. This breadth gave him a reputation not just as a trance artist, but as a composer of moods and dimensions.
What sets him apart historically is not only his catalog, but the ethos his music carried. Blue Planet Corporation represented a belief that electronic music could be transcendent, that it could bypass ego and trend, and instead operate as a form of collective dreaming. Even decades later, his tracks retain their freshness — their crystalline precision and expansive spirit untouched by time.
Today, Gabriel Masurel remains one of the enduring names of the Goa tradition: a pioneer whose work helped define the genre’s golden age, and whose vision continues to inspire producers searching for the balance between technology and soul. For those who listen, his music still carries the promise written into the name itself: a reminder that our planet is indeed blue, alive, and part of something larger.
Support DJ Greg Staikos
Greg Staikos isn’t just a DJ — he’s a living legend. Emerging from the core of the Greek Goa Trance underground, his legacy stretches across decades, igniting dancefloors from Athens to the far reaches of the psychedelic universe. With an encyclopedic knowledge of trance history and a ritualistic command of the decks, Greg delivers not just sets — but full-blown interdimensional experiences.
His performances walk the line between spiritual revelation and raw rave power. Devoted to the roots of psychedelic culture yet always pushing into uncharted sonic territory, he crafts journeys that aren’t merely danced to — they’re lived.
Long before the Goa revival, Greg was already digging into forgotten gems, preserving the sacred essence of the sound while reinterpreting it for new generations. Each set is an alchemical blend of past and future, chaos and harmony, ancient frequencies and futuristic pulses.
In the Greek trance scene, one name has remained untouchable — Greg Staikos. And when he takes over the decks, the only thing left to do… is let go.
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