Behind the successful production of Antix are the brothers Hayden and Barton Strom. Making music together since 1999 and are today working full time as producers in their Slowburning Studios, Auckland New Zealand. What has made Antix such a success? Here’s a little view of their backgrounds that has for sure shaped them as producers. Both Barton and Hayden were introduced to music at a young age, listening to music from their parent’s vast record collections. They quickly became addicted to the hypnotic sounds of trance in ‘95 when a friend handed them a tape urging them to check it out. Barton instantly purchased a mixer and started DJ’ing at small parties in the growing Auckland scene. Six months later he had moved to Japan to buy...

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Astrix is Avi Shmailov (born 1981) from Israel. He started making trance Nitzhonot style as a teenager and collaborated mainly with the Barkan brothers. He then changed directions and was newly discovered when he collaborated with Alien Project on his debut album- Midnight Sun, released in 2001 (Phonokol). Since then he released quite a few tracks with Alien Project, with Atomic Pulse, with others and on his own. He produced some major hits and swept the trance skies like a comet in 2002. Astrix has already played and performed live in almost any possible corner of the world.

Cosma is Avihen Livneh, born 1979 in Kiryat Bialik near Haifa and was taken from us in 10th of February, 2003 in a motorcycle accident in Goa. In between he left a strong mark in the world of trance with his deep and strong atmospheric music.