The story behind Audiopathik
Audiopathik is a Mexican dark Psytrance project formed by Alex Urias and Gilberto Wendlandt. Active from the mid-2000s, the duo developed a fast and experimental approach that moved between dark Psytrance and higher-speed psychedelic forms. D-A-R-K Records released the Anger Audio EP in 2006 and Necrophilia in 2007 by Urias and Wendlandt as Audiopathik. Formed in Sonora, Mexico during the mid-2000s by Alex Urias and Gilberto Wendlandt. Early releases on underground dark-Psytrance labels established the duo’s fast, twisted and experimental production style.
Audiopathik released EPs and compilation tracks across multiple international underground labels, becoming part of Mexico’s dark and high-speed Psytrance network. Audiopathik is an established Mexican contribution to the international dark-Psytrance scene of the mid-to-late 2000s, particularly its faster experimental edge.
The project remains part of the Audiopathik catalogue; current live and studio activity is unclear. The project also connects to later collaborative work involving Kashyyyk through Frequency Navigators.
Origins of Audiopathik
Formed in Sonora, Mexico during the mid-2000s by Alex Urias and Gilberto Wendlandt.
The early years
Early releases on underground dark-Psytrance labels established the duo’s fast, twisted and experimental production style.
How the career developed
Audiopathik released EPs and compilation tracks across multiple international underground labels, becoming part of Mexico’s dark and high-speed Psytrance network.
Audiopathik sound
Fast dark Psytrance with experimental sound design, abrupt psychedelic detail, heavy rhythmic pressure and passages that overlap with early Hi-Tech aesthetics.
Place in psytrance history
Audiopathik is an established Mexican contribution to the international dark-Psytrance scene of the mid-to-late 2000s, particularly its faster experimental edge.
Connections and influence
The project also connects to later collaborative work involving Kashyyyk through Frequency Navigators.
Audiopathik today
The project remains part of the Audiopathik catalogue; current live and studio activity is unclear.
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
Shankra Festival
A Swiss Psytrance festival founded by Mahi and Madu Murugar in Lostallo in 2015, combining Alpine landscape, psychedelic music, art and community; its Swiss edition is rebuilding toward a planned 2027 return after repeated.
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Crazy Astronaut
Nikolay Golutvin’s melodic, rave-driven high-speed psychedelic-trance identity, distinct from his more experimental Furious project and strongly associated with OSOM Music.
Dark Whisper
Manuel Bellini’s dark, experimental psychedelic-trance project, associated with Alice-D Records and spanning Darkpsy, high-speed Psytrance and later Hi-Tech overlap.
Highko
German psychedelic-trance producer associated with the early development of ultra-fast night music and the hi-tech scene, both solo and through Highcosmos with Cosmo.
Cosmo
Slovak producer Peter Kubala, whose hyper-detailed, acid-heavy psychedelic trance helped bridge early darkpsy experimentation and the faster sound later identified as hi-tech.
Kashyyyk
Pablo Valdes’s high-speed psychedelic-trance project, rooted in Mexico City and strongly associated with the early development and popularisation of Hi-Tech Psytrance.
Kindzadza
Moscow producer Lev Greshilov, one of the central architects of the Russian darkpsy and hi-tech continuum and a founder of the OSOM Music network.