Biography
Encephalopaticys is the Psytrance project of North Macedonian producer Vasko Velickovski. His work became closely associated with the darker, organic psychedelic sound of the late 2000s. The 2009 Parvati split album Ukalen paired Encephalopaticys with Atriohm, combining four tracks from each project with a joint title track; earlier material also appeared through Sanaton Records. Developed in North Macedonia during the 2000s within the same regional psychedelic scene as Atriohm. Tracks appeared on underground psychedelic compilations before the project’s major collaboration with Atriohm.
Ukalen in 2009 became the clearest full-length statement of Encephalopaticys, presenting both solo tracks and a collaboration with Atriohm. Encephalopaticys is part of the late-2000s North Macedonian dark and forest Psytrance lineage closely linked with Atriohm and Parvati Records.
Historical artist identity centred on its 2000s catalogue. Most directly connected to Atriohm through the Ukalen split album and collaborative title track.
Origins of Encephalopaticys
Developed in North Macedonia during the 2000s within the same regional psychedelic scene as Atriohm.
Early career
Tracks appeared on underground psychedelic compilations before the project’s major collaboration with Atriohm.
How the career developed
Ukalen in 2009 became the clearest full-length statement of Encephalopaticys, presenting both solo tracks and a collaboration with Atriohm.
Encephalopaticys sound
Dark and forest-leaning Psytrance with powerful basslines, layered rhythmic patterns, organic atmospheres and densely detailed psychedelic sound design.
Place in psytrance history
Encephalopaticys is part of the late-2000s North Macedonian dark and forest Psytrance lineage closely linked with Atriohm and Parvati Records.
Connections and influence
Most directly connected to Atriohm through the Ukalen split album and collaborative title track.
Encephalopaticys today
Historical artist identity centred on its 2000s catalogue.
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
Lost Theory Festival
An experimental psychedelic festival founded in Croatia in 2011 and later relocated to western Spain, combining Psytrance with art, nature and unusually broad electronic programming.
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Farebi Jalebi
India-linked Parvati Records producer known for elastic basslines, unusual melodic detail and a distinctive, playful strain of deep psychedelic trance.
Arjuna
Indian-born, Goa-raised psychedelic-trance producer and longtime Parvati Records artist whose music joins deep night-time pressure with organic, forest-leaning psychedelia.
Rawar
Portuguese producer Helder Amaral’s long-running psychedelic project, centered on dark, forest and high-energy Psytrance.
Yaminahua
Swiss experimental psychedelic-trance project of Lukas Hasler, moving from dark/forest-tagged early material through OSOM high-BPM experimentation into later explicitly Psycore-associated work.
Derango
Swedish duo Jens and Ola Eriksson, whose early-2000s work became one of the formative references for Scandinavian forest 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.