The story behind Highwar
Highwar is the Hi-Tech Psytrance project of Highko (Heiko Quast) and Rawar (Helder Amaral). Instead of functioning only as occasional joint billing, the collaboration developed a dedicated identity, appeared in Highko’s catalogue during the 2010s and later issued its own multi-track releases through Blast Records. Created by Highko and Rawar as a dedicated collaboration joining their fast Psytrance approaches. Highwar material appeared in the mid-2010s within Highko’s Blast Records catalogue.
The project progressed to the dedicated Red Dragon release in 2021 and remained active into 2026. Highwar connects two established contributors to the European and Portuguese Hi-Tech Psytrance network and shows the scene’s shift from ad-hoc collaborations toward persistent duo projects.
Active in 2026.
Origins of Highwar
Created by Highko and Rawar as a dedicated collaboration joining their fast Psytrance approaches.
The early years
Highwar material appeared in the mid-2010s within Highko’s Blast Records catalogue.
How the career developed
The project progressed to the dedicated Red Dragon release in 2021 and remained active into 2026.
Highwar sound
High-speed Hi-Tech Psytrance with dense rhythmic programming, abrupt psychedelic edits, hard bass pressure and a deliberately intense dance-floor focus.
Place in psytrance history
Highwar connects two established contributors to the European and Portuguese Hi-Tech Psytrance network and shows the scene’s shift from ad-hoc collaborations toward persistent duo projects.
Highwar today
Active in 2026.
Selected releases in the archive
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Agressive Mood
Portuguese Hi-Tech Psytrance project of Filipe Oliveira, also presented as AM, with releases and collaborations across the Blast Records network.
Maze of Madness
Dedicated Hi-Tech Psytrance project of Highko and Agressive Mood, launched with a full-length Blast Records album in 2020 and continued through later EPs.
Audiopathik
Mexican dark Psytrance duo of Alex Urias and Gilberto Wendlandt, associated with fast, experimental and high-intensity psychedelic sound.
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.
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.