Biography
K.O.B. (Kind Of Behaviour) is the darker and more experimental side project of Swedish producer Jannis Tzikas, best known as Filteria. Tzikas created K.O.B. in 2007 after establishing Filteria’s melodic modern-Goa sound. The project allowed denser rhythmic structures, stranger psychedelic turns and less predictable arrangements, while also leaving room for downtempo and ambient ideas.
Early K.O.B. material appeared alongside Filteria releases before the project’s debut album Identity Mash arrived in 2017. K.O.B. shows Jannis Tzikas exploring a less overtly melodic and more structurally experimental direction outside the core Filteria identity.
Identity Mash (2017) is the project’s latest dedicated release; later activity is unclear. Directly related to Filteria through Jannis Tzikas while remaining a separate project; Suntrip Records is the key album-era label relationship.
Origins of K.O.B.
Created by Jannis Tzikas in 2007 as a separate outlet for material darker and more experimental than Filteria.
Early career
K.O.B. developed after Filteria’s first two albums, with early tracks and ambient reinterpretations establishing a clearly separate side-project identity.
How the career developed
Identity Mash, the project’s debut album, arrived in 2017 and consolidated K.O.B.’s blend of psychedelic structure, percussion, acid and Goa-derived melody.
K.O.B. sound
Experimental and darker psychedelic trance with complex percussive structures, 303 acid lines, Goa-derived melody and occasional downtempo or ambient ideas.
Place in psytrance history
K.O.B. shows Jannis Tzikas exploring a less overtly melodic and more structurally experimental direction outside the core Filteria identity.
Connections and influence
Directly related to Filteria through Jannis Tzikas while remaining a separate project; Suntrip Records is the key album-era label relationship.
K.O.B. today
Identity Mash (2017) is the project’s latest dedicated release; later activity is unclear.
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
Apsara Festival
Apsara Festival is a biennial Suntrip Records gathering devoted to Goa Trance, with a deliberately old-school and melodic psychedelic character.
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Etnica
Italian Goa Trance pioneers whose original Milan quartet helped define the dense, melodic and futuristic psychedelic sound of the mid-1990s.
Pleiadians
Italian Goa Trance project closely linked to Etnica, best known for the 1997 album I.F.O. and a particularly dense, cosmic strain of classic psychedelic trance.
Prana
Goa Trance project founded by Tsuyoshi Suzuki and Nick Taylor, later joined by Andy Guthrie, with a history linking Tokyo, London and Matsuri Productions.
Tsuyoshi Suzuki
Japanese DJ, producer and Matsuri co-founder whose career links Tokyo, London, Goa Trance and the Prana project.
Hallucinogenic Horses
Fluid Sanaton-associated psychedelic collective involving Jens and Ola Eriksson with a rotating circle of collaborators.
Purosurpo
Jens Eriksson’s solo experimental psychedelic project, extending the Derango/Sanaton aesthetic into collage-like and genre-blurring material.