Biography
Purosurpo is the solo project of Swedish musician Jens Eriksson, co-founder of Derango and Sanaton Records. The name appeared in Sanaton’s catalogue in 2008, followed by a dedicated EP in 2017 and the expanded and reworked Wandering Weirdo Wood Worlds in 2020. The project gives Eriksson room to move beyond conventional Psytrance structures while retaining the warped, organic psychedelia associated with the wider Sanaton circle. Created by Jens Eriksson as a separate solo identity alongside his work with Derango and other Sanaton projects. Early Purosurpo material appeared through Sanaton in 2008, including work connected to the label’s experimental TRiPS period.
A self-titled EP followed in 2017. Wandering Weirdo Wood Worlds revisited and expanded the earlier material in 2020 through Sanaton Records and Oval Harmonique. Purosurpo represents the solo experimental branch of Jens Eriksson’s work and the porous boundary between Forest Psytrance and broader electronic experimentation in the Sanaton scene.
The releases include a 2020 expanded collection and remains available through Sanaton and Oval Harmonique.
Origins of Purosurpo
Created by Jens Eriksson as a separate solo identity alongside his work with Derango and other Sanaton projects.
Early career
Early Purosurpo material appeared through Sanaton in 2008, including work connected to the label’s experimental TRiPS period.
How the career developed
A self-titled EP followed in 2017. Wandering Weirdo Wood Worlds revisited and expanded the earlier material in 2020 through Sanaton Records and Oval Harmonique.
Purosurpo sound
Experimental psychedelic electronic music combining a forest-Psytrance sensibility with collage, irregular structures, ambient passages, lo-fi detail and playful studio manipulation.
Place in psytrance history
Purosurpo represents the solo experimental branch of Jens Eriksson’s work and the porous boundary between Forest Psytrance and broader electronic experimentation in the Sanaton scene.
Connections and influence
Closely connected through personnel and scene history to Derango, Hallucinogenic Horses, NGE Duo and Sanaton Records.
Purosurpo today
The releases include a 2020 expanded collection and remains available through Sanaton and Oval Harmonique.
Selected releases in the archive
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Hallucinogenic Horses
Fluid Sanaton-associated psychedelic collective involving Jens and Ola Eriksson with a rotating circle of collaborators.
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.
K.O.B.
K.O.B. (Kind Of Behaviour) is Jannis Tzikas’s darker and more experimental side project, distinct from Filteria.
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.
Atriohm
Skopje-rooted psychedelic-trance project founded by brothers Sashe and Leonid Golcev and now continued by Sashe, with a major role in the development of modern forest psytrance.
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.