Biography
Wrecked Machines is the psychedelic-trance project of Brazilian producer Gabriel Serrasqueiro, better known in later work simply as Gabe. He entered electronic music around the turn of the 2000s in São Paulo, moving quickly from experimentation into professional releases and international touring at a time when Brazil’s psytrance scene was expanding at remarkable speed.
The project became one of the first Brazilian psytrance acts to achieve sustained recognition outside the country. Tracks such as “Trancespotting” and “Rounders”, along with album releases connected to labels including Spun Records and Solstice Music, placed Wrecked Machines squarely in the high-energy full-on movement of the mid-2000s. Serrasqueiro’s production combined large basslines, bright hooks and polished festival dynamics with a distinctly Brazilian scene identity.
As Serrasqueiro’s career broadened, the Gabe name became increasingly important for his house and techno work, while Wrecked Machines came to represent the psytrance-focused chapter of his discography. Wrecked Machines helped carry Brazilian Psytrance from a rapidly growing local movement into the international touring and label network of the era.
Origins of Wrecked Machines
Gabriel Serrasqueiro created Wrecked Machines in 1999, with released material appearing from the early 2000s onward.
Early career
The project moved from Brazil’s developing late-1990s/early-2000s Psytrance circuit into international labels and touring. Blink (2003) established the first album period and Second Thought (2005) consolidated Serrasqueiro in the international Full-On network.
How the career developed
Wrecked Machines became a collaboration hub linking Brazilian Psytrance with GMS/Spun, Pixel and other Israeli/international Full-On artists. Serrasqueiro later launched the separate Gabe identity rather than renaming Wrecked Machines; he has periodically revived Wrecked Machines for dedicated Psytrance performances.
Wrecked Machines sound
High-energy Full-On Psytrance with polished basslines, bright melodic hooks and direct festival structure. The sound belongs strongly to the international mid-2000s full-on era rather than to later progressive or hi-tech branches.
Place in psytrance history
Historically significant as an early Brazilian Psytrance act to achieve broad international recognition during the genre’s 2000s Full-On expansion. The project is particularly useful for documenting Brazil as a producing scene, not only a festival market.
Connections and influence
Related artists, labels and topics: Brazil regional scene; Full-On Psytrance; Spun Records; Pixel; Domestic; GMS; Growling Machines; Gabe.
Wrecked Machines today
Active on an intermittent/revival basis in 2026. D-EDGE Rio promoted a dedicated Wrecked Machines performance for 1 August 2026, showing that the identity remains operational alongside Serrasqueiro’s separate Gabe career.
How the sound changed over time
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
VooV Experience
VooV Experience is a German Goa and Psytrance institution founded in 1991, widely regarded as one of Europe’s foundational dedicated Goa-festival lineages.
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
GMS
Growling Mad Scientists, the Amsterdam-born project of Riktam and the late Bansi, now continued by Riktam as a solo act and central to the rise of modern Full-On Psytrance.
Deedrah
Frédéric Holyszewski’s solo project, bridging the first French Goa wave, early-2000s Full-On and later progressive electronic forms.
Logic Bomb
Swedish Psytrance project rooted in the same forest-party network as Hux Flux, known for precise programming, tightly controlled psychedelia and a complex lineup history.
Soundaholix
Long-running Psytrance project formed around GMS members Riktam and Bansi with Earthling’s Celli Firmi; now continued by Riktam and Celli.
Synthetic
Frédéric Holyszewski’s early-2000s Psytrance project, centred on the HOMmega album 100% Pure and distinct from Deedrah and Transwave.
Alien Project
Israeli producer Ari Linker’s long-running psychedelic-trance project, active since the 1990s and closely tied to the international full-on movement of the early 2000s.