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Biography
Koxbox is a Denmark|Danish musical group formed in 1990 that produced psychedelic trance . It consisted of Peter Candy and Frank É Madsen . Ian Ion , their Record producer|studio producer , is also sometimes mentioned as part of the group.
History
After publishing a few single (music)|singles the group was discovered by Disk jockey|DJ Sven Väth and soon they published their first album Forever After (Koxbox album)|Forever After (under his record label Harthouse ). The group later produced another two albums: Dragon Tales (Koxbox album)|Dragon Tales , and The Great Unknown (Koxbox album)|The Great Unknown . In 1998 Peter Candy left the Koxbox.
This marked the end of the original Koxbox lineup, but Frank É Madsen and Ian Ion continued to produce. Already in 1997 they had renamed their own musical group Psychopod to Saiko-Pod , adopting a somewhat different style (perhaps best described as slower and funk ier). In 2006, six years after the release of The Great Unknown, Koxbox returned with U-Turn , released on Twisted Records (UK)|Twisted Records . This most recent album contained collaborations with some of psychedelic dance music's best established artists including Joie Hinton and Merv Pepler ( Eat Static , Ozric Tentacles ), Frederic Holyszewski ( Deedrah , Dado , Cypher , Transwave ) and Serge Souque ( Total Eclipse ) as well as others.
Music
The Koxbox gained considerable popularity within the Psychedelic trance|psytrance scene. Their work was of exceptional quality and differentiated them from most groups of the time. They used innovative sounds that make the Koxbox music characteristic to trained ears. They had a preference for rich, melodic tunes, and this was much appreciated at a time when the Goa trance music|Goa Musical genre|sub-genre was the most popular psytrance style.
Their tracks Fuel On , Ambivalentino , and Midnight Till The End appear in the Danish movie Pusher (1996 film)|Pusher . The latter track was produced especially to be used in the movie.
There exists a Music video|video clip for the track Life is... , but nobody knows how to obtain it. A truncated (2 minutes, 33 seconds long) lo-fi RealMedia version of the clip was available for free Uploading and downloading|download at the Blue Room Released website , under the band's section. The domain http://www.blueroom.co.uk blueroom.co.uk is now owned by the M.E.L.T record label and the old Blue Room pages, along with the clip, are unavailable. However, this rare computer file|file is still circulated on file sharing computer network|networks .
Discography
Albums
Forever After (Koxbox album)|Forever After Double Vinyl & CD album (1995, Harthouse )
Dragon Tales (Koxbox album)|Dragon Tales Double Vinyl & CD album (1997, Blue Room Released )
The Great Unknown (Koxbox album)|The Great Unknown Triple Vinyl & CD album (2000, Liquid Audio Soundz / Global Trance Network )
U-Turn (Koxbox album)|U-Turn CD album (2006, Twisted Records (UK)|Twisted Records )
