Since 1991 Crystal Distortion has been at the forefront of live musical experimentation. With seminal releases under a variety of aliases, he was signed to Rising High records in his teens. As a member of Earth Leakage Trip, he made the first Moving Shadow record: Psychotronic EP (cat# SHADOW 1) on which is the all time […]

Before meeting Spiral Tribe in 1991, Ixindamix lived on the road with a horse and cart and moved across the British countryside with the horse-drawn travellers. Whenever she found a good site for a party she’d give the Spirals a call and the sound system would be magically spirited in. Ixindamix began her musical career […]

As a teenager, experiencing the illegal acid house parties of the late 80s, 69db was inspired to become a dance music producer. Being certain of his direction, he busked the London Tube, Paris Metro and Berlin U-Bahn to finance his early experiments in electronic music and exchanged his drum kit for a Roland 303 and […]

Jeff 23 cut his teeth at some of the gangster-run London inner city warehouse parties. He began to DJ in 1990 and played regularly at many club events , underground parties and pirate radio in the UK. Tired of having to deal with violent criminal promoters, he met Spiral Tribe in late 1991 joined them […]

Inspired by a Moebius comic of the same name, we drew parallels between the hero featured within, and our own exploits and adventures while travelling with the Spiral Tribe sound system.R-Zac have been recognized as the driving force behind HardTekno, and also as some of the most respected pioneers of Live Improvised Electronic Music Performance.With […]

Meltdown Mickey began DJing in 1989 at some of the early UK warehouse parties. As an original member of the Spiral Tribe sound system, he became well known for his distinctive morning sets. Often seeing in the dawn, he smoothed the harder sounds of the night out into the warm, rolling grooves of sunrise. He […]

Ixindamix’s slamming beats, bleeps and basslines and Sim Simmer’s soulful melodies and cheeky raps make a unique effervescent tonic of all things electronic, real and ridiculous. These raving mothers with attitude have been refreshing huge crowds across Europe for 10 years. With roots firmly embedded in rave culture – their immense European fanbase makes them […]

Born in Berlin on the road with Spiral Tribe, Max Volume attended his first rave at 2 weeks old. Immersed within dance music culture from his first breath, he rapidly honed his musical instincts as a teenager and developed a natural flair for performance and production alike. As his musical identity began to flourish, Max […]

Simone met Spiral Tribe at their first ever party – after a police raid the generator had been confiscated. At 2am in the morning she got on the phone to organise a back-up. The party continued, and so it was that she became one of the core-organisers and creators of the fledgling sound system. Playing a […]

After a five minute career as a cleaner at the Gillette shaving foam factory in Reading, Mark Angelo Harrison put down his bucket and mop and picked up a pen and a bottle of black ink. He jumped on a train to London and fell in with a nocturnal crowd of DJs, musicians and artists. […]

Feenix 13 was one of the founder members of Spiral Tribe. She was a lynchpin of the sound system’s event organisation and played a vital role in the design and décor. Responsible for many of the later flyers and heavily involved in the conception of the event spaces, she helped define the ‘look’ of the […]