The latest release served up on Ultravision's wide ranging menu is the One Desire EP, by American artist Axis Mundi. Axis has been active in the trance scene for nearly ten years, involving himself in all aspects of promotion and support of the trance scene. Axis got his start DJing in an area of the USA considered to be a trance barrens, in Nashville, Tennessee. Within a short time after his first bookings, Axis gained a following in his local area, bringing a previously locally unheard genre to the ears of new listeners as a lone warrior amongst club nights and radio shows featuring mainly music from other electronic music genres such as breaks, industrial, and drum and bass, and making fans of and earning the respect of fans drawn from all these circles. His talent landed him bookings from coast to coast in the US as well as overseas in Germany and Spain some time later.
Upon relocating to Asheville, north Carolina, home of the US trance collective TOUCH Samadhi and Those People, Axis took his first steps into production and live performance, creating experimental electronica on an array of hardware synths and performing without the use of a PC, all the while studying the intricacies and nuances of the genre of his heartbeat genre, psy-trance. Shortly afterwards, his trance production began, and was widely accepted. Axis' first EP, Eldritch Freq, was released on Scared Evil Records of Germany, with individual tracks released on labels Ultravision, TOUCH Samadhi, Scared Evil, Lycantrop, and Goagemeinde, where his style has been called fast, highly psychedelic forest trance with generous touches of funk and darkness.
Today, Axis Mundi lives in Cologne, Germany, where he works as an English teacher and live trance producer and performer, with regular bookings throughout Germany, as well as Romania, Holland, and the UK throughout the year of 2009. His second EP, One Desire, currently releasing on Ultravision, is an uptempo amalgam of thick bass, brain-twisting leads, syncopated percussion, and atmosphere-building samples which border between the funny and the slightly disturbing. Mastered by trance engineering master Kri of TOUCH Samadhi, with major contributions by Brazil's dark trance great Silent Enemy, the One Desire EP by Axis Mundi brings you dark psychedelic trance with a unique personal perception.