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California Sunshine – 10 Essential Tracks

California Sunshine – 10 Essential Tracks

California Sunshine, is another prolific and emblematic band considered as the pioneers of Goa Trance in the Israeli scene.

It was not until 1997 that they both joined forces and released their first massive album “Trance” that marked the beginning of their success-story…

Har-El Pursky

Everything begun in the early 90’s, when Har-El Prusky started making the transition from producing industrial music to more acidic and techno vibes and then into composing Goa-Trance/Acid tracks which eventually ended up being played in Goa (India) by to DJ Miko. But it was not until 1997 that they both joined forces and released their first massive album “Trance” that marked the beginning of their success story. The legendary track “Summer of ’89” hit so massively the dancefloors that even Paul Oakenfold couldn’t resist remixing it, thus bringing once more the Goa Trance culture closer to the mainstream crowds.

DJ Miko

California Sunshine have been producing since then countless tracks and released numerous albums & EP’s in the biggest labels like MDMA and Phonokol. The unique style that characterized their music throughout these years, can still be heard in their latest album “Festival of Life”. It’s nothing less than a time travel back to the roots, back to the true essence of Goa, where emotional sounds are blended with uplifting, happy and trippy sounds altogether. California Sunshine’s trademark sound at its best!

Enjoy these 10 California Sunshine essential tracks and follow us in our attempt to best present one of the most influential bands in the Goa-Trance scene that has ever existed.