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Jaïa – 10 Essential Tracks

Jaïa – 10 Essential Tracks

Jaia is the progressive and ambient project of the French producer Yannis Kamarinos. In 1995 he formed Jaia with Jean-Michel Blanchet and they released their first tracks on Fairway Records. It was not until 2000, that Blanchet left the project, leaving Yannis in charge.

At Petrol (Antwerp – Belgium) 16th April 2016

First Jaia album “Blue Energy” (Cross/East West/Nova Tekk), was released in 1998 and re-released in 2000 as a double CD with a 6 tracks bonus CD under the name of “Blue Energy/Blue Synergy” (Dakini/Yellow Feather). Jaia released several 12 inches too , as well as numerous tracks on various labels compilations, such as Island , Iboga , Flying Rhino, Tribal Vision , and many others.

Jaia has been around since the beginning of the Goa Trance era and never ceased to evolve its melodic signature sound, leaving an everlasting mark on the scene.

He released in 2005 the album “Fiction” on Digital Structures, which fuse psychedelic sounds with fat atmospheric progressive trance and house. In 2009 his 3rd album “Re:Works” came out on Tribal Vision, containing brand new remixes of Jaia’s biggest hits by such outstanding and diverse remixers as Martin Roth or Vibrasphere . Featured is also an exclusive cover version of famous The Milky Way song by French trance producer Aurora Borealis.
Yannis has collaborated with other producers-DJ’s such as Dado (aka Deedrah, Synthetic,…), Wizzy Noise, or Silicon Sound among others.

He has remixed famous artists like the French singer Mylene Farmer – including her singles “C’est Une Belle Journée” and “Pardonne-Moi” (Polydor/Universal) – with Blue Planet Corporation together, the Moroccan singer Tyoussi (Fairway/SonyMusic), Vibrasphere, or the French pop band Jpex (Wagram).Jaia has also been remixed by Total Eclipse, Minilogue or Jimmy Van M for example…Yannis is evolving in side projects too, like Even 11 with Silicon Sound, Altitudes with Blue Planet Corporation and Silicon Sound , or Kama & Mac Gregor. He is also part of the electro and house oriented label Pumpz Recordings.

Since 1997 Yannis has been performing live in Europe, Japan, Israel, Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and in the USA. Jaia has actually played at several big gatherings like Return To the Source in London, the Boom Festival in Portugual, Solstice in Japan, the Gaian Mind Festival in the USA, the Samothraki Dance Festival in Greece, Universo Paralello in Brazil, Soncia Festival in Italy, Shambhala Music Festival in Canada , or the VooV Experience in Germany.

Jaia has been around since the beginning of the Goa Trance era and never ceased to evolve its melodic signature sound, leaving an everlasting mark on the scene. Trancentral gathered 10 of Jaia’s most symbolic tracks throughout the years.