Back to Mars

From Psychedelic-Traveller

Editor: Netherlands | Current living in: Netherlands

Born in Brazil, Marcia Larroid Ghisi better known as Back to Mars started mixing in the underground parties of Amsterdam in 2001. Her main style is Psytrance, ranging from Fast Dark Psychedelic to Minimal Progressive. Her mixing is intelligent and uplifting, and she likes to surprise and inspire the crowd with her unorthodox style. Her belief and goal is that regardless of style, people will recognize good music when they hear it, and they will be moved by it, in their body, mind and soul!

In her sets she mixes deep music from artists such as Tetrameth, Minimal Criminal, Deviant Species, Scorb, Electrypnose, Jahbo, Cosmo, Penta, Bombax, to name a few. Mostly these different styles are combined according to her feeling and public interaction. With a passion for experimentation, she also plays other styles like Deep House, Tech House and Brazilian music at lounge spaces in Amsterdam.

Within her experiences, she had the privilege of playing the first DJ set of the Boom Festival main floor in 2008 for a crowd of more than 30,000 people. The energy was very high and she took the public up on a crescendo, where many styles of Psytrance were explored. It was said that her “music was really groovy and sticking people to the ground physically and mentally"!

Other parties and festivals where she played at are Universo Paralello Brazil, Existence Festival Spain, Ground Zero Festival Holland, Q-Base Festival Germany, Chianti Solstice Festival Italy, Epidemic Trance Corporation Paris, Bass Island Austria, Planet Waldfrieden Germany. So far she performed in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.

Back to Mars also wrote the article about Holland for The Trancer's Guide to the Galaxy 2008 and in 2009 for its new version, Psychedelic Traveller. She is also writing the 2010 article of this magazine which will be out soon.

She finished the audio production course at the SAE in Amsterdam and is currently getting into producing her own sound.