N.A.S.A.

N.A.S.A. (Not Another Silly Acronym) is 26 year old Mikkel Rasmussen, living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been a part of the Danish psy scene for over 10 years and has been big a supporter of the progressive psytrance scene as well for several years now.

Brought up playing different sorts of instruments, Mikkel did not find his true passion until 1994 when he was introduced to the world of electronic music. He began making a bizarre style of semi-psychedelic electronic dance music, which lasted a few years until he was introduced to the Trance scene and immediately fell in love with the rich world of sounds and melodies and emotion.

His taste changed as the scene in Copenhagen changed to Minimal Psytrance, and from there he started the N.A.S.A. project. In the beginning it was a solo project only because his main project, The Gnome Effect, included another person and they couldn’t always be in the studio whenever they had an idea. Shortly after the project was founded, The Gnome Effect had their first release - purely by chance - on the Israeli label Krembo.

When The Gnome Effect ended, Mikkel kept on with his N.A.S.A. project (now also with a few releases behind it) and developed it into a unique mix of styles with a trademark N.A.S.A. sound. Infusing psychedelic atmospheres with uplifting trance melodies and soundscapes and keeping a rough progressive groove, his style of music has blasted through dancefloors around the world for the past several years.