PSYKIA

 

Francesca a.k.a Psykia, is an eclectic DJ and Producer from the underground music scene, her first contact with music was at the age of six when she started learning violin.
She studied classical music throughout her adolescence but at the same time was introduced to electronic music, thanks to her brother DJ Sword, a great collector of trance and techno vinyls from their very beginnings. 
Initially she was intrigued by ambient, electro, techno and trip hop sonorities, later she discovered the psychedelic trance sound and became involved in the psychedelic culture, she wanted to go deeper into it and went to study Electronic Music Production at Rome’s “University of Music” and left 2 years later with a Diploma.
In 2006 she earned a study grant and went to Goa to write an anthropological research on the Goa trance movement for the University La Sapienza in Rome, after writing a brilliant thesys she then published a book whose title is “Trancefloor: an Ethnographic Research on the Soundscapes of Dancing Souls.”
After spending few months in Goa later in 2008, she had the chance to play her first set on the beautiful location of Anjuna Beach, that's when she began her journey as DJ exploring all the nuances of forest/dark/psytrance but also progressive, techno and chillout. 
Psykia has been djing around the world for many years now, she has also started making her own sounds lately and realeased tracks for killer labels such as Lycantrop Rec., Banyan Re. and Forestdelic Records (chill).
She is currently based in London but she never stops travelling all over the world and playing at major parties and festivals alongside the biggest names on the international psy-trance scene; she played at massive events in Uk, also many gigs in India and Spain where she was based for a while and where she is called back to play almost every year, she has been djing almost everywhere, she played at Modem Festival, Kalimela Festival, Atman Festival, Vantara Vichitra Gathering in Goa, she also worked as Stage Manager at Wao Festival and Black Moon Festival. In 2014 she was asked to join Vantara Vichitra Records (India) and that marked a big turning point on her career, in March 2015 she joined Milega Records (Japan) and in 2016 she also joined Banyan Records, one of the best dark/forest labels in Europe.. She is now in London getting ready to play at Universo Parallelo in Brasil on NYE.. much more on the way, stay tuned !