Mr. Madness is Filipe Goulart, born in 1987 and resident of the Portuguese part of the Iberian island. Originally he's from the beautiful Azores Islands, but nowadays he's inhabiting and studying in the country's capital Lisbon. Having been influenced heavily by Tekno/Schranz for a while, he popped into psytrance in the year 2006 at the legendary Boom Festival and got hooked on it in a jiffy, which is no surprise right? Heís been DJ-ing since the year 2009, but his interested shifted rapidly towards the producing part of his favorite music style. Filipe's been doing a few courses in sound production here and there and is now about to graduate for his bachelor's degree in science & sound technology at the Universidade Lusofuna de Humanidades e Technologia.
His personal project Mr. Madness has seen the fresh rays of daylight in the beginning of 2010, majorly thanks to the help of his good friend Hendrik Bombax, whoís been a major influence and inspiration to him. Filipeís main challenge is to bring some fresh sounds to the monoculture of full-on music in the Portuguese psytrance scene of today and his fresh approach towards things to do so are successful so far. After all, psytrance is not supposed to be about just heading into one direction all the time, but it's true power is found in the diversity of sounds and styles in his belief. His musical skills have developed rapidly over the past couple of years and his music can be described as ìNot too hard, not too soft, not to cute and not to ugly if we may quote our dear friend on that.
So far this mad man has managed to be very productive in just a short amount of time and has been working his ass off to get his debut album ready on the label Undervoice Records from Guatamala, which is due to get released in April 2011. Next to this he's been working on a ball busting Mind Funk compilation CD together with DJ Shawnodese, also working on a EP that come out on August 2011, and he released several tracks for 5 VA's.
Next to having his own project Mr. Madness he's also co-producing with his co-organizer Paulo Gonçalves a.k.a. Inner Coma. Their project is named Dystopia also featured on the Mind Funk. They're aiming for maximum dance floor madness and impact with intense and pretty insane high-speed psychedelica between the range of 150 and 175 BPM.