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Vortechtral (Kai Wiggins – Portsmouth - UK) has been producing and performing live electronic music from ambient to techno, through his aliases, Vortechtral, Vortechtral AM, and Benni Blanco since early 1998. The Vortechtral sound is a big room fusion of bass line driven techno, electro and pumping house influences, combining to create a highly infectious and musical style. Releases and remixes have gone out on labels across the world, such as Audionautica, Primate / Endangered Species, Intravenous Cuts, Teggno alongside his own labels Techment Records, Techtonic, and In Deep Recordings, and seen support from DJs across the global dance scene...

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Echtra is a black metal/ritual ambient band formed in 2003 in Olympia, WA, United States. The hero's journey par excellence, Echtra represents the transition between this world and the others. A seed, carried as close to one's heart as spatiality will allow, germinates rebirth and a nomadic wandering no longer bound. A symbiosis of brown, green, and red; the saturation of the grey with the vibrant shades of being: these are the transformations made possible when the otherworld reasserts itself unexpectedly. An immersion in the deep past reveals the portal...