upavas

North Vancouver, Canada

When Upavas was six years old and living in a commune in rural Germany, he found a guitar in his attic. He decided to play with it; the first real chord he struck (accidentally, after noises that had the hippies in the commune running for their lives) was an E minor and the then hippie kid was fascinated, that he could do something like that. At age 14 Upavas learned the ins and outs of music theory.
1986-87, Upavas had just arrived in Goa where he really fell in love with electronic music. A few early DJ gigs in places like the shorebar, Anjuna, Goa, and some small parties in Germany followed in 1994, but it wasn’t until the year 2000 in Hawai’i, that he really started djing at and promoting Goa parties. Upavas had DJ gigs at events in North America, Europe, North Africa and Japan.
In 2002, Upavas began first attempts at electronic music writing. Four years later he completed his studies in sound design for visual media at a film school in Vancouver. After the release of several tr