If you take ‘HY/BRID’ as one part high voltage to set the night alight and one part brute force diesel power, you’re not far off this Holy Trinity employing slamming beats and pulsating riffs with a slight holographic quality to them.
It’s a simple, blood-pumping formula rich in dancefloor devastation, Robert Gitleman aligning with Rafael Osmo as Alt_Man and the Vision 20/20 of Marco V en route to becoming a three-headed tech-trance superpower, specializing in blasting DJ booths into smithereens.
Marco V has been there, done that and is still here and doing it, In Charge’s head maintaining quadruple threat status as DJ, producer, remixer and label manager. Playing house, trance and more at some of the world’s biggest festivals since the 90s, and remixing artists as diverse as Madonna, Nicole Scherzinger and 50 Cent, achievements and honours have naturally come thick and fast.
Anthems from Age of Love and Energy 52 have received Marco’s magic touch, and the teenage adventures of ‘Kevin & Perry Go Large’ wouldn’t be the same without his Southside Spinners project perfecting a top 10 moment in time.
A tale of two Tel Aviv top guns, Rafael Osmo has over a decade of industry expertise in the tank, taking in the twin titans of Paul Van Dyk’s Vandit imprint and Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label while running his own Progline project.
The Israeli has the backing of Markus Schultz, Aly & Fila, and Hernan Cattaneo to call on – a pretty formidable marker to lay down and pick off the opposition with. Easily making the transition from teen DJ to global must-check, fellow countryman Robert Gitelman has emerged from the Israel club and dance radio scene to take on the best that Europe has to offer. Vastly experienced and always keeping clubbers on their toes under a variety of aliases, the movers and shaker of trance’s high kingdom have taken Gitelman to the hearts as well as their record boxes, perhaps best known for the Hooj Choons-signed ‘Signet’ and his 2003 remix of Three Drives on a Vinyl’s ‘Greece 2000’.
With Osmo and Marco V already teaming this year for the king-sized ‘UN/RATED’ and Gitelman appearing on Osmo’s ‘General EP’ earlier in 2021, ‘HY/BRID’ shows three masters of their craft at their banging best.
