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A decade in any music industry is no mean feat in any style of music – but in electronic music, it’s a proverbial lifetime. Few acts can claim this feat at all, let alone claim ten years of success – but in the European summer this year, that is what Sweden’s Vibrasphere have accomplished. Vibrasphere can trance their beginnings to the infancy of the trance movement itself in the mid nineties. Rickard Berglöf was a member of early Goa supergroup Subcouds, while Robert Elster was working on his own projects at home on his trusty Amiga computer. After being introduced through Rickard’s cousin, the pair formed a strong friendship and decided to start working on a new project in Cloud 99 Studios. In the summer of 1998, the Vibrasphere project was born and the pair have continued to add to the studio since.  The next ten years they firmly earned their claim to be one of the progressive trance sound’s founding fathers, with this, their fifth release (and second on Tribal Vision) a testament to the pairs amazing diversity and characteristic sound. But don’t the pigeonhole the Vibrasphere sound as merely “trance” or “progressive” either – they have produced in a myriad of different styles with a strong focus on ambient and downbeat, along with their dance music in a variety of different genres as well. They have even had their hands in various soundtracks film and media projects, and their live career has taken them around the globe, playing hundreds of shows at some of the world’s biggest clubs and festivals and earned them the respect of dance’s superstar DJs like Hernan Cattaneo, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, Christopher Lawrence and many, many more. However, like any long career, they have had their own highs and lows. The hectic touring schedule that took its toll on Robert in the time after the release of early albums Echoes on Spiral Trax and Lime Structures on Digital Structures. He temporarily left the group and left Rickard to continue the project and travel alone. However it was not long till Robert rejoined Rickard and they haven’t looked back since, producing 2 more albums - Archipelago on Digital Structures and Exploring the Tributaries on Tribal Vision.  With this, their fifth and new release “Lungs of Life” on Tribal Vision, Rickard and Robert promise a maturation of their diverse sound and another step forward for this dynamic production duo. After a decade of the music, one can only guess where the pair will go next. However, one thing is for sure and that is that Vibrasphere have firmly stamped their name in the history books as one of the pioneering acts of the electronic music movement and their music will continue to influence people for many years to come.