Derango was founded by Jens & Ola Eriksson in Sweden, sometime during the year 2000. Both of them originally from Örebro, Sweden, were members of various alternative rock bands between 1995 and 1999. At the end of this period, their interest in electronic music had grown so strong it could no longer be held back.
The creativity of Derango is a full expression of the psychedelic experience transferred in music. Their huge sound pictures are created combining a solid-warm base with on the top waves of sounds from synths and samples in a constant change and movement. The result is a unique wrapping effect that gives to the listeners on one side the safe feeling of the belonging to mother earth womb, and on the other side, the challenge of discovering and understanding that our mind and spirit have no borders.
Jens & Ola also have their own solo projects, an indicator of their curiosity to explore and simultaneously challenge themselves with new projects. Jens is behind Purosurpo. He has also released tracks with other collaborative projects, such as Insurpo & Purosect, Parallell Karusell and Breakfast Bouncers.
Ola is active with his psytrance and downtempo music solo project Ghostscent since 2016. Approaching this style with his unique and vast musical background and two decades of explorations in experimental music, the outcome is warm, organic and multilayered music in his very own style. He is also involved in the psytrance project named Alchemized together with Mussy Moody.
On top their work with Derango and solo projects, they are both involved in the Hallucinogenic Horses project, a spontaneous psychedelic music collaboration between the Sanaton Records collective and friends.
