Mapusa Mapusa

His interest in electronic music was awakend during the early 90's. Later

in 1993 Thomas aka Mapusa Mapusa visited the first psy-parties and was

completely fascinated by the music. During 1995 he began buying vinyls

and building a collection. Starting off with a pair of turntable imitations he

was able to mix music. In early 1996 Thomas travelled to Goa / India, to

still the growing curiosity he had for this country, its people and of course

the music. Immediately following the return to Europe he went to Ibiza for

a few months. There and before in India he played initial dj sets and got

completely thrilled. Returning to Germany, Occiasional booking convinced

him to continue his new passion. Many thanks in this place to Ernst and

Andrea, who layed the foundations. After meeting Fabio they began

spinning as a team. 1999 and 2000 they had the huge honour of playing

at the Voov Experience festival, as well for U-Site, Free Form etc. The

interest n their dj sets grew well beyond Germany. Gigs in South Africa,

Japan and Europe followed. Later Fabio and Mapusa decided to go their

own paths, because interests began to change. Then he met Daniel

(Shiva Chandra) and they began producing regularly together. Quite fast

they produced the first track together. ''Schaukelstuhl' became a big

succes and really surprised them both. So the decicion to found the

Auricular project was made, and a year later the first album 'Audion'

was released Request from around the world increased. With

appearances on all continents he began travelling. Never pausing

performing as a dj, the task remains very enjoyable, with memorable

sets in Cape Town, New York, Japan, Mexico and of course Europe.

After a while he started a new project Human Traffic with Stephan

Wötanowski. The debut album is going to released in April 2007 on Blue

Tunes Records. Another two projects is working pretty well now ,,Johnson&Haske,, and ,,Fusi&Johnson,,with cool releases on Sprout,Tribal Vision,Powder etc. and killer tracks will coming soon.check it out!!!

Today he is 43 years old and can say that he's having

as much fun as

ever travelling the world and pleasing people with music

and never

would want to miss it.