Solstice Music is a Tokyo-based psytrance and Goa-trance label, operated under SMI Entertainment in Shibuya-ku, established around 2000 at the moment when Goa trance was transitioning into the broader modern psytrance form. The label and the associated Solstice Music Festival — first held at Mt. Fuji in 2001 — together built one of Asia's most important Goa / psytrance institutions, channelling both Japanese and international artists into a focused editorial and event programme.
Across 25+ years, Solstice has released a long arc of Japanese, international, and Goa-revival psy material, with the Solstice Music compilation series functioning as the label's primary editorial document. The Solstice Music Festival has repeatedly hosted leading international names from the global Goa / psy circuit alongside the active domestic scene. The label and festival together remain one of the genre's most respected institutional anchors outside the Israeli / UK / Danish / Brazilian psy axes — editorially disciplined, with a devoted audience that favours the melodic and patient end of the form.