VII Records
Simon Patterson's tech-trance flagship — the dedicated editorial home for the harder, drive-forward end of the genre and the psy-tech crossover that has defined his late-2010s direction.
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- single (Discover)2009
- single2010
- single2013
- multiplemultiple
- series2012+
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