Praga Khan

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Praga Khan (real name: Maurice Engelen) is an early techno music musician. His Belgian New Beat style stems back to the 1980s when techno came out of the Belgian underground.

Praga Khan teamed up with Jade 4 U and Oliver Adams to form Lords of Acid (also known as "Digital Orgasm") in the late 1980s. Praga Khan's most famous solo work is the rave anthem "Injected with a Poison".

Khan is one of the pioneers of the acid house/rave sound and has contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in The Next Dimension and Code Red. A lucky break also happened when Paul Verhoeven, during the shooting of Basic Instinct, walked into "The Limelight" disco in New York, looking for a song for his movie. When the track "Rave the Rhythm" was played, he stepped up to the DJ and asked who that was. The song was included on the soundtrack, after which a whole bunch of other movies followed including Sliver, Virtuosity, Strange Days and Bad Lieutenant. He also composed the soundtrack for the computer-game Mortal Kombat with Oliver Adams as The Immortals.