| Solar Quest | |
|---|---|
| Also known as |
Entropica |
| Origin | London, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Ambient Acid Trance |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Choci's Chewns, SSR, Entropica |
| Website | Official Website |
| Members | |
| George Saunders | |
| Notable instruments | |
| Roland TB-303 | |
Solar Quest is a one-man ambient and acid trance music project founded in 1993 by George Saunders (* 25 December in Redlands, Scotland as Seòras Saunders) and its aim is to combine renewable solar energy with electronic music.
Solar Quest was founded when Saunders became interested in acid house in the beginning of the 1990s. In 1993 and 1994 he had at least nine releases, of which two were full length albums (the other under alias Entropica).
He is credited as introducing Phil Ross and Chris Deckker at a 1993 trance party in North London's Dome Club which was being held to raise legal fees for a friend languishing in an Indian jail. Ross and Deckker went on to found the famous Return to the Source party and record label with partners Mark Allen and Janice Duncan. Solar Quest made regular performances at the Source parties and contributed tracks to three Return to the Source compilation albums - Deep Trance and Ritual Beats (1995) and The Chakra Journey (1996) as well as Ambient Meditations 1 (1998).
For the annual Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts Solar Quest has often produced a solar energy powered ambient concert tent and a lot of its music has been recorded and mixed in a studio powered by solar energy.
Saunders has had cooperation with e.g. British DJ Choci, under whose record label Choci's Chewns most of Solar Quest's early releases were published. The British singer Kirsty Hawkshaw's vocals can be heard on many of them. A remix collection of Alan Parsons' song "Apollo" is among the more obscure Solar Quest releases.
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