Ganapati is a psychedelic electronic project by Shehan Thenuwara, an experienced Music producer...
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... and a Sound Designer from Sri Lanka. Born on May 24, 1992, Shehan is Professional sound engineer and producer. Being a fan of artistic new age music and well qualified in eastern music and Sound Engineering, in his later years he discovers Psytrance and begins his journey by starting the project Ganapati, a Progressive and full-on psychedelic trance act. A young and upcoming Dj/Producer in the psychedelic culture of Sri Lanka, playing funky beats for those funky monkeys with forestry attitude. Ganapati is inspired by superhumans of the past, from a biomechanical and advanced civilization and talks about a future in the past. It is also a concept based on Sri Lankan culture, forestry and wildlife sounds. His music is dedicated to making people aware about saving Sri Lankan wildlife. There are so many animals which are now going through extinction in Sri Lanka, and as musicians who love the forest, he tries to make people aware of this through music. The name was taken by the Sri Lankan and Hindu cultural and mythical god Ganesh, as it represents the quality of wisdom and one of the greatest treasure's of Sri Lanka, the elephant.