Since around the mid 90’s, Mikkel Leonhardt Rasmussen has been an very active producer of electronic music in various forms and sizes under many different music projects ever since, crafting his music to his specific tastes and passions and drawing inspiration from everything around him. It was not, however, until he joined forces with his best friend and started The Gnome Effect, which focused on a deep and dark deep psytrance sound. The duo quickly became popular in the Danish underground psytrance scene