Category: Art

Organik Love Project

Organik Love Project this weekend was a great event. Set on Kromrivier Farm in the Cape of South Africa, the venue was beautiful. Surrounded by mountains, a river and forest, it was the perfect getaway. A great lineup of some of Cape Town’s best DJ’s as well as Sonic Species, the music was fresh and the dancefloor was packed.

The stage design was a collaboration between Carin Dickson and Christopher Dowding, with 3D tendrils filled with LEDS, beautiful stretch decor and shaped into a big heart.

Stage setup being done

The music was top class. My favourite set came from Bernz on the Friday night, 10.30pm to 12.30am. Great Psychedelic Trance, and the crowd was jumping!

DJ Bernz playing great Psy on Friday night

The festival was opened by Sonic Druid, playing some laid back Zenon style grooves. It’s been a while since I saw him play and he did a great job of bringing the crowd onto the dancefloor.

Sonic Druid starting off the festival

Cape Town collective “Our Minds” had a strong showing at the festival, with one of the head guys, Abra playing some good Dark Psy.

Abra playing some good Dark Psy

There was some rain on Saturday, but that didn’t seem to bother the crowd at all. The dancefloor stayed full and people just kept dancing. Some dancefloors just disappear when the rain and cold comes, Cape Town seem to have developed thick skins! Silo played a great set and held the crowd, dancing all the way.

Silo packing the crowd in the rain

The Sunday was warm and sunny and people had a lovely Sunday Funday. Headroom always seems to be the most popular DJ in Cape Town, rocking the crowd with his signature sound. Lots of hoola hoops, jugglers and flow artists were out and about, showing off their skills.

Headroom rocking out

Great production and teamwork from the crew. They were on the ball and I didn’t see any incidents that they couldn’t handle with ease. Special thanks to Warren and Bianca for their hospitality and making sure everything ran smoothly throughout.

We launched our new brand at Love Project, and are looking forward to seeing it grow.

Psymetry stall with T-shirts and Hats

Koi Yin

Beautiful Scenes From Burning Man

Burning Man is a massive Festival usually held every year in Nevada on a salt flat. It attracts around 70,000 people and becomes the 3rd biggest city in Nevada for a week. It is the original Burning Festival, with many affiliates having sprung up all around the world.

This video has some great scenes from the festival, as well as some beautiful tunes. Called Desert Tech, these melodic Techno tunes have a very dreamy and danceable vibe. This is an art festival, and the massive art pieces and flamboyant clothing tell a wonderful tale.

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Fernanda Pistelli at Lake Sessions

https://www.facebook.com/djfernandapistelli/

“OUT!! My set is now available on my YouTube channel ❤️
That was very special! Hope you like it”

Fernanda Pistelli is fast becoming one of my favourite Techno queens. Her music is well thought out, psychedelic, sexy and intelligent. She is subtle, beautiful and draws me in. I haven’t not enjoyed a set of hers yet.

Refinoir Radio Broadcast 1

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TAS Visuals
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This is our first radio broadcast under Refinoir, which stands for Refined Dark… The best in dark psychedelic music, brought to you weekly by some of the best DJ’s in South Africa and the world. The show was first broadcast on Friday 15th of May and featured these selectors:

Alien Natives
https://www.facebook.com/Alien-Natives-668471413314603/

Bendy
https://www.facebook.com/bendydjz/

SonicDruid
https://www.facebook.com/sonicdruid/

Chris Palmer
https://www.facebook.com/DeeJayChrisPalmer/

Hydro
https://www.facebook.com/Hydro13-193842800674101/

What an excellent show! The music is sublime, the visuals are absolutely beautiful, THANK YOU for allowing us to use them TAS!

Thank you to our great DJ’s for bringing such great music to our show. We have a a WhatsApp chat group available for chatting and general hooliganism:

https://chat.whatsapp.com/DRTvbV3cWj022j5hrUavsi

Our next show features:

Refinoir Radio Broadcast 2

and our show for this Friday, 5th of June, on www.arc-radio.net, features:

Refinoir Radio Broadcast 3
Refinoir Radio Broadcast 3
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5th of June

Organoise LIVE 2019 Prep for Rara Avis Gathering

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A live set of Organoise Hi-Tech, prepping for the Rara Avis Festival (https://www.facebook.com/events/376093613034558/). Cutting edge, psychedelic sounds, all prepped and performed in live performance. As they say “When the Hi-Tech starts talking alien to you, you know you’re on the right vibe…” Ha ha, and it has… It was a strange feeling…

These guys, Jared Davis (Dugguh zt) and Timothy Hooper (Atim zt), are on the cutting edge of Hi Tech music, along with the rest of the Zulutunes label. I’ll be on the lineup with them and these others at Connexion New Years Festival 2019/20 on the Darker Dimensions floor:

Pastor JOHN – ZuluTunes – JHB
Fright Rate – Kamino Records – CT
Anubis Freak Records – CT
Atim – ZuluTunes – JHB
Dr Bops – ZuluTunes – JHB
Psydewise – Purple Hexagon Records – GR
Dugguh ZT – ZuluTunes – JHB
Ruckus – ZuluTunes – JHB
Organoise – ZuluTunes – JHB
Dreadlokk Warrior – ZuluTunes – JHB
Digital Dream – ZuluTunes – KZN
Thorne – ZuluTunes – JHB
Chris Palmer – JHB
Filtiarn – JHB
Hunta – Darker Dimensions – KZN
Han Psylo – KZN
Sativanoid – KZN
BottleWash – KZN
PsyOdyssey – KZN
Dodgey Roger – KZN

And this is just one of the four floors. Check out Connexion New Years Festival 2019/20 for more details on the other artists playing, including Techno, Drum and Bass, PsyTrance and Chillout. AT one of the most beautiful venues in South Africa, Hella Hella Adventure Centre Situated on the beautiful Umkomaas River, in a valley surrounded by mountains. It is sublime. I hope to see you there.

Australia, these boys will see you in March. Best get your tickets and start getting fit! They’re gonna whip your ass into shape…

Xabanga – Restructive Interference

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Xabanga is the psychedelic trance project of Greek born, South African Lio Mihos, aimed at delivering a focused and completely accidental musical adventure. The music produced in this project is the product of shared knowledge between friends, strangers, curious mates and homies and it is made for the enjoyment of a psychedelic nature.
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It was the year 2008, at the tender age of 16 I had just started my venture into DJing techno and investing all of my time in learning how to work these machines called decks. Suddenly it was 2010, I relinquished my drum set and invested in an old but still operational computing unit. This is when my first music project, Vector, was born and is signed with Zulutunes (SA) to date. After experimenting with alternative trance music, the idea of the Xabanga project was created during a tour through Europe in the summer of 2015. This was during my final year at film school in which I specialised in Sound Design for visual projects. Using my knowledge acquired from my time in looniversity and combining it with my journey in Hi Tech trance, Xabanga was a concept that needed to be materialised through the speaker cone. Now, in 2017, Xabanga has been signed to Digital Shamans Records (Swiss) and soon the first EP will release.

In this project you will find riding basslines that groove into cheeky motifs and aggressive leads, followed by designs in spaces that make no sense that project into your brizain.

Free Earth Festival 2019, Enlightenment Stage, TAS Visuals

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TAS Visuals creates some of the best psychedelic video mapping in the world. His style of using 3d worms and snake-like creatures is easily recognisable and the depth of his creations is spectacular. Layer upon layer combines to create a moving painting, which I can watch for days.

Rarely have I ever seen a visual artist with so much appeal in his creations. A clip of digital hands moving at Vortex was particularly engaging for me. I’ve seen George use it a few times in different pieces. The hands, left and right, flow back and forth, creating a hypnotic rhythm that leads me to a trancelike state. Combined with good music, it is electrifying.