Quite a busy week-end ahead on the live visual front for me. Its great! This week-end is a start of an amazing festival up in North Queensland called – Land Crabs – Outdoor Cancerial Celbration. Im performing on the 17th of July which is Friday night as – vdmo Kstati and following night you can see vj plankton covering over Saturday night.
Great line up of artists featuring:
INTERPULSE – RICHIE MANTRIX (Live – Open Records – Melb)
Interpulse is Richard Hinkson. Residing in Melbourne, Richie has a 20 year association with the Australian music scene.
Best known as one half of legendary live tribal trance act Mantrix, one of Australia’s longest running and most successful acts, over the years Richie has played at nearly every major Australian outdoor festival including Rainbow Serpent, Earthcore, Tribeadelic, Earth Freq and many more. Together with his studio partner Ben, they produced 6 albums on various labels before the completion of their partnership in 2007 – paving the way for Richie’s solo project Interpulse to take formation at the beginning 2008. The fresh sound is focused cutting edge deep progressive music, combining sweeping trance FX, driving techno basslines and layered tribal percussions – all wound together with a distinct Australian outdoor festival vibe and strong dancefloor focus. http://www.myspace.com/interpulse
ONES & ZEROS – PAKI PAKI (Live – Binary Beats – Hunab Ku Creations – Melb)
Ones and Zeros is Simon Field, based in Melb he enjoys the good things in life like cold beers and good vibes.
With a release on the “Polynated” C.D from Hunab Ku Creations, Simon’s sound is a rich tapestry of warm, floating melodies and stuctures driven by intelligent dub rhythm’s and basslines.
He’s currently working on several projects from Dub to Trance to Chill to Experimental Techno.
“Ones and Zeros”….
http://www.myspace.com/sqigls
“Goodnite Irie”…
http://www.myspace.com/goodniteirie
“PakiPaki”…
http://www.myspace.com/pakipakimusic
SPLIFFUN (Live – Fowl Play – Bio Sine Rec. – NNSW)
Spillun is Dhillon Tiffin, born January the 29, 1986. After growing up in tasmania for most of his child life he moved to the beautiful area of byron bay . After finishing school Tiffin moved in with good mates Luke Gill (aka Strange Planet) and Jerome Canabou (aka Short Circut) were he started to listen to PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE. After going to a few trance parties Dhillon started collecting music and learning to mix and before long he started playing gig’s and his mates began showing him all they knew about music production.
As time went by Tiffin began a project with Dream Weaver and Stange Planet called Polka. Eventually they went there seperate ways and Spliffun was born. Since then he has played at major festivals like SPLENDER IN THE GRASS, SOTOPIA FESTIVAL, EXODUS,WINTER SOLSTICE NNSW and CAIRNS, SUPER FREAK and EARTHFREQ as well as countless other small parties. The Spliffun sound is phat, melodic with strong dancefloor pull and is perfect for an epic sunrise session…. http://www.myspace.com/spliffun
GROUCH (Live – Zenon – NZ)
Grouch is 24yr old Oscar, Creating from Wellington, New Zealand. over the past 8 years he has been Producing a variety of styles, from dubstep and chill through the minimal, progressive, breaks and into psy.
with releases on A-List, Cosmic Conspiracy, Native Harmonic, Zenon Records and an album coming soon with Up records as well as upcoming releases on several other labels..
Grouch’s music consists of a blend of minimalist,experimental, sygressivenessis malisticationala delicisminga liciousness tech -step dub and chunk, combining a mix of smooth and swamp-crunch into a user friendly dance floor sound leaving punters questing for their long lost biscuit He has developed a fast growing following, who readily get on the dance floor and stomp to their hearts content to squelchy, deep, root connecting basslines.. http://www.myspace.com/otgrouch
Lysergic (Live/ DJ – Sundance Rec- NNSW)
One Tastey Morsel (Lively – Zenon)
Filthy Tomo (Open Rec. NZ)
Duncan (Live – Plusquam rec)
Stampetey (Freeform – NNSW)
Suspekt (Open Rec)
Bent Intent ( Live/ Dj – Hunab Ku Creations – Bio Sine Rec.)
Woodsman (Open Rec)
Solatek (Freeform – Open Rec)
Bush Pilot (Lively)
Backwards Man (Lively – Little Rascal Rec)
Psymon (Up Records)
Jaramundi (Lively)
Drewan (Open Rec.)
Bush Mech (Lively)
Ear Wigg
Funk Form (Open Rec.)
Adam Giardina
Milika (Live Acooustic)
Twiggy (Live – Acoustic)
Eegor (Open Rec.)
Bush Mech (Lively)
Mony
Geko
aDusk
Luna Tik Vs. Kali
Waltek
Shaka
http://www.landcrabsfestival.com.au/
Directions to Landcrabs
From Cairns, Drive to Mareeba and Take the inland road to Cooktown.Once you hit Mt Carbine it is another 83km after that on your right.Turn down here and follow the signs to the gate. Passes are available here.
If you see the Palmer River Roadhouse you have gone TOO FAR. Please travel safely and we’ll see you at the party!!!