For those that enjoy the outdoor spirit combined with diverse Electronic Music and Arts, Far North Queensland provides an amazing playground throughout Australian Winter Season and is popular among artists who are regular on the outdoor festival circuit. Imagine blissfully warm days and fantastically crisp and enjoyable nights surrounded by beautiful nature along with plethora of visuals, installation art and vast variety of electronic music and talent showcasing the latest innovation in sound covering; progressive, techno, minimal, psy, glitch, experimental, reggae, and aussie hip hop.
As the Festival Season Explodes on the region, among such events we have Collaborations : Land Crabs Gathering which is in its 4th year with new adopted name- “Collaborations” and with attentive fan base it is sure promising to be something special once again. Running over duration of 23rd, 24th and 25th of July at a close proximity to Cooktown, this years event is offering an amazing array of talent as well as an additional stage which has been added to the overall picture that will cater for the fans of Raggae and Aussie Hip hop with the likes of Buttah The Verbal Wordsmith,The Vexed Versa as well as ever popular Zennith and Coalition. Continue reading »
After a crankin show on the 19th we are back on Freaky Fridaze the 23rd April to proudly present another round of VIBEbrations @ the Vibe bar.
This night will once again showcase the finest local artists within the record label industry. With local label legends SUSPEKT (Open Records) and MISTA KIFFSTA (Freakquency Records) SALAMANGKERO (Local Legend) and MARTIAN with his album launch the local boys will be ripping up the dancefloor with sum serious stompers and proving the power of our locally based Record Labels. With 2 Massive Visual screens projected by VJ VDMO KSTATI and 10,000 watts of crystal clear sound they will driving the vibrating dance floor with Doors opening @ 9pm with double the vibes from 9-11..
Please arrive early to ensure entry as VIBEbrations has a limited capacity and a full house is expected.
Only 83 Days to go till Cairns Winter Solstice 2010 (June 18th -21st) is upon us and anticipation grows day by day. First set of announcements have been released today and already its looking as epic as ever!
Some of the Music artists which will feature this year’s festival will include;
Erphun, Frechback, Pan Electric, Tetrameth, ShadowFX, SunControlSpecies, Claude Hay, The Mollusk, Bent Intent, Grouch, Chocolate Strings, Faeorin, Zennith, Danni B, Sun In Aquarious, One Tasty Morsel, The Stickleback and many more to be released as it gets closer to the date.
Bit of a Music sample from Erphun via Soundcloud from Suspekt’s Facebook post, thanks Jess. Erphun on “TRANSITIONS” – with John Digweed – 10-10-2009 by Erphun
Visual program is going to be just as exciting, as we have plenty of amazing live visualists coming to perform including some new artists to the scene which is also exciting for the overall North Queensland visual community and the festival itself. More to be announced soon.
First post for 2010. Has to be done!
Happy happy 2010 to all of you, wishing you the best of everything you ever wish for.
The year started with a bang and a bit of a rain, which believe me, dont spoil the party atmosphere. For New Years eve. Cairns City Council had organised a series of activities on a stretch of the Esplanade for NYE festivities with two music stages, joy rides, food stalls for everyone to come and enjoy. Typically to a North Queensland new years weather you could bet that it will be wet and so it was. Despite the fact, people rocked up to the city in they thousands and had plenty to see and check out.
My role was to do visuals for few hours of visuals with approach to new years eve at the stage where they had few DJs playing that evening. Operating from the front of the house, I had pretty good view of the party and luckily was protected from the weather as it showered regularly.
The show went basically without a hitch. Music was to keep people dancing and all djs I though did a good job.
Last friday I was performing @ Gilligans nightclub with everyone’s anticipation for Infected Mushroom Show.
Its an honour to be part of this project and so my thanks goes out to Fireart Entertainment and Gilligans nightclub for making it happen…and also thanks to my friends ay FestivalVision for doing some amazing video feed work. Shane, Justin, Craigos and Sanaz..
Was awesome production and many other great artists have played great music and put on a great show. Subhuman Funk, a new formation of a group of artists had brough the house down as they warmed up before Infected mushroom.
To celebrate ongoing tour of Vibesquad and Spoonbill through Far North Queensland, Cairns Collective Creations encompassing variety of local promoters are proud to present:
Vibesquad/ Spoonbill / 3rd October 2009
The line up is so HUGE its ridiculous, you’ll have to go to the event to see it for yourself. Saturday afternoon kick off, Saturday night and through till Sunday day event. More info & upates:www.myspace.com/cairnscollectivecreations
Well.. It has been a good time break from festivals performance. Last being Illumination just little over a month ago. Needed that break to readjust my content, try out new technologies through R&D and generally have a break and do other non vj things. At the moment I’m feeling freshen up, now its time again to get back into a thick of it.
This week-end is the beginning of such season, starting of with Earthdance – Far North Queensland.
As an annual dance event which takes places all over the world towards world peace, Earthdance has gained much awareness and attracts thousands upon thousands of people across the world to share the moment and dance for peace Most of the events happen on the same week-end, so global energy adds its element to the cause.
Very happy to be on the line up, also performing along side Plankton and Phrosporous (vjs).
Over last week-end I had the pleasure to perform visuals as part of Illumination (Cairns) – White Party which was brought by Silver Gem and it had its 10th Anniversary since the inception in 1999. The event is a brain child of Deano & Venus who had put a lot of effort and vision to make and keep making this event reality year after year. I want to thank them dearly for they efforts.
This was my first time to perform at this show, even though I nearly made into the line up for the last year, this was the time. The event itself attracts somewhat diffrent audience to what you’d normally see at outdoor bush events in North Queensland which was a nice change as it brings new crowd to electronic music and arts for people to enjoy.
I was booked to do live vj’ing work on main stage along side Blakey (vj Phrosporous) and a string of local and nation talent with amazing sound, light and lazer rigs to boot. Continue reading »
No words can describe it! Winter Solstice is a truly wonderful event that holds thousands of close friends that venture out for the 4 day getaway and amazing experience whilst among the nature with clear skies, foggy mornings, cool nights and warm days. Music! Music is on a nother level, being completely blessed with healthiest line up we all could experience in ages, progression of artists would be described as cream upon cream upon cream.
This year I was fortunate enough to work with my good friends and colleagues in visual department. This along provided for some amazing visual combination and creative outlet as far as various visuals styles are concerned. Feel free to check some of the fotage from the festival on my YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/vdmoKstati
LSBeatz Grand Opening was a great success. This morning I had decided to put few of the short clips I filmed from Saturday night night and put them here to see for everyone. Hope you enjoy. The clip doesn’t feature Spiral Soundsystem or Soljah, but let me assure you that sets they played were awesome.
Only few days to go till the launch of anticipated : LSBeatz event. The action will take will take place at amazingly lush Ellis beach on Saturday the 18th of April. The spot can be easily found as you drive up from Cairns towards Port Douglas, so there are no chances that you will get lost. Impossible!!!
Brought to you by the efforts of Tribal Alliance, the event is planned out to be a monthly or so gathering allowing you to experience a journey through sound & vision on famous @ Ellis beach Bar n Grill with initial opening night kicking off from 7pm till late.
Featuring all forms quality of underground electronic music, vj’s artistic decor & special titbits to delight the senses.
“Tribal Alliance” is an evolving collective of djs artists vjs promoters performers & creative expressionists passionate about delivering full sensory stimulation events & bringing the tribes together. Anyone wanting to get involved can get in touch via http://www.myspace.com/tribalalliance
The line up for the evening as follows:
7pm… Spiral Soundsystem
8pm…Kho-Fx
9pm…Suspekt
10pm…Simple Psyman
11pm…Soljah
12am…Contact
1am…Martian
2am…Brothers Darkness
vj vdmo Kstati – 8pm- 3am
The night will continue into the sunrise on the beach across the road.
Only 83 Days to go till 
