Picture this: Splendid paradise surroundings, blue skies, journey on a cruise boat from Cairns harbour to picture perfect Fitzroy Island for two days and night Adventure full of arts and music: Island Elements 2 ! This being a second installement from Island Elements crew with a mix of local and national talents which brings you these events on 2 monthly basis. With glorious weather throughout North Queensland Winter Season, what a way to come out to this and unwind surrounded by great people, live and local arts and amazing selection of music. The event is being held from 9th till 10th of July 2011, so mark you calendars and join in the fun! For more info read on!!!

Island Elements is held every two months, with the musical treats and feasts growing with the event that is clearly a night and days to remember. Made by locals, for locals. (Visitors Welcome)
Tickets are $65 and available from Early June through following outlets: Shiva Moon (07) 4031 1644, Taste-y records (07) 40 514 119, Fetish 4 Life (07) 4041 4161 and The Happy High Herb Shop (07) 4041 4808 in Cairns, North Queensland Australia.

Ticket holders receive boat transfers to and from the Island, a complimentary drink on arrival, Free finger food during the night and Free entry into Casbah Nightclub upon return to Cairns, unless Camping or Resort style accommodation is purchased, in which case you have access to a complimentary breakfast, and another day of entertainment.

Reservations are essential for accommodation. If you want to make a reservation and you want to get the best deal, phone Fitzroy Island Resort on (07) 4044 6700 and be sure to mention Island Elements. Don’t use online booking as they do not have correct details of the deals on offer.

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Performances and Art by:

Sacred Circus – Performance
Kali Creaturesque and Hans Jurss – Performance
Jon Firetribe – LARGE flames
Adam Scott Miller + Donna Raymond + Jilli Manning – Live Art
La Petit Lumiere – Fire and acrobatics

VJs:
CrystaLotus – Live Visuals
vdmo Kstati – Live Visuals

Music by:

BRAN RICHARDS
AUTONOMECH
TD SHAGGA
HEFTY DAN HALEN / MEATAXE
SHIFTEQ
ADAM GIARDINA
BEAT PLAY / BENT INTENT
NEV F
JEKYLL
LEGACY
ONE TASTEY MORSEL
PLAYER ONE
TOMPLE2OON
FUNKFORM
WALTONE
AUDITORY ILLUSION
SOLATEK
SUSPEKT
UZI
SOLJAH
BACKWARDS MAN
MISSFIT

Ferry Departure Times:
On the 9th July (Saturday)

1st in: Raging Thunder @ 8.30 am
Sunkist at E finger at noon
Sunkist at E finger at 2 pm
Reef Magic at 6.30 pm

The reef magic boat will be leaving the island at 1am for those who do not have accommodation on the island. Book your room/camping now to ensure you don’t miss out!! THe lineup is huge, plus theres heaps of extra tasty treats in store for those who choose to stay!

See you on the island!!

For Facebook Event Profile visit: Island Elements 2 Event
Facebook Island Elements page: Island Elements

This got to be one of the most exciting events that has hit Cairns in a while yet. With upcoming release of – “Expansion Pack” compiled by Ian Woodsman which is all set to be launched this Saturday (31st of July 2010) at the Heritage in Cairns.

After numerous months of research & development, Open Records are finally ready to present Expansion Pack, a 2-disc collection of deep, intelligent, genre-mashing dance music, all held together with a distinctly staunch, epic sound similar to that of which I pride myself on delivering in my DJ sets.

From international heavyweights like Matador, Erphun, Boris Brejcha, Pow-Low, Fiord, SQL, NDSA, Weekend Heroes, Perfect Stranger, Astronivo, Sheff, MUTe, Grouch and A. Balter, through to home grown Aussie favourites like SunControlSpecies, Sensient, One Tasty Morsel, Waltone, Blinky, Def Digital and Algenon, the music of Expansion Pack sits at the point where techno, progressive and minimal meet and is proof that quantity and quality can co-exist without compromise.

Through the night you can experience seeing some of the finest Open Records artists featuring: Funkform, Drewan, Adam Giardina, Suspect, Woodsman and of course A. Balter(Israel) who will play 3 hour live set (his first on the Australian Tour). With two additional rooms from Freakquency Records “Subconsious Saturdayze”, you sure up for a treat of sounds and visuals with some of the finest local and international talents to make your night really special.

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• Artist: vdmo Kstati
• Date: Saturday, July 31st 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: vdmo Kstati in Cairns
• Venue: Heritage
• Country: Australia
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: (Deep- Techno -Progressive) Funkform, Drewan, Adam Giardina, Suspect, Woodsman, A. Balter (Elecro House- Uplifting Trance) Chill-E, Wez, Phat Albert, Mista Kiffsta (Breaks Dub Step Hip Hop) Android, Backwards man, Leech, ShifteQ, skurge
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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.

On the electronic Music front you can experience one of the finest selections of International and National scale artists with a splendid line up of Finest Locals from North Queensland Region which will include;

A. Balter (Live – Digital Structures – Open Records. – Israel)

http://www.myspace.com/abalter

Child (Live – Tribal Vision – Beef Records. – Melbourne)

http://www.myspace.com/childmusic

Pspiralife (Live – Zenon Records – Hobart)

http://www.myspace.com/pspiralife

Rhythmik (Live – Morning Monsters – Melbourne)

http://www.myspace.com/rhythmik24

Semantix (Live – Outback Alliance – Melbourne)

http://www.myspace.com/thunderboxpsy

Slytrance (Live – Cosmic Conspiracy – Melbourne)

http://www.myspace.com/slytrance

Big Foot (Live – Solar Records – NNSW)

http://www.myspace.com/bigfootmusic

Shifteq (Live – No Qualms Rec. – FNQ)

http://www.myspace.com/shifteq

Zennith (Live Band – Kuranda)

http://www.myspace.com/zennithboyz

One Tasty Morsel (Live – Zenon Records)

http://www.myspace.com/onetastymorsel

Legacy (Live – No Qualms Rec.)

http://www.myspace.com/duncanmacgyver

Buttah The Verbal Wordsmith (Skratch Hound Rec. – Townsville)

http://www.myspace.com/buttahtheverbalwordsmith

Skurge (Live – Melbourne)

http://www.myspace.com/skurgemusic

Rhythm Nectar (Live – Nuuktal Records)

http://www.myspace.com/nuuktaldigital

Bent Intent (Live – R.E.G.E.N Records.)

http://www.myspace.com/bentintentmusic

FunkForm (Live – Open Records)

http://www.myspace.com/insightsfunk

Jekyll (No Qualms Rec.)

http://www.myspace.com/jekkyl

Backwards Man (No Qualms Records.)

http://www.myspace.com/backwardsmanmusic

Scruffy Goat (Drag and Drop)

http://www.myspace.com/scruffygoat

Jaramundi (No Qualms Rec.)

http://www.myspace.com/munditunes

Rekka (Secret Psyde Records)

http://www.myspace.com/disintergrate2

Bush Mech

http://www.myspace.com/bushmech

Taesty Geko

http://www.myspace.com/taestygecko

Bush Pilot

::DJ’S::

Woodsman (Open Records)
Audio Sonic (Israel)
Adam Giardina (Open Records)
Psymon (Up Records)
Suspekt (Open Records)
Drewan (Open Records)
Buffalow Pilot
Brett2
Trayna
‘Erb
Jake Reid
Mony
Schroeter
Simple Psyman
Cykon

::VJ’S::
vdmo Kstati

http://www.vdmokstati.com

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• Artist: vdmo Kstati
• Date: Friday, July 23rd 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: vdmo Kstati in Maitland Downs
• Venue: Collaborations: Land Crabs Gathering
• Address: Mt Carbine + 83km after that on your right
• Country: Australia
• Admission: $60.00
• Notes: http://landcrabsfestival.com.au/ From 23rd to 25th of July
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MARC ROMBOY
(Germany – Systematic Records)
EMERSON TODD
(Dirty Bird – Sydney)
JEREMY J
(Electric Avenue – Cairns)

DREWAN vs SUSPEKT
(Open Records – Cairns)

Visuals by VDMO Kstati

Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42261178252&ref=nf

Website: http://www.myspace.com/labyrinthfestival
Featuring:
YETI [UP Recs, NNSW]
TRISTAN BOYLE [UP Recs, MELB]
DROPCODE [Motion Control Recs, NNSW]
QUENCH [TASMANIA]
ONETASTYMORSEL [Zenon Recs, Cairns]
DUNCAN [Plusquam Recs, Cairns]
PSYMON [UP Recs, Cairns]
SOLATEK [Open Recs, Cairns]
BENT INTENT [Regen Recs/Biosine Recs, Cairns]
SUSPEKT [Open Recs, Cairns]
BUFFALO PILOT [NNSW]
BILLY DREAD [Dreadagade Soundsystem]
LUNATEK [NNSW]
SHAKA [Cairns]
WALTEK [Cairns]
MONY [Cairns]

and (vj) vdmo Kstati … sometimes they just forget to add vjs to the bill

The night turned out to be very chaotic, with no lack of interesting characters floating around the venue and amazing selection of tunes ranging from deep to a prog spectrum. Everyone was in very good form so it was a genuinely pleasure to perform alongside such amazing artists.

For this week only you can also hear Suspect set on JJJ Mixup program http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/mixup/, hope you check it out. I’ll follow up with few photos and couple of video clips from the night shortly.