Waveform Live Stage

As seen at the Waveform Project Festival. Including down tempo electronica, dub step, breakbeat and world fusion and an amazing display of Visionary Art. Both open-air and undercover. Also check out the Dance Tent and our September event at www.waveformproject.co.uk

Eat Static

Eat Static were formed in 1989 by Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton, then drummer and synth player respectively for the band Ozric Tentacles. They were joined by Steve Everitt, a library musician and occasional Ozric member. The band made a name for themselves on the Megadog/’live’ techno scene of the early ’90s, playing alongside the likes of Orbital, Underworld and Aphex Twin. They were the first signings to Megadog-offshoot Planet Dog records, releasing their debut album ’Abduction’ in 1993. In 1994 Steve Everitt retired from the group’s live performances, though he has continued to collaborate in the studio. Since then the band have played hundreds of gigs worldwide and become one the most respected and spectacular live dance acts around. They have been voted ’Best Dance Act’ in the NME, achieved a top twenty album, headlined the first dance tent at Glastonbury in 1995 and recorded two Peel sessions. Whilst essentially a sci-fi influenced, trance/techno outfit, they have also incorporated drum and bass, breakbeat, latin, garage and ambient styles into their sound at various stages. In the past few years the band have become heavily involved with the psy-trance scene, playing parties and festivals the world over and releasing numerous tracks on trance compilations. www.myspace.com/eatstaticspace

Mirror System

Welcome to the new project of System 7's Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy. The album title is Mirror System - the artist name is Mirror System. Mirror System is the new vehicle for developing the chilled & downtempo dimensions of the music from the System 7 members. Through Mirror System we will be connecting & reflecting with new people & old friends in a new way. www.myspace.com/mirrorsystm

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Dymons

Daniel Symons has spent over seven years "on the road" where he gained considerable amounts of musical experience, collected many instruments and quite a soundbank as he travelled most places with a digital tape recorder. He then settled down (a bit) in Switzerland to learn the skills of sound engineering which has resulted in lots of musical creations. Wanting to share his abundant creativity with the rest of the world he decided to create a record label... Elestial Records was born... His mystical nature and deep feeling that "there's much more to reality than we can see" led him to explore different states of consciousness with shamans and medicine men/women from many different parts of the world. He has helped others experience such states and cure themselves by musically accompanying healing ceremonies and rituals (firewalks, trance dances, sweatlodges, etc..). It has also lead him to spend lots of time in nature where much of his creative inspiration comes from. Daniel Symons has played and written music with artists from all over the world and has performed more than a thousand live gigs in over 30 different countries. www.myspace.com/danielsymons

Sinewave

SINEWAVE has toured all over the world and impressed dance floors with the powerful and uplifting style of music in his live sets. He has DJ'd and performed live extensively in the UK, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden and India. 2007 has already been an impressive year for SINEWAVE as he has performed for the massive Antiworld Indoor Festival (London - February 2007) alongside Domestic, X-Noize, Timelock, performed for the legendary Alien Safari party (Cape Town - March 2007), supporting GMS and Exaile for OUTERLIMITS (London - March 2007), and DJing alongside none other than Infected Mushroom, Astrix and Xerox & Illumination for Antiworlds Psychedelic Academy 004 at Brixton Academy (London - May 2007). SINEWAVE performed all over the UK in Summer 2007 for the Echo, Offworld, 070707, Newfoundland, Eastern Haze and Waveform festivals, and performed live and DJ’d at the famous BURNING MAN festival in Nevada USA. This is his first appearance at The Sunrise Celebration. www.myspace.com/djsinewave

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Widescreen

Widescreen are a 3 piece electronic/flamenco world beat act. Originated by the 70's Prog/Classical Guitarist David Clark Allen of Carmen fame last year. Two years ago he asked Larry Lush to co-produce his new album with him as his original work from the 70's was being re-released on Angel Air Records. It was decided the new work should go under a new banner and Widescreen was conceived. When the Album was in the can David asked Larry if he'd like to go on the road with him and here they are. With the band now has a new recruit called Charlotte Medcalf, who is an actor-musician who has worked extensively in the UK, appearing in award winning productions such as Sam Mendes' CABARET , Complicite's STREET OF CROCODILES and David Glass's GORMENGHAST. Her passionate approach to her instrument is electrifying. Their music is a fascinating mix of Classical Spanish Flamenco, Electronic, Mediterranean and eastern European. At times it can seem quite purist but then it magically shifts into the outer-worldly yet always flowing, always remaining exciting and uplifting. www.myspace.com/widescreenband

Nagual Sound Experiment

Original Dub Soundsystem since 1996, NSE has morphed into a full on production alias of psychedelic dance producer Cameron Leonard-Schroff aka psybreaks pioneer Mood Deluxe on Liquid Records. The NSE sound draws heavily from dubwise ethic, fusing Jamaican style engineering, with futuristic and psychoative elements. NSE has managed to craft a style that draws heavily from Roots Dub and Rockers reggae, the urban Dubstep genre, IDM and glitch, hiphop, triphop,ambient breaks, industrial, shadowey techno and dripping psychedelic dub. NSE will be releasing his first 12" vinyl on Blood Tribe Records in July.
www.myspace.com/nseliquid

Flooting Grooves

FLOOTING GROOVES is PEARCE VAN DER MERWE, born in Cape Town, South Africa. He has been surrounded by music all his life. His style incorporates ambient, downtempo, chill, funk, groovy psytrance and progressive still using live flute at most gigs. He plays at parties in Switzerland and around the globe. He is an accomplished musician and check out his music here: www.myspace.com/flootinggrooves

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Subsource

This is a band like no other you have ever encountered. Go to a Subsource performance and you will be greeted by four nutcases laying down the most insane concoction of electro and breakbeat with frenetic punk rock energy. The sound of Subsource inspires comparison to The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx and Reprazent - and their stage shows have to be seen to be believed. www.myspace.com/subsource

OOOD

OOOD's first release was on Phantasm Records in 1996, with their collaborative side-project Unconscious Collective subsequently releasing one of Flying Rhino's biggest-selling tracks, 'Fluorostani Transcendance' later that year. Nowadays the dancefloor side of both acts is combined into OOOD. With up to 6 people on stage and musicianship of all kinds very much in evidence in OOOD and they have performed live (in various combinations) all over the world from New York to Japan via South Africa, Israel and of course the UK and Europe. Recently they played at Omni Festival in Spain and in South Africa for the Vortex/Prism New Years Eve Festival 2004-5. Psychedelic trance at its finest. www.myspace.com/oood

Ill Audio

The new band ripping up London venues with its own brand of sleazy electro, dub flavour rock. Hitting hard with an undeniable raw energy, powerful melodies, and a sound that’s louder than a plane crash - musicians from all corners of London have come together to form the collective. Songs with a political message, neo-social commentary, and just out & out, head down crowd rockers. Their rabble rousing electro, adrenaline inducing rock fusion sets them apart from the crowd, smashing both the live music and club scenes. Where man and machine coincide, where technology meets nature, wrapped around each other in a seamless fusion that will stir movement in the most purist of chin-strokers. Created from the notion that there should be no separation between guitars and synths, live drums and machines, because the future is at hand. Disregarding all need for backing tracks used by imitation ‘live’ dance groups, they started using technology in a way that had previously never been done before- and have begun an assault on UK audiences. www.myspace.com/illegalaudio

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Cosmosophy

After years of performing, writing and recording music together in various projects Pearce Van Der Merwe and Daniel Symons have decided to create a duo together called COSMOSOPHY. After the success of their solo albums "Flooting Grooves--Upsyde Downe", "Dymons-Druids Brew" and their bands’ album "The Peaking Godddess Collective-Organika" produced with Ajja, Master Margherita, Gaspard, and Tanya(founders of Peak Records), Pearce and Dan are creating a new concoction of sounds different to all the previous releases... Having toured all summer with their various live acts they is headed back into da studio with heaps of inspiration from the smiling dancefloors and chillouts of the world ! Keep you you ears open for this promising album that will be released by Elestial Records and distributed by Arabesque UK.... Coming soon on a sound system near you! www.myspace.com/cosmosophy

Jellybass

Since the phenomenon of Jellybass started in the summer of 2006, the identities of the creators dubbed 'Lo & Hz' were kept secret; they did not want their previous musical releases or styles to influence listeners in any way. Jellybass was an instant hit among breaks, garage, dubstep and downtempo listeners, and since then Jellybass have release a single on vinyl, an album online, and a free half hour Jellybass mix. The guys behind the monstrous basslines are none other than Chix and Joe. Both are DJ's, both produced and released tunes for a few years before they met up and joined forces, and both REALLY love bass. www.jellybass.co.uk

Jnr Hacksaw

Jnr Hacksaw has been producing cutting edge electronic music for well over a decade. Jnr is signed to Trigger Recordings and is a resident at their legendary parties. He has released a stream of original and challenging music over the past couple of years and has established himself as one of the rising stars of the Electrobreaks movement. Jnr is a former stalwart of the UK free party scene and has been heavily involved with Bristols underground music since the early 90s when he helped found Bristol’s pioneering Big Beat night The Dig In. Around the same time he became involved with Elektrik Orgasm one of the UKs foremost free party movements and psychedelic techno label. Under the guise of Nervasystem and Aether Lex produced a stream of futuristic releases and played gigs all over the world. www.myspace.com/jnrhacksaw

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Zetan Spore

Zetan Spore are a two-piece (twin brothers), high energy, psychedelic trance outfit from West Cornwall, UK. They have a fully hardware-based set-up and since forming in 1995, they have rapidly evolved to become one of the most original live dance acts around. Their music can best be described as driving, euphoric psychedelic trance with didgeridoo-fuelled tribal breaks and searing guitars riffs adding more depth and power to their sound. The highlights of Zetan Spore's extensive live performances include a two hour set to a 25,000 strong crowd at the Euphoria Festival in Singapore and headline sets for Antiworld at the Stratford Rex and Synergy Project at the SeOne Club in London and the infamous Monastery in Torquay. Having a reputation for creating the most uplifting and energetic vibe at their shows, they've built up a large and enthusiastic following and never fail to rock the dancefloor. Zetan Spore - taking a new style of dance music into the 21st century. www.myspace.com/zetanspore1

Maha-Ra

The energy of devotional world music, positive lyrics, sanskrit chants and Tabla driven stomping dance beats, could describe the sound of Maha-Ra, an ecstatic conscious dance band. Raising the roof with their live act, they build the crowd into states of ecstatic bliss. The Maha-Ra trio, incorporating Tabla, Harmonium, voice, Indian flutes, and keys, create an uplifting organic sound and seem to be setting the tone for the increasing new movement of conscious clubbing....www.myspace.com/mahakirtan

Zubzub

Zubzub is the funky fusion of epic psychedelia and tough beats created by ex Ozric bass player Zia. Live line up includes flutes from Jumping Jon (ex Ozrics), live guitar from the seasoned Alex Pym and the ultra-tight Mindflux on percussion and yet more synths! First formed some inexact time in the late nineties, zubzub has had a number of guest musicians for live and recorded stuff. Expect a quality journey through psy-techno, jungle, dub, break beats and big atmospheres with an invitation to smile! www.myspace.com/zubmusic

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Sick Rebel

Creating a dubstep sound soaked in electro with psychadelic twist, Sick Rebel's music is pulsating, yet emotive. Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be enjoyed anywhere, from the comfort of home to the heaving club. Expect blissed out and melodic bass vibes from the bearded one... www.myspace.com/sickrebeldubstep

Screenager

Screenager is Mark Owens, originating from Portsmouth. His music is highly charged, sonically explosive, atomic drop dance music. Now based in Brighton and living with one foot in the “Dubstep” scene, where the idiolectic nature of the scene allows this diverse mix of influences to breath under a single banner.
www.myspace.com/dascreen

Neek

Bristol born Sam Barrett is the creator of the Sureskank Convention events, which started off in his home town but have since spread to his current residence in Brighton. Resident DJ for Blood Tribe Records, Neek always has an ear on the movements within the dubstep scene, so you will never hear the same set twice! www.myspace.com/middlemanandneek

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Zak

One of the organisers of The Synergy Project and also a resident DJ with IDSpiral, Zak looks at a DJ set as a transient experience, transporting the listener from one musical stratosphere to another. Weaving downtempo electronica into the new Glitch-Hop sounds that are currently emerging from the US West Coast, expect groovy and intelligent bass music. www.myspace.com/maternitymedia

Halogen

Blending live guitars and vocals with intricate, subtle melodies and rhythms, Halogen's music is best described as Organic Electronica. Multi-instrumentalist Adam Janota-Bzowski draws on his diverse musical background which encompasses post-rock, jazz, glitch, blues, idm and experimental to create a sonically rich listening experience. www.myspace.com/halogenbulbs

Aviva

Aviva is an electronic music producer, dj, vocalist, songwriter and bass player... music is her vehicle for channelling divine wisdom, brought through from deep inner realms where love and transformation of consciousness flow into being... she is featured as a vocalist on SolarQuests latest album... and freestyles live vocals resonating in spiritual truth and love with solarquest’s live sets... she also dj’s regularly at squat parties and clubs in the psychedelic subculture... she is a resident dj at the Inspiral lounge in Camden... She also plays solo live sets featuring live synths and vocals... Her track "In Peace We come" appears on the Purple Magazine compilation and she is just about to release an album called the Mantra Temple which is a deeply meditative and healing album which is being used by yoga teachers and those practising Mantra’s... She has more albums on the go and will be releasing more stuff in the coming months... She has another project called the Earth Temple which is for her ambient, instrumental and deeply chilled out creations... you can listen to some of these at www.myspace.com/earthtemple...... ... Not content to follow the crowd she will continue to explore her own inner universe of sounds and resonances, melodies and rhythms... in service to the divine flow of love which is the fabric of the Universe. www.myspace.com/avivazone

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Solar Quest

Solar Quest is a one-man ambient and acid trance music project founded in 1993 by George Saunders and its aim is to combine renewable solar energy with electronic music. Solar Quest was founded when Saunders got interested in acid house in the beginning of the 1990's. In 1993 and 1994 he had as much as nine releases, of which two were full length albums (the other under alias Entropica). The track Acid Air Raid, released in 1993, is one of the classics of acid techno and next year's dreamy Orgship is a significant release in ambient music. For the annual Glastonbury Festival Solar Quest has often produced a solar energy powered ambient concert tent and a lot of its music has been recorded and mixed in a studio powered by solar energy. Saunders has had cooperation with e.g. British DJ Choci, under whose record label Choci's Chewns most of Solar Quest's early releases were published. www.myspace.com/solarquest

Ishq

Based in st ives cornwall have been releasing since the mid 90's on many of the worlds top ambient labels including Interchill , Dakini ,ultimae , aleph zero aswell as their own label Virtual.Their music is an inventive mix of electronica and ambience and their sound instantly recognisable and highly regarded by many. Ishq will be mixing a one off unique soundscape live at sunrise this year sometime between dusk and dawn of music ranging from downtempo to more groovy new electronica work. www.myspace.com/qhsi

Bonze

Psychedelic funksters ‘BONZE’ are a diverse eruption from the swirling bowels of Kent. A live band consisting of drums, bass, guitar, synths and other assorted electronic contraptions, Bonze have been playing music together since school days. Slowly....slowly the tapestry was woven telling the story of what happens when five devout musical extremists embark on a journey together and happen to stumble upon a sound like no other. The bands first mumblings were heard in the haven of outdoor parties where Bonze gathered a dedicated following. Last summer they were seen on many a festival stage including The Glade and Waveform Project, also getting down and dirty with the city revellers at events such as Little green planet. With their delicate mix of quirky psychedelic electro breakbeat-funk, Bonze are capable of sending a dance floor into irrepressible spasms. www.myspace.com/bonzemusic

Ed Tangent

Ed has been ever present on the Uk Psychedelic trance scene since he first fell in love with the ‘Goa’ sound in 1995. He set up the popular Manchester Based night Global Sunrise with fellow Djs Christos and Matt Allaby (Nano Records). Ed was soon spotted for his ability to craft Dj sets by Promoters such as Return To the Source, Mega Dog Festivals and has played some of the countries seminal events and venues such as Brixton Academy, Tysson Street, Glade Festival,Waveform, Tribe of Frog to name a few. Ed has now established himself as ‘The one to watch’ this year with a packed DJing schedule for the rest of 2008 seeing him playing all over the Uk, Europe, South Africa and Canada. Furthermore he is being noticed for his unique take on Psy-Trance by promoters and established producers inside and outside of Psy-Trance, giving him the opportunity to promote his style of credible full on music to a wider audience. Ed has also taken a position of Label Manager for the record label Psy-Core Records ( www.psycore.eu ). www.myspace.com/edtangent

DJ Cosmonaughty

I'm a dj who goes by the name of CosmoNaughty I play downtempo Psychedelic groovy tribal ambi-dub-trance sets in chill out areas. (and I have been know very occasionally to play dancefloor psychedelic sets although I'm now starting to do them under another name, as Anton Kanyini), I've Djed for 11 years and in that time played all over the UK, I've played regularly for the Northern Psy trance club nights Kulu in Bradford,Cabbage in Leeds, Sunrise (manchester) but in other parts of the country I've played at Tribe of frog (in Bristol and in Spain), LIquid connective in Lyminge forest,Fatmoon (sheffield), Psychedelic Breakdown (Peterbourgh), Astral Phoenix (london), Baraka in Oxford, Chaos theory in Swansea and many more. I've played at renagade parties in fields in Wales, yorkshire and the midlands.I've done warm up Dj spots for bands including Ozric tentacles, Daevid Allen,Astralasia and Banco de gaia. Over the last couple of years I've played Shamania, Sunrise celebration and Eastern haze festivals here in the uk and I've been lucky enough to have played some European psy festivals Boom (twice 98 & 2000), Sola Luna (01) in Greece that was the first year on Samothraki. Ozara (05) in Hungary and oV-Silence (06) in germany. www.myspace.com/djcosmonaughty

Gandolphi

Funky female dj Gandolfi (chillosophy music) has been enthusiastically performing at many events all over the UK for more than 7 years. She began as a resident for Astral Phoenix parties in 2000 and then moved on to become a Liquid Connective resident in 2002. She is also associated with Amboworld internet record store and IDSpiral with whom she has performed for more than 3 years by now. Gandolfi plays a vast variety of chill out & trance music, mixing the old with the new, east & west, popular with underground, blissful with melancholic. Gandolfi has also experimented with producing a track with Ott (twisted records) where she played the flute & created vocal samples. She has more recently worked with kaya project and aims to produce an album whereby she collaborates with fellow artists and friends. She has worked with poets, musicians & video artists to manifest even more diverse creations. She likes to incorporate vocal samples of a conscious nature into her sets, weaving a fluid atmospheric journey, an inspiration to dance, to chill or to tune into. www.myspace.com/louisegandolfi

DJ Technodolly

I spend most of the summer months at festivals full of fabulous freaks. You'll usually find me chilling or DJing in a variety of chilled-out spaces or simply spacing out in the chill-out! I will be doing much of the same this year, weather permitting. I'm not much of a fan of flipping around in a muddy field with a bottle of White Lightning, those days are long gone. I also help organise a delightfully psychedelic club-night in the North, Kulu in Bradford, every month From September to June. We fill a brilliant three floor venue with colour, light and sound. Psy-trance, chillout and upbeat world music, from 10pm until 6am. Amazing DJs, VJs, musicians and Decor-Artists from all over the country and beyond. Creating a journey for all the senses. Kulu will be celebrated its 9th birthday in March this year :D Hope to see you there shaking your thing in the future! www.myspace.com/technodolly

Bez 23

Bez23 started DJing in 1992, after discovering that he could compile ’tripping tapes’ much more fluidly by using two record players and a mixer. Involved in the free party scene since the early ’90s promoting trance, then Goa, then Psytrance parties. Bez23 currently organises the chill-space for Bradford night ’Kulu’ where he is also a psytrance resident. Summer 2008 will be the third year Bez23 has organised the chill-out space for northern festival ’Shamania’ as ’Synchronistic Sounds’ - a collaboration with good friend Si Splatt from Leeds psytrance night Cabbage. At Hawkfest 2007, Bez played psychedelic electronic music inbetween the bands on the ’Strangeness’ stage, and enjoyed it so much he almost burst. Hawkwind rocked his world in a BIG way :). His ’bonkers’ style of hard, mind zorching, face melting psytrance is becoming increasingly unpopular ;) Bez23 maintains that this music is outstandingly psychedelic, and therefore probably very good for you. Sometimes, Bez23 writes about himself in the third person, which he finds both bizarre and mildly entertaining. www.myspace.com/bez23dorje

Tom Fu

Tom Fu has been Dj'ing cutting edge psychedelic chillout for the past 8 years, playing many clubs and festivals all over the country and beyond. In the past he has had residencies with Return To The Source, Liquid Connective, Undertow, Altered States and is now a resident chill out Dj and A&R for Liquid Records. Current projects include compiling a chill out compilation for Liquid Records called Soul Vibrations 002 (See blog section) to be released in February 2008, compiling and mixing a double CD release of music by legendary Suns Of Arqa to be released next year and developing The Ambient Allstar's, a collective of London's cutting edge underground chill-out dj's. Self confessed music junkie drawing from influences from Gong, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, Tom's Dj'ing style fuses elements of dub, world music and psychedelia with positive and uplifting undertones. www.myspace.com/tomfu

Naked Nick

Naked Nick (Nick Holden) has been working as a musician, DJ and vocalist since the early 90s, when he fronted cult indie/dance band Goodnight Said Florence' who enjoyed acclaim across the UK for several years. They released a single through BMG on Different Class records (featured somewhat bizzarely on BBC's Tommorrow's World as part of Philips' CDI project) and championed by the late John Peel. In more recent years he has moved into electronic music, developing the live dance-based act Loka, with Michael Davis (Urban Spacelab) and collaborated with artists such as Dreadzone, Solarquest, Ott, Friends Lovers and Family, Anton Jawdokimov (Discorockers) and Matt Black from Coldcut with whom he formed psychedelic-funk act Rood Chakra' which also included Holly Chand. Rood Chakra were featured by Ibiza's Afterlife' on his most recent album, and were also a part of the 2001 Pirate TV' tour of former-Yugoslavia, featured on Channel 4. Over the last few years he has become a regular in the psychedelic and festival scenes, both in the UK and internationally, at the Origin festival in South Africa, Sonica in Italy, among others, and will be appearing at the Boom festival in Portugal this summer. He is a long-running resident of ID Spiral/Synergy Project and enjoys close links with Tribe of Frog. As a dj, he plays a wide range of beat-led electronica with a strong psychedelic edge, and an emphasis on beautiful soundscapes. He has also recently diversified into more uptempo breakbeats, though still maintaining an uplifting psychedelic vein. He is currently working on an album with Ott (Twisted Records) and Vicky Grebezs (Fish Seeks Bicycle).

Aliji

Aliji is a versatile chill out DJ with an eclectic style where medium tempo, danceable grooves underpin a fusion of numerous musical genres. Whilst surprises abound, the journey that unfolds is always sensitively navigated and never betrays a deep psychedelic integrity that defines Aliji’s unique vision. Be certain there will not be a dull moment! A set from this DJ is always an exploration of the healing properties of music and an exercise in meaningful composition. With an ear for cutting edge sounds and a willingness to pioneer unfamiliar territory, you will hear a down tempo set with ingredients ranging from urban edged, to more heart warming, groove based material, and covering genres such as electronica, glitch-hop, dub-step, folktronica and digi-dub. Ali now has a more up tempo set which hovers between 120 to 130 BPM and largely consists of the more groovy aspects of minimal, tech house and electro. Aliji has been, for the past 4 years, a regular DJ with ID spiral, playing at Glastonbury festival, Glade festival and Synergy. www.myspace.com/alijimusica