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Visitors - from everywhere
Wow! Unfortunately Black Samurai and Alec cant make it this year.
many apologies. However.... Black Samurai might just make it in time....
More DJs and Bands to be confirmed soon.
Spliffun - Lively
myspace.com/spliffun
well were do i start.i was born on january the 29 1986...........after growing up in tasmania for most of my child life...me my mum and my bro moved to the beautiful byron bay area..were we were to start our new life..........after listening to the radio all the time.... (i used to put the ear phones in my ear and leave the radio going all night while i was sleeping haha) ... i got adapted to music...after finishing school i moved in with a good mate named luke gill(aka strange planet)and jerome canabou (aka short sircut)were i started to listen to the music they listen to.....PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE......i loved it....id only been to a few trance parties before that and loved them tooo.....so i started collecting music and learning to mix after that i got a few gigs and boom i started playing all the time.....while all thats going on... jerome was showing me all he knew about writing music... i loved that as well..and sure enough i was getting the hang of it and wrote my first track..it sounded sweet.. so i started writing all the time and and started a project with kurt (dream weaver) and luke (stange planet.........we called our self POLKA........after writing music with them all the time we had a lot of tracks and people were loving it so we play it to goodsize dancefloors all over the north coast..and after that we played three live sets..it was going off..after that we went our seperate ways due too complications...we all started our own projects..thats how spliffun came about..after getting my own computer and moniters.. i started to make music every moment i got (and still do )and making music with all my mates and playing all the time at some major festivals like SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS ...ISOTOPIA FESTIVAL..a few times EXODUS.. bout 4 times..WINTER SOLSTICE 3 times.......SUPER FREAK.......EARTHFREQ .......ECT i have been also writing music with a good mate daniel fagan..(active 8) we called called our selfs double vision but after complications we haave to change our name.......so there ya go ill stop now cause i could write all night.............so enjoy my tunes and hopefully ill have a cd out at the end of the year so look out for it, take care alll .......BOOM...
Canberra Crew!
DISECT
Disect is one of Canberra's more experienced and much-loved psy-trance artists. He has been playing the psychedelic sound since about 2003, and has played at all the major local festivals around Canberra, such as MotherNature 1 and 2, Galactic Centre, Liquid Sun and Emergent Properties. He has also rocked many a club gig (such as Luke Psywalker 2006, Brain Bokka 2007, UniDiversity and Cut-Sik just to mention a few) as well as Earthcore in Victoria in 2006. Now, he is starting to establish himself as a live artist, and has been producing and performing with Abelton Live and Reason, as well as utilising FX in his sets. His live sound is minimal and funky, with cool samples. His DJ sound is darker, harder and more powerful, possessing a distinct edge. Disect is looking forward to playing both a live set and DJ set at Isotopia Eclipse Festival 2008. Bring it!
You can listen to some of Disect's tracks on his website:
www.myspace.com/disectbeats
Aneurysm
Aneurysm is a former hard-trance artist who has shifted across to the psychedelic sound over the last two years. All involved in the Canberra crew are very pleased that he did! Aneurysm plays a hard, twisted and percussive style of psy-trance with lots of electric guitar influences, suitable for the later stages of the night. Whilst his sound is hard, he can play both hard and intelligent sounding music, which is a sign of maturity for a hard artist. His programming is good and his mixing very tight. In addition, he has also been working hard on production, and he is starting to mix some of his own tracks into his DJ sets.
You can listen to some of Aneurysm's tracks on his website:
www.myspace.com/gooduntilthelastaneurysm
Stoj
Stoj is an established DJ in the Canberra region. Stoj is a full-on psy-trance artist, who plays the powerful synapse-splitting Israeli trance style, guaranteed to unleash dancefloor destruction. Stoj's sound has both melodic and uplifting elements in it, as well as huge buildups and emotional breakdowns. Stoj has been spinning records since 2003, and often side by side with partner in crime Disect, has rocked many a party, and could be considered a local favourite. Similar to his mate, Stoj has also played at all the major Canberra festivals and club gigs and also at Earthcore 2006. Stoj has tight mixing and is someone who always steps up for a big performance.
Triskele (DJ set)
Triskele is a female DJ hailing from Canberra. Her sound could be described as ambient/progressive, with a strong sub-continental influence. Her music is best suited for the day time - smooth, beautiful, uplifting and relaxing melodies with a strong spiritual component. Odette recently performed a good set at Cut-Sik.
Stefan Stonker
Stefan Stonker is a new DJ to Canberra, originally hailing from the UK, he has played at a number of indoor and outdoor festivals over there. He describes his sound as techno, ranging from tech-house through minimal all the way up to hard techno. He plays artists like Thomas Schumaker, and his sound has quite a strong tribal influence.
Incongruous
Incongruous has been DJing since 2002, but originally started off playing piano at the age of 7 or 8. From there, his interests turned to percussion. He got into dance music in a big way when he came back from the UK in 2001 and bought decks in 2002 and has been DJing ever since. His sound could be described as emotional, hypnotic and uplifting progressive and psychedelic trance, best suited to the mid-morning hours once the sun has come up.
Adelaide Crew!
Ant-Friend
Ant Friend has been organising parties and DJing for the last four years, as a part of the Astral Lotus crew, and more recently as part of the Circutree collective. Ben has long been interested in ‘psychedelic’ music, being inspired by artists such the Secret Chiefs 3, Mouse on Mars and Autechre before discovering psytrance in 2004, which immediately made an impression. “We were putting on parties and playing psytrance before we had even heard of ‘doofs, and then a friend said that if we like this music we should go to this festival called Rainbow Serpent where apparently they play psy!” RSF was a life-changing event- “We couldn’t believe that we had found this place where all the coolest people we’d ever met danced day and night to the best music we’d ever heard- since then I think we’ve just been trying to recapture that vibe, that feeling."
Music-wise Ant Friend’s taste is very eclectic, from dark twisted nighttime madness to trippy morning funk, as well as proggressive and goa. “I just aim to get people moving- if they’re dancing, then I’m happy”
Psilonaut
"Psilonaut is an audiotry manifestation of the spontaneous realms of our hyperconsciousness. Teetering on the edge of the absurd it is not restricted to any specific genre or sound, instead it makes use of a wide range of sonic expression to push psychedelic beats into new terroritory. From repetition to chaos and everything outside of that, it continues the self perpetuating wave of creativity that has and always will spark imagination."
Nuf-Z
Nuf Z is originally from Sydney and currently lives in Adelaide, he first started going to raves in 2000. Then while living in Melbourne he discovered psychedelic trance in a club and was keen to hear more! He went to his first outdoor trance party (bush doof) in 2004 and loved the combination of this electronic sound and the beautiful open surroundings. Since then he spent a year living in Cairns attending lots of festivals in 2005, then eventually moving to Adelaide in 2006 and started djing and helping out with putting on parties with Astral Lotus crew. The music James currently enjoys playing and listening to is minimal, progressive, tribal-house and electro.
Byron Bay Crew!
Dan the Man
Dan has been a strong, silent type around the North Coast since year dot and is one that areas dancefloor legends. We are truly inpired to have him come and share some lscios tunes with us this. Commonly mistaken for a medievel monk, Dan's tunes will take us al to a new place in the mind and body.
Forjen - Sydney
LOCAL TALENT
Cymo
Cymo is one of the stalwarts of the Darwin scene and his intriguing mix of uplifting psy and fat progressiveness is a delight for the ears and mind.
Dors of Perception
Dors plays an awesome mix of disco funk, twisted into a compelling blend of extreme beats that will surely get your feet a stomping.
Input Flip
Input Flip is Luis Miguel born in Lisbon Portugal, currently living in Darwin Australia. Miguel Started attending trance parties in the early 90 and soon became in love with the whole scene. It was a matter of time until he started to take matters in is own hands and started playing at parties.Although it started playing "full on" trance sets, it now evolved to a blend of progressive trance, minimal and electro. We cant wait for a set of highly danceable and uplifting tunes that will throw your mind to the boundaries of reality.
Al Doofbanga
Unfortunately Al Doofbanga can not be at Isotopia 2008
Tremor
One of Darwin's old time Drum & Bass legends, Tremor has been carving dancefloors around the Top End for 6 years and looks forward to getting the mobs jiving at this years Isotopia Festival.
Colinisation (aka Kosmic Kol)
Colinisation has been rockin dancefloors from Koh Pah Ngang to Darwin and beyond since the mid 1990s. His driving sounds of global psy trance will get everyone on their feet and pounding the dancefloor.
Krokodoofilus
Krokodoofilus went to his first party on Koh Pah Ngang in 1992 and was never the same again. The mutations started as he participated in just about every party and festival on the NNSW scene during the 1990s and early 2000's. In 2000 and 2001 he went on epic desert party missions with the EarthDream convoys and discovered the Top End which soon became one of his homes. After years on the dancefloor, listening to many a self obsessed, over rated DJs, he realised that he often had better music in his car and so the mutation continued. His DJ career has been puctuated by DJ mutations into Infidelic, Crocodelic, TrashBag vs MessyHead & Acidoofilus. In 2006 he created the Isotopia Festival in response to increased uranium mining around Darwin.
BANDS!
Enjoy some of Darwin's excellent local homegrown talent!
Loren Kate
"I threw alot of tantrums as a kid...now my outbursts have become songs..."
Music is therapy for singer/songwriter Loren kate...
When Loren Kate finished school she set out in search of adventure. Armed with only a guitar (with four chords in her repertoire) and backpack, she headed to Byron Bay, busking for her dinner and shelter and learning about life from the local street folk...
Since then, Loren Kate has developed her own unique sound and has become a well-estabished independent singwriter/songwriter. Life has been all about learning, becoming conscience of the ways of the world and releasing personal, political and emotional beliefs in song...
Loren has travelled extensively around Australia, exploring the deserts to the seas and all the little corners inbetween. She has performed at many festivals including; Peats Ridge Folk Festival, Fairbridge Music Festival, Earthdance WA, Woodford Folk Festival, Alice Desert Festival, Oenpelli Open Day, Go Organic Festival and has played alongside some of Australia’s finest musicians including Tim Freedman, Vika and Linda Bull, Epicure, Eric Bogle, Freya Hanly, Loren and The Grow Your Owns, Saritah, Double Entendre, Mike Mccarthy, Rob Sawyer, Wild Marmalade... the list goes on...
Loren Kate’s beautifully crafted melodies are performed with such truth, passion and intimacy that will leave any listener stimulated and inspired. Her honest voice and heartfelt lyrics create a unique, haunting sound that is capturing audiences all over the countryside.
The NEO!
Born on the turn of the millenium, The NEO is a perfomance based band from Darwin North Australia, that produces high energy musical shows. The songs are a potent mix of funk, rock and pop. Independent powerfunk sensation, The NEO plays soul-fuel for wild dancing. Their high-energy performances; infusions of funk, reggae, rock, blues, folk, ska and groove, are delightfully blended by intoxicating lyrics and overtones of flirtatious flute and commanding harmonica melodies.
The Amazing Drumming Monkeys - Adelaide
The Amazing Drumming Monkeys have wowing Darwin kids of all ages for the last 2 years and they are very happy to return to Isotopia again for the third time. Congo and Bongo (aka the Monkeys) entertain young and old, and will be putting on an extra special show for all the kiddies again this year.
Two Cats. One Hat.
This all girl rap hip hop outfit has taken darwin by Storm. Their inspired mix of crazyness and word wizardry has got Two Cats, One Hat on everyones lips.
2cats 1hat
live hip hop beats,
three female m.c's
lyrics that'll turn your brain to cheese.
c stands for bounce!
Elemental
Another all girl lineup whose depth, style and rythum have made them popular with people of al mucial tastes. Highly recommended.
NT Militia
Batchelor's own, born and bred, indig bush spirit, hip hop outfit.
Featuring Leigh Fowlestone on Didg and friends.
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