Gift Culture (Artificial Music Machine; Dallas): Gift Culture is the downtempo project of Mike from Initialization String. His music fuses cutting-edge audio technology with an emotional sensibility as well as organic elements. He has performed at the Lab30 festival in Germany and many great events throughout the United States, most recently at the very inspiring AUM festival.
KiloWatts (Artificial Music Machine, Native State; Philadelphia): Of all the artists we've brought to our events, we've gotten the most positive feedback about Jamie's mind-blowing and dance-inducing sets. He's coming back for another round, but with loads of new material to keep things fresh. His top quality breakbeats will start the night's dance music.
Pete vs. Force Majeure (Fugu Trance/TOUCH Samadhi; Austin) The Fugu co-founders will provide the soundtrack for the darkest hours of night with their unusual fusion of the cutting edge full power psytrance sound combined with some melodic elements and playfulness. The aspect of darkness in their set will form the foundation for a return to full-on with the headliner...
Artifakt (Timecode Records; Capetown): A founder of Timecode Records, Matthew is without a doubt one of the most creative and dynamic contemporary psytrance producers. Although his label has been extremely influential in establishing the much-loved South African sound, his own productions are very distinct. In addition to numerous compilation tracks on many popular labels, he has released two full length albums on Timecode, both of which gleefully ignore generic structures and formulas of psytrance to deliver mental twistedness and dancefloor madness. On top of this, he has a busy mastering facility for Timecode and other labels such as Alchemy, Zenon, Yabai, Digital Psionics, and more. He has played all over the world, and we are honored to have him performing live and dj'ing here in Texas.
Bodhi-Lectro (Austin): Having played several Texas psytrance parties this year, notably at the Texas Club when he created a dancefloor frenzy, Carneal will complete the psytrance musical curve with his crowd-pleasing melodic full-on.
Artificial Life Preserver (Artificial Music Machine; Austin): Once we are all too tired to dance any more, Aaron of Initialization String will perform his downtempo project while we relax in the pool and lounge around in foldy chairs eating, drinking, and being merry. And that will be the close of the Fugu Trance project.