23/02/2007 Mad Mystica: Z Man, Gaudium, Biotouch, Ephedrix,...

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Madhatter and Unio Mystica present:
Mad Mystica
23.02.'07 @ Secret location near Antwerp

We kindly invite you to this special night where we have put our hands together to present you a wonderfull ecperience, filled with a blend of the finest progressive-, full-on-and plain-psychedelic trance, with no less than 4 live acts!
Magnificent home cooked decoration and tasty visuals will spice things up.
Everybody is invited to come together and spread some happiness and dance the trance!
The first 200 visitors will get an extra psychedelic dimension.

This party is also dedicated to a beautiful Portugese girl's birthday, happy birthday Neuza!

Music:


Cooking:

Live:

Biotouch
(Cristal Vision - Portugal)

João Marques and Ricardo Ferreira aka BioTouCh. Living in his hometown, Lisbon, they started listening to trance music since very early, and going to trance parties in 99/00. By the end of 2002, João started studying music, finishing now the Portuguese music conservatory (8th years). Ricardo is now a well know Portuguese dj, sound technician, executive producer and yoga teacher. So the musician meets the technician, leading them to develop their own style. They developed a very good production technique, based on a psychedelic environment with powerful basslines and morning melodies! Their talent didn't go unnoticed by some international labels, so they joined Cristal Vision Records from Italy.
One thing this 2 guys promise is presenting to the crowd a fabulous live act.
BioTouCh is already a talent in the Portuguese trance live act generation and going to release their track “melodychaos” on moondance records (Australia), “cosmic culture” on Enigmatic Sound records (Japan) and soon the Album on Cristal Vision Records (Italy).
Now becoming the rebirth of a new era in the international trance music scene, they enjoy big crowds as an important part of the live act.

Ephedrix
(Dacru Records - Belgium)

Ephedrix are Jochem Peeters and Joris Marckx living in Mortsel, Belgium. They met as teenagers and since then music was all they ever talked about. Jochem started to play the drums at the age of 10 while Joris jammed the guitar. In 1997 they began to experiment with electronic (techno) music and in 1998 they appeared on stage for their first live act at a local party.
The first goa party they attended in 1999 made them slowly 'move' into psytrance.
Later on, often visiting goa parties, Jochem and Joris were completely inspired by the vibe of this crazy music and the atmosphere at these parties. After a while the minimal music was replaced by melodic trance with heavy rhythms.

And that's what Ephedrix is all about: psytrance with uplifting melodies, groovy percussion, crystal clear bass lines and a pumping sound. Their unique style was quickly picked up by various Belgian party organisations and now Ephedrix is a respected and popular live act in the Belgian scene. As residents in various party concepts they had the chance to play next to big acts and dj ..s like: Ticon, Silicon sound, Joti Sidhu, Space Buddha, Nomad, Dino Psaras, Bizzare contact, Vibe Tribe and many more..
At the end of 2005 Ephedrix joined the Dacru artists in their ..Avenida de Bélgica.. Mexico tour, spreading their sound all over Mexico with the New Years festival in Cancun and the Magic festival in Guadalajara as highlights. In these parties they were on the line-up with acts such as Pixel, Gataka, Chakra, Time Lock, Sesto Sento, Electrosun and many others.

After the tour Ephedrix decided to join the Dacru organisation (www.dacru.be) on a more definite basis. And as also their music keeps evolving 2006 could be their definite breakthrough with a lot of new gigs, international bookings and their first releases!

For 2007 they have only one goal: Finaly finish their debut ALBUM!
...more info verrrry soon...

Gaudium
(Iboga Records - Sweden)

In the year 2004 Denis Bajramovski and Andreas Wennersköld teamed up and formed the psy/progressive project “Gaudium” which means satisfaction in Latin. Denis and Andreas have similar background when it comes to music; they both began as Djs in the early dance era and took it all to higher level by starting producing their own music on the legendary Atari 1040STE.

Denis and Andreas had separately been involved in several underground music projects before they decided to start producing music together as Gaudium. Andreas was one half of Trance Control that became one of the most popular trance acts in the world. Starting in a basement, Trance Control turned into the most downloaded act ever at MP3.com. With 16 million downloads in total; sometimes up to16 000 downloads per day, gigs at the Love Parade in Canada and USA also including a debut album that sold more than 20 000 copies they were HUGE to say the least.

By the end of year 2004 Spiral Trax were introduced to a track by Gaudium that caught their attention. The track gradually developed into a whole album and Spiral Trax proudly says that it is one of the most interesting acts to come out of Sweden since Atmos, Son Kite and Ticon. “Nordic Nature” is packed with high octane progressive trance numbers that will attract an audience that are used to the sounds of Spiral Trax, Iboga and Digital Structures as well as crowds that are more familiar to harder progressive house in the style of Marc O’Tool and Krüger & Coyle.

With a bunch of releases on several labels such as Midijum, Plusquam, Sin-Tech, Flow, Yellow Sunshine Explosion and their debut album “Nordic Nature” on Spiral Trax. Gaudium is a name you definitely will hear a lot from in the future. Progressive Scandinavian trance in its true sense!

Z-Man
(Ajuca Productions - Sweden)
Z-Man is Jonas Bergvall from Sweden, a psytrance veteran. Jonas started producing music in 1997, when he joined forces with Dennis Tapper and Jonas Pettersson and together they were Hux Flux.

They produced many tracks together but just before the release of the first Hux Flux album Cryptic Crunch on Koyote Records, Jonas Bergvall and Jonas Pettersson decided to leave this project, together with Johan Krafft and they then started a new project called 'Logic Bomb'.

The first Logic Bomb album called 'Headware' was released on Spiral Trax in 2000 and was an instant success. One of the first live performances was at the Boom Festival in Portugal in the year 2000 and after that followed a tour that took them to all the continents of the world.

They produced tracks for various labels (TIP World, 3D Vision, Solstice Music to name a few) and also did tracks for commercials and movies. In the late 2001 Jonas and the other guys in Logic Bomb decided to call it a day and they decieded to part ways to start work on their solo projects. Jonas however was still involved in the second Logic Bomb album 'Unlimited' released on TIP World and today Jonas is back working with Logic Bomb again and they are currently working on a new album.

Since then Jonas Bergvall has collaborated with Shaffel Records (Israeli), Turbo Trance (France), Ajuca and Liquid records (UK) and has been busy making tracks with numerous psytrance artists including Skazi, Tranan, Alternate Vision, S-Range and his younger brother Lars 'Artax' Bergvall.


Serving:

DJ's:

Norion Vs. Ramses
(Unio Mystica Vs. Madhatter - Belgium)
Norion:
Norion aka Geert(24)...is...like everybody knows one of the most famous one's in belgium ..already playing for years in the psytrance scene and still rolling like a crazy bastardo
I discovered 'goa'-party's in 2000 and since then a new live was born..
In 2002 i started playing and now i make big gigs on party's next to Astral Projection, Sesto Sento, Lamat, Aquatica, Ananda Shake, Visual Contact,....to name a few.
My style depends on the time i have to play...it goes from groovy progressive to heavy nighttime 'full on' to fluffy melodic 'stories' in the morning.
My mission is to lift people up in trance with a huge smile on their faces
See you all on the dancefloor ! ! !
Boom

Ramses:
Hi,
My name is Ramses,I began spinning decks at the age of 12 at the local youth club. There I learned my skills in the more commercial side of music. After 4 years, at an age of 16, I started listening to some nice music called "Goatrance" and went to my first parties. It didn't take long before I fell in love with this amazing kind of music... From then on, I evolved from the more commercial styles to this particular style. The first party I played was our very own first Madhatter blast in Gierle, 2002. Since then, I played at several parties in Belgium, Holland and The UK.

Starting from melodic goatrance evolving into full-on psytrance, making my way into groovy proggy beatz.. I made a journey trough lots of influences and inspiration; always keeping in mind, the essence of trance..

making the people experience a story, made by the right touches, on selected moments...

nowadays my preference goes to the more slower type of trance. smooth and subtle, certainly not aggresive music. It depends off course on the part in the story on that time of the day 'or night) and the mood of the party.

R'Deem
(Purple Snow Productions - Belgium)

Roscoe Deem has been interested in music for as long as he can remember. Growing up listening to artist like The Doors, Pink Floyd, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost... He slowly developed his own taste in music and switch to electronic dance music at age of 16. Attending big techno parties he realized what a big part of the course of his life would be!

His journey started out as a techno dj, where he mastered the skills needed to be a dj. After three years of playing raw pounding techno at established parties and playing beside artists like dj Rush, Claude Young and Marco Bailey his taste in music was changing and he looked for newer horizons!

He found the answers he was looking for in the more psychedelic and progressive scene to which he was introduced at the end of 2001. Playing in the scene for some time now, he managed to make a name for himself and played beside artist like Son Kite, Vibrasphere, Xibalba, Symphonix, Etnoscope, Haldolium, Bim, Alexander Ligowski, … !

Playing under three different aliases he has a very wide selection of new music combined with old classics... Having still a big hart for vinyl he flawlessly combines playing with vinyl and cd’s. With his skills and live effect editing he has been able to move crowds anywhere he plays!
Playing under the alias of R’Deem, he plays the finest of progressive trance… Promoting artists like Liquid soul, Son Kite, Ticon, …
Playing under the alias of Roscoe D. he plays groovy, deep psychedelic progressive and progressive house... Promoting artists like Vision & canedy, Criss Source, D-nox & Beckers, …
Playing under the alter ego of Deem-on, he plays powerful psy-trance with a touch of full on now and then. Morning and night sets are on Deem-on’s repertoire, promoting artists like Polaris, silicon sound, Indika, reflex, Black and white, pixel, wrecked machines, …
The variation of music he plays will depend on the chosen alias, the wishes of the promoter, time and people he plays for.

In the years that past he also founded the 'Purple Snow Productions' organization, a party concept that stands for underground music in Belgium!

Strophoria
(Ajuca Productions - Belgium)
I am Joeri Haven (1984), one half of dj-duo "Strophoria". I discovered the psychedelic movement in 1999 and was addicted to it, from that moment. In 2002 we started Strophoria and soon after that we became resident dj's at the Madhatter parties. Our style depends on the audience, the atmosphere of the party. This goes from Flowy Proggresive to heave Twisted Full-on psytrance. In 2006 I joined Ajuca rec. and founded Unio Mystica together with DJ Sytrix and DJ Norion.



Optic's:


Decoration:

Strings An Things
(Belgium)
Strings an things is a coorporation of two friends, founded by Wilfried Rynders, the genius that combined different materials into a psychedelic revolution, concerning mind bending creations. Together with Manuel Pimenta this deco team will make you fly around all sorts of events in Europe.

The official launch is dated in February 23, 2007 @ Madhatter.
By visiting trance parties all around the world we became familiar with this brand of art, that’s how we met new people and shared ideas to create this 3D figures. To reach the highest level we use nice materials to optimise the effect from within. The idea is building a powerful atmosphere by combining colours for day and night time. During night times this fluo 3D constructions are never seen before and they will get an impact on you.

Psychedelic decorations were originally made by people making them for their own stimulation, into a unique trance experience. These abstract geometrical figures are just one style of psychedelic art decorations. These figures will affect on youre neurological system in the brain and here will our creations find you.

Wonderfull homecooked decoration from the Madhatter decoteam.

Unio Mystica
(Belgium)

Magnificent tribal backdrops from the Unio Mystica crew.



Visuals:


Design Visuals
(The Netherlands)



Location:


To get to know the stunning location, contact us by email please.



Entrance:


Starts:

22.00h


Ends:

09.30h


Fee:

€13


No presale available

We are trying to keep the price as low as possible! Fo' real.



Flyer:


Flyers are flying.



Additional info:


External links:

Ajuca Productions
Antwerp
Biotouch
Bus & trams
Dacru Records
Ephedrix
Gaudium
Gaudium soundclip
Iboga Records
Itinerary
Purple Snow Productions
R'Deem DJ set
Strings An Things
Trains



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