Eclipse 2007 was a blast! Now established as Eastern Canada’s largest psytrance festival, Eclipse seems to get better and better with every passing year. The world-class line-up included Koxbox, Tegma, Protoculture, and James Monro, all of whom performed excellent sets over the course of the weekend. As expected, the sound system was extremely powerful, but not at the expense of clarity; every sound was pure and pristine! This was brought home on Saturday night, when one of the DJs slipped in a classic tune from Tim Schuldt–it sounded so strong that no one would have known it was nearly a decade old.

Main Stage, Friday Night: DJ Mini

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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Team Harder does it again…
THE PUPPETEERS: A Psychedelic Birthday Masquerade!!!

In honor of Chris (Dharma Lab) and Nicole (our beloved poi pricess)!!!
**GRAB YOUR MASKS AND GET READY TO STOMP!!!**

Musical delights:

EKOPLEX **live pa** (Montreal – http://ekoplex.engram.ca/index.html)
SHANKAR (Toronto – www.shakticollective.com
DIGITAL GEIST **live pa**(NYC/Buffalo – www.digitalgeist.com)
DHARMA LAB **hybrid pa** (Buffalo – www.dharmalab.com)

Psychedelic environment provided by Team Harder, featuring original UV artwork by TessDiva, Marmalade and Neil Gibson!

(click here to see more pics from Christian’s birthday party last May!)

VENUE:
Off the Wall
534 Elmwood Ave. (near Utica)
Buffalo, NY USA
www.offthewallonline.com

Doors around 10pm, 21+
$5 with a mask, $7 without

More information is available at www.dharmalab.com and Buffalo Bassline.

The inaugural Moon Dance Festival, originally scheduled to take place in Quebec on the weekend of August 18th, has been cancelled. The organizer cites difficulties in securing land, a lack of support, and certain other concerns. There is a chance Deviant Species (the original headliner) will return in the fall for a one-night indoor event to make up for it.

With Moon Dance no longer taking place, the remainder of the summer season in Eastern Canada is wide open (excepting, of course, next weekend’s Eclipse Festival). If anyone was thinking of hosting something in late August, this is a golden opportunity to step in and make it happen.

Update: Bonni is holding a small outdoor event on crown land amusingly titled “Faeries Gone Wild” that same weekend. Details can be found on the Psyfreaks forum. The Peterborough-based collective has also stepped in to host a small festival in Ontario called Ignition on the August 24th weekend.

The Shakti Collective Presents

SOUNDWAVE
3rd Anniversary Celebration

Beauty & The Beat
(Plastik Park/Sprout/SOG/Tribal Vision, UK/Germany)
Shakti proudly presents the internationally acclaimed wife and husband DJ team whose sets have been stoking up dance floors around the world. Sally Doolally and Goetzlich have dished out fresh, groovy and sexy progressive sounds at huge international festivals like Voov, Soulclipse, Rainbow Serpent and BOOM, playing alongside acts like Minilogue, D-Nox & Beckers, Atmos, Phony Orphants and Tegma. The couple has recently delved into music production with their creative mate Nuke, winning Tribal Vision’s “Floating Free” Remix competition and set to release a series of tracks on SOG Records and Baroque. Sally and Goetz will each play a set in their first ever appearance in North America. Get ready to groove it up!

DJs
Lexicon (Shakti Collective/Metamystix)
Shankar (Tribal Vision Records/Shakti Collective)
Plan B (Shakti Collective)

CHILL ROOM
Basilisk (Ektoplazm, Toronto)
Kristian Sunflower (sumkidz, Toronto)
Davy Boom (Kismet Collective, Toronto)
Mandelbrot (BLA, Toronto)

Deco
Tomasz Ciesla (Toronto)

Visuals
Wuzzle vs Ivygrrl

Saturday, September 29th, 10pm-??
Opium Lounge
222 Richmond Street West, Toronto

$20 in advance, more at the door

Tickets Available at:
Shanti Baba, 546 Queen Street West
Moog Audio, 442 Queen Street West

First 100 people receive exclusive Beauty & The Beat Mixed CD

http://www.shakticollective.com

Update: The chill room will be going on as scheduled!w