Calling all Facebook users! I’ve made it simple to share content posted on Ektoplazm with all your friends. Below each post you will find a row of icons that light up whenever you hover your mouse above. The Facebook sharing icon is the one on the very far left; click on it, and you can instantly post an item to your profile and mini-feed for your friends to enjoy. If you hear a free release or DJ mix you enjoy, share it with this new feature!

I have also opened an Ektoplazm group on Facebook that I would encourage existing users to join. News, updates, free music notices, event listings, and other goodies will be cross-posted to this group.

Not sure what this is all about? Facebook is a smartly designed social networking web site that has recently become wildly popular in some areas of the world, surpassing MySpace and other similar services to become the number one web site in Canada. Toronto (where Ektoplazm is based) has emerged as the Facebook capital of the universe; one in ten residents have an account! Privacy concerns (the dreaded Big Brother/CIA connection) have been raised, so I am not about to advocate that anyone join the site… but if you’re already a member, I hope you will find the new sharing feature useful!

Update: Check out the Ektoplazm and DJ Basilisk fan pages on Facebook.

Update #2 (March 2009): I have removed the sharing service since it was not being used all that much. You can still share a link by copying the URL in the address bar to your Facebook profile.

Oya collective and friends present:
Ignition: The cosmic conciousness

Come join the wild tribes of pixies, nymphs, elves, circus freaks,
aliens, monsters and psychedelic creatures and spirits of all kinds
to ignite the fires of the cosmic mind under the moonlight forest

-Bring your instruments, deco, costumes, toys, food contributions,
water,talents, charms, tricks, spells and all of your magical friends!
-come to contribute, this grassroots party is manifesting out of all
of our collaborative efforts
-kind kitchen in full effect
-Full Deco installation tba
-line up:

Sketi – Black Light Activists, Toronto
Virtual Light, Live! – geomagnetic.tv, Ottawa
Ekoplex, Live! – Montreal
Clone Live! – geomagnetic.tv, Ottawa
plan b – Shakti Collective, Toronto
Ron Havok – geomagnetic.tv, Ottawa
Lexicon – Shakti Collective / Metamystix, Toronto
Echo Void – Toronto
Gnosys – Oya Collective, Peterborough
Stargazer – Guelph
Sidra – Guelph
Dub Rocket – Toronto
TiefFish – Toronto
The Resinators – Toronto
more tba! music is going to Sunday Morning!

-suggested donation: $10-20 at the door (this is a not-for-profit event)
Location: The location is confirmed in a well tested site for many festivals!
Marmora area -2 hours from Toronto
-2.5 hours from Ottawa
-45 min form Peterborough
DJ’s, artists, and those who want to be involved with site creation
and set up email: oyavisionaryartcollective@yahoo.ca

Intriga is a young musician from Helsinki, Finland, specializing in a playful, funky, uplifting, orchestral, intense, and highly experimental style of dark and melodic psychedelic trance. Influenced by old school Goa trance (Astral Projection, Hallucinogen), the classical sound of early Infected Mushroom, and contemporary producers Talpa and The Misted Muppet, Intriga began to develop his distinct sound in the late nineties, gaining exposure through free music portals such as Mikseri, Elixiria, and MySpace. Shortly after playing his first gig in Helsinki (Tsunami), Intriga travelled across Europe playing numerous parties alongside acts such as Lemurians, Miraculix, Kiwa, Squaremeat, Wizack Twizack, and Quantum Leap, just to name a few. Future plans include more live sets and free music releases (coming soon here on Ektoplazm).

Intriga currently holds membership in Unfair Funfair and People Of The Butterflies.