Du 24 au 27 juillet prochain, Tech Safari est heureux de présenter le festival de musique électronique Éclipse 2009, … Le festival est de retour sur le magnifique site du Bonnet Rouge à Ste-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau.

Cette édition sera donc présentée sur le même site enchanteur que l’an passée, au bord de la rivière Gatineau, en plein air durant 4 jours. Les portes ouvriront le vendredi 24 juillet prochain dès 13h00.

Le festival est une culmination d’arts visuels et sonores, qui réunit des artistes, des participants et des voyageurs des quatre coins du monde. La 9e édition présente une symbiose de danse, d’expériences, de performances et de philosophies alternatives, dans un décor féérique sur le magnifique site du Bonnet Rouge. C’est LE rendez-vous festif à ne pas manquer cet été!

Surveillez le dévoilement des artistes sur http://www.psyfreaks.ca

Restez connectés sur http://www.eclipsefestival.com
Et surveillez la sortie du flyers!

Tech Safari is proud to present the major electronic music festival Eclipse 2009.

The Edition of 2009 returns to the amazing location of the 2008: the Bonnet Rouge site, in Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau (Outaouais/Quebec/Canada). The now mythic outdoor event will take place from august 24th to 27th july in this unusual natural beautiful decor, on the shores of wonderful Gatineau River, at 3 hours from Montreal city.

The festival is an international gathering of visual and musical art where artists, dancers and campers from near and far share an fantastic experience. This 9th annual event promises a symbiosis of dance, open philosophies, performance art, human (and spiritual) experiences set up in an enchanting environment.This is the summer festival you won’t want to miss!

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Do you want to be in the team of the volunteers or make application about workshops ? Please write us at info@techsafari.ca
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See you on dance floors!

Love and hapiness!

Tech Safari team
info@techsafari.ca

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ARTISTES CONFIRMÉS:::
ECLIPSE SUMMER FESTIVAL 2009:: 9e EDITION::::

DEEDRAH LIVE!
Fellowship Records/deedrah music
Ibiza/Spain
http://www.deedrah.com/deedrahmusic
http://www.myspace.com/deedrah

SYNTHETIC LIVE!
Fellowship Records/deedrah music
Ibiza/Spain
http://www.myspace.com/deedrah

ZEN MECHANICS live! * First time in Canada!
Neurobiotic Records
Holland
http://www.myspace.com/zenmechanics

ZEN MECHANICS dj set! *First time in Canada
Neurobiotic Records
Holland
http://www.myspace.com/zenmechanics

MOS live and dj set ! *First time in Canada!
GU. Audiotherapy.Sprout Records. Noizen. Kumquat
Buenos Aires:: Argentine
http://www.myspace.com/manuelsofia
http://www.akamos.info/

FREAKULIZER LIVE! * Fist time in North America
Alchemy Records
Switzerland
http://www.myspace.com/freakulizer

KHAINZ LIVE! * First time in North America
Sprout Music. Flow Records. Plusquam
Switzerland
http://www.myspace.com/khainzelectro

CITIZEN dj set! *First time in North America!
Iboga Records/Flow Records
Holland
http://www.myspace.com/wearecitizen

EARTHLING LIVE! *First time in Canada!
Neurobiotic Records/Spun Records
Ibiza/Spain
http://www.myspace.com/earthlingmusic

DJ CELLI *First time in Canada!
Aka Zorba/ Soundaholix/ Earthling
Neurobiotic Records/ Spun Records
Ibiza / Spain
http://www.myspace.com/earthlingmusic

GAUDI LIVE + DJ SET! *First time in Quebec!
Interchill Records/ Six Degrees Records
UK
http://www.gaudimusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/gaudimusic

SPECIES LIVE!
Ultra Groove Records
Belgrade: Serbie
http://www.myspace.com/djaki78
http://www.ultragrooverecords.com

DJ AKI
Ultra Groove Records / EtnicaNet
Serbia
http://www.myspace.com/djaki78

DJ PENA *First time in North America!
Flow Records
Portugal
http://www.myspace.com/djpena
http://www.djpena.net

CLONE LIVE!
tundrarecords.org / F.A.K. (Ottawa)
http://www.myspace.com/clonecanada

REPEAT CUSTOMER LIVE!
Black light activists /Toronto

TAPWATR LIVE!
Tribal Vision Records/ Attitude Recording
http://www.myspace.com/tapwatr

DJ BASILISK
Ektoplazm/Toronto
http://www.ektoplazm.com/

DJ SOUNDSHAPER
Montréal
http://www.myspace.com/satellite67fm

DJ HORIZON VS DJ DRIZZT
24/7 Records/Montréal/UK
htp://www.twenty4seven.cc

DJ CAMO
Attitude recordings/Montreal
http://www.attituderecordings.com

DJ PSYDRAULIX
Jester Records/Creature Productions
http://www.psydraulix.com

DJ YGRIEGA
Travel Spirits/Montréal

DJ SEB
Mandala Sound and Vision/Montreal

DJ PIXIE
Neurovortex / Quebec
http://www.neurovortex.com
http://www.myspace.com/djpixie2

DJ IHY
Nass El Rahil. Nomadstribe
Montréal
http://www.nasselrahil.com

DJ OLIVIER SAINT-GERMAIN
Noerg. Attitude Recordings/Montreal
http://www.attituderecordings.com

DJ JOWEL
Travel Spirit/Nass El Rahil/Montréal
http://www.nasselrahil.com

DJ TENZIN
Tech Safari/Montréal
http://www.myspace.com/10-zin
http://www.techsafari.ca

DJ YANN
UltraGroove Records. Tech Safari./Montreal
www.myspace.com/yanndj
www.ultragrooverec.com
http://www.techsafari.ca

DJ RIKAM
Neurobiotic Records. Tech Safari/Montreal
http://www.myspace.com/djrikam
http://www.neurobiotic.com
http://www.techsafari.ca

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Lunar ~ stage (ambiant, chil out, world beat, minimal techno, progressive trance, dubstep, techno)

:::Decoration and arts design by BLOOMING SAKURA and friends! (Green Sector.Los Angeles/USA),

Peformances by::::

THIRD EAR AUDIO DJ SET! *First time in North America!
Spun Records
Ibiza.Spain
http://www.myspace.com/thirdearaudio

FEDERICO BALTIMORE DJ SET! *First time in North America!
Harmonia Records/Etnicanet
Ibiza.Spain
http://www.deedrah.com

TRANSMISSIONS IN BLOOM DJ SET *1st PA in Canada
Aleph Zero Records/ Holland
http://www.myspace.com/transmissionsinbloom

GAUDI DJ SET! * First time in Quebec!
Interchill Records. UK
http://www.gaudimusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/gaudimusic

DJ PENA * First time in North America!
Flow Records./Portugal
http://www.djpena.net
http://www.flow-records.com

MOS DJ set! *First time in North America!
GU. Audiotherapy.Sprout Records. Kumquat
Buenos Aires:: Argentina
http://www.myspace.com/manuelsofia
http://www.akamos.info

SUKUSH LIVE! *First time in Canada
Psychill Live Flute.6362Metaforce
NewYork/USA
http://www.6362metaforce.net

DJ LEXIFER (1/2 Legion of Green Men)
Post Contemporary. Interchill Records.Plus 8
Toronto

DJ MURPHY *First time in Quebec!
Induction. Mistaya productions
Calgary/ Canada

DJ MYTHRIL
Deliria/Vancouver
http://www.mythril.ca

DJ SIREN SATIVA
Sumkidz.Hotpie records/Toronto
http://www.sumkidz.org
http://www.hotpierecords.com

DJ ZUMBA
Sumkidz/HotPie Records/Toronto
http://www.sumkidz.org
http://www.hotpierecords.com

DJ KRISTIAN SUNFLOWER
Sumkidz/Toronto
http://www.sumantics.org
http://www.sumkidz.org

DJ ZEN + LILAH LIVE!
Altar Records/Inverness
http://www.altar-records.com

DJ SOUNDSHAPER
Montréal
http://www.myspace.com/satellite67fm

DJ LEMONK
http://www.djlemonk.com
Montreal

DJ QUIVERING VIRGIN
BLA.Repeat Customers/Toronto
http://www.myspace.com/quiveringvirgin

DJ JONAH K
Teknotribes.Sumkidz/Toronto
http://www.teknotribes.com

DJ ANIMA
Filthy Crew.OuiR-1
Montreal

DJ DOROBO
Digital Militia. 64 hertz/Montreal
http://dorobo.digitalmilitia.net

DJ RIBOTTO
InGrooves/Toronto
http://www.myspace.com/ribotto

DJ SEB
Mandala Sound and Vision
Montreal

DJ GALAKS’
Freak Addiction Krew, Six Feet High
Montreal

DJ BAYA V DJ OLIVIÉ (Tag team)
Archipel/Montréal
http://www.archipel.ca

DJ MAT THC
TechSafari/St-Jérôme
http://www.techsafari.ca
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VISUALS BY

VJ CAFRINE and guests (TBA)

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La pré-vente débutera Samedi 4 avril au Psychonaut (Montréal), Chanvre du Nord (St-Jérôme), Shanti Baba (Toronto) et enligne au www.eclipsefestival.com (service paypal).

The pre sale will start Saturday April 4th at Psychonaut(Montréal), Chanvre du Nord (St-Jérôme, Shanti Baba (Toronto) and online on www.eclipsefestival.com (paypal service)!

Veuillez prendre note que les billets sur notre site web (paypal) seront disponibles jusqu’au lundi 20 juillet! Après cette date, les billet ne seront diponibles qu’en magasin.

400 premiers / first @ 70$ (taxes incluses) SOLD OUT!
700 suivants / next @ 90$ (taxes incluses)
Les suivants/ next @ 100$ (taxes incluses)
Porte/Gate @ 125$ (taxes incluses)

* À l’entrée à partir de samedi 17h00/ At the gate from Saturday 5pm: 100$

*Gratuit pour les enfants de moins de 14 ans accompagnés d’un adulte.

*Entrance is free for children under 14 years accompanied by an adult.

*Les portes ouvriront à 13h00 vendredi 24 juillet!
*The doors will open at 1pm Friday July 24th!

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AUTOBUS / BUS TRIP

**DATE LIMITE POUR SE PROCURER LES BILLETS AUTOBUS: VENDREDI 17 JUILLET. AFIN DE BIEN ORGANISER LE SERVICE DE TRANSPORT POUR SE RENDRE AU SITE, IL EST IMPORTANT QUE VOUS PRENIEZ NOTE DE CETTE DATE LIMITE**

30$/tx incl. in advance/ à l’avance
40$/ tx incl in the bus if it’s available/ à l’autobus si disponible

(aller-retour/ both ways)

*Départ du centre-ville de Montréal: coin des rues Berri et Ontario

*Leaving downtown Montreal, Berri and Ontario corner

Départ: vendredi 24 juillet/Departures Friday July 24th
13h00 + 19h00/ 1pm + 7pm

Retour: dimanche 26 juillet/ Return Sunday July 26th
16h00/4pm

Retour lundi 27 juillet / Return Monday July 27th
14h00/2pm
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More infos / Plus d’infos
info@techsafari.ca

Gi’iwa Productions has the right idea with the release of Freeform Human’s debut, Arnika. Most psytrance albums are just a collection of tracks–DJ fodder, in essence. Not this release. The team behind Arnika have taken this “psychofunkadelic” production to the next level. Other labels and artists should pay attention: if you want to actually sell physical media in an underground niche market, well… this is how it is done.

First: the raw facts of the release. Freeform Human is a collaboration between two Australians, one half of Hired Goonz (already known from a smattering of compilation appearances) and Hueman, a visual artist and VJ. Together they have composed a seamless 60 minute voyage into genre-bending psytrance with “elements of electro, breaks, chill, hip-hop, disco and full throttle metal.” Want a taste? Check out the MP3 mega-mix available from the group’s web site or click below to stream it now (Flash required):

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In addition to its healthy disregard for stylistic conventions, Arnika is composed almost entirely with analogue gear: a Minimoog, Sherman Filterbank, a “shit old microphone,” and not much else. In a marketplace saturated with pristine digital productions the raw organic sound of this low-tech album is particularly ear-catching.

Freeform Human also cover the charity angle: 10% of the net proceeds from the project will be donated to the protection of Tasmania’s old growth forests via Still Wild Still Threatened and The Wilderness Society. Smart move; this is sure to appeal to the album’s core demographic. Since I expect this release will sell out this also means that a nice chunk of change will be put toward saving the trees.

All of the above would be enough to give Arnika an edge in the dwindling physical media marketplace but there is more. From the band’s web site:

Each album cover is one-of-a-kind hand painted and hand crafted from 100% post-consumer recycled cardboard. The album cover is UV reactive and has been limited to 999 editions.

Very smart. And it is smarter still that the manufacturing process was documented. Here are a few shots of the album artwork in progress:

Doesn’t that make you want to own one? Anyone merely downloading this release is missing out on the experience of the release. My only criticisms: the band’s web site is a bit weak (very “web 1.0″) and it would be nice to see the DJ-friendly digital version available at more than one outlet. These issues are not huge, however. The sheer strength of the concept and presentation should be enough for this album to succeed.

The take-home message for labels and artists is simple: find a way to make your releases special. The market for mass produced copies is shrinking fast but here is still some hope for individualized releases like Arnika, where every “copy” is actually unique in some way. Music fans place high value on experiential qualities; they want to be involved in the narrative unfolding around the music. Freeform Human’s Arnika project demonstrates one way in which physical media can be infused with elements of the experiential.

The Arnika CD is available for purchase from the Freeform Human web site or Saikosounds. DJ-friendly versions of several tracks can be purchased from Mindawn in MP3 or FLAC format. Finally, Damion (of Psyreviews fame) has conducted an interview with Freeform Human for Chaishop.

Update: Psyreviews approves.

ENTHEOS MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE 09

The Entheos Conference and Festival takes place in a beautiful outdoor location near Squamish, B.C. from June 19-21st, 2009.

Entheos is a next-generation outdoor festival created by a loving crew of enthusiastic volunteers that celebrates our collective creativity, inter connectivity, and innate divinity at the time of the Summer Solstice.

A wide variety of electronic music ranging from trance to dubstep and from mellow grooves to ambient soundscapes is presented on two stages.

Entheos also features a conference, workshops, a kids zone, a Red Tent for women, a tea lounge, a temple and a tribal marketplace. A green team of environmental engineers works to ensure that we gather with minimal impact, fostering environmental responsibility and ongoing sustainability.

The mission of the Entheos Conference and Festival is to inspire self-expression, energetic elevation, meaningful fun, new friendships, and optimism for the future.

Entheos 09 Conference

Entheos provides Workshops and a Conference for attendees to develop new skills and have time to commune with their brothers and sisters in a positive environment. This year we have some very special knowledge to impart, and as we gather in one of British Columbias most sacred valleys, we look forward to sharing them with you. Our keynote speaker this year is Jeet-kei Leung, who will be leading a 2 hour seminar entitled: The New Festival & Transformational Culture:

The Festival has been a consistent and vital part of human culture since our beginnings. They have been a call to step outside of everyday life, to connect with the mythic and celebrate communally the affirmation of life. Now, after centuries of puritanism and repression, the ecstatic tradition has re-emerged into culture at a pivotal time of global challenges and enormous shifts. A new festival culture has bloomed throughout the west coast and dotting the world.

The new festivals have become confluence points for exchange and inspiration, community-building and collaboration, a place where the cutting-edge memes and thought of our time find a meeting ground to inform and inspire each other. These parties have become a practice space for the intentionally co-created world–the TAZ or temporary autonomous zone, a model of the future coming into being.

The New Festival & Transformational Culture articulates exactly how this culture embodies the way towards an evolved, liberated and promising future. Jeet-kei Leung aka Mazeguider shares insights from involvement with the culture since its origins and opens the doorways to understanding this vital, new, and yet ancient, phenomena blossoming once again in our midst.

Aural Lexicon
AKHENTEK [live] (elphinstone) http://deliria.org
BASILISK (toronto) http://ektoplazm.com
JACOB CINO (vancouver) http://thirdeyetribe.bc.ca
KAMINANDA [live] (vancouver) http://www.myspace.com/kaminanda
MAZEGUIDER (vancouver) http://mazeguider.com
MYTHRIL (Vancouver) http://deliria.org
NETO [live] (Nelson) http://onbeyondmetamedia.com
PHAROELIDAE [live] (elphinstone) http://pharoelidae.com
PSYENTIFICA [live] (salmon arm) http://infinityloopmusic.com
RIDDIM FERNANDEZ [live] (Squamish) http://www.myspace.com/riddimfernandez
RJ Solo (vancouver) http://deliria.org
RONIN [live] (elphinstone) http://greensamuraiclan.com
TRANSGRESS [live] (vancouver) http://tribalharmonix.org

AMBROSIA (Galiano Island) http://rainbowcathedral.com
BRIDEN (Victoria) http://briden.org
CASSIEL (vancouver) http://stereoshift.org
CLOUD DANCER (victoria) http://returningsaturn.com
DESUNOS (Victoria) Sunset Collaborations http://sunsetcollaborations.com
DODD (Victoria) http://returningsaturn.com
DOKTOR J (Elphinstone) http://doktorj.ca
Entelechy (Victoria) http://returningsaturn.com
FLORIAN (Elphinstone) http://returningsaturn.com
GOA DAVE (nelson) http://psyonicyoga.org
HEIDROGEN (vancouver) http://per.ception.ca
HELIX 42 (Victoria) http://returningsaturn.com
HIPPLES (Victoria) http://returningsaturn.com
IAM LIGHTWEAVER (san francisco) seed of life
JONNY DUBS (vancouver) http://per.ception.ca
JOSHUA JAMES (Victoria) http://tribalharmonix.org
KHAN (Victoria) http://area709.com
LYSSA (victoria) http://flydjs.com
Matsya (Victoria) http://matsya.podomatic.com
MEADOW (Victoria) http://beheshto.ca
MOUNTAIN EYES (victoria) http://rainbowcathedral.com
MUSK’OAKA (Calgary) http://area709.com
NAGDEO (Victoria) http://in.lumination
NILS (vancouver) http://beatswithoutborders.com
NORI (Vancouver) http://area709.com
NOVA (Vancouver)
ROWAN (Victoria) http://bellyfit.ca
SPACEMAN SPLIFF (vancouver) http://kinotropy.com
STARGIRL (vancouver) http://DJStargirl.com

Entheos 3 boarding passes are now available at supportive outlets in Vancouver and Victoria.

Victoria
Solstice Café
529 pandora avenue
(250) 475-0477
http://www.solsticecafe.ca/

Vancouver
High Life Records
1317 Commercial Drive
(604) 251-6964
http://highlifeworld.com/

Online tickets are selling briskly, and are available only until June 16th at http://www.entheosgathering.com

There may be a very limited amount of gate sales at $125, but buying early saves you money and secures your voyage!

Kids under 10 are FREE, and as usual, we will have a kid friendly zone at Entheos 3.

2 DAYS FREE CAMPING – NO GLASS – NO ALCOHOL – NO DOGS – LEAVE NO TRACE