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SACRED EARTH LINEUP IS NOW POSTED!
Limited $30 will call tickets for Sacred Earth
The Chilluminati present
Sacred Earth Open Air
May 26-29 2006 Memorial Day Weekend
@ a location TBA, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin
An open air camping festival brought to life with consciousness, harmony, mind-expanding music and visuals
Four days and three nights of psychedelic sound, visuals, art, fire dancing
Audio :: Live Musicians
Loud~ Com.pact/Dooflex/Translucent/Divine Balance/dbsonic [Israel] LOUD (Kobi Toledano and Eitan Raiter, located in the city of Haifa Israel) were both infected by the psytrance bug and movement back in the mid-nineties. While both were travelling and experiencing global psychedelic culture, the two cosmically met and LOUD was born. LOUD has a significant and daring new sound, fresh and powerful, always seeking to expand their knowledge and results. Their full-length album will be coming out soon on Com.pact Records. |
Onnomon ~ Soular Records/Divine Balance/dbsonic [Pennsylvania] ONNOMON is rapidly emerging as one of the top psytrance producers in the world. His recent album, “No Monno” was referred to as “An utterly smashing surprise…” on psyreviews.com. He’s had releases on countless labels and recently returned from touring in Israel. His unique style is not to be missed! |
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Androcell ~ Celestial Dragon [Arizona] With his new second album "Efflorescence" just coming out on Celestial Dragon Records, musician and artist Tyler Smith, aka Quasga, will navigate a psychedelic night-time landscape anchored in dub and integrate organic and electronic sounds. Warm melodies are diversified against a framework of intricate rhythms and arching harmonies. Unique spoken samples are incorporated seamlessly and used with clear intent. Interstitial atmospheric sounds provide for a continuous listening experience. |
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Bodhisattva 13:20 ~ Geomagnetic.tv/Divine Balance/dbsonic [California] Coming out of the dark desert scene Bodhi shares a bit of sacred magic as he twists your mind with new and unheard complex frequency function combinations. He is an award-winning electronic musician with releases on such labels as Truffle, Trishula, Psybertribe, Vertigo and coming soon on Geomagnetic/Darkstar Records will be his highly anticipated 2nd album "Secrets of the Mojave". |
KiloWatts ~ Diffusion Records [Pennsylvania] Recently completing his 4th album, Routes, among numerous singles and remixes, James Watts continues to create dynamic and unpredictable moods with his music. He's generally known for his complex rhythmic audio editing, sliced and diced to all hell, married to wistful melodic structure and vaporous soundscapes. His livesets are a combination of intricate programmed beats and sojourns into improvised experimental groovology, often evolving into thick layered violet walls of sound. |
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Merkaballah ~ Space Dub Vibrations - [Colorado] Merkaballah, is comprised of Jym Fair, Avery Runner, and Doug Beechwood. Formulated in 2002, the group has been seen @ VideA in Barcelona Spain2002: AVit Chicago in 2003; "Motion Notion' near Edmunton, Alberta Canada also in 2004; 'As One' festival near Eugene Oregon 2004; and most recently at 'One Tribe' functions on their home turf of Denver, Colo. Merkaballah's DVD A/V single 'Theta Drive', continues on where 'Alpha Code', DJ Elf Arrow (Avery) and VJ Pixylight's (Jym) DJ/VJ mix DVD, leaves off. Theta Drive wisks its viewers into theta consciousness, by means of mixed archetypical imagery. |
Convolution Integral ~ www.joshbrill.com [Illinois] Josh Brill is the founder and a member of Convolution Integral; a concept in which Josh orchestrates and manipulates soundscapes, live instruments, and dense modern harmonies, while using a jazz/jam band improvisational approach. The psymbient sound that CI brings to the world is a duality of the ambient and the participatory. The guitar soundscapes that CI creates begin with a single note, and through the use of loops, the past and present meet as they convolve with their distant relative, the future. Josh has toured as a guitarist with numerous national and international acts, including Dale Bozzio, Mike Mangini, David Jacobs-Strain, and Kenny Passarelli. |
Kourosh Dini ~ www.kouroshdini.com [Illinois] Kourosh Dini is a classically trained musician and a psychiatrist focusing on the development of human and thought. The creation of his music is a reflection of the development of life. His cycling flow of dark and light offers a soundtrack for philosophical contemplation, a great backdrop for generating conversation and a must listen for those who wish to dig a little deeper to appreciate the beauty contained within. |
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Venus, i [Chicago] Chicago based Venus, i has been brewing it's special blend of organic electro dub since 2005.4. A robust yet rich full-bodied tonic with a sweet manicured finish, leaving you with a pleasantly funky after taste. In just over a year Venus, i has found a voice it's proud to call its own, expressed through tones ranging from ambient minimal soundscapes to melodic beat driven dub. |
Visual :: Live Performances
For 3 nights 9 collectives of visual artistry match cutting-edge technology with unparalleled performance. A "Hexagonalism" projection display, Pioneer's newest DVJ video turntables, multiple realtime interactive visual systems.
Virtual teleportation booth where participants can send video postcards to their future selves, and the most cinematic moments of console game graphics culminate into an extraordinary dance space experience.
VJ Pixylight ~ Spacedub / Inside Us All [Colorado] Pixylight started his VJing aspirations in 1996 and coordinated the AVit Retreat, made up of VJs and Artists from within the North American community in 2005. He also works closely with EarthDance and London-based live video collective inside-us-all. He said to expect some mind-blowing projection screens @ Sacred Earth because he's built a hexagon cluster of screens that he's dubbed "hexagonalism". |
Reality Engine ~ Realityengine dot org - [New York] Reality Engine is a multi-media art collective that creates an interactive Audio-Visual experience. Our goal is to break down the boundaries of conventional media presentation through utilizing the ritual of shamanic dance and cutting edge communications technology, creating atmospheres that help facilitate the potential for expanded awareness of the world around us. Our content is specifically designed for multiple projection environments, from galleries to theatre, live shows and dance floors. Through our partnership with Pioneer, our goal is to help establish this new platform of non-linear storytelling for DJs, VJs and Live Acts as a standard tool for artistic expression in the arena of events, festivals and nightclubs world-wide using the DVJ – X1 turntables. |
Psymbolic ~ www.psymbolic.com [Chicago] This catalytic duo (Julee & Troy) create Live Interactive Visual Environments. Since 1999, they have become large-scale A/V event curators and they continue to push their means of expression through their video compositions and the realtime surrounding spectacles. Always providing a customized thematic projection/performance of synchronous moments of meaning and inspiration. |
VJ Mason Dixon ~ www.VJMasonDixon.com / Motion Graphics [Chicago] Founder of mgchicago and curator of Chicago Motion Graphics Festival, Mason Dixon aims to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment. The goal is to revitalize the viewer's perception and attention to detail. No hidden meanings, Just reaction, contemplation and a search for meaning. The reflection will reveal your personality and the nature of your sensibilities. |
Dr. Spook ~ Geomagnetic.tv/Divine Balance [San Francisco] Nathan Vogel (a.k.a. DJ/VJ Doctor Spook) spends most of his time creating a wide variety of cutting edge digital projects, music videos, dance party projection graphics, DVDs, 3D interactive games, motion graphics, feature film special effects shots and original computer animated shows. Some of you may know Doctor Spook from his interview in the now cult classic film Liquid Crystal Vision, a feature DV documentary on the worldwide trance music scene which he helped produce. |
MFVJ ~ www.MFChicago.com [Chicago] Comprised of video-artists Seth Gershberg aka 3pHaze and Byron Durham (Bmini), local Chicago VJs and co-founders of mfchicago. MFChicago is a group of musicians and artists that experiment with improvisational video and electronic music. Their technique is based on a process of mixing, sampling and re-sampling original live footage, synthesized sources, creative commons and public domain content. They'll be providing a virtualized teleportation booth where participants can send their future dance-floor-centric self a video postcard. |
Merkaba Visuals ~ Performance Visual Entrainment [Chicago] Merkaba believes that performance visuals are one of the definitive art forms of this century. The Merkaba Visual Performance Collective is bi-located between Chicago and Maui. Since 2000, they've been evolving their style, a hybrid of analog and digital, abstract and narrative. When the visuals entrain with the music you hear at Sacred Earth, your experience will be propelled to another level. |
Video Janitor ~ www.videojanitor.com [Illinois] In the Summer of Love, Maria Pappas, Matthew Hanson, Edyta Stepien and Chuck Przybyl were born Video Janitor. So, what do a thrift store junkie, television addict, gadget collector, polish princess, and dub master have in common? They all have a burning desire to weave enlightened optic fusion right in front of your eyes. They will take you down a fantastic visual journey improvising with the musicians and environment at play. Video Janitor has been cleaning house all over town. |
The League of Light ~ www.theleagueoflight.com [Illinois] The League of Light, composed of several concept artists & next-generation console engineers, remixes game-graphic landscapes. Beyond machinima, the League reaches directly into the most cinematic moments of action and artistic games to challenge the traditional definitions of interaction. Mostly, The League of Light brings fun to the dance floor. |
Matyas Kelemen ~ Reality Engine [New York City] Living in New York City since 1989, Matyas has a unique ability to provide the right elements for the creation of uplifting and otherworldly environments, from festival dance floors in the heart of Brazil to nightclubs in Tokyo. A classically trained fine artist and cinematographer at Parsons School of Design, Matyas started experimenting with multi media installations in the Brooklyn underground scene of the nineties. In 2001 Matyas founded Reality Engine, a multi-media art collective specializing in site-specific AV installations. He has shown work at Trancendence, Brasil; at Alex Grey’s Entheocentric Saloon, CoSM, NYC; and did video editing, compositing and motion graphics for the movie Entheogen. |
Deco :: Art Installation, Space Transformation
- Gaian Mind ~ www.gaian-mind.com [Florida]
- Alberto ~ www.cosmictraveler.com [Italy]
- Devorah ~ www.visioncollective.org [Chicago]
- Alison aka Sprite ~ Microcosm Muse Productions/Audiognomes [Illinois]
- Alberto ~ www.cosmictraveler.com [Italy]
Audio :: DJs
Allen ~ Gaian Mind [Florida] A member of the Gaian Mind collective, Allen is considered one of North America's leading psytrance DJs, Well-known for his mind-bending sets and his ability to work the dancefloor into a frenzy. His legendary night sessions, will dig you a hole to the deepest reaches of known space. |
Dr. Spook ~ Phoenix Family/Geomagnetic / Divine Balance/dbsonic [San Francisco] Dr. Spook (aka Nathan Vogel) is an internationaly renowned San Francisco VJ/DJ/live AV act. He began creating electronic music & 3d visuals in the early nineties. He is a pillar in the sf psytrance scene, known for creating amazing parties with the Phoenix Family. Nate is also a producer & director at minds eye media in sf since 95. |
Pedro ~ Interchill [New York City] DJ/producer and event coordinator originally from Brazil, now based in NYC, Pedro plays Tribal Psychedelic Grooves, going from dub beats into deep midtempo trance and breaks fused with influences from many cultures and genres. He mixes ancient sounds and digital music with the intention to create environments that provide conditions for the uplifting experience of the collective awareness. Pedro has played in events such as Trancendence, Universo Paralello, Earth Dance, Gaian Mind, Touch-Samadhi Summer Festivals and Avatar. Presently Pedro is a resident DJ at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) and Bembe, both in New York. |
Blue Spectral Monkey ~ Interchill [Asheville, NC] Truly a connoisseur of psychedelic electronic music, Blue Spectral Monkey has been collecting and spinning constantly since 1996. Deeply diving into fresh electronic dubzones, spaced techno funkage, glitched out freakiness, beatless ambient soundscrapes, and liquidy breaks with an ethnocyborg-psyritual twist, all the time keeping the sounds thick, groovy and trippy. |
Mist ~ Acidance/Divine Balance/dbsonic [Texas] Mist is an established veteran of the Texas psy trance scene. He is the co-founder of the seminal Texas psy trance production company, Mistical Production. His flawlessly mixed high energy sets have left dance floors across North America quaking. After a brief stint as an Inpsyde Media label DJ, he joined forces with Acidance Records, a psy trance label based in Athens, Greece. For them he compiled the two very successful releases Dirty South and A Violent Reaction. |
Witchdokta ~ Full Circle/Phoenix Family [California] The Wichdokta began DJing in '96 and formed the Full Circle Collective in Mendo, Northern California. In '2000 he met up with Dr. Spook and created the loving Phoenix Famly. As a promoter and gathering thrower, he knows what gets the people going. The Wichdokta's sets are something of a spectacle to witness, his amazing energy and sinister music go hand in hand to give you the ride of your life! |
Arahat aka Hidro-Ponik ~ Cosmic Theatre [California] A Goa/Psy Dj since 1995, Hidro's intelligent and twisted psychedelic trance has been tearing up the US. Expect him to break out quite a few of his own tracks under the project name Arahat. DJ Hidro-Ponik is a force felt all through you when connected to the cosmic spirit on the dance floor. Be prepared for a wonderful set of crazy night oriented dance experimentation. |
Alberto ~ Cosmic Traveler [Italy] Alberto has unique style, flawless performance skills, he is true connoisseur of emotional driving tribal music. talented and methodical, he creates intelligent soundscapes alternating melodic intensity and compositional depth. Dance floor mayhem is guaranteed! Creative visual artist and well known organizer, driving force behind Cosmic Traveler, and a great friend. |
- Airyck ~ Subconscious Collective [Iowa]
- NOD ~ TOUCH Samadhi [North Carolina]
- D.N.X. (Dan Efex) ~ Nepol Records [Chicago]
- S.O.T. ~ TOUCH Samadhi [Chicago]
- Kaiser Soze ~ TOUCH Samadhi [Wisconsin]
- Asmadeus ~ Native State Records [Chicago]
- Derby ~ TOUCH Samadhi [Chicago]
- Underfoot ~ Audiognomes [Wisconsin]
- Toki ~ Audiognomes [Wisconsin]
- Shai ~ Divine Balance/dbsonic [Chicago]
- Robyo ~ Audiognomes [Illinois]
- PsiloPsyBen ~ Audiognomes [Wisconsin]
- Damon ~ Divine Balance/dbsonic [Chicago]
- Select A-B ~ independent [Illinois]
- m50 ~ www.consumerslabel.net [Illinois]
- Destro ~ Zod Records [Wisconsin]
- Cringer ~ Part Time Suckers [Illinois]
- Kat_zyie ~ Part Time Suckers [Illinois]
- Jeekoos ~ Part Time Suckers [Illinois]
- Kee ~ Part Time Suckers [Illinois]
- NOD ~ TOUCH Samadhi [North Carolina]
flyer by Underfoot ~ Audiognomes
entertainment subject to change
When: Memorial Day Weekend Friday May 26 - Monday May 29, RAIN or SHINE ; specific times TBA
Where: near Black River Falls, Wisconsin - maps, directions, details TBA
This is the first of two weekend-long camping festivals the Chilluminati will be creating in 2006. Both of our weekend festivals will be in western Wisconsin, close to the heart of the psychedelic tribes of that state and those of Iowa, Minnesota, Ontario, and Illinois.
The Native Americans of western Wisconsin built huge sacred earthworks that we now know as effigy mounds. These immense earthen symbols, carved into the earth, were symbols of the Divine. Just as they built their mounds, we create these parties as Cosmic Condensates; our Music, Dance, Light, and Love form a sacred structure in Space and Time, a microcosmic celebration of the Infinite.
Come join with us this year by helping us to invoke the Five Elements:
- Earth - our beautiful new party location near Black River Falls is known and loved by many
- Air - The Music, both Psychedelic Trance and Chill/Downtempo/Ambient, is the air we breathe
- Fire - Deco in three Dimensions: Art, Light, Projection. As well as Fire and Kinetic performances.
- Water - Healers, the psychedelic people, the ambience, community, the beautiful something that you can't put your finger on...
- Spirit - the Unseen, the Energy Field, Imaginal Realm Manifest
- Air - The Music, both Psychedelic Trance and Chill/Downtempo/Ambient, is the air we breathe
WE PROVIDE: 2 stages of sound and light, 4 days of camping in a beautiful natural environment (rain or shine), running water, bathrooms and hot showers, full vending (including alcohol for those 21+).
YOU PROVIDE : a tent, enough food and beverages for the weekend (or some cash - food and beverages will be available for sale), NO GLASS, NO DRUGS, NO PETS, NO FIREWOOD (firewood can be purchased on-site).
Please respect the venue by keeping the grounds free of litter. This is a LEAVE NO TRACE EVENT
18+ unless accompanied by parent (MUST BRING ID)
EARLY BIRD $30 to April 30th, or first 50 tickets
PRE-REGISTERED $40 May 1st (or whenever EARLY BIRD tickets sell out) to May 22nd
GATE ADMISSION $50
Ticket prices cover performances, tent camping and parking for 4 DAYS and 3 NIGHTS, and campground facilities. Trailer camping is available on a limited, first-come first-serve basis. Electric/water/sewer hookups are extra for trailers. Inquire for details.
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON . . .
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON . . .
Vending is $50 plus admission. We encourage vending of all kinds, but all vending proposals are subject to Chilluminati Crew approval. Please email us with your proposal: crew (AT) chilluminati (DOT) org.
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