Waveform Festival Gaia Chill

OZRIC TENTACLES

Formed in 1984, the band have released over 20 albums and become a cottage industry selling around a million albums worldwide despite never having major label backing. The original line up met at the Stonehenge Free Festival and their name arose from discussions of hypothetical cereal brands (Malcolm Segments, Desmond Whisps, and Gordon Lumps are among the names that were considered). "Ozric" is an old Viking name meaning "divine energy," and tentacles "is a silly word to put on the end".  In the 1980s the band built a fan base on the festival circuit, and made a series of cassette releases, sold at gigs and via a fan club. Now they are living legends of psychedia. They will be showcasing a special chilled out set at Waveform. www.myspace.com/ozrictentaclesuk 

ABAKUS

Abakus is the artist name of Russell Davies, son of The Kinks founder, Dave Davies. Abakus’ music can best be described as ambient or downtempo. This is his first release for four years with an exclusive downtempo set in the Gaia Chill Space. www.myspace.com/artistabakus

NAGUAL SOUND EXPERIMENT

Original Dub Soundsystem since 1996, NSE has morphed into a full on production alias of psychedelic dance producer Cameron Leonard-Schroff aka psybreaks pioneer Mood Deluxe on Liquid Records. The NSE sound draws heavily from dubwise ethic, fusing Jamaican style engineering, with futuristic and psychoative elements. NSE has managed to craft a unique style with vocal performances from RasMoiRama, Brotha Culture, Mary Reilly and Lisa Waldam and also the Horns of Jericho brass band. www.myspace.com/nseliquid

EAT STATIC

Eat Static were formed in 1989 by Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton, then drummer and synth player respectively for the band Ozric Tentacles. The band made a name for themselves on the Megadog/’live’ techno scene of the early ’90s, playing alongside the likes of Orbital, Underworld and Aphex Twin. They were the first signings to Megadog-offshoot Planet Dog records, releasing their debut album ’Abduction’ in 1993. They have been voted ’Best Dance Act’ in the NME, achieved a top twenty album, headlined the first dance tent at Glastonbury in 1995 and recorded two Peel sessions. Whilst essentially a sci-fi influenced, trance/techno outfit, they have also incorporated drum and bass, breakbeat, latin, garage and ambient styles into their sound at various stages. In the past few years the band have become heavily involved with the psy-trance scene, playing parties and festivals the world over and releasing numerous tracks on trance compilations.  www.myspace.com/eatstaticspace

GAUDI

Nominated for the “World Music Award 2008” with his new album ‘Dub Qawwali’, his music enables him to unify different forms of sound from around the world and represent them in his own personal style, while at the same time, most importantly, keeping the heart, integrity and significance of the cultural roots. His music, which is an organic fusion of Dub, Electronica and Worldbeat is rarely off the playlists and regularly being performed live in the UK and internationally.  www.myspace.com/gaudimusic

ISHQ

Based in st ives cornwall have been releasing since the mid 90's on many of the worlds top ambient labels including Interchill , Dakini ,ultimae , aleph zero aswell as their own label Virtual.Their music is an inventive mix of electronica and ambience and their sound instantly recognisable and highly regarded by many. Ishq will be mixing a one off unique soundscape live at sunrise this year sometime between dusk and dawn of music ranging from downtempo to more groovy new electronica work. www.myspace.com/qhsi

SNAKESTYLE

Snakestyle’s track Extransience was voted 'Track of the week' by Fluid Radio. Check out Superestacion.fm - Tuesday nights at 8pm (local time) = Wednesday mornings at 02:00 BST) weekly slot of mixes by dj snakestyle hosted by liliana arboleda medina. He has performed live at 'Edensounds' at the Synergy CentreLondon. His track 'Neutral Buoyancy' on Interchill Records compilation 'Future Memories' has recently been released alongside his debut solo album 'Snakestyle'. www.snakestyle.co.uk

MIRROR SYSTEM

Welcome to the new project of System 7's Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy. The album title is Mirror System - the artist name is Mirror System. Mirror System is the new vehicle for developing the chilled & downtempo dimensions of the music from the System 7 members. Through Mirror System we will be connecting & reflecting with new people & old friends in a new way. www.myspace.com/mirrorsystm

ALIJI

Aliji is a versatile chill out DJ with an eclectic style where medium tempo, danceable grooves underpin a fusion of numerous musical genres. Whilst surprises abound, the journey that unfolds is always sensitively navigated and never betrays a deep psychedelic integrity that defines Aliji’s unique vision. Aliji has been, for the past 4 years, a regular DJ with ID spiral, playing at Glastonbury festival, Glade festival and Synergy. www.myspace.com/alijimusica

AVIVA

Aviva is an electronic music producer, dj, vocalist, songwriter and bass player. She is featured as a vocalist on SolarQuests latest album and freestyles live vocals with solarquest’s live sets. She also dj’s regularly at squat parties and clubs in the psychedelic subculture and is a resident dj at the Inspiral lounge in Camden. Her track "In Peace We come" appears on the Purple Magazine compilation and she is just about to release an album called the Mantra Temple which is a deeply meditative and healing album. www.myspace.com/avivazone

BEN CRYSTAL

Ben Crystal started djing in the early nineties, inspired by the Œ88 summer of love and the ensuing dance music revolution. His first gigs were with the Bedlam and Spiral tribe sound systems, the coming together of the free festival scene and dance music. He can now be heard spinning on the worldwide psychedelic scene. Based in London he holds residencies with the Dr. Love, Indigo Children and MDMA party organisations and also coordinated the now infamous CollectiveFuture events. www.myspace.com/benjamincrystal

DREADNAUT

Dreadnaut first got the psy bug at the Fridge in Brixton around 1995 but was particularly inspired by the radical and politically conscious parties at the time, including squats at Cooltan Arts, Megatripolis, and later The Warp Experience, and the Den of Enlightenment. At the Warp Experience and other Drome parties in 1999 he got more involved in the running of these kinds of parties, promoting, painting backdrops, DJing, photographing, and spinning poi, particularly at the more conscious end of the squat scene. www.myspace.com/dj_dreadnaut

GALACTIC WIND

One of the organisers of Waveform Festival with a history of organising events stretching back to underground parties in Cambridge and London and some fairly legendary raves in and around San Francisco in the early nineties. Nowadays he plays psy trance, with dubstep and funky breaks and DJs at numerous events around the world including Boom Festival, Shambhala Festival in British Columbia and London’s Synergy Project. He is resident at Glastonbury’s Tranceformation parties. www.myspace.com/djgalacticwind

DJ FLUID

Fluid has been DJing for the past 20 years and always been fascinated by the unifying power of music and the way that sound evokes people's deepest emotions. From running pirate radio stations in the early 90's to DJing at events all over the country, his vision is always to allow people access to intelligent analogue grooves. This has culminated in his latest project, Fluid Radio, a space for celebrating the beauty and diversity of chillout soundscapes with a vision to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression. www.fluid-radio.co.uk

NAKED NICK

Naked Nick (Nick Holden) has been working as a musician, DJ and vocalist since the early 90s. In more recent years he has moved into electronic music, developing the live dance-based act Loka, with Michael Davis (Urban Spacelab) and collaborated with artists such as Dreadzone, Ott, Friends Lovers and Family and Matt Black from Coldcut with whom he formed Rood Chakra'. Over the last few years he has become a regular in the psychedelic and festival scenes and is a long-running resident of ID Spiral/Synergy Project. He is currently working on an album with Ott and Vicky Grebezs.

PAUL DIDGE

Paul has been playing the didgeridoo for 14 years, blending the trance inducing sound of the didgeridoo with electronic music ranging from chill out to trance and drum'n' bass. during his life of playing the didgeridoo it has takenhim on many adventures his life. The didgeridoo is one of the oldest intruments in the world and it is one of the most trance inducing sounds he has ever heard. He has always had a love for electronic music but found that a lot of techno, trance and electronic music had lost its soul, so this inspired him to mix the ancient sound of the didgeridoo with the modern electronic sounds of today.
www.myspace.com/pauldidge

RED EARTH

Red Earth are Chris Wizard (galactic) and Jess Sparkle (electric) whose DJ style, described as ‘psychill with an eastern flavour', now encompasses a diversity ranging from folky electronica to shoegaze to psydub, through a wide range from beatless ambient to progressive, often favouring that ambiguous space between grooving and blissing out, dark electronic or light, melodic and fluffy! They are accompanied on occasion by a talented djembe player and a wonderfully graceful fusion belly dancer. Side projects include Fluid Radio and Waveform Festival!. www.redearth.me.uk

SOLARQUEST

Solar Quest is a one-man ambient and acid trance music project founded in 1993 by George Saunders and its aim is to combine renewable solar energy with electronic music.  For the annual Glastonbury Festival Solar Quest has often produced a solar energy powered ambient concert tent and a lot of its music has been recorded and mixed in a studio powered by solar energy.  www.myspace.com/solarquest

TOM FU

Tom Fu has been Dj'ing cutting edge psychedelic chillout for the past 8 years, playing many clubs and festivals all over the country and beyond. In the past he has appeared at Return To The Source, Liquid Connective, Undertow, Altered States and is now a resident chill out Dj and A&R for Liquid Records. Current projects include compiling a chill out compilation for Liquid Records and mixing a double CD release of music by legendary Suns Of Arqa to be released next year; and also developing The Ambient Allstar's, a collective of London's cutting edge underground chill-out dj's. www.myspace.com/tomfu

LUNA LIS

Luna Lis is a psy-chill out DJ who has been playing in the underground psy-trance scene for the past five years. It all started with the love of music, the love of mother nature and her creative cycles. She loves fusing music together, soulfully and gracefully, energising, uplifting sounds, etheral soundscapes, floating beats and funky fluries of organic sounding baselines. Classsical Indian and tribal samples just blow my mind. Real connection to the heart and the earth. www.myspace.com/lunalis

BEZ 23

Bez23 started DJing in 1992, after discovering that he could compile ’tripping tapes’ much more fluidly by using two record players and a mixer. Involved in the free party scene since the early ’90s promoting trance, then Goa, then Psytrance parties. Bez23 currently organises the chill-space for Bradford night ’Kulu’ where he is also a psytrance resident. Sometimes, Bez23 writes about himself in the third person, which he finds both bizarre and mildly entertaining. www.myspace.com/bez23dorje

COSMONAUGHTY

Downtempo Psychedelic groovy tribal ambi-dub-trance sets in chill out areas. (and I have been know very occasionally to play dancefloor psychedelic sets although I'm now starting to do them under another name, as Anton Kanyini), He's played regularly for the Northern Psy trance club nights Kulu in Bradford,Cabbage in Leeds, Sunrise (manchester) but in other parts of the country I've played at Tribe of frog (in Bristol and in Spain), LIquid connective in Lyminge forest,Fatmoon (sheffield), Psychedelic Breakdown (Peterbourgh), Astral Phoenix (london), Baraka in Oxford, Chaos theory in Swansea and many more. www.myspace.com/djcosmonaughty

IPCRESS

IPcress have played at Little Green Planet, Chrysalid, Alchemy Records, Hadra Records, Liquid Records, Bom Shanka Records and many many more. I've also played at festivals in the UK and abroad such as Wickerman & Tetris Safari with future bookings in Holland and Scotland & Switzerland this summer/autumn. His style can vary from chilled minimal electronica right the way through to progressive & full on psychedelic trance. His emphasis is on mixing different styles of music together to create a psychedelic cocktail...a journey through sound.  www.myspace.com/ipcress1000

TECHNODOLLY

You'll usually find her chilling or DJing in a variety of chilled-out spaces or simply spacing out in the chill-out! Technodolly also help organise a delightfully psychedelic club-night in the North, Kulu in Bradford, every month From September to June. We fill a brilliant three floor venue with colour, light and sound. Psy-trance, chillout and upbeat world music, from 10pm until 6am. Amazing DJs, VJs, musicians and Decor-Artists from all over the country and beyond. Creating a journey for all the senses. Kulu will be celebrated its 9th birthday in March this year. www.myspace.com/technodolly

PETE ARDRON

DJs regularly for people like The Synergy Project, Planet Angel, ID Spiral, Bingly Bongly, One Tribe, Edensounds, Sofa Sundaze and Kalahari, and have played at festivals such as Glastonbury, Glade, Sunrise, Waveform and Turaya, generally mixing a fair amount of tunes from his own projects with the beatier side of psychedelic and global chill and dub. He's most at home in chill-out rooms where there's still space to get people dancing. Most of my time and energy nowadays goes into the Orchid-Star, my first live project since the last gigs with Glow in 2000. www.myspace.com/peteardron  

VATAFF PROJECT

"Vataff Project" has its own and specific sound although it contains elements of psychedelic-techno,abstract lines,ambient,IDM.The music of "Vataff" leads to profound feelings of ecstasy from the heart and ritual which come from the ancient times, the present and the future. The permanent development and evolution of sound, the search for states going beyond the field of matrix forms and images are basic tendencies set in the project's idea.The project is open and changeable.  www.vataff.com

HYBERNATION

Stuart is an artist who works with photography, dj'ing, music production, vj'ing, painting as well as poetry. He describes his musical works as trying to "...make sense of the discordant, disjointed busy world around me and make some sense of what is going on, to have some kind of understanding about what makes the world revolve, how things all have their place within the environment and how they all seemingly work together. But most importantly, how I fit in to the world as a whole and to try to have a place within it which has some semblance of order and harmony." www.myspace.com/autumnale

PERPETUAL LOOP

Under the name Perpetual Loop, producer Charles Massey releases down tempo, Psy-chill. Charles is currently based in Manchester (UK), and since 2004, he has had releases on compilation from Rumour Records, Organic Records (UK) and Masti Music. In the summer of 2006 his debut album (Universal Flow) was released on Organic Records which made an instant impact on the psy-ambient scene. Charles also works with main stream artists working on image profile and writing / producing, but it is here, in the chiller side of Psy where his heart really lies. www.myspace.com/perpetualloop

DJ POD

Rippers, trippers and hippy-dippers...

www.myspace.com/dj_pod

HALOGEN

Blending live guitars and vocals with intricate, subtle melodies and rhythms, Halogen's music is best described as Organic Electronica. Multi-instrumentalist Adam Janota-Bzowski draws on his diverse musical background which encompasses post-rock, jazz, glitch, blues, idm and experimental to create a sonically rich listening experience. www.myspace.com/halogenbulbs

CHANDRANANDA

www.myspace.com/chandrananda

XERXES

www.myspace.com/xerxesambient

BEN BEINY

A composer who lives and works in London, writing music for film and documentary. At age 4 he took his first violin lesson, before going on to study piano, percussion and guitar. He even admits to the odd bit of choir-boy singing. Now 24, and influenced by modern composers like Cliff Martinez and Craig Armstrong, he produces an atmospheric mix of instrumentals, making use of subtle rhythms and the delicate vocals of his collaborators". Before The City Wakes' EP is his first release with Artificial Bliss. www.myspace.com/benbeiny

DYNAGLIDE

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LOOP GURU

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DJ OM ON

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NATIVE HORIZON

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MUDRA

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