Arctic Light ~ Midnight Sun Festival teaser
On the 7th of February, we invite all midnightlovers; Arctic Light ~ Midnight Sun Festival teaser, happening at Seeds Oslo, very central in the capital of Norway. The musical program on this evening is a microcosm of the Midnight Sun Festival, where both ambient / progressive / techno and naturally psy trance will be represented. We are happy to announce a line up with origins from all around the north; DK / SWE / NO / FIN We are happy to be given the opportunity of having this party at the coolest indoor location in town. There will be 3 different areas on this party, here is the program: ~ MAINSTAGE ~ (WILL BE OPEN FROM 19.00 - 23.00 SO BE SURE TO BE IN GOOD TIME!) special warmup set by UNKNOWN CAUSE (19.00 - 20.00) CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS (SE) (first time in Norway!) (20.00 - 21.30) Robert Elster aka VIBRASPHERE (SE) (21.30 - 23.00) ~ PSY STAGE ~ (open 23.00 - 03.00) SHANTAROLF & SUTEKH (NO/SE/UK) (23.00 - 00.20) TROLD (NO) (00.20 - 01.40) ONKEL DUNKEL (DK) (01.40 - 03.00) ~ TECHNO STAGE ~ (open 23.00 - 03.00) FRANSESCO (PT) (23.00 - 00.20) MARIA BAREFOOT (NO) (00.20 - 01.40) MR MUNCHIES (01.40 - 03.00) ~ DEKO ARTISTS ~ DECOTUKOS (FI) PSYKANOID (NO/FI) ~ VISUAL ARTIST ~ GLOBAL ILLUMINATION (HU) ~ PERFORMANCE ARTIST ~ JELENA MITRA (SE) PIERRE EKMAN (SE) ~ WORKSHOP´S ~ FREAKY SPIRIT (NO) SARA AVENSEN (SE) ~~ Presaletickets are sold @ our website from 25 euro until the 31st of January. From 1st of February the ticket will cost 30 euro. From 7th of February 12.00 in the day, we stop selling tickets. Remember also to buy your festivalticket! ID: 20+ ~~~ARTIST PRESENTATIONS~~~ UNKNOWN CAUSE (N) www.unknown-cause.com soundcloud.com/unknown-cause Unknown Cause is Magnus S. W. from Oslo, Norway. His music can best be described as adventurous, mellow but rich and spacious, vision translated to sound… Unknown Cause has played in the deep forests of Norway, the peaks of the Altai Mountain-range and the basement of the Empire State building, so these mysterious sound waves have travelled far and beyond. Unknown Cause is currently working on his debut solo-release with the label Tie&Tail, due late 2013. ~ CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS (SE) http://www.ultimae.com/en/composers/carbon-based-lifeforms/index.html ^ Carbon Based Lifeforms (CBL) are Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Segerstad (né Ringström), both born in 1976 and based in Göteborg, south-west Sweden. They met when both 15 and are still, amazingly, working happily together, over 20 years later. CBL itself was formed in 1996, as an offshoot from other projects, but it soon became their focal point, culminating in their first release on ‘mp3.com’ in 1998. Even before this, 1996's "The Path" is their unreleased and highly sought-after demo that any listeners fortunate to hear the contents will immediately recognise as the genesis of the group's unique sound. Johannes often creates the building blocks of sounds and harmonies and could happily tweak sounds forever, whereas Daniel develops the rhythms and sculpts the ideas into tracks. In addition to their own work, they have actively participated in successful collaborations with several other artists, including Magnus Birgersson of Solar Fields in a project to compose the music for the Swedish dancer Olof Persson’s ‘Fusion’ performance in 1999. The duo signed with the Lyon-based ‘Ultimae’ label in 2002 and have since released four official full-length albums. Their music has been extraordinarily well received by connoisseurs within the ambient scene and clearly beyond, since in 2012 they were also commissioned to write the soundtrack to the independently-produced movie 'Refuge', whose release is due on 31st December 2013. - See more at: http://www.ultimae.com/en/composers/carbon-based-lifeforms/index.html#sthash.jK001J3l.dpuf ~~ ~ Robert Elster aka VIBRASPHERE (SE) ~~ ~ TROLD (NO) https://soundcloud.com/trold ^ Bjorn Opheim and Stein V. Skjoldal from Stavanger, Norway. They fell in love with the psy trance culture in the 90's and have released three albums and numerous track's on many different labels. Their 3rd album; "Time for solution" is out now!! Trold's musical style fits when the light goes away, or when night meets the day................... ~~ ~ ONKEL DUNKEL (DK) http://parvati-records.com/artists/onkel-dunkel/ ^ Onkel Dunkel is the solo project of Monno, member of G.O.W. The goal is hopefully with music as a medium to let people listening be able to go into a state that is normally not possible to reach in our noisy environments. With technology as an intermediary i try as hard as i can to reintegrate human consciousness with nature. New age babble apart i confess openly to be an incurable gear slut. All things that go ping and/or light up when recieving midi messages seem to be piling up at my place. Oh and did i mention a slight fetich for knobs on synths, guess it..s the price to pay for spending more time around synths than people these days. Now after a good while being stuck in my own mind i have a live set ready for action :D open for bookings! stay tuned…i might appear in a forest near you. As to what kinda music i do, i won..t go as far as to categorise my music. Take a listen and judge for yourself. ~~ ~ SHANTAROLF (NO/SE) https://soundcloud.com/shantarolf ^ Shantarolf is an inspiralised lightheaded being experiencing the universe and beyond, through the tool of humanoid flesh and blood. Organized enlighted gatherings since 2004 and been a Dj ever since. Been spinning full power tribalistic straight to base sort of simpleigent psygressive dancefloor oriented rythms and discobeats at numerous underground parties, forest gatherings and sweet beaches in Guatemala, Norway, England, Denmark, Spain, Brasil and naturally in the most corners of Sweden. Nowadays Shantarolf lives in Norway and is one of the organisors and artist manager @ Midnight Sun festival. ~~ ~ MR MUNCHIES (NO) https://soundcloud.com/mr-munchies ~~ ~ MARIA BAREFOOT (NO) https://soundcloud.com/maria-barefoot ~~ ~ FRANCISCO BERBERAN (NO/PT) https://soundcloud.com/francisco-berberan ~~ ~ PSYKANOID (NO/FI) https://www.facebook.com/PsykanoidUndergroundSmokeSystems Behind the name Psykanoid stands psy trance culture enthusiast Patrick Kanerva - currently mostly active in the underground party scene of Western Scandinavia as a dj of predominantly full-on and isra trance. But he is also very busy putting his efforts and creative energy to work into beautifying the party scene, trying to provide the dancing trancers with a buffet of sight and sound savories of all sorts, not only through dj-sets but also with decoration work at parties and painting and creating 3D-deco of his own. He is the inventor, realizer and builder of the underground smoke system that was premiered at Forest Star Festival 2012, a smoke system creating an eerie, supernatural atmosphere to the dance floor. Originally Psykanoid launched his dj-voyage playing techno at a Finnish club in he`s home town around the year 2000, but in around 2005 psychedelic trance became his music of choice. He plays his sets of melodious, atmospheric isra psytrance, energizing, uplifting full-on and the psychedelic mischievous dark-on in underground forest parties and Scandinavian forest festivals such as Spektral Forest in Finland, Burning Man of Sweden and Forest Star Festival. Nowdays Psykanoid live`s in Oslo and is one of the organisors and construction manager @ Midnight Sun Festival~~ ~ DECOTUKOS (FI) https://www.facebook.com/Decotukos Decotukos is a six handed installation art group from Finland. We have been working within the Finnish psytrance scene for over four years. Officially Decotukos was formed in March 2013. So far we have decorated parties all around Finland featuring artists like Ott, Braincell, Tryambaka, Zoolog, Zeamoon, Talpa, Sensient and many more. Our decorations are colorful, plentiful and cut with extreme precision. We always construct our installations using a special intuitive improvising technique. Our aim is to elevate the events visuality to a whole new level with three dimensional stretch fabric designs. All our setups are unique and built on site.~~ ~ GLOBAL ILLUMINATION (HU) https://www.facebook.com/globalilluminationnetwork/ ^ GI's common vision is to combine stunning, original visuals with uplifting messaging. The core team members first got connected to the psychedelic culture back in the mid nineties. Since then, their skills have been polished through making numerous short films, animations, music videos, commercials and audio-video performances at festivals like Ozora and Boom. Global Illumination is part of the creative team behind the S.U.N. Festival in Hungary. ~~ ~ JELENA MITRA (SE) http://mitrahoop.com/ ~~ ~ PIERRE EKMAN (SE) Documenting psychedelic gatherings since 14 years back - all over Europe. Official photographer for BOOM, S.U.N, Ozora, and Mystica. Worked with promotion material for Chromosome, Ticon, Son Kite, Logic Bomb, Ace Ventura, Protonica, Tristan to mention some. Portfolio: http://pierreekman.se/ Facebook Page: http://fb.com/piekfo Pierre Ekman Photography pierreekman.se ~~