Don't miss the Techno-Tribal official pre-party with GAUDI!

The Mystic Beat Lounge/Techno-Tribal Pre Party:

A Night of Big Bass and High Vibes

Gaudi

in his only Bay Area appearance on the "No Prisoners" Album Release Tour!!

Saturday, May 8th
The Premiere North Bay Music Venue: Hopmonk Tavern: 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol 95472
Doors: 9pm, Ages 21+

The Mystic Beat Lounge Crew ramps up to this year's amazing Techno-Tribal Dance with a rockin’ pre-party in the North Bay's premiere music venue, Sebastopol’s Hopmonk Tavern!

Featuring last year's Techno Tribal headliner Gaudi - who seriously rocked Techno Tribal Dancewith all original dubwise flavored, breaks, electro and house-driven, bass-bonking tunes. Gaudi makes his only scheduled Northern California appearance this year, and with an all new album and floor raising set!. Also on the line up is Heyoka who represents Mystic Beat Lounge’s Friday night vibe at the festival this year. As a Bay Area producer and DJ, Heyoka’s music wobbles the line between midtempo, IDM and glitch-spawned grooves while embracing the low end ethos of dubstep. With opening support from DJ Dragonfly, spinning an amalgamation of chunky global dub derivatives, plus the visual wizardry of VJ Videoliscious, you have a night that's alchemically set to galvanize your groove!

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Mystic Beat Lounge Presents: A Techno Tribal Pre-Party with UK Dub-Breaks Legend GAUDI and the "No Prisoners" Album Release Tour

Line Up:
Gaudi
Heyoka
DJ Dragonfly

Saturday, May 8th:

Gaudi
Makes his only scheduled Bay Area appearance this year at the North Bay's premiere music venue, Hopmonk Tavern. Following up on last year's headlining slot at Harmony Festival's Techno Tribal Dance. Gaudi returns to the SF North
Bay with an arsenal of new tunes, live dub-trickery and heavyweight stompers from his newest album "No Prisoners". Marked by dirty electro and reggae-ruffed beats, Celtic dubstep, Middle Eastern dub and deep, whumpy global electronica, "No Prisoners" is his most seminal release to date, bar none!

Heyoka
Heyoka AKA Andrei Olenev is a cosmic auditory scientist found in the Bay Area noosphere, who has been blowing minds with his sonic manipulations.A¨Muti Music first released Heyoka's Space Case EPâ in 2008 and included him on their growing roster of talented artists. His albums 'Whomp Gland & Pineal Dub', 'Gate Code' and the all new 'Marklar' album in 2010 have shown

that he is a producer consistently evolving his musical style while managing to maintain a signature sound that is distinctively 'Heyoka'.

DJ Dragonfly
From the straits of Gibraltar to the shores of the Ganges, Dragonfly's sets bridge all variations of the underground dance scene and the ecstatic dance scene. Incorporating genre-morphing bass culture with the leading edge of world electronica and programming, his mixes fuse Dubstep, Downtempo, Breaks, Glitch, House and Drum n Bass with the sounds of the global village. Traditional cultural sounds, including sitars, Brazilian percussion, indigenous vocal samples, Middle Eastern instrumentation, etc. add their definitive melodic lift in his creation of a unique dancefloor
experience!

SF Bay Area dance enthusiasts consistently place him in the top 10 percentile at the DJ polls for his unique sound and
added live percussion.

Videolicious
Pixel casting, shapshifting and mind-melting visuals by the West Coast's premiere VJ, Videolicious

Techno-Tribal 2010 initial line up announced!

Visit http://www.techno-tribal.com for updated information!

2010 Techno-Tribal Line Up Announced:

Two nights of epic performances!

Friday Night Womp Sessions

In Harmony Hall

Presented by, Mystic Beat Lounge, Double D and Groove Garden

Mimosa
Ana Sia ~ Ill Gates
Dr. Dylon ~ Ini

The Legendary Saturday Night
Techno-Tribal Community Dance

In Grace Pavilion

Presented by Mystic Beat Lounge and Peak Experience

Tipper ~ Ott
Galactic

Featuring Chali 2NA & Lyrics Born

Beats Antique ~ Lynx & Janover

Plus Mindblowing Stage Performances By

Troupe Luminesque ~ Liquid Fire Mantra ~ Phoenix Rising ~ Satya Bellydance

And many more fire troupes, aerialists and performance troupes!

UPDATE: The Orb

You may have already heard the rumor that The Orb has cancelled their entire 28 day North American tour. This is indeed true. However, we have pulled some strings and are proud to announce that Techno-Tribal will be featuring the EXCLUSIVE North American summer DJ appearance by The Orb's Alex Paterson.

That's right -- the only place to hear The Orb this summer is at the Legendary Techno-Tribal Community Dance!

Friday Night Was A Huge Success!

Here are some Friday night photos by inflatabill

WHY I WENT TO PARIS TO SEE K'NAAN...

pressdemocrat.com

June 10, 2009

Don't tell the wife, but I was secretly plotting the whole time: Oh, you want to honeymoon in Paris? Why not?

Surprise: K'naan is playing while we're in Paris? Why not?

Sing: Screamin' Jay Hawkin's version of "I Love Paris" in the shower, in the car, on the plane.

Actually, I had no idea the Somalian rapper would be crack a lackin' through the City of Light. So imagine my bright eyes when I picked up Pariscope and saw the listing - K'naan at the Alhambra (quite possibly the same joint where Duke recorded "Duke Ellington at the Alhambra" in 1958).

Man, what a freaking amazing show. With maybe 200 adoring (mostly white) fans sitting in his lap, K'naan tore through "T.I.A" (peppered with a sample of Bob Marley's "Simmer Down"), invited French rapper Oxmo Puccino on stage for a spell and reigned in Paris time for a stirring trip through "Fatima," the childhood remembrance of a girlfriend who disappeared one day.

But the highlight had to be the original version of "Somalia" - the one he played for his family before recording a kinder, gentler version for the new album "Troubadour" (released in February, landing at #32 on Billboard charts).

"It was haunting and maybe a little too much to put on the album," he told the crowd.

Stripped down and acoustic on stage, the original poem to his homeland underscores a few lines you won't hear on "Troubadour": "Somalia...they say since you know how to kill, you should learn to die...."

Before he plays two shows this weekend at Harmony Festival (11 p.m. Friday @ Techno-Tribal and 5:45 p.m. @ Saturday on the main stage), here's a quick tease:

Original Article: http://pop.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2388092