Elixir 2

Artists include Jon Hopkins, Midas 104, Fiord, Eelke Kleijn, Boris Brejcha +more

It's about time I recorded a new prog mix and, since it's about 3 years to the day I recorded the Elixir mix for the Elixir of Life NYE party, I thought I would record one in a similar style.

Hope you enjoy and whatever you do, have a great New Year 2015/16! x

Cover art = Christopher Buening http://www.chrisbuening.com/
First Elixir mix = https://soundcloud.com/andrewrushton/elixir

Elixir 2

FlibbertiGibbet is the DJ project of Tara Hawes – a compulsive music collector from an early age.

Growing up in Aotearoa/New Zealand, where her mother worked at a radio station when she was young, some of her earliest memories are being allowed to select which record to play next (if she behaved) – and of the excitement she felt when new vinyl came in – igniting a life-long passion for music. Following many years of promoting, organising and reviewing music events and basically working behind the proverbial ‘scenes’, she finally got behind the decks in ’13 and hasn’t looked back.

Signed to Free-Spirit Records in summer 2017, she enjoys playing a diverse range of styles, from chill-out, downtempo, and dub to minimal, psy-breaks, mid-tempo, psychedelic techno and progressive. This wide-ranging repertoire allows her the creative freedom to blend genres and take the dance floor on a truly unique journey.

Based just outside of London, Tara is a resident at top London psy nights Tribal Village and Astral Circus. With more and more bookings flying her way, she’s had lots of fun playing at all of the Psymera Summer Boat parties, Earthdance London, Turkey’s Psy Boutique Festival, Shattered Barriers, Elixir of Life, Alchemy Records presents Magic & Myths, the Infinite Bliss Transformational Psychedelic Healing Festival, Planet Bob’s Chai Emporium, Black Pearl Festival, Boomtown Fair and many more. 

Tara has also shared line-ups with many of the artists who first inspired her to start mixing, like GAUDI, Hedflux, Ott., Slackbaba, James Monro, Bedouin, Pspiralife, Nanoplex, Monk3ylogic, Hamish, Quanta, Dataura, Sprocket and Nanosphere, as well as warming up for some of the greats of the psy scene.

Over the years, she’s helped promote many of the UK’s biggest psy events, including Halcyon, Antiworld and Elixir of Life. A multi-talented, multi-tasking extraordinaire, when she’s not behind the decks, she has produced editorial content for Boom Festival and, having worked as a music journalist for magazines and websites such as DJMag, HarderFaster.net and Dream Creation, she won the HarderFaster.net Feature Writer of the Year Award for four years running. One of the highlights of summer 2018 was collaborating with the Boom Festival Comms Team to produce the daily Boom Diaries, where she was inspired by so many awesome artists and got some great feedback from many stalwarts of the psy scene.

A gifted selector who has spent countless years contributing to the evolution of the dance music scene, she now has a relentless passion for working the crowd from behind the decks where she can really contribute to the vibe of the party. 

A founding member of the Psy-Sisters Collective, FlibbertiGibbet also co-promotes one of London’s longest running psytrance events, Astral Circus, alongside Nikki S. Recent highlights of her career include opening the Tribe of Frog stage on Sunday at Boomtown Festival 2024 and warming up for Banco de Gaia at his album launch party in London.

In addition, she forms half of the duo Amaluna with DJ Małpka, having performed at last year’s Boomtown Festival and at the incredible Odyssee NYE 2024 in Berlin, where they closed The Gallery on New Year’s Day with an electrifying four-hour set. After the success of Amaluna’s ‘Lunar Phase’ compilation, released in 2019 on Free-Spirit Records, Tara is currently curating her first solo comp, designed to reflect the diversity of the range of music she plays.


www.facebook.com/DJFlibbertiGibbet

I’m Andy. I love music and how people express themselves through it. 

This page is for sharing the mixes of music I adore. Whilst I don't gig out so much anymore, I was lucky enough to play at some amazing events over the years including Glade Festival, Noisily Festival, Sunrise Festival and Elixir of Life. 

I hope you enjoy the mixes.

List of gigs below and occasionally have a new outing here and there. If I get around to it, will actually get around to producing some music sometime soon(ish)...

Andy.
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'Like' my Facebook DJ page here for updates and new mixes! www.facebook.com/andrewrushtondj 

Gigs:
2011:
- Gaudi Live@InSpiral - Chillout set supporting Tripswitch & Gaudi 
- A.T.A.R.I Project & Halcyon DJ competition final - winner 
- Halcyon @ Proud2 
- Glade Festival - InSpiral Chillout Stage 
- Glade Festival -  Lightworkers Lounge 
- A.T.A.R.I. Project Main Room @ july Babies Open Air Summer Festival

2012:
- February 3rd - Habitual Sessions on Audio One
- February 4th - Om Liquid @ InSpiral with Morph; Lurk and Dani 
- March 2nd - Habitual North @ InSpiral with Ben Coda, Mr Black and Akil
- March 29th - Habitual Sessions on Audio One w/ Paul Lynch; Ipcress, Mr Black and Lank.
- March 31st - Lowbit Records and Habitual present Lank 
- May 5th - Incognito Brighton 
- June 23rd - Sunrise Celebration, Eartheart Chill Stage
- July 21st - Global Digital Masters Presents Mad Maxx 
- August 11th - Private Outdoor party
- September 8th - Psysphere presents...  with Neuroplasm, Liquid Ross, Beatnik
- October 5th - Om Liquid with Aliji and Liquid Ross
- October 19th - Wobble Box with Krossbow & Nimbus
- October 25th - Elixir of Life Visionary Art Exhibition w/live art by Emma Watkinson
- November 30th - Habitual North w/Ipcress, Mr Black, Ben Coda, Seashoe 
- December 31st - Elixir of Life NYE Celebration w/ Shpongle (DJ); Raja Ram; System 7; Billy Nasty

2013: 
- February 1st - Habitual Brighton w/ Sonic Species & POok
- February 23rd - Psysphere w/ Lunar Seed; Savage Circuit & Quextal
- March 9th - GDM w/ Hedflux, Bad Tango, Bedouin
- April 26th - Om Liquid w/ Nik Sequenci
- May 24th-26th - Symmetry Festival
- June 22nd - Cafe Cairo w/ Fred Balkayou & Gino
- July 13th - An 'Electric' wedding
- August 17th - Caravan Cairo w/Fred Balkayou and Morph
- August 31st - Elixir of Life w/ Man With No Name, Flip Flop, Chameleon &more.
- October 5th - Liquid Connective w/ Logic Bomb, Laughing Buddha & Hypnocoustics
- October 29th - Om Liquid 
- October 30th - Caravan Cairo
- November 29th - Hypnagogia
- December 22nd - Philippines Benefit Party w/ Antispin, EVP, Atomic Drop
- December 31st - Elixir of Life NYE Celebration w/ Protonica, Ticon

2014+
- Deevstock (Most years!)
- Noisily Festival (2015)
- Earth Dance Radio (Various)
- Loads of other bits and pieces!

:)
x

Elixir 2

Andy Rushton