High Vibes Stage @ MardiGrass Nimbin 2025 Sunday 5pm to 6pm

Dread Maiden brings together deep bass, psychedelic influences, and her acoustic roots to craft drum and bass sets that are layered, expressive, and built to take you on a journey. A familiar presence across the Mulubinba, Eora, and bush doof scene, she contributes quietly but meaningfully to the underground community as creative director of Newy Bass Crew, advocating for safe and inclusive spaces and emphasis on music over ego. With festival and radio experience behind her, she has exciting new projects in the works, continuing to grow her voice in the bass scene.

•	Creative director of Newy Bass Crew.
•	Former co-host of Cabin Fever Sessions on Orbital Radio.
•	Supported acts like Jam Thieves, Visages, Shapeless, Serial Killaz, Dillinja, KOAN Sound, Paige Julia, Teddy Killerz, Hypho, PAV4N, Leo Cap, Ben Soundscape and Collette Warren.
•	Performed at festivals including Dragon Dreaming Festival, Earth Frequency Festival, Basscamp, Subsonic Festival, Zenith Gathering, Rain Dance Festival, Art Valley and RootBound Festival.

Newy Bass Crew, established to foster a community focused on love, inclusivity, equality, diversity, authenticity, and the unrestrained freedom of self-expression in Australia’s Hunter Region and beyond. Shining a light on talents in rural areas, celebrating the connection between music and nature.

Launched in late 2021, the crew comprises of a plethora of DJs from the region and have gone on to hold numerous club events, showcases, fundraisers and secret parties, as well as hosting jungle and drum and bass legend, Dillinja, in Eora in early 2023, and holding a stage takeover at Subsonic Festival in late 2023 as well as at the Eora’s KOAN Sound boat party in 2024. NBC kicked off 2025 in collaboration with Subjective Eora and Wonky Nomad Productions for the Open Air City Doof, featuring the UK’s Hypho and PAV4N, in Eora, and a stage takeover at Antigravity 2025.

Our involvement in the local scene includes a history of local-focussed events and co-hosting a radio show on Orbital Radio Sydney from 2021 until its closure in 2023. Since then, we've continued to support the scene through our weekly mix series on Soundcloud, surpassing it's 100th feature in 2024. This series showcases talent from across Australia and the globe.

Our DJs cover a wide range of bass genres, including drum and bass, jungle, dubstep, footwork, UKG, bass house, psy dub, and more. Diversity, inclusivity, and safety are central to our events, and we are dedicated to fostering a sense of community within the bass scene.

With a big focus on underground rave and doof culture and safe spaces, our crew members have been featured at various events including Basscamp, Zenith Gathering, Dragon Dreaming Festival, Rain Dance Festival, Origins of Entropy, SubTerra, Esoteric Festival, RootBound Festival, Initiation Festival, Art Valley and more.

Keep your third eye peeled for gig announcements and opportunities via our website, newsletter and social media. 🧿

Once a wide-eyed cub in the Brisbane scene, this queer baby cut her teeth reviewing sweaty dancefloors for 'In The Mix'. But she wasn’t destined to stay on the sidelines — no, no. She grew claws, found decks, and now? She’s a full-blown sound shapeshifter, prowling your parties and pummeling your pulse with broken beats.
From her first taste of blood with the Rewind crew, to full body possession at Junkyard, and rising as a resident mischief-maker at Rum Jungle in the legendary Sub Rosa — Elektropanda’s journey has been one long, glitter-soaked ascension into the unknown.
She’s got a genre-hopping heart and a booty-shaking soul.
Garage, Breaks, Bassline? She’ll chew it up and spit it back like bass confetti.
Drum & Bass? She’ll drag you deep into the jungle with a smirk.
Chill sets, House, Psy Dub, Tech? Consider your chakras scrambled and your limbs at her mercy.
She’s graced Dragon Dreaming, summoned groove demons at Jungle Love, and hypnotised crowds from Tropical Fruits to Earth Frequency — always serving a platter of high-voltage joy with a side of unexpected chaos.
This panda doesn’t pander.
She doesn’t play to the crowd — she plays with it.
She’s here to mess with your expectations and make your inner freak dance like nobody’s watching (even though everyone’s watching).

Music Producer l Artist l Blogger l DJ l Radio Presenter l Mother  

ORTHENTIX is a multifaceted artist, embracing the titles of music producer, writer, DJ, film producer, blogger, radio presenter and mother. crafts indie electronica inspired by the legion of bass genres. Conceptually, her music delves into introspection, mirroring the intricate human experience. Sonically, she is all about phat basslines and lush melodies with a profound vocal hook. Her latest release, Depthsword, a Drum and Bass dance track with a jungle vibe and an atmosphere of spirituality converging the street, has gained traction with 4K views on YouTube and over 4K streams on Spotify. She released her first single, ‘Kunoichi Spirit', in 2015, which was an empowering song based on the female ninja. This follows her first album ‘Fractured’ in 2017. Fractured explores the notions of the cracks within the human being, and the broken being more beautiful than the complete. Conceptualised from Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. As our dreams and hopes fall from our hands and shatter into a million pieces, how do we find the beauty in the broken? We wind sturdy bandages of golden resin around the cracks in our hearts. In 2019, she released her second album ‘Divine Affliction’, even more dynamic than the first. ‘Divine Affliction’ is a musical expression of the divine feminine and the afflictions she faces. She finds strength in her vulnerability and turns her afflictions into a virtue. The music is a journey through the female experience, describing her many facets, motherhood, diversity, empathy, and divine sexuality. 

Having graced Australian festival stages, including Earth Frequency Festival, Newkind Festival, Nunyarra Cultural Festival, and Deliverance, Orthentix's fierce femme DJ performances captivate audiences, using her platform to showcase many female-produced tracks in her mixes. Female producers make up only 3% of the industry's music producers, so she feels it's essential to bring these songs to the forefront. She is quite the selector, dropping bass-ridden bangers from Dubstep to UKG and Drum and Bass. At times, even performs her self-produced electronic tracks. Orthentix is signed to Matriarch Records and is one of the coordinators and resident DJs/broadcasters of radio show Sista’s of Spin on BayFM - A rotational roster of local female DJs that inspires and challenges society's gendered perspective of DJs and music technology culture. On Louise's shows, she regularly hosts guest female DJs to share her platform, spotlighting other female DJs living in regional areas. She advocates inclusivity and diversity in the music industry and uses her platform to amplify marginalised voices and challenge gender norms.

Orthentix's journey involves pursuing academic studies, bookended with the birth of her two daughters. Her qualifications encompass a Certificate III in Event Management, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, a Diploma in Electronic Music Production, a Bachelor's Degree in Audio Production, and a Master's in Creative Industries.  Orthentix's blend of academia, artistry, and feminism positions her as an influential figure in the music industry. 

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