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).