Producer / DJ 

Runs Sole Food, Dead Pest Records & Hexagon Dubs

Mode FM

One could be forgiven for thinking I need more electricity in my sound. It's conceived of more as an incitement to pause than to get a crowd live on a floor.

I first got into music when i was about 5. When I discovered the Beatles aged 10 is when I first fell in love with music.I collected all their albums on vinyl. It wasn't until I was about 15 or 16 that I listened to anything current. I got very into the baggy indie scene and in particular the Happy Mondays. Aged 18 i went to my first rave at Labrynth in Dalston and was converted to dance music instantly. It was also around this time that I took an interest in hip hop. American groups like Public Enemy and NWA and artists such as 2Pac and Snoop Dogg were my first taste of hip hop aside from the UK's Silver Bullet and Stereo MCs. My record collecting really took off when I started trailing 2nd hand records shops for rare dance records every place I visited. I started mixing when I was 19 and took the name DJ Disturbance. Named after the Hyper-On-Experience track on Moving Shadow in my opinion one of the greatest drum and bass tunes ever made. Always mixing at home and at chill outs and some times out. Before forming DSK Productions with The Wizard and Phil Good when we started putting on our own events. Although still really enjoying mixing breakbeat at home in the first few years of the new millenium i pretty much retired from playing out. My interest in dance music faded as I grew more and more drawn to UK hip hop. In particular Plan B. US hip hop was far detached from the original roots of rhyming on street corners as the charts were dominated by millionare RnB pop stars. UK hip hop was raw, from the streets and talked about the place where i live and the things that effect my life. UK rappers like Skinnyman, Klashnekoff, Chester P, Braintax, Rodney P, Dr Syntax and Jehst confirmed to me that UK hip hop was were my heart lies. Although I had the desire to write lyrics all along I never picked up a pen until 2010/11. I started with the intention of writing songs but was appoached by DJ Narky and asked to MC while he mixed breaks. This form of lyric writing was a lot easier than writing songs cos as long as you kept the crowd motivated the lyrics didn't need to be complex. In the first few months of 2014 after an extended period of writers block I started writing whole songs again. By the end of Feb I had 5 completed songs that were to a high enough standard, with good length, intellegent lyrical content, a strong storyline and message that I felt it was time to share. I feel I still I have a lot to learn and I am improving every time i write. So, onwards and upwards. I haven't written my masterpiece yet, so watch this space...

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.


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