Johan brings you: The power of the present moment in the form of slow, dark & growling psychedelic techno.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

Photo taken by Johan at Elements Festival, Queensland, Australia.

The Power of Now

Born in the Australian Blue Mountains & raised along the East coast, it was inevitable that Johan would be drawn to the sound of the Australian bush. 

Upon returning to his home of South Africa as a teenager, his unique musical resonance began to take form.

Drawing inspiration from, yet not tethered to, Australia's progressive theatrical organic psychedelic noises, South Africa's House music and psychedelic trance community and the natural melodious down-tempo echoes emanating from festivals around the world. 

Currently between the East coast of Australia & South Africa's Garden Route.

Consciously experiencing the flow of life.

Driven by a passion for discovering music; deacon has built a formidable collection spanning from downtempo through psychedelic techno to a deep progressive all containing a homogeneous groovy energy and impeccable sound design. Currently signed to @techgnosisrecords, he carefully selects tracks to create an eccentric narrative tailored to each event and lineup with one purpose: to introduce new sounds that bridge division and bring connection through sound and movement.

Full bio:
Driven foremost by a passion for discovering new music; Matthew Deacon has built a treasure chest of audible gold and has been sharing these gems with dancefloors for over a decade now.

A varying palate for sound led to the discovery of psychedelic techno in 2017 and prompted a rebrand under his namesake with a more focused sound. Hooked by the layers, depth, vast variety of sounds and intrinsic musical nature the genre presented led to the emergence of the soundscape we know as Deacon.

As time progressed he started discovering more music, artists and labels representing these similar characteristics; at a higher tempo there was deep/dark progressive, a lighter side of Zenonesque, and slowing things down with a reinterpretation of downtempo, akin to pitched down techno. And whilst these can be considered three distinct genres, they all hold a similar energy; with deep basslines, organic elements and impeccable production, and Deacon enjoys navigating between them. Carefully selecting tracks to create an eccentric narrative tailored to the event and lineup with one purpose: to bridge division and bring connection through sound and movement.

Bookings/contact: deacon.za@gmail.com

The Power of Now

Johan.