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Played @ MOOV Music Festival, 2023
--> Cape Town, South Africa

South African born producer Julian is the mind that encompasses the deep-dark and progressive style, that is Ecoteric (& Ҡayanight).

Ecoteric
SC: @ecoteric
IG: www.instagram.com/ecotericmusic
FB: www.facebook.com/ecotericmusic

Dense Nebula Records
SC: @densenebularecords
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WE: www.moovfestival.co.za
FB: www.facebook.com/moovfestival
IG: www.instagram.com/moov_festival

Tracklist:

1 - Kayanight - Atari [Synaesthetics]
2 - Chris Corner - Kosmososmose (Kayanight Remix) [Dense Nebula Rec.]
3 - Kayanight - Tokai Temple [Dense Nebula Rec.]
4 - Ecoteric - Zopanda [Dense Nebula Rec.]
5 - Chris Corner x Kayanight - Multitude [Dense Nebula Rec.]
6 - Ecoteric - Oksidaksi [Sonic Alchemy Rec.]
7 - Matt Dwellers - Birsha (Kayanight Remix) [Dense Nebula Rec.]
8 - CommonGround - Totem (Kayanight Remix) [Frisson Rec.]
9 - Ecoteric - Red Planet [Dense Nebula Rec.]
10 - Ecoteric - Feile Na Marbh [Dense Nebula Rec.]
11 - Ecoteric - Desbloqueado
12 - Ecoteric - Perpetual Dualities [Dense Nebula Rec.]
13 - Ecoteric x Battlefloor - Atlasov [Jaira Rec. & Padang Rec.]
14 - Käse Kochen - Monstera (Ecoteric Remix)

Photography by Joffrey Hyman

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8dayCast 364 - ᙦcoteric vs. Ҡayanight @ MOOV Festival 2K23

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Ecoteric - Calamity | Universal Tribe Records

mastered by ryanosaurus
artwork by universal tribe records
IG: www.instagram.com/ecotericmusic

ecoteric - paroxysm / universal tribe records

BPM - (Button Pusher Melodies)

artwork by edi reifman
mastered by qawa beat | compiled by andrey mir
IG: www.instagram.com/ecotericmusic

ecoteric, battlefloor - atlasov / padang records, jaira records

Ecoteric - Oksidaksi | Sonic Alchemy Records

Mastered by @ryanosaurusmusic
Artwork by @universaltribe-records

Ecoteric x Hybrid - Metro | Universal Tribe Records

Ecoteric - Zenesis | Universal Tribe Records

Ecoteric x Battlefloor - Elysee | Universal Tribe Records

ecoteric - axile / universal tribe records

Label Artist Judas presents his debut EP - ’Strange Times’
Originally from Europe and having performed all over France and New Zealand, honing his skills and developing his production. We are looking forward to walking this journey with Judas.

➤ Follow: www.soundcloud.com/judas_lwkz
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Tracklist:

1 - Judas - Strange Times
2 - Judas - Sunny Nightmare
3 - Judas - Christ le J
4 - Judas - Sunny Nightmare (Ecoteric Remix)
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// Dense Nebula Records //
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/densenebularecords
Bandcamp: www.densenebularecords.bandcamp.com
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Preview mix by: www.soundcloud.com/ecoteric

Artwork: Shasha
Mastering: Sensitive Sound / Judas
Releases: 28 December 2023
(All platforms)

Strange Times

Judas - Strange Times

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Judas - Strange Times | Preview (out now)

Our next single being launched is titled, 'Desbloqueado' by Ecoteric.

➤ Follow: www.soundcloud.com/ecoteric
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// Ecoteric // 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ecotericmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ecotericmusic
Bandcamp: www.ecoteric.bandcamp.com
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// Dense Nebula Records //
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/densenebularecords
Bandcamp: www.densenebularecords.bandcamp.com

Distinct electronica, written and performed with purpose. © 2024 all rights reserved
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Artwork: Shasha
Mastering: Sensitive Sound
Releases: 25 January 2024
(All platforms)

Desbloqueado

Ecoteric - Desbloqueado

PREMIERE: Ecoteric - Desbloqueado

Elysium Festival
Takaka NZ
Doc. 2023

Massive thank you to Elangio and Theo ... 
Gentlemen you guys put on such an amazing festival.
So grateful to have been asked to Participate 
Thank you thank you thank you 
☯️🎧❤️🙏🏼🥷🇳🇿☯️

ELYSIUM 2023

"Seek" by Ecoteric is a deep, immersive journey through atmospheric soundscapes and pulsing rhythms. 

¬ @ecoteric
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Blending ambient textures with progressive electronic elements, the track invites listeners to explore introspection and movement in equal measure. 

Perfect for late-night listening or reflective moments on the dancefloor.
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Sound design as discipline, delivered with intent. © 2025 all rights reserved.

Artwork: Dense Nebula Records
Produced by Julian `Jay` Venter
Release: June 13, 2025
(All platforms)

Seek

Ecoteric - Seek

• Discover (out now)

Ecoteric - Seek | Dense Nebula Records

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J. `Jay` Venter, known as Ecoterica, is a South African-born producer and sound architect whose work dissolves the borders between deep, progressive, and psychedelic electronica. From his earliest years, music was less a pastime than a native language. Immersed in a family where sound was always present, he began producing at the age of eleven, already pulling apart rhythms and tones to build something of his own. What started as raw curiosity became the seed of a lifelong obsession with uncompromising creativity.

In 2018, he gave this obsession a name, Ecoterica. More than a project, it became a vessel for exploring immersive atmospheres, fractured rhythms, and textures that blur the line between the natural and the synthetic. His releases on labels such as Universal Tribe Records and Merkaba Music drew attention to a sound both precise and primal, seismic basslines that move like shifting earth, mids that slice clean, highs that crack open silence, all arranged with emotional weight that lingers long after the last note fades.

At the heart of Ecoterica`s identity is authenticity. Jay draws deeply from organic textures and the unpredictability of nature, folding them into the structured precision of electronic design. The results feel alive, sonic organisms that breathe, mutate, collapse, and reform. His early releases, Leminin, Osirus (2019), and the full-length Teria, were not simply collections of tracks, but manifestos in sound, music as ritual, as mirror, as truth.

As his vision expanded, so too did his need for independence. This gave rise to Dense Nebula Records, a label conceived not to follow trends but to carve its own constellation of meaning. Its purpose is simple yet resolute, distinct electronica, written and performed with purpose. Since its inception, the label has grown into a vast archive of over 200 works, weaving together voices bound by the same drive for authenticity. Dense Nebula stands less as a brand and more as a movement, a gravity well for those unwilling to compromise.

Yet `Jay` is not bound to a single voice. In 2023, he revealed another facet of his artistry through the alias Nueva. The debut track Nevamora, released on MŎNɅDɅ, unveiled a slower, darker aesthetic, fusing dramatic bounces with organic weight. Nueva is the shadow to Ecoterica`s flame, an alternate lens, exploring subterranean depths and uncharted emotional landscapes.

Together, Ecoterica, Nueva, and Dense Nebula form a triad, each orbiting the others yet retaining its own gravity. Ecoterica stands as the core, raw, psychedelic, deeply progressive. Nueva drifts at the edges, darker, slower, yet no less intense. Dense Nebula binds them, providing the constellation through which this vision expands outward.

For Jay, music has never been about entertainment alone. It is confrontation, meditation, weapon, and sanctuary all at once. Each release is a statement of permanence, a refusal to be disposable in a world of fleeting trends. His sound is not designed to fit neatly into categories, it is designed to transform, to resonate at the deepest levels of human instinct.

Whether as Ecoterica or Nueva, whether curating Dense Nebula or forging new paths, Jay remains relentlessly devoted to the art of vibration. He takes what is primal and reshapes it into something futuristic, bending chaos into order and order back into chaos.

His work does not seek to please. It seeks to endure. Visceral, uncompromising, and unmistakably human, this is the sound of Ecoterica.

☯️ ~  Doc.      
☯️ ~  Bastard Squad Records Inc.        
☯️ ~  Dense Nebula Records (DJ)

The genre defying rule breaker from way back ...
DEEP! up the Wairoa Gorge(nelson) ... 19 years of age ..
A young Sam Claasen found himself @  Alien Nation outdoor music festival... 
3days & 3nights later.. this eye opening & Soul defining experience would change Sam's life forever. Immersion very quickly went deeper into this world 🌍 and it was not long before he found his place was intended for the other side of the decks 
and thus began.....  Doc. 
Doc.'s first electronic endeavours were made through early prehistoric forms of midi controllers & first generation CDJz ....
Tasman Bush Tech.
Doc. first started forming his foundation of Sound from his loves for the Proggy chunk and underground Psytrance  and of course the tasty Bush Tech tunes too.
Big Kiwi influences early on were - Grouch, Cosm, Flaxnation, Dawnbeaver.
some say around 2011 Doc. vanished..
Others say he just went off the Radar..
the real story .... 
Doc... was tricked into becoming an Adult..
And for a period of Time Doc. disappeared...

This time Doc. returns for good.
With his Unique Batch Blended Bass Benders of Deep Minimal Tasman Bush Tech... 
 Feeding the Fiesty Souls of the Fine & Feral Festival Fashionistas of beautiful Aotearoa.   

☯️🔥☯️
Doc. Is a unique experience.
An evolving audible adventure of
Recycling, Reshaping and Reforming Sound.

*GIG HISTORY*
PRE 2020 -
ALIEN NATION 
DEEP DARK II
SMOOTH OPS
CATDOOF,
COSMOSIS x2

2020 - CURRENT
AUM FESTIVAL 21/22
TWISTED FREQUENCY MAIN STAGE NYE 22/23
TWISTED FREQUENCY BEAT BACH 22/22
BATTDOGG 2022,
CYMATIC FREQUENCIES 2021,
KRUSTY KRAB DOOF 2021
ROLLING HERTZ 2022,2023
SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
INTERLOCKED 2022
ARKADIEN 21,22,22,23
SETS ON THE BEACH 2021
DISCRETE SOUND LAUNCH 2022
FERAL & LOATHING 2021
ZOOMY TIME 2022
PARLIAMENT PROTEST 2022
WINTER SOLSTICE 2022, 2023
WAIMAK 2022, 2023
MINERAL FEST TASTER 2022
MINERAL FEST 2022
GALVANIZE PRE PARTY 2022
GALVANIZE 2022
YATRA 2023
DOC. @ THE LONDON QUEENSTOWN 2023
GET LYTT 2023
SYNCHRONICITY 2023
DARXYDE 2023 (FORTYHERTZ)
GROUCH n Queenstown 2023 (Bushman Productions)
GROUCH n Wellington 2023 (Team Moksha
SUMMER TECHNIVAL 2023 Queenstown
ELYSIUM FESTIVAL 2023 Takaka 
LOST IN PARADISE NY 2023/24 Northland 
DUNEDIN WINTER SOLSTICE 2024
SUNSET CREW/Tom Cosm ~ June 2024 
YATRA ~ 2024 Takaka  
DARXYDE 3 ~ 2024 Hawkes Bay
OASIS ~ ²⁰²⁴ ~ Takaka 
ARKADIEN~Bloomfest ²⁰²⁴ Hawkes Bay 
OASIS ~ @ROOTS bar Takaka
TWISTED FREQUENCY v10 ²⁰²⁴/²⁰²⁵ 
ARKADIEN DREAM ²⁰²⁴/²⁰²⁵
 🥷🏼⭐UPCOMING EVENTS ²⁰²⁵⭐🥷🏼

•DARXYDE-AURELIUS (with KOZY) February 28th ~ Hawkes Bay 
•INTO THE VORTEX March ~ Inangahua South Island

Contact Doc. @.     samclaasen@hotmail.com

#BushProg #BushTechno #Prog #MinimalTechno

DENSE NEBULA DISCOGRAPHY (2021~2025) 
OUT NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON BANDCAMP https://densenebularecords.bandcamp.com/album/dense-nebula-discography-2021-2025

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