Cornelius Doctor & Tushen raï - Where Is Acid Eric ? [HRDF025]

Some records are answers to questions no one asked out loud. With Where is Acid Eric, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï deliver a psychedelic missive from a parallel timeline — a time-traveling tribute to Goa’s golden age, filtered through their unmistakable signature.

Returning to their home base Hard Fist, the duo steps into new territory with this release, and yet, it feels like they’ve been heading here all along. This isn’t a retro-fetishist trip, nor a copy-paste homage. It’s a reimagination — of a sound, a space, and most of all, a spirit.

The EP is rooted in the mythic nights of late-80s and early-90s Disco Valley, where British acid house collided with Indian hedonism, where freedom wasn’t a pose but a necessity, and where dancefloors became temporary utopias. But in the hands of Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï, this past gets warped, stretched and reanimated with 2025’s tools and sensitivities.

Across three extended tracks, the duo summons a sound that’s dense yet breathable, tribal yet precise, nostalgic yet futuristic.
They weave Goa’s swirling trance lines with broken rhythms, analog squelches, and post-industrial textures. The acid lines are sharp, but never cliché — more mantra than gimmick. Voices float in and out like half-remembered chants. Basslines slide, hypnotize, and then vanish in a cloud of smoke. It's not a flashback. It's a vision.

The title, Where is Acid Eric, feels like a lost broadcast — part question, part invocation. Eric is a symbol. IS Eric a ghost ? The true legend of a forgotten raver on a dusty Anjuna morning. What matters is the search. The longing. The dance.

Hard Fist, true to its form, continues to blur the lines between ritual and rave, tradition and invention. And with this record, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï don’t just revive a genre — they reconnect with an ideal: dance music as exploration, as transcendence, as resistance.

One foot in the dust, one foot in the cosmos. The answer isn’t important. The trip is.


HRDF025 - Where Is Acid Eric ?

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Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Rai - Meet Acid Eric

https://soundcloud.com/corneliusdoctor https://soundcloud.com/tushen_rai https://soundcloud.com/hardfist 
🛒 https://hardfist.bandcamp.com/album/where-is-acid-eric
🔊 https://youtu.be/Bnk-_ybKbfY

Some records are answers to questions no one asked out loud. With Where is Acid Eric, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï deliver a psychedelic missive from a parallel timeline — a time-traveling tribute to Goa’s golden age, filtered through their unmistakable signature.

PREMIERE: Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï - Anjuna's Moonlight [Hard Fist]

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UPCOMING GIGS : 

09.12.23 - Rex CLub / Paris, France
31.12.23 - Tempio Del Futuro Perduto / Milano, Italy
20.01.23 - Badaboum ALL NIGHT LONG / Paris, France 
27.01.23 - Le Sucre / Lyon, France 

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31.10.23 - La Bobine / Grenoble, France
29.09.23 - MIL Festival / Lisbonne, Portugale 
09.09.23 - Macki Festival OFF - Bobigny, France 
02.09.23 - Space Safari festival / Hastière, Belgique 
01.09.23 - LaVallée / Bruxelles, Belgique 
25.08.23 - ATOM Festival - Payra-sur-l'Hers, France
29.07.23 - SHP / Nancy, France 
21/07.23 - Virage / Paris, France 
08/07.23 - Sisyphos / Berlin Allemagne
07/07.23 - Urban Spree / Berlin, Allemagne 
02.07.23 - Kappa Futur Festival / Turino, Italia
10.06.23 - GAY PRIDE / Lyon, France 
29.03.23 - Romano / Tel Aviv, Israël 
28.03.23 - Collabo Club / Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Israël 
27.03.23 - Kabareet / Haifa, Israel 
11.03.23 - CNTRL Club / Bucarest, Romania
16.02.23 - Pulso / Madrid, Spain
31.12.22 - Rex Club / Paris, France 
03.12.22 - Le Sucre / Lyon, France 
19.11.22 - Iboat / Bordeaux, France 
05.11.22 - Cabaret Sauvage / Paris, France 
23.10.22 - Sunday Sunday / CDMX, Mexico 
22.10.22 - Radio Bar / Irapuato, Mexico 
21.10.22 - TOPAZDeluxe / Monterrey, Mexico 
20.10.22 - Casa Jaguar / Tulum, Mexico 
15.10.22 - Piknik / Tulum, Mexico 
14.10.22 - Bar Oriente / CDMX, Mexico 
13.10.22 - Chula / Puerto Escondido, Mexico 
08.10.22 - Casa Cobra / Guadalajara, Mexico 
31.09.22 - Kaputt / Bogotta, Colombia 
30.09.22 - Casa Cruxada / Carthagène, Colombia 
29.09.22 - El Coq / Bogotta, Colombia 
06.08.22 - Razzmatazz / Barcelona, Spain 
30.07.22 - Tempio Del Futuro Perduto / Milano, Italy 
29.07.22 - The Waiting Room / London, England 
21.07.22 - Transbordeur / Lyon, France 
19.06.22 - Le Bikini / Toulouse, France 
15.07.22 - Freakpop Festival / Champigné, France 
18.06.22 - Freemusic Festival / Montendre, France 
17.06.22 - La Java / Paris, France 
05.06.22 - Karabouf / Avignon, France 
01.06.22 - Darwin / Bordeaux, France 
20.05.22 - Village Underground / Lisboa, Portugal 
14.05.22 - Opium Club / Vilnius, Lithuania 
13.05.22 - La Cabane / Brussels, Belgium 
13.05.22 - Kiosk Radio / Brussels, Belgium 
07.05.22 - Cracki Open Air / Paris, France 
22.04.22 - Macadam / Nantes, France 
02.07.22 - La Baraka Festival / Valence, France 
07.07.22 - Poontoon Club / Budapest, Hungary 
23.10.21 - Kayamba Festival / Mayotte Island 
06.11.21 - Choka Bleu / La Reunion Island 
19.11.21 - Groom / Lyon, France 
20.11.21 - Heat / Lyon, France 
26.11.21 - TempioDelFuturoPerduto / Milan, Italy 
27.11.21 - Sanctuary / Roma, Italy 
04.12.21 - Badaboum / Paris, France 
10.12.21 - Le Sucre / Lyon, France 
31.12.2021 - Rex Club / Paris, France 
09.01.22- Tropisme / Montpellier, France 
12/02 - Muscaria / Madrid, Spain 
19/02 - Terminal / Lyon, France 
20/02 - Halles Tropism / Montpellier, France 
18/03 - Le Sonic / Lyon, France 
03/04 - Le Sucre / Lyon, France

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