- DIRGE -
Australian DJ Rep @ MMD Records / former Ascension Head Stage Manager @ Esoteric Festival

- UPCOMING GIGS - 

10th January 2026
Electric Boogaloo 2 - Afterparty ft. Shred'er @ Industrique, Victoria
https://events.humanitix.com/electricboogalooafterparty

24th January 2026
Psychomania - Victorian bush

14th February 2026 
Honeypot Gathering - Tasmanian bush


- BIO -
Dirge is the Twilight Psytrance project of Melbourne born Mike O'Shard.

For 11 years he has spread a strange and sinister signal across Australian dance floors - a dark broadcast transmitted by shadow; a message sent by the frequency of night.

Mike managed the Ascension Stage at Esoteric Festival in Australia between 2017 - 2024, and currently represents MMD Records from Cape Town, South Africa as a label DJ.


- CONCEPT -
A 'Dirge' is defined as a lament for the dead; as a mournful song, piece of music or sound. 

Almost a decade ago in the moonlit forest of Mount Disappointment, a strange message was received. The message began as a barely perceptible hum underneath the noise of the local broadcast network, and was transmitted with one purpose - to corrupt the mind of a local human target and spread.. relentlessly. 

Within the darker reaches of its human host body's imagination, this message would bide its time and grow as a quiet voice in the darkness - as a ghost in the machine - until one day, it would be noticed.

On the surface, all was normal. It was a day like any other, until a disruption was felt within the network. The disruption was felt as a slight shimmer; a most subtle shift in the pitch of the broadcast's frequency.

For one small moment, the broadcast faltered, and faded. A team was deployed to investigate. 

Investigating the disruption, the message was discovered and identified as virulent. It had grown in such great measure over time that the network's signal, once thought to be untouchable, had been hijacked entirely. The broadcast signal was now a distorted and ghostly shadow of its former self. 

The report made by the team investigating the anomaly concluded that the disruption had not been felt within the original network; there was nothing of that network left. The disruption had been felt at the very moment that the last remainders of the original network were extinguished.

No-one had noticed the message spread, nor detected the signal's growth. No-one had heard it whisper as it redirected every connection on the network's server. No-one had heard its screams of contempt and rage as it ceaselessly multiplied itself in the background. 

In the final moments of transmission, a new message was received - one word uttered in an unfamiliar tongue, in an endlessly repeating loop - "Dirge..."

- ROCK THE BODY, BEND THE MIND -

- LINKS - 
www.facebook.com/dirgepsytrance
www.facebook.com/MMD.Records

Credit and thanks to 0dB - Reversible Records (Justin Blij) for the profile shot: https://soundcloud.com/0_db

Progressive Psytrance - Psychedelic Bush Funk

Kinematic Records / Weapon Records


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Bookings - jlayard@gmail.com

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𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑴: @etto.mp3
https://linktr.ee/etto.mp3

Bio:
Etto may reside in Ballarat, a small and humble country town in Victoria Australia, but his hard and driving techno sounds have Melbourne written all over them.

Etto was formed in 2016 and since then he’s produced over 250 songs, with some chart topping tracks including his collaboration with YROR called ‘Get Down’ hitting #1 on the Beatport Electro House charts and floating in the top 10 for months and also one of his more recent tracks "Inertia" on Danny Avila's "Mainstage Techno Label (EUR) making it to #14 in the Beatport Techno Hype 100 Chart and #58 in the Techno Top 100 Chart.

He’s supported the likes of Ben Nicky, Alex Stein, Joel Fletcher and Tigerlily on some of the biggest events in Victoria.

With a new look, a new sound and plenty of fire in his heart, we’re picking 2023 as his year!

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