Celtic/Tribal/Pagan/Medieval Folktronica

Booking Contact: 
Scott Sterling
drumspyder@icloud.com

"Morning Star" Video:
https://youtu.be/3AP3l5Pe3Zo?si=KUWR77dfqhwdZp6p

"Wild Hunt" Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYhZ9RoC4E

Drumspyder weaves a web of percussive rhythm, melody, and line. Framedrums, tambourines, and  low whistles mingle with bass beats and ethereal atmospheres, bringing the Celtic and British Islands traditional music into vital contemporary expression.

Scott Sterling has always followed the path of rhythm. Over the course of a long journey through diverse forms of drumming and dance music: avant-garde circus, slinky bellydance troupes, and acclaimed bass-music productions, the one constant has been the beat of the drum. 

Over the past several years he has specialised in the realm of framedrums and tambourines. Influenced by modern framedrum masters such as Glen Velez and David Kuckhermann, but also inspired by the rhythms of the Irish bodhran, he follows a distinctive path through the world of contemporary percussion: fusing his experience with cross-cultural framedrum techniques and Arabic rhythms with a new-found love of Celtic dance music. 

To this rhythmic foundation he adds traditional melodies (played on low whistles and various keyboards) drawn from the folk music of Ireland, Scotland, and England , as well as the rich repertoire of Medieval and Renaissance music from the British Isles. 

Out of the alchemy of rhythm, melody, and his long experience in dance music production, he has forged a unique approach to Celtic and Medieval fusion, where elements of trance, bass-heavy electronica, and ethereal atmospheres mingle into an intoxicating brew. His overall ambition is to connect traditional rhythms and melodies with the contemporary dancefloor.

Juan Verdera (born Juan Verdera Fernández), aka The Muses Rapt is a Spanish trance, ambient and electronic composer/ producer/ musician. He began his career in the early 80's when he worked as a bass player and keyboardist with experimental punk bands like Derribos Arias, who used drum machines and guitars to create a hybrid of punk and industrial. He then came to Ibiza and began promoting concerts and invested his money in a studio in which he began to write his own experimental techno tracks. When he performed his first open-air-party in India, he "fell in love" with Goa trance, and so he decided to devote himself to the creation of trance.

Verdera's life was next altered when he discovered that he had cancer. He was advised to begin an intensive course of chemotherapy. During this period, Juan found peace and relief in trance music. Over the course of one of his treatment sessions, Juan experienced a surge of inspiration that followed him home to his studio. It was under the influence of this inspiration that he wrote his famous track "Spiritual Healing". After this single was released, Juan began to recover. He is currently in good health.

 Discography

    * 1998 Spiritual Healing (Liquid Sound Design)
    * 2000 Spiritual Healing (Remixes) (Dragonfly Records)
    * 2005 You (Ibiza Music)
    * 2008 Galactic Love (Digital release)
    * 2011 Released
    * 2012 Human
    * 2013 Tabula Rasa
    * 2014 Eleusinian Mysteries

DUBAMIX ?

Trois ans après l’album “Pour qui sonne le dub” (Autoproduction, 2014), Dubamix revient avec un vinyle 2 titres explosif mélangeant dub, musiques traditionnelles et beats electro.

En créant ce Maxi “electro-dub-alternatif ”, Dubamix a voulu s’associer aux voix des femmes qui se battent au quotidien contre les inégalités et les idées rétrogrades, intégristes et archaïques partout dans le monde.

Aux “P’tits tracts” (face A) évoqués par la résistante Lucie Aubrac répond l’appel de la combattante kurde Vivian Peyman, tandis que les airs yiddish contre la police et le tsar font écho au chant des partisans de Varsovie porté par la voix de Géraldine (Cartouche, Latwal). Puis c’est un morceau intimiste que l’on entend sur la face B, « Initials RBB », celui d’un père s’adressant à sa fille dont les battements du coeur à l’échographie donneront le tempo de ce stepper radical sorti tout droit d’une boite à musique.

Au travers ces 2 titres, Dubamix s’inscrit à sa façon dans la longue tradition des chants révolutionnaires et exerce une fusion subtile de notes et d’idéaux, depuis l’utilisation de nombreux samples d’un répertoire musical sans frontières (Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg, Anton Dvorak, Giora Feidman, Baby Huey ...) jusqu’à l’esthétisme graphique si particulier de la pochette où se croisent les visages et les regards.

C’est cette détermination artistique et politique mêlée à une furieuse envie de skanker que l’on entend dans ce disque, donnant tout son sens mélodique à la phrase d’Emma Goldman “Si je ne peux pas danser, je ne ferai pas partie de votre révolution”.

One of Scandinavia's leading DJs, producer, promoter, head of music at YleX, father and a music lover. 

Bookings: paula@silverlining.agency

Orkidea has been one of Scandinavia’s leading DJs since the early 90s. He is best known for his unique blend of trance and progressive: credible and firmly rooted in the underground origins of trance. His music has been supported by a wide variety of DJs from the ultimate taste makers such as Pete Tong and Sasha to stadium filling titans Armin van Buuren and Tiesto. All artists that he has enjoyed sharing the stage with too.

Tapio Hakanen aka Orkidea has released four full length albums for Black Hole, AVA and Universal Music. He is best known for classics such as Unity, YearZero and Nana and timeless remixes of Way Out West’s Killa, Aalto’s Rush and Tiesto’s Flight 643. Lately he has been one of the key creative forces in Solarstone’s Pure Trance movement and has had the pleasure of mixing the first compilation, releasing on the label and performing at their high profile events around the globe. Orkidea is also a member of the critically acclaimed VII DJ collective.

Throughout his career, Orkidea has been voted seven times as #1 DJ in Finland and two times the most popular DJ in Scandinavia and made it to the DJ Mag Top 200 and Tranceaddict Top 100 lists. He has had 32 Beatport Top 100 tracks, one iTunes #1 album, a Finnish singles chart #1 and a Beatport Trance #1 single under his belt alongside over 30 million plays in YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify.

Since his first gigs at illegal squat house underground raves in 1992, Orkidea has played over 2000 gigs around the world at legendary venues such as Ministry of Sound in London, Cafe del Mar in Ibiza, Tresor in Berlin, Pacha in Buenos Aires and Avalon in Los Angeles, as well as some of world’s most prestigious events including Dreamstate USA, Luminosity, Transmission and Amsterdam ADE.

Between his peers, he is known as being driven by his constant need to evolve and create. Something he fulfills by uniting, supporting and inspiring the people and movements he is passionate about. Dedication to the scene and ethos of “Forward Forever, Backwards Never” has kept Orkidea moving and progressing for over 25 years and it’s still what keeps him as relevant and credible as ever.

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