a few years ago i played this riff and couldn't get it out of my head. every year since i planned to write a track with it, and finally got round to it. it's a departure from my usual sound, but it was really fun to make!

this is one to dance with while the veil is thin

happy samhain <3


credits:
Josh Sterckx (Composition, Production, Mixing & Mastering)
Arien Barley (Artwork)

Dance of the Dead [FREE DOWNLOAD]

FlibbertiGibbet is the DJ project of Tara Hawes – a compulsive music collector from an early age.

Growing up in Aotearoa/New Zealand, where her mother worked at a radio station when she was young, some of her earliest memories are being allowed to select which record to play next (if she behaved) – and of the excitement she felt when new vinyl came in – igniting a life-long passion for music. Following many years of promoting, organising and reviewing music events and basically working behind the proverbial ‘scenes’, she finally got behind the decks in ’13 and hasn’t looked back.

Signed to Free-Spirit Records in summer 2017, she enjoys playing a diverse range of styles, from chill-out, downtempo, and dub to minimal, psy-breaks, mid-tempo, psychedelic techno and progressive. This wide-ranging repertoire allows her the creative freedom to blend genres and take the dance floor on a truly unique journey.

Based just outside of London, Tara is a resident at top London psy nights Tribal Village and Astral Circus. With more and more bookings flying her way, she’s had lots of fun playing at all of the Psymera Summer Boat parties, Earthdance London, Turkey’s Psy Boutique Festival, Shattered Barriers, Elixir of Life, Alchemy Records presents Magic & Myths, the Infinite Bliss Transformational Psychedelic Healing Festival, Planet Bob’s Chai Emporium, Black Pearl Festival, Boomtown Fair and many more. 

Tara has also shared line-ups with many of the artists who first inspired her to start mixing, like GAUDI, Hedflux, Ott., Slackbaba, James Monro, Bedouin, Pspiralife, Nanoplex, Monk3ylogic, Hamish, Quanta, Dataura, Sprocket and Nanosphere, as well as warming up for some of the greats of the psy scene.

Over the years, she’s helped promote many of the UK’s biggest psy events, including Halcyon, Antiworld and Elixir of Life. A multi-talented, multi-tasking extraordinaire, when she’s not behind the decks, she has produced editorial content for Boom Festival and, having worked as a music journalist for magazines and websites such as DJMag, HarderFaster.net and Dream Creation, she won the HarderFaster.net Feature Writer of the Year Award for four years running. One of the highlights of summer 2018 was collaborating with the Boom Festival Comms Team to produce the daily Boom Diaries, where she was inspired by so many awesome artists and got some great feedback from many stalwarts of the psy scene.

A gifted selector who has spent countless years contributing to the evolution of the dance music scene, she now has a relentless passion for working the crowd from behind the decks where she can really contribute to the vibe of the party. 

A founding member of the Psy-Sisters Collective, FlibbertiGibbet also co-promotes one of London’s longest running psytrance events, Astral Circus, alongside Nikki S. Recent highlights of her career include opening the Tribe of Frog stage on Sunday at Boomtown Festival 2024 and warming up for Banco de Gaia at his album launch party in London.

In addition, she forms half of the duo Amaluna with DJ Małpka, having performed at last year’s Boomtown Festival and at the incredible Odyssee NYE 2024 in Berlin, where they closed The Gallery on New Year’s Day with an electrifying four-hour set. After the success of Amaluna’s ‘Lunar Phase’ compilation, released in 2019 on Free-Spirit Records, Tara is currently curating her first solo comp, designed to reflect the diversity of the range of music she plays.


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Snowdrop weaves delicate melodies and harmonies with transformative bass frequencies, emphasising musically sensitive transitions and meticulous attention to groove. Since 2014, Maia Snow has shared heart and body moving music at events such as Triplicity, Anthropos, Magikana, Psychedelic Jelly, Noisily and Tribe of Frog, and via her webcasting project, New Moon Grooves.

Blessed to be part of a global family united by music, she is forever honoured to play her own part in communicating love through this universal language.

[bookings: maiasnowdrop@gmail.com]

UPCOMING GIGS:

10th December 2025 - Psy Wednesdays, Bristol https://www.psycalendar.com/other-psy-events/psy-wednesdays-dec

PAST GIGS:

5th - 7th September 2025 - Something Different, Worcestershire https://somethingdifferentevents.co.uk/sd/the-collaboration-2025/

18th - 20th July 2025 - Magikana Festival, Wales https://magikana.org/

12th - 15th June 2025 - Existance Festival, Malmesbury https://existancefestival.com/

19th-22nd July 2024 - Magikana Festival, Wales (DJ set)

22nd March 2024 - Lunarpunk Alchemy, Basement45, Bristol (DJ set)

14th October 2023 - Psy Jelly, The Jam Jar, Bristol (DJ set) 

23rd-24th September 2023 - Something Different, Malvern (soundbath set)

6th November 2022 - Connective Frequencies, Totnes (soundbath set)

8th-12th September 2022 - Anthropos Festival, UK (soundbath set)

2nd October 2021 - Ecstatic Dance Bristol Equinox Party (soundbath set)

12th-13th June 2021 - Anthropos Stream (soundbath set)

11th-15th June 2020 - Anthropos Stream

11th-15th July 2019 - Noisily, UK

13th-18th June 2019 - Anthropos, UK 

4th May 2019 - Psy Jelly / Anthropos Preparty, Bristol

19th-22nd July 2018 - Solar.United.Natives, Hungary

23rd June 2018 - Psy Jelly, Bristol, UK

15th December 2017 - Soma Sonic, Liverpool, UK

30th September 2017 - Tribe of Frog, Bristol, UK

1st - 5th June 2017 - Triplicity, UK

13th May 2017 - Adventures in Bass, Totnes, UK

25th March 2017 - Chapel Party, Caernarfon, Wales

18th - 24th July 2016 - Solar.United.Natives, Hungary

13th - 17th July 2016 - Buddhafield, Somerset, UK

24th June 2016 - Diversity, Bristol, UK

16th - 19th June 2016 - Triplicity, Exmoor, UK

27th February 2016 - Tribe of Frog, Bristol

21st November 2015 - Technicolour Chillout Sessions, Nottingham

26th September 2015 - Tribe of Frog, Bristol

20th - 27th July 2015 - Solar.United.Natives, Hungary

14th - 16th August 2015 - Tribal Sphere, Wales

16th May 2015 - Dance in Wonderland, Bristol

1st - 4th May 2015 - Triplicity, Wales

25th April 2015 - Tribe of Frog, Bristol

21st March 2015 - Dance in Wonderland, Bristol

6th December 2014 - Dance in Wonderland, Bristol

29th November 2014 - Tribe of Frog, Bristol

20th - 21st September 2014 - Earthdance Equinox, Wales

20th - 21st June 2014 - 3 Wishes Faery Festival, Cornwall

23rd - 25th May 2014 - 5DMegaShroom, Wales

Exploring Vibrations.

@wizardtree - my dance-oriented bass music project

Part of @seedoflifemedia

Releases with:
@intrinzic-music
@deepheads
@psyjelly
@seedoflifemedia
@gandaky-tribe
@importrecordsuk

Features on:
@boombasticsoundsofficial

Wizardtree’s fusion of trance driven bass music brings a high energy, yet deep and emotional dance, blending heavy grooves with twisted sound design and melodic euphoria.

As a producer, live performer & DJ, artist and co-founder of ShadowWorks - a light and new media arts collective, and curator of the immersive A/V Bass music & IDM event REDSHIFT, Wizardtree’s live set brings all of this together with tightly integrated immersive lighting.

Previous bookings include Boomtown, Anthropos, Magikana and Existance

Releases with:
@intrinzic-music
@psyjelly