2008 Details

The Solar Fx Gathering has been staged by the Cairns crew on this weekend for the past two years, to celebrate the birthday party of one of our closest friends, and to mark the weekend that the Cairns Eclipse will take place in 2012.

UPDATE:

Solar FX is now the official launch for the debut album from Cairns' own ONE TASTY MORSEL, titled "Illogitechnicallity"... :applause: Congrats Paul!

LINEUP:

One Tasty Morsel [Zenon Recs, Cairns]

Lively

OneTastyMorsel is the solo project of 23 year old Paul van den Brink, from the hills of far north Australia. The project kicked off in early 2005 after a passion to express his musical views could not be found as an artist within the live band scene. Drawing influence from many forms of music and combining an eclectic taste in electronica with a passion for minimal psychedelic trance, the OneTastyMorsel sound lies somewhere in the middle grounds of Sensient and Krumelur. OneTastyMorsel, have you had yours yet?

Track List:

01. Golden Sanction

02. Psyconautical Engineering

03. Chew The Fat

04. Hold It

05. The AquaYabbie Techno Chronicles

06. Spirit Realms

07. Funky Munt Brother

08. Phenomena

Audio samples here... http://arabesque.co.uk//index.php?optio ... 7&Itemid=1
Release Date: 2008-11-07

http://www.myspace.com/onetastymorsel

Grouch [Cosmic Conspiracy Recs, NZ]

Live

Grouch is 23yr old Oscar, creating from Wellington, New Zealand. Producing his own tunes across many genre since the age of 16, he has been creating his own electronic vibe within NZ's Outdoor Dance Party scene for the last 2yrs.

After meeting Cosmic Conspiracy Records (CCR) around 2006, Grouch was thrown in the deep end to a range of new inspiration, and experienced a shift in focus to a more tech sound, as he began to frolick in realms of inter-dimensionality within the Trance conciousness.

Grouch plays a unique style across the board of Trance and Dub, encompassing many different techniques of other electronic genre. He has developed a fast growing following, across NZ and Australia, who readily get on the dance floor and stomp to their hearts content to squelchy deep root connecting basslines.

http://www.myspace.com/otgrouch

Sensient [Zenon Recs, Melb]

Live

Zenons’ mission is to expose the psytrance world to a range of fresh and interesting music, and to expose new acts that write music outside the sphere of mainstream psytrance labels. The Zenon sound ranges from dark minimal, to deep tech-trance, to funky minimal, to smooth morning progressive, but always with a psychedelic bent and an increasing emphasis on pure musicality. It steers clear of the generic cheese trance so prevalent in today’s psytrance scene, instead offering deep, intelligent music whilst maintaining the dance floor factor. My own music follows along these lines. I try to absorb the influence of many other musical styles (breaks, glitch, jazz fusion etc.) and incorporate them into my productions. So far i've released 3 solo albums plus heaps of tracks on different compilations. I've also toured overseas a fair bit, highlights being Voov, Boom, Fusion and Mexico with Son Kite.

http://www.myspace.com/zenonrecords

Paul Abad [Subterran/Open, Bris]

http://www.myspace.com/paul_abad

Ketamind [Doof Recs, ISR]

http://www.myspace.com/ketamind23

Reseteser [Bris]

http://www.myspace.com/reseteser

Urban Monkeys [Hardplace Recs, Cairns]

live & dj set

http://www.myspace.com/urbanmonkeys8

Bent Intent [Biosine/REGEN, Cairns]

live & dj set