Sacred Earth Open-Air 2008

Mubali is the trance project of Greg Farley. He has been producing and releasing psychedelic trance since 2003 and has several releases on various labels including Mistress of Evil, Trishula, Parvati, Insomnia, and Psycircle Records. His style varies from being slightly funky to slightly mental, but his hard hitting sets have reached some of the far corners of the globe. His second full length album titled Shenanigans will be released this fall on Trishula Records. Currently based in San Francisco, he also has spent some time in the Midwest with the superduo Primordial Ooze. Get ready to blast off with Greg's interpretation of hard psychedelic madness with a little twist of funk.

Dragon is David Scruggs, co-founder of Dharma Harmony Records, established in 2007 with fellow trance pal DJ Qog. With over ten years of trance DJ'ing experience and five years in the studio producing, Dragon has gained the reputation for powerful trance sets that give a strong dose of organic and synthetic fusion. Performing his first live set at the AUM Festival in 2007, David has been working relentlessly on new material for his first album, set for release this summer on Dharma Harmony. He has a particular style of trance that embraces dark basslines and edgy leads which tear through the mind, exposing the primal core inside. Dragon has performed coast to coast alongside artists such as Electrypnose, Artifakt, Deviant Species, Naked Tourist, Scorb, and Pondscum, just to name a few. When it comes to full-power psytrance, Dragon will leave you scorched!

Mist is an established veteran of the Texas Psytrance scene. After playing in bands his entire life, he moved on to DJing and the production of electronic music in 1997. It was during this time that he co-founded the seminal Texas Psytrance production company, Mistical Productions (1997-2007). Over the years that followed, his flawlessly mixed high-energy sets left dance floors across North America quaking. After a brief stint as an Inpsyde Media label DJ, he joined forces with Acidance Records. For them he compiled the two very successful releases, Dirty South and A Violent Reaction. His original electronic productions are currently being constructed under the name “justincaseboy.”

The musical palette of Aligning Minds includes jazz, classical, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, industrial and more. For simplicity's sake, the source refers to their collective sound as “intelligent dance music,” or IDM. They are more ambient at times than IDM pioneer Aphex Twin and more beat oriented than DJ Shadow. Aligning Minds are not DJing or spinning other musicians' records; they create and perform live electronic music through programming, synthesizing, sequencing, and live manipulation of sounds and beats.

Aligning Minds have glitchy blips and bleeps in abundance, but they also bring natural sounds into the mix, including guitars, pianos, chimes, tablas, and human voices. Even the technological elements of their songs have a musicality that transcends the usual jargon. Most songs start sparsely, slowly adding and subtracting elements to create a simultaneously alienating and sensual sound. Their songs are layered and textural epic journeys, never ending quite where they start. The source describes a trance-inducing quality that can occur when listening to so many elements at once.

Shaped by a “Do It Yourself” culture, Jeffrey Acciaioli was driven by his love of music to create the moniker The Great Mundane, at first only to satisfy himself. Born and raised in Farmington Hills, Michigan, he was exposed to and later influenced by genres such as classical, jazz, bossa nova, hip-hop, and electronica. His broad range of favorites and training allow listeners to enjoy his “one of a kind” sound that is anything but mundane. The Great Mundane's twisting textures, catchy drum whips, and unique soundscapes form a melodic collage. The Great Mundane was first introduced into the Chicago music scene before taking his passion and energy nationwide. Soon international ears were falling upon his sounds and requesting his talents. The Great Mundane worked with Belladonna Records to release two limited-time EPs and released his debut album When Falls Arrive with Psymbolic--sounds.

The Primordial Ooze project was created by DJs Kaiser Soze and S.O.T. Flowing sounds seem to bubble and evolve like primitive life forms. These bundles of frequencies collaborate in a swarm-like manner, creating intelligent patterns and movement. The Ooze sound creates a unique twist on the ever-changing sound of psychedelic music.

Mindoutpsyde Productions works to bring Psytrance and Goa Trance to Iowa and the greater Midwest through event organization and promotion. Its activities include live DJ acts, fire and interactive blacklight performances, visual art displays, and a relentless presence on the dance floor throughout almost any party in the Midwest. The Psyowa Invasion is a fusion of the original Mind Outpsyde crew who intend on taking over the world, one party at a time.