Splendour in the TIPI grass

Celebration is at the heart of Byron’s creative culture and you can share the experience in the Tipi Forest at SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS 2009.
With its organic vibe, colourful décor, video art and performers, it’s easy to immerse yourself in the distinctive local ambience and dance your way through the festival. The dance floor is outdoors, at once huge and intimate. Filled with non-stop, back to back DJ action, interlaced with cutting edge Northern Rivers producers and sampled with local MCs, the music of the Tipi Forest resonates with transformational, deep and soulful, dance floor communion.
Within the abundant ring of the Wollumbin Caldera, in the Bundjalung nation, the incredible landscape has welcomed a diverse population, many seeking an alternative life and maintaining the right to connect, create and celebrate. With its own iconic venues, underground clubs, outdoor parties, festivals and constant dance action, the local scene is world renowned. The dance floor mixes the spirit of the rainforest and the spirit of the sea, creating an inspired atmosphere of diversity, innovation and fresh sounds. The Tipi Forest has been a popular part of Splendour In The Grass since the festival’s inception and has continued to evolve as a showcase of the region’s irrepressible dance culture.
This year’s line up commences Saturday midday, with Cenobite, producing his own expansive, funky and grinding tunes, followed by a Si Clone mix of squelchy fat techno, breaks, glitchy minimal tech/tech house, dubstep and a few electro robot numbers! Mid afternoon, jump into the fun electro house (with a twist) of Zenna before the sound mashed up, funk driven breaks of Gravy take the floor. Before sunset, catch free styling wordsmith and hip hop innovator, Kaliba, followed by the dirty electro-tek of world renowned Nick Taylor. Into Saturday night tune into the funky and quirky prog/tech house of Dave C before the innovative psychedelic trance of producer, Strange Planet. Next get a bouncing pounding dose of trance from the ‘thunder down under’, Double Vision, before things take a twist to the techno savvy tunes of Dee Dee. Finish Saturday night with an hour of electro artistry from producer, Oshi One.
Sunday in the Tipi Forest launches with the subsonic, world music mix of Sista Ray, followed by the inspired voice of Raz Bin Sam, touching politics and the ways of humanity with his deep reggae sound. For outlandish dance floor fun, be there for Ruff Dimond’s mix of trip hop, dub step and new found sounds. Local performer Tommi Gunn joins in for a quick spell of comedic hip hop and Bayside MC action, before local stalwart, Captain Kaine rips into the sunset with a quirky, dance floor friendly frenzy. Tune into young promoter, Deegs for club style electro house, before the reflective good vibes of Pob weaving the finest house, breaks and tech offshoots. Reach for the end of Sunday night dancing to the thrilling breakbeat compilation of Slinky before a final tremendous live set as world class producer, Dark Nebula explodes with his own unique high voltage psychedelic trance sound.
At night the tipis form a colourful canvas for the psychedelic video art of the Crystal Grid studios with VJs Tone Wonderland, Kavi & MKG. This year’s Tipi Forest is curated and produced by b-a-s-e, with lights/audio from Greatworks + Set To Stage, visual arts by Hannah Fraser and artists working with Terraspatial, and performances from Strangedreams, Tuntable Falls Circus, Interact and more.
For a complete array of Tipi tidings visit the Tipi Forest page on the Splendour website.
Both day and night, the tipis themselves are a warm and welcoming reminder of why the word hippy starts with hip. They’re a great place to meet friends, old and new. You can grab a cool drink or a sweet at the Sunshine Café and soak up the ambience or join in the dance floor fun. See you there!
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www.splendourinthegrass.com or follow us at twitter.com/SITG

Posted: Monday, June 29th, 2009 Under: Music, News. | Home |

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