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NNSW Dance Music/Doof History: Introduction.

Welcome to Haarp Media’s new series – NNSW Dance Music/Doof History.

We will attempt to track the scene’s history from inception to peak to entropy, along with its various locales, sounds, people, splinter movements and various moving parts.

The Northern NSW doof scene – originating from the Byron Bay and Northern Rivers area – was potentially the third-largest originating movement of what has…

HMS066(6) – Kayhat: How Deep is Your Sludge

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Saturday’s Set of the Week by Kayhat is a super mash-up of vintage hip-hop like Slick Rick and Percee P to hip-hop70s crooners like Three Dog Night and The Bee-Gees, over a background of modern slow house and future beats/bass.

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Playlist

1. An Old…

Choosing a DJ Name – Part 1: Psytrance

Welcome to our friendly how-to guide, where we’ll help you refine your creative ideas to their fullest potential.  Our first part of the series – Choosing a DJ Name – will enable your leading step into what will be a torrid bedroom journey of sleepless nights, fluorescent tan, diminishing social skills and countless Menulog orders.

Names are always important for music branding.  A name lends…

Five more Reasons to not go to a Festival

Hi, just in case festival promoters and attendees worldwide needed another reason to hate us, we’ve created a second part of our tawdry anti-event love to follow up our first sickening lack of support for creative endeavours. Although you have your hatership ready to go, part of you agrees with everything we’re saying here.

1. No fucks given about social life

Really, who are these people you…

Five reasons to not go to festivals.

 Let’s break a convention here. Collectively, we’re sold this notion that attending festivals and blowing our money at them is some sort of social right of passage. The reality is that they really aren’t. Festivals are essentially a luxury item sold as a youth nessecity. If you need a reason, we’ve supplied five here, and will be supplying five more.

Perhaps this could lead onto bigger and better…

The 12 Archetypes of Hippies

What is a hippy?

A hippy for the purpose of this article is a person who advocates creativity, freedom of expression and smelly natural oils. However, different hippies require refined definition. We have compiled two lists of various types of hippies and their attributes to share (Part 2 out next week), so you can identify and get the most out of your relationships with them.

 1. Original…

How to DnB – A HMS intro for budding junglists

Our upcoming Haarp Media VIP Sessions on Friday 13 April is going to be a special for Drum and Bass (for which we’ll use the abbreviation “dnb” to identify) music.  I’m sure most northern NSW electronic music fans understand the basics of dnb, in that all dnb originates from the UK, and is made up of fast broken beats ranging from 160-180 bpm.  We also know that in the Pacific region, it’s most…

HMS056 – DJ Shampoo (Chicago Junglework Barber)

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HMSVIP#3, Friday 13 April @ The Gollan Hotel – Drum and Bass Special!

Our third session kicks off on Friday 13 April, and our residents are cutting their junglist teeth as we speak. We have extra subs ready in place to give you that real and authentic drum and bass experience. You can expect Shampoo to be playing an intelligent and heady jungle footwork set with interludes of half-time/grime, before Nimrod kicks off her first dnb-specialising set of chunky…

The Haarp Media Sessions Mixcloud has been up and running for 3 years now. Our resident DJ Kayhat has morphed and split into 4 seperate “styles” after disappearing in Bangkok… 1. Hellohaticus – Raving Mantis Style (4×4/UKG/Breakbeat/Deep House/Techno) 2. DJ Shampoo – Luxury Lion Style (Juke/Jungle/Future Beats) 3. Yung Fun – Dog Nod Style (Chill/Beats/IDM) 4. Nameless Kig – Nanobot Soul Style…

What I Think About Maitreya – Your Gamble, Your Responsibility

Maitreya was an outdoor doof festival in Victoria coming into its tenth year. In the last couple of years, they’d had their events marred by flooding and messy clean-ups. This year, they had their permits rejected. Basically this festival was docked coming in weeks beforehand for failure, and they clearly should have pulled the plug. The council and authorities had remarked on no uncertain terms…

Lismore Police Step Up Harrassment of Local Electronic Music Bar

Police targeting of Lismore’s  ‘Jacks Bar at the Met‘  continued unabated last weekend, with the bar being shut with a 30-hour permit because police consider the bar culpable to drug trafficking, and constitutes a risk to the community. In last week’s 25-officer raid, no drugs were found except for minute quantities of cannabis, rather than the postured quantities of ice and MDMA that were…

Hijak Special Bios #5 – Ghostsoul (Uncomfortable Beats/Hopskotch Records)

Rob Healey aka Ghostsoul is a producer’s producer. You probably wouldn’t have seen him for a while because of the work he does in corporate sound engineering and also currently video game soundtrack development. He’ll be coming back exclusively for this episode of Hijak for a rare showcase of his brand new sounds.  Noted for his live performances, Ghostsoul has released three extremely realised…

Hijak Special Bios #4 – Aoi

Coming live with brand new material debuting exclusively at Hijak is multi-skilled b-boy and Melbourne underground sensation Aoi. This guy is on a quest to be the best where it counts for things hip-hop.  His portfolio is impressive to say the least.  8 albums (many of which are free at his Bandcamp), the Spotwelder remix tapes, a couple of other mixtapes, 7 MC albums under his now-deceased alias…