Mafia Dance Festival & World Tour

Now, this is a feature that is a little different, as we at Dont Party aren’t generally known for covering events outside of the Cape, and not usually festivals of the psychedelic sort. However, when we found out about Mafia Dance Festival, on Mafia Island, Tanzania, we just couldn’t keep it to ourselves.

This is a music and cultural festival to take place over 15 days [yup, you read it right], in a coconut forest, within the lush marine reserve that is Mafia Island, Tanzania, from 1 – 15 August 2010. The Mafia archipelago is a small group of islands located 25 km off the coast of Tanzania.

‘Our objective, through the “MDF Sustainability Project”, is to minimise our environmental footprint (that we leave as a result of our activities) and to maximise the benefits for the local communities in which we operate.’

The event is is the final stop in the Mafia Dance Festival World Tour, one that visits fesivals of a similar sort worldwide in 2010, including Brazil’s Universo Parallelo, our very own Origin, and pre-events in Cape Town (Alien Safari), Johannesburg, Goa – India, Greece, Belgium, Slovenia and Serbia to name a few. This is part of the initiative making Mafia Dance Festival possible, and enabling them to support a line up which is second to none, when it comes to festivals of this nature. It boasts 4 floors, including the Main Stage (psy-trance), the Alternative Stage (downtempo and midtempo music. Ambient, World and Experimental Music), the African Stage and the Awareness Stage.

Main Stage:

LIVE ACTS

• ABSOLUM, 3D Vision Rec – FR
• AJJA, Syncronize Records – CH
• AMD, Nano Records – UK
• ANTIDOTE, Neurobiotic Rec – FR
• APHID MOON, Aphid Records – UK
• BRAINCELL, Free Spirit Records/Phar Psyde Records – CH
• BROKEN TOY, Alchemy Rec – SA
• DEVIANT SPECIES, Ambivalent Records – UK
• DIGITAL TALK, 3D Vision Rec/Yabai Records – FR
• EAT STATIC, Mesmobeat/TIP/Twisted Rec – UK  (Special 2 Hour Live! No Laptops!!)
• ETNICA – PLEIADIANS, Etnicanet – IT  (Special 2 Hour Live!)
• FROZEN GHOST, Disasterpeace Records- SA
• JOURNEY, Free Spirit Records – UK
• KOXBOX, Twisted Records/Solstice Music – DK
• LOGIC BOMB, Solstice Music – SWE
• LIQUID SOUL, Iboga Records – CH
• LOST & FOUND, 3D Vision Rec – SA  (Special 2 Hour Live!)
• MINDCORE, Yabai Records – FR
• PHATMATIX, Yabai Records – FR
• PHIBIAN, Trick Music – UK  (Exclusive Live!)
• PHYX, Timecode Rec – SA
• PITCH HIKERS, Nexus Media – SA
• PROMETHEUS, Twisted Records – UK
• PROTOCULTURE, Nano Records – SA
• RINKADINK, Alchemy Records – SA
• RUBIX QUBE, MMD/Disasterpeace – SA
• SCORB, Trick Music – UK
• SHIFT, Nexus Media – SA
• SLUG, Nexus Media – SA
• SQUID INC, Ambivalent Records/Trick Music – UK
• THE GRAIN SOCIETY, Ekholab Stud/Oktava Rec – GR  (Exclusive Live!)
• TOTAL ECLIPSE, Mandala Records  – FR  (Special 2 Hour Live!)
• TRANSWAVE, 3D Vision Rec – FR
• TRISTAN, Nano Records – UK  (Special 3 Hour Live!)
• XATRIK, Digital Psionics Rec – SA

DJS

• AJJA, Peak Records – CH
• ALPHA, Interzone.pa – GER
• CHRISTOF, 3D Vision Rec – FR
• CONNECTO, Vortex – SA
• DADO, IBZ Recordings – FR
• DICK TREVOR, Nano Records – UK
• DIMITRI, Neurobiotic Rec – UK
• DINO PSARAS, Boa Group/Oktava Records – UK
• DOC, Harmonia Records – GR
• EARTHLING, Neuriobiotic/Spun Rec – SP
• EDOARDO, Neurobiotic Records – IT
• EMOK, Iboga Records  – DK
• FRANK E, Twisted Records/Solstice Music – DK
• HEADROOM, Nano Records – SA
• JAMES MONRO, 4Ddigitalaudio, Flying Rhino – UK
• JAY OM, Free Spirit Records – UK
• KRISTIAN, Transient Rec – UK
• LIQUID ROSS, Liquid Rec – UK
• LIQUID SOUL, Iboga Rec – CH
• MARIOS, The Grain Society/Mafia Dance Festival – GR
• MAURIZIO BEGOTTI, Etnicanet – IT
• MAX LANFRANCONI, Etnicanet – IT
• MONTAGU, Symphonix, Blue Tunes Rec – GER
• RALPH, Rastaliens, Phar Psyde Records – CH
• REGAN, Nano Records – SA
• SENSIENT, Zenon Records – AUS
• SERGE, Neurobiotic Rec – FR
• SHANE GOBI, Alchemy Records – SA
• SWARUP, Universo Parallelo Fest – BR
• TEO, Discovaley Records – GR
• TEO, Mafia Dance Festival/Oktava Rec – GR
• TRANAN, Solstice Music – SWE
• XP VOODOO, Spun Records – RUS
• YOUNGER BROTHER, Twisted Records – UK

Alternative Stage

LIVE ACTS

• EAT STATIC, Mesmobeat/TIP/Twisted Rec – UK  (Special 2 Hour Downtempo Live!)
• NESONO, Broken Toy – SA

DJS

• ATHENA ETANA, Mafia Dance Festival – GR
• CHRISTOF, IBZ Records – FR  (Surprise Set!)
• DAKSINAMURTI, Nexus Media – GER
• DEEPR, Nomadstribe – MOR
• DIGITAL DONKEY, Arkona Creations/Bom Shanka Rec – UK
• DIGITAL MYSTERY TOUR, Sofa Beats/Twisted Rec – FR
• DIGITAL TOOKI, Independent – SRB
• DIMITRI, Bedrock – UK (Surprise Set!)
• DINO PSARAS, Boa/Oktava Rec – UK  (Surprise Set!)
• DOUBLE-D, SB/Wonkay Rec – GR
• DOVLA, Interchill Records/Mafia Dance Festival – CRO
• EDOARDO, Microbiotic Rec- IT  (Surprise Set!)
• FOOSE, Ganja Tree Records – BE
• FRANK E, IBZ Recordings – DK  (Surprise Set!)
• HIDEYO BLACKMOON, Ibizarre Records – JP
• JAMES MONRO, Tropical Beats, Flying Rhino – UK
• ILLUMINATI, Psychotic Productions/Cosmicleaf Rec – GR/SA
• IVANA, Independent – SRB
• KRIS V, Radio with Pictures – UK  (Surprise Set!)
• MAX & MAURIZIO, Etnicanet – IT  (Surprise Set!)
• MENTAL METAL, Namaha Records/Ravelations – IN
• MERV, Eat static, Mesmobeat/Twisted Rec – UK
• ODO, The Wizard – UK
• ROBIN TRISKELE, Triskele Management – UK
• SASQUATCH, Geotropic/SonicTurtle Rec/Shambhala Music Festival – CAN
• SHAWNODESE, Mind Funk Records – NL
• SIMON BARING, Minimal Mayhem/Casanueva – UK  (Special Live Set!)
• STEVE-O, SatyaTrance – USA
• TEO, Mafia Dance Festival/Oktava Rec – GR
• TUNE RAIDER, Divas on Decks – SA
• VASSILY S, Mafia Dance Festival/Oktava Rec – GR

So, that should satisfy any psychedelic needs you may have. All acts are 100% confirmed.

Tickets for the festival are limited to 3000, and rightly so given that the aim is sustainability of this untouched paradise. They are limited by country, so if you are interested, best get busy asap.

Tickets in SA are available exclusively through:

BPM MAGAZINE – Cape Town

Tel: 00 27 21 913 94 43

Email: info@bpmmag.co.za info@bpmmag.co.za

Web: http://bpmmag.co.za

BPM offers e-tickets only
Worldwide tickets available here.
For more info on this first of it’s kind event, check out the website here, and the facebook group here.

ORGANISED BY SAMOTHRAKI DANCE FESTIVAL
Information about SDF 2001-2002-2003, check www.oktavarecords.com