2009 Lineup
The Orb

The Orb

The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. The group popularized the genre as well, by appearing on the British chart show Top of the Pops and hitting...
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Balkan Beat Box

Balkan Beat Box

Balkan Beat Box is steeped with an intense lifetime of research into their own non-Western roots as well as other cultures. A quasi-circus event, BBB performs with a core of 6 musicians, collaborating with artists from Bulgaria, Morocco, Spain, Israel, and Turkey who draw on a variety of...
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Matisyahu

Matisyahu

Matisyahu offers a truly unique sound, mixing Jewish teachings with reggae, traditional rap, and guitar solos more typical of rock music. Most of his songs are almost entirely in English with just a few words of Hebrew and Yiddish mixed in. Matisyahu’s reggae vocal style is along the lines of...
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K'NAAN

K'NAAN

Somalia. The name alone conjures up images of unbridled destruction, merciless warlords and ruthless terror. A place where nobody—children, the elderly, religious figures—is safe from the atrocities of war, and where the idea of “childhood,” where 8-year olds handle AK-47s like toys, exists in chronological terms alone. When Forbes magazine...
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Gaudi

Gaudi

Gaudi's eclectic style and versatility has kept him at the forefront of his field throughout a noteable and prolific career. His music, which is an organic fusion of dub, world and nu-beat, is in production, on the playlists and regularly being performed live in the UK and internationally. He has been...
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Shpongle

Shpongle

Dongle and Mongle are the only two other words rhyming with Shpongle...a strange hybrid of electronic manipulation and shamanic midgets with frozen digits squeezing the envelope and crawling through the doors of perception, find a new pair of dice...extra numbers and colours an infinite expanding bubble, filled with a bizzare,...
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Random Rab

Random Rab

Emerging from his own distinct corner of the West Coast electronic music scene, Random Rab offers a powerful, timeless contribution to sonic exploration. Rab is a master of manipulating our temporal awareness, leading us into seemingly ancient worlds, where to our amazement, we find visible shreds of the future....
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Medicine Drum

Medicine Drum w/ Wisdom

Fusing the latest cutting edge styles of progressive electronic dance music with foundations of deep tribal rhythms and live vocals, MEDICINE DRUM are recognized as one of the early music pioneers to cross the boundaries of electronica, where organic meets digital. Founded in London in 1994 by...
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Abai

Abai

Abai is a talented, classically trained instrumentalist and hip hop vocalist, originally from Hayward, CA and DC/Baltimore area. At age five, Abai started piano, drums at twelve and by 1997 he had started his first experimentation with sampling and beat making. It’s been a long time coming for Abai, and...
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Energy Alchemist

Energy Alchemist

Energy Alchemist is a collaborative musical talent that is designed to cross genres ranging from electronic, metal, rock, dance, world, industrial and tribal; fusing sounds to create a whole new audio experience. Bill, Tommy & Dennis currently play in a melodic- metal band called Definition Unknown, and have been...
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Luminesque

Luminesque

Luminesque is a cutting edge dance, fire and circus performing arts ensemble. Combining classical dance, belly dance, martial arts, exceptional fire dance technique, cirque, and visionary choreography, our show is like nothing you've experienced. Our extensively trained core of dancers will be performing pieces that are outrageously creative and flawlessly...
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NANDA

NANDA

A tidal wave of dance, juggling, and crazy Kung-Fu acrobatics, NANDA fills the house with unrelenting skill and comedy woven into a sonic soundscape; This spectacle will tear through any preconceptions of entertainment and the world. The profoundly organic performance given by these four friends has been evolving slowly over...
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Kalalea Fire

Kalalea Fire

Kalalea Fire is a world class fire dance troupe of 5 women based on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. They have come together to create a dynamic performance of synchronized dance, fire spinning, theater arts and choreographed fire-dance routines. Blending tahitian, african, hip-hop & middle eastern dance with martial...
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TT Robson

TT Robson

TT Robson is a professional aerial dancer and instructor. She is the founder and director of The Gravity Arts, aerial dance school in Santa Cruz and currently performs with the Vau De Vire Society, San Francisco, Skyana Entertainment, San Francisco, The Gravity Girls aerial dance troupe , Santa Cruz,...
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Liquid Fire Mantra

Liquid Fire Mantra

Come peer into an Enchanted Mirror and witness the unraveling of emotion, revealing the fractals of the authentic self. Journey into the dark and see mesmerizing fire illuminate love while uniting the past, present and future. Warm your soul with engaging storytelling through the art of Ritual Theater...
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Skysirens

Skysirens Kerri and Noel

Kerri has been performing for her entire life. She started dancing at age 3 and never stopped. Although her dancing has a foundation of classical and contemporary training, her style embodies an ethnic/urban feel with a twist of slinky funk. As an acrobat and aerialist she has...
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