2025 EGA Music and Soundscapes
Ash Dargan is a Larrakia recording artist, storyteller and adventurer from Darwin NT. He is one of Australia’s premier performers and recording artists on the Yidaki. His distinct blend of Australian Indigenous instrumental world music has achieved world renown in both recorded works and live performances since 1996.
Vulcara is a technophilic, avant-pop multimedia band. It thrives in mossy and fungi-rich landscapes, seamlessly weaving organic samples into an electronic tapestry that showcases the cutting-edge possibilities of technology. Vulcara consists of ethereal vocals, textural beats and lush guitar improvisation. Their work delves into themes that include nature, states of consciousness, and confronting life experiences.
DJ Kundalini (Mari Kundalini) is a respected and long-standing figure in Melbourne’s underground electronic music scene, with over three decades of creative evolution across sound, performance, and installation art. With roots in theater, classical singing and opera, her early foundation in the performing arts laid the groundwork for a multidisciplinary ride that has since become deeply embedded in the electronic music scene, with an unwavering commitment to the culture.
Grooveyboots, also known as Postman Pat (AUS), was a fixture of Melbourne’s underground breaks, trance, and psy-scene from the mid-1990s through to around 2010. A frequent selector at Triptmind gatherings, warehouse parties, and other underground events across the city.
Dexter is a multi-instrumentalist and yoga instructor whose work blends ambient minimalism, blues, and world music to create transformative sonic experiences. With a background in continental philosophy, multimedia, and improvisational performance, Dex specialises in transcendental and experimental sound that engages the nervous system and explores the edges of perception. His approach brings an embodied listening practice into the space between sound, body, and mind.
Mickey Space is a genre-fluid DJ, movement guide, and breathwork facilitator known for creating immersive sonic journeys that uplift the body and expand the soul. His sets fuse tribal percussion, psychedelic bass, downtempo grooves, organic house, and earthy electronica — weaving a soundscape that invites deep embodiment, ecstatic movement, and moments of transcendence.
Bradlee likes to try everything. High school choir. Metal drummer. Singer-songwriter. Sold-out EP & album launches for a rock band you've probably never heard of. Mashing up Marilyn Manson & Infected Mushroom at Triptamind. Primus & Ol' Dirty Bastard at Somatica. Ambient soundscapes at Rainbow Serpent. Kava bar shows in California. And seven years as resident muso at the mighty Foragers Drop.
No originals this time, just the familiar taste of random covers for your EGA enjoyment.
Grok this Sound and Vision v3.0: DJ-Krusty and VJ-Mandala exploring psychedelic sonic and visual landscapes, celebrating the simian mind’s abstract, and performative links to hyper-dimensional reality through plant-mediated experiences.
LubDub is the sound of the HEART - Future Bass Dub Activation - High vibration dance floor meditations into groove, melody and resonance.
Dimethyltrippybeats (DMTB) is the genre-bending brainchild of Melbourne producers Fred Freeman and Ash Mclerie, born on a NYE dance floor in 2016 and brought to life through years of long studio sessions and live experimentation.
Handpan, didge, ngoni, guitar, percussion and vocals that take you on a journey that is earthy yet mind bending — Rachel & Elijah’s all live music project is a fire for the soul. Think ritual meets groove — part ceremony, part dreamscape — guiding listeners through melodious altered states in an all acoustic beats set. Born from Country and shaped by the unseen — rhythmic, unique and deeply human.
Sam's been DJing for over 25 years. He's played at many major festivals in Australia & Japan during that time, alongside many of the scene's most loved artists. Highlights have been closing the last stage open on New Years Eve at Woodford Folk Festival around 2002, playing in Finland in 2018, opening stages at the eclipse festival in Japan in 2009 & in Cairns in 2012. He's run parties showcasing music across a range of genres & his DJ sets are similarly diverse.
Performing live generative electronic music with a textural sound design focus utilising non western music scales.
Integral Divisions is the electronic odds and ends project of artist and musician Beau Deeley that is a home for all the esoteric experiments and errata that emerge from his studio and don't find a home in his more established musical projects. Everything from ambient, industrial, insectoid and technoid reverberations, mystical experimental dirges, orchestral, dub and the outright bizarre can be found here.
Z.i.V is a world wide tune slinger and musician, based in Byron Bay, Australia. Z.i.V has always had a passion for music,playing guitar in punk-rock bands since the age of 13 traveling round the world as a street musician.
BKLV is an Australian electronic musician and visual artist. He has developed an atmospheric style unifying heavy melodic bass lines and experimental sonics to create a deep ethereal ambience.