The Bass Ceilidh is BACK ONCE AGAIN with the renegade masters – D4 damager – POWER TO THE PEOPLE ––

This Valentine's day, HYPERFOLKUS presents an unholy alliance between the acoustic and the electric, the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the present, the enchanted forest and the concrete jungle, to bring you some ridiculous mofos who take lovely traditional folk music and twist it to their own nefarious techno fantasies.
Hold your hot date's hand tight, and take them on a stompfest through the realms of Celtic bass, wobbly Balkan beats, French electro-hurdy-gurdy, and much more.

The BASS CEILIDH is Bristol's own iconic crew who mix authentic trad fiddle with hooning hardtek/DnB, and lead you in dances that bring together the ancient folk music of these islands with its current folk music: freeparties. With Joe aka FyddleStyx belting out the melodies of Ireland and Scotland on his turquoise fiddle, fat beats from Teuchter hooning out the speakers, and of course the one and only Fig leading the dances, the Bass Ceilidh is guaranteed to exhaust and exhilirate you in equal measure.

GYPSYNDICATE
Lacquered in the rich musical tapestries of India and the Balkans, deiciously and filthily entwined with the unbridled spirit of the UK undergeound rave scene, Gypsyndicate weaves together traditional melodies with complex rhythms of ancient lands, adorned with the raw power and intensity of heavy metal, hip-hop and hardtek. They bring the sarangi to the soundsystem and the darbuka to the dancefloor.

BALFOLK BOOMBOX
Churning the handle of his own handmade synth-hurdy-gurdy, Rory Scammell blasts out sexy traditional French balfolk tunes, underpinned with sexy traditional French techno beats.
Balfolk: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Balfolk Boombox. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new sounds, to seek out new beats and new bass-lines, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
"It's dancing Jim, but not as we know it..."
Rory has received hate-mail and quite rightly so.

HEDGE PRIEST
Hedge Priest plays folk tunes at 30bpm and 180bpm - nothing in between. This will be a fast one. Recently seen forcing folk music onto confused crowds at Bangface with The Acid Morris and educating folk punks about the joys of the 303 as part of Folkcore's Anarcha Folk Fest takeover, his DJ sets overlay the depth of the folk tradition on the best of contemporary electronic music production. Come prepared to sing along: Roud numbers 3, 90, 3012 likely to make an appearance.

GROOVE SHAMAN
Brains, basslines, and a bit of groove magic…
Loki, AKA Groove Shaman, found their way into techno in the sweat-soaked basement of The Cellar, where painted walls, heavy tunes, and dancing physics students came together in beautiful chaos. It was there they discovered a love for movement and sound, and by 2018, they were producing their own music and getting fully hooked on building synthetic grooves. Using Ableton for both live sets and DJing, their style is playful, punchy, and never predictable. More recently, through their involvement with BodhiFi, they’ve jumped into vinyl culture with both feet. Their record bag is wild and wide: from deep house and dubstep to jungle, tekno, goa trance, hardstyle, acid, and beyond. Every set is a fresh combination — part dancefloor science, part spiritual chaos.

TRITONE are a brand-new supergroup bashing out bangers from the Balkans, krazy klezmer tantzes, bheautiful bhangra bheats, and metal riffs heavier and darker than Lost Horizon's subwoofers. Playing fiddle, guitar, tabla and Kaos pad, these three bards bring together their diverse backgrounds to create a sound like you've stepped through a portal on the edge of a cliff. You'll be dancing, but you won't know how.

8:30 - doors
9:00 - TRITONE
9:30 - BALFOLK BOOMBOX
10:15 - BASS CEILIDH
11:45 - HEDGE PRIEST
12:30 - GROOVE SHAMAN
1:30 - GYPSYNDICATE

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