Koze
(Kompakt, Germany)

DJ Koze is one of the most important musicians in dance music today. Never taking the easy road, he brings an eccentric tone to an otherwise rotting formula, while ingeniously keeping the soul and feeling of what proper techno/house music is meant to evoke.

His DJ sets are spoken of as fables…each experience seems to be unique to it’s own and it’s safe to say are truly, utterly mind-melting and eclectic.  What the future holds for Koze is a mystery to all but himself, all we can hope for is that he never gives up on the paramount standards he sets for himself - an obvious reaction to the quality of output we are treated to through his music and his DJ sets. Bring on the weirdness!

Tipper
(Tippermusic, UK)

David Tipper is a British composer and producer specializing in electronic music that ranges from Ambient, through Trip Hop, to uptempo Nuskool Breakbeat.

Discovered as a teenager DJing in a London nightclub by soon to be manager Richie Warren. Their earliest conversations centered on bass frequencies and rhythms underlying beats, and they began researching the science involved in creating the most effective dance music.  This will be his second Rainbow appearance since 2010, where his afternoon market set was a bastastic orgy of biblical proportions. Therefore, we are more excited than a barrel full of spider monkeys about what he will deliver in 2012.

Peter Horrevorts
(GEM Records, ChamelEon, Netherlands)

Making his debut at Rainbow is Holland’s Peter Horrevorts. Raised on a diet of everything from Depeche mode, Michael Jackson, early Detroit techno and science fiction novels, Horrevorts’s influences shamelessly seep into his bombastic and energetic DJ sets.

Currently, the young talent has records released through X-trax, Tsunami, and Phonocult and has remixed work from artists such as Ferry Corsten, DJ Misjah and Melvin Reese.  Horrevorts has a pretty impressive discography for a guy of his age; no doubt we will be hearing lots more of his name over the coming years.

Protonica
(IONO Music, Germany)

Protonica are Piet and Ralf from Berlin, Germany. With Piet's instinct for harmonies and Ralf’s feeling for propulsive grooves, Protonica deliver their very own positively throbbing sound - a blend of psychedelic and progressive trance. After their well-received debut album "Search" (2007) Protonica have released tracks on several labels including their latest Refresh EP on IONO Records.
 
Ralf and Piet share extensive experience in DJing for more than a decade. Together they have also formed the progressive house side project Kaempfer & Dietze.

Hedflux
(Broken Robot Records, UK)

Steve Young aka Hedflux crafts together elements of breaks, techno, and psytrance, the result is a genre-bending fusion of deep driving bass grooves, twisted glitchy noodles and resonant synth sorcery.

Following the success of his early releases on Sinister and Breakin' Even Records, Steve joined Broken Robot Records in early 2009 and enjoyed a year of increasingly high profile gigs at festivals such as Glade, Waveform, NewFoundLand and iBreaks, as well as headlining at numerous club nights across the UK and Europe

Steve made a huge impact at Rainbow 2011 so when we heard he was going to be back in the country we knew we had to get him back for an encore at Rainbow 2012.

Loud
(Nano records, Israel)

LOUD are the duo Eitan Reiter and Kobi Toledano who have been producing high quality and original Psytrance music since 2006. Their music is made with the idea to rock the dance-floor while delivering a funky style with unexpected twists and turns.

Since the release of their first album, "Some Kind of Creativity" they have toured the world, performing all over Europe, Russia, Australia, United States, South America, Far East, and Israel.

This will be their first time playing at Rainbow.

Robert Rich
(Soundscape Productions, USA)

Across three decades and over 30 albums, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance, yet his music remains hard to categorize.

Rich has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-night concert format, playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. during a three month tour.

As mastering engineer and mixer, he has applied his ear to albums in all styles, and his studio was featured twice in Keyboard Magazine, and elsewhere worldwide

OTT
(Twisted Records, U.K)


The multi-instrumentalist producer and performer will bring his dubtastic live show back to Rainbow Serpent festival once again! Since the early 2000s, Ott has produced, mixed and recorded music released on Twisted Records, including various collaborations with founder Simon Posford. His first major contribution to Twisted was the record Hallucinogen - In Dub, on which he remixed six classic Hallucinogen songs. In May 2003 he released his own album, Blumenkraft, on Twisted. His work has also been featured in releases from the record label Liquid Sound Design (now known as Liquid Sound, run by Martin Glover), especially those compilations produced by Humphrey Bacchus during his time at the label. He followed up his debut album in January 2008 with Skylon, followed by Mir in March 2011.

He has also contributed to several other records on Twisted as well as other labels.  His live sets have been described as ‘aural fornication’, a mixture of the sublime and the absurd, always challenging, evocative and emotional.

Ill Gates
(Made In Glitch, Toronto)


Ill.Gates is a Toronto-based composer, performer and educator. For over sixteen years, he has established a reputation as one of the most dynamic electronic music artists around. He regularly tours across North America, Europe and Asia.

His first full-length release, Autopirate (Muti Music, 2008) charted and continues to sell strongly. His triple album The ill. Methodology and accompanying online course is a blueprint for any budding dance music producers.

Many look at Gates as an ‘artists artist’ who is both a leader and an innovator in the North American dubstep/electronica scene. Part musician, part educator, Gates uses his travels to run workshops on sound, design and other aspects of the music business. This will be his first Rainbow serpent appearance.

James Munro
(Flying Rhino, Brazil)

It’s been a long time between drinks! For more than 15 years James Monro has been an integral part of the psychedelic dance music world as a producer, DJ and label owner. James is one of the founders of Flying Rhino Records and part of Technossomy and Bumbling Loons.

Monro’s background in the psychedelic trance scene fuses perfectly with a progressive style approach, resulting in spacious, atmospheric tribal grooves.

After gaining a worldwide following for his contributions to the old school Goa Trance movement, James Monro has evolved into a major headline name performing at various events across the globe. This will be his first appearance in Australia in over four years, but will no doubt be worth the wait!

Talpa / The Riddler
(Tesseract / Sundance, Sebia)

Never a stranger to our shores is Goran Juric, better known as Serbian Psychedelic trance artist Talpa.

His music first appeared on compilations, including “Mandragor” and “Kalashari” featured on the “Vibraspirit 23” compilation released by Sundance Records and “Talpania” on the “Sundaze” compilations, also released by Sundance Records in 2002. After two years of no releases, his first album was released in 2004 entitled “The Art of Being Non”.

Talpa’s most recent project is The Riddler. An epic mixture of funk, psy and electro that is blowing up all over the world. No matter what tickles your fancy, Juric will no doubt bring his ‘A’ game to the dusty bowls of Rainbow.