[PACNW] -- Phoenix Festival 2005 -- July 21st thru July 25th

fussik · #1 02-17-2005

PHOENIX FESTIVAL 2005 -- WAKING THE DRAGON
July 21st to July 25th
Klickitat, Washington
www.phoenixfest.com

Phoenix Festival is an annual autonomous music and arts festival which takes place in late July in the scenic Pacific Northwest, USA.

5 years ago some madcap fellows with a vision came together to throw one of the largest outdoor underground electronic music festivals in the northwest. Over the years they braved rutted cattle-fields in minivans, zany Baptists, weeks of dust, strained relationships, extreme sleep-deprivation, crucifixion, and various digestive ills due to an overabundance of Red Bull.

From their brilliance, their dedication, and their suffering was born the Phoenix Festival: three nights and three days of local and international music talent, visual and performance art, and collective creation.

What made the Phoenix Festival so special, and so rewarding for its weary progenitors, was the community that came together in those three days to connect, celebrate, and create.

Festival Passes are good for the entire weekend. Camping and parking are free.

EAT STATIC (Mesmobeat/TipWorld/Solstice) UK
www.eatstatic.co.uk

Eat Static are Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton, the duo launched Eat Static in 1990 and toured in parallel with the Ozric Tentacles for several years. In 1994, they left the band to pursue Eat Static full-time.

Eat Static's dubby Trance stylings attach aquatic textures and deep space effects to hand-crafted beats. Weightless Ambient backdrops seal off these mind-expanding soundscapes with a mark of tripped-out bliss. Although most often associated with the psychedelic trance genre, the band actually span almost all forms of dance music, including trance, techno, gabber, drum and bass, and breakbeat. As such they are well-compared to other hard-to-categorise children of the British elctronic music scene, like The Prodigy, Underworld, Orbital and Leftfield..

TIPPER (Tippermusic) UK

For those of you who attended the festival last year, you may recall Tipper killing it on the Breaks stage, well he's back again this year with a full arsenal of new material. Fuel Record founder, Dave Tipper is simply a prodigy of electronic sound. He helped found Fuel (along with owner Richard Warren) when he was still a teenager and since then has proceeded to assault breakbeat fans with his seasoned sound of snarling basslines, abrasive breakbeats and warped, alien-abducted atmospheres.Now on his own label, Tippermusic and with a new release of original music out, we are expecting great things from his appearance at the festival.

COSMOSIS (Holophonic) UK

Cosmosis (aka: Mumbo-Jumbo, Laughing Buddah). Some of you may remember his performance at the first Phoenix Festival in 2000 where he cracked brains with a 3 hour live PA and 3 hour DJ set on the final night. He is one of the original artists that, along with Total Eclipse, Hallucinogen, Man With No Name and Astral Projection, pioneered the Goa and Psy-trance sound in the early nineties, releasing one of the first Psy-Trance artist albums, Cosmology, in 1996 which is generally regarded as one of the classic Goa albums.

Chris Carter CHRIS CARTER (TCR Botchit & Scarper/Forged/Premiere Artists) UK

Musician, Producer and DJ, Chris Carter learnt his engineering skills whilst at the legendary ON U SOUND working with the likes of Adrian Sherwood, Little Axe, Asian Dub Foundation, Audio Active and Bim Sherman. Since starting to produce his own music in 1997, he has had a steady stream of releases on a number UK based breaks labels. Jointly responsible (with BLIM) for one of the break scene’s biggest vocal tracks (as Kasha on ’U’, featuring Shara Nelson) he has since had releases on TCR, Botchit + Scarper, Forged, En:Vision, Secret Agent and Track Records amongst others, earning him a reputation as a master of well-crafted dancefloor tunes.

Nick Taylor (Australia)

Nick Taylor is one dj who can’t be placed in a single musical category. His sets are a cutting-edge fusion of tech, disco, punk electro and sassy house, creating a style which he aptly labels ‘Fist Funk’. "I like elements of most styles of dance music, and my particular flavour at the moment is a reflection of the punky energy which has been infecting dance music lately."!

999 EYES ov Endless Dream
CARNVIAL SIDESHOW ov thee DAMNED (PDX, SEA, Austin, New Orleans, Oakland)

A traveling cirkus and sideshow featuring members of Samantha X's Museum Ov Monstrosities, KatabatiK Metacommunications Platform, Societas Insomnia, Big Bang Cirkus, PAN Butoh, Sour Mash Hug Band, International Maggot Theater, Summon Creature
Theater, Firerotica, P.U.R.E. hook suspension troupe, and many more!

The list of performers is way too long to list here, so to get the full list visit the performance page here: http://www.phoenixfest.com/performance.html; however just to whet your appetite you'll find folks like this on that page:

Surrounded By Ninjas
AtoMikDoG v.S. novaTRON
Reggie Watts & Co
Specs One
Variform
Miss Solar System
MUBALI
psytrip
PROPHEI
KJ Sawka
Grails
Marmalade
Bumblebee
The Lunatech Experience
Shapeshifter
Solovox
Try My Cabbage
pr0teus
etienne
CELIUM
FREAKS OF NATURE
MANDII

Tickets:
Ticket sales are going strong. We're in the $50 range now and you can get your passes through Brown Paper Tickets or at the Brick & Mortar stores listed on the tickets page. We are now at a 2000 person capacity for the fest so things should be nice & big & exciting. For more ticket information go to: www.phoenixfest.com/tickets.html

Stages:
This year we will be several thematic stages featuring local, national, and international talent. The stages are all sorted & you can get an idea of what will be out there by going here: http://www.phoenixfest.com/soundstage.html

Location:
This year the festival is once again going to bed held in Klickitat County.We've got virgin land that is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Expect warm weather during the day and cooler weather at night as we are gonna be up on a plateau on 2000 acres of land nestled deep in the gorge of southern Washington.

Volunteers:
As always we are on the lookout for folks to help with the festival, if you are interested in volunteering, be sure to check out our volunteer page (www.phoenixfest.com/volunteer.html). Remember it's through the participation of folks like you that makes the festival the northwest's largest cooperative arts and music event in the Northwest!

Marketplace:
Last year the marketplace was jam-packed with a large number of booths featuring all sorts of interesting items. This year we expect the marketplace to be even larger. If you are interested in being part of the marketplace check out our marketplace page: www.phoenixfest.com/marketplace.html

Camps:
What would the festival be without camping? Coming across diverse and creative themecamps around every bend is
part of what makes the festival so intriguing. If you would like to put together a themecamp we do not require you to register with us, but if you do, we will list your camp on our website. Check out the themecamp webpage for more information:

www.phoenixfest.com/themereg.html.

General Info:
About the festival: www.phoenixfest.com/about.html
Festival Essentials: www.phoenixfest.com/essentials.html
Festival Passes: www.phoenixfest.com/tickets.html

Also if you have questions for us, direct them here: info@phoenixfest.com

See you there!

mrtumnus · #2 02-17-2005

FIRSTIES!!!!!!

skilife · #3 02-17-2005

Oh yeah, this is gunna be another great Phoenix Fest!!!!

Kreeper · #4 02-17-2005

Last year rocked!!!

TheRovingRanger · #5 02-19-2005

Still haven't been out to the new location...
Maybe this year though!

I still miss the Klakamas-area festival! Those 2 years go down as some of the best events of my whole "electronic" life

nicktornetta · #6 02-19-2005

Amanita · #7 02-20-2005

Very excited about this year...

PulpMind · #8 02-21-2005

well hot damn, didn't even see this post... glad to see it up, official and all that =)

if I'm not feeding hungry children in Romania, then I'll be there!

- Jesiah

djsence · #9 02-22-2005

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Originally posted by fussik
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Marked

Nyxie · #10 02-22-2005

last year was fuckin awesome! cant wait for this one!!!

Mr. Rogers · #11 02-22-2005

I'm really gonna try and make it up from Cali to go to this. What do tickets go for? Ah, I'll check the link.

BeeRandi · #12 02-23-2005

Here it comes again.. i had a fun time last year this next year is going to be even better!

skoiboy · #13 02-25-2005

Crazy...thought I'd heard in that weird 'ol grape vine that this wasn't happening this year...

Glad to see it is!

If you need fire dancers...hit up http://www.leveldesign.biz/womanipura.html!

electrokid · #14 02-25-2005

Woot!

Brooklyn · #15 02-25-2005

I like the new dates this year!

soulfire · #16 02-25-2005

I'm really excited. Wasn't able to make it last year. I didn't live here then. Heard it was awesome so yaaaay!

evenstar · #17 03-05-2005

This is THE event of the year for the northwest.... I am stoked on the dates, I hope more people come this year because of the change.

Camping out with your friends, having a crazy fun time, this event is AWESOME!! I have been to all but the very first and I really enjoyed the location last year because of how much closer everything was in relation to each other.... made for less time spent trekkin'

By your tickets early, bring as much stuff as you can (costumes, couches, games - last year... ah shit, what was the name, was it Heart-Throb?? And of course who can forget Drunken Bocci Ball on the Advanced course! ) bring all your friends.... so much great music playing the ENTIRE time.... I have arranged my trip to Mexico around the dates of this event... i will be off the plane, driving to either Glacier National Park or the Redwoods before hitting up the Phoenix Fest... CAN'T WAIT!

enth3ogen · #18 03-05-2005

oh man if only if only

I wonder if I can make it to this thing. it sounds like quite a show, way better than anything i can even conceive of.

I wish every party was like this.

going to rented out clubs for raves every saturday sounds so lame in comparison.

I really, really hope I can go.

TheRovingRanger · #19 03-08-2005

yeah, I think the date-change is an interesting new angle. I think it's a good idea. Not that fourth-o-july wasn't, it just a worthy experiment to change things up. Maybe I'll get my butt out there this year. Man, too much to try and take work off for. We shall see.

LuvPuppy · #20 03-15-2005

HEY!

I need more info on dis shit.

Who is opn mainstage?

Is there a mainstage?

Willl MOby be there to give handjobs to the masses?

You have to give out a lil flirt wit da peepz you wana have buy tickets. Just give out one name.