Eclipse Festival
Encyclopedia
Eclipse Festival is a yearly electronic music
festival held in Quebec
, Canada
during the summer. This festival is a weekend-long international gathering of visual and musical art. It features a symbiosis of dance, open philosophies, performance art, human (and spiritual) experiences.
in the end of April of the year 1999. After two years of absence, they came back in September 2002, with another indoor party. The festival has been happening every year since then, inviting electronic music producers and DJs from all over the world.
The 2003 edition of the Eclipse Festival happened in the outdoors near Mont-Tremblant
, Quebec. People were invited to bring their tents and camp there. Since that year, the festival officially became an outdoors festival. The 2004 edition was held in Ste-Agathe, Quebec. In 2005 they moved the location to Ste-Therese-de-la-Gatineau, which is a lot farther from the big cities, but which is also a bigger place with big open fields. They used the same location for all the other events after that, except in 2007 when the festival happened at the ecovillage
at Mont-Radar.
, Adham Shaikh
, Astrix
, Bluetech
, D-Nox, Deedrah, Dimitri Nakov, Dino Psaras, Earthling, FM Radio Gods
, Freakulizer, GMS, Hallucinogen
, James Monroe, Jaia, Joti Sidhu, Khainz, Kode Six, Kox Box, Metalogic, Midimiliz, MOS aka Manuel Sofia, Nuclear Ramjet, Orbit, Pixel, Pena, Protoculture, Shane Gobi, Shpongle
, Spirallianz, Talamasca
, Tegma, Tetraktys, The Delta, Ticon, Vibrasphere
, Wizzy Noise, Wrecked Machines, X-Dream
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
festival held in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
during the summer. This festival is a weekend-long international gathering of visual and musical art. It features a symbiosis of dance, open philosophies, performance art, human (and spiritual) experiences.
History
The first edition of the Eclipse Festival was an indoor party that happened in MontrealMontreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
in the end of April of the year 1999. After two years of absence, they came back in September 2002, with another indoor party. The festival has been happening every year since then, inviting electronic music producers and DJs from all over the world.
The 2003 edition of the Eclipse Festival happened in the outdoors near Mont-Tremblant
Mont-Tremblant
Circuit Mont-Tremblant is a race circuit about north of the village of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. Formerly the village of Saint-Jovite was often included in the name but was amalgamated in 2000.-History:...
, Quebec. People were invited to bring their tents and camp there. Since that year, the festival officially became an outdoors festival. The 2004 edition was held in Ste-Agathe, Quebec. In 2005 they moved the location to Ste-Therese-de-la-Gatineau, which is a lot farther from the big cities, but which is also a bigger place with big open fields. They used the same location for all the other events after that, except in 2007 when the festival happened at the ecovillage
Ecovillage
Ecovillages are intentional communities with the goal of becoming more socially, economically and ecologically sustainable. Some aim for a population of 50–150 individuals. Larger ecovillages of up to 2,000 individuals exist as networks of smaller subcommunities to create an ecovillage model that...
at Mont-Radar.
International performers
AbsolumAbsolum
Absolum is the stage name of French psytrance artist Christophe Drouillet. In 1994-1997 he was part of the Transwave project together with Frederic Holyszewski, whose stage name is Deedrah...
, Adham Shaikh
Adham Shaikh
Adham Shaikh is a composer, record producer and sound designer living near Nelson, B.C..His present 15-year history with music began by exploring synthesizers in the early 1980s. In the early 1990s, Shaikh found the electronic music scene full of innovative and explorative sounds...
, Astrix
Astrix
Astrix is a Psychedelic trance DJ and producer specialising in the sub-genre of Full On Psychedelic Trance....
, Bluetech
Bluetech
Bluetech is a psybient DJ/producer who creates a varied selection of downtempo music. Bluetech's music is very diverse, even for a psybient artist...
, D-Nox, Deedrah, Dimitri Nakov, Dino Psaras, Earthling, FM Radio Gods
FM Radio Gods
FM Radio Gods is a live electronica act from Montreal, Canada composed of two artists: Andrew Hamilton and Tao-Nhan Nguyen .Winners of the 2008 Roland Synthesizer contest...
, Freakulizer, GMS, Hallucinogen
Hallucinogen (musician)
Hallucinogen is the stage name of Simon Posford, an English electronic musician,specializing in Psychedelic trance music. His first studio album, Twisted, released in 1995, is considered one of the most influential albums in the genre; the first track "LSD" in particular remains the defining sound...
, James Monroe, Jaia, Joti Sidhu, Khainz, Kode Six, Kox Box, Metalogic, Midimiliz, MOS aka Manuel Sofia, Nuclear Ramjet, Orbit, Pixel, Pena, Protoculture, Shane Gobi, Shpongle
Shpongle
Shpongle is an English psychedelic downtempo/psybient music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram . Their musical style combines eastern ethnic instruments and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music...
, Spirallianz, Talamasca
Talamasca (group)
Talamasca is a psytrance music project based in Paris, France. It is a project of Cedric Dassulle, also known as DJ Lestat. Dassulle played piano for over 13 years and started his career as DJ in 1992. In 1995/96 he was resident DJ at the Rex Club in Paris. He was influenced by Trance music that...
, Tegma, Tetraktys, The Delta, Ticon, Vibrasphere
Vibrasphere
Vibrasphere is a progressive psytrance music duo from Uppsala, Sweden. Its founding members were Rickard Berglöf and Robert Elster.- History :...
, Wizzy Noise, Wrecked Machines, X-Dream
X-Dream
X-Dream are Marcus Christopher Maichel and Jan Müller ; they are also known as Rough and Rush. They are producers of psychedelic trance music and hail from Hamburg, Germany...