ENTERTAINMENTS

There’s only a handful of DJ’s I’ve ever heard who are naturally gifted and Alex Downey is one of them,” says techno don Ben Sims at whose Split/Balance nights Downey has regularly played.

Based in Brighton, Alex fell in love with Techno from seeing the likes of Derrick May and Dave Clarke at the Zap Club in the early nineties, and his regular pilgrimages to London’s Lost parties were an inspiration, where Jeff Mills became a massive influence on his musical perspective.

Alex Downey has been an ardent supporter of quality underground music and a prominent purveyor of all things electronic as a DJ, vinyl pusher, and radio presenter for three decades and counting. Alex was a key figure behind the counter at Brighton's legendary Covert Records and has amassed an immense record collection spanning the house, techno and electro spectrum, while his unrestricted sets behind the decks have earned him much respect and a great reputation amongst the global electronic community.

He’s the high priest at his latest business venture; ‘The Temple of Vinyl’, a monumental warehouse stocked floor to ceiling with the black gold, whilst his broad taste and consummate selection skills can be heard on his monthly ‘Voyage De Lux’ radio shows, on Brighton’s 1BTN.FM.

He has performed on iconic stages such as at the legendary ‘Labyrinth’ Festival in Japan, London’s ‘Fabric’ nightclub, and Birmingham’s ‘Atomic Jam’ amongst many more, has been a resident DJ at the highly respected ‘Freerotation’ festival since its inception, and in more recent years has been well received at ‘Houghton’ festival and international festivals ‘Waking Life’ and ‘Ion’.  Alex Downey is the resident Breaking Convention DJ.  Check out his Breaking Convention 2017 mix and Breaking Convention 2019 mix.

Horton Jupiter s British DJ / Collector of records of broad range, predominantly disco / dance music in its all forms, with psychedelic spectacles. After starting out as a balearic / anything goes party DJ in '89, he subsequently spent 7 years playing hypnotic techno & psychedelic breaks in the east London underground party scene, 4 years playing Krautrock and all it's relatives as one of the original Club Kosmische residents, 11 years as head idiot of wild Erisian pop outfit They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, 4 years running the UK's first ever home restaurant, and 5 years as resident at south London's legendary underground tribal dance Puwaba.

ter running his own occasional party Phonomancy, putting out some e.p.s of kosmische edits on BAHNSTEIG XXIII and Magic Wand labels, undertaking a ritual pilgrimage with 68 others in order to immanantize the eschaton, HJ has now started his own record label, and a new collaboration in Leeds ‘Escape Kallisti’, as always dedicated to the sweet spot between high weird and big fun.

Innerstrings is a video/live visuals artist based in Lewes Sussex. Specialising in liquid and live feed visuals, mostly using camcorders and video mixers into VJ software; Innerstrings has toured extensively with Ulrich Schnauss, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Lost Horizons, Josefin Öhrn and the Liberation, Spratleys and The Bluetones.

Interbeing is fascinated by the life worlds of other species. The practice of Interbeing includes moving away from music appreciation as an exclusively human activity. As a result Interbeing creates music for other species, liminal spaces, architectural structures, landscapes and humans. From sound experiments in sacred spaces (most recently in the great pyramid of Egypt) to sound conversations (dialogos) at the key chakra points of the Earth. Expect an array of beats that emulates living inside a nested ecology with all species through sound.

Ruairí is an DJ, multi-instrumentalist, producer of music for medicine journeys, and bird song enthusiast. With musical influences mostly from planet Earth, expect a DJ set that takes you on a playful journey, with soundwaves and beats to bring cosmic resonance to your hearts and souls and dancing feet.

She likes it deep, smooth and unpredictable, emotional, dirty, tribal and lyrical! Clandestina, born in Florence, Tuscany, currently living in South Portugal, has been collecting music since early age.  She starts djing in the Chill Out stages of Psytrance Festivals, to then move to more upbeat sounds, exploring all those sonorities that allow people of different ages and "scenes" to dance in unison to a timeless, yet extremely contemporary, beat.  Tunes with a compelling groove, instruments and lyrics from all over the world, a crescendo of tempo with an irresistible bass, all conspires to create the kind of vibe that is not easy to cathegorize and impossible to let go...

Emerging from the scene of underground electro-techno parties, La Plastique is an eclectic dj and selector. Part of the producer’s duo Jean & La Plastique, they have been performing since 2008 when they started throwing illegal parties in abandoned stables in Rimini. Their punk souls drove them to a very personal way of interpreting electronic music, djing and life.

fob, BadToTheBone & The Bimble Inn. London – Lisbon. Rove, Palms, I Heard Wonders ..........