Flooting Grooves

HI THERE EVERYONE!
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FLOOTING GROOVES is PEARCE VAN DER MERWE, born in Cape Town, South Africa.
He has been surrounded by music all his life. After having tried various intruments
at a young age including violin, piano and french horn he finally settled on the silver flute, heavily influenced by an encounter with Jethro Tull and the green and meaningful.



Jamming with Sean Strydom(acoustic guitar, electric bass) and his step brother Eliot Short (violinist, vocalist) the acoustic trio INFUSIONS was born. After the last few
gigs in Cape Town he left again for Europe where he floated and flooted in places like London, Edinburgh and finally settling for a 2 year course in Music Composition and Technology at the APM school in North Italy.
The next stop was Amsterdam and it is
here that he came into contact with the Trance scene, after a mindblowing experience
at a party in a church in Ruigoord.



Amsterdam is definitely a meeting point and so it its not surprising that one comes across like minded people, in this case Dan Symons and Ajja Leu two musicians just
getting into computers and production based in Lausanne, Switzerland. So with Moreno and Gaspard(who had in the meantime founded PEAK RECORDS with Tanya and Ajja)
the PEAKING GODDESS COLLECTIVE was born. The Collective played at various parties
in and out of Switzerland as an organic live-act playing from chill to downtempo to groove-based psytrance. From here everyone branched into other projects while keeping the Collective alive. Dan branched into dub (DYMONS) and nighttime psy (DRAGONS), Gaspard and Ajja started humourous, psychedelic project YABYUM (AJJA as solo live-act too), Moreno continued as MASTER MARGHERITA doing deep ambient, downtempo grooves and ethno beats.



First liveset for FLOOTING GROOVES was feb.2005 at TWISTED GROOVES in Geneva. His style incorporates ambient, downtempo, chill, funk,
groovy psytrance and progressive still using live flute at most gigs. He plays at parties
in Switzerland and around the globe, highlights in the last couple of years include (starting from most recent):



PRIYA(SHATTERED BARRIERS AFTERPARTY) 7 March 2010
SHATTERED BARRIERS (London) 6 March 2010
CONSCIOUSNESS OF UNITY (London) 06 Feb 2010
MINISTARSTVO PSIHODELIJE (Croatia) 05 Feb 2010
SHANTI V.2.8 RAINBOW PEOPLE (Rome) 16 Jan 2010
UNIVERSO PARALELLO (Brazil) Jan 2010
BACK TO WOOZ (Zurich) 25 December 2009
FEATHERSTONE CASTLE PARTY (Nrth England) 6 Dec 2009
SENTIMONY ALT SPACE (Kiev, Ukraine) 21 Nov 2009
COSMIC (Edinburgh, Scotland) 13 Nov 2009
TRIBE OF FROG 9TH ANNIVERSARY (Bristol, UK) 26 Sept 2009
EDEN FESTIVAL (Scotland) 4-6 Sept 2009
AMAZON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Switzerland) 29 Aug 2009
LATE SUMMER LOVE DANCE 3 (Berlin) 26 Aug 2009
LEAGUE FOR SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY (Ukraine) 17 July 2009
MINISTRY OF PSYCHEDELIA FESTIVAL (Croatia) 5 July 2009
SOLSTICE FESTIVAL (Amsterdam) 21 June 2009
ANTARIS DIMENSION (Turin, Italy) 13 June 2009
THE PEAK EXPERIENCE (Hamburg, Germany) 9 May 2009
VORTEX TRANCE ADVENTURE (Cape Town, South Africa) 11 April 2009
ALIEN SAFARI-THE MASQUED BALL (Cape Town) 28 Feb 2009
NYE PRISM REZONANCE (Cape Town) Jan 2009
NOISY RADICALS (Cape Town)20 Dec.'08
SPINNING Festival (Italy) 1 Nov.'08
SYNOPS EFFECT (Moscow) 25 Oct.'08
LIBRA BLACK MOON PARTY (Switzerland) 27 Sept.'08
TESMOFORIA (Italy) 20 Sept.'08
LYSERGIC ENIGMA (London) 19 Sept.'08
BOOM Festival (Portugal) Aug.'08 - Peaking Goddess Collective
AL-ANDALUS FESTIVAL (Spain) 1-3 Aug. '08
WICKERMAN FESTIVAL (Scotland) 24-26 July '08
PALEO FESTIVAL - Peaking Goddess Collective(Switzerland)
FESTIVALINO (Switzerland) 20 July'08
ANTARIS PROJECT (Germany) 11-14 July '08
SPACE PIRATES REVOLUTION (France 11 July)
FORFREEINNATURE by Mystic Tribe part 2(Germany)5 July '08
CHIANTI SUMMER SOLSTICE (Italy) 21-22 June '08
SUNRISE CELEBRATION (UK) 29-31 May '08
FREAKY DRAGONS (France) 9-11 May'08
FRAKA-HERTZ - Peaking Goddess Collective (Volkshaus, Zurich) 5 April '08
SOMA SONIC (Liverpool, UK) 19 Jan. '08
MIRROR MASK (London) 31 Dec.'07
BARAKA (Oxford, UK) 10 Nov.'07
PEGANUM HARMALA (Tuscany, Italy) 6 Oct. '07
WAVEFORM PROJECT (Devon, England) 14-16 Sept. '07
FORGOTTEN RITUAL (Switzerland) 25 Aug. '07
FESTIVALINO (Switzerland) 28 Jul.'07
WICKERMAN FESTIVAL (Scotland) 20 Jul.'07
PIRATES REVOLUTION (France) 14 Jul.'07
FLOATING MIRROR RELEASE PARTY (Switzerland) 6 Jul.'07
MAGICAL GARDEN OF SOUND (Switzerland) 30 Jun.'07 with Master Margherita
RUIGOORD SOLSTICE PARTY (Amsterdam) 23 June '07
LIFE FESTIVAL (Ireland) 14-16 June'07
ORGANIC GROOVES SESSION 2 (Switzerland) 27 May '07
ELECTRIC GARDEN (Cape Town, S. Africa) 5 May'07
CORNER BAR (Cape Town) 29 April '07
MNEMOSYNE (Cape Town) 18 March'07
CHIKEN SCRATCH (Cape Town) 17 March.'07
GROOVY TROOPERS & FREERANGE (Cape Town) 10 March'07
LONG STREET FESTIVAL (Cape Town) 3 March'07
MNEMOSYNE (Cape Town) 2 March'07
ALIEN SAFARI (Cape Town) 24 Feb.'07
NEW YEARS FREAKS BLAST (Portugal) NYE '06-07
.AND FROGS FELL FROM THE SKY (Amsterdam,Oct.'06)
ZOOM (Switzerland, Aug.'06)
BOOM Festival (Portugal,'06),
WORLD PEOPLE (France,July'06)
LIFE festival (Ireland,June'06)
BELLALUNA (Switzerland,June'06)
HIGH-IN-THE-SKY (Switzerland, April'06)
SOULCLIPSE (Turkey,March'06)
ALIEN SAFARI-TRANCEGRESSION (S.Africa,
Feb.'06)
BEARTRAP (S.Africa,Feb.'06)



SMILINC XMAS (Switz.,Dec.'05)
SYNERGY PROJECT(with Peaking Goddess Collective)- (London,Oct'05)
NAMASTE STUBNITZ (Amsterdam,Sept.'05)
ATMOSPHERE (Switz.July'05)
SOLSTICE RUIGOORD (Amsterdam,June'05)



After a very successful debut album 'Upsyde Downe', he now presents his 2nd album 'Psydeburns' to be released on Peak Records, the 27 November 2009. Distribution Arabesque.



Here's a list of online shops where the album will be available:



http://psyshop.com/
http://www.chaosunlimited.co.uk/
http://www.beatspace.com/
http://www.amboworld.com/
http://saikosounds.com/
http://www.unicorn-music.net/
http://www.psy-harmonics.com.au/wipv3_6/page2/show.jsp?id=71156&db=Entries
http://www.symbiose-pt.com
http://cdbaby.com/
https://psy-buy.com/
http://www.sofasound.ch/index.php
http://www.psytrax.com/
http://psyway.ru/



THE FOLLOWING ARE DIGITAL STORES FOR DOWNLOADING:



iTunes
http://www.audiojelly.com/index.cfm?action=compilations.cfm&id=2968
http://www.beatsdigital.com/index.php?album_id=8003
http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Flooting%2BGrooves/download/
http://www.resonantvibes.com/store.php?action=label&id=972



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