Come be a part of the dreamland that is Shalanaya, a three-day outdoor festival dedicated to art, music and outdoor activities.

Date

October 3rd - 5th

National + Mid-autumn holiday, full moon

Location

Dianshan Lake Resort, Shanghai

728 Jinshang Lu, Jinze Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai (across Grand View Garden)

What to Expect

Three stages: Psytrance, Chill-out, Techno

More than 60 local and international DJs and musicians

24 hours non-stop music

Workshops, flow art, live bands, fire performances, yoga, art installations, creative market, drum circle and more

Psytrance

Middle Mode
Serbia

Middle Mode is a world famous Psytrance act from Serbia, spinning twisted psychedelic sounds with fat bass and beautiful melodies. Playing at the most renowned psychedelic festivals in Europe like OZORA, Psy-Fi and Summer Never Ends, and releasing tracks under top quality labels like Digital Om and BMSS, Middle Mode is sure to lift us all high above the dance floor.

Bodysnatcher, a local Beijing DJ. He has already performed at local psytrance parties & festivals such as Spirit Tribe & Shalanaya also MIDI festival. In 2016 he and his friends found the local label called: Dark-Moon Tempo, started to make psytrance parties in China. Now he is not only promoting this type of music but also dedicating himself to introducing psychedelic culture into China.

Devon Sūn
Canada

With over a decade of professional DJ experience, Devon takes his musical experiences from the coastal rain forests of British Columbia, Canada, to the tropical jungle islands of Thailand, and in between, the beaches, mountains, and metropolises of Japan, Korea, and China. Often funky and soulful, he blends our ancestral human sound and the nature from which we come, with kundalini awakening bass. "We are organic, we are soulful, we are tribal. Let us dance off the machinery to which we chain ourselves and return as human beings. Let us be free!"

Elfamy
China

ElfAmy is a DJ/Promoter from Shanghai now residing in Beijing. She has a passion and commitment to underground cultures from being exposed to this world since an early age in her hometown. She believes that everyone needs to have positivity and good energy and music can help this happen in your daily life. Amy wants her music to bring people together and dance the night away. Her music styles range from Deep House, Funky Disco,Techno and Psytrance.

Fugui
China

Fugui is from Chongqing. From the beginning, in 2005 Fugui made contact to Psytrance; deeply touched, this very infectious music, changed his life. Over the years he committed his life to Psytrance and the promotion of the electronic music culture. He considers himself as the initiator and organizer of the "carefree Party" and the DJ. He has been trying to combine the laws with Heaven and Earth.

Rob is a SICK / BooM! Records label Dj from Groningen (NL). Being a Dj since the year 2000, he played at many parties in Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, China, USA, Canada, Thailand, Macedonia, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands...
His style is between atmospheric, powerful, deep groovy till melodic, uplifting full-on psychedelic. He has been able to play alongside many great artists of the psychedelic trance scene: Astrix, Xerox & Illumination, Cyrus the Virus, X-Noize, Chemical Drive, Sesto Sento, Eskimo, Fractal Glider, Rastaliens, Principles Of Flight...

Mantis
South Africa

Born and raisedin Johannesburg, South Africa, Mantis is now one of the most influential peoplein the Shenzhen underground music scene. After a music and DJ career that spans many years, over 8 of which have been spent in China, Mantis has and continues to establish numerous projects which helps the music culture of the places where he resides. He is the founder of The Mantis Project and has been the music director for various clubs in Shenzhen.

Masaru
Japan

Masaru is a Japanese DJ/producer based in Romania. He used to be a genuine Hip-Hop DJ. Whenintroduced to the rave culture, the Love Parade in Germany and the BoomFestival in Portugal has impacted and influenced his playing method to hiscurrent electro-rock style. His audience is locked by his excellent expressionof sound supported by his high-end gadgets and machines alongside hishigh-level mixing techniques!

Nico
China

Nico studied art from his childhood.He has strong love toall kinds of art,especiallyelectronic music. from House to Techno, he always can taking hold, years ofexperience in the parties, his music is full of strong appeal. Especially goodat House/Techno music collection and mining music for many years, his musicbegan slowly to form a unique style. His music is always full of innovation andintegration, with its careful orchestration and good mixing, will give youreardrum a nice journey...

Nowei
USA

Hailing from Southern California, Nowei started as a classical piano player. He slowly began the transition from the tradition stricken music of classical piano to modernstyles of music after first listening to rock in his teens. Interested in electronic music, but didn't fully stick until many years later after hearing deep house. Since then, he has listened exclusively to electronic music and has never looked back.

Yoshinaga
Japan

Japanese DJ based in Shanghai since 2003. Founder of Asian Vibes. His sets are meant to be effective to techno crowds, they work like a charm, but expect the flawlessly unexpected. Started project "China Debut Series" in 2013, invited many international artists to Shanghai for their debut performance, while keep exploring the Chinese underground electronic scene with local DJs.

Chill-Out (world music)

Skinny Brown from Popasuda will take the ambient stage for a beautiful live sitar set,playing classical indian raga. Studying sitar as a child, he will take you on an amazing journey of traditional alap,played in Rajistani style.

Sarah Mou

Sarah Mou is a Berber Moroccan self-taught musician and a song writer. She grew up in Morocco, AGADIR where she met 3 ladies and formed the band – Thundersouls. They then decided to move together to China to follow their passion for music.

After 3 years performing all around China and other parts of Asia with the band, Sarah moved to Shanghai where she performs as a part time musician and bright light city dreamer influenced by artists like: Hindi Zahra, Tinariwen, Oum, Yasmine Hamdan, and Alt J

Bone Lhamo Kyap - World Music-Healing Music

Bone Lhamo Kyap grew up in the Gannan highland of Gansu, located between Tibet, Mongolia and the Huangtu high ground. The landscape encompasses galloping rivers, towering snow topped mountains, vast desert and fertile grassland.

His music expresses the natural and pure life of that diverse region. It recalls the soul of his ancestors, the Sangemao tribe of his grandmother's heritage (an ancient tribe of Tibetan nation in the south of Gansu). He believes their primal sound flows deeply in his blood and it flows from the same source as that of the Native American people.

Lhamo Kyap adds his own personal musical sensitivity with his affinity for nature, mixing this with Western elements to create a unique and arresting sound that will take you deep into another world. He is an outstanding vocalist, whose haunting mountain call echoes the spirit of his ancestors.

"The Shalanaya Festival is about expressing yourself through dance, about opening your heart to others, exchanging positive vibes and being your true self. People should expect an extraordinary day and night - a journey of music and dancing, exploration, odd coincidences, synchronicities, meeting and making new friends, re-connecting with old ones and on a deep and satisfying level."
-BLAINE, SHALANAYA FOUNDER