DJ Mooncup: 22 Moons Minimix by Ignota

A minimix of hypnotic Italian music inspired by the Italian town of Mondaino (Mount of Deer or Diana) where a crescent-shaped piazza bears an image of the moon inlaid in its paving stones; the open end of the crescent faces south and is centred on the church tower, which is askew to the building. According to Mario Pazzaglini, the image "functions in the worlds of both the old and new religions, paganism and Catholicism. In this gesture both worlds are noted and united in a scheme that can be seen as a 'moon dial', a device that relates in a symbolic geographic way to the various cycles and changes of the moon. This entire town is still a temple to the moon and thereby Diana."

For DJ Mooncup, DJing can be a bit like scrying: "sometimes things coalesce out of chaos and I kind of spot these patterns in what I've been discovering, which makes me want to share them with other people. Often I find they tie in somehow to wider events, sometimes astrological ones, and in this case it seemed to fit the Pisces full moon very well."

DJ Mooncup explores the middle ground between techno and trance, moving beyond to encompass all things dark, weird and hypnotic. A sense of humour and 303-based acidic melodies, as well as industrial heft, are cornerstones of their sets. A resident on Bristol's Noods Radio and a regular at London's Rye Wax, plus squat parties and fundraisers across the UK, their sets aim for shared catharsis, building energy in a feedback loop with the audience.