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 ====== Haptic ======
-//Haptic is a producer and vocalist from Newcastle Australia.//
+🎭//Haptic is a producer, vocalist, and live act from Newcastle, Australia.//
+===== 🧬 Biography =====
+Haptic blends esoteric vocals with hypnotic techno, drawing from both European progressive and Australian bush influences. His alter ego, **The Shaman Monster**, emerged as an artistic experiment that evolved into a ritualistic sonic persona — a primal invocation of ancestral memory through sound.
-===== Biography =====
+🔥 Chants, bones, drones, blood, desire, and fire — this is the domain of the Shaman Monster.
-//he Shaman Monster is an alter ego of the vocalist and producer Haptic. Beginning as an artistic experiment which quickly spun out of control, the Shaman Monster has become an animalistic expression of modern form ritualism. In an increasingly “enlightened” and secular world, the Shaman Monster wants to regress, and it invites you to join it. Revivify the ancient, joyously embrace the anti secular, and sink into a sonic web of ritualised techno.
+🌀 In a world increasingly secular and mechanized, the Shaman Monster regresses joyfully, inviting listeners to reconnect with ancient ritual through techno.
-Chants, bones, drones, blood, desire, and fire- this is the musical domain of the Shaman Monster.
+> _“We shared and celebrated our lives for thousands of years this way until the dawn of machines and computation, when we collectively started to forget. But the Shaman Monster remembers — and deep down, so do you.”_
-We shared and celebrated our lives for thousands of years this way until the dawn of machines and computation, when we collectively started to forget.
+===== 📀 Notable Releases =====
+  * '''2025''' – ''Reverse Rituals VA - Compiled by Haptic'' – Frisson Records
+  * '''2024''' – ''Synthetic Shamanism'' – Frisson Records
+  * '''2024''' – ''Rituals of Regression'' – Recovery Collective
+  * '''2023''' – ''Blood Signal'' (feat. Haptic vocals) – Marc DePulse remix
+  * '''2022''' – ''Echoes of the Bone'' – Independent
-But the Shaman Monster remembers, and deep down, so do you.//
+===== 🎪 Gigs & Festivals Played =====
+Haptic has performed at a range of underground and transformational festivals across Australia:
+  * NYX Festival
+  * Puzzles
+  * Dragon Dreaming
+  * Resonant Frequency
+  * Earth Frequency
+  * Lab Leaked Beats
+His live sets often feature moody, cryptic vocals layered over deep, ritualistic techno — designed to induce frisson and altered states.
-===== Notable Releases =====
+===== 📰 News & Media Links =====
-//A list of key releases. Format: * '''[Year]''' - ''Title of Release'' - [Label]//
+  * [[https://nyxfestival.com.au/music/artists/haptic/|Artist Profile – NYX Festival]]
-  * '''2025''' - ''Example EP'' - [Example Records]
+  * [[https://soundcloud.com/hapticau|Haptic on SoundCloud]]
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/@haptic4928|Haptic on YouTube]]
+===== 🧠 Notes =====
+  * Collaborated with artists such as Fideles, Artbat, Darlyn Vlys, and Marc DePulse
+  * Known for blending melodic techno with bush prog aesthetics
+  * Active with Frisson Records and Recovery Collective
-===== Gigs & Festivals Played =====
+===== 🔗 External Links & Press Kits =====
-//NYX, Puzzles, Dragon Dreaming, Resonant Frequency, Earth Frequency Lab Leaked Beats.//
+  * [MyPressKit](https://www.mypresskit.info)
-===== News & Media Links =====
-  * [[https://example.com/news-article|Article Title - Publication Name, Year]]
-===== Notes =====
-//Any other relevant information.//
-===== Links to external sites or press kits =====
-//Any other relevant information.//
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