====== Haptic ======

🎭//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.

🔥 Chants, bones, drones, blood, desire, and fire — this is the domain of the Shaman Monster.  
🌀 In a world increasingly secular and mechanized, the Shaman Monster regresses joyfully, inviting listeners to reconnect with ancient ritual through techno.

> _“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.”_

===== 📀 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

===== 🎪 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.

===== 📰 News & Media Links =====
  * [[https://nyxfestival.com.au/music/artists/haptic/|Artist Profile – NYX Festival]]  
  * [[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

===== 🔗 External Links & Press Kits =====
  * [MyPressKit](https://www.mypresskit.info)