2026 · South Africa
AfrikaBurn
Desert Journey – 8th Day of Creation. Played with 8doc under the open desert sky.
Storytelling Psy
ACTIAS
Every track is a chapter. Every set a story – told through myth, sound and sacred geometry.
01
The Artist
Sound as ritual
Frequency as architecture
Actias is a Berlin-based producer, live performer and DJ working at the intersection of psytrance, psytechno and hypnotic electronic sound design.
Active since 2020, his practice is rooted in modular and analog synthesis – sound treated as a living system, shaped through electricity, intuition and ritualistic repetition.
Rather than following strict genre boundaries, Actias follows narrative flow. Tracks evolve as chapters within a larger journey; albums become worlds – a tribe, a desert, a black circus. That is storytelling psy: hypnotic basslines, psychedelic modulation and ritual structures that guide the dancefloor into deep states of movement and perception.
Alongside the music he builds generative visuals in TouchDesigner, translating sound into form. These audiovisual performances appear selectively at special events – while music remains the core of every live appearance.
- 2020
First steps as Actias
- 2023
Archives of a Tribe
- 2024
Entheogen
- 2025
Translucent Mindscapes · Renate · Klunkerkranich · Compass Festival
- 2026
Desert Journey · AfrikaBurn · Feel Festival · Bucht der Träumer
- Next
Black Circus
02
Music
Discography
Hover or tap a cover to open its chapters.
03
Live
24.07.2026
Feel Festival
Ritual set on the 8doc Fire Stage.
2026
Bucht der Träumer
Temple of Love – a four-hour journey.
Selected performances 2025
- Baumuda Baume Kollektivchen
- Klunkerkranich Variety
- Renate Culture Circus
- Compass Festival Sandmann Kollektiv & KUR Leipzig
- Johnny Knüppel Culture Circus
- Beate Uwe Culture Circus
Collaborations
- digitalsteak feat. Actias – Dark Circle FASE Gathering Opening
- Actias feat. Meowcrobe – Onyx Orbital
- Actias feat. Anormic – Geometry of Illusion
04
Stagebau
The story doesn't end at the decks. Actias doesn't just play stages – he builds them.
Several stages already stood under open skies: geometric structures of wood, fabric and light, built by hand to turn a dancefloor into a temple. With the 8doc collective, many more are on their way.
Built
Stages already raised – sacred proportions, UV fabrics and hand-made structures that carried whole nights.
With 8doc
Every structure is a collective effort – planned, built and torn down together, leaving no trace.
Coming
New temples are already being drawn. Follow the journey on Instagram to see them rise.
05
8doc Collective
Actias is part of 8doc – a collective of artists, musicians and builders creating psychedelic spaces together.
Two serpents, one infinite eight. Music, visual art, self-built stages and gatherings: from the Fire Stage at Feel Festival to the dust of AfrikaBurn, 8doc keeps building new places to dance.
@8doc.art on Instagram ↗
06