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Press Release: ====================================================== Midrange Freedom Fighters @ ICE freedom dance festival ====================================================== So who exactly are the Midrange Freedom Fighters? Part underground psychedelic trance terrorists, part all-night party people, but mostly South Africa's first live psychedelic trance act. Blending the mesmerising melodic structures and synthesized soundscapes of trance with the hard danceability of techno, and a little big beat funkiness thrown in for good measure, the Midrange Freedom Fighters are a collective of some of Johannesburg's finest cutting edge dance music producers. Fronted primarily by Jeff Fletcher (aka Splonge) and Pierre Zeeman (aka paracyc) and featuring frequent collaborations with some of the other trancients on the scene: Starspine, Zentribe etc. Noms de guerre aside, the MFF have considerable combat experience within the South African dance music scene with track releases on the early Get The Funk Out albums, and dj work starting at the old 4th World and almost every trance party that has happened in Johannesburg since the mighty 303 first graced our sunny shores. There have also been several live appearances including Carfax, Earthdance, Synergy (New Year in Cape Town), Rustlers Valley and now the ICE freedom dance festival. The culmination of this will be the Millennium party in Cape Town, organised by Vortex where the MFF will be playing alongside some of the world's best psychedelic trance producers (Astral Projection, Etnica, The Green Nuns of the Revolution etc.) Internationally, the trance movement has gained significant momentum since the early days of beach parties in Goa. There have been parties in Israel recently with up 40,000 ravers all coming together under the banner of trance.Even hardened house fanatics are being subverted to trance with the inclusion on the most recent Sasha and Digweed compilation of tracks by legendary trance dj Tsuyoshi Suzuki and from the Flying Rhino stable, both well known to tranceheads around the world and frequent visitors to these fair shores. Because of the incredible energy and spirit displayed by South African party people, South Africa (particularly the Vortex parties in Cape Town) is regarded by international djs and trance producers as being one of the unmissable stops on a circuit of revels that carries them to all four corners of the planet. The MFF have kicked it alongside such luminaries, entirely holding their own and raising that spirit and energy into a frenzy. It is this exuberance which the MFF are currently hard at work distilling and shaping in their underground sonic laboratories for the release of their debut album later this year. ======================== Contact : Jeff Fletcher mailto:jeff@citec.net