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FLOOTING GROOVES is PEARCE VAN DER MERWE, born in Cape Town, South Africa. He has been surrounded by music all his life. After having tried various intruments at a young age including violin, piano and french horn he finally settled on the silver flute, heavily influenced by an encounter with Jethro Tull and the green and meaningful.

Jamming with Sean Strydom(acoustic guitar, electric bass) and his step brother Eliot Short (violinist, vocalist) the acoustic trio INFUSIONS was born. After the last few gigs in Cape Town he left again for Europe where he floated and flooted in places like London, Edinburgh and finally settling for a 2 year course in Music Composition and Technology at the APM school in North Italy. The next stop was Amsterdam and it is here that he came into contact with the Trance scene, after a mindblowing experience at a party in a church in Ruigoord.

Amsterdam is definitely a meeting point and so it its not surprising that one comes across like minded people, in this case Dan Symons and Ajja Leu two musicians just getting into computers and production based in Lausanne, Switzerland. So with Moreno and Gaspard(who had in the meantime founded PEAK RECORDS with Tanya and Ajja) the PEAKING GODDESS COLLECTIVE was born. The Collective played at various parties in and out of Switzerland as an organic live-act playing from chill to downtempo to groove-based psytrance. From here everyone branched into other projects while keeping the Collective alive. Dan branched into dub (DYMONS) and nighttime psy (DRAGONS), Gaspard and Ajja started humourous, psychedelic project YABYUM (AJJA as solo live-act too), Moreno continued as MASTER MARGHERITA doing deep ambient, downtempo grooves and ethno beats.

First liveset for FLOOTING GROOVES was feb.2005 at TWISTED GROOVES in Geneva. His style incorporates ambient, downtempo, chill, funk, groovy psytrance and progressive still using live flute at most gigs. He plays at parties in Switzerland and around the globe, highlights in the last couple of years include (starting from most recent):

FREAKS BLAST (Portugal,New Year'07)
...AND FROGS FELL FROM THE SKY (Amsterdam,Oct.'06)
ZOOM (Switzerland, Aug.'06)
BOOM Festival (Portugal,'06), WORLD PEOPLE (France,July'06)
LIFE festival (Ireland,June'06)
BELLALUNA (Switzerland,June'06)
HIGH-IN-THE-SKY (Switzerland, April'06)
SOULCLIPSE (Turkey,March'06)
ALIEN SAFARI-TRANCEGRESSION (S.Africa, Feb.'06)
BEARTRAP (S.Africa,Feb.'06)

SMILINC XMAS (Switz.,Dec.'05)
SYNERGY PROJECT(with Peaking Goddess Collective)- (London,Oct'05)
NAMASTE STUBNITZ (Amsterdam,Sept.'05)
ATMOSPHERE (Switz.July'05)
SOLSTICE RUIGOORD (Amsterdam,June'05)

Now he presents his Debut Album 'UPSYDE DOWNE' which will be released on PEAK Records in February.

Here's a list of online shops where the album will be available:

http://psyshop.com/
http://www.chaosunlimited.co.uk/
http://www.trance-shop.com/de/catalog/default.php
http://www.beatspace.com/
http://www.amboworld.com/
http://saikosounds.com/
http://www.magneticpresence.com/
http://www.unicorn-music.net/
http://www.psy-harmonics.com.au/wipv3_6/page2/show.jsp?id=71156&db=Entries
http://www.djnexus.com/
http://www.itathens.com/index.php
http://www.symbiose-pt.com/index2.php
http://cdbaby.com/
http://www.ear-rational.com/index.php
http://spacenetwork.sp.funpic.de/Joomla/index.php
http://theconnextion.com/
http://www.soulsonicsounds.com/
http://www.theagriculture.com/store.html
https://psy-buy.com/
http://www.sofasound.ch/index.php
http://www.psytrax.com/
http://www.backroadsmusic.com/
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/
http://www.boomkat.com/
https://cyberset.cc/home.php
http://psyway.ru/
http://iboga.itc.nu/Index.php
http://mikrokosmos-music.ch/shop/index.php?main_page=index
http://www.smilinc.ch/musikstore/mailform/form.html


THE FOLLOWING ARE DIGITAL STORES FOR DOWNLOADING:

http://www.audiojelly.com/index.cfm?action=compilations.cfm&id=2968
http://www.beatsdigital.com/index.php?album_id=8003
http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Flooting%2BGrooves/download/
http://www.resonantvibes.com/store.php?action=label&id=972

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