Storytelling Psy
Every track is a chapter. Every set a story – told through myth, sound and sacred geometry.
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.
First steps as Actias
Archives of a Tribe
Entheogen
Translucent Mindscapes · Renate · Klunkerkranich · Compass Festival
Desert Journey · AfrikaBurn · Feel Festival · Bucht der Träumer
Black Circus
Hover or tap a cover to open its chapters.
Next date
Hosted by Luminara Labs – ecstatic, psychedelic, sex-positive. Actias travels to Switzerland to play his new, unreleased album live for the first time.
With Buster · Chinchilla · Mayo Deva · Molunar · Mycelia · Prodelic · Vaelien · Xamax
Desert Journey – 8th Day of Creation. Played with 8doc under the open desert sky.
Ritual set on the 8doc Fire Stage.
Temple of Love – a four-hour downtempo & psydub journey for an open-flow ceremony.
More stages 2026
Selected performances 2025
Collaborations
The story doesn't end at the decks. Actias doesn't just play stages – he builds them.
In 2026 he led the build of the Anglerfish Stage – a hand-made wooden creature with glowing eyes and a DJ booth in its jaws, built with @velo.wood and the 8doc family. Then he played on it.
With 8doc he was part of the Pregnant Lady in the Sand at AfrikaBurn, the collective's stage in Tankwa Town for three years running. Many more structures are on their way.
Stages already raised – sacred proportions, UV fabrics and hand-made structures that carried whole nights.
Every structure is a collective effort – planned, built and torn down together, leaving no trace.
New temples are already being drawn. Follow the journey on Instagram to see them rise.
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 ↗On Instagram
