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.
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The Artist
Actias is named after the moon moth – a creature of the night, drawn to light, its wings drawn in perfect symmetry.
That is the music: storytelling psy. Hypnotic, psychedelic and built with precision. Every album is a world of its own – a tribe, a desert, a black circus – and every track a chapter in it.
Rolling basslines carry ancient myths, clean sound design opens the door to other worlds. On the dancefloor it becomes a journey you don't just hear, you walk through it.
- Sound
- Storytelling Psy
- Collective
- 8doc
- Releases
- 5 concept works since 2024
- Bookable as
- DJ · Live Act
Bio
Dominik Malue
Dominik is the mind behind Actias. He started on the dark, hypnotic side of psychedelic techno with Archives of a Tribe and Entheogen – and grew into telling whole stories with sound.
In 2026 he took Desert Journey to AfrikaBurn with the 8doc collective, played a ritual set on the 8doc Fire Stage at Feel Festival and a four-hour journey in the Temple of Love at Bucht der Träumer. In the studio he works with hardware synths and builds his own visuals in TouchDesigner.
- 2024Archives of a Tribe · Entheogen
- 2025Translucent Mindscapes
- 2026Desert Journey · AfrikaBurn · Feel Festival · Bucht der Träumer
- NextBlack Circus
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Music
Discography
Hover or tap a cover to open its chapters.
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Live
24.07.2026
Feel Festival
Ritual set on the 8doc Fire Stage.
2026
Bucht der Träumer
Temple of Love – a four-hour journey.
Collaborations
- digitalsteak feat. Actias – Dark Circle FASE Gathering Opening
- Actias feat. Meowcrobe – Onyx Orbital
- Actias feat. Anormic – Geometry of Illusion
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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.
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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 ↗
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