Tarantist

Originally, tarantism was specific incidents of mass hysteria in Italy over a period of several hundred years, supposedly brought on by local spiders, that resulted in people compulsive dancing until they collapsed from exhaustion. Tarantism is the compulsion to dance: being pulled in by an experience so throughly that it can only be expressed through movement. Anyone who helps facilitate that experience in others is a tarantist, whether through music, promoting or creating immersive environments, becoming a conduit for the energies that motivate us to dance. Carl Keys, aka Tarantist, seeks to express his love of movement through high energy journeys, challenging audiences to lose themselves on the way. Although he focused initially on rolling fulltime & halftime drum & bass, as well as dubstep, he has expanded his attention in the last few years to techno, and more recently, to breaks.