HARD FIST (2025)

Creative offspring of the musical fantasies of Tushen Rai and Cornelius Doctor, Hard Fist brings together a passionate, supportive and activist party scene. Celebrating a globalized - but far from rootless - dancefloor where Turkish psychedelia, Lithuanian cold wave, Central African percussion and Indonesian polyphonic chants blend, Hard Fist crosses time and borders with a singular attachment to

the folk music of trance, the kind that marks spiritual gatherings and festive rituals. Shaping the technological meeting of man and machine, the Hard Fist sound brings the experience as much on the dancefloor as in the calm of a Bedouin tent, always off the beaten track, with a free heart and clenched fists.

30/10/2025

WHERE IS ACID ERIC - &

FIRST SINGLE RELEASE - MEET ACID ERIC

12/11/2025

29/10/2025

WHERE IS ACID ERIC
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Release date: 3 dec
Artwork .marsal

Some records are answers to questions no one asked out loud. With Where is Acid Eric, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï deliver a psychedelic missive from a parallel timeline — a time-traveling tribute to Goa’s golden age, filtered through their unmistakable signature.

Returning to their home base Hard Fist, the duo steps into new territory with this release, and yet, it feels like they’ve been heading here all along. This isn’t a retro-fetishist trip, nor a copy-paste homage. It’s a reimagination — of a sound, a space, and most of all, a spirit.

The EP is rooted in the mythic nights of late-80s and early-90s Disco Valley, where British acid house collided with Indian hedonism, where freedom wasn’t a pose but a necessity, and where dancefloors became temporary utopias. But in the hands of Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï, this past gets warped, stretched and reanimated with 2025’s tools and sensitivities.

Across three extended tracks, the duo summons a sound that’s dense yet breathable, tribal yet precise, nostalgic yet futuristic.
They weave Goa’s swirling trance lines with broken rhythms, analog squelches, and post-industrial textures. The acid lines are sharp, but never cliché — more mantra than gimmick. Voices float in and out like half-remembered chants. Basslines slide, hypnotize, and then vanish in a cloud of smoke. It's not a flashback. It's a vision.

The title, Where is Acid Eric, feels like a lost broadcast — part question, part invocation. Eric is a symbol. IS Eric a ghost ? The true legend of a forgotten raver on a dusty Anjuna morning. What matters is the search. The longing. The dance.

Hard Fist, true to its form, continues to blur the lines between ritual and rave, tradition and invention. And with this record, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï don’t just revive a genre — they reconnect with an ideal: dance music as exploration, as transcendence, as resistance.

One foot in the dust, one foot in the cosmos. The answer isn’t important. The trip is.

09/01/2025

HARD FIST TERMINE LE TERMINAL ⚡️

C'est la dernière séance, la fin des haricots, le tour de gloire, on range les violons et on ferme boutique.

Vous l'aurez compris, Hard Fist Records vient fo**re son petit bo**el une dernière fois dans sa Black Box préférée jusqu'au petit matin.

Derrière le booth, on retrouvera les 4 joyeux lurons Tushen Raï, Cornelius Doctor, Warum & Neskeh accompagnés de quelques surprises 🌝

Entre Techno, Early Prog Trans, Goa Body Music, Weird Wave et autres curiosités Acid.. Last Hard Fist Night is waiting for u

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Artwork .marsal
Photo : souvenir Hard Fist Night w/ Martin Noise

23/11/2024

REHAB by CORNELIUS DOCTOR
Back tonight at with .low (live), & ,
Lock your ticket 🚨🎫
Link in story
See you in heaven ✊

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