Pocah0ntas dj
| Pocah0ntas dj | |
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 profilo p0.jpg Pocah0ntas is a Brazilian DJ and producer based in Italy. She blends psytrance, dark psy and tekno with tribal rhythms and spiritual elements. | |
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| 🏡 Residence | Veneto, Italy |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Brazilian |
| 💼 Occupation | DJ, producer |
| 🌐 Website | https://hyperfollow.com/pocah0ntas |
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aka Pocah0ntas
Anna Da Silva was born in Brazil in 2000. She later moved to Italy, settling in the Veneto region, where she discovered the local underground electronic music scene and the European rave and festival culture.
Career and releases
Pocah0ntas began her career as a DJ and producer in the Italian underground psytrance and tekno circuit, producing tracks with an immediately recognisable style and releasing them on the main music streaming platforms. Here is a summary of her releases:
Chora et Labora (2024)
On 17 July 2024 she releases her debut single Chora et Labora. The title reworks the Latin phrase ora et labora (pray and work), replacing "ora" with "chora" — to cry in Brazilian Portuguese — blending the artist's mother tongue with the European spiritual tradition in a hypnotic ritual driven by a transporting psytrance and a lulling voice. It is a track that makes clear the importance and centrality of every single sound in Pocah0ntas' productions.
The Seed (2025) - concept album
On 22 May 2025 she releases her debut album, The Seed. Structured as a conceptual journey exploring the birth, growth and transformation of consciousness, it moves through forest psy, dark psy and tekno with tribal rhythms and organic sounds. Each track represents an evolutionary phase, from the birth of consciousness to its full expansion:
- The Seed (6:39)
is the seed, the conceptual core of the album from which a consciousness is born in complete fusion and harmony with nature. From the very first track — which also gives its name to the album — Pocah0ntas invites us into a new world of natural sounds merging with human artifice and dance. The Seed calls you to loosen your muscles on the dancefloor, to start moving the earth, to sow new states of consciousness. - Mycelium (6:16)
evokes a kind of underground network of connections and sounds, an exponential growth that occurs through the force that comes from union. Here the dancing tribe is called, from the very first drums, to recognise these connections: the mycelium extends in search of nutrients and, when conditions are favourable, generates, creates, realises itself as a symbiotic network. - Down to the Roots (4:22)
tribalism takes ever-different forms, maintaining the organicity of the sound while simultaneously exploring the depths that generate electricity. Down, towards the roots, and yet right there, in the darkness of the underground, something unexpected happens: what the plant does not retain, what it cedes to the earth without knowing it, becomes nourishment for something greater. Roots do not only absorb — they give. And from this silent, invisible gift, a current is born. - Ancestral Wind (3:10)
an ancestral wind that carries the scent of vivid novelty arrives, blows and gives new life to the substrate. It creates an oscillation — not random, but intentional — that carries fragments of ancient memory and deposits them in the present. Tribal percussions keep the body anchored on the beat, while the high frequencies oscillate like electric air. The track closes downward, dense and dark: the wind has passed, but it has left something behind, like a tremor in the roots. - Matoaka (5:29)
speaks of identity, of returning to oneself. In tradition, "Matoaka" was the private name of the Native American known historically as Pocahontas. In the Powhatan tradition, the private name was the soul: it was not given to strangers, not spoken aloud. Pocah0ntas includes it respectfully in the album, as consciousness does with its own origin: it hides it, then allows it to be sought and revealed. The track opens in shadow, almost held back, then rises: around the first minute something ignites and the spectrum opens upward, luminous, full of air and harmonics. - Tonatiuh's Pulse (5:54)
after finding oneself, one must learn to trust something greater: Tonatiuh was the Aztec god of the sun — not a symbol of warmth or gentle light, but a cosmic force that demanded nourishment in order to keep rising. The track is born like a dawn: the energy spreads, held back. Then, around 44 seconds, everything grows louder: the low frequencies triple at once, the kick enters like a heartbeat remembering it exists. From that moment it never lets go. The pulse of the title is exactly this: a constancy. The sun does not waver, does not stop mid-sky. It pulses. And the consciousness, having named itself in Matoaka, learns here to synchronise with something more rhythmic and ancient than itself, letting go. - Earthcore (6:07)
there is something in human beings that does not always allow them to be satisfied: we want to dig, to discover, to bring to light what is hidden. Earthcore is that desire without greed. It opens luminous, almost like an invitation, then the bass doubles at once and we can turn off the light: it is a return to the mycelium but in other forms, as visitors this time. The consciousness that has found its name, that has entrusted itself to the cosmic pulse, now learns to rediscover the depths of the earth. The track oscillates between luminous openings and falls into darkness without ever settling. - Looped Mind (4:27)
even when the journey ends, the mind never stops entirely: it circles, returns, resumes. Looped Mind is the darkest and most hypnotic track on the album: the brightness remains low throughout, the bass enters immediately and never lets go, the BPM slows as if time has lost its thread. The high frequencies, like thoughts, emerge sometimes slowly, sometimes unexpectedly. It is consciousness observing itself going in circles, not with anguish, but with that irrational clarity that arrives only when you stop resisting the loop. - Ethereal Storm (6:31)
began as an experiment for Pocah0ntas: test sounds that remained, because in some way hypnotic, both determined and lulling; too alive to stay silent. It became a kind of closing bonus track to the album, a cool-down of consciousness after a long journey, a workout. It opens lower than anything else on the album, almost a whisper, then rises without haste. It is an ethereal storm you do not want to shelter from, because little by little you become part of it.
Canticum Mortis (2025)
On 18 July 2025 she releases Canticum Mortis in collaboration with Abyssguu, an Italian artist and live performer rooted in the tekno scene. The track begins with Abyssguu's ascending electronic melodies and ends with Pocah0ntas' psychedelic tribal rhythms, on spiritual and evocative notes. Released in collaboration with ADA Music.
The track is born from the encounter between two worlds: Abyssguu builds the first four minutes on ascending electronic melodies, percussive and layered, a territory that rises searching for something. Then, at 4:22, Pocah0ntas enters — not with an explosion, but like a wave silently replacing another. The BPM drops, the rhythm becomes more tribal and heavy, the mid frequencies grow to the most melodic peak of the entire track. It is the moment the song becomes mystical, ritual, evocative, until the very last second.
Dança da Espera (2025)
On 7 October 2025 she releases Dança da Espera with artist (singer, DJ, fire performer) Luccyfire, born from the artistic encounter at their first shared live performance at Treviso Pride 2025. Luccyfire's evocative voice intertwines with Pocah0ntas' psychedelic trance in a track about waiting, transformation and rebirth. The title says it all: the dance of waiting. And the track embodies it fully: atmospheric psytrance, tribal and, thanks to the voice, touching the territories of ethereal wave and psybient, where psychedelic trance meets almost ceremonial vocal elements. The voice does not sing in the traditional melodic sense but accompanies and guides through the waiting, like a reassuring and inciting presence.
Push It – Remix (2025)
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Also in 2025 she collaborates with Madklip on the remix of Push It, released by Eklettica Records, an underground label from Emilia-Romagna. It is her first collaboration with a label outside her main network.
The challenge is to reinterpret a dubstep track in a trance key: Pocah0ntas dismantles and rebuilds it into psytrance, with goa and progressive influences. The original dubstep survives, maintaining the track's vitality, while everything else becomes Pocah0ntas' territory. The wobble bass and drop structure of the original give way to a subsonic, tribal kick, with melodies that deliver dense and hypnotic resonances.
Upcoming releases
Pocah0ntas is already working on a new album: on her Instagram stories she has shared previews of new tracks, both through videos of her Ableton projects and by testing unreleased tracks in her live sets (e.g. Slxt Queer Party - Grindhouse Padova).
In her bio, the producer declares a direction of "going darker and faster". At a live event by Shentetik at LZO Brewery in Conegliano (TV), Luccyfire performed with fire to the sounds of Ethereal Storm featuring the voice of Clodette dj-singer: it appears to hint at an upcoming track born from new collaborations.
Events and Live
Pocah0ntas dj is mainly active in northern Italy with documented performances in Belluno, Conegliano, Treviso, Padova, Pordenone, Venice, Imola and Bologna. In 2025 she participated in Treviso Pride 2025 and appeared as a guest on the Ekletticast podcast by Eklettica Records, an Emilia-Romagna label, with the liveset video available on Youtube.
She is also a regular presence at Shentetik events at LZO Brewery in Conegliano, where she has closed the stage with her psytrance for the fourth consecutive edition.
In 2026 she is confirmed at Belluno Pride on 13 June and at Fantàsia Festival (Badia Tedalda, AR, 18–22 June), a multidisciplinary festival of underground art, music and culture.
