The Commercial Hippies aka Anton Raubenheimer and Gareth Tacon started their musical history together DJing breakbeat at various parties in and around Cape Town South Africa.

After a couple years of DJing the 2 decided to try their hand at producing and soon after the concept of The Commercial Hippies was born.

Their first release “Where dreams come from” on Nano Records received a great response from trance lovers the world round and instantly caught the attention of many a psy-trance ear.

Since these early days TCH have grown from strength to strength and have released a number of extremely well received tracks such as “Dr. Freakenstein”, “One Step” and “When the shit hits the fan” to name a few.

After being in the studio for the better half of 2005 and the early months of 2006 they finally released their intricately detailed debut album “If you cant stand the heat, get out of the chai room” on Nano Records and have been performing on the world stage ever since.

At the moment the Hippies have just finished writing their 2nd album “From Beyond” which will be out in mid 2009.