Hallucination Before Christmas at The Castle in Ybor City, Florida on Dec. 16, 2017. Credit: Photo by Drunk Camera Guy
James Zabiela, a pioneer of breakbeat and progressive house music who’s since pivoted to techno, comes to Ybor City this weekend to help the Hallucination Before Christmas continue its nearly three-decades running party and canned food drive.

The 45-year-old headlines the revered Halloween-meet-Christmas throwdown where he’s joined by staples of the Tampa dance music scene including Brian Busto, DJ Three, and Monk from Rabbit In The Moon.

Advance ticket sales for Hallucination Before Christmas happening Saturday, Dec. 14 at The Castle in Ybor CIty are done, but Hot Wax shops in Ybor City, Tampa and St. Petersburg—plus Foolish Pride Tattoo Co. in St. Pete and Clearwater—have hard tickets if you don’t want to chance it at the door.

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This article appears in Dec 5-11, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...