Sunday Brunch

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Feb 192018
 

Desert Escape, Mojave, October 2017. Sunday morning, as brunch was being served, I served up this set of grooves.

1. Argus & Ascent – Strong Connection
2. AtYyA – Above the Clouds (AtYyA Remix)
3. Dream Stalker – Dialekt
4. Deep Dive Corp – Rising Sun (Flipside Shine Rmx)
5. Auma – The Old Magick
6. Shanti Maktin Vs. Jimbo – What Vibrations
7. Pitch Black – Lost in Translation (International Observer meets Horace mix)
8. Spy From Cairo – Coming Home
9. Sashuna – Snake Charming
10. Hinkstep – My Forest Queen
11. Estray in Dub – Morning Raga
12. Akasha Experience – Liquid Grip
13. Quanta – Recept (Griff’s Footprints on the Brain Mix)
14. Gaudi – Chaine a Chaine
15. Benny Tones – Fire Fly feat. Mara TK (Opiuo’s Been So Strong in 2008 Remix)
16. Banco de Gaia – All Sleeping (Desert Dwellers Remix)

Ebb

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Jan 312018
 

This was the first half of a live set I played on the chill stage at a desert event called Desert Escape in October 2017. I had been booked for the main stage but couldn’t resist laying down some tunes at the little chill stage that was set up near my camp. I was exploring newly added tunes in my library, just playing around.

Tracklist:

1. Kuba – Dub of the Dreamer
2. Entheogenic – Asherah
3. Dubsalon – Ancient Tongues
4. Guitoud – Citizen
5. EMOG – Mystic Flight
6. Snakestyle & Sweetleaf – Out of Bounds Part 1 Reprise
7. Edamame – At Home
8. Krusseldorf – Ceremony For Broken Robots
9. EMOG – Connecting Particles
10. 5AM – Sapiens
11. Edamame – Indigo Pigments
12. Krusseldorf – Midnight Glitching
13. iinaK – Topaz
14. Pi-project – Gravity

 

Moonrise Embrace

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Mar 242017
 

March is often a favorite month for a Moontribe Full Moon Gathering. The weather can be amazing, not too cold at night and toasty during the day (but not blisteringly so). Lots of people have been hibernating for the winter. If FMG falls on a weekend, it’s practically paving the way for a happy and well-attended event. That’s what this past gathering was like. Well over 1000 people, all smiles, happy to be out amongst friends old and new, enjoying the warmth. The vibe was on point, and I was honored to be invited to play the closing set, which was timed just right to end just after moonrise (hence the title). The energy is a little all over the place, as I was reading the last dregs of energy from the crowd and adjusting accordingly. It was at the end of 24 hours of party, so most people were a little worse for the wear – me included. I’ve learned to accept that the live sets when I’m sleep-deprived may contain a rough mix or two – at least to my ears. I was told many times people enjoyed the track selection so it feels like a good mix to share.

Tracklist:

1. Kaya Project – Deep Kaya (Zen Baboon mix)
2. Desert Dwellers – Bodhi Tree Dub (Amani’s Desert Freak Remix)
3. Deep Dive Corp – Lucsus
4. Squarepusher – Plaistow Flex Out
5. EU – Love Me
6. Boards of Canada – Aquarius
7. Sola Rosa – Scratch Apprentice
8. 3 Wise Monkeys – It’s Gonna Rain
9. Hello Mellow – Eat Sleep Sit Repeat
10. Sixis & Expedizion – Awakening World (Sixis Revision)
11. Beatroots – Nutritious Dub
12. Kangding Ray – Palisades
13. Martins Garden – Jinn
14. Shen – Embrace (Deadbeat’s Soaking in the Dub Mix)
15. Patio – Sofa Bunk Bed
16. The Flashbulb – Parkways
17. Pilgrims of the Mind – Sandcastle
18. Ishdub feat. Davide Cataro – Introspective (Kaya Project Remix)
19. Pitch Black – Filtered Senses
20. D-Echo Project – Howl (Hibernation Mix)
21. Motion Drive – Deep Fried Dub
22. AtYya – Emanating (Hakuu Remix)
23. iinaK – Falling Out
24. Krusseldorf – Rain Across the Gemini
25. Edamame – Indigo Pigments
26. Data Rebel – Icikle
27. Ocoeur – Light

Analog Resonant Poetry

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Sep 172016
 

Another mix from the archives. I played the opening set in a room full of bass music lovers at a local underground LA party series called Another Ridiculous Party in 2015. It’s been a challenge for me to find enough bass music (and resulting tangential genres) to populate a set, which I’m aware is really popular in some circles.  I usually like to switch up my genres quite a bit, but took it as a personal challenge to see if I could put together a set of almost entirely bass music etc. This was that set, recorded live that night and then taken into the studio for additional massaging. It’s pretty energetic as my sets go. I sat with it for more than 6 months, and then had another listen. I danced, as did my husband, so I decided to release it.

I reached out to my buddy Dennis Bunton for mastering and loved what he did with it.

Tracklist:

1. Anchor Hill – Giridhar
2. Quanta – Create Culture
3. Supersillyus – The Proof is in the Pudding (ft. Adam Psybe)
4. Mote – Lamentation
5. Plantrae – Enter the Seed
6. Tipper – Table Flipping
7. Somatoast – Microportal
8. Bwoy De Bhajan – Mubar Camel Liquor
9. Auma – The Old Magick
10. Bluetech – 667 (Kalya Scintilla Mix)
11. Akasha – Liquid Grip
12. Moon Frog – Spirit Animal
13. Kodomo – Concept 1
14. Kalya Scintilla – Way of the Tarot
15. Kaya Project – Nightflower (Kaya Project rmx)
16. KiloWatts – Mother of Thousands

Luminous Moods

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Sep 172016
 

I’ve been sitting on an archive of mixes in the past year, mostly because I could feel my creative flow changing and I wasn’t sure my output was aligned with my input. One of the biggest changes for me is that I’ve crossed over into using Traktor for playing out live most of the time and then mostly use Ableton Live for studio-prepared mixes. I had found my creativity stagnating when using Ableton for DJing, as there’s less room for spontaneous inspiration when perusing one’s music library on the fly. As the activity level of our downtempo crew Floasis has increased in the recent year, I found a camaraderie with my crewmates who almost all use Traktor primarily. It felt like a good time to make the switch and after some deep learning, I began playing out with it this past summer. Things were a little rough at first, but I feel like I’m finding my groove now and have even surpassed my previous records for the longest sets ever. (Latest record: somewhere around 8 hours)

As my confidence stepped up with my tools for playing out, I was finally able to have another listen to these mixes that had been languishing during my growing pains, and this is one of the mixes that came to light and wanted to be published. I’ve stayed away from a lot of bass music in my sets, as I find a lot of it to sound very similar; however, there is a growing amount of this style of music that hits the right notes for me melodically, energetically and tonally. The recorded set this came from was almost twice as long, but as I sat with it I found I much preferred the first half/two-thirds, so that is what is represented here. I took my live recording (via Ableton) and enhanced it further in the studio, including adding a different ending track that was more in line with the flow.

Tracklist:

1. Utero – Entrance
2. Omnimotion – Inner Dub
3. Deep Forest Warrior – To Be With You (ft. Marilyn Fox)
4. Expedizion – Listen to the Deepness
5. Eukarya – Reaching for Light
6. Frederic Robinson – So Close To Being Human
7. Tipper – Life Raft For a Death Trip
8. AtYya – Altar Form
9. Sixis & Shwex – Continuity Field
10. Aligning Minds – In the Wake of Forever
11. Kiyoto – Shinagawa
12. Aes Dana – Jetlag Corporation