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A collection of techno sets, representing one end of my range, not the most frequented but certainly not neglected.  

ENJOY!

Ben Annand Techno Sets

Drum & Bass holds a special place in my heart. The music carries such a powerful message, even when there are no lyrics. I had nonstop chills playing this set, and I hope it can uplift you in the way it does me. Thank you to the Silk Road for having me :)

FULL TRACKLIST:
1	Kasra - I Dont Know What The Future Brings (Original Mix)
2	Operate, Duskee, Degs - Diamonds (Original Mix)
3	Kyo, Break - Who Decides (Original Mix)
4	SiLi - Whatever It Takes (Original Mix)
5	Particle - Nosedive (Original Mix)
6	Droptek - Sentient (Joe Ford Remix)
7	Bcee, Charlotte Haining - Remind Me (S.P.Y Remix)
8	Total Science, War - What Now? (Original Mix)
9	SiLi, Colour of Rice - You And Me feat. Colour Of Rice (Original Mix)
10	Villem - Sayu (Original Mix)
11	Klinical - Control (Original Mix)
12	J Select - Take Me Away (Original Mix)
13	Sustance, Visages - Point Of View (Sustance Remix)
14	Rizzle - Palisade (Original Mix)
15	Tempza, Charlotte Haining, Bcee - In the Moment (Monrroe Remix)
16	Particle - Wound (Original Mix)
17	Circumference - Stesm (Original Mix)
18	Droptek - Back 2 U (Original Mix)

Silk Road DnB Set Sept 2021

Live in Long Beach for IndulgEnt presents "The Makeout Party Fridays", a weekly party at a dope little open air venue. Great crowd, great music all night and this was my closing set. Enjoy!

Sorry there's no tracklist - if you want to know any of the songs Shazam it or just comment and ask me and I will ID the track :)

Live in Long Beach - Sept 2021

Low-Key Reservations ː Vol 12 - MIXED BUSINESS | Neo Soul

On Friday, October 1st, Tropical Events turned 23 in Portland, at our 90th in-person event since October 1998!

Closing out the night from 1:30-3:00am was Jamie Schwabl, Tropical's resident DJ newly transplanted from LA to Portland.

I really love what she did with it, slowing things down a bit with super groovy, deep, unique music that dancers were really vibing with.  

People need to hear different music and Jamie always delivers that, I loved seeing her so locked in with the crowd at the end, and was delighted to also hear many compliments to her ♡

You can check out Jamies music on Soundcloud at @jamieschwabl
Follow Jamie on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/jamieschwabl/
Like Jamie's Artist Page at: https://www.facebook.com/jamieschwabl9

Pictures from the event are here: tinyurl.com/trop23pics

Catch Jamie and an amazing lineup at our next event - Tropical Oasis Retreat Big Island Dec 15-19

For info please request to join the group here:

facebook.com/groups/torm2019

Jamie Schwabl at Tropical 23-Year Portland, OR Oct 1 2021

Wulfpack features one of SoCals underground secrets on the desert circuit, Psilovybe. He continues to impress with his selections and mixing techniques. Enjoy the journey!
BIO: One of the founding members of Simpler Times Events in San Diego, Psilovybe has been DJing and producing events since 2010. He is known for his dark psychedelic sets, playing techno, progressive, psytrance, trance, drum n bass, and breaks. While usually being spotted turning up dust in the Mojave desert, he has also been seen playing tunes as far north as Mount Shasta and east in Las Vegas. Early this year, Psilovybe was added as a resident DJ for the Desert Escape crew. With a wide range of sounds, he is prepared to bring the weirdness at any hour!
Follow:
https://www.facebook.com/Psilovybe/
soundcloud.com/psilovybe

Wulfcast 092 - Psilovybe

My closing techno set from the Moontribe Sunday Vibe party in July 2021, hosted by Treavor Moontribe. Features a couple of original tunes from my release on Archon Records

Image by @the_real_theory

dela Moon @ Moontribe Sunday Vibe (July 2021)

I was truly inspired to play this deep and psychedelic techno under the Full Moon. Thanks to all for their magical dance floor energy.  **Live in Love **

Live@Moontribe_Dec_2021

Like many friends, I'm missing Matthew Parkey from the physical world today.  

The soul of the desert, Matthew was always friendly and inclusive.  Always.  At a time when I felt I was told to be playing this way or that in the desert, he allowed me to be free.  At a time when I was not feeling included, he made me feel home.

His events, to me, were the first notable series of desert events outside of fmg.  They were not perfectly organized by any means but they were definitely organized with love by one of the most loving people I knew, and I think that's what stuck with most of us.  He was definitely a visionary, and in more recent years he spent much of his time making music.  

I always deal with pain and loss with music, so this evening I will release my set from one of Matthew's events, Beora, in Oct 2014.  I think it's my favorite set I played for him.

This set is a nighttime set despite the picture, one of the few sets I started with an ambient track but it's definitely techno from 2 minutes in

Rest in power Matthew Parkey, I wlll be looking for your light when I gaze up at the Moon and Stars <3  

*Picture by Jess Monster

Ben Annand Live at Beora Oct 2014, In Memory of Matthew Parkey

My return to Moontribe after 4 years!  Hey it ain't so easy to pull off living in Oregon... but good news, my venue booking business has me in California at least once a month so far this year :)

Anyway, it was great to be back!  For a March Full Moon this was a little more intimate than I was expecting - still a few hundred people there on a beautiful Thursday night though!

Musically this is on the faster,(130bpm) harder end of my range.  I did also slip in some breakbeats at the beginning and in the middle.

A lot of people haven't heard me play this style, and I always get a couple surprised comments when I play like this.  It's good to keep people on their toes!

I'll post the track list soon, but it takes a minute, and I wanted to get this up before it gets late :)  

I had a really great time here, and I danced for hours.  It was the first time I'd been in front of a huge system since the pandemic, sounded so good out there!  

Hope to be back for more soon  :)

Ben Annand Live FMG March 2022

It was so great to be back at Full Moon Gathering to celebrate 31-Year Anniversary!

26 of those years I have been an active Moontribe resident DJ, but it had been almost 2 years since my last visit.  Living in Oregon  makes things difficult, the stars have to align just right... and they did!

This is one of my favorite sets I've played!  I dug hard through my music, taking advantage of a months-long process of organizing and labeling my entire music collection.

Many thanks to the artist for producing the beautifully hypnotic tracks I wove together on this mix!  Without you, there is no mix, and there are no DJs <3

1 - Tribal Dance Pt. 2 - Einzelkind, Christian Burkhardt

2 - Little Helper 403-2 - Butane, Greg Ah Ree

3 - Stars Flames During The Apocalypse (Rmx) - Highest Sound Levels

4 - Vorsprung durch Hektik - Extrawelt

5 - Frog on the Run (Extrawelt plane Remix) - Fuzzion

6 - Old Giants - K-Fel

7 - Algodonles Blue Sky - Circulation

8 - Crunch n Munch - Twist3d

9 - Ceza - Clone Kent, kallin

10 - Minimal Habit (Damolh33 Remix) - Miguel Serrano

11 - Mathematical Symbols (Al Bradley's 3am Deep Remix) - Al Bradley, Swaab

12 - Go Home and Get It (Alexi Delano Remix)	- Majak, Diego Knows

13 - Neverhood - Dip

14 - Levitation (Monarc Remix) - Christopher Hermann

15 - Ambition - Milos Pesovic

16 - Twilight - Robert Babicz

17 - Rotational Orbit - Spiros Kaloumenos

18 - The Tunnel (Under the World) - Staffan Linzatti

19 - Kreatur (Hd Substance Remix) - Deepnaut

20 - Reset (DJ Emerson Remix) - Diego Negretti

21 - Dot - Noaria, Asio

22 - Early 69 - Damolh33

23 - Slob (Nick Curly Remix)	- Zoo Brazil

24 - Stage 49 - Epi Centrum

25 - Nurk - James Ruskin

26 - Mr Machine - Carl Finlow

27 - Hydrogen - Hallow

28 - Space Owl - Paul Ritch

29 - Lyd - D. Diggler

30 - Lunar Phase 04 - ZRK

31 - EGO - Danniie

32 - Reality Surpasses Fiction (Cari Lekebusch Remix) - Nima Khak

33 - Bizarrism - Jonathan Calvo

34 - Disidrose - Daniel Sbert

35 - Underrated - Dani Sbert

36 - Simulation (DJ Dextro Remix) - A.Paul	

37 - Beats And Pieces 24 - HD Substance

38 - Pattern 001 - Hollen	

39 - Andromeda - DJ M.A.X	

40 - Miner - Orion, Cari Lekebusch	

41 - Dimension - Dani Sbert

42 - Machines (A.Paul Remix)	- Cave Djz

43 - Cruise Control - Paul Ritch

44 - Not There (Chris Liebing Remix)	- Anfisa Letyago

45 - Lava - Daniel Sbert

46 - Riddle feat. Claudio PRC - Claudio PRC, Blazej Malinowski


Photo credits:  Corazon Landeros

Ben Annand Live at Moontribe FMG 31-Year Anniversary (3-hr techno set)

Lady Gaga - The Sound Of Music (Live at the Oscars Academy Awards) (HQ)

Daniel Nike - Night Tech Trip 2016

Azealia Banks - Used to Being Alone (Remastered)

"Feel the roaring ripping tide, slow as the azure day arrives"
"More than lust, more than sex & love"

Engineered & Mixed by : Paul J Falcone @ Chaos & Glory Studios NYC

ESCAPADES Prod. By OWWWLS (RADIO EDIT)

Armando Kroma@Moontribe-Terrakroma-Noiserevolt-New Years Gathering 2018

Playin in the Sun 2018 mix

This brand new but sometimes nostalgic mix is tech-house/techno/tribal with a dash of breakbeat in the middle - hope you enjoy the flow!  

Updated with track list Nov 13, 2019:

1		Helios (Pete Bones Mix) - TR20
2		Love to Love You Baby (Christian Burkhardt Mix)	- Tom Tom Club
3		Gridlock  - L.K.
4		Peak - Patrick Kunkel
5		Is Mine - Dani Sbert
6		Roll Over (Dani Sbert Remix) - FAC3OFF
7		Reachin - Mark Broom
8		A New World - Delta Funktionen Remix - Nemanja Nikolic
9		Environmental Product - Paranoid Jack, Robb G
10		Dusty Roads (Butch Remix) - Sante
11		Gorrenzo (Mihai Popoviciu Remix) - Alex Under
12		Mathematical Symbols (Al Bradley's 3am Deep Remix) - Al Bradley, Swaab
13		Gotten (Cele Remix) - Loui Fernandez, Pedro Rodriguez
14		rDNA (Vers 2) - Utku Dalmaz
15		Little Helper 187-3 - Loui Fernandez
16		They Made Me Do It - Chicola, Sahar Z
17		The Greater Of Two Evils - Quarion
18		Space Bells (Pete Bones' Foghorn Leghorn Mix) - Pete Bones & Daniel Allen
19		Dark Streets of Berlin - Ben Champell
20		Strange (Chicola Remix) - Tim Penner
21		Unknown Places (Stacey Pullen Remix) - Einzelkind, Christian Burkhardt
22		Ambivalent (Ethno Less Dub)- Stan Kolev

You don't miss LA when you fly through the smog layer and hit traffic - you miss LA when you wear your smile and feet out dancing to amazing music with friends.

Such a beautiful reunion of the old-school moontribe djs and dancers, thank you Treavor for putting it all together! It was a proper return and I was touched to hear I am also missed in Los Angeles ♡

This weekend I'm headed up north for Gorg O Mish in Vancouver BC Friday night and then Cascadia Saturday night. Never a dull moment!

Ben Annand Live at Moontribe Sunday Vibe July 21, 2019

CUZ YOU PAID TEN DOLLARS TO GET IN THE BALL !

@AZEALIABANKS
@DRUMSOFDEATH
@FUENTEFRANKLIN
@JOSHPEACE

FIERCE - (JOSH PEACE MUSTACHE REDUX)

I'm on a techno kick in January and good timing because it's been a while since I put out an intense one like this on Soundcloud.

When I lived in Socal, Moontribe was the place I could play like this :)
But can't make that much anymore.  

I never would have thought I could get away with this set in Sacramento. But the Lost in Groove team has cultivated something special there.  And it was full moon!

Sacratechno!

Proof is in the pudding
If you cultivate a crowd with good underground music they will grow to love it
Be it house or techno or whatever

You just have to do it, don't pander to what you think people want
It might take a little time
But it's worth it

Thank you Lost in Groove for the bomb party!!

Ben Annand 2020 Techno Set (Live At Technosaic In Sacramento 1-11-20)

I present to you!!!
-Muse of the Mind- 
A selection of psybass songs that I freestyle mixed as an opening set for my friends of Minds Eye Muse at North Door in Austin, Tx. Jan 31, 2020

Recorded live in the mix....Enjoy!

Jeremy Yaws's Album

Muse of the Mind - YawS - Live Mix @ The North Door ATX

In my new studio mix series I want to offer some mixes in different genres, and with a little different feel than you might get from a live mix.

I've been exploring tracks I don't play out much or else in a long time, that are not necessary dance-driven but more interesting conceptually...

This first mix is a techno mix which starts gently and escalates quickly before coming back down to a nice close.

It would be a lot to ask a dance floor to have this much change in energy but this isn't for the dance floor necessarily

It's more a reflection of the chaos all of us feel in our lives right now.

I've done a few LiveStreams, all house, and really been dying to play some techno.

This set even started as a livestream, but had some tech issues so I just played for my wife an I, and opened up a bit more musically than I probably would have if live

Anyway, hope you are well out there wherever you are! 
And hope you enjoy the mix!

Coral Chaos (Techno) Ben Annand - Studio Session # 1 - May 2020

I hope you enjoy my music and how I mix it.
For bookings contact benannand@gmail.com // gunita@listedbookings.com

2025 Confirmed dates

Jan 1 Los Angeles - Moontribe NYD
Jan 17 Los Angeles - Tropikroma LA Fire Benefit
Jan 31 Los Angeles - The Livehouse Presents
Feb 1 Orange County - True Ent LA Fire Benefit
Feb 13 Portland, OR - Silk and Sound at Secret Grove
Feb 21 Los Angeles - the Livehouse Presents
Feb 22 Los Angeles - Be My Tropical Valentinew
Feb 28 Pahoa, Big Island, HI - Bee Dance
Mar 1 Honolulu, HI - Centered at Bevy
Mar 2 Honolulu, HI - Anuras Afterhours
Mar 14 Guadalupe Canyon, BC Norte,. Mexico - Leyenda de Eterna
Mar 20 San Jose Del Cabo, BC Sur, Mexico - Afterhours
Mar 21 San Jose Del Cabo, BC Sur, Mexico
Mar 22 Cerritos Beach - Spring Fling at Big Fun Beach Club
Mar 28 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest
Apr 4 Eugene, OR - Soul Sessions at Play
Apr 5 Portland, OR - Lit at Capacity Social Club
Apr 18-20 Anza, CA - Tropical Hot Tub Oasis Retreat
May 2 Vancouver BC - Gorgomish Afterhours
May 3 Vancouver BC - The World Afterhours
May 21-25 Bakersfield, CA - Lightning in A Bottle Festival
more soon...

Biography:

In his zone from deep house to techno, Ben Annand pairs impeccably smooth mixing skills with a dynamic style that keeps the music moving, artfully playing with breakdowns and spending most of his time in the mix.

“For me, a great mix is the interplay of 2 unique pieces of music, creating something greater than the sum of the parts - and a great set weaves those mixes into a musical flow you can’t help but lose yourself in on the dance floor.”

Ben fell in love with dancing and rave culture in 1995, and learned to mix in 1996. Just 2 years later he became resident dj at the famed Moontribe Gathering, and started his own production company, Tropical. The first half of his career was mostly focused on DJing abroad, with 13 trips to Moscow’s Propaganda club, travel across Russia, Spain, and Mexico, an appearance at Wiggle at Fabric in London and two at the Labyrinth Festival in Japan.  

In more recent years, Ben Annand became a top West Coast festival DJ, and recently played a standout set at his 5th consecutive Lightning in a Bottle (CA). He has also appeared at Sunset Campout and Desert Hearts (CA), Oregon Eclipse (OR), Photosynthesis and Cascadia (WA), Shambhala and Motion Notion (BC, Canada).

As organizer of Tropical, he's donated over $32,000 to charity, hosted zero-waste events in Hawaii, and presented gender-balanced dj lineups.

Whatever his project,, Ben Annand is always contributing, and always thinking outside the box.