This was the first ever sunrise set at DISTRIKT and our first visit to DISTRIKT.
Together with everybody who was present, we had a musical flight that took off in pitch black darkness and soared into the rising orange sun. It was a unique experience and certainly one we’ll never forget. Thank you for dancing and sharing this moment together! 
~ Kruder & Dorfmeister

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Kruder & Dorfmeister - DISTRIKT - Burning Man 2023

Something a little different for ya.  Me at my moodiest.  In more recent years I apply tags to my tracks of different vibes so that I can organize my massive music collection better.  One of the biggest categories is 'Moody.'  

Of course a lot of people going out on Friday and Saturday night to my gigs are out to celebrate, so this category doesn't get as much play live as more funky upbeat rhythms.  As such it's somewhat underrepresented on my Soundcloud.

Well not anymore :). I'm dedicated to releasing more sets this year and I see this one as the start of a series.  Welcome to Ben Annand Moody AF :). 

The opener of this series is an opening set I played on a Sunday night from 9-11pm. It's actually just the first hour, 9-10.  It's ok to be moody when people are settling in :). It was also November just after the time change and loss of light... the beginning of the moody season in Eugene :)

An opening set is always interesting musically (or should be) because you get to start from scratch, and set the tone for the whole night.  So it's always a set that should be played with intention.

In this particular case, I was in a sensitive space because I had taken some really nasty criticism from the organizer of an event recently before.  I won't go into detail but it was very tactlessly and cruelly delivered.  So of course that affected my headspace both in terms of insecurity, and in terms of wanting to deliver a great set since I didn't entirely disagree with the criticism so much as I was hurt by the tone from a supposed friend.

So why am I telling you this?  Because this set is moody as fuck!  It opens with a lush vocal track that really spoke to me when my marriage suddenly went up into smoke. I find this track really intense so I haven't played it much but at home.   

The mix stays deep and moody, gradually building energy then wavering then building.  It's super trippy, a little dark/melancholy for me, but still house and totally danceable of course :)

So with all that said, I hope you enjoy this one and I will keep em coming!

Ben Annand Moody AF Vol 1 (Live at the Big Dirty in Eugene at Secret Sauce)

A few months ago, I had the honor of being asked by https://soundcloud.com/blackvelveteennow to make a mix for https://soundcloud.com/proton's Featured Artist series. It took multiple takes, some blood, sweat, and tears but I finally locked it in and got to share it with the world. Peep game and enjoy!


Tracklist below.

Zillas on Acid - Lose Your Soul (Original Mix)

Motor City Drum Ensemble - Escape To Nowhere (Original Mix)

Len Leise - El Modelo (Gilb'R Remix)

Balagan - Moonlight (Simple Symmetry Remix)

Dreems - An Ancient Eddiitt (Original Mix)

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Ceci N'est Pas Un Cliché

Persian - Parvaaneh (Alphonse Remix)

Phoreski - 80's Boy (Original Mix)

Donald Dust - Flashback Souvenir (Original Mix)

Tevo Howard - House Room (Paul du Lac Acid Dub)

Darlyn Vlys - Wuzu (Original Mix)

AIMES - Phosphorescent (Original Mix)

Rigopolar - Saturnia (Original Mix)

S.O.N.S. - Acid Dreams (Trance Jungle Mix)

Hey Mother Death - Deranged My Love (Donald Dust Remix)

Moodymann - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me (youANDme EDIT)

Vanessa Worm - Heaven to Hell (Eden Burns Remix)

FLIGHT MODE & Joel Brittain - Burn This (Original Mix)

Red Axes - Relax Shiva (Original Mix)

Baltra - Dreaming of a Disco (Original Mix)

Miki - Templares (Gerd Janson & Shan Remix)

Lauer - Fanta Korn Tanker (Original Mix)

Skinnerbox - Sese (Original Mix)

Felix Dickinson ft. Blane Lyon - People’s People (Felix’s Dub)

Front De Cadeaux - Ouvre Ta Bouche (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)

Audiojack - Spirit (Original Mix)

Natasha Bai - Your Kiss (Original Mix)

Jules - Miss U (Original Mix)

Zeta Reticula - Common Centre (Original Mix)

Proton Featured Artist Mix: Kadeejah Streets

And now for something completely different!  

132 BPM Progressive-leaning techno mix :)

I wasn't expecting to be left at quite this fast a tempo but I'm glad I was :)  Only my Moontribe mixes tend to get over 130 like this, so it was a rare chance to spread my wings.

Deseract puts on a really cool party and the space, sound, lighting, and deco were all on point here.  It felt super underground and all my friends had a great time here.  

Hope you like the mix!  I'd love to play more sets like this :)

Ben Annand Techno Progressive Mix - Live in LA at Love and Lore by Deseract

Torie Live at The Barrel at Coalesce 2024 12/30 10:30PM
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Torie Live at The Barrel 2024

My most varied and ambitious set to date!  

Hope you enjoy AnnandEdance - I put a lot of thought, time and energy into this interpretation of Ecstatic Dance.

From 0 bpm to 67 winding up to 126 and then back to stillness

Ambient - Downtempo - House - Techno - Broken Beat  - Progressive - House - Ambient

It's an extended journey just over 3 hours so longer then normal Ecstatic Dance formet.  And more 4/4 than most Edance but there is broken house and downtempo and evena Drum and Bass track in the mix

Mahalo to Simon Smith, Paul Sykes, and Garden Temple for the opportunity!

AnnandeDance Ben Annand live 3-hour Ecstatic Dance Set, Garden Temple, Big Island, HI

This morning set from Tropical favorite Christopher Mohn was a joy to dance to in the morning between previously posted sets by Synchronometry and Bird Lady in our amazing 18-hour musical experience into 2024!

Set in a spectacular LA hilltop estate with sweeping views of the city and midnight fireworks, we danced our way into 2024 in style, and brought the lovely event to a close, enjoy!

* Beautiful Flyer art (top) by Jeremy Zahtre

* Beautiful Capture of sunrise (bottom) by Christopher Mohn

* Amateur meshing of images into cover Image by Ben Annand :)

Christopher Mohn Live at Tropical New Year 2024 -- 830AM-10AM

A darker journey with splashes of pretty with teeth recorded live from T-Bar, Denver CO 03/ 2024

Lighter Shades Of Black

Low-Key Reservations ː Vol 17 - MARKJ | Downtempo

This set from 04-14-24 really exemplifies my deep house curation and mixing style.  

For 6 months I've been digging through my collection, resisting the urge to buy new music and instead learning my 29-year music collection better.

Over that time, I went back through and labeled thousands of tracks by energy and feeling and created playlists from there.  

The overall energy of this mix is uplifting and dreamy, starting and ending more vocal. 

You won't know many, or perhaps any, of the tracks.

The tracks were mixed on CDJ 3000s.

Never synced, never looped, never wasting time with filters and effects with just one track playing.

Fully concentrated on blending two tracks together beautifully with subtle EQ-ing only.

It's so weird, I was thinking this was the best I'd ever done with my levels on a live mix, perhaps because I was being a good boy, carefully watching the decibel meter at Mars Bar :) 

I added the fade in and out in Logic and gave it a light mastering in LANDR.  There I got a message that my mix was lacking in dynamic range - meaning there might not be enough difference between the high and low levels of the mix - which on a live DJ mix, I am taking as a compliment 100% :)

Ok enough geeky DJ talk...
As always, I'd love to know what you think in comments <3

Huge thanks to Chris Phleck and Ryan Stubbs (Duserock) and the Watch Our Step crew for bringing me to San Francisco, it's such a fun and friendly crowd.

Another big thanks to David Kiely of Mars Bar for providing a safe and lovely space for people to dance.

Final thanks to Anne Plehn for the great photo capture!  IG: anneplehn

Ben Annand Live Mars Bar 04-14-24 at Watch Our Step

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I had the peaktime midnight slot with the honor of playing after Lee Burridge, so I started this one off with an organic vibe then transitioned through prog, tech-house, and just some straight up bangers. A few unreleased ID's in there from my boys Enamour , m.o.n.r.o.e and Saqib.

Also funny moment: you may notice that the set just abruptly ends. That’s because the next act accidentally unplugged the wrong cable from the mixer. Was definitely a nerve-wracking moment….BUT my recorder also recorded the crowd noise, so it’s kinda a cool little audio capture of what it felt like...and you can literally hear the next DJ say "OH SHIT!!" ....The warm applause from all of you certainly softened the blow :)

Tracklist: 098 - Live at Texas Eclipse

[0:00:00] atish, Fabian Krooss - Elasticity [A Tribe Called Kotori 2024]
[0:05:00] Sarkis Mikael, Nhii - Plant Power [Sounds of Khemit 2024]
[0:09:00] Enamour - ID
[0:13:00] Jamie Stevens & Ivan Aliaga - Firefox [Solis Records 2024]
[0:17:00] Sasha - Fleuron Drift [Last Night on Earth 2024]
[0:24:00] Martin Eyerer - Walk the talk [Still Hot 2024]
[0:28:00] Ellroy - Safe Landing [Modelika 2024]
[0:32:00] Denney - Trojan Dance [Last Night On Earth 2024]
[0:36:00] Cristina Lazic - Luna [La Zic 2024]
[0:40:00] m.O.N.R.O.E. - ID
[0:46:00] Asher - Shifty [Aus Music 2022]
[0:50:00] Deetron - Runnin [Nu Groove Records 2024]
[0:54:00] John Tejada - Sweat (On The Walls) [Poker Flat RecordingsPoker Flat Recordings 2004]
[0:58:00] Francesca Lombardo - Sea [Ovum Recordings 2022]
[1:04:00] Saqib - ID
[1:08:00] Catz 'n Dogz - ASA [Pets Recordings 2023]
[1:13:00] Tom Demac - Sink Or Swim [Hypercolour 2017]
[1:17:00] Polo (AR) - Nostalgia del Presente (Danny Howells Remix) [Manjumasi Unreleased]
[1:23:00] Jim Rivers - Cosmos [COD3 QR 2023]

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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.

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