There was also another group of groover's that I used to play out by Salton Sea around 94-95ish called New Moon Parties. Electric Sky Church did a live show

This set played at the historic EndUp in San Francisco for the Real Deal Party Feel by Listed, Living, and the Grass is Green
It was a party full of feels!  TYSM Gunita, Nikita, and everyone who made it happen.  DJs have the easy job at a party, but your work is not unnoticed.

Playing a dj set in between two live acts - Moniker and all-time fave Dubtribe - I wanted to bring the energy up in an appropriate way, bringing some vocal energy and funkiness but also winding back down before Dubtribe.

Of course I could do zero of this without the amazing artists who created these gems I blended.  

As time goes by I'm down to pretty much zero sympathy for DJs who hide their track lists because they thinking someone will bite their style - sorry but if you think that way I doubt your style is very worth biting.  Other people made the tracks, give them the credit they deserve.  Mixing is an art - but don't be ridiculous :)

Bite me all you want it, I take it as a compliment and we both know it won't make you Ben Annand :)

TRACK LISTING

1 Circles - Evren Furtuna

2 Nipia Feat Moggli (Mihai Popoviciu Remix)	Nicolas Duvoisin	

3 You Can't Take It - Col Lawton	

4 All Around Us - Reverse Logic

5 Sad To Think - Pete Moss, Onur Ozman

6 Blue Turtle (Lauhaus Remix) - Nicolas Duvoisin	

7 Coconuts - Lauhaus, Mario Franca	

8 Ludovic - Leonardo Gonnelli, James Dexter

9 Sacred Essence - Tenna

10 You Trip Me Out On 2 - Chris Simmonds, Private Funk

11 Hola - Christian Burkhardt

12 Don't Look At Me - Duwayne Motley, Col Lawton

13 Escalateher (feat. Hive71) (Terry Francis Dirty Boy Rerub) - Hive71, Jake Beautyman

14 House Brause (Toman Remix) - Christian Burkhardt

15 London Nights (Burnski Remix) - Dokta	

16 The Step Up (Burnski Remix) - Rossko (UK)

17 You - Franck Roger

18 Miso Happy (Col Lawton Remix) - Bobby Breezy, Scottie Soul	

19 How It Was - X brazas

20 Hopeless (JT Donaldson Remix) - Dirtytwo

See you next time San Francisco!  
Get those tracks, I'll have all-new music next time I see ya anyway :)

Next up for Ben Annand

Tropical 23-Year Anniversary PNW in Portland at Epicenter warehouse OUTSIDE area, October 1st, 2021

Tix:  https://tinyurl.com/trop23pdx

Ben Annand Live at the EndUp SF Sept 19 2021 at Real Deal Party Feel

We welcome Seattle's Zacharia to our Wulfcast Mix Series. Enjoy these tasty jams!
Follow Zacharia: 
SC: soundcloud.com/zachariaaudio
BIO:
Zacharia is a name synonymous amongst Seattle’s underground dance music culture. Starting his musical and personal healing journey in the mid 90’s within the warehouse walls of the rave scene, he quickly found himself at the forefront of the drum and bass movement curating events and performing alongside the top tier drum and bass artists of the time. After being submerged in amen breaks and the driving / edgy sounds of dnb for 10 years, Zacharia was led to Burningman in 2005. It was there that he started his accent to the next phase of his musical expression. Coinciding with this change in musical direction was a shift in his personal path too healing. This trajectory can be tracked when following his musical progression, the past 17 years. Zacharia chose to start anew, eventually detaching from who he was personally and musically, and recreated himself from the ground up. As the Phoenix ascended, a more authentic, grateful, and loving version of himself emerged. 

Zacharia also prides himself on is his work helping to design and support Rane mixers during his tenure working with the original company between 2007 - 2016. His pinnacle accomplishment within the company was his hand in bringing to the world the MP2015 rotary mixer which, to this day, is a necessary component in his performances. 

Rane was sold in 2016 at which point Zacharia felt inspired to share the wisdom he had acquired on his own path to healing and chose to become a substance abuse counselor. After graduating in 2018, Zacharia found a perfect home with Bhadra Recovery and is currently the clinical supervisor and lead counselor, focusing on non-traditional methods and modalities to help others reconnect with themselves and others. 

This career path and his musical expression have begun to coalesce in a really beautiful way. 

More fully resourced and with a broader understanding of the healing process, Zacharia connects the masculine and feminine aspects of himself, delivering driving, yet gentle and nurturing, soundscapes with the intention to dig into the tough spots while resonating with the heart. Invigorated, passionately inspired, and heart centered, Zacharia is extremely excited to share the journey of life and re-discovery through his music today and long into the future.

Zacharia - 
“I am honored to become a part of the Wulfpack and believe it is a cosmic and serendipitous fit. I’m excited to be broadening my tribe and connecting to an outlet that can showcase my mixes and music in a way that feels right. 

Here is to deepening roots and experiencing what the future holds together’’ 

Tracklist:
1. Yes We Can - Baboop - (Luis Junior Remix) 
2. Beyond Beliefs - Ben Böhmer
3. In My Head - Liefko, Enzo Siragusa
4. We Stay - Gaetano C, Max (Italy) - (Alessio Viggiano Remix)
5. Garrison2 - dubspeeka
6. The Shape Of Trance To Come - Lorenzo Senni - (Tale Of Us Remix)
7. Parking Garage Politics - Paperclip People - (Loco Dice Remix)
8. Memories - Budakid
9. Before the Flood - Einmusik & Budakid
10. Crowe - amhain 
11. Malindi - Adrien Kepler
12. Nothingness - Jerome Sydenham & Fatima Njai
13. Berceuse - Nathan Clement - (Brandon Scarbrough Remix)
14. Longing - Blindsmyth
15. Soledad - Nico Szabo
16. Distant Light - Max Cooper (Rival Consoles Remix)
17. The Send Off - Stewards of Sound (aka Shaun Whitcher and Zacharia)
18. Who You Are - Zacharia
19. Trickel - Zacharia
20. Paradise - Somaz
21. Barrier Thesis - Brandon Scarbrough & Vaer
22. Signs of Change - Landslide (Etapp Kyle Remix)
23. The Clown (Reshape) - Lord of Isles
24. Waterfalls - Qrion

Wulfcast 093 Zacharia

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

My wedding night wouldn't be complete without a full on party featuring some of my best friends and of course a set by myself! Here we have the live recording of my set, full of heart opening uplifting progressive music. Melodic house & techno, played with a huge smile on my face and lots of love on the dance floor. Cheers to my beautiful wife Itzel!

You can find us both next  on June 10-12 at https://www.teleportartcarfestival.com/

Live in Mexico - Wedding Night Set

Tropical is thrilled to release our second set from Oregon Summer Campout 2 weeks ago!  

For your enjoyment we present Bizio's sunrise set from Saturday morning 5:00-6:30am

Tropical on FB:  Facebook.com/tropicalevents
Tropical on IG:  Instagram.com/tropicalsince98

Bizio on Soundcloud: @biziohealinghousemusic
Bizio on IG:  @bizio_music

From Nico:
A journey that began in the darkness and took us to the light :)

Bizio - TOSC 002 - Live at Tropical Oregon Summer Campout June 25, 2022

Tropical is thrilled to release our fourth set from Oregon Summer Campout 3 weeks ago!

Please enjoy Joe Pea's  sunset set from Saturday evening 8:00-9:30pm!

More pictures from Tropical Oregon Summer Campout:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=tropicalevents&set=a.5758588450822614

Tropical on FB: Facebook.com/tropicalevents
Tropical on IG: Instagram.com/tropicalsince98

Follow Joe Pea here on Soundcloud @Joe-pea
Insta: @joe_pea

IG: https://instagram/joe-pea
FB artist page: https://www.facebook.com/joepea419

Photo credit: Tyler Cameron
https://www.instagram.com/terpcam/

Joe Pea - TOSC 004 - Live at Tropical Oregon Summer Campout June 25, 2022

Here is part one of the infamous Moontribe 29-year kimono set that I previously may have made some waves about - this part is on the house side but trippy for the desert...

This set had many challenges. I made a great playlist for it from my entire collection, did everything except export to usb, and then my logic board failed the next day.  Bye bye playlist!

So I rebuilt, as we do.  But with limited time my rebuild was limited to the last year of music, as well as some brand new music.  On top of that, I had convinced myself that my sets at Teleport and Moontribe were at exactly the same time - 10pm to midnight.  I think I told like 30 people this too :)  And of course I made my playlists - even the old one that disappeared - based on the 10-12 time frame

Sunday morning I look at the directions email and my set is listed at 6:00-8:30pm.  I thought it had maybe been changed on me then checked my message thread and I’ve just totally made up the 10-12 thing :) 

Point is that close to summer solstice 6:00-8:30 is a daytime set into sunrise while 10-12 is night-time ascending energy - they are drastically different energetically.  

So I made another new fricken 29-Year playlist based on my music of the past year, daytime into sunset.  I decided both ahead of time, and on the dance floor, that this Moontribe needed some trippy desert house music so that was the first hour.  

You can find the second part of this set - which is more minimal/trippy/breakbeat - one track down or at this link: 

https://soundcloud.com/ben-annand/ben-annand-moontribe-29-year-june-2022-part-2

Thank you Rithers for the lovely mastering job!  

I was back at Full Moon in August last week!  Waiting for that recording :)

Coming up this week

August 19/20 United Undivided, Denver, CO
August 22 Space Taco Tuesdays, Pomona, CA 
August 26/27 Utopia Festival, Salem, OR

Ben Annand - Moontribe 29-Year - June 2022 Part 1

Thank you to everyone that made our first 2023 gathering a success!

This is the opening set at 11pm, which ramps up to some funky, dirty breaks at around the 21 minute mark.

The first 20 minutes of chill and tribal house was crafted as an intro that sets the tone for the night, as the bonfire was lit in a spectacular fashion at about the  14 minute mark.

Intense but dance floor friendly.
Recorded somewhere in the Mojave Desert.

Live @ Moontribe Gathering March 2023

Looking For You is a groovy house track built on breakbeat drums, soulful organ stabs, and a laid-back spoken vocal that brings character and charm. Warm, rhythmic, and a little nostalgic — it’s the sound of chasing a feeling through one disco after another.

Looking For You

Looking For You (Extended)

Untamed Acid

ReWork - Alessjan x Rinevio (Original Mix)

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.

Ben Annand - Moontribe 29-Year - June 2022 Part 1

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