Third Recorded DJ Set (21.01.2023).
Mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live, from the pampean flatlands.

The 4 Seasons by Longstaff: The Summer approach is a set made mainly with progressive house tracks, but those with high dopamine feelings, as the goal is to undergo the heat.

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Old-school Summer Set - 21.01.2023

Fifth Recorded DJ Set (01.02.2023).
Mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live, from the pampean flatlands.

This is an eclectic set, with a salad of genres: Downtempo, Deep House, a little bit of Folktronica & Tropical House as well as Happy & Dark Ambient and Chill-out towards the end. 
Very different beats per minutes in-between tracks. Hence, weird mixes! 

Designed to sit back, relax and contemplate.
Hope you enjoy it! 

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Introspective Voyage Set Vol I - 01.02.2023

7th Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live on the 7th of March, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields.

The 4 Seasons by Longstaff: The Autumn engagement is a set that goes mainly through Deep House and then ends up with a couple of House tracks. Deep music, to accompany the colors of the fall.

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Old-school Autumn Set - 21.03.2023

Overqualified Warmup Set.

The art of the DJ is in his capacity of being a good storyteller through the power of music, hence, being able to generate an uplifting moment. A warmup set usually is underestimated, when it is of key essence to begin correctly the flow of any human gathering.

Hence, this is my own definition of how a warmup set should be done. 
Three progressing hours, distinctive one from each other, where music goes from 110 to 125 b.p.m., starting with downtempo grooves and eclectic tracks, followed by a second hour of pure progressive house music, and finishing with an hour of much more festive music… but the challenge is how to “get there”.

This is my 9th Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live on the 16th of March, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields.

This set is also dedicated to the victims of the Time Warp tragedy, which happened in Buanos Aires, Argentina, on the 16th of April, 2016, due to the lack of awareness of the producers of the event.

A note on those few repeated tracks that you may find. 
Try to think in this analogy: if each song is an actor, then the set is the movie in which they play. Hence, you can use an actor in different ways according to the movie. The director is the DJ mixing and making his -or her, obviously- own “storytelling” using tracks as a means to produce a feeling. Or so I believe. 

A note on any mistakes you may find: in times of over SYNC usage and artificial intelligence programs taking over all the art creation, I have come to believe that allowing a mistake to remain in the set, is proof that you are a Human making a live performance. As my brother used to say, “it is as if the drummer has a mistake playing live, missing one beat due to a human error”.

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Overqualified Warmup Set - 16.04.2023

Kraftwerk Tribute Set.

If someone asks you what Kraftwerk is, then this is the mixtape you can play for them to fully understand the evolution of electronic music through the German grandfathers of this genre.

Seeing them live last Tuesday 23rd of May, 2023, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an epic moment for me, the pinnacle of long years listening to music. One week after that day, I felt the call of compiling an array of tracks, that would clearly show how their sound progressed along the decades. This is something very difficult to pull through and actually mix, as they only know how to rightfully and righteously do it.

This tribute passes through four distinctive stages. The first one goes from 1974 to 1978. It is there when -after playing with sounds during several years- they started making lovely songs with uplifting melodies. But there were also dark ones... The second stage, from 1981 to 1986, moves forward with the sculpting of the character of their own music. The third stage is around 1991, when Kraftwerk was already inside the underground clubs, the night scene, as well as going out through homemade loudspeakers, kraftwerked… The fourth and last stage is around 2005, which is when they had already managed to purify, enhance and boost their sound at their mightiest power, gaining respect worldwide. 

You can check the single releases by following the set with this TRACK-LIST:

STAGE I
1. Ohm Sweet Ohm, 1975.
2. Franz Schubert, 1977. 
3. Transistor, 1975.
4. Autobahn, 1974.
5. Neon Lights, 1978.
6. Europa Endlos, 1977.
7. Radioactivity, 1975.
8. The Man Machine, 1978.
9. Radio Stars, 1975.
10. The Robots, 1978.
11. Das Model, 1978.
12. Spacelab, 1978.
13. Airwaves, 1975.

STAGE II
14. Numbers, 1981.
15. Computerworld, 1981.
16. Homecomputer, 1981.
17. Computer Lover, 1981.
18. Pocket Calculator, 1981.
19. Electric Café, 1986.
20. Boing Boom Tschak, 1986.
21. Techno Pop, 1986.
22. Musique Non Stop, 1986.

STAGE III
23. Trans Europe Express, 1991.
24. Abzug, 1991.
25. Metal On Metal, 1991.
26. Pocket Calculator, 1991.
27. Computerlove, 1991.

STAGE IV
28. Numbers, 2005.
29. Computerworld, 2005.
30. Homecomputer, 2005.
31. Aero Dynamic, 2005.
32. Planet Der Visionen, 2005.
33. Autobahn, 2005.


I have specially selected six tracks which are repeated during the last hour of the set. The aim is for you to compare the first versions, with the last mixes created and perfected by them.

I have also left one or two mistakes along the set as a proof that… I Am Not A Robot ;) 

This is my 10th Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live on the 30th of May, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields.

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Kraftwerk Tribute Set - 31.05.2023

Introspective Voyage Set Vol II.

This is an eclectic set, with a salad of genres. 

The “Introspective Voyage” approach -in the music selection process- aims to allow you to think better, feel freely and freshly, get things straight and assess your inner brainstormings. 

Here, compared to Vol I, I have left out the tropical and folk-type beats, and went way deep into ambience music, merging it up with other forlorn melodies as well as with powerful voice interventions. But, contrary to the usual progression and storytelling of sets in which you start slowly, this stage is presented last, whereas the beginning seems to be leading us to an ordinary melodic and progressive house voyage. Far from the truth… when you think you are happily into something, the set takes a steep downturn into several introspective insights…

Designed to dance, but maybe only for a while… & then to sit back, relax and contemplate.
It is an emotional tool, for sure, which served me as a sort of “detox” for the soul.
I sincerely hope you enjoy it! 

I have left a small mistake over the very end of the set, as a proof that I am not a robot, but Human… In a part in which there were three channels playing at the same time! Nevertheless, once heard, I loved it, as the small mistake seems on purpose, as a detail to bring us back from our mantra-listening. We will never know if it was really a mistake, or intended. But, who cares?

This is my 11th Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live on the 5th of June, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields, sending the best vibes to my blood brother and chosen brothers and sisters of the globe.


The Interventions along the set are made by:
- Crosby, Stills & Nash: “See the changes”.
- Pink Floyd: “Goodbye Blue Sky”.
- Carl Sagan: “Fragments of his last TV interview”
- Carl Sagan: “Cosmos Fragment: Who Speaks For Earth”.
- Alan Watts: “The Dream Of Life”.
- Alan Watts: “The Unspeakable World”.
- Crosby, Stills & Nash: “Guinnevere”.


You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Introspective Voyage Set Vol II - 07.06.2023

Saturn Ring Safari Set.

This is an outer-space journey to the rings of Saturn.

If we were to travel the 1.402.074.375 kilometers that separate Saturn from the Earth, this is the music I would listen to… If light takes approximately 1 hour and 17 minutes to travel from Saturn and arrive to us, then -in order to get there by the end of this set- we would need to travel at around half the speed of light. Clearly, a galactic soundtrack is required for this epic journey to this far away planet, with changes in the mood according to the adventures encountered along the way.

What you listen at the beginning of the set, is one of NASA´s “Saturn V” space rocket launches. It´s first flight was one 9th of November, back in 1967. An interesting year, indeed, for our race to space… A few months before, on the 16th of March, the “Echo Flight Incident” occurred. A rarely known event that makes me wonder on how interstellar travelling and helping might be.

Having said this, fasten your seatbelts, and enjoy the flight!

This is my 12th Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live on the 21st of June, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields, celebrating the winter solstice.

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 


A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

Saturn Ring Safari Set - 21.06.2023

Journey Back To The Earth Set.


This is the last of three galactic journeys, which began two sets ago, and conform -altogether- one huge epic story. But now, we need to “go back”…

This is why this set has been diagrammed in an “inverse” manner.

It has been planned to make us “come back inwards” into Earth from our journey upwards. So, you will find that we start just in the point where we left: with high beats per minute (bpm). When you push play, you will perceive how the bpms go downwards, starting at 128 bpms and then decreasing through progressive house music, all the way down towards the downtempo and chillout genres.


We could divide this new return-voyage into three stages which coincide with each hour of the set. 

The first hour (going from 128 to 123 bpms) covers our travel from Neptune to the outer zones of the Moon. That hour is full of “astronaut-progressive” tracks. These are purely galactic tracks that help us keeping up with the speed of the journey required to pass through all the planets of the outskirts of our Solar System.

When we arrive to the Moon, the second hour of the set begins. Here, you might perceive a clear change in the vibes of the tracks that have been selected for you, going towards a more “melodic” progressive house environment (going from 123 to 119 bpms), with highly emotional and melancholic songs that tell us that we are getting closer to our motherland: The Earth. 

It is here where we will undergo “the entry to Earth”, going through the five layers of the Atmosphere: the Exosphere, the Thermosphere, the Mesosphere, the Stratosphere and the Troposphere. All these layers are represented in the five mixes that overlap-together the six tracks of this stage.

In my opinion, it is very clear when we finally enter our air-space, and glide towards a safe landing. Believe me, the landing is evident… It is there where we have our last big dance, and proceed to re-discover our land. It is in that moment when we jump into our last stage, the third hour, full of more “earthly sounds” coming from the downtempo, chillout and ambient genres (going from 108 to as down as 55 bpms). These tracks will enable us to reconnect again with our mineral, vegetal, animal and human sides. 

Standing at the shore of our New Beginning, we embark ourselves in a boat, sailing without a compass, with three opening tracks that involve the element of Water in their making. Then, we arrive to land again, and instruments begin to appear (the human art-mind at work). We can hear the sound of a trumpet coming over there, then a saxophone closer over here… & keyboards, of course. Even clockwork sounds, French lyrics, the sound of birds chirping, African voices…

There is Silence also, right after some weird white noise coming from a clear vinyl record sound… Silence here is used as a resource, to mark the encounter with society and our current situation. To explain this, nothing better than a small powerful speech in the last track, where we can listen to the great Jiddu Krishnamurti, saying to us, very kindly: 

“A transformation of the mind! (…) 
But that depends on you and nobody else (…)
You yourself are the teacher, 
you are the pupil, you are the master,
you are the guru, you are the leader (…) 
You are everything…
&
to Understand…
is to transform what IS…”


This is my 14th Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller, live on the 19th of July, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields. 

With no further ado, fasten your seatbelts, and enjoy the flight!

Thank You For Travelling With LongHow Spacelines!

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net

Journey Back To The Earth - 20.07.2023

This is a Bar (not a Club) Set.

This is a very special set for me, as it is part of a five-hour set that I mixed, live, last Saturday 9th of December at a bar, at night, in Santa Rosa, the capital city of our province. I mixed music from 22:00 to 3:00 a.m., trying of course, to tell a good story.

It was a real challenge, as when I got there, everybody was sitting down, finishing their dinners. As time progressed there were 3 kind humans who started dancing close to where I was. But there was this One Guy, who I met afterwards by the name of “Gus”, born in La Pampa, who lives in Galápagos, Ecuador. A true social hero, who works with autistic kids. He was alone, just sitting there, with his eyes shut from time to time, enjoying the music. He told me that he had not gone there to meet anyone, he was just passing by and entered due to the music that was being played.

This recording is dedicated to him, as he missed the first part of the set, and he honoured me with his presence by being truly “listening” to the long mixes.

The original 5-hour set, went from 100 to 124 bpm. and it ranged from downtempo, through deep house and house music, immersing itself then into 3 hours of soft progressive house. The set presented here is the first 2 hours of that set, meaning that I have cut out the progressive house, and left only 1 hour of good downtempo tracks, followed by half an hour of deep house and finishing with another half an hour of house music.

This is my 20th Live Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller on the 13th of September, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields. 

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 

A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

This Is A Bar (Not A Club) Set - 13.12.23

This is My Progressive Journey Set.

And so, an entire year of music mixing comes to an end. 
Goodbye dear 2023, and Hello 2024.
It has been a long journey, indeed. 

Gliding through 45 hours of uploaded mixes, scattered in 21 sets, I feel I have mastered my own style. It is an old-school style, characterized by deep emotional feelings that bind each track with the next, as well as by the long transitions provided in each mix. Yet, the most noble feature of these mixes, is that the SYNC tool does not exist for me.

The set synthesises this hell of a year, with tracks that are repeated from other sets, due to their vibrational power (and how much I love them, of course). I wanted to play trying different combinations with these tracks that were with me for so long. It has several emotional ups and downs, just like life itself. I got quite emotional just by mixing them for you.

This is my 21st Live Recorded DJ Set, mixed with "Traktor DJ Pro 3" & a "Pioneer DDJ-T1" Controller on the 31st of December, 2023, at the pampean-grassland-fields.

You can help me by supporting my art in www.patreon.com/ploffawareness

And if you find the Time, you can accompany the music with some good Reading in www.ploff.net 

A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Gustavo Nervegna, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

This Is My Progressive Journey Set - 31.12.2023

Reconnection, A Siblings Odyssey Set.


This DJ set tells a captivating tale of entanglement and the merging of forces. After what felt like quantum eons, I had the privilege of spending a few days with my dear blood brother, Alexander Longstaff. Together, we dove into old favorites, discovered new gems for each other, and through the power of music, released any barriers that constrained us.

Our magic, as artistical creative brothers, lies in our mystical understanding of music. We possess the knowledge to evoke goosebumps with epic, massive tracks and the storytelling prowess needed to sequence those tracks perfectly.

It was on a Friday that we began shaping the different facets of the set. We contemplated song combinations in our minds and deliberated over the perfect artwork for the set cover. The quest for the best sound possible unfolded, involving five different loudspeakers connected in a continuous stream of cables across the lawn behind the rural house we chose as our serene backdrop.

This marks my 22nd live-recorded DJ set, inspired by my brother and skilfully mixed using Traktor DJ Pro 3 and a Pioneer DDJ-T1 controller on February 23rd, 2024, amidst the scenic pampean-grassland fields.

Your support for my art on www.patreon.com/ploffawareness is immensely appreciated.

Additionally, for those who have the time, I recommend pairing the music with some engaging reading at www.ploff.net.

A special thanks to my Patreons, who enable me to invest part of my time in my arts, both mixing and writing: Marcos Edwards, Andres Hillion, Santiago Eduardo Smith, Mariana Pagella, John Kleuser, Laura Pagani, Agustín Estala, María Jose Howard, María Eugenia Varela, Eduardo Wydler & León Zaldivar Jarabo.

RE----CTION+   Reconnection, A Siblings Odyssey Set - 23.02.2024

I aspire to create awareness through electronic music & writing.
Aspiro a crear conciencia a través de la música electrónica & la escritura.

RE----CTION+ Reconnection, A Siblings Odyssey Set - 23.02.2024

Brian Longstaff Howard

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