Wonderful. Thanks DJ Maggie Aural Joy Enabler.👂🏿👂🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿😊

....and the accompanying artwork. Exceptional!

What is originality in music anymore? It's something I've struggled with as a producer and DJ for much of the past 10 years. As a producer I've pretty much given up on sounding original, but as a DJ I've always tried to find music that sounds original or at least attempts to do so. When it comes to dance floor music I've found it nearly impossible to find music that truly has an original sound to it, but I've been finding all sorts of abstract and eclectic Electronica and random tracks here and there that to me really feel like they're doing something different or going Against The Grain if you will....

When two of the worlds best electronica/downtempo producers and DJs, Bluetech and Dj Maggie respectively asked me to create a set for their streaming show Holotropic Happy Hour I knew this was the perfect opportunity to finally put together a set of these tracks! I hope you enjoy the journey! 

Track List:

1 - Robot Koch -All Forms Are Unstable
2 - Robot Koch - Numb
3 - Robot Koch - Lyra One
4 -Marc Romboy - La lune et l'etoile
5 -Animal Picnic, Aaryon - Tangram 
6 -Robot Koch, Fiora -Let It Go By (Instrumental)
7 -Florian Kruse, Hendrik Burkhard, TheGround - Going Against The Grain (Album Version)
8 -Steve Moore - Protostar
9 -Raxon - The Distance
10 -David August - D'ANGELO
11 -Daniel Hokum - Burn
12 -O/Y - The Wind
13 - Sun Glitters - LLaatteellyy
14 -Melokind - Harry Cutter
15 -Barnaby Carter - Basti
16 -Sk'p - Eye Earth Pt.2 (Life in a box remix)
17 -Afar - Lulled and Fake (Geju Remix)
18 -thds - Couteau
19 -Pete Lazonby - Alma
20 -Luca Bacchetti - Navajo Blues
21 -Erot - Mkh2801
22 - Riotact - Dcm001
23 -Om Unit - The Crossing
24 -Barnaby Carter - Sassuolo Cagliari 
25 -Bluetech - Gethen (ft. Yaima)
26 -Trentemøller - Sleeper
27 -Harald Bjork - Sketch On A Feeling (Bedtime Stories Version)
28 - Minilogue - Even The Wind Seemed in Deep Sleep

Treavor Moontribe - Against The Grain

All good things must come to an end. After more than two years of co-producing a Twitch A/V show, Holotropic Happy Hour, we had the finale with hourlong sets from each of us four producers. The emotions were running high with our community so I tapped into that for this gentle, emotional, hug of a mix.

Kino Doscun & Sigil - Ghantako
Martin Nonstatic - DreamScapes
Bluetech - Seance For The Living (Live Jam)
Illuvia - Solace
Niklas Paschburg - Tuur mang Welten
Digitonal - Gold of the Azure
Lusine - 520 At 8-30
Krusseldorf - Ceremony For Broken Robots
Data Rebel - Greyscale
Martin Roth - Time is Music the Planets make
Yotto - Maggio
MODUL - 504 Days

Well Met

This is a live recording of my set from Moontribe, October 2022. I had been collecting a lot of this music since the start of the pandemic and had been wanting to curate a set to play it out for some time. There's an encore at the end, as per request from the dance floor.

Tracklist:
Integer - Fifth Night
Akal Dub - Lady of the East
Beatroots - Back To Bassics
Kercha - Broken Illusions
ATYYA x Dillard - Eon
B9, Congi & Geode - Scrumpy
Facta & K-LONE - Voodoo
Mercy - Barbados
Congi - Somnium
Keerd - Formation
EMOG - Cool Beans
ONNEN - Open Hatch
Lulu Rouge, Fanney Osk - Landscape Of Love
Audialist - Keep Turning
Jafu - No More
Ourman - Dizzy
Yoofee - Wings
Freud - Plek
Frederic Robinson - Mixed Signals (Synkro remix)
5AM - Sapiens
Mike Sheridan - Stilhed
HNGVR - I Was Just...
Erothyme - Silent Orbservers
Oak - Mongoose
Hidden Aspect - Mellow
Sorse - Lagoon
DRRTYWULVZ - Imagine That
Of Porcelain - Remembering Self
Ulterior Motive, Kimyan Law, Nuage - Half the Sky (Kimyan Law remix)
Dov1, HNGVR - So Weird
Oak - Sequence 1
Amawalk - Huju feat Amalgamy
Erothyme - Two Lights (Enigmada Remix)

Dust Devil

Astronox Festival in Texas, October 2022. A rare thing occurred - I got to play a two-hour closing set at the end of the insanely inspiring lineup of Saturday night, before a morning sound break. There are some major wiggles in this set, of the crunchy/glitchy variety, in keeping with the flow for the night. Ending with some gentle touches, like a sonic hug.


Easyjack - Soul Diversion (unreleased)
Ekorce - Genetic Poetry
Vicious Cactus - Jazzy Hall
Tactyl - Out of Your Spell
Bugbites - Ransom
ATYYA - Chronos
Liquid Bloom & Poranguí - Regreso al Agua (Geometrae Remix Instrumental)
Shwamp - Wonky
Erothyme - Iris Hop (pheel. Remix)
Pedra Branca - Kalahari (Kalya Scintilla remix)
Ecention - Hidden Geometries
Grouch - Computer Language (ft Foldy)
Nada - Numbers
beatfarmer - Jedi Shake (Weka remix)
Evil Oil Man - Circuits (feat. Dirty Hippy)
Sigil - Liberation (feat. Marco Rosa)
Twin Shape & Shwamp - D&N
ADM x EVE - Empyrean
Faelow - Cave Pool
Porangui - Suenos de la Selva (AtYya Remix)
ali dada - lauf (mfj dub)
CloZee - Rain Dance (feat. ESCPE)
Dillard - Introspective
Player Dave - Boundless Perception w- FLY
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Mike Sheridan - Stjernekiggeri

Cruising Altitude

This is a set I assembled for Sunday Sundowns, the weekly Twitch downtempo show put on by my fellow chillers, The Ambient Mafia, in November 2022. I was inspired to craft an hourlong set that would fit well in a chill room, and ended up with a tracklist from artists all around the world.

Tracklist:

ali dada - Ojoupe
Trippin Jaguar - Arecibo
Handpan - Connecting Souls
Rhi - Craving Your Love (Instrumental)
Aux25 - Scanner
Auditive Escape - Mirage du Visage (Digital Only)
Akın Sevgör - Deviations
Miktek - Parenthesis (Ozora live edit)
Data Rebel - Cyber
Bop - Deep Space
Dillard - I Want To
Erothyme - Northern Cross [May the Way RMX instrumental] (unreleased)

Wanderlust

This is the set I debuted on Holotropic Happy Hour in December 2022 for our reunion show. It was the closing set so I planned accordingly.

Tracklist:

Zero Theory - Pulse pt.1
Kuba - Left At A Henge (feat. Shaky)
il-lo - Cami (Edamame Remix)
Bluetech - Awakening - Serpents Tail
Suryummy - Fail Night
Deep Dive Corp. - Head in the Clouds
Cell - Anti
Spatialize - Cracked
Harland - Moon (Stillhead Downtempo Remix)
Freud - Right Now
Buck UK - Once  (Essáy's Ambstep Mix)
Robot Koch, Fiora - Let It Go By (Instrumental)
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo - Golden Times

Touch The Light

New Year's Day 2023. I was invited to play the opening set for Moontribe New Year's Day Vibe. Due to the schedule running a little behind, I was unable to finish with the last two tracks I had imagined, so I included them here as an addendum. This is warm, inviting, and playful downtempo.

Tracklist:
Akın Sevgör - The Style of No Style
Hanne Adam - Trust Hope - Trippin Jaguar Remix
Kaya Project ft. Pooja Tiwari - Always Hope (Globular Remix)
Balancé - Turn the first on the right
Invisible Inks - Undercurrent
Tor - Inkeri
MantisMash - Sparkleye
Amawalk - Flubbed
Tactyl - On Stir la Band
Tor - Two Suns (CloZee Remix)
Somatoast - Kokoa (Liquid Bloom Remix)
ENiGMA Dubz - Lost Souls (ATYYA Remix)
Bluetech - Kingdom of the Blind (feat. Alyssa) (Third I Mix)
DRRTYWULVZ - Imagine That
kLL sMTH - Systematic Anomaly
Ekorce - Wake Up
Dov1, HNGVR - So Weird
Mystic State - Stutter
ENiGMA Dubz - Under an Eastern Sky

Resolution

This is a live recording of a closing set I played back in 2016 at a yoga retreat. Starts out with some gently wiggly energy, and ends with ambient.

Tracklist:

Boogs - Opposable Strums
Zeb - Bombay Mix
Griff - Upper
Pitch Black - 1000 Mile Drift (Simon Flower's Lost At Sea Mix)
P.S.O.I. - The End of the Beginning
Griff - Close the Deal
KiloWatts - Mother of Thousands
Dream Stalker - Deeping
Spectralite - Ocean
Suns of Arqa - Discordant Dawn (Kuba Rmx)
Asonat - We Have Come So Far Again
Luis Vaquero - Open Your Eyes
Random Rab - Vapour Train
Kuba - We'll Learn
Deep Dive Corp - Bassic (Flow Mix)
Stargarden - Lullabeene
Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There
Helios - The Jaguar Sun

Renewal

This is my set from Holotropic Happy Hour (HHH), Spring Equinox 2023. HHH is a quarterly Twitch A/V show I co-produce on Bluetech's Twitch channel.

Tracklist:

Catching Flies - Sunrays
Ovoid - Comunifeels
Eu - Hipenjoy
Jiaming - Sea & She
Sounds From The Ground - Train Of Thought
Kuba - Unsinkable
The Flowerball Project - Flowers After All
Rocket Empire - Simmer Down Jammie
Bluetech - Restless (Erothyme Remix)
Rohne - Aurora
Unknown Reality - Out Of Nothing
Rithma - Bangabadanga
Akal Dub - Eunoia
The Lushlife Project - Soul Reservation Morning
EMOG - Under the Sun
Kaya Project ft. Pooja Tiwari - Always Hope (Globular Remix)
Occult - Bay

Enchanted

This is a live recording of a closing set I played out in the dusty desert for a Moontribe Full Moon Gathering in March of 2023. 

Tracklist:

pheel. - stunted.
beatfarmer - This! (Lo.Renzo remix)
EMOG - Kayra Han
Erothyme - Inspiral (feat. Jessica Sirena)
Kaya Project - Beware The Drunken Master (Digitalis Remix)
Giyo - Lightform
Bluetech - 667 (Kalya Scintilla Remix)
Matija - Super Elastic (Daniel Hokum Remix)
islandman - Future Days
The Crystal Method - Dubiliscous Groove
Akuandub - Ether
beatfarmer - Afrosplat
Hedflux - Sines of Progress
Aligning Minds - Weeping Willow
EMOG & FR∆SER Live - The Tower
Foxtail - Dussek's Sonata
Thought Process - Beauty Beyond A Web Of Confusion
Ourman - Out Here
Mungk - Meditate
AtyyA - Exalted (ADM X EVE Remix)
Kercha - A Very Strange Man
TRUTH - Sacred
Akal Dub - Revival
11th Hour - Ashkhar
Liquid Bloom  PERE feat. Paul Stamets - The Mycelium is Listening (Subliminull Remix)

Synaptic Serenade

This is a 2 hr section of an 8 hr mix I played for a private holiday party in December 2019. This set was played on Bluetech's Holotropic Happy Hour show on Twitch on June 17 2020.

Tracklist:

Balance - It's Just Water
Beatroots - Subrooted
I Awake - Reflecting Impulses
Bluetech - Stone, River & Shadow
Sub Roots & Stakma - The Isle of Dub
Mauxuam - B4 After
Melk - Legolove
Legion of Green Men - Baqup
Strange Substance - Puffy Clouds
Random Rab - Clairvoyer
Vibrasphere - 33000 Feet Over
Lusine - Auto Pilot
Ishdub - Chilltepec
Erothyme - Cherry Picking
Amawalk - Huju feat. Amalgamy
Somatoast - In Syzygy (Somatoast & Zonra)
Rena Jones - The Passing Storm
Union Jack - Water Drums
Aquasky - Images
Digitalis - Noodles
Dream Stalker - Dialekt
Dirty Hippy - The Treehouse
Krusseldorf - Insectoid
Fatum Sci Fi - Vespertine Phantom (Violet Mix)
Trifonic - Infiltration
Cell - The Gate
Bluetech - Laika

SubTerranean

DJ Maggie carefully curates the best of downtempo electronic into lush, playful and deeply replenishing sets that invite listeners on shimmering audio odysseys. Whether leading flights to the depth of the heart or the outer dimensions of the cosmos, Maggie pilots music masterfully as a multi-dimensional tool—for joy enhancement, energy boosting, community building, a safe space for retreat, a salve for helping heal pain, or a focus-enhancing medium to optimize creativity or productivity.

Evolving her own brand of intuitive sound at the legendary Southern California desert gatherings of the groundbreaking Moontribe Collective and other conscious parties and festivals, Maggie soon established a reputation for her heart-expanding sonic rides. This eventually propelled her into the path of her current collaborations with esteemed downtempo artist and producer, Bluetech (Evan Bartholomew) and their labels Behind the Sky and  Over the Moon. Her first compilation, a 2xLP entitled ‘Matters of the Heart,’ was released in June 2021 on Behind The Sky, and she began releasing through Over the Moon in October 2021.

*~A personal note from me to you~*

People tell me amazing stories about how the music has touched them, and for that I'm eternally grateful. It's the main reason I keep doing this - human connection through the universal language of music.

You'll find mixes here to stream or download that are comprised of some of my favorite downtempo tracks, ever. Some are super-mellow and ready to accompany your bedtime/meditation/ snuggle session, while others might be happy to ride along on your next road trip. I post a tracklist on every mix. For mixes that are grouped together by energy level or theme, check out my playlists.

See links below for other places to find me. I'm also a digital artist (all mix graphics are made by me) and nature photographer, for example...or message me for more info, or to share your thoughts :)

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