Omg!!! So good! Track ID? This set is absolutely fire!!!

Yeesss my favorite bluetech song is in here too :D

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

An exploration into the chiller side of rhythmic electronica.

A portion of this was recorded live during the 1-year anniversary of my former Twitch show, Omakase, in April 2021. The remainder was sequenced in the studio to expand the mix to two hours, for broadcast on Holotropic Happy Hour, the former weekly A/V Twitch show I co-produced on Bluetech's channel for over 2 years.

Tracklist:
Rumpistol - Jossi
Waveshaper - Autonomous Phenomena (Zaibatsu Mix)
Shwamp - Desert Heat
Dummy Splash - Desert Lighthouse
Tipper - Portal Spillage
Somatoast - Tapping in Boyd Hill
Random Rab - The Spice
Invisible Inks - Birds Aren't Real
Frederic Robinson - Shut
Bop - Take Your Time
Sacred Seeds - The Reach
Somatoast - Icicle
Balancé - Cosmic connection III
Boards Of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Pitch Black - Daylight Wasting
Desert Dwellers - At Last, Our Refuge
Data Rebel - Ion
Deeb - Speak in Colours (Zen Baboon Remix)
Hidden Orchestra - East London Street
Emancipator, Rena Jones, Flowerpulse - Iceland
Mindex - 5100 Miles
M-Seven - Creative Tao
Dream Stalker - Kair
All India Radio - Brightness Reef
Dillard - Insight
Scann-Tec - Phone Call (live edit)
KiloWatts - Emotion

Lunar Lullabies

This set debuted on Holotropic Happy Hour (former streaming A/V show I co-produced on Bluetech's Twitch channel for over 2 years) in June 2022. A portion of it was recorded during a live stream in 2021, and the rest was curated for HHH. I call it "Smoovie" because all of the tunes feel like "smoov grooves" to me. There's a handful of contemporary tunes in this mix, along with some timeless classics from the era when I first discovered downtempo (mid 90s).

Chilldreamer - 7 Eleven
Bluetech - Three Worlds
Moon Frog - Summer Folds (Dillard Remix)
AKAL - In This Body
EMOG - Connecting Particles
Cam Lasky - Tokyo Hyaku Synchronicity #036 Poseidon Forest (Original Mix)
M-Seven - Fuelled Exploration
Jafu - No More
Erothyme - Where Does Your Love Go
Auditive Escape - Coldness of Words
Massive Attack - Karmacoma (UNKLE Situation Mix - Instrumental)
Rocket Empire - Red Room (featuring Chuck Love)
Soosh - Uncertain (Slowcoach Remix)
Journeyman - 50cc Part 2 (45 rpm)
Eu - Love Me
Drome - Hinterland, Kassler Kessel
Darkside - Blue Sunday
Sick-E - The other me
Daddylonglegs - The Fourth Way
Romo - Highs & Lows
a.p.e. - Piecemeal
Mama Oliver - East West (Makossa-Kruder Dub)
Sola Rosa - Scratch Apprentice
3 Wise Monkeys - It's Gonna Rain
Rumpistol - Nice Man
EMOG - The Star
Extended Spirit - Illicity
Jaywalkers - Language of Music
DeeB - Chillwings
Anitek - Time Tellers

Smoovie

This is a live recording of an opening set I played at Disclosurefest in Los Angeles, June 2022. Lots of influences from cultures around the world in this playlist.

Oco - Sandalo (Zen Baboon Remix - Longer Mix)
Captures - Cloud Drifter
Somatoast - Kokoa (Edamame Remix)
Yoofee - Wings
Jean du Voyage - Sensitive
Globular & Geoglyph - Take Down Everything
EMOG - The Magical Wind (beatfarmer Remix)
y e l a g u a - Micro e Macro
Shwamp - Wonky
The Black Seeds - Almost Home (Jet Jaguar Remix)
Govinda - Union of Body and Sound
Tosca - Tropical
Geju x Hovo - Easy Tiger
Alef - Alma
Viken Arman - Charlie's Absinthe
Captures - Matakan Mwami
Akuandub - Ether
Karuan - Dunya  (Nickodemus RMX)
Akın Sevgör - Geometric
Hedflux & Alex Delfont - Opia
Deep Dive Corp. - Rising Sun (Flipside's Shine RMX)
Klik & Frik - Achalay
Deisen (Sofa Beats) - Cinderella (Landhouse Remix)
Rocket Empire - Boombadom

Shimmy

This mix is a live recording of my opening set from Love Long Beach in July 2022. I was going for a "playful and inviting" vibe.

Hedflux - Corvid Phase
beatfarmer - Piano Masala (Pangani remix)
Shwamp - Hai
M-Seven - Spiritual Spy
Bluetech - Green Sophia (Gnosis Mix)
Trippin Jaguar - Arecibo
Sigil - Jahowl
Galaxy Drop - Micro Movement
Trippin Jaguar - Duat - Featuring Raffaello Visconti
Sea Raven - Heart Way
tranquility bass - Ionosphere
Theo Gramal - Orakle
Zen Baboon - Sabo de Raia
Giyo - Faux Monsoon
ali dada - Tea Surf (Trippin Jaguar's Neon Wave Remix)
Easyjack - 106 chill glitch (unreleased)
Zen Baboon & Freud - Moonlight
Wasisunqu - Tlatikpa  (Ishdub Remix)
Lo Renzo - Tonle Sap
Vicious Cactus - Jazzy Hall
Kariyan - Im Spiegel Ist Sonntag

Shindiggity

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

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

Tracklist:

1. Sola Rosa – Sleepwalker 
2. Tosca – Every Day and Every Night
 3. Sandspider – The Groove
 4. Dave Wallace – Expressions (Part 2) 
5. Fink – Good Day for Hippos
 6. The Eff Word – TBC (Crustation Slow Mix) 
7. Nick Nack – Unarmed & Dangerous 
8. George Pallikaris – In Search Of
 9. Crustation – Hey 
10. 9 Lazy 9 – Electric Lazyman (Journeyman’s Remix)
 11. PolyGroovers – Mon Chaton
 12. Megablast – Sun
 13. Uptight People – Get Uptight Man 
14. Noiseshaper – Dunk
 15. Daddy’s Favourite – Do It 
16. Sonoluce – Eye Move (Baby Mammoth Remix)
 17. Black Mighty Orchestra – Ocean Beach (Cybophonia Remix)
 18. Mama Oliver – Eastwest (Stoned Together)
 19. Tosca – Orozco (Dubphonic Dub) 
20. Plastyc Buddha – String Vibe (Minus 8 Remix)
 21. Praful – Sigh (Maneesh de Moor Remix)
 22. Baby Mammoth – Finale (Vana-Bar Remix)
 23. DJ Food – Gold in My Pocket
 24. dZihan & Kamien – Stiff Jazz 
25. Electroslide – Pick Me Up

An early and enthusiastic adopter of the mixed tape, Maggie has always loved sharing good music (and audio odysseys) with her friends. Through DJing, she’s also captured the ears of conscious partygoers, as well as downtempo and trip-hop music fans all over the globe who find her on Facebook, Soundcloud and other sites.

Initiated to the decks by her beloved Moontribe community in 2005, Maggie has gone on to play events for other cool crews like Green Sector, Tropical and the Do Lab. Ultimately, Maggie dons her headphones in the hope that her playful, positive music offers a moment of meaning, healing or inspiration to those tuning in.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chilledbeats
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dj-maggie

Gnomes of Kush is a project from the fertile mind of Tony D’Oporto, also known as The Gnome. A native of Southern California, Tony has been at the forefront of electronic music culture since the early 1990’s where he has worked in a variety of styles that include Trance, Ambient and Chill Out backed by countless performances throughout North America.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gnomesofkush/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/gnomesofkush

GNOMES OF KUSH | Hour of Kush Vol.19 feat. DJ MAGGIE of Los Angeles | 27/07/2016

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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