Thats a beautiful track that i Like, the voice is a little bit dull but the arrangement is good

What a universe : great storytelling ! Drove me somewhere

Damn sir this whole mix is such a great and rare combo of etno and dub

I recorded this set on 10/13/2024 at Arillas Soundgarden in Greece, the mecca of ecstatic dance. I had already prepared another set, but 2 days before I found this set too dark and sad... So I prepared a new set with the intention of making a bigger change in my life and overcoming my own depression and sadness of the past year. I decided to play a “best of” my sets that I played in the past year, because while playing and dancing ecstatic dances, I mostly go through my dark and sad emotions and turn them into joy and happiness by the end of the dance. In this set I also started using stems, which was a wonderful opportunity to mix a techno track with a beatbox track from Singapore in a way that is only possible with stems.

I uploaded it 4 weeks later and I can tell you: I managed to get my life mostly out of my depression...thanks to the decision to get up emotionally with the help of this set!!!

I hope you will also find joy and happiness in listening and dancing to this set !

Playlist:

1: Jonna Jinton & SpaceDeer - The Spirit Song
2: World Of Intros - Sound of Silence 
3: OceanoGraphy - Carcharodon
4: Danheim - Ulfhednar
5: Kalya Scintilla - Caravan Planet
6: ONUKA - Vidlik
7: Class Compliance - Cuadro 
8: PBH & Jack, Hannah Boleyn - Eat Organic 
9: Rey&Kjavik - Baba City (Original Mix).mp3
10: Boris Brejcha - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven 
11: BEATPELLA HOUSE - Candy Thief (Beatbox)
12: Charlie Draper & The Radio Science Orchestra - Summertime
13: Rising Appalachia - Medicine
14: Savej, Soohan, Sirenitas de la Selva - Ani Couni 
15: eelison - Mahadev 
16: Ganja White Night - In the Cave of the Wobble King
17: Rainer Scheurenbrand - What U Gonna Do
18: Noga Erez - VIEWS
19: Tipper - Hobbledehoy
20: Centaurus A - Zen Tauro 
21: Red Axes - Relax Shiva 
22: Dubdogz - Dance Is The Answer (feat. Raja Ram) 
23: Dead Musicians Society - Balikali 
24: Rhyme Island  - The Spark Song
25: Timna Brauer - Parfois Je T Aime 
26: Henning Wehland - Tanz um dein Leben
27: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow & What A Wonderful World
28: BéTé Tremolo Project - Bella Ciao
29: Windsong Martin - Mother I Feel You
30: Ren Aubry - Seven Lights in the Dark  

"Back to Joy and Happiness" Ecstatic Dance Corfu

We can‘t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it !!!

DJ & owner of Arillas Soundgarden on the beautiful island of Corfu in Greece. Host of the year-round weekly Ecstatic Dance on Sunday mornings.

For me, ecstatic dance is art, culture, joy and healing. As a DJ and dancer, it allows you to free yourself from things that you are unconsciously stuck in… and you can do that just by going through your own automatically triggered processes through the music and the energy in the field of all the dancers present.

In the 80s/90s I was a successful vinyl DJ and club owner (Unterhaus Karlsruhe). I was a resident DJ in Frankfurt (Dorian Gray), Stuttgart (ZAP), Pforzheim (Scandal, Café Cairo) and many more. I also had DJ bookings in Ibiza (Pasha, Amnesia), Zürich (Rohstofflager, Oxa, Streetparade), Berlin (Planet, UFO, Loveparade) and many more. 

My personal highlight was to play together a „back-to-back“ with the legendary „Grandmaster Flash“ at a B-Boy battle in 1997.

At the end of 1990 I opened one of the first DJ schools in Germany and then supported newly founded DJ schools in other cities. In 1999 I ended my vinyl DJ career and worked as a paragliding instructor, among other things, until I founded the unicorn startup Volocopter in 2012. Since 2020 I have left the operational business at Volocopter and am now a world and time traveler.

On January 1st, 2023, I started back behind the (now digital) DJ decks. Since then, I've been hosting weekly Ecstatic Dance at my event/retreat location "Soundgarden" in Arillas on the island of Corfu in Greece.

Since 2 years I train my voice in throat and overtone singing. As SpaceDeer, my signature move is to sing in the intro phase of my Ecstatic Dance sets.

About Ecstatic Dance:

Ecstatic Dance is a danced meditation that frees people from things they're stuck in. As DJs we start with longer intros without beats and slowly transform the energy to one or two peeks to get the dancers really ecstatic... we also try to go through different energies - sadness, anger, happieness, freedom, peace … and a variety of genres and extraordinaire/crazy tracks are welcome. But always organic electronic dance music is a base of the sets. At the end there is also a longer phase with slow beats or just sounds/noises to bring the dancers to the floor and guide them to lie still on the floor for 5-10 minutes... to integrate their inner processes that have unfolded during the dance.

Main rules of ecstatic dance:

- no talking during the dance
- be sober (no alcohol or drugs)
- dance barefoot
- no judgement of your own or others movements/behaviours
- contact dance is welcome, but only in respect of your own - and of the others boarders.

About Soundgarden:

Soundgarden is a magical place in the olive groves overlooking the Ionian Sea, nestled in the lush hills above the lively seaside village of Arillas, popular with alternative international tourism. A well-equipped, year-round venue and retreat was created by man and nature together to serve as a high-vibrational field to connect, retreat, celebrate, move, listen, dance and transform.
With its magical outdoor areas (Under the Flower, The Olive Stage, Outdoor Kitchen, Around the Fire, In the Garden) and indoor areas (The Tree Temple) and a high-end sound system, Arillas-Soundgarden offers ideal conditions to experience unforgettable moments.

www.arillas-soundgarden.com

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