The ancient future expands through transglobal bass frequencies as deep currents of sound & rhythm percolate and pulse through indigenous voices, tribal motifs and ethnic idioms. (Thank you for reposting!!!)

From my set with friends #DesertDwellers (in Santa Cruz mountains 7/23/21)

PLEASE TAKE TIME TO EXPLORE & SUPPORT THE AMAZING ARTISTS FEATURED IN THIS MIX (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):
https://soundcloud.com/klopfgeister
https://soundcloud.com/centaurusamx
https://soundcloud.com/drtrippymusic
https://soundcloud.com/ocosound (remixed by: https://soundcloud.com/razat "R.I.P." my friend)
https://soundcloud.com/frenic
https://soundcloud.com/gidexen
https://soundcloud.com/harkvibez
https://soundcloud.com/jadecicada
https://soundcloud.com/burakasomsistema (remixed by https://soundcloud.com/caspaofficial )
https://soundcloud.com/forddnb
https://soundcloud.com/rudebwayfokus
https://soundcloud.com/pandadub
https://soundcloud.com/tropkillaz
https://soundcloud.com/killabeatmakeroficial
https://soundcloud.com/dj-pantelis
https://soundcloud.com/tarantegm
https://soundcloud.com/nominus
https://soundcloud.com/alex_kaminski
https://soundcloud.com/agawe
https://soundcloud.com/jean-vayat
https://soundcloud.com/arutani
https://soundcloud.com/karmaamusic
https://soundcloud.com/mula
https://soundcloud.com/pophop
https://soundcloud.com/user-975555579 (ROY YAMAGUCHI)

DRAGONFLY RISING - AKASHIC GLOBAL BASS

Expect the unexpected: Two hours & seven minutes of genre-hopping, tempo-morphing dance music. A slow build, followed by mid-tempo bump and groove gives way to driving tribal house , then collapses in to funk, twerk and eventually a grand, downtempo exhale

Designed and informed by the dancefloor, channeled by yours truly and mixed live, unplanned and uncharted on CDJs and with live percussive elements on my Roland Handsonic. Welcome to a journey of beat-huffing bass music, mystic glitch, electroswing, twerkhop, tribal house, Afrofunk,Balkan trap and dreamtempo!

Recorded at PDX Refuge, Jan 1st, 2014. Day of Intention with  Alex Grey and  Dragonfly, live music with https://soundcloud.com/peia-1

Partial Artist List Includes:

Anchor Hill
Plantrae
Drumspyder
Whitebear
Chris Komus
Push Pull
Marie Boine
Will Magid
Maga Bo
Buku
Keith Baker 
Jus Now
Psy-Fi
Synthetic Epiphany
Mnemesoyme

DRAGONFLY ECSTATIC DANCE SET- PORTLAND  JAN 1, 2014

Burning Man. It's the sum total of what makes being human an extraordinary experience, and that feeling has been my constant and consistent theme on the playa since my first time out, in 1995.  In this unscripted, 75-minute mix, mid-tempo organic house explores and celebrates the cultural nuances of mystically joyful and mesmerizing melodies and the deep push of pulsating rhythm and groove. The sounds of Aboriginal Australia, The Middle East, The Celts, and Africans of North, East and West origination, The sounds of the natives of the  Caucus Mountains and SE Asian steppes are all woven together in an unstoppable flow for the dancefloor.

I encourage you to explore and discover the incredible music the following artists have created, whose music ended up in this mix. Behind every tune is years of each and every producers picking up and practising an instrument, spending years learning music composition and music software and hardware, doing countless gigs, signing music contracts, dealings and negotiations JUST to get THEIR art to YOUR ears and DANCEFLOORS. To all that, I say: Thank you!

In order of appearance:

Aldous Huxley interview
@Didgi-Taal
https://soundcloud.com/boddhi-satva, https://soundcloud.com/fnxomarofficial
https://soundcloud.com/karmaamusic
https://soundcloud.com/benarsenalofficial
@Megablast
@BaikalNomads
https://soundcloud.com/shkoon-music
https://soundcloud.com/abelrayofcl
https://soundcloud.com/cosmonaut
https://www.beatport.com/track/blessing-sergii-petrenko-dub-remix/14458420
https://soundcloud.com/moonanga-music
https://soundcloud.com/cafedeanatolia/elias-fassos-risk-gr-anasa-cafe-de-anatolia
https://soundcloud.com/ben-bohmer
https://soundcloud.com/pipeandpochet/t-puse-dor-reuveni-purpose-original-mix-1
@KERIMKAAN
https://soundcloud.com/agawe
https://soundcloud.com/hvmza @GazMawete

DRAGONFLY - BEYOND DUST ( SOUNDGARDEN) BURNING MAN 2022

PT 3. In Spotlight: https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/tumbleweedsoul
PT 4. https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/dragonfly-the-tumbledown-blues

A slow deep house travelogue from the Badlands to The Bayou, from the Western twang of Wyoming's cowboy country to the pensively achy ballads of Southern blues. Live & unscripted  (recording is from my set at Green River Rendezvous Festival,  Wyoming). Tracklisting below:

https://soundcloud.com/el-buho
The Limiñanas - Maria's Theme (El Buho's Cumbi-edit)
https://soundcloud.com/besvendsen
Be Svendsen - Leone
https://soundcloud.com/rapossa
Rapossa - Wild Guns (Samaha Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/k-paul
K-Paul, Kid Simius - El Remo Dub
https://soundcloud.com/nicopuschmusic
Nico Pusch - Blackbird (Thomas Lizzara Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/steven-maff
Steven Maff - Johnny
https://soundcloud.com/feinheitsbrei
Feinheitsbrei - Forest Of Souls
https://soundcloud.com/giaccaofficial
Antonio Giacca - Down Like the River 
https://soundcloud.com/a21producer
A21 & Fernando Sanchez - Niquelao
Nhii - A Mindful Blues 
https://soundcloud.com/nhii-music/a-mindful-blues
Devendra Banhart - Für Hildegard von Bingen (Crussen Edit)
https://soundcloud.com/devendrabanhart / https://soundcloud.com/crussen
Bob Dylan  - All Along The Watchtower (Soulmotion Dj Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/soulmotiondj
https://soundcloud.com/uone/premiere-uone-western-kaos-of-time-feat-briony-taylor-brooks-beat-pathwav
Briony Taylor-Brooks, Uone, Western- Kaos of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Otzk1zidg
Rocknrolla  Soundsystem - Nobody’s Fault But Mine
....and finally, one of the most underrated producers  ever, of downtempo, chilled-out, electro-soul & folk Americana:
https://soundcloud.com/akshinalizadeh
Akshin Alizadeh - Inner Struggle
Akshin Alizadeh - Southern Man

DRAGONFLY - TUMBLEWEED HOUSE & PRAIRIE BLUES

An incredible festival, an incredible dance: In the late night steamy heat of the Costa Rican rainforest we Invoked the sacred through sonic alchemy and surrendered to the divine.  This set was the culmination of everything I strive for on the ecstatic dance floor - in the amorphously porous container of a festival a multi genre, tempo-twisted offering of deep groove and penetrating cadence elastically stretched the potential for expression over 108 minutes of unpredictable storytelling as each dancer exploded into the hyper-nowness of being.

#Bassmusic
#House
#Downtempo
#Halftime
#Drum&Bass
#Sacred
#Psytrance
#Latin
#African
#Brazilian
#Love
#Freedom

DRAGONFLY - SPIRIT CATCHER @ ENVISION FESTIVAL ECSTATIC JUNGLE DANCE 2023

(L)et's 
(S)tart
(D)ancing: 
I got on my bike today and made a spontaneous mix honoring of Albert Hofmann's  magnificent moment in history, 80 years ago.
This global psychedelicatessen of elevating, knotty, percolating, pulsing and squidgy bassliness is woven with a smorgasbord of flavor. Low-end basscapades, traditional horn lines and global soundplay all meet up with  the skank and stutter of dub reggae vibes for a mesmerizing entanglement with psychedelic sound design. ARTIST LISTING BELOW (explore, discover, dance!)
https://soundcloud.com/sensorythm84
https://soundcloud.com/psydraft
https://soundcloud.com/kuba-laurence-harvey / https://soundcloud.com/gaudi
https://soundcloud.com/pandadub
https://soundcloud.com/chriskomus
https://soundcloud.com/fletric
https://soundcloud.com/wolf-tech
https://visionaryshamanics.bandcamp.com/track/kumara-arcanum
https://soundcloud.com/ethnicalvibes
https://soundcloud.com/akashaexperience
https://soundcloud.com/sikadaofficial / https://soundcloud.com/byzantine-time-machine
https://soundcloud.com/mantismash
https://soundcloud.com/livinglight 
https://soundcloud.com/m00nrakers 
https://soundcloud.com/quanta-uk
https://soundcloud.com/axelthesleff / https://soundcloud.com/pandadub 
https://soundcloud.com/zoranpsychoz
https://soundcloud.com/schatsi /  https://soundcloud.com/mantismash
https://soundcloud.com/nomadic_escape
https://soundcloud.com/beatfarmer
https://soundcloud.com/gumiproject / https://soundcloud.com/kayaproject
https://soundcloud.com/suduaya 
https://soundcloud.com/psybur
https://soundcloud.com/cosmosis-official

ALBERT HOFMANN'S BIG DAY OUT - A PSYCHEDELIC GLOBAL DUB RIDE: AN 80TH ANNIVERSARY  MIX!

On Nov 6th, 2013 the world music community lost a prolific contributor and friend, Cheb i Sabbah. I had the pleasure of knowing him through DJing with him, as well as hiring him for several festivals...and of course listening and dancing to him for 20 years. This morning I spontaneously put this little mix together that includes many of the artists he worked with...thank you to my dear friend Gaudi ( https://soundcloud.com/gaudi) and his brief interview with Cheb I which became the intro to this mix.

May the music serve as the flame at his altar...

R.I.P. Cheb I Sabbah, Jai Ho!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheb_i_Sabbah
(massive thanks to my friends Gaudi, Masaladosa, Zeb, Desert Dwellers, Jef Stott, Alum Khan, David Starfire, Sol Rising, Drum Spyder, Dum Dum Project for the tunes on this...)

DRAGONFLY - CHEB I MEMORIAL  MIX (R.I.P.)

ENVISION FESTIVAL - ECSTATIC DANCE
(edit. Sat, 9 March: Renamed set "JUNGLE PRAYER ECSTATIC DANCE". Thank you everyone for the feedback. Your dance in the jungle was juicey.  The set was a collective somatic prayer, an embodiment and a devotion to the dance as medicine).

And like all my ecstatic dance mixes, this is a raw portrait of the dance floor before me,  each set experienced as a unrehearsed, spontaneous collaboration with the dancers. But on this particular night in the jungle I had and agenda: Peace, prayer, healing, tribe, remembrance, beauty, home.

Envision Festival was the apotheosis of what a dance floor can do, and how far it can go as collective cathartic release: It was a total hot, sweaty meltdown of a trust fall.  

p.s. DJing ecstatic dance at a festival generally requires getting down to business from the get-go. Unlike indoors, these dances compete with other stages, are a porous container, comers-and-goers, talking on the dancefloor....and this also makes it special and surprising for the uninitiated.

p.s. If there is a specific track you want to know about, pm me. It will tell me that you listened.

DRAGONFLY - JUNGLE PRAYER ECSTATIC DANCE - ENVISION 2024

In the introspective drift of winter's sounds, this dreamy folktronica deep house mix is kinda like the hot water bottle at the foot of your bed...

DRAGONFLY - WINTERSPECTIVE HOUSE MIX (deephouse folktronica)

Please leave a comment - share your thoughts:
Burning Man 2024 - Thurs. 2:30am @ Soundgarden
Wow - this was a really special night. So many incredible dancers beautifully and enthusiastically expressing to my set. Behold 2 hours of unplanned and spontaneously DJ'd deep melodic beauty, uplifting global vibes and transcendent joy.  

As an exploration of world music this house mix spans many continents and cultures, one whose coda ultimately concludes with two remixes that, while they were somewhat a deviation from the theme of global sounds, they perfectly summed up the collective heartspace of those deeply vibing wee hours at Burning Man. 

Massive thanks to Mark Duncan and crew at Soundgarden (2:00/Gobsmack) for creating an exemplary space for music and the movement community.

photo cred: IG:jamen.percy.burn

POLYGLOTTAL GLOBAL 

DRAGONFLY - BURNING MAN 2024: POLYGLOTTAL STOMP @ SOUND GARDEN

The following fiction is true: Cowboy Noir, Spaghetti Westerns, Smokey Vocals, Country Blues, Lizard Kings, Storm Riders, Deep House and all...:

So "as the story goes":

"It was sometime back in 1962, when I found myself piloting a wheezing old Ford station wagon, feeling not just disoriented but positively misplaced on the dusty byways to Joshua Tree. The washboard roads shook my bones and rattled my teeth, so the accidental discovery of the sole watering hole in that barren wasteland was like stumbling upon an oasis. Despite its forlornly desiccated and saturnine exterior, the lonely backroads bar was an outpost that promised the desperate kind of salvation only dire needs can summon: Ritual libations. A stiff drink, and a moment's respite.

As I pushed through the nameless saloon’s swinging double doors, they creaked open to reveal an astonishing sight: Johnny Cash, Jim Morrison, Ennio Morricone, and Hope Sandoval, all seated together at the bar, deep in their cups. Behind the counter stood Barnett, the bartender, a sly vision of dry humor and endless spirits. They spotted my lonely silhouette and, with drunken enthusiasm, beckoned me to join their spirited symposium.
What followed was a cacophonous marathon of intemperance and debate, as we discoursed basslines and bourbon, whisky and women, UFOs and poetry, guitars and remixes, and…deep house.

The outcome of that wild and chewy night? This mix—a tribute to your culturally errant wanderings, a testament to “stepping into yes”, the uncharted paths we stumble upon…and the unexpected that ensues".

Tracklisting by request, but do check out my friend Tone Ranger @ 57:10:
@https://toneranger.bandcamp.com/track/palomino

DRAGONFLY - TUMBLEWEED SOUL - THE GOOD THE BAD & THE DUSTY

Just polished off and upload for you is my set from the Lapa Stage at Envision 2024.
Easing into the dancefloor a super vibey neo Cumbia Terror/Cactus & Cuervo Cuervo collab opens the set. Following is a deep organic house set of uniquely Afro/Latin rhythms threaded with the ecstatic timbre of village voices, seductive brass, percolating percussion and heartfelt melodies. The tempo cascades and falls throughout the mix...and ends with a parking spot in your melodic heart.  

I was thrilled to share billing with some of my fav house music artists,  Birds of Mind, Chaim, Henry Pope, Maz, Okuma, Rayon, Rey&Kjavik, Paralelle, Sadhu Sensi, Lorie…and many more EnJoy!!

TRACKLISTING:
Terror/Cactus & Cuervo Cuervo - Agua Mágica
@https://soundcloud.com/ohxala - Yawanawa
@https://soundcloud.com/g-e-j-u - Az 
@https://soundcloud.com/maaje_music - Chouette
@https://soundcloud.com/les-yeux-orange/premiere-fernanda-arrau-balam-baila - Balla
@https://soundcloud.com/sebjak - Aguacero
@https://soundcloud.com/cafedeanatolia/elias-fassos-risk-gr-anasa-cafe-de-anatolia - Anasa
@https://soundcloud.com/pepo-bosser/david-tort-markem-yas-cepeda-ft-ella-loponte-strangers - Strangers 
@https://soundcloud.com/scottnice - Bossa Supa Nova
@https://soundcloud.com/wait_for_me (WAR Low Rider Wait For Me 'Tech Dub Rub' Mix)
@https://soundcloud.com/afrohouseunited/ahu-premiere-augusto-yepes-kasango-moya-original-mix-my-other-side-of-the-moon - Moya
Tomi H & Soul Star - Nnangalimbe @https://soundcloud.com/tomihofficial - Nnangalimbe
La Santa, Sparrow & Barbossa - Cumanayagua 
Elcinho Dj, ORINegrix - Apito
Lua Preta - Quero Mais (feat. Morena Leraba) (Jowaa Remix)
Vintage Culture, Shapeless - Bidolibido
Victor Alc - Sudamérica (Extended Mix)
Léo Leobons - São Bento para Ramiro (Chico Correa Remix)
Junior Jack - E Samba (Jolyon Petch & Mobin Master New Vocal Club Remix)
Andi & Alex - Mama Say [Maneki Neko]
Volanda Be Cool & DCUP - Soul Makossa (Gambino Sound Machine remix)
Frank Nitty, AL Sharif - The Iberian
Augusto Yepes, Calussa - Amore
Nasca - Trippy Chulo 
Boca Beats (CloZe edit)
Zerb, Sofiya Nzau - Mwaki (Slowed)
Frohlocker - Florcita (Ohxalá Remix)
Principe Q -  BUEN DIA

DRAGONFLY - LAPA STAGE - ENVISION FESTIVAL 2024

( TUMBLEWEED SOUL PLAYLIST:https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/sets/way-out-west )

THE TUMBLEDOWN BLUES (LIVE @ NORTHERN NIGHTS FESTIVAL) : 
It's 2:30am and in a fast-paced, ever changing world  I’m dropping a downtempo mix that blazes a slow, achy trail across the American West. Festooned with ghost towns, rusticating prairie graves and lonesome crows, this collection of tunes lends you doleful voices, blues guitars, twangy banjos and the stuttering ragtime of vintage pianos. Its sideshow twin is the conjoined grumble and grime of downtempo bass. The cadence does have moments of upswing; ribald bar rooms and scurrying outlaws make a momentary presence. But the coffee-meets-whisky approach makes this sonic libation yet another perfect slow-sipper as the soundtrack for your wayward soul.

Mad props to my friends Kr3ture, Dirtwire, Morillo, Scott Nice, Ryan Herr, Jesse Hendricks, DJ Taz...and all the other super talented producers in this mix:
@kr3ture 
@dirtwire 
@morillomusic 
@scottnice 
@vandelux 
@daily-bread 
@bitskymusic 
@ryanherrmusic 
@tnertle 
@moontricks 
@buttonz00 
@thomasvent 
@inbloom1469 Gravitas-recordings – Koy-nobody-elses 
@keraladust 
@djtazrashid

DRAGONFLY - THE TUMBLEDOWN BLUES (live @ Northern Nights Festival)

This one! Transglobally good groove of Gritty and gossamer, delicate and driving, spaciously dense and playfully serious Afroblessed, Latin scorched, Heart-Opening, Booty-Shaking levity. 

Here's a mix of deep, pulsing and vibrant global magic. A late night house music journey on the playa that extracts itself from an incredibly tumultuous burn: The heat, the wind, the destruction, the dust...then rain. 

The elements in all their adversity did little to restrain an incredible dancefloor at Sound Garden where I dropped MY most inspired set since attending my first burn 30 years ago. While massive thanks to the dancefloor for its constant inspiration that night, an even bigger thanks goes out to my friend Mark Duncan, the inimitable and indefatigable visionary and host who curated and produced yet another extraordinary week at Sound Garden.

(On a final note, the closing track (Florian Gasperini - Back Home) is dedicated to our friend John Rider who passed away at the burn, at camp, Weds morning. His happy place. He would not have wanted it any other way)

DRAGONFLY - MIDNITE MIRAGE - BURNING MAN - SOUND GARDEN - 2025

Live mix  recorded during my set performing alongside Desert Dwellers and Kalya Scintilla (the final stop of the Earth Heart Tour). With the dancefloor dripping with freaks, this was the sonic salvo for their bodyprayer. Trap, Bass and glitch attitudes meet the sounds of India, the Middle East and beyond....



DRAGONFLY - BASS PUJA

Imagine the Silk Road reinvented as vast music trade routes connecting the myriad of cultures from the far eastern Mongolian plains to the shores of the Mediterranean.  With music as the lingua franca the journey was a place for travellers and merchants to buy, sell and exchange exotic melodies and prized basslines.

Like the Silk Road, this live mix is full of sonic adventure, seduction, menace and majesty. Enjoy the journey...

(LIVE MIX from the Gem & Jam preparty...supporting Shpongle, Alex Grey, Ott... https://www.facebook.com/events/1728060807414388/)

ARTIST LISTING  
Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo, Soohan , Frenic , MrOurs , 4bstrackter, Drrtywlvz, Alphant, Stas, Bit Deff, XXX, Ransom, , Nominus , Drumspyder , Mohammad Razi, Sigil, Tripnotik, DJ Madd, Sarantis, Zwirek , Dysphemic , Frenic, Mr. Ours, Cruzdub 

Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo - Tuvan Prayer
Soohan - Straight Mongolian 
Frenic - The Trumen Horsemen
MrOurs - Bit Time (4bstr4ck3r Remix)
Drrtywlvz - Distant Pyramids
Alphant - An Indian Dream (Mr. Ours Remix)
Stas - Distance (Chong X Remix)
Bit Deff - Doll
XXX - In the MMiddle East (Ransom Remix)
Chamberlain - Path To Shangri-La
Kameronessi $ Stas - Loobia
Nominus - Scarlet Sutra 
Drumspyder - Fingerbeat
Mohammad Razi - Persian Trap
Sigil - Camel 
Tripnotik - Arabian Nights
DJ Madd - TMSV Difference (JKenzo Remix)
The Flute ???
Sarantis  - Karami
Zwirek - Love in Damascus
Dysphemic - Anatoli
Frenic - Ulan Bator
Mr. Ours - Dawn (Dimaa Remix)
Cruzdub - Zen

DRAGONFLY  - SILK ROAD BASS

A mix I did for a party on Maui....just pura vida on the beach. Chill house & easy listening. That's all  <3

TRACKLISTING:
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Thomas Jack Remix) 
Bastille, Deep Chills - Flaws (Deep Chills Remix) 
 Deep Chills - Lighthearted 
Broken Back - Happiest Man On Earth (Yako Edit) 
Tinush – Sommerregen
The Chancellors - Cut Soul (Kungs Remix)
Sam Feldt - Guitar Track (Bootleg)
Deep Chills - Feelin' Good
Trinidad – Epos
Sound Remedy - We Are The Dream (Urban Contact Remix) 
Deep Asleep – Pacific Dive
Nina-Simone-Feeling Good-28liva-k-remix
The Police - Roxanne (Fernan Dust Deep Remix)
Timo Garcia, Manu Delago -_The Hang Track Pt II
FlicFlac - Triangle 
Y.V.E. 48 – All You Need Day Mix
Lura & Ruggiero – Melancholia
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (Androma Remix)
Stas – Children
Mark-Tarmonea – Imagine (John Lennon) 


DRAGONFLY - MAUI MELT MIX (HOUSE @ 100bpm)

DEEP MAGICK RITUAL MOVEMENT....2 hours, 46 mins of hypnotic, worldy, percussive and shamanic ékstasis ( @ Oakland Ecstatic Dance ). From its traditional slow warm-up to its conclusive grand exhale, traditional and contemporary Eastern, African, European and Asian motifs, instruments and voices weave through this serpentine mix of magical peaks and valleys.


DRAGONFLY - DEEP MAGICK:  PRIMORDIAL ECSTATIC DANCE - OAKLAND

On the beach, Swimbiosis stage, Saturday afternoon...a deep mix of afro-latino uplifting vibes and serpentine grooves shapeshift their way across a heliotropic dancefloor.  It would not have been the same without you...and the masterfull Ben Harris on trumpet #https://iemanjo.bandcamp.com/releases (alas..that part NOT captured on this recording)

DRAGONFLY - AFRO-TINO SOULSURFING (SYMBIOSIS 2016)

There are certain nights that, when I DJ, I have absolutely no idea what I am going to spin. After all,  I approach the decks, armed to my ears with CD binders filled with all kids of genres, influences, styles, tempos and sonic weaponry; tools (if you will) for the dismantling and reassembling of the “self” through the kind of salvation that only music and dance provides. 

The following mix is a kind of "old-school-vs-nu-school"  Indo/Arab-centric vibes, that sources the sounds of a few music producing friends: Gaudi, Pierre Jean of Masaladosa, Govinda, Drum Spyder, MC Yogi, Amani of Desert Dwellers. This mix assembles itself as a spontaneously gentle combustion of tasty, unassuming groove over  the next 1:08:14 

Enjoy!

Dragonfly


DJ Dragonfly (live mix) - Chillums, Champa, Bass 'n Dub

Mali Blues, Afro Funk, Afro House and feel-good vibes - live, raw and unrehearsed recording from my set at the magical Enchanted Forest Festival (2017) 

Set list:
Amadou & Mariam - Dougne Te Soye -Baghdadi remix
Gregorythme - Oui oui (Multi Culti Remix) 
Tinariwen - Wallahi la ar tasninam (AkizzBeatzz Re-Edit) 
Majid Bekkas - African Blues (Luca Musto vs AkizzBeatzz funk remixes)
Amadou & Mariam - Sans Toi - Sierra Remix (Simón Mejía - Bomba Estéreo Remix) 
Oye!Simpson - Mali PunkRock
The Funkees - Salam (Sibu & Joe Nagall edit)
Fela Kuti - Open and Close (Will Magid Remix)
Miguel Migs - fire (Faze Action Afrotronic Re-Rub)
Yolanda Be Cool Dcup Soul Makossa (Money Club Mix)
Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Mike Newman remix)
Unknown - Yala 
Mo Black - Mabiisi Pagba Ambonati Remix
Joeski - Tribute to Obatala
Sobek - True Anomaly
HYENAH - The Wish
Flying To Namibia - Electroboogaloo Remix 
Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Mbube (Thornato remix)

DRAGONFLY - AFROCHANTED

Bass Deities stomped out evil so the dancefloor could reign! Live mix from SYMBIOSIS' Oregon Eclipse.
A journey across Indian and Arabic soundscapes 
#Omshantiwhomp
 

Special thanks go to #Flechette and friends #Soohan, #Thornato and #Rhythmystic for thier tracks - and for driving the global vibe!

DRAGONFLY - TEMPLE STOMP

DRAGONFLY - TEMPLE STOMP - OREGON ECLIPSE

Super chill ceremonial music, indigenous voices, languages, sounds and the instrumentation of South America traverse the void between the back of time to the end of now.

Download

DRAGONFLY - KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT (SOLSTICE MEDICINE MIX)

Opening set for Lee Scratch Perry/SubAtomic Soundsystem @ Terrapin Crossroads.

pm for tracklisting
props to https://soundcloud.com/jef-stott-embarka for: https://jefstott.bandcamp.com/track/jelem-cantina
and https://soundcloud.com/masaladosa for Dussehra Dub

DRAGONFLY - DUB & FLY (OPENING SET LEE SCRATCH PERRY & SUBATOMIC SOUNDSYSTEM)

Deep, slow pulsing basslines carry the exotic cargo of sound; pretty and gritty instrumentation, the ululation and trill of womens' traditional vocal techniques, and the swoop of mens' choruses.  North African rhythms shuffle and sway beneath the cresting timbre of taught, bluesy guitars, purposeful sintirs and the cascade of Malian harps (ngonis). Hand-claps and qraqebs (double-ended metal "castanets") chatter  hypnotically around the deep, definitive low end which craft the ethos of this 60-minute journey across the desert cultures of Mali, North Western Sahara, Morocco and Algeria.

Mad respect to friends - esteemed producers - Sabo, Akis, Rafa & Jack for their relentless celebration of transglobal groove and tunes which contributed to this mix:

https://soundcloud.com/solselectas
https://soundcloud.com/akizzbeatzz
https://soundcloud.com/klikandfrik
https://soundcloud.com/ackssek
https://soundcloud.com/destroydisco

The Tuareg inhabit the Saharan regions of North Africa - Niger, Mali, Libya, Algeria and Burkina Faso. From Wikipedia: The origins and meanings of the name Tuareg have long been debated. It would appear that Twārəg is derived from the broken plural of Tārgi, a name whose former meaning was "inhabitant of Targa", the Tuareg name of the Libyan region commonly known as Fezzan. Targa in Berber means "(drainage) channel".[20] Another theory is that Tuareg is derived from Tuwariq, the plural of the Arabic exonym Tariqi.[10] 

And from: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/tuareg/ Tuareg is an Arabic term meaning abandoned by God. They call themselves Imohag, translated as free men. 

No one knows the true origin of the Tuareg, where they came from or when they arrived in the Sahara. Reputedly of Berber descent, the language of the Tuareg is Tamachek, with their own script known as Tifinagh, thought to have ancient Libyan roots. Their numbers are unclear, but estimates run between 300,000 and 1 million. The Tuareg were recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th Century BC.
 
The most striking attribute of the Tuareg is the indigo veil, worn by the men but not the women, giving rise to the popular name the Blue Men of the Sahara, or Men of the Veil. Men begin wearing a veil at the age 25.

DRAGONFLY - INDIGO PEOPLE (DESERT BLUES - NORTH  AFRICAN GROOVES)

LIVE FROM THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO: MONSTEROUS AND BOISTEROUS, SWAGGERINGLY RELENTLESSLY, DEEP AND DIRTY ETHNO-BASS. HOW WEIRD STREET FAIRE 20TH ANNIVERSARY!

DRAGONFLY - BASS CHARMER (SF HOW WEIRD STREET FAIRE LIVE)

DRAGONFLY - BASS CHARMER

Beloved Festival. This is Ecstatic. This is Dance.  Prophetically, for the first 15 minutes of the set a large dragonfly swirled and flew above the packed dancefloor...and thus the transformation began.

This is  how it's done; one take, no pre-planned mixes as it evolves as an organic conversation with the dancefloor.

https://www.belovedfestival.com/lineup/music/

DRAGONFLY - BELOVED & ECSTATIC (Beloved Festival 2019)

PRETTY. GRITTY. DEEP. SLOW. 
MYSTIC. MAGIK. GLOBAL. 
HOUSE. 100 BPM.

Live freestyle exploration of global sounds and slowdeephouse
Late night @opulent-temple CHILL.
BURNING MAN.
THANK YOU.

DRAGONFLY OPULENT TEMPLE CHILL HOUSE SET  - BURNING MAN - LOST ON PLAYA

Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/tumbleweed-house-prairie-blues

Part 3: https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/tumbleweedsoul

Part 4. https://soundcloud.com/djdragonfly/dragonfly-the-tumbledown-blues
Today I crafted this pretty 'n gritty downtempo journey of blues and bass meets Folktronic Americana: Music meandering like the Mississippi and swampy like the bayou,  this grimy grip of downtempo speaks from a snatch of six-string, a chatter of banjos, lonesome  voices and pondering bass lines...

Mad props to all friends/artists on this mix. Please find them, listen to them, support them.
>>>>>>>>>TRACKLISTING:
@Moontricks - Mountains
@Dirtwire - When the Levee Breaks (ft. Sidecar Tommy https://soundcloud.com/sidecartommy)
@Smoovi - Blue Bulbs
@Friend. - New Familiar
https://soundcloud.com/telmini Canned Heat - Going Up The Country (Telmini Edit)
https://soundcloud.com/ecklecticmick King Chubby meets Ecklectic Mick - Keep On (Mississippi Swamp Mix) -
https://soundcloud.com/beat-fatigue - Thongs  Strings 
https://soundcloud.com/oxaka - The Saz
@Kr3ture - Anthropocene
@Dirtwire - Damn Rooster
https://soundcloud.com/the_widdler - Outlaws
https://soundcloud.com/nomagikmusic - Daphne BlueBird & AkizzBeatzz - Who Will Comfort Me (cover: Melody Gardot)
@Gangstagrass - O Death 
@KairoKingdom - Take Me Higher (RDR2)
@ZackaRose - You should have a living
https://soundcloud.com/elmagomusic Anin Misone - Nobody's Fault (EL MAGO EDIT)

DRAGONFLY - HOMEBOUND BLUES (LONGING & LOCKDOWN)

2025:
10/24-10/26: Bloom Festival Sebastopol, CA
https://www.sebastopolbloom.com

9/20: Ecstatic Dance - willits:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1508772770150357

9/11: SYNERGY @ SOFT MEDICINE - SEBASTOPOL
https://www.facebook.com/events/1172153334721233

Burning Man
> HOOKAHDOME: FRIDAY 1am-2am @ 7:30 & ESPLANADE (GLOBAL BASS SET)
> SOUND GARDEN:  SATURDAY 1:00-2:30AM @ 2:00 & ELLISON (GLOBAL HOUSE SET)
>DISORIENT: WEDS: 1PM-2PM supporting: AMPLIFIED YOGA @ Esplanade & 2:15
> Cuttlefish art car: tbd

Aug 3: Ecstatic Dance San Rafael: https://www.facebook.com/events/4177420649154296

July 18-20 Northern Nights Festival
https://northernnights.org/nnmf2025/
May 21-25 Lightning In A Bottle 
https://www.libfestival.org/
April 22 - Nevada City Ecstatic Dance
April 18th - Sacramento Ecstatic Dance
March 30th - Salt Lake City - Ecstatic Dance
https://www.facebook.com/events/957214139827736/
March 7th - with Beats Antique in Arcata, CA https://www.facebook.com/events/590483817146050/590483820479383/
Feb 16: Daybreakers - Yoga set w/ Nat Kendall
Great American Music Hall. SF
https://www.daybreaker.com/event/san-francisco/
Jan 25th - Soulplay Party @ 
Lake Merritt Dance, Oakland
https://events.humanitix.com/soulplay-soiree-connect

2024
Dec 31 - NYE @ The Flamingo - Santa Rosa
Dec 17 - Nevada City Ecstatic Dance
Dec 8 - Marin Ecstatic Dance - San Rafael
Nov 15 - Soft Medicine Sanctuary with Equanimous
https://www.facebook.com/events/2439626586226329
Sept 21 - PORTAL w/Janet Stone (Mill Valley)
https://www.theportal.house/
Sept 21 - SF How Weird Street Faire
https://howweird.org/
Sept 15th - Venice Beach
https://www.ecstaticdancela.com/
Aug. 26-31 - Burning Man
https://burningman.org
June 21-23 - June Jam (AZ)
https://www.june-jam.com
June 9 - Soulplay (CA)
https://www.soulplay.co
May 22-27, 2024 - Lightning In A Bottle (CA)
https://www.libfestival.org/experience
May 2-6, 2024 - High Vibes Festival (CA)
https://highviberecords.ticketspice.com/highvibefest2024
April 4-9, 2024 - Texas Eclipse Festival (TX)
https://seetexaseclipse.com/
March 4-10, 2024 - Envision Festival (Costa Rica)
https://www.envisionfestival.com/
Oct 5, 2023- Joshua Tree Music Festival (CA)
https://joshuatreemusicfestival.com/oct-event-info/


Music without a map: Showcasing travelogues from the global turntable...

Taste is trust.  DJing is trust. 
wHo: Hailing from the West Coast and serving sound as one of the most sought after Freestyle selectors in the Festival, Club and Ecstatic Dance scenes. A magic carpet ride of sound transports the dancefloor when Dragonfly throws down his full-spectrum, body-mind-soul transglobal sound experience. Think cutting-edge, polyrhythmic akashic bass meets primordial sound, elastic dreamtempo, tribal mayhem, and ecstatic bliss. 

wHAt: Each mix showcased is a unique snapshot or portrait of the dancefloor. No mixes are alike, no dancefloor is alike...and no set ever preplanned, recorded or mixed. This is raw.

hOw:  As a consummate crate-digger his days are spent down the rabbit-holes of sound, constantly discovering emerging talent and the hidden gems of sonic possibility. With an ear for the exotic and a background in movement arts, his approach is through the emotive keyhole of the psyche, while unlocking the heart of the dancefloor community. As a percussionist who’s adventured extensively throughout the near and far east, his mixes span all tempos and all genres of electronic dance music. His selections are drenched in global idioms, accented with tribal motifs, and interwoven with relentlessly intoxicating rhythm and groove.   

wHEre:
Past festival appearances include. Lightning In A Bottle,Symbiosis Gathering, Envision festival, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Hogfarm Hideaway, Enchanted Forest Festival, Lucidity Festival,Wanderlust Festival, Beloved Festival, Northern Nights, Stilldream Festival,Eclipse Festival (Australia),Great Convergence (Egypt), Envision Festival (Costa Rica), Shambhala Festival (Canada),Manifest, June Jam, Power to the Peaceful, Peace Village, Burning Man, Raindance, Earthdance, Harmony Festival, Awaken,OMIES Fest, Mystic Garden Gathering, Mystic Island Festival, Foreverland, 
Ecstatic Dance Retreats and Ecstatic Dance in: Berlin/Amsterdam/Budapest/Antwerp/Bucharest/Portugal, Jordan, Oakland/Nevada City/Portland/Cambria/Los Angeles/New York/Salt Lake City/Hawaii/Palo Alto/Berkeley/Santa Barbara. YOGA JOURNAL Conference, A-FEST Portugal & Jordan, SOULPLAY, Austin Yoga Festival, Science & Non Duality Conference, No. California Sufi Camp, Creating Enlightened Society (hosted by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche), David Deida, Bioneers Conference, No California Permaculture Gathering, Julia Butterfly Hill fundraiser, Santa Cruz Film Festival, and many more.

wHy:
Life is short; may your dance be long.


((((*´`*´¯`·.¸¸o*o¸¸.·´¯`*´`*))))
~~~!!!~~~~dRAGONFLy~~~!!!~~~
booking:
djdragonfly@gmail.com

DR∆GONFLY

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