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Bounty hunter bass, twangy mandolins and vocals, steel guitars, the chatter of banjos…and doleful harmonicas all get the whomp and groove treatment. No genre is sacred....  Taken from my set dropped in the Buckhorn, Covelo's (No. Calif) raucous drinkhole. This is raw, un-prepared live and spontaneous mix …on two Pioneers CDJ 900s and Allen & Heath Xone Mixer.

DRAGONFLY LIVE - WONKY TONK STOMP!

GET YOUR SOUK ON!

Indo-centric & Arabic Trap and Twerk (FROM the decks at Camp Question Mark's Burner pre-party) ...  I was supposed to close the line up at the Burn on Sunday morning at 8:00a.m - alas, I did not make it!  However: This Caravansary-themed Indo-Arabic twerk journey is for ya'll....@ club 1015 Folsom  - Jai Ho !!!!!!

NAGAS & TWERKERS - DRAGONFLY @ CAMP QUESTION MARK

Day three of Stilldream Festival, Sunday vibes on the beach, easy. Dancehall with a Latino-Brazilian-Rasterinha-Twerk/Trap twist. Good times that day...

Mixed (live) on two Pioneer CDJ 2000s, pIONEER 900 Mixer

DRAGONFLY @ STILLDREAM - SUNDAY "DANCEHALL" BEACH SET

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.)

Chilled out mix of classic trans-Latin vibes & easy bass that drops in Dub, Cumbia, House, Downtempo and Love from producers across the world. Chill & Groove, Bump & smile...adventures in sound.

Heading to Envision Festival? This mix was inspired by the desire to set the tone and fill the space on the road from San Jose airport to Dominical. Drop this into your devices .... enjoy the ride!

ENVISION FESTIVAL:
https://www.facebook.com/events/531983666908433/

DRAGONFLY - ROAD TO ENVISION

ENVISION FESTIVAL - LIVE SET

A Reggae romp and whomp in the jungle!  Classic reggae groove meets deep, dubwise headbanging bass minced with Dancehall, Glitch, Twerk, Moombah, Dubstep, Tropical and Drum n Bass!!!

DRAGONFLY - ENVISION FESTIVAL RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

An East-meets-East caravansary of Indo-centric  trap-and-twerk that runs the gamut of sounds, vibes, genres and tempos. The set is marked by slow-and-low serpentine rhythms, syncopated stylings of twerked up Bhangra and Arabtronica, all blown by shifting winds  of bass.

An (as always)unplanned, from the heart set recorded @ Lightning In a Bottle, 2015, Temple of Consciousness stage.





DRAGONFLY - LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE (TEMPLE TRAP SET)

On a superb stretch of sand, just south of Todos Santos ( Baja, Mexico) I had the pleasure of celebrating with some 150 remarkable people. A private, week-long engagement was the occasion where this mix underscored the magnificent rural setting, epic sunsets, and the magic of friendship. Deep, Dub-influenced cumbia, with hints of various other Latin rhythms are represented by a new crop of breakaway producers hailing from the U.S. to Brazil. I hope you make this your favorite beach or poolside soundtrack to an endless summer...

DRAGONFLY - HOTEL DUBCUMBIA

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

dUBWISe BASSlinES...BASS n bEATS. Live set  RECORDED @ one of the largest ganja gatherings in the U.S.  EMERALD CUP, SANTA ROSA, CA
http://theemeraldcup.com/

DRAGONFLY - EMERALD CUP ( REGGAE DUBS & NOR CAL BUDS )

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

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Sitars, ouds, sarangis, saz and percussion intertwine with the heavy bass ethos of trap, twerk, glitch and dub on this live unrehearsed mix recorded at LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE festival Thursday night on the Temple Stage.

Enjoy the mix!

DRAGONFLY - TEMPLE BASS - LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE

Oregon rocks. Eugene Ecstatic Dance was no exception. This set features an all world music Ecstatic Dance journey featuring: Latin, African, Balkan, Celtic, Indian, Middle Eastern...

DRAGONFLY - EUGENE GLOBAL ECSTATIC DANCE

ECSTATIC LATIN LOVE (with a touch of Afrobeat)! Deep in the hills of Northern California, in the sizzling heat of summer this mix celebrates the myriad of Latin influences on dance music. Cumbia, House, Bass, Twerk, Trap...never a dull moment. 

So much love and heart on the dancefloor that night....

DRAGONFLY - CORAZON LATINO

Deep selections of trap, twerk and glitch are raked over the coals with a strafing of sitars, a treachery of tablas and the bombastic bizness of bass. Swaying with attitude, the altitude of this mix's highs and lows is sure to take you thru Shiva's destruction and restoration. 

Enjoy the flight

This recording was taken from my set at Symbiosis 2016 where I was opening up for Balkan Beat Box. Here is the resulting spontaneous dialogue with a crushing audience, and everyone dancing under the sweltering late night autumnal air of the Big Top.

Boom Namah Shivaya

DRAGONFLY - SHIVA BASS (SYMBIOSIS 2016)

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

Costa Rican Sunset vibes and smiling faces comin' atchya all the way from the Lapa Stage at Envision Festival 2017. Honored to return and drop this mix drenched in Latin sounds and voices.

DRAGONFLY - ENVISION FESTIVAL LATIN VIBES @ SUNSET - (LAPA STAGE) 2017

This live* mix represents a treasure of old-to-nu-skool trans-Arabic motifs dropped in my set at Giza, Egypt, during the auspicious winter solstice gathering of 2012. 

It was recorded during the The Great Convergence, an amazing gathering held at the pyramids of Giza. The event was conceived by Tamer El-Shakhs and  produced by the excellent production team at The Do Lab, (thank you all!!) 

Many thanks to friends Jef Stott, Nominus, Drumspyder, Zeb SpyfromCairo Visini, Paula Peek Kraus, Said Mrad and Ganga Giri for the tracks they produced that made this cut….

*Performed on Two Pioneer CDJ 2000’s and 900 Nexus mixer…warts, clipping, truncations and all..”

Enjoy!


DRAGONFLY @ Great Convergence - Egyptian Solstice

RE-EDITED AND REMIXED FOR 2021: A very loose mix of Celtic and Scottish tunes remixed taken from my whiskey-spiked set (for the win: Tullamore Dew; 10-Year-Old Reserve) with Delhi to Dublin on St Patrick's Day - cheeky pipes and fiddles...kinda like an "Irish Spring" soap commercial meets house LOL!  What the hell... Don't take it too seriously, and chase it down with jeroboam of Guinness!

DRAGONFLY - KISS THE THISTLE, KISS THE CLOVER - ST PATRICKS DAY

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


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~~~!!!~~~~dRAGONFLy~~~!!!~~~
booking:
djdragonfly@gmail.com

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