Colorful founder of the much-loved Bay Area dance collective, Friends and Family, Ethan has been making dance floors sweat since 1993. Known early in his career for hard Acid and Techno sets, the years since have revealed a taste for Breaks, House, Tech House, Deep House, and of course Techno of all flavors. 

While currently turning up at DISTRIKT, BrassTax, Space Cowboys, Strategik, MotorCityJam, Prohibition, Opel, and other Bay Area underground events, Ethan has also held residencies at MAD Mondays, RhythmMethod, Delve, and of course Friends and Family. Reaching way back you would have found him holding it down at some of SF's now legendary raves including The Gathering, Vision, Basics and more. 

Ethan is available for gigs near and far! You can reach him at soundcloud_public@djethan.com.

… because life on earth is a psychedelic cabaret, and “music is the only religion that delivers the goods” (like Frank said). 

To be clear, all I really know is I dunno shit about fck (like Socrates said:)—music and songwriting included. But(t) I feel it, the music, so damn deeep in my soul! I’m just a humble existential fool, a silly banana who likes to play and share, to question and learn. Words are my oldest best friends, hearing myself sing is a freaking miracle (trust me on that lol), and I believe curiosity and #gratitude are the keys to happiness… So voilà, there’s that.

Also, (if you’re curious) BananaSutra is not just a made up BS brand kinda word, it’s actually the name of my DIY Bible—a collection of songs telling true stories of faith, to help me (and perhaps you) make sense of a world gone wild, like bananas gone foul in shallow ignorance and deadly malevolence… Think of it as an agnostic testament of sorts, an audio book of songs with quirky lyrics about things that matter, like the definition of right and wrong, and the meaning of truth, joy, justice, peace, grace, and awe 🕊️

Some call it Artificial Intelligence, but(t) I call Authentic Imagination, Alternative Ideas, Augmented Innuendos, Abstract Illogisms… hopefully, you get the gist? The point being, life is the story we tell ourselves and LYRICS matter—each @bananasutra song has a wondering root and a loving purpose, guided by one of (my) 7 (bananas) sutras: 
- KNOWsutra : is it fair?
- BLOWsutra : is it foul?
- SHOWsutra : is it fun?
- GROWsutra : is it fear?
- FLOWsutra : is it free?
- GLOWsutra : is it fab?
- BOWsutra : is it awe?

In the mid 1990s, I started mixing sound collage and dark ambient sounds in the project seam pith, leading to the more dissonance-tinged, noise/ambient hybrid project called Nuisance Beacon in the late 1990s. A Nuisance Beacon CD was put out on CIP in 2000. My current project, shimsewn, encompasses and expands upon all of my previous work.
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Please note: anything that I've given a Creative Commons license to is freely downloadable and redistributable. My intention is very much that other musicians sample my clips, and all I ask is that shimsewn be attributed on the release.

San Francisco based house DJ / producer Ed Mazur is rapidly becoming one to watch for. Ed’s music features a distinctive style that blends widely varying sounds of house music together seamlessly into a sound that is solidly underground yet easily accessible. His productions feature strong funk influences and deep organic sounds mixed in with the tech influenced side of house. Best known as a resident DJ and founder of the Burning Man crew Disco Knights (recently voted the top music camp at Burning Man), he first gained attention for his remix of Radiohead’s “Punchup at a Wedding” on the Fresh Press imprint that received widespread play, and more recently with his label, House on the Hill’s releases including "It's All About” featuring a massive remix by Giom, which enjoyed widespread support from A-list DJs and spent two months in the Top 10 house chart. He also been featured on Blue Orb Records with his track co-produced by Bo, “Jus Piphany”.

forever socially distant. split time on the west coast.
Techno. House. Chasing the 90s.

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