This is not a party mix, although there are celebratory moments.  This is heART opening music, with soul crushing glimpses.  This is the telling of an epic saga tale, that could not be summarized in one hour with words.  And so, I was invited to attempt with contemplative music.  Grief for a loved one who has passed on - with a ripple effect that can be felt across decades of community love.  Together, we hold space for this moment of love and loss, of memories and the clinging to of small beautiful details, of celebration for an entity that remains with us as we continue to hold close in the quiet spaces. of. our hearts. <3


Live Stream 4 Ezra Gold

RIP EZRA, extra love to redvelvet, thank you 3 Degrees, this photo comes kind courtesy of EZRA GOLD (at Frolic 10 Yr Campout)

Dulce Vita @ 3 Degrees - Neurodancer (Grief Mix)

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After 2AM in a San Francisco club with a warehouse feel, this Dulce Vita DJ set comes from an energetic performance on two decks and a mixer, immediately following DJ Dan and Lee Coombs.

Prepare for an in-your-face blend of super intelligent psy-breaks, tech funk, and electro groove - a ride that will take you on an emotional roller coaster, complete with driving bass lines and all the overt psychedelic contrasts that properly served audio curves, peaks, and valleys would provide. Slightly deep, always danceable, with loads of dark and luscious texture. Expect all the trippy sounds that you never knew you always wanted.
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Original comments here - https://soundcloud.com/dulcevitadj/dulce-vita-music-is-art

Dulce Vita - Music Is Art (Re-Release)

Lower your inhibitions for this particular excursion. Come away with DV to another land... where the heat is thick, where the fauna is lush, where the drums are abundant and gyrations are made with vigor.  Anticipate: organic tribal house, global tech, ethnic bass, diversity in tempo.  The only constant here is surprise - and palpable delight.

.:: Thank you for listening and for your support! ::. 

If you like the mix, please drop a comment and send link to a friend. <3

Dulce Vita - Kaleidoscope of Wanderlust

Clearly due to affiliation with a musically diverse group to the extent that Opulent Temple is, I hold a deep appreciation for a WIDE ass variety of electronic music.  This pumping high-energy mix offers a little something for everybody here... Tribal and afro house leading into big room EDM alongside super dirty bass house drops before an unsurprising pivot to breakbeat-land (well well well) and while we're way out here, why not a pinch of theatrical techno!

As for OT, it still remains an honor and a privilege to perform as a DJ alongside some of the hardest working, determined, dedicated people I know.  Gratitude to Syd Gris for the vision... And HUGE thanks to every single person who supports our crazy awesome thing, this shit takes a big fucking village!

If you are feeling it, please drop a comment or share the link with a friend to give their weekend an extra boost :)

Dulce Vita @ Opulent Temple - Sacred Dance 2023

(Recorded LIVE @ FnFBBQ 2023) 

Energetic flight of booty shaking bliss with multiple stops along the house music spectrum... Consider sharing with a friend, or drop a comment and let me know which tracks you dig, or just enjoy the ride! <3 

Thank you to entire FnF community for multiple decades of the electronic music gathering magic in Northern California. SPECIAL thanks to Scott Wilson, Aaron Ballard, Konstatin G for sonic treatment

Dulce Vita - Beautiful Thrills

After 2AM in a San Francisco club with a warehouse feel, this Dulce Vita DJ set comes from an energetic performance on two decks and a mixer, immediately following DJ Dan and Lee Coombs.

Prepare for an in-your-face blend of super intelligent psy-breaks, tech funk, and electro groove - a ride that will take you on an emotional roller coaster, complete with driving bass lines and all the overt psychedelic contrasts that properly served audio curves, peaks, and valleys would provide. Slightly deep, always danceable, with loads of dark and luscious texture. Expect all the trippy sounds that you never knew you always wanted.

Dulce Vita - Opulent Temple: Music Is Art

Explore with me - as we tromp through this melange of electronic genres conveying over a dozen moods - touching upon House, Tech House, Melodic Techno, Psy Tech, Bass House, and a pinch of Breaks to take you home. It is equally amusing/silly (with lol vocals) AND darkly artful, sensual, delightfully sinful.  Expect an entertaining ride! Peaks and valleys, much? 

This mix is from early this year, but the recording turned out a pleasant surprise to my rare liking, and I have been privately enjoying it on my own. Finally, it is released into the wild, and here now available for YOU to enjoy. 

Thank you for listening - the support is very much appreciated! <3  
Consider sharing the link with a friend, if you like! Or drop a note to LMK what you think! 

Opulent Temple Sacred Dance: Denver @ Tracks | Denver Colorado | Recorded Live 2025

Dulce Vita - Opulent Temple @ Sacred Dance: Denver 2025

Brand new mix long overdue. Super hard funky twisted peak time BREAKS! 

This is the full cut of my Opulent Temple podcast #12, without the OT vocal drops and a better high-quality 320 version.  I am going to get to work on more new mixes so 'Follow Me' on soundcloud if you are into it and feeling the DV love.  

Thanks! 
Dulce

Photo credit by: Darrin Harris Frisby - BM 2009 (http://www.10pointproductions.com/ )

Link to opulent temple podcast: http://media.mvgals.net/ot/ot_podcast/index.php?p=episode&name=2010-07-30_ot_pod012_dulcevita_july2010mix_192.mp3

DulceVita - Point Break 2010

At long last, a new mix.  This was recorded LIVE at Opulent Temple during my Thursday night set at Burning Man - immediately following The Crystal Method. Peak time breaks, electro, and funky house. 

Dulce Vita - Live @ Opulent Temple, Burning Man 2011

Back in October, this mix was recorded LIVE @ FnF 2018 (22nd Annual 'Friends n Family' Campout). 100% TECH HOUSE. Loads of dark moodiness gritty with luscious texture - just a wink of bounce and funk. Artsy, yet accessible. Danceable, yet car appropriate. First night at a new beautiful woodsy campout venue, private land just outside Yosemite - virgin to electronic music rave culture. It felt like the start of Autumn, the turning of a new leaf - with actual golden yellow brown leaves sporadically drifting down around the DJ booth at night. Take a sonic journey with DV down the rabbit hole of tech house!

Talk about heart and soul. Following a lengthy selection process - involving over 80 DJ's submitting mixes, a music selection panel vote, AND a larger community vote - is always a huge honor to be invited to perform as a DJ for FnF, one of the pioneering dance music tribes in Northern California. Very humbling. This annual gathering is very special in the hearts of so many, and I feel so lucky to be a part of this longstanding community of rave professionals, who pour nothing but love. All the gratitude!

(As a special treat to me, the old school techno DJ Amber - who first taught me how to DJ when I first searched for lessons on craigslist in 2004 - was on the dance floor during my set which helped raise the bar just a bit higher for me during the performance!)

Enough ado. Enjoy, and share if you like! <3

(Digital Art is kind courtesy of Dmitry Posudin)

Dulce Vita - Just SHAKE It - Live @ FnF 2018 (Friends-n-Family 22nd Annual Campout)

(Live @ FnF Fall Classic 2019)

Trust Fall here with Dulce, approaching an autumn trail down the bouncy path of tech house.  Imagine orange, red, brown leaves all around, as the dramatic intro sets a theatrical tone.  Buckle up and enjoy the roller coaster launch deep into dark rolling basslines, with a splash of tech funk - and a pinch of soul. If you liked the mix from last autumn, you'll love this one even better.  More of the same, except just a bit more gusto.  

(Big massive sloppy wet thank you to the FnF Music Committee, Brad and Waveworks + Radiant Atmospheres, plus every one on that dance floor.  Thank you for the kind privilege. Huge thanks to Sean Murray for the master assist!)

Dulce Vita - Welcome To Our House

[ Recorded LIVE - 06.06.2020 ] 

Tech funk BREAKS with psychedelic detours and electro sprinkles!
Download is up for grabs - if you like it, please consider sharing link with a friend!  <3

Dulce Vita @ We Are From Dust (Live Stream)

ALL BREAKS SET from 1/23/2021 Live Stream for Fraktured Nation 4 YR anniversary

Dulce Vita - Munder Difflin @ Fraktured Nation 4YR (Live Stream)

Your favorite neighborhood bar at Burning Man - the DUCK POND - presents Girls on Deck v2.  I have been quacking with these ducks since 2007.  So much love for the Duck Pond! <3

Dulce Vita @ Duck Pond - Girls On Deck (Live Duck Cam)

dulce@opulenttemple.org

::::: UPCOMING ::::: 
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3/28 - Opulent Temple: Sacred Dance @ Denver, CO
4/11 - Brass Tax: Birds of a Feather @ The Flamingo
5/3 - Burning Man Santa Cruz Regional: UnScruz 
5/26 - StrategiK Memorial Day @ Joaquin Miller
6/21 - Solar Punk Airpusher @ Seaport Studios
6/29 - Heavy Petting Zoo: Pride @ Public Works


::::: ARTIST BIO :::::
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Enter Dulce Vita (pronounced dol-sie/vee-tah). Nationally requested, dance floor approved! In direct response to specific performances at Burning Man, she has been invited to rock stages in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Seattle, Portland, Boise, San Diego.  As a DJ performer in San Francisco, how does DV stand out? True individuality happens here as a result of a musical risk. Using the cross fader as her primary canvas with a signature brand of aggressive intent, she performs a sound all her own - an energetic soundscape peppered with loads of texture, chunk, and curious desires you never knew you had across breakbeats, bass house, tech house,  melodic techno, electro, organic house, world beats, downtempo, and bass music.  Emotion evoking dance music is quintessential DV.

Dulce considers any single performance a personal success if she can make a deeply positive impact on at least one person's experience. Since her debut performance at Google headquarters in 2004, you might have already experienced her audio collage of eclectic tracks at underground warehouse venues or major nightclubs such as The Midway, Public Works, The Great Northern, Monarch, Temple.  In the past, Dulce was named WINNER of SF Weekly: City of Spin 2009 (Annual DJ Competition) and her performance at Burning Man earned a prestigious mention in international publication 'DJ Mag' within the 2008 issue featuring Top 100.

Over the years, Dulce has held down numerous DJ residencies based in San Francisco. In 2006, she was proud to be selected as the first female to be affiliated with 'OPULENT TEMPLE' (the infamous large-scale sound camp at Burning Man featuring world class DJs on over 300,000 watts). In 2009, she was invited to wobble out with 'CALIFORNIA DUBSTEP REPUBLIC', a collective of performers who provided the first ever Dubstep float in San Francisco's equivalent of a large scale EDM festival like Love Parade. That year also debuted her solo event production alias: 'DVANT GARDE'. DV created a new breed of event (known as 'Womper Womb') showcasing dubstep, glitch, and breaks with all female DJ talent from Burning Man. Dulce Vita booked nearly 100 performances as a DJ in 2009.  

In 2010, she gained a new monthly residency with 'BELOW ZERO', featuring downtempo, chillout, trip-hop, and IDM.  'UNDERGROUND NOMADS' was introduced in 2013, a weekly show featuring global bass and world step in combination with belly dance performance. Dulce spent many years feeling at home within the Northern California campout and  invitational festival circuit involving Burning Man communities. In 2020, Dulce became officially affiliated with 'STRATEGIK SF'.  Burning Man community based groups she has performed with over the years also include: DUCK POND, ROOT SOCIETY, DISTRIKT, HOOKADOME, SPACE COWBOYS, DUSTY RHINO, BRASS TAX, FLAMING LOTUS GIRLS, SLUT GARDEN, DISORIENT, DANCETRONAUTS, SACRED SPACES, BASS CAMP, NEXUS, OSIRIS, BMIR.  

Dulce has also provided A&R representation in past at Winter Music Conference in Miami for two Oakland based labels, Mizumo Music (tech, filtered disco, and electro house) and Funky Cactus Recordings (big beat and nu skool breaks).. Her actual birth name is Dulce Vita.

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