Precious soundscapes inspired by Gollum's tortured soul.

Halloween 2023 @ The Whistler, Gollum's Coven

Shanti's Mixes

A journey from the dark trenches of techno to lighter dub and a bit of synth-y tunes.

Shanti's Solo Mix: Rue the Day

Shanti's solo live set at Chicago's Cafe Mustache on a dreary January night. This set explores the rollercoaster of existential angst and frenetic free-will through experimental/ambient tunes, lofi house, and dark techno.

Shanti - Live Cafe Mustache Set 1-25-23

Evan: first hour
Shanti: second hour + 16 minutes

Embark on a journey of life's absurdity through electronic body music, industrial techno, minimal/dark/acid techno, and experimental tunes. Our favorite tunes as we endure a long winter.

Evanti Live at Cafe Mustache 3-22-23

A journey into otherworldly ambiguity with Evanti.

Evanti Live at The Whistler 4-23-23

Closing a night of melodic tunes by exploring the dialectic between euphoria and dystopia through weaving heavier house with moody techno.

Shanti's Mood Swings Swig Set 5-13-23

Exploring the tension between comfort and existential despair, joy and dismay.

Shanti's Punch House Part 2: EBM, Acid, and Techno

Shanti's Punch House Part 1: House, Electro, and Acid

Exploring the phenomenological experience of cloudy consciousness.

Ambient Brunch Sept 2023

Evanti Ambient Brunch Cafe Mustache Part 2

Evanti Ambient Brunch Cafe Mustache Part 1

Halloween 2023 - Shanti Part 4

Halloween 2023 - Evan Part 3

Halloween 2023 - Shanti Part 2

Halloween 2023 - Evan Part 1

First Braidio of the year and couldn't be more thrilled to invite Chicago DJ/Producer and Otherworldly Ambiguity cofounder Shanti. Masterfully crafting an hour of eerie, atmospheric techno with an abstract edge that mirrors raw, unfiltered emotions that accompany the human condition.


@shanti-ism @evanti-music

Braid Recordings // 033 - Shanti

Shanti's set from Stankbugz Radio - a dystopian, cerebral journey there and back again.
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Shanti on Stankbugz Radio

Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. While she is a philosopher and writer, Shanti has felt limited by words and has recognized the transcendent ability of music to express abstract concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. She explores philosophical themes of existential despair and ambiguity through eerie, atmospheric and bass-heavy techno, angsty industrial/dark wave, squishy acid, and longing lofi-ambient soundscapes. Her sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition while building a necessary tension leading to a cathartic release of emotions. 

Shanti has a monthly show, "Liminal" on Beloved Radio (starting in April). She also plays in the DJ duo, Evanti with Plumb.ee and hosts Otherworldly Ambiguity, an experience centered around the phenomenon of occupying the spaces in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/evanti-music
https://soundcloud.com/shanti-ism
https://ra.co/dj/shanti/biography
https://www.instagram.com/shantiism/
https://www.mixcloud.com/shantiism/

S183 012 - SHANTI

Shanti's monthly radio show on Beloved, Liminal Radio (Second Fridays from 7-8pm): April 2024

Tracklist:
Nicolas Jaar - Garden of Eden
Otodojo - Frog Swimming in The Rain
Minimal Fog - Dysphorizing
Polygonia - Melting Lake
Voices from the Lake – Twins in Virgo
Israel Vines - Popular Decisions
Shed - You Got the Look
Gunnar Haslam - Incidental Magnetics
Lokua - Meltdown
Josh Tong and Char - Falling Light
Rrose - Bandage
SHXCXCHCXSH - POPP
Toki Fuko - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Thomas P. Heckmann - Between 
Pervocet - PH1
Mike Parker & Donato Dozzy - Paramagnetism
F.L.O. - Submerged (Giriu Dvasios Remix) 
Black Light Smoke - Sprinkles Says

Beloved Radio Liminal Shanti: 04/12/24

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Au revoir...pour le moment

Music for the death of the personal life.

Shanti's Solo Mix #4: La vie personnelle est morte

Evanti is a DJ duo comprised of Shanti and Evan. They DJ separately and together, enamored by the surreal and haunting side of electronic music. 

Please email: evantidj@gmail.com for bookings.

They also host Otherworldly Ambiguity, an experience centered around the phenomenon of liminality, occupying the spaces in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories.  

Upcoming Shows:
5/18 - Lumina by HzM, TBA (Shanti)
5/23 - entropic, Smartbar (Shanti)

2024:
4/20: Vampire's Ball (Shanti)
4/18: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
4/5: Smoke & Mirrors (Shanti)
3/23: Vamplified, Surround Chicago (Shanti)
3/17: Otherworldly Ambiguity, The Whistler
3/7: Stankbugz Radio (Shanti)
2/13: Wisteria, The Whistler

2023:
12/31: Sanctum After Party (Shanti)
11/17: Trust,  Smoke & Mirrors, (Shanti)
10/31: Gollum's Coven, The Whistler
10/23: Punch House (Shanti)
10/19: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
9/24: Ambient Brunch, Cafe Mustache
9/5: Punch House (Shanti)
5/13: Mood Swings, Swig
4/23: Otherworldly Ambiguity, The Whistler
3/22: Cafe Mustache
1/25: Cafe Mustache (Shanti)

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