DARK AND MYSTERIOUS

Être en sursis

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

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

Exploring the phenomenological experience of cloudy consciousness.

Ambient Brunch Sept 2023

Evanti Ambient Brunch Cafe Mustache Part 1

Halloween 2023 - Shanti Part 4

Halloween 2023 - Evan Part 3

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

Shanti on Stankbugz Radio

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

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

Tracklist
Otodojo - Through the Acid
Rodhad - Look it That (Silent Servant Mix)
Identified Patient - Vermoedens Van Achterdocht
Kangding Ray - Dark Barker
Butcher Boy - Blood Lust
Aktion Mutante - Controllare il Sistema
Alessandro Adriani - One Minute after Death
CockTail d’Amore Music - D1 Non for the Sane
Robert Auser - Do You Want to Believe 
TYVYT|IYTYI - Empty Inside
Madame Counselor - Cute Heels
Lokier - Blackout
Pasiphae - Moral of the Story
Sarin - The Culling
Broken English Club - Domestic Animals
Rhys Fulber - Creosote
Thomas P. Heckmann - Bloody Vacant

Beloved Radio Liminal Shanti: 05/10/24

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

Trance - Svreca
Second Tempo - Voices from the Lake
ALPI - 1709
Born Anchors - Planetary Assault Systems
Fantasma de la selva - Polygonia
Ephemoral - Wata Igarashi
Acid Quarantine - Neel
Diaspora Cocktail (Freak Beat Mix) - Sepehr
Space Time Reversal - Mantra
At Night (remastered) - The Hacker
Soyuz - Univac
Le Pendu - Raar
Cyberia (Original Mix)- Marco Shuttle
Stamma #6 - SHXCXCHCXSH
Hiss - Mike Parker
Stealth - Luis Ruiz
Diminuendo - Daniel Avery

Beloved Radio Liminal Shanti: 06/14/24

Special guest mix from Scum.ee (Evan).

Tracklist:
Sauco - Qoa
Mue (Sofie Birch Remix) - Koki Nakano
Dreaming Within a Dream Within a Dream Within a Dream - Lemna 
Dolphin Spray - Actress
Don’t - Keefe
IDLE - Model 500
Morse - Love Letters
Need I Say More - Francois Dillinger
Electric Vampire - L.F.T.
Pallets - Makeen
The Upside of Losing Everything - Uun
Collision - Wata Igarashi
Vortex - Headless Horseman
Now, This is You - British Murder Boys
Legio IX - UF

Beloved Radio Liminal Shanti w/Guest Scum.ee: 07/12/24

Otherworldly 8-29-24

Scum.ee: Start - 1:19:05
Shanti: 1:19:05 - 2:27:37
IG Metall (@igmetall): 2:27:37 - end (recording cut off prematurely)

Otherworldly Ambiguity 8/29/24 @ Podlasie Club

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Au revoir...pour le moment

Evanti is a DJ collective comprised of Shanti and Evan (Scum.ee). They DJ separately and together, enamored by the surreal and haunting side of electronic music. They 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.  

Shanti is also a member of Chicago-based collective, Research & Development, "a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from."

Please email: evantidj@gmail.com for bookings.

Upcoming Shows:
1/30: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie

2024:
12/13: Zenker Brothers, Smoke & Mirrors (Shanti)
11/27: Research & Development, Podlasie (Shanti)
11/2: Protocol & Dimibowie (Shanti)
10/25: Braid Records, Podlasie (Shanti)
10/12: Usual Suspects and Temple, Montrose Beach (Shanti)
10/6: Green Machine OPEN AIR (Evan)
9/1: NEW BLOOD, Research & Development, The Whistler (Shanti)
8/31: Dark Forest, TBA (Shanti)
8/29: Otherworldly Ambiguity, Podlasie
8/3: INFERNO, Mictlan, TBA (Shanti)
7/14: Green Machine, Techno BBQ
7/6: Beloved Radio Night, California Clipper (Shanti)
6/27: The Goods, Swig
6/22: YardJamz
6/14: Errancy, Hyde Park (Shanti)
6/1: Wisteria, The Whistler (Shanti)
5/23: entropic, Smartbar (Shanti)
5/18: Lumina by HzM (Shanti)
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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