We recently had the pleasure of playing the second installment of ARC Music Festival this year, and we delivered a fun roller coaster of a ride for our sundown 6-7pm set on the ARC Car stage. It was a fulfilling creative exercise to curate for this time slot and we loved executing it for all of you who were there! For all of you who weren't, here's how it went down.

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Portals & Parachutes - Live at ARC Music Festival Chicago
ARC Car stage - Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Tracklist:
01. Mees Salome - Fool’s Paradise (Joris Voorn Remix)
02. Jeremy Olander - Murphy (Original Mix)
03. Flow & Zeo - Saturn (Morttagua Remix)
04. Stereo Underground ft. Sealine - Flashes (Jerome Isma-Ae Extended Remix)
05. ZEHV - Okami (Original Mix)
06. Roger Sanchez - Lost (D.Ramirez Lost In Rave Mix)
07. Booka Shade ft. Bailey - Fire & Rain (Durante Remix)
08. B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week (Yotto Extended Mix)
09. Fehrplay - San Pedro (Original Mix)
10. Sydney Blu ft. Jeny Vega - To The Ground (Portals & Parachutes Dub)
11. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Fedele Remix)

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Portals & Parachutes - ARC Music Festival Chicago 2022 Set Recording

Denver-based Bad Asstronaut and OT homie, Dugan, elevates the Friday night dancefloor with uplifting trance tunes sprinkled with some classic gems. This Bad Asstronaut's mix will take you to back to Black Rock Desert and beyond. Volume up and prepare for liftoff...

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Recorded live from Knew Conscious, KSTEELE takes you on an after hours journey of progressive emotions over an everchanging landscape of genres.

#properPROG - BANK ANGLE (KSTEELE live from Knew Conscious)[OCTOBER 2022]

I had the most wonderful time playing for the great folks at Leave Us Lost in Vancouver on September 10.22 ahead of Vancouver legend Kevin Shiu and alongside the incredible Adam2 and Unmarried Woman. It was a beautiful day out, and the Wautier Sound F1 rig sounded crisp. This is a live, unaltered recording of my set. Enjoy!

Esette live at Leave Us Lost Sept 10.22

The Initiative takeover @ Gorg-o-mish. Jay Di + Henry C all night long. Direct Download available

Jay Di Live @ Gorg-o-mish November 19th 2022

Sharing love & connection though good vibes house & techno music!

This is the third DJ mix I've released in the lead up to the release of my debut Cptn Jay - "Loves You (EP)"! This time my original track "Heartbeat Tone" is featured, nestled in at the end there.

The track, and this mix in general, carries with it my deep hope if we all still our minds, listen to our hearts, and put more unconditional love out into the world that we will, very tangibly and directly, make our world a better place.

SAY IT WITH ME

you are love i am love we are love
you are beautiful i am beautiful we are beautiful
you are worthy i am worthy we are worthy
we will find our purpose
we overcome fears by following our dreams
we are in charge of our lives
we have the power to love and love will change the world

TRACKLIST

01 - 0:00 - Jon Hopkins, East Forest vs Lee Jones, Marco Resmann - “Tone Trails Around The Fire ft Ram Das” (Cptn Jay’s Love & Kindness Mashup)
02 - 6:40 - Platzdasch, Dix - “Changing Expressions”
03 - 11:15 - Luka Sambe - “Binky”
04 - 15:12 - Roy Rosenfeld, Khen - “Milongi”
05 - 21:23 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - “See You Again” (Carlita Remix)
06 - 26:35 - Julian Wassermann, Raphael Mader - “Aversion”
07 - 31:15 - CIOZ - “Lost in Space”
08 - 36:09 - Nacho Varela, Ezequiel Arias, Cruz Vittor - “Meloram”
09 - 42:51 - Uzun - “Memories” (Sergio Vilas Remix)
10 - 48:03 - Tim Green - “Sowa”
11 - 54:28 - Alex Tomb - “Kids Will Be Kids”
12 - 1:00:54 - Cptn Jay - “Heartbeat Tone”
13 - 1:07:18 - Four Tet - “Scythe Master”

Cover art background by Con Ryan - https://www.instagram.com/conryan.design/

Studio Mix Series

Heartbeat Tones - Studio Mix

Played the 2AM set at Opulent Temple's Sacred Dance White Party in San Francisco.  Had a blast sharing lots of new tracks to a packed dance floor.  The love and vibe of the dance floor is always a fresh reminder of why I dj for others. Revisit the moment here. Tracklisting below:

Tina_(Extended) - Vintage Culture
Don't Blink - HOT_PILL_(Original_Mix)
Tim Light, Fab Massimo - Touch_(Extended_Mix)
Styline - Control_Original_Mix
Fab Massimo - FAR_FAR_AWAY_(Original_Mix)
Armitage - Soul_Jacker_Original_Mix
Croatia_Squad_&_Daniel_Portman - The_Underground_feat._Celeda
EchhoFly - Blazing_Sun_Extended_Mix
Remembering_Challenger_(Original_Mix)
Evelynka, Jean Vayat - My_Soul_(Artaria_Extended_Remix)
John Summit - Don't_Forget_My_Love_(John_Summit_Remix_(Extended)
Next_to_Me_(Vintage_Culture_Remix)
Orientalist_(Stan_Kolev_Extended_Remix)

BRIAN PEEK - 2023 White Party SF

FAKE IT (2025 Revival)

Depth Control

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Timeless Waves

It’s not progressive if it doesn’t push music forward: this is the position held by KSTEELE. Be it the next track in his mix or his ambitions out on the horizon, the Denver DJ always keeps it real and keeps it moving.

KSTEELE is the forerunner of #properPROG — less a genre and more a philosophy of sonic exploration. His refusal to conform has yielded an unpredictable style that holds captive house, techno and trance fans alike in rooms like Temple Denver, Bar Standard, Club Vinyl, and Meow Wolf Denver. Only a few short years into his electronic music career, he’s beginning to rapidly accelerate.

It’s a rare sort of confidence that allows KSTEELE to rise above the tribalism that plagues modern dance music. It only makes sense, though, as he’s no stranger to going against the grain.

Born Kalib Steele in Colorado Springs, he first fell in love with trance at boarding school when he found “For An Angel” by Paul van Dyk on a friend’s iPod Nano. He played the track on repeat every day. Even without access to a community who shared his newfound passion, he then explored much of the electronic music landscape on his own before graduating high school.

2013 marked a turning point as Steele touched down in Denver and immediately got involved with Global Dance, the city’s largest electronic music event brand. Doors opened to a world even bigger than the one he envisioned when he heard the otherworldly melodies of his formative influences. He started out as a promoter and quickly worked his way up to A&R.

It wasn’t until much later that Steele entertained the idea of performing himself. By 2017 he was constantly dazzling established artists in the trance-progressive arena with his knowledge of cutting-edge tracks on obscure labels. After enough respected tastemakers pushed him to take up DJing, he finally made his way to the other side of the decks.

KSTEELE debuted at Denver club Bar Standard in December of 2019. He was billed as the opener, but by the time his set ended he had a crowd that any local DJ would envy. More importantly, he demonstrated to all the right people in the city that his passion for music had manifested as a talent for music curation.

The years since have been kind to KSTEELE. His résumé now includes gigs at Club Vinyl, Larimer Lounge, Knew Concious, Temple Denver, Your Mom's House, Milk Bar, Global Dance Festival, X BAR, Meow Wolf Denver, Disco Pussy Las Vegas and both the Denver and Las Vegas iterations of Techno Taco Tuesday. 
He has played support for such well-known artists as Tinlicker, Jody Wisternoff, Simon Doty, Cristoph, Matt Lange, Charles D, John Monkman, Hannes Bieger, Grum, Moon Boots, Shay DeCastro, Qrion, CRi, Estiva and Matt Fax. KSTEELE also boasts strong ties with Denver promoter TheHundred Presents, Knew Conscious, and techno/progressive label JourneyDeep Records.

KSTEELE has covered this much ground in such a short period of time because he’s building something bigger than himself. It’s not lost on him that he’s among a small handful of Black artists active in the trance-progressive range of the electronic music spectrum. He wants his success to lead the way for others in his shoes who might not otherwise see a place for themselves in this community.

At the same time, KSTEELE attests that proper progressive is not a creative range at all. He believes that every piece of music is unique in itself, and whatever meanings we give to the words that become genres will never measure up to the sounds themselves. His drive to unearth a diverse array of forward-thinking gems is what makes his music progressive. His seamless mixing, stage presence, and immediate connection with the audience is what makes it unquestionably proper.

Listen closely enough to the moments that make up a KSTEELE set and you can hear the omen of a not-so-distant future. One thing is for sure: There’s no telling where the #properPROG movement will take him next.