LeftCtrl Best DJ Sets

Moody and emotional, this set is a result of an impromptu tag-teaming session at BRA Camp on Friday @ Burning Man 2013 (Cargo Cult), after a difficult group trip to the Temple full of cleansing, mourning, release, and hope.

First, LeftCtrl set off the mood with his signature deep sound, and mixes for the first thirty minutes, then Kem and LeftCtrl bounce around for the next fourty five or so minutes, until finally  Stickybeats finishes off with a smooth ride.

(DJ Set, House, Collaboration) "Packit Sunset Tagteam Sessions by 0FOX1, Kem and Stickybeats"

This set was performed on the Pioneer DDJ-400 which I just acquired. I am pretty impressed with this box. I used all four tracks to mix minimal tracks that go well together. In this set, there is less than 20% of the time that you are listening to just one track. Most of the time you are hearing two or three, sometimes four tracks at the same time.

Love Bottle, Unopened

This set was played at 4am at a Campout in California, May 2022, when the temperature dropped down to 43ºF, and it was cold AF. I was asked to help people warm up, and that's what I did with this rare techno exposé that I haven't done in years. For the last 15 or so years I've been playing mostly house, so this minimal techno/tech-house is a departure from my "norm", which is actually my favorite type of challenge. Because — how else do we grow, right?

LeftCtrl @ DCDNT Oasis Memorial Day 2022

This is one of the most emotional sets I've ever played. I was scheduled to play at 4am, 2nd to last DJ of the night, while the darkness lifted from the trees and the dawn illuminated faces on the dance floor, my "job" was not to ruin this magical moment, but build something else on top of it. Deep, atmospheric, melancholic, and just generally magical – is how I would describe this set.

This was played on Traktor S4 using all 4 decks: A/B for tracks, C for live input from Native Instruments Massive synth, and D being a sample deck with my own house loops loaded. It is not uncommon to hear 3 and sometimes all 4 decks at once.

(DJ Set) LeftCtrl Live @ Frolic Campout 2015 – Yokayo Ranch

I was invited to play at Space Cowboys fundraiser for the "Keep Tahoe Blue" campaign — an event at a local South Lake Tahoe Americal Legion bar, that drew a huge crowd of both locals and SF Bay Area folks. I heard some people even flew out of Florida for that event!

The set was played on the Traktor S5 controller and using the new Traktor Pro 3 software. Three decks were being used most of the time, where Deck C and D were loaded with remix sets made up from some of my favorite minimal techno tracks, adding a deeply punchy techno beat to already high energy house tracks. 
This is why this set will sound like a lot of "boom" :) 

If you listen carefully9, you will probably hear a bunch of tracks off the Whore House label as I am a huge fan of Hoxton Whores.

At some point, I saw people who were sitting by the bar shake their booty in their chairs, and probably spilling their beers :) 

Please leave comments if you listen like it! I would really appreciate it.

Space Cowboys — Shred the Decks

LeftCtrl @ Space Cowboys in South Lake Tahoe

This is a deep, groovy, mildly hypnotic set. It is an hour and a half long journey into the Sunday morning blues as witnessed by yours truly & friends in Nevada on Feb 22, 2020, after everything that could have been said, was already said, and then some. For the time in your life when only music gets through.

Technical info:
The set was mixed on a 4-channel Traktor S5 with two track decks and two remix decks. Mastered in Logic Pro using Fab, Waves and Ozone plugins. 

Loudness: 
-12dB LUFS

Tonality:  
Nearly the entire set was played in A-Minor.

LeftCtrl Live DJ Sets

(DJ Set, House, in Amin) "Nevada Lazy Sunday Beat-cakes"

LeftCtrl —(also known as PolyGroovers, or DJ Zeel, real name: Konstantin Gredeskoul) started DJ-ing in the Bay Area in 1998, having been inspired and encouraged by @djethan Ethan Miller (FnF, BrassTax) among others. 

Konstantin produces downtempo music as PolyGroovers, (see https://soundcloud.com/polygroovers for more information).

Starting with the underground rave parties where he threw down Detroit Techno on vinyl, LeftCtrl played all over the Bay Area, with additional appearances in the UK, Spain, and Australia. 

He collaborated with @kem, Captain Tinrib, @henry-navarro and many more.

LeftCtrl's DJ sets feature a storyline, harmonic depth, and a smooth and deep, melodic, nearly always syncopated and groovy sound. Konstantin is an obsessively technical mixer, who admits to the most anal-retentive pitch-matching of the mixes, resulting in some of his entire sets played in the same key.

Since about. 2020, LeftCtrl refocused on the composition and production of tracks for the dance floor: house, progressive, and many genre bending tracks. Currently collecting sufficient portfolio for the upcoming releases in yet to be determined label.