Recorded live at the Asheville Movement Collective weekly Friday Night Dance on June 7, 2024.

This mix was created with a deep reverence to the Blue Ridge, Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and the music and culture that has been birthed and cultivated there over time.

With awareness that the folk songs of the ancestors in Ireland and Scotland inspired new music such as bluegrass to be cultivated in these very Appalachian Mountains.

I wanted to include this music in the dance set in gratitude. This set is full of electronic versions the originals and remixes of more modern hip hop and house. This remixed series of songs was blended with my personal prayers to these lands. 

My dad played the banjo and I have always been inspired by Appalachian bluegrass and the twang of banjo picking.

I now release this set, as not only was it one of my personal favorite mixes, though also now, at a time when the devastating floods due to Hurricane Helene have affected the entire Asheville and North Carolina communities. This set goes out as a prayer to all those affected as support and healing. 

I didn't post this earlier as there were a couple of DJ imperfections that I didn't like as an artist, so please excuse a couple of messy parts. Hopefully, you won't notice, or perhaps it's not too bad so you can ignore it and enjoy it anyway.

Honoring the musicians and producers I included such as Human Experience, Rising Appalachia, Tropo, and a remix of Petey Pablo's Raise Up.

Appalachian Awe :: Ecstatic Dance :: Asheville Movement Collective :: June 7, 2024 :: Levi Banner

On the mystic and magic land off Switzerland, between majestic mountains and in the far mystic  power of lake of Bodensee somewhere…the Costa Dropik project came alive. The project was created & founded by Jose Luis Serrano Cordero front Costa Rica.  after attending parties in his home country, and in 2010 began djing dark and night psychedelic music. After years of collecting music  . experiences as a dj to pump out pure intelligent psychedelic madness !!  He fell madly in love with the psychedelic trance scene in the year 2014 and going to several parties and festivals across Switzerland,, and Europe the following years, with finding his spiritual “self”, he wanted to set his own soundscapes to life. When he first got the famous “fines psychedelic!” factor listening to twisted , crispy, chaotic , melodic powerful quality music on the dancefloor, he thought to himself: “I want to influence people exactly the same way and to get the same feeling like I did on that  Dancefloor” to creat power forest music Atmosfere   power off mountain and tropik . He sound found himself floating away in front of the computer an mixer Djsets  with different hardware synthesizers and software, creating lots of different sounds, liquid patterns and ,strong baseline, shamanic instrumens and geometric  rhythms has been a big interest all his life. 
His style is very powerful, with big organic atmospheres and mystic melodic soundscapes, influenced by the mystic nature you’ll find in the land of gnomes,zwerks,fantasi, CHESSE, und all dist you have if you living in switzerlan… And Dist Ancestral Culture Of Centro America Costa rica making a Hi quality DarkForest Music groovy deep and trippy sound with communicative energy. PARA REVENTARLA DONDE SEA.
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A soulful sorcerer of seducing your senses with sacred and sexy shamanic-soundscape ceremonies...
A mystical magician of monstrous mashups, mantra mixes, and medicine music...
Historically a Hip Hop head, he housed, raved, and rocked breakbeats as a B-boy...
Now elevated to executing ecstatic experiences everywhere, enlivening everyone with his eclectic electronic and live DJ exhibitions…
Before being based in Bali, Levi was originally out of Oregon, now nomadic, navigating a nonstop nations exploration…