I'm all about this. Gonna put some serious work in this weekend. Thanks for the tune, and the remix comp! Cheers!

Sometimes I also play sets that are mainly techno.

Luke Mandala - Tracks and Mixes (Melodic Techno / Techno)

Here's another mix of some songs I played at the Friday night "Bee Dance".  Starts out dark and driving, and lightens up into some dreamier stuff toward the end.

We Dance Hawaii_ September 2021

Happy new year!  Here is the set I put together to lead up to midnight 2022!  So grateful for the community out here in Hawaii.  Super fun and magic night at the Hawaiian Sanctuary, Bee Dance.  Bee Ascended 2022 NYE Event.  Such a great lineup of music all night.

New Years Eve Dj Set 2022

Once again we went on a voyage deep into the playa space of Burning Man on the Church Of The Open Mind Artcar!!! It was so amazing to return to the playa in 2022 after two years away! This set was played right up until an amazing sunset!!!!

Check out other sets from this amazing art car - @cotom

Treavor Moontribe Burning Man 2022 Church ArtCar Sunset Cruise

Honored to kick off the techno and progressive house lineup on the main stage at Eclipse Festival in Canada this past July.

Featuring a collection of my favorite techno, psytech, and progressive house tracks from 2022 including tracks by Luis M, Lewis, Jakob de Wittig, The Hunts Cph, Riktam & Bansi, Jossie Telch, Loco & Jam, Boundless, R3cycle, Andy King, Subandrio, DJane Gaby, Marc DePulse, Far&High, Synesthetic, DM-Theory, Imar, and of course yours truly (including tracks from my Soft Apocalypse EP and my unreleased Hot Since 82 remix)

Eartha Harris live at Eclipse, Québec, July 2022 (psytech, techno, progressive house)

A cheeky collage of styles on the lose. My Celtic blood showed up, endless distortion textures for some brain fuzzage. It’s pretty obvious I had NO fun at all making this!  🙃

Art Pamela Gwyneth 🤍
Mastering Ascended Mastering

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Luke Mandala (house/techno/breaks):

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2VeZNvG
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3bfsqVf
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xZqaua
YouTube: https://bit.ly/31IKhcL
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3nygm3R

Mandala Affect moniker (Downtempo / Midtempo):

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/rjnhjr2t
soundcloud.com/mandalaaffect
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3y58Fss

Bookings: lukehenrywells@gmail.com

Presskit with music, social links, pics, logos, etc.  
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q0Ol7XUjA3KW-GSKYe3qSX4HMTaFlCyR/view?usp=share_link

Luke Mandala - Stunning Shit Show

Art Pamela Gwyneth 🤍
Mastering: Ascended Mastering

Linktree for Luke Mandala / Mandala Affect:
linktr.ee/Lukemandala

Luke Mandala (house/techno/breaks):

Spotify: spoti.fi/2VeZNvG
Instagram: bit.ly/3bfsqVf
Facebook: bit.ly/3xZqaua
YouTube: bit.ly/31IKhcL
Patreon: bit.ly/3nygm3R

Mandala Affect moniker (Downtempo / Midtempo):

Spotify: tinyurl.com/rjnhjr2t
@mandalaaffect
Facebook: bit.ly/3y58Fss

Bookings: lukehenrywells@gmail.com

Presskit with music, social links, pics, logos, etc.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Q0Ol7XUj…w?usp=share_link

Luke Mandala - Devotion

Live on the mainstage at Enchanted Forest 2014 
3:45am Sunday night.

Opening words: I am living light, you are living light, we are all living light. 
Living light born from ancient star stuff, working to live lightly here and now upon this earth.

"I'm a star, and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

These are the rules in this new world, quite unlike the rules of the old where zero sum games are the norm, and only one of us can win each time we play.

In the new world, we don't have to tone down and apologies for our prowess, because we love it when other people shine.

As we ripen more and more of our latent aptitude, we inspire the rest of us to claim our own significance." - Rob Brezsney

Live the light, be the light, and carry this love light out to every corner of the earth, because we are the light in the darkness that this world has been waiting for.

∞ <3 ∞

Live At Enchanted Forest 2014

Happy to share this 12-2am set with you guys from one of the funnest events I've played in a while. They did a great job with this event and it fully popped off...as you can hear from the crowd (we recorded the crowd as well). 

I was playing some wind instruments and a drum pad and I'm finally getting a mix out that was recorded with a show with those instruments included. 

All the love to the Esthetic Evolution fam, treefort fest, and to you for the support!



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Music, tour, etc
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Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/rjnhjr2t 
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3bfsqVf
Soundcloud.com/mandalaaffect 
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3y58Fss
Bandsintown: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/3598324
YouTube: https://bit.ly/31IKhcL
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3nygm3R


Bookings: lukehenrywells@gmail.com

Luke Mandala At Treefort Fest March : 2024 (Esthetic Evolution Stage)

Ride the elevator from the lobby to the penthouse pool! "High Life" kicks off with swirling bass, climbing synth and a viral percussive hook on clave and shaker. Flutter drop and we are cruising on needle bass and synth horn melody. The rolling melody mutates into a snare drop providing a foundation for the pulsing, rolling build into the main drop. The crescendo launches the high energy melodic groove, sliced up with echoed metallic xylo before breaking down into the angels dream. Finally the chorus hook blasts back in serving up a melange of swirling bass and synth horn stabs. You have arrived at the top! Another irresistible house banger from SKEZ!

High Life

High Life (Original Mix)

Recorded at a little gathering in Mount Shasta.  Featuring tracks from Birds of Paradise, Luke Mandala, Bird of Prey, Kaya Project, Koan, Mungolian Jetset, Matanza, Crussen, Pushpull, Landswitcher, Squatch..

4th of July 2015 Mix

Treavor Moontribe of Desert Dwellers played a nearly 6 hour set recently at Moontribe Collective's 22 Year Anniversary! It was the closing set of a 2 day event that started Sunday night and ended Tuesday evening to align with June's full moon. The set started around 2pm Tuesday and took place in a magical location in the high desert of California. It spans many genres, going on a full journey of audio bliss!!! Enjoy! 

T.MTLive@22YearMoontribe

https://soundcloud.com/theuntz did an article about this release:
https://www.theuntz.com/news/luke-mandala-releases-its-all-about-remixes-on-desert-trax/

My tenth song released with Desert Dwellers' label Desert Trax is released as a single and we did another remix contest. Thanks so much for tapping into this tune, sharing and dancing <3

Look deeply enough into any underground music scene and you’re bound to find a handful of producers and DJs who have been with the scene for the better part of their life. They’re not always the ones headlining global festivals and running biannual thirty-city tours, but show up to any of their performances—no matter the environment or time slot—and you’ll find the dance floor alive with movement and a colorful mixture of friends, fans, and dazzled newcomers all moving to the music like they’ve been doing it for years. Creating dynamic dance floor experiences every time they assume command of the decks and maintaining relevance long after the come-and-gones have had their time in the spotlight, it is these artists who serve as the mortar of the scene and keep the sonic narrative flowing from one season to the next. 

Luke Mandala is one such artist. A longtime fixture of the west coast underground dance scene, he is known for his uplifting productions and live performances in the realms of house and techno, world-inspired chill-out, and vibrant psychedelic bass. Producing the latter under the moniker of “Mandala Affect” and all of his uptempo under his original pseudonym, Luke Mandala has created hundreds of songs in a breadth of musical styles and genres since first entering the scene two decades ago. His tracks have appeared both domestic and abroad on a multitude of esteemed labels, including Desert Hearts, Merkaba Music, Traum, Selador, Digital Structures, and his own label, Activated Recordings. 


Luke Mandala’s latest sonic excursion takes him into the realm of ethereal house on psychedelic electronica label Desert Trax. Conceived as a heart-opening track for the emotive journeyer, “It’s All About” is a sunrise-lover’s dream that yearns to be enjoyed on a morning dance floor amidst one’s closest and most intimate friends. Beginning with evocative piano grounded by a soft and persistent beat, it expands into a progressive journey through dreamy chords and danceable grooves while maintaining a warm and shimmering drive that crests but never truly breaks. 

“It’s All About” was released by Desert Trax in the spring of 2018 as a remix contest—Luke’s second such release with the label. Two submissions were selected for the EP along with a third remix that was arranged by Desert Trax: an uplifting, progressive mix by Pranavah (a new project by Brad Moontribe and Griffin Paisley), a warm and spacious breaks track by Bay Area DJ and producer Keerd, and a soothing deep-tech rework by German techno duo Unique Repeat. 

Echoing the melodic tones of the original mix while exploring a wider range of textures, energy levels, and emotions, the tracks demonstrate the tunability of Luke Mandala’s dreamy atmospheres to different sonic flavors, frequencies, and intensities. Each is a unique journey into the sublime and ethereal united by the joyful, journey-like hallmarks of the original composition. 

Administered in the right set and setting, it is tracks like these that have the ability to propel listeners into positive head- and heartspaces that some may go an entire lifetime without glimpsing. With its pleasant and restorative undertones, “It’s All About” in its various incarnations offers a mesmerizing opportunity to peel back the illusory layers of separation we so often throw up and embrace the unifying and universal sensation of joy—be it alone at home, with a stranger on a dance floor, or in the intangible worlds that live within us all.

Luke Mandala - Its All About [Desert Trax Remix Contest] Out Now.

We played on the thunder stage at LIB 2019 and it was one of the greatest Lightning in Bottle moments for us! Big thanks to do the Do Lab for doing what you do!

Set List:
1) Longing for Home
2)Dreams within a Dream
3) Saraswati's Twerkaba (Landswitcher >> Tribone Remixes)
4) The Great Mystery (Tribone Remix)
5) Perfect Stranger - Clear Vision (Desert Dwellers Remix)
6) Ace Ventura & Symbolic - The World that You Know (Desert Dwellers Remix)
7) Bluetech - Dawn Ascent (Desert Dwellers Remix)
8) Eat Static - Dionysiac (Desert Dwellers Remix
9) Seeing Things
10) To Be the Air
11) One that Shows the Way
12) Liquid Bloom - Resonant Migration (ATYYA Remix)
13) Breathing the Mysteries

Latest DD Album BREATH

Desert Dwellers Live @ Lightning In A Bottle 2019

A gift from me for following me on Soundcloud, free download of this ferocious tune. Available many weeks before its release on all major online stores. Thanks for sharing, reposting, etc.     Wishing you all a most content and gr8ful day.

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I hope you are having a gr8ful day <3

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Luke Mandala & Synchronometry - Caverns [Exclusive Premiere) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

@DesertDwellers  is the convergence of music producers Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe, who honed their individual crafts in the mystical deserts of California and New Mexico, long before electronic music reached mainstream. Amani and Treavor combine the raw sounds of the natural world, wrapped in dance-floor and chill-out productions; blending deep bass, earthy percussion, etheric voices, and cross-cultural instrumentation into a sonic incense for the mind and body. Desert Dwellers’ unique global sounds are a bridge between worlds, and their label Desert Trax has become a platform to spotlight similar alchemical artists. Desert Dwellers’ studio output is matched only by their extensive touring history, which juxtaposes performances at America’s most iconic festivals like Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, Burning Man, and Coachella, with high-powered sets at the biggest trance festivals around the world; BOOM in Portugal and Rainbow Serpent in Australia. Desert Dwellers are equally at home in the clubs as they are in the yoga studios, and the jungles, deserts, and mountains of far-flung international festivals. 
Enjoy!

Don't Forget The Moon! 049 - DESERT DWELLERS

OUT NOW: desertdwellers.fanlink.to/BREATHReimaginedVol3

The third and final chapter in Desert Dwellers’ genre-twisting odyssey of electro world fusion, Breath Re-Imagined Vol. 3 opens the sonic gates to a realm of hypnotic and driving rhythms born from the interiors of the electronic underworld. Imbued with the raw and psychic energies of deep and ethereal techno, this 10-track opus completes the remix trilogy sparked by producer-duo Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe’s top-selling 2019 electronica album, Breath, and draws us back to the dark tribal tech sound that started it all over two decades ago.

Guiding listeners beyond the bass-centric and deep-tech stylings of Vols. 1 and 2, Vol. 3’s international crew of remixers has tapped into the soul-stirring essence of Desert Dwellers’ iconic psychedelic sound and re-tooled it for the uptempo dance floor, deploying a steadfast mixture of uplifting and pulsating beats to showcase the surreal and often visceral dimensions embedded within Breath's original compositions.

Bringing the underground club and festival sounds of Europe, Australia, Israel, and North and South America to ‘Breath,’ Desert Dwellers’ league of remixers transports listeners through surreal and digital dreamscapes with tracks by Uone, D-Nox & K.A.L.I.L., Dance Spirit, and Griffin Paisley, while offering raw and cerebral detours at the hands of Yuli Fershtat, Jamie Stevens, and Speaking in Tongues. On the warm and evocative end of the collection come tracks by Luke Mandala and Djuma Soundsystem, with a euphoria-driven remix of “One That Shows the Way” by Desert Dwellers ending the collection and entire remix album trilogy on a richly-layered psychedelic note.

A tantalizing balance of dark and radiant musical energy that celebrates the diversity of each remixer’s distinct musical heritage, Breath Re-Imagined is both a memoir of Desert Dwellers’ reverence for uptempo music and a voyage into the soul of global dance floor culture.

Breath Re-Imagined Vol 3

Traversing The Endless Road (Luke Mandala Remix)

Bookings: lukehenrywells at gmail.com

For my bass/downtempo moniker, Mandala Affect: @mandalaaffect 

Patreon is the best way to support the music in exchange for early access to it, guest passes to shows and other rewards: https://www.patreon.com/LukeMandala

Luke’s dynamic live act includes playing a mixture of electronic and acoustic music while mixing in multiple live wind instruments and live drumming. His lifelong devotion to community dance medicine started at age 14 in 1998 when he started to DJ at northwest USA raveriffic events! He then started touring the world and releasing hundreds of songs released with a large number of the biggest labels in the world like Selador, Desert Hearts, Digital Structures, Dreaming Awake, Desert Trax, Booka Shade Music. 

This is deep piscean scorpio music, sprinkled with unusual sounds, unexpected twists, eclectic mix of global sounds, various tempos and grooves. It reflects stories of love-driven culture and open-minded ideas.  Depending on the crowd, the sets can vary from being pretty and uplifting to deep, dark, and primal, although they typically feature melodic and atmospheric textures infused with a lot of emotion.  Luke also has a functional (natural, root cause) medicine practice as this weaves so beautiful with dance and music medicine. He helps people heal frequent issues of the gut, metabolism and tiredness. 

Luke’s songs have been played by legends like Sasha, James Zabiela, Boris Brejcha, Solomon, Desert Dwellers, Dave Seaman, Kaya Project, and BLOND:ISH. Official remixes from artists like Desert Dwellers, Bluetech, Christian Martin, Chloe Harris, Kaminanda, Govinda, Roger Martinez, Pezzner, Robert Babicz, and Deya Dova.

Luke Mandala - Its All About [Desert Trax Remix Contest] Out Now.

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