ecstatic dance

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All of my ecstatic dance sets from 2023. This year I've played more frequently and for a variety of different events so there is an emergent variety of styles represented.  I've also started to blend sound baths with my gong and singing bowls into the closing stillness section of my sets.

Thank you for listening and enjoy the journey(s) into the cathartic power of music movement, and sound.

Ecstatic Dance Sets by MIKAYA from 2023-25

dancing

Oasis 

Of my mind,
Speak to me.

Through intention
Bring me to your waters  

The desert 
Feels endless

The oasis 
Promises nourishment

The Oasis 
Promises answers

But I must remember,
Answers come and go

It is the Questions 
Which remain

I played this set on New Years Day 2023 for the Asheville Movement Collective. This is the live mix without any edits. The poem states the intention and inspiration behind the mix. May it take you on a journey into the Oasis with a blending of musical genres to help us better understand the truth we carry inside.

Tracklist

Nod	- Julianna Barwick, Nosaj Thing
Reserva Pra Dois - Branko Mayra Andrade
Way Down - Dimond Saints
Chamaa - Le Motel
Royals (Lorde Cover - Instrumental)	- Femke
Royals - Lorde
Fluyendo (Steffen Ki Revision) - Ayla Schafer Steffen Ki
Runa - SoloKa, J.Pool, Janax Pacha Cafe De Anatolia
Ocean of Silence - Mose, Michael Ben Shimon
Moonlight Through The Branches - Enigma Beats
Mama Clo - Thornato, Benjamín Vanegas
Caravel (Uji Remix) - Baiuca, Nita, Uji
Les Gout	Rampa - chuala
Hold Me Closer - Elton John, Britney Spears
Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) - Elton John, Dua Lipa
Por Una Cabeza - Quintango
Quiero Verte una Vez Más - Adolfo Berón
Desert Mule - F.S. Blumm Nils Frahm
Clair de Tulum - Classic Unknwn
Santorini Coffee - Melvitto
Malamente - Trio SR9 Camélia Jordana
One Last Time - Trio SR9 Blick Bassy
(Sittin' on The) Dock of the Bay - Come Shine, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Eikthyrnir (Extended) - Kalandra

Oasis - live @ AMC New Years Day 2023 {Ecstatic Dance Set by MIKAYA}

recorded live on 20th January 2023 at Ecstatic Dance Byron Bay, Australia

Tracklist
Ignus Xolotl - Siri Star
Liquid Bloom, Porangui - Regreso al Agua (Geometrae Remix Instrumental)
Satori, Sabo, Matanza - Marimbora (Satori Re:Imagined Mix)
Mercedes Sosa - Balderrama (Kermesse Remix)
Kaya Project - One Hundred Lights (Grouch Remix)
KÖNI - Romanian Resurrection
Hark - Ganga Flute
Nomadic - Monkey Business
Desert Dwellers, Paul Stamets - One Giant Consciousness (Equanimous x Skysia Remix)
Soru - Cracks
Foreign Concept & Klax - Ask Yourself
OPIUO - Gravitate (feat. Jordan Dennis) (CloZee Remix)
Sangeet - Deep Within Ourselves (The Oddness Remix)
Wax Motif, BRKLYN - Issa Vibe
Jaded & Carlita - Zorro
Sparrow & Barbossa - El Monte
Alok & Vintage Culture - Domino (feat. Oxia)
Lil Fish - The Lost Voices ft. CloZee
Mookee, Skysia, Equanimous - Ensō
Truth - Lucid
Tony Anderson - Nuit (feat. Bonnie Brooksbank, Lara Somogyi, Chris Coleman & Timbre)

Ecstatic Dance is a multi genre journey of music into movement

Ecstatic Dance Byron Bay ✧ January 2023

This is the second wave of a two hour Sunday morning Ecstatic Dance in Mullumbimby, Australia
On this occasion I had fun playing with the theme of Jungle Magik - weaving together a variety of moods and rhythms into a complete dance journey 

If you enjoyed this mix - please like, share and follow!  
My appreciation to the artists who crafted these epic tracks

Recorded live on 5th February 2023

Tracklist
Shaman's Dream, Poranguí, Eric Zang - Olorum
Poranguí, Liquid Bloom - Preparing the Path (Skysia Remix)
Scott Nice - Upside Dawn
Chancha Via Circuito - Sueno en Paraguay (El Buho Remix)
Kalya Scintilla - Animalia
Mr Ours - Gamelan Trip
Ganja White Night, Liquid Stranger - Jungle Juice
Yeahman - Hasata (La Source)
Kyrill & Redford - 7 Days
Oliver Koletzki - Copal
DJ Taz Rashid, Momentology - Vagabonds (Scott Nice Remix)
Twolate - Que Lo Que
CloZee - Amazonia (il:lo Remix)
Phutureprimitive - Visceral
Sizzle Bird - Realms
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby (Ambient Mix)
Liquid Bloom - Sacred Blessing

Jungle Magik ✧ Ecstatic Dance ✧ February 2023

ECSTATIC DANCE SAINT-PETERSBURG 2023

Engagement request: please like, repost, and send me a direct message asking for the playlist and I'll send it ova. Thank you! Engagement is a huge help on this platform for all of us artists. 

Played originally at Asheville Movement Collective on May 12th, 2023. Re-recorded and refined some transitions before publishing it two days later.

The theme for this dance is inspired by a poem referenced in many Hollywood films, perhaps most notably in the blockbuster movie “Interstellar.” Written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1947, it has been suggested that it was written for his dying father.   

“Do not go gentle into that good night” 
by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

More info here about the poem can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night

This ecstatic dance set explores the theme of interstellar and inter-dimensional travel both through the portal of dying, and through the portal of distorted perceptions caused by love, desire, fear, angst, and rage. It will resolve itself into a space where surrender, grief and courage can take root before taking flight.

Cover art by Artbyagni on ETSY

Interstellar Night {Ecstatic Dance Mix by MIKAYA}

Frikitona Andruss
Adore U Fred again.. & Obongjayar
Where You Are (Zedd Extended) John Summit, Hayla
Resistencia Brodie Nero
El Monte Sparrow & Barbossa
Makeba (Extended Mix) Axel Paerel
Bamboleo Sllash & Doppe
Capoeira Mata Um (Zum Zum Zum) (Extended Mix) Bob Sinclar
Pasilda (Knee Deep Club Mix) Afro Medusa
Automotivo Bibi Fogosa Bibi Babydoll & Dj Brunin XM
My Humps (Ilkay Sencan Remix) The Black Eyed Peas
Don't Look Down (Club Mix) Martin Garrix feat. Usher
Memories (2021 Remix) David Guetta & Kid Cudi
The Boy Is Mine feat. Rosalie (Club Mix) Rosalie, James Mac, VALL
Lo Tire Oti Bocha | לא תראה אותי בוכה Eden Hason | עדן חסון
Sigue Beny Jr & Morad
Color Blue (Extended Mix) SOMMA, Sasson (FR), Nathan Nicholson
Sweater Weather (Ownboss & Double MZK Remix) The Neighbourhood
Tell Me Why (Meduza Extended Remix) Supermode
Reborn Moojo, Arodes
Smack Yo' Beltran (BR)

FyahKeepa @ BGF | Tropical Afrodelic Future Tech Deep House

Intention: Dynamic Range 

Referring to the range of values that a system can capture, represent, or reproduce. Dynamic range can be applied to audio, photography, or dance. In audio, it pertains to the difference between the softest and loudest sounds a device can accurately handle. In photography, dynamic range refers to the range of tones, from the darkest to the brightest, that a camera can capture.

In the context of ecstatic dance, dynamic range refers to the spectrum of movements and expressions a dancer can embody using motion, energy, and emotional states with fluidly and curiosity. From subtle and gentle motions to bold and powerful movements, this dance aims to stretch the dancer to their limits, in order to create a more immersive and transformative dance experience. 

Played on 1/5/2024 @ Haw Creek Commons, Asheville, NC. Pls like, repost and comment to feed my algo-rhythm. Danke!

Cover Art: Unknown Source

Dynamic Range {Live Ecstatic Dance Set by MIKAYA}

Deep in the jungle, there lies a fern gully. 
What lies within, can only begin...

Closing set for Fiddlehead's Frosty Ferngully Fiesta at The Landing on Jan 13th, 2024.

Special thanks to the Ferns and Fractals that came to celebrate this amazing man, and dear friend. We love you, Clay. Happy 4-0.

Fiddlehead's Fern Gully {Live Sensual set by MIKAYA}

Yaima's first album "Pellucidity" is a beauteous and bewitching collection of stories that seem to lead the listener on a journey through enticing soundscapes and floating melodies. Sustained by biological beats and engaging world rhythms, "Pellucidity" will soothe the savage and move the peaceful being in all of us.... 

Pellucidity means- to allow the maximum passage of light, to see clearly, as fresh water in a mountain lake...

Gajumaru

Curated in the depths of winter at Beat Church Asheville on Feb 11th, 2025.

May those icy frozen parts of us, fractured from our past, melt back into the nurturing waters that flow through us, dissolving, returning into one.

Num.	Title		Artist
1	Flow State	Triniidadii
2	Deep Sands	Ion Driver
3	holdon.	YATES!
4	Batanga	PHURN Lowcation
5	Geeked Up	Skinny Limbs
6	Arrive [nuo stems]	5AM
7	Miles Apart [nuo stem]	PHURN
8	FYA dub	Shaka Lion Singularis
9	Lovas [nuo stem]	Shaka Lion
10	Everglade March	Of The Trees
11	Mystic Physics	Hedflux
12	Taksim	Guns
13	What I Can Do "ENERGY"	CONTRA Saturna
14	Poetry In Motion [nuo stem]	AtYyA Finnoh
15	6AM (Perkulat0r Remix)	Of The Trees
16	Bellydancer	Kuni
17	Bad Karma (Original Mix) [nuo stems]	Axel Thesleff
18	Goober Time - PEAK	Jade Cicada
19	Wubbalubbadubdub	Jade Cicada
20	Like a Drum (Original Mix) [nuo stems]	Not The Father
21	Ric Flair Drip (with Metro Boomin)	Offset
22	vanish.	YATES!
23	Evacuate 1:06	Skinny Limbs
24	Siren's Call	Psyoptic
25	COLA	XRAY
26	Koté mwin	Sskyron
27	Truth or Dare	Tyla
28	Love in Space	Matt Becks
29	YOKO	Sskyron Bioz
30	Wanting You [nuo stem]	PLAZA
31	Sprout	Hudson Lee
32	Sunflower	Hudson Lee voljum
33	Borderland Sorrows	Slow Meadow

Remastered by Luo Rawls

Ice Becomes Water {Live Beat Church AVL Set by MIKAYA}

Wubbed in Dub is an ecstatic dance set in homage to the bass heavy sub cultures of dub. This set is structured by the classic ecstatic dance wave progression. We will wub shoulders with the music of psychill, psydub, reggae, reggaeton, dubstep, melodic bass, eclectic intelligent dance music (IDM) and a few heart openers to close it out. 

See you on the other side. 

Played on Feb 28th, 2025 in honor of Asheville Movement Collective's 25th Anniversary. Thank you Jeannie Adair for inviting me to play on such a memorable night. 

Photo cred to the interwebs.

Wubbed in Dub {Ecstatic Dance Mix by MIKAYA}

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Kangei

This incredible mix was created by Laconic Spartan with the amazing music from one of the best future sound guy´s, named ODESZA. Have fun with the mix.
  

ODESZA MegaMix - Things I Love

ID3 - Somewhere Within Your Soul

1st single to be released off new album by Elisa Rose
Available for purchase from all major digital outlets

Song + Music Written by Elisa Rose
Produced by Oliwa~ 

"I have come to a place very beautiful
Like a fool I fear for when winds of change blow
It's true the more that you love, the more you must let go
Let's give each other room for our wings to grow

Take me down, take me down
As deep as you're ready to go
I am here for you
Body and soul

In the changing light your brightness charges night
When you hold me tight I melt on the inside
But I'm so young and easily confused
But it feels so, so good to go unwinding with you

Take me down, take me down
As deep as you're ready to go
I give my expectations to the ocean's floor

To the ocean's floor, to the ocean's floor
To the ocean's floor..."

www.elisarose.com

Ocean's Floor [single]

Amazing mix taken from Do LaB youtube channel. Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKnp-97ymc&index=2&list=FL8n4iBXbpBNg3YqZH5RC0Jg&t=0s

Odesza Live At Lightning In A Bottle 2013

Download link for peeps without soundcloud go+: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mC0_YtJJFn6dI58KDJdSmO1GHlPjHZmO/view?usp=sharing
android should be able to download direct, iphone will have to download on a computer and add to itunes!
I'm excited for the whole lineup at Forest so I wanted to put together a mix for people to chill out to at camp in the morning. Hopefully you see this in time. If not, use it for your next camping adventure! I really poured a lot of time and energy into the transitions between songs, hopefully it makes for some smooth listening! Have a kick-ass Forest and hmu if you need me to post a tracklist. Hopefully I see y'all there :) tracklist below

0:00 Quinn xcii & ayokay - Another Day In Paradise
1:45 The Knocks - Brazilian Soul (There's also a walker & royce remix of this worth checking out)
3:20 Odesza - Higher Ground
4:45 Ellie Goulding - Lights (Bassnectar Remix)
6:45 CharlesTheFirst - Meadows
7:30 Jai Wolf - Gravity (Robotaki Remix)
9:20 Ekali - Leaving
11:00 Kygo - Raging
13:00 Hayden James - Something About You (Odesza Remix)
15:00 Flume - Wall Fuck (Gramatik & Ramzoid Remix)
17:00 Whethan - Good Nights
18:00 Cautious Clay - Cold War (Nick AM Remix)
20:45 CharlesTheFirst x Nick AM - Kirra x Cold War
21:30 Gorgon City - Here For You
22:50 Zeds Dead - Where Did That Go
24:40 AMTRAC - Long Nights
27:00 Ivy Lab - Cadillac
28:50 Gramatik - Muy Tranquilo
30:50 TokiMonsta - We Love
31:40 The Knocks - Classic
33:45 Super Duper - Horizons
34:40 GoodSex - Joy
36:35 Whethan - Win You Over
38:30 The Floozies - Nothing To Lose
40:40 Hippie Sabotage - Somebody's From Somewhere
41:40 Quinn xcii - Candle
43:30 SNBRN - You Got Me
45:15 The Griswolds - Live This Nightmare (NGHTMRE Remix)
46:15 Said The Sky & Slander - Potions
48:40 Kygo - Never Let You Go
52:30 Madeon - You're On (Gramatik Remix)
54:50 PLS&TY - Used To This
57:40 Seven Lions & Seven Lions & Illenium - Rush Over Me
61:40 Birds Chirping lol

Lost In The Forest

Lost In The Forest (2019 Electric Forest Chill Mix)

"Song on the wind" is the downtempo electronica story of the spirit of Goddess Mother Nature calling out to Spirit of Mankind, and an awakening man calling back in return.
Special guest atmospheric vocals by MJ Vermette of Sacred Fire!

07 Song on the Wind

If you’re on the hunt for a fresh face in the bass music scene to follow then Cole Jackson is the artist for you. First emerging back in 2016 with some powerful remixes, he’s been honing his craft carefully in the studio while delivering some tasty treats along the way including cuts of Billie Eilish’s “Watch” and Louis The Child’s “Better Not.”

Now Cole Jackson has looked to dominate the scene with original releases as well and truly has come into his own in 2020. February saw the release of “See You On The Other Side” that landed on Electric Hawk’s REBIRTH compilation and subsequently turned the heads of many who have flocked to the burgeoning label.

But Jackson wasn’t done with his work this year after that release, since then he’s played a number of livestreams throughout quarantine to show off his prowess behind the decks. Most notably, he closed out the Harmony Virtual Music Festival Finale with an absolutely unreal set teeming with IDs and remixes that lit up the chat, further proving he’s an artist who is up to some amazing things in the scene.

Tracklist: 
Cole Jackson - ID 
     w/ Billie Eilish - Watch
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Pauline Herr - Different (Cole Jackson Remix)
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Louis The Child - Better Not (Cole Jackson Remix)
BORNS - Electric Love (Cole Jackson Remix)
Cole Jackson - ID 
RAC - Next To You (Cole Jackson Remix) (Unreleased)
RUFUS DU SOL - Treat You Better (Cole Jackson Remix) (Unreleased)
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson & Delamare - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Louis The Child - Slow Down Love (Cole Jackson Remix) (Unreleased)
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Lorde - The Louvre (Cole Jackson Remix) (Unreleased)
Cole Jackson - ID 
Cole Jackson - ID 
Flume - Drop The Game (Cole Jackson Remix) (Unreleased)

EDMID Guest Mix 239 || Cole Jackson

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MIKAYA's Upcoming 2025 Event Schedule:
Sun, Sept 7th - Asheville Movement Collective
Sat, Sept 13th - TBA

MIKAYA (Micah Swabb) is an Ecstatic Dance DJ and facilitator for cathartic dance events. MIKAYA’s mixes inspire meditation through movement in ways that widen the scope of one's self-awareness and self-expression. For booking MIKAYA (Micah Swabb) please email micahswabb@pm.me. 

These musical journeys begin peacefully, build momentum and contrast, and then land softly with resolution and grace. MIKAYA also produces mash-ups and mixes in various genres. He teaches people how to make world class ecstatic dance mixes both from his home in Asheville, NC and virtually online.

Micah Swabb is also a regenerative real estate agent and eco-flipper in the Asheville, NC area. If you'd like help buying, selling or rehabbing homes or raw land please reach out. Regenerative Real Estate is all about living in harmony within the eco-systems of nature, society and personal well-being.

With deep gratitude... may we grow and glow together with love, courage and freedom.