DJ Sets

DJ set at Return to Gaia on 7-7-12 (although I played in the early morning hours of 7-8-12.)

Setlist!

1. Slinky Wizard - The Wizard (Koxbox Remix)
2. The Infinity Project - Uforica (Paul Jackson Remix)
3. Pandanandi - Laptop Minotaur (Remix)
4 Mindfield - Let's Get Stoned & Watch the Freaks
5. Planet BEN - Questionmark
6. Pandanandi - Eldritch Escapades
7. Fly Agaric - I See Myself
8. Pandanandi - Gloamingtide (Thumpy Mix)
9. Prana - Indigo mashed up with Kenji Kawai - Making of a Cyborg from GITS soundtrack
10. Pandanandi - Psychic Mothers (Live Mix)
11. UX - Master of the Universe
12. Hallucinogen - Fluoro Neuro Sponge
13. Transwave - Flamicogyre
14. Pleiadians - Family of Light
15. Infernal Machine - The Loin Sleeps Tonight

Pandanandi - Live @ Return to Gaia 7-7-12 (Oldschool Goa DJ Set)

"One day your eggs are going to hatch and some very strange birds are going to emerge."

Spanning tracks from 1971 to 2016, this eclectic DJ set is an experimental assemblage of psychedelic, ritual, and sacred music which marks my return to the creative life after three years away fighting cancer and mental health issues.

Released as a promo mix for festivals seeking artists for their chill stages. Don't let the word ambient fool you: this is intense music for personal transformations and their aftermaths.

A goa/psytrance promo mix will follow soon. Artist albums (as opposed to DJ sets) are also on the horizon, hopefully as early as the first few months of 2019.

Strange Birds Take to Flight During Storm (Ambient/Ritual Promo Mix 2018)

It was a great privilege and honor for me to play at this year's Equinox festival. Thrown by TOUCH Samadhi, Equinox is one of my favorite psytrance festivals in north america. It occupies an amazing landscape, replete with mountains and lakes, and, being the oldest still-running psytrance party in the USA, it carries with it a legacy of experience and careful planing. In short, it's a damn good party.

Moreover, it was the first the first three-day psytrance festival I attended, many years ago, and, secondarily, playing at this iteration of the party marked my return to playing psytrance in front of crowds, having been sick with cancer for the last several years.

I was booked to play just after sunrise, in-between Axis Mundi, a psycore/experimental musician whose music I greatly respect, and Amanezca, a DJ/producer who, although a new face to me, had a reputation as a good morning-trance DJ. It was my job to bridge these styles - psycore and morning trance - at a festival which I hold in the highest regard, after not playing in front of a crowd in a few years.

To put it bluntly, I was scared shitless of disappointing myself, the crowd, or the festival organizers. 

I did no such thing. Many strangers, including other artists and staff, have approached me to tell me it was one of their favorite sets at the festival. My approach - to bring a bundle of darkpsy, forest, and old russian morning tracks, and fly by the seat of my pants with a vague plan in mind - had paid off.

I feel greatly renewed, emotionally and artistically, and I look forward to DJing at more parties in the future. Contact me if you'd like to book me, I play darkpsy, a smidge of forest, dark ambient, and old jungle/uk breakbeat hardcore.

Side note: The last transition in this set began to slide out of my control for a few seconds as the kickdrums began to get away from each other before I nudged them together. The urge to re-record the set when i got home was strong, but I dismissed it for two reasons. The first is obvious: authenticity. Re-recording the set to fix one silly transition felt vain and inauthentic. However, there's something else to talk about in this case. With the rise of computers and DJing software, it is my experience that there's no way to play out without someone looking down at you. If you play a perfect set, you're accused of letting the computer beatmatch for you. On the contrary, if you play an imperfect set, someone, somewhere; is casting derision on you for not being perfect. It is impossible to please the gear fetishists and digital elitists.

Thus, I have presented this set as it was played - proudly! - as a middle finger to ever psy elitist in the USA and beyond, and also as a testament to the lovely and imperfect human element that survives in every artform, laptop or not.

Infinite gratitude towards the entirety of TOUCH Samadhi, all dancers present at the event or hearing this recording now, and my psytrance families in Eldritch Crew and Absolut Shit Records.

See you on the next dancefloor!

"Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox."

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tracklist:

01. Maniac Bubbles - Maniacs on the Run
02. Elf De La Nooi - Les Plaisirs Du Froid
03. Kontrol Z & Chudl - Animal Lexicon
04. Ritual - Junkyard Faerie
05. Kindzadza - Breezer
06. Kashyyyk vs Morus - Xeon
07. Cuboid Atom - Organic Green Explosion
08. Melorix - Serial Giller
09. Fearkiller - Swamp
10. Jellyheads - The Invaders
11. Quasar - Sketches of Spain
12. Phobos Azazel - Intoxication
13. Genesis Pattern - House of Hoodoo
14. Eeriegeist - Take It
15. Terranoise - Strange Blue Crystal
16. Overdream - Fiji Island
17. Deja Vu Fabrique - Scary Boubles

Live @ TOUCH Samadhi Equinox 2019

Pandanāndi - Live @ TOUCH Samadhi Equinox 2019 (Forest/Darkpsy Morning DJ Set)

Brought up in the woods by a rag-tag bunch of tea-loving goblins and rough-and-tumble forest fairies, Pandanāndi emerged from the underbrush in 2004 with a knapsack of noises and a pinch of dementia dust.