Echo Garden Mix Series

I'm starting 2025 with a simple goal: post one @_echogarden DJ mix a month! 

Similar to the Echo Garden event series, which aims to bring complimentary sounds to DC's public spaces, the Echo Garden mix series aims to bring complimentary sounds to your daily day life. Expect relatively chill "balearic" mixes, i.e. a cross-genre journey of positive and trippy vibes.

While I enjoy a lot of different kinds of music, I feel compelled to make these mixes because I'm craving these chill and steady sounds in my own life. It helps me stay steady and focused through uncertainty by reminding me of the beauty that I'm always surrounded by, whether that's the music I hear, the environment I find myself in or the people in my life. 

Those who have been listening to my questionable music taste for a while may remember I did a monthly mix series 10+ years ago that became @occasionvibration. You never know where these projects aimed to make music more a part of your routine will take you! 

To new beginnings and where they might lead :)

Echo Garden - January 2025 Mix

For my latest echo garden mix, I put together 1,000%-positive-vibe ambient tracks inspired by my recent vacation. I hope it brings people peace amongst the uncertainty of world events happening in this moment. ❤️

Feel free to comment for a track id.

Echo Garden - February 2025 Mix

1,000% positive vibe house heaters. Inspired by seeing my teenage hero @djsashaofficial play a quality warehouse party this weekend, I threw in some late 90s progressive house tracks that got me into this music 20+ years ago. It’s an energy changeup from the chill previous two installments. Listen to it in the gym, not watering your plants :) 

I set out to make this mix series positive and consistent, which is pretty much the opposite of the environment I find myself in. DC is a strange place to be an optimist, especially now as my civil servant colleagues in government are being laid off left and right with little explanation. 

So what keeps me positive aside from surrounding myself with great music? Well, I had a conversation on Friday with someone I greatly respect who laid out a case for why this country is irreparably f-ed. While there weren’t exactly holes in her argument, I would argue that similar cases could have been made at pretty much any point in history. Yet most would choose to live in this moment over almost any other. 

No one knows the future and we as individuals have limited control over it. But we can choose to believe that a better tomorrow, a better next week, a better next year and a better next generation could possible. We can choose to do what we can to make it so, in our own lives and for others. That’s always seemed like a more attractive approach to me than assuming the worst. 

The moral arc of a great DJ mix is long, but it bends towards justice. 

Thank you for listening to my DJ promotion spam. Peace and love from tranquil Washington DC :) 

Comment for a track id.

Echo Garden - March 2025 Mix

The latest echo garden mix covers a range of downtempo flavors conveying both the optimism of spring and the melancholy of persisting winter. Includes new tracks that came out this year as well as several from 25+ years ago (that sound like they could have been released this year).

Echo Garden - April 2025 Mix

Echo Garden - May 2025 Mix

DJ Enyah (@b-in-love) live at the Echo Garden takeover Sunday Love at Flash in Washington, DC. 

Echo Garden - June 2025 Guest Mix - Enyah (live)

For this month’s echo garden mix, I laid down a 100bpm progression of ethereal downtempo cuts building up to a string of balearic ballads. Exactly the kind positive, sunny and steady energy I’ve been soaking in the past month leading up to Canyon Vibration this week! 

Echo Garden - July 2025 Mix

Co-founder of @canyon-vibration and @occasionvibration

Echo Garden Mix Series

Peter Marks