Name: From the Archive: Live at 420 1998 by Sean Murray / Random Pattern
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Description: During this downtime I have dug into my old DAT tape recordings from shows during the 90s. This one is a live recording from back in 1998 during one of our annual renegade soundsystem 420 outdoor spring celebration events at Stafford Lake Park in Marin county CA. Freshly digitized and remastered. Never before made public till now. Enjoy! and Happy 420

Once again, The incredible, Renegade master, with tha ill behavior.... Renegade was on fire at all times. Ahhhh

B.Fly Live At Cascadia Music & Arts Festival July 24th 2023

This happy, uplifting and inspiring set will take you on a journey of soulful grooves that bring those summertime vibes back to wherever you are.

Recorded on the floating dock stage in at The Lookout Arts Quarry in Bellingham Washington, to an amphibious audience of blissed out revelers, this set was designed to make you feel vibes as thick as the basslines. 

This mix was mastered by @elFrijolBlanco out of El Cuyo, Mexico. 

I hope you enjoy!!

Tracklist:
New Gods (Ron Basejam Remix)	Ron Basejam, Catching Flies
Radha (Whitesquare Remix)	The Organism
Space Sum feat. Soli (DJ Tennis Remix)	Kino Todo, SOLI
Karma Supra (Original Mix)	Hanne & Lore
Slightly Frozen (Original Mix)	Powel
Flavourism (feat. Seven Davis Jr.) (Pepe Bradock's Bittersweet Mix)	Seven Davis Jr., Dam Swindle
Ngoma (Peter Mac Remix)	Dr Feel
Zoras's Moon (Natasha Diggs Remix)	Candice Hoyes
I Will Never Quit (Original Mix)	TACHES
This Thing (Vocal Mix Edit)	Jimpster, Rich Medina
Bossa #1 (The Late Night Dance Remix by Le Rubrique)	Move D
Spooky (Quinten 909 Extended Remix)	Dusty Springfield
Raw Soul (Original Mix)	Floyd Lavine, Elias (GER), Liam Mockridge
Electric Avenue	Eddie Grant
Power (Original Mix)	TSHA
Ultimate Funk (Original Mix)	Bob Sinclar
Earth Wind & Fire - Devotion (Mizzo Remix)	
Pull Up To The Bumper (Extended Disco Mix)	Pig&Dan
A Part Of (Riva Starr Extended Saturn Mix)	Larse
We Still Believe (Original Mix)	Jamie Principle, The Blessed Madonna
Every Body Freak (Extended)	Dave + Sam

B.Fly Live At Cascadia Music & Arts Festival 2023

Recorded live at The Catacombs in Tampa Florida for my monthly residency, Dark Heart Disco.

Dark Heart Disco is a sonic exploration of Dark Disco, Industrial, Synthpop, Italo Disco, EBM and New Beat in the format and context of rave music. 

From arpeggios to acid, from 909 kick drums to breakbeats, resident djs Brian Busto & Rat Galactic will take you from an early 80’s discoteca, to a 90’s warehouse rave, to the Haçienda and back again.

Live at Dark Heart Disco (The Catacombs, Tampa) 10-26-23

Live mix at Public Works (SF) in the loft for our annual Garage Mahal burning man camp holiday party and fundraiser.  Good times were had!

DMak live at Public Works SF 12.9.2023 Garage Mahaliday

Celebrated a friend's birthday (Happy Birthday, Steve!) and enjoyed a Merry Christmas with friends at @thatfuckinbar

The first 40min is mostly deep organic house, followed by some disco (~20min) and eventually some tech house :)

Happy Birthday, Steve, and Merry Christmas! [December 2023]

Something a little different for ya.  Me at my moodiest.  In more recent years I apply tags to my tracks of different vibes so that I can organize my massive music collection better.  One of the biggest categories is 'Moody.'  

Of course a lot of people going out on Friday and Saturday night to my gigs are out to celebrate, so this category doesn't get as much play live as more funky upbeat rhythms.  As such it's somewhat underrepresented on my Soundcloud.

Well not anymore :). I'm dedicated to releasing more sets this year and I see this one as the start of a series.  Welcome to Ben Annand Moody AF :). 

The opener of this series is an opening set I played on a Sunday night from 9-11pm. It's actually just the first hour, 9-10.  It's ok to be moody when people are settling in :). It was also November just after the time change and loss of light... the beginning of the moody season in Eugene :)

An opening set is always interesting musically (or should be) because you get to start from scratch, and set the tone for the whole night.  So it's always a set that should be played with intention.

In this particular case, I was in a sensitive space because I had taken some really nasty criticism from the organizer of an event recently before.  I won't go into detail but it was very tactlessly and cruelly delivered.  So of course that affected my headspace both in terms of insecurity, and in terms of wanting to deliver a great set since I didn't entirely disagree with the criticism so much as I was hurt by the tone from a supposed friend.

So why am I telling you this?  Because this set is moody as fuck!  It opens with a lush vocal track that really spoke to me when my marriage suddenly went up into smoke. I find this track really intense so I haven't played it much but at home.   

The mix stays deep and moody, gradually building energy then wavering then building.  It's super trippy, a little dark/melancholy for me, but still house and totally danceable of course :)

So with all that said, I hope you enjoy this one and I will keep em coming!

Ben Annand Moody AF Vol 1 (Live at the Big Dirty in Eugene at Secret Sauce)

A few months ago, I had the honor of being asked by https://soundcloud.com/blackvelveteennow to make a mix for https://soundcloud.com/proton's Featured Artist series. It took multiple takes, some blood, sweat, and tears but I finally locked it in and got to share it with the world. Peep game and enjoy!


Tracklist below.

Zillas on Acid - Lose Your Soul (Original Mix)

Motor City Drum Ensemble - Escape To Nowhere (Original Mix)

Len Leise - El Modelo (Gilb'R Remix)

Balagan - Moonlight (Simple Symmetry Remix)

Dreems - An Ancient Eddiitt (Original Mix)

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Ceci N'est Pas Un Cliché

Persian - Parvaaneh (Alphonse Remix)

Phoreski - 80's Boy (Original Mix)

Donald Dust - Flashback Souvenir (Original Mix)

Tevo Howard - House Room (Paul du Lac Acid Dub)

Darlyn Vlys - Wuzu (Original Mix)

AIMES - Phosphorescent (Original Mix)

Rigopolar - Saturnia (Original Mix)

S.O.N.S. - Acid Dreams (Trance Jungle Mix)

Hey Mother Death - Deranged My Love (Donald Dust Remix)

Moodymann - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me (youANDme EDIT)

Vanessa Worm - Heaven to Hell (Eden Burns Remix)

FLIGHT MODE & Joel Brittain - Burn This (Original Mix)

Red Axes - Relax Shiva (Original Mix)

Baltra - Dreaming of a Disco (Original Mix)

Miki - Templares (Gerd Janson & Shan Remix)

Lauer - Fanta Korn Tanker (Original Mix)

Skinnerbox - Sese (Original Mix)

Felix Dickinson ft. Blane Lyon - People’s People (Felix’s Dub)

Front De Cadeaux - Ouvre Ta Bouche (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)

Audiojack - Spirit (Original Mix)

Natasha Bai - Your Kiss (Original Mix)

Jules - Miss U (Original Mix)

Zeta Reticula - Common Centre (Original Mix)

Proton Featured Artist Mix: Kadeejah Streets

This is one of my best set recordings so how come I never released it?  

Only because I had released a set with similar vibes right before playing. 

This was a really fun winter party - in fact I had a rather sketchy drive home to Eugene in a snowstorm...

Been meaning to put this one out there for a while.  In 2024, I'm dedicated to putting out more mixes so here ya go!

Ben Annand Live at House Party Reno Dec 2019

Sunday Sundowns with the Ambient Mafia
Recorded live: February 25, 2024

With: Rhizome, Seventh Swami, and Dyson

00:00 – Rhizome (downtempo)
01:15 – Seventh Swami (chillstep)
02:15 – Dyson (organic downtempo)


Join us Sundays 6-9pm (PT)
twitch.tv/theambientmafia

Sunday Sundowns (2/25/24) with Rhizome, Seventh Swami, and Dyson

Live recording of my 3am-4:30am set from Brit's That 90's Black Light Rave party (tough transitions and all lol)!  This is an all vinyl 90s throw-back set of song I remember from when I first started raving in 1993. All records pulled for this set were produced in the early 90s (with the newest release date of 1995) for that authentic 90s rave feel! I start things out with early (1990-1992) UK Hardcore and then progressing into songs (from 1993-1995) that were super popular at raves back in the day! Hope you enjoy!

Setlist:

1. Hyper Go Go - High (Cloud 9 Mix) 
2. Awesome 3 - Don’t Go (Kicks Like A Mule Mix)
3. The Prodigy - Charly (Ally Cat Mix)
4. Bomb The Bass - You See Me In 3D (120 bpm remix)
5. Freaky Chakra - Trancendental Funk Bump
6. Rebirth - Migration Of Da Party People
7. Freaky Chakra - Halucifuge (Freaky Chicken Peck)
8. Moby - Next Is The E (Synthe Mix) 
9. Orbital - Impact (Impact USA 11:20)
10. Rhythm Invention - Inventures In Wonderland
11. Freaky Chakra - Tra Vigne
12. Rhythm Invention - Can’t Take It (Cold Cellar Mix)
13. Gat Decor - Passion (Naked Mix)
14. Drum Club - Drums Are Dangerous (Prototype 909 Remix)
15. Frontline - Scream (Whitelabel)
16. Orbital - Are We Here? (Oral Mix by Rabbit In The Moon)

Live at That 90's Black Light Rave 03.03.2024

This set from 04-14-24 really exemplifies my deep house curation and mixing style.  

For 6 months I've been digging through my collection, resisting the urge to buy new music and instead learning my 29-year music collection better.

Over that time, I went back through and labeled thousands of tracks by energy and feeling and created playlists from there.  

The overall energy of this mix is uplifting and dreamy, starting and ending more vocal. 

You won't know many, or perhaps any, of the tracks.

The tracks were mixed on CDJ 3000s.

Never synced, never looped, never wasting time with filters and effects with just one track playing.

Fully concentrated on blending two tracks together beautifully with subtle EQ-ing only.

It's so weird, I was thinking this was the best I'd ever done with my levels on a live mix, perhaps because I was being a good boy, carefully watching the decibel meter at Mars Bar :) 

I added the fade in and out in Logic and gave it a light mastering in LANDR.  There I got a message that my mix was lacking in dynamic range - meaning there might not be enough difference between the high and low levels of the mix - which on a live DJ mix, I am taking as a compliment 100% :)

Ok enough geeky DJ talk...
As always, I'd love to know what you think in comments <3

Huge thanks to Chris Phleck and Ryan Stubbs (Duserock) and the Watch Our Step crew for bringing me to San Francisco, it's such a fun and friendly crowd.

Another big thanks to David Kiely of Mars Bar for providing a safe and lovely space for people to dance.

Final thanks to Anne Plehn for the great photo capture!  IG: anneplehn

Ben Annand Live Mars Bar 04-14-24 at Watch Our Step

During this downtime I have dug into my old DAT tape recordings from shows during the 90s. This one is a live recording from back in 1998 during one of our annual renegade soundsystem 420 outdoor spring celebration events at Stafford Lake Park in Marin county CA. Freshly digitized and remastered. Never before made public till now. Enjoy! and Happy 420

Live at 420 1998

From the Archive: Live at 420 1998

Random Pattern
ran·​dom| \ ˈran-dəm pat·​tern| \ ˈpa-tərn
: an artistic, musical, literary, or mechanical design or form without definite aim, direction, rule, or method

From the Archive: Live at 420 1998

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