Shanti is a Chicago-based DJ who curates eerie, otherworldly, and longing sounds. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. While she is a philosopher and writer, Shanti has felt limited by words and has recognized the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Philosophical themes of existential angst and ambiguity are explored in her sets through ethereal, foreboding techno, angsty EBM/dark wave, and squishy acid sounds. Music has always been a way for her to cope with the darker realities of existence. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory.

Polar Inertia - Interlude (Sound Stroke)
IG METALL - Muscle & Hate
Maedon X - Subterranean Caverns
Lonefront - Crisalign
Troy - Shadow of the Comet
Stecks - Hemoglobin
Sard - orange ii
P.E.A.R.L. - Sangre IV
Israel Vines – WWKD (Silent Servant remix)
BEAU WANZER - Non Human Headlock
British Murder Boys - It’s in the Heart
Crystal Geometry - Class Real
Julia Govor - Close to the Sun
Makeen - Pallets
Uun - Atrahasis
Mtrl & Tenzia - Strange Signs
SHXCXCHCXSH - Stämma #3
DJ Nobu -  Blue Zone
Alexskyspirit - Lost Humanity
Elijan- Sara
v_3.378 - Submissive Gesture (Original Mix)
Surgeon – Convenience Trap, Pt. 2
CA2+ - Zugzwang
David Wincent - Virtuoso
Planetary Assault System - Undertow
Luigi Tozzi - Obsidian
Actress - Static

RND 114 - Shanti

Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen
Shanti Chu - Shanti
Dan Hood - Dan B Hood
Kona Mazariegos - Zona Cinco

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