On a road through the desert, to the desert. Maybe the first time, maybe returning. Maybe the last time. I hope this music brings you something needed.

Track list:

T-Puse - All Aboard
Amour Propre - Desert Story
Stavroz -In Mindibu
Stavroz -To be in Mara
Agawe - Leza (T-Puse Remix)
Aaroon - Teacher (Original Mix)
Djuma Soundsystem, Emok - Osuga feat. Olith
Ben Bohmer - Beyond Beliefs (Original Mix)
Enzo Siffredi, BAQABO	- MY FRIEND (Original Mix)
DJ Taz Rashid and Momentology - Vagabonds (Scott Nice Remix) 
Yuksek - Beirut Ma Bet Mout (Extended Version)
Malone, Calussa. - More Life (After Hours Mix)
Parcels - Lightenup (Alex Metric Remix)
Two Door Cinema Club	- Bad Decisions (Purple Disco Machine Remix) 
Enzo Siffredi - Sometimes
Biscits - Sundown (Original Mix)
Four Tet - Mango Feedback
Bia - CAN'T TOUCH THIS (R3HAB Remix)
Emmit Fenn - Who Dat

Desert Roads

In October, and especially during Halloween, there is a thinning of the veil between the worlds.

The veil is where we meet our loved ones, guides, and angels. It is a place between the worlds of seen and unseen, known and unknown, living and spirit.

The days are getting shorter, and we are preparing to temporarily withdraw from the realm of life and growth. The harvest cycle is winding down, but it’s not gone completely yet. This represents a transition, or a doorway, or a veil.

Because the veil between the worlds is thin in October, we feel drawn to certain themes at this time of year. There’s no denying that as we approach Halloween, death is a primary cultural symbol. Scary movies, ghosts, graveyards, zombies and skeletons, ways of honoring the dead, like Día De Los Muertos.

This mix was created to honor this time of year when the veil is thin between our world and the spirit world. A time when we can more easily commune with our loved ones who have passed, and our spirit guides.

Witches’s Brew Volume 2 is a magical musical stew that has a strong Mystical base with a hint of Goth, a touch of Tribal, a sprinkling of Funk, a pinch of Psychedelic Rock served up with a driving house beat and polyrhythmic drums, which is then seasoned with my special sauce of electric guitar that is sometimes funky, sometimes spicy, sometimes exotic, and even a bit metal at times.

It begins in stillness with an ambient new age goth sounding track called “The Loom” by Anilah. I have added some haunting Romani inspired guitar to this opening track as a nod to my own ancestors, and to give it a bit more of an edge of mysteriousness. It symbolizes the opening of the veil as we enter this magical dark world.

This song carries us into the Spirit Realm where we are greeted by a trixster of a track that has a message for us - stay light hearted even when things are grim because our spirit guides are with us always.

With the next track, we are starting to get into the groove as we navigate the dark abyss of Voodoo Magic, with Dr John as our guide, where possibilities abound and things are not always what they seem to be.

Next we hear from the late, great, satirical stand up man Mr. Bill Hicks, and the message is clear, “life is like a roller coaster” and it goes up and down, and round and round, but don’t worry because “It’s Just a Ride”!

As the ride continues it builds like a wave of energy bringing us from a slow steady flow, and then, just like life, the road gets a little bumpy with a staccato rhythm, until it starts to flow again. But this time, faster and faster, picking up speed as we enter Chaos. Until, finally the wave crashes into stillness again.

With the closing track “Sky Burial”, also by the amazing goth vocalist Anilah, we have laid our worries to rest and have returned to the world of the Living where we are left with the realization that Death is our Greatest Advisor. It teaches us to live fully in the moment because we never know how much time we have with the ones who are dearest to us.

And, that death is not the end but the beginning of the next great adventure!

Album Cover Art by @Tamara.Luminara

Witches' Brew Volume 2 (Mastered v10)

An incredible festival, an incredible dance: In the late night steamy heat of the Costa Rican rainforest we Invoked the sacred through sonic alchemy and surrendered to the divine.  This set was the culmination of everything I strive for on the ecstatic dance floor - in the amorphously porous container of a festival a multi genre, tempo-twisted offering of deep groove and penetrating cadence elastically stretched the potential for expression over 108 minutes of unpredictable storytelling as each dancer exploded into the hyper-nowness of being.

#Bassmusic
#House
#Downtempo
#Halftime
#Drum&Bass
#Sacred
#Psytrance
#Latin
#African
#Brazilian
#Love
#Freedom

DRAGONFLY - SPIRIT CATCHER @ ENVISION FESTIVAL ECSTATIC JUNGLE DANCE 2023

Awestruck

Awestruck (feat. Lexington Keyz)

Rhythm Sanctuary 01 - 18 - 24

A cathartic journey shared with a community, through the Dance Temple of Comox Valley. 

This set has been curated with an intention of expressing an array of feelings that has been caused by a tremendously unfortunate event which caused big ripples within our community.

Life is fragile. It is precious, unpredictable. I will miss you my friend.. 
(18 February 2024).

Dance Temple 19 Feb 2024 Set 

Seek The Unknown

This set was from 6-8:30pm. There was a break a half hour into it for a circle that happens with some discussion with the community, the only edit I made to this recording was to take out that part. I went into this event intentionally not knowing what songs I would play or in what order I would play them, I decided to pick them on the fly depending how how things felt in the moment. Eugene, Oregon (where this dance was) has stronger affinity toward vintage music than any place I can think of so I was trying to work that into this mix a bit. Huge thank you to the awesome people putting on Coalessence and to the dancers rocking that dance floor! 

Led Zeppelin - Bron-Yr-Aur 
Wolf Tech - Lost in a dream
Marielle V Jakobsons - Star Core
Kalya Scintilla - Manzanita 
deep river (JPOD remix)
Blue Sky Black Death - Sleeping Children Are Still Flying
AtYyA - Volition
Catacombs (Se23 Remix)
Deya Dova - The Winged One (Mandala Affect/Luke Mandala Remix)
Luke Mandala - This One Sunrise
truth - The Fact (Original Mix)
Birds of Paradise - Eternal Recurrence
Urchin, Lobe - Wyrms 
Fool In The Rain
Kaya Project- Marco Atlantico (Mandala Affect/Ocean Sunset Remix)
1 Giant Leap - All Alone (Luke Mandala Remix)
Heflux - Peyote Dawn
Poranguí - Ayahuasca (Liquid Bloom & Poranguí Remix)
Birds of Paradise - Aural Reef
Mandala Affect - Accepting The Unknown
Kaya Project - Walking Through (Luke Mandala Don't Hold Back Remix) 
Luke Mandala - Released
Super Flu - Doppt 
Silvano Del Gado - From Jamaica to Brasil 
Hashish - Manuel De La Mare Mix
Digitaline - Africa
Luke Mandala - Aileron
Tracy Chapman - Fast car (Featurecast Old school edit)
Dub Dynamite (Social Disco Edit)
N'to - Jane
Mandala Affect - The Shimmy
VOLO - Shine
Uji - Maloka
Tor - Two Suns (CloZee Remix)
Avari - Of The Heavens (check out the remix I did of this on Soundcloud)
\https://soundcloud.com/luke-mandala/avari-of-the-heavens-luke
Jon Hopkins - The Wider Sun
I needed with playing my native american flute live with some reverb.

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Luke Mandala / Mandala Affect @ Coalessence Ecstatic Dance Aug/2018

LIVE FROM THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO: MONSTEROUS AND BOISTEROUS, SWAGGERINGLY RELENTLESSLY, DEEP AND DIRTY ETHNO-BASS. HOW WEIRD STREET FAIRE 20TH ANNIVERSARY!

DRAGONFLY - BASS CHARMER (SF HOW WEIRD STREET FAIRE LIVE)

DRAGONFLY - BASS CHARMER

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist – May 23 + May 30, 2019

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK
Desert Dwellers - At Last, Our Refuge
Feathered Sun ft. Matanza - How Strange (ANuT & MoM Cuando Extraño Remix)
Aluna - Ayahuanina (Tomanka Remix) 
Arcturus - Kilauea 
Holed of MoM - Ambrosia (Original Mix)
Armando Letico - El Abrazo De La Serpiente (San Miguel Remix)
Rey & Kjavik - Saraswati (Original Mix)
LUM - Canto De La Tierra (Original Mix)
Ooze - Restricted Flow
Ali Farahani - Earth
Stanisha - Riders on the Sun
David Mears - Raffaella

No Man's Land

NO MAN'S LAND - May 23 + May 30 - Radio Mix 2019

This is a recording of my very first LIVE ecstatic dance DJ set.  I was asked to DJ a couple months prior to when I thought I would actually be ready, but I couldn't say no.  I pulled together my first two-hour set and offered it up to my sweet dancing community in just two weeks time.  It was an amazing experience and I can't wait to build on my skills and do it again!

2019.09.01 Nevada City Ecstatic Dance Church - Recorded LIVE

We're proud to follow up our “Third Light” album with a companion selection of remixes entitled “The Light Within”, with the remixers hailing from across the globe *and* the bass music spectrum. The resultant ten-track collection is playful, spiritual and sensory, with upbeat tempos and slithering effects woven deep into the rhythmic pulses and dark undercurrents of our original tracks.

Bookended by uptempo versions of “Daylight Wasting” from International Observer and Berlin bassheads qnp, “The Light Within” features contemporary bass cuts from Portland’s Bodie and Christchurch’s Akcept, downtempo grooves by Argentinian dubsalon and South Korean mcthfg, dancefloor dubs from Mexico’s Tor.Ma in Dub and Brisbanite SUBSET, as well as drum and bass by Wellingtonian Zuke and the legendary UK producer Adrian Sherwood.

Contemplative but cheerful, either way, as “A Doubtful Sound” states, ‘The rhythm IS gonna get ya!’

The Light Within

Pitch Black - Daylight Wasting (International Observer's Durian Hook Remix)(preview)

With intention and love, I weave global sonic dance journeys for Ecstatic Dance and other non-verbal movement spaces.
**Upcoming Ecstatic DJ Dates**
       -Wed, 11/29 - Harbin Hot Springs

2019.09.01 Nevada City Ecstatic Dance Church - Recorded LIVE

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