Name: DJ Sascha Lahti - Laguna Sessions #11 by Sascha Lahti
Duration: 58 min 27 s
Description: Here is an older set but one I still always go back too. Some fun eclectic mixes but for me an amazing journey through universal audio bliss. Enjoy and much love to everyone!

Cleavage & Lars / Grace
BlckShp / Car Crash Dummy
Cromie / How to Stop a Bulldozer
Shadow Child / Steak Fingers
London Grammar / Metal & Dust (Friend Within remix)
Kiki & Sasse / Passion Week
Akkord / Typeface
Matrixxman / Scimitar
Bodhi / unknown

// On It's Own //
Bunny on Acid ft Amp Fiddler / It's On

Jay Shepeard / Highway (KRL remix)
unknown / untitled
Jamie Trench & REbEL / I Want You

// Guestmix: James Zabiela //
TRACKLIST TO COME

// Classics //
Maya Jane Coles / Little One
Eats Everything / This Elbow
Paperclip People / Throw
Shadow Child / Sensible Haircut
Nightcrawlers / Push The Feeling On
SJ Sneak / In da Clouds
Goldie / Kemistry (Justin Martin rework)
Basement Jaxx / Fly Life

RINSE DOWNLOAD

Rinse // 14.5.14 // Guestmix: James Zabiela

Super psyched to release my sunrise set from this year’s Desert Hearts Festival at Playa Ponderosa in Flagstaff, AZ. Thanks to everyone for bringing incredible vibes to the dancefloor and keeping the energy going into Sunday morning.  Any views, likes, shares, and comments would be greatly appreciated 🙏❤️ 

We are beyond happy with our new home. The energy level was off the charts all weekend. Massive shoutouts to everyone who made the event possible; we can’t wait to do it again! If you were there, I’m sure you felt the magic… I know I did. 

Special props to my fluffer Jadd and Leon Morley for dropping some saxophone. Let’s keep the momentum going and manifest another successful event next year. If you came and had a good time, tell your friends. I love you all so much and sincerely hope you enjoy the mix. Peace ✌️

~Lee

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Live @ Desert Hearts 2024- Lee Reynolds - 143

Watch the film on Robot Heart YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDun7jhQwE

For pretty much the whole year I’m either headed towards or away from Burning Man. 

Each year out there there’s this moment in space and time where I feel perfectly balanced between the two. It’s a moment where time stands still, just for a second. 

That moment is when the first ember of the day’s sun peaks over the mountain top to begin its journey once more. 

I try to find a piece of music to express the feeling of stillness and presence I get.  This year the sun was kind enough to arrive 1 hour 28 minutes and 40 seconds into this mix. I was in awe. I’m still in awe.

Some of the magic of the playa for me is where the nature blends with boundless creativity. Where love meets wonder and we get to laugh, dance and play. Add a dash of music for good measure and, for a moment, that magic catches its breath to take it all in, and stands still.

2024 was one of my favorite years ever. Thank you to all you artists and lovers, cooks and cuddlers. To all those who toil for months before and after to make it happen and to anyone who gave anything to another. You’re all amazing. I’m currently headed back towards (or is it away from) that moment once more.


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Ben Annand set off Camp DayFunk 2025 with a heady, deep, and impeccably crafted dance floor-first set that captured the tone for the entire weekend. From the first beat, he pulled the crowd into a sound that felt both grounded and expansive, layering warm, textured elements with basslines that built steadily without ever rushing the moment. There was a patience to his flow, a quiet confidence that allowed dancers to lose themselves in the space between the kick and the melody. Equal parts meditative and body-moving, Ben’s set honored the spirit of the forest and the promise of the dance floor, weaving a sonic tapestry that felt ancient and new at once. It was the perfect invocation, a chapter that reminded everyone why we gather together in the first place.


Ben Annand : Camp DayFunk 2025 - Friday Night

I sure hope you enjoy my second set from Camp Dayfunk 2025 as much as I enjoyed playing it!   If you do, please give it a like and consider re-posting it on Soundcloud - it just takes a second and is the most helpful way to share cool music to new people!

Camp Dayfunk is a Minneapolis-based campout in just its second year, taking place 2 hours East in the Wisconsin Woods - and I enjoyed its quality, intimacy, and cute little camp touches immensely.  Both this event and this set are very special to me <3

Before anything, let's talk about the Mix Cover.  I got great pictures from my first set and none from this 2nd, and it's fine.  Because I got something better than a picture - I got a Danceflooor Badge!  

It was one of the greatest honors of my DJ career to earn one of only 8 Dance Floor badges given out at this event  - not for my 4 hours of playing music where I dance some but maintain focus on the mixing - but for my many more hours of representation on the dancefloor as a dancer, which is where this all started for me... and honestly has stayed.  

I fricken love dancing and absolutely think it makes me a better DJ to study and appreciate music from both sides of the decks. I don't dance to everything and also want to give props where props are due - the music at this event was rock solid, and receiving the dance badge has as much to do with the quality of the other DJs playing as it does my dance stamina.  Fun fact, the most I ever danced was at @mingameslaby in Japan in 2007 ;)

Okay, about the music and vision for this set!  My first set at the event, the night before, was previously posted to the event's Soundcloud (@user-467880110) and I had a full dancefloor and lots of energy coming back at me - a Dj's dream.

This, my second set, Saturday 4-6pm, was a bit different.  It's daytime, there's a beach, and @djdanmusic, @Dj-Mes, and Mazi aka @audiosoulproject are playing B2B2B on that stage.  Right at the same time as my set at the Pavilion stage!  First thing that comes to my mind after I realize they are simultaneous - wtf am I going to do?

Contrast is the answer.  If people want it funky, they're gonna want to be down at the other stage.  I mean I wanted to be there too lol.  And who the heck wants the 2 stages to sound the same anyway, that's silly.  So I leaned into this contrast theme for my set.  Someone told me that I may have confused people a little lol.  I said 'good!'  

I'm really glad I had the opportunity to play the night before, because that was my more funky set - though my interpretation is a bit different from most.  I also won some hearts there, which created more interest than there would have been I think.

So anyway, this set was a challenge - a friendly challenge to myself to play a 2 hour set that was a bit out of the box without losing people, that would serve as a worthy contrast to that devastating funk of Dan, Mes and Mazi.  
 
I would guess overall people there probably liked my first set a tad more - but for me this one was hands-down the winner.  Partly because it was a full 2 hours of new music. Partly because my cup was already full since  I had nailed my set the night before and even got extended an extra hour -  the best hour.  And partly because I had experienced some challenge locking the XDJ the night before, but was effortlessly near flawless on Saturday. I felt zero pressure to do anything but be myself, and play what I felt at that time <3

In general, I favor very full tracks that envelope you with sound.  Besides contrast, the theme for this set is laid back and expansive.  There's funkiness, sure, there are some peaks and valleys energetically, but not at all like the night set.  Overall, it's a smooth ride through deep house with some vocals, minimal house and even a touch of techno, all  around 124bpm. 

Thanks for reading to the end!  I Hope you enjoy the music, and perhaps this background too!


Contrast - Ben Annand Live July 19, 2025 at Camp Dayfunk in the Wisconsin Woods

My essential mix was created with a sunrise set on the robot heart bus in mind out at Burning man, 2015. I played the actual set at BM pretty much the same time this mix was broadcast on Radio one. I don't usually plan mixes out but for this one special occasion I purposely created a similar flow and some of the mixes featured here. Enjoy!

LEE BURRIDGE - RADIO ONE ESSENTIAL MIX

Here is an older set but one I still always go back too. Some fun eclectic mixes but for me an amazing journey through universal audio bliss. Enjoy and much love to everyone!

DJ Sascha Lahti - Laguna Sessions #11

I like to imagine sometimes where the music will travel to. Who it will be given to or shared with. Whether it will be played at an after party in London or listened to on a set of headphones while watching the sun rise from behind a mountain in Tibet. I wonder which tracks you'll fall in love with instantly and which will grow on you as time passes. 

I know this is a really long mix and the journey into it and out the other side takes some commitment but, on the plus side, it saves you having to look for anything else to play for ages and ages.

 I hope you love the tracks as much as I do and thanks for listening.

As always, this is for Christina. For all those long nights working in the cloud

With love, Lee

Lee Burridge - Requiem For A Daydream

"2018 at BM was only my second burn and after my first (4 years prior) I did not think it could get any better… But this year somehow was 100 times better! I think this was due to camping with the amazing Pink Mammoth crew and family. Arriving there a few days early to help set up was incredible to acclimatise and hang out. So many people at PM are already close friends, but this year I met loads of new people who, I can now call family. 

At my first BM I also played at PM, although none of us can work out how I ended up playing there specifically haha! We think Derek knew I was coming and asked if I would like to play. Thankfully he did, because I instantly fell in love with the camp and playing there. Four years on, (and playing many times for PM at their events) it felt like coming home. Its so satisfying playing somewhere where you feel completely relaxed to play what you want to play, in a perfect environment.  

This set also was made extra special by an amazing (pre planned) marriage proposal mid set between Harrison and Felicity. Harrison had told me a couple days prior that my song “In Love” was one of his and Felicity's favourite songs that they shared together. He wanted to propose and asked if I could play the song for them whilst he did so. I of course was completely honoured so myself and Harrison arranged that I would play it mid set, about an hour in and would give him a nod to signal it. With his broken ankle (he’d broken it just a day prior!), they both climbed up onto the speaker, and to Felicity’s surprise, just as “In Love” started to come in, he proposed in front of the whole crowd! Of course she said yes ;)

So you’ll hear in this mix the volume dip at the start of “In Love”, which is a lovely memento forever recorded in this mix! Hope you all enjoy! Tim.”

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It’s been a while since I played DISTRIKT last. After this years experience I’m somewhat kicking myself. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd at Burning Man so wild and fun. The party was electric. Fire! And, it was only Tuesday. ‘Pacing it’ was obviously out of the question for the five thousand or so that joined me. The Robot Heart bus rolled up and plugged in. Hoj tore the place up before me. Our day party extended into night and most of us left with a smile on our faces and an electricity that carried us forward. Beautiful people swung above the crowd in a birdcage (is that safe I kept asking myself in my head)and hips wiggled and swung while the multi-level dance floor bumped and bounced. Basically, best day party at Burning Man ever ever. So, thank you DISTRIKT for giving me an extended set and an amazing party to play. Let’s do it again next year. It’s a date?

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Sascha Lahti, yes, an unusual name, born and raised into an unusual family of self-proclaimed Bohemians living in West LA.

He grew up greatly influenced by his father’s unlimited creative ingenuity and his mother’s witty practicality, both with a passion for music and dancing.

Sascha started playing violin at age 5, later as a teen, switched to guitar and bass, and continued with bass for 25 years, playing in a variety of garage bands.

Sascha got turned onto electronic music in 1993 and quickly graduated from Deadhead to Moontriber.

Falling in love with underground electronic music and culture, he became inspired to get certified as a recording engineer and has worked on several music productions.

Recently, due to a sudden partial hearing loss, he had to abandon his live music pursuits, turning to DJ’ing as a new outlet for his creative musical expression.

Sascha’s dream is simple: to share his love for funky and deep/tech house beats with people he knows and people he’d like to know.

He believes the world needs more compassion and is committed to channel consciousness through his diverse music selections and unique mixes.

Thanks to his influences Ben Annand, Lee Reynolds, Mark Quark, Jason Bendewish, Jimpster, Atish and many more.....

DJ Sascha Lahti - Laguna Sessions #11

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