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The Gardens of Babylon

Chief's Monastery 2019

Burn the house down

2019 has been the year of 'find your tribe' and has lived true to the statement 'your vibe attracts your tribe'...

Deep Tribe (b2b sets)

Beat & Pathways 007 - Deep Ghosh & Sriracha 

For the 7th Pathways we welcome cosmic spirit animals Deep Ghosh & Sriracha with their 3hr set recorded live from the CAMP OUT 001 launch party at Killing Time on 04.02.2023.

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Lintree: https://linktr.ee/deepghosh 
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Deep Ghosh & Sriracha - Beat & Pathways 007

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ALOK - LIVE @ BURNING MAN [ FREE DOWNLOAD ]

Full version of my track "Azul" part of my third EP on @crossingsofficial

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Azul

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Azul (Original Mix)[Crossings]

Hello angels..

As we wake up on the sunny beaches of Puerto Escondido we are grateful to welcome the early days of Spring… Flowers pop, the energy is rising. It's a sexy time this spring isn't it?

What better day to start our new monthly series, The March Madness. 

We are happy to introduce to you one of the hidden stars in our family. Deep Gosh is a very talented artist from Germany with an intrinsic ability to dig into music and curate top quality and emotional tracks to carefully craft a journey for your enjoyment.  Not only the track selection of this podcast is what got our attention but also his extensive attention to detail and outstanding mixing perfectionism.

Since Wild As The Moon Deep Ghosh has become one of our closest friends and active family members… Catch him play alongside with other many great artist in our Three Day Festival, The Monastery, this 27-29 July. For now, close your eyes, open your heart and enjoy the ride!

With all the love,

The Gardens of Babylon

Find Deep here:
@deep_schismic
https://www.facebook.com/deep.space.initiative/

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The March Madness - Deep Schismic

My spontaneous debut in Amsterdam at The Gardens Of Babylon (@thegardensofbabylon) and their Wild As The Moon party series w/ Acid Pauli, Sven Dohse, Geju, Sam Shure, VANDER, Akasha, Aeden

Infinite thanks to VANDER (@vander_music), Shishi and the Gardens Family for taking a chance on me. I look forward to more magical nights together <3

(update 27/09/18 DOWNLOAD ENABLED!)
Tracklist:
Armando Letico - Gange
Unders & Iorie - Water Cowboy (feat. Ravelli)
Kerala Dust - Nevada
Raidho - Point Of View
Sahalé - Magharibi (Satori Remix)
El Mundo - Ajuy
Nico Stojan - Use Your Wings
Doyeq - Damp Thoughts (Love Over Entropy's M Is For Moody Remix)
Kris Davis - Empathy
Dirty Doering - Été pluvieux
Matthias Meyer & Ryan Davis - Hope
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Die Höhenregler Remix)

Saturday 31/03/2018, Amsterdam De Marktkantine

Wild as the Moon

Wild As The Moon | The Gardens of Babylon

Dj Set by Joep Mencke At the "Ubuhlanti Stage" At AFRIKA BURN 2018.......

Joep Mencke @ AfrikaBurn 2018 | Ubuhlanti X Peacock Stage

Angels,

With only 15 days left to get lost in our magical playground at The Monastery Festival, we decide to give the spotlight to one of our dearest family members and closest artist Deep Schismic.

This gentleman has a very interesting musical intuition, or as many other say, talent. You can feel by listening to all his other sets that his musical selection comes from a very deep side of his heart and, if you let go, he can take your mind to places you've never been before.

Take a moment to listen and enjoy this journey and don't forget to pay a visit to Deep during his set at The Monastery Festival in two weeks. He will be very happy to hug you...

With love,
The Gardens of Babylon

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The Road to The Monastery - Deep Schismic

WoW! No words, what an amazing experience. The energy, the vibes, the love, simply amazing! Thank you all for coming and creating this wonderful party together. Looking forward to more B2Bs with Joep <3
SC Joep: https://soundcloud.com/joep-mencke @joep-mencke
FB Joep: https://www.facebook.com/joepmenckeofficial/
PS: Thanks @deep_schismic for letting us play an encore track, even though your set time had started already <3

Deep Filip B2B Joep Mencke 27.07.2018 @ The Gardens of Babylon Festival (Monastery), Goch, Germany

Thursday Sunset 2 May 2019, 17:00 - 19:00, <3 Ubuhlanti <3 (fka You Are The Only One), Tankwa Karoo

This was the first time playing with one of my musical soul brothers TantRut (@tantrut). Ruud was one of the bright and colourful beating hearts of our Ubulahnti camp, and getting to finally play some tunes out on the Playa in Tankwa together that Thursday afternoon was unforgettable, especially as our devoted and beloved camp members came scurrying over for a beautiful sunset dance together. So much love to you all in reliving those moments out there, and to Amie, Tania and the rest of the Ubulahnti Family for providing such a wonderful home out there.

Ruud & Deep

Featuring music from: Sound Shapes (@sound_shapes), Volen Sentir (@volen-sentir), Troja (@trideeproy), Newman (@ilovenewman), Sébastien Léger (@sebastienleger), Hraach (@hraach),  Mustafa Ismael (@mustafaismaeelmusic), Shai T (@djshai-t), Leo Guardo (@leoguardo), Naza (@naza-musik), Dele Sosimi (@dele-sosimi), Animal Picnic (@animal-picnic) & Novakk (@novakk-1), Viken Arman (@vikenarman), El Mundo (@elmundomusicpage), and more...

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AfrikaBurn 2019 | Ubuhlanti b2b w/TantRut

Angel,

There's a storm about to hit our SoundCloud as we are about to upload A LOT of sets of The Monastery 2019. Welcome to the release of the very first set of our dream we call The Monastery.

Before you the set by the lush Columbian DJ Eli Light, an artist of The Altitude Agency and a favourite inside our Gardens. Her sets connect you, to yourself, to each other and to mother earth. The sexy sound, the deep underline. 

We love it all.
We simply love it all.
Find her this Sunday at our SBCLTR collab in Los Angeles. 

Spread the word, share the music.

We love you,

The Gardens of Babylon

For bookings this creature is obviously one of The Altitude Agency. 
www.thealtitude.agency

Eli Light // The Monastery 2019

Hello my angel,

Before you the second set to be released in The Monastery series. The set is created by two of the musicians that are very very close to our family. The Italian duo Sound Shapes entered our lives throughs our dear Antonio Ponti and we have been inseparable since.

The set is a beautiful representation for their sound. We love and adore them. Like the crowd did at many occasions inside The Gardens. 

Find them (fingers crossed) soon at one of our shows.
But for now online or in their hometown Milano.

We love you,

The Gardens of Babylon

Sound Shapes // The Monastery 2019

This is the soundtrack I made for the Psychedelic Breath session I did with the amazing Eva Kaczor at The Monastery Festival of The Gardens of Babylon. 

I can still see myself standing there, overlooking that beautiful big barn. This was for sure one of the most powerful musical experiences I have ever experienced on stage. Normally during my sets I have the tendency to fly. The music takes me away, energies rise, and I enter a state of flow where everything just happens naturally. This is a beautiful thing! What made this sound journey so different was that instead of flying I was feeling very grounded. This groundedness enabled me to really deeply experience this journey and it’s impact on us. Sharing this with so many people at the same time makes it so much stronger.   

It is crazy how something so fundamental to our lives, our breath, becomes such a powerful tool when used consciously. This technique is a shortcut to enter a sort of dreamy state in your brain, in which you are neither awake nor asleep: the theta state. This meditative state is the gateway to your creativity, learning and intuition, and it allows you to access the power of your unconscious mind.

PSYCHEDELIC BREATH is Eva Kaczor’s own mix of dynamic breathing techniques from ancient traditions and contemporary science fused with evocative electronic music sets, she creates in collaboration with artists such as Acid Pauli and Birds of Mind. Both, deep breathing as well as electronic music, have the power to alter your state of consciousness and let you access higher realms of awareness. 

I was deeply touched by the reactions after the session. I have never seen so many people in tears of love and joy. Thank you

There are 11 cycles in the sound journey each cycle consisting of dynamic and relaxing sections. In the dynamic sections there is a deep beat you breathe intensely. The relaxing section is more ambient and you let your breath out and then finally hold it in before you enter the dynamic section of the new cycle. If you listen carefully you can hear a windchime/bell which indicates that the journey is moving into the next dynamic or relaxing section. Enjoy

Connect with Eva
https://www.evakaczor.co
https://www.instagram.com/eva.kaczor/
https://soundcloud.com/eva-kaczor

Joep Mencke & Eva Kazcor | Psychedelic Breath Ceremony | The Monastery 2019

Hello angel,

Welcome to the third release of The Monastery. For those that stepped into the world of Diass this comes as a great gift. The talented Bulgarian star on the rising has joined our family through the stage, the Altitude Agency and through our hearts.

He's a wonderful soul with an impeccable taste for music.
Enjoy while we are not together. And tap into the energy we once felt.

We love you,

The Gardens of Babylon

Find out more about Diass right here:
https://soundcloud.com/djdiass

Diass // The Monastery 2019

Finally we can share with you our 2hr set from the latest edition of The Monastery Festival by The Gardens of Babylon. Unique in it own form, we love to come back and join in the communal journey that is this gathering! Hope you can hear what we mean, and see you next year!

Audiofly // The Monastery 2019

Out now on Crosstown Rebels: lnk.to/CRM223

Damian Lazarus will celebrate the tenth anniversary of his acclaimed 2009 debut album ‘Smoke The Monster Out’ with the release of a re-mastered and expanded edition on his label Crosstown Rebels on the 27th September. In celebration of such a milestone, Moment In The Dark EP acts as a precursor, featuring two of the album’s original tracks, Moment and Diamond In The Dark reworked and remixed by Keinemusik resident Adam Port, rising newcomer Tibi Dabo and Dutch talent Satori.

Released in 2009, Smoke The Monster Out album was a milestone in Damian’s career. The first time he had written and produced his own music. Drawing on the inspirations that informed his Lazpod series, Damian emerged from studio sessions with Arthur Jeffes (Penguin Cafe Orchestra), Luke Solomon and Mark Ralph with an album. It was a brave album from a DJ not afraid to experiment, wear his heart on his sleeve or risk his successful DJing career by singing on his own music. Even today, it’s a fantastically unique album that refuses easy categorisation. It received critical acclaim from some of the scene’s most respected publications at the time - and also some degree of confusion. Indeed, The Guardian went as far as describing the album: “Less troubled and deep than Björk's Debut, it still captures the atmosphere of late-night clubland – the transcendent freedom, the fuzzy unreality, the implicit emptiness, the dysfunction – with a similar potent accuracy. That it does so by fusing Ricardo Villalobos and Robert Wyatt, and slipping in a Scott Walker cover, might explain why it is not being hailed as one of the crossover albums of the year. But it is."

Damian described how the inspiration for the album came from “what I know best, about what goes on in the darkness of dancefloors”. This innate connection between Damian and his audience created an album that struck a poignantly emotional chord with its listeners. The release of Moment In The Dark is no different, providing the perfect taste as to what can be expected from the upcoming album re-release.

The EP begins with the original tracks. Two equally slow-burning, emotion-filled cuts. Moment is an epic, gently unfolding piece, whilst Diamond In The Dark showcases a soul-infused, folk-rock sensibility. Keinemusik stalwart Adam Port provides a winding journey in his remix of Moment, that drifts between safari-like melodies and touching beautiful vocals. Rising newcomer Tibi Dabo offers an ethereal re-work of Diamond In The Dark, one that features a slick, minimal bassline coupled alongside pulses of fantasy-like vocals, before Dutch talent Satori rounds off the release with a moving cut that features soft keys and wholesome, warming pads.

Damian Lazarus - Moment (Adam Port Remix)

Hello beautiful,

We woke up with a smile on our face today. It's one of those days that you can easily sense the greatness that is surrounding us.

For the past weeks, months, years now we have been surrounded by the most amazing music created for you. And it's an undeniable fact that this music is elevated by the love of our crowd. It's extraordinary to experience.

This year at The Monastery we took Timujin from the large stages and into the depth of our crowd. The result of this closeness have simply stunned us.

Enjoy the journey that the Russian greatness has created for you and make sure to find your way to our lunar show in Amsterdam on September 14 to see this one in action.

With all the love we have to give,

The Gardens of Babylon

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Timujin // The Monastery 2019

Angels,

It was a Saturday afternoon, after a full day of dancing and connection we found ourselves going crazy to the tribal beats of Lemurian in The Dark Side Of The Moon stage. We witnessed how he controlled the crowd in ways we can't explain, we saw an intense ball of energy grow exponentially with every second of his set. We danced like there was no tomorrow.

It was beautiful. It was magic. And we can't be more happy today to be sharing this gift with all of you.

Hope you enjoy,
The Gardens of Babylon

-- 
Follow Lemurian
@lemuriansounds

Lemurian // The Monastery 2019

Saturday 27.07.2019 - Not-So-Secret Stage (Kloster Café) 22:30 - close

b2b with Deep Schismic
Soundcloud: @deep_schismic
Facebook: www.facebook.com/deep.schismic
Instagram: @deep_schismic

Within hours of walking through the stone gates of the The Monastery in Goch, Germany, I quickly knew it going to become one of my favourite gatherings of all time. The Gardens of Babylon crew sure know how to put on a proper party. What transpired on Saturday night left me absolutely speechless. After Damian Lazarus delivered an outstanding performance on main stage, the decks were moved to Kloster Cafe where Deep and I got to spontaneously go back to back surrounded by all of our nearest and dearest. Shout out to my flow fam for the support, to Deep my soul brother for choosing to ask me of all people if I had my USB on me to Shishi who made this magic happen. This is a memory I've never forget 🙏🏽✨ Enjoy xx

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The Monastery 2019 ⁕ Deep Schismic b2b Sriracha

***TRACKLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2vD24r2gpnz1t4tMsnbBWt ***

Oh wow, I don't even where to start to explain how much this means for me...

For those who don't know, The Gardens of Babylon has been my nest since I moved to Europe and has been my family ever since. In The Gardens of Babylon, I grew not only as an artist but also as a human being and for that, I am very grateful.

Being involved in this festival since it was just a dream and watching this 'idea' evolved and turn into a reality has been so enriching for me. It's one of those things that gave me hope and made me more than a dreamer. It made me a believer. 

This festival made me believe that dreams actually turn into reality if you allow them.

Don't believe me? Well, this closing set is the perfect example of a manifestation. Of a dream turning into reality. Of me believing that one day I would be there sharing my love and passion for music with my favorite souls of this world.

I can't express my gratitude enough to the universe and everyone that made this a reality. I am also very glad that I can share with all of you this story and hopefully made you believe even more in the powers of the universe.

With love,
VANDER

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VANDER // The Monastery Festival 2019 (Main Stage Closing)

Angels,

What we experienced by this man on The Dark Side Of The Moon stage was something beyond wild. This man doesn't even needs an introduction, I mean helloooo!

Thank you Oliver for coming and letting us enjoy your talent and music in our festival. You blew us up, once again.

Happy to share this with you, our family. 

Enjoy,
The Gardens of Babylon

Oliver Koletzki // The Monastery 2019

Werkstatt - Anomalie Art Club Berlin - Sat 12 October 2019 03:00 - 05:00

As a tremendous year of adventures music and 'find your tribe' comes to a close, I look back to one of my favourite nights of this year, where I had the chance to once again co-create a beautiful oasis with my beautiful ZERZURA family and expand beyond our Kiez Burn borders to connect with the Berlin and German Burner community. 

Shortly before taking over the decks, Jae & I had a look around the steamy, sweaty sea of people swaying and dancing the night away in the Werkstatt, and Jae asked me what I was in the mood for tonight. I thought about it for a second, and I said, "Well, we have a steamy sauna in front of us, with sweat dripping down the knobs and faders, so let's do these people a favour and help them get naked by the end of the night!' 

It was truly a night of many firsts. It was the first time Jae and I played a gig together (and definitely not for the last time!). However, the most unforgettable first among them, was getting to see a podium full of dancing naked goddesses in raptures to our music. We were truly humbled, and are so happy we can finally relive that incendiary Burn Night again.

Love,
Jae & Deep

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Tracklist here: https://www.facebook.com/deep.schismic/posts/2461765490800324

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Berlin Burn Night 2019 | ZERZURA (b2b w/ princessjæ)

Hello love,

Welcome back to The First Days of the Decade.. After an incredible set by Gorje and Izhevski we now move to another talent that should have been welcome on our stages for the past years already. 

Please engage in the wonderful world of Moroccan superstar: Amine K. Amine is a vibrant soul with beautiful sets and releases. One to watch, one to expect on the dancefloor and one to give all your attention to right now.. 

Enjoy love.. We hope it will turn your day into something beautiful.

The Gardens of Babylon

The First Days of the Decade - Amine K

Sunday 1 March 2020. 16:30 - 18:00
Revolver Upstairs - b2b with @spicysriracha

My musical connection with Sriracha started on the dusty plains of the Rainbow Serpent Festival in 2019, where I stumbled upon a crowd of people dancing around a circus train. I thought 'who the hell is this chick playing half my playlist?' We connected soon after and by the time I left Melbourne, I had an incredible new musical soul family. 

Fast forward to Summer 2019, and The Monastery that made us cross paths yet again--this time on my home turf in a way, at the Gardens of Babylon. A fiery, and some dare say deep, musical bond was forged in the Kloster Café that Saturday night after I cheekily asked her if she had her USBs on her shortly after I was asked to play spontaneously at the Not-So-Secret Stage. Next thing she knew, she had her impromptu debut at one of the most beautiful and beloved musical gatherings around. That night and the follow-on adventure at Garbicz and Berlin were probably among the two unforgettable weeks of 2019, and one that left us certain that we were kindred spirits of sorts, somehow each other's spirit animals.

Fast forward again to March 2020, when I snuck off for my yearly visit to Melbourne and was graciously invited to stay at a spaceship, and woken up on a Sunday morning with the news that Sriracha was suddenly left without a b2b partner, so she walked into my room and cheekily asked if I had my USBs on me. Next thing I know, we were back to continue that musical bond and write another incredible little chapter together.

It has been a somewhat surreal start to the new decade, and one clouded in much uncertainty and soul searching, but one thing is certain: Yelena and I have many more chapters and adventures to write together. Europe awaits my spirit animal <3

Love,
Deep

Sriracha x Deep | Revolver Sunday Sesh

Some like it hot 🌶

Sriracha believes variety is the spice of life and likes to incorporate a sexy concoction of sounds throughout her sets. You’ll often catch her layering deep bass lines, saucy synths and tribal organic sounds with melodic and worldly undertones. 

Sriracha regularly plays in all of Melbourne’s hotspots and has had the pleasure of performing at many major festivals like Strawberry Fields, Rainbow Serpent, CHI WOW WAH TOWN, Rabbits Eat Lettuce, Festival No.23, Rancho Relaxo, Circadian Rhythms & many more.