Over the past several months I've been really inspired by some of the incredible music contained within this ecstatic dance set. In fact, so inspired that I created a little mini tour of California so that I could bring this music to more people. 

It's a deep dive into some of the potent alchemical music that is bubbling out of Nigeria and South Africa right now, Creating a potent vortex of transformation invoking the elements and ancestors on the dance floor. 

Bringing us through a meditation on gratitude and expanding that out worldwide into higher tempo Drum&Bass from the UK by Jersey & Fred Again... and then full circle back into the African hybrid prayer of Jon Baptiste. 

This is a full spectrum journey that was first born out of the dance floor at Kalani and found it's fullest expression landing here in Oakland at Sweets Ballroom where I could feel the likes of John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Aretha and others that have blessed the air inside since the opening in 1920. 

Truly an honor to play ecstatic dance here at this EPIC VENUE where it has been going strong since 2008!

02 07 24 Ecstatic Dance Oakland

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1442. SWOUND SOUND Radioshow
Makossa & Sugar B present Cosmic Awakenings Label Special

selected & mixed by Makossa
recorded @ Verein M.U.T.

playlist: https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3047467/
video: https://www.facebook.com/SWOUNDSOUND/videos/1208882567571825

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FM4 Swound Sound 1442

The first track on this mix is titled "Imperfect Offering" by my friend Marya Stark & Daniel Berkman, and it perfectly sets up this journey, along with the follow-up track, Atlas by Kayam & Maugli - its a song about embracing the darkness in order to open our eyes to what we cannot see, and reconciling the irreconcilable wonder of what we want to be...

Sometimes life is messy and INTENSE and especially with the way the world is right now...
 
Playing this set, I was deeply in my own grief around my Beloved waking up and feeling on the edge of her own fragile mortality that morning, completely overcome with pain throwing up at 4am wrestling with some sort of lunar penumbra existential rite of passage… 

And the stark realization of how we never know when we might lose someone dear to us and my having to persevere regardless of her suffering to show up for the community to share my music medicine.

It’s these moments where I go deepest into my own prayer within the alchemical cauldron of transformation facing my greatest fears & dread to bring them from the darkness of the my shadows into the light of true surrender, as I pour my heart stream into the mix which is becoming the soundtrack of my own purification. It was real primal prayer.

I was struggling energetically but a higher power was pouring through me guiding my own transformation in real time and bringing Megan and everyone on that dancefloor into the prayer field with me.

I had to surrender so deeply. I had wanted things to flow in such a different manner Sunday morning. It was deep deep deep surrender.

I am forever touched by the realness of what unfolds beyond what we think or imagine. When Spirit brings us to our edge and we discover again what we are truly made of…

KALANI Ecstatic Dance 09.07.2025

We are at a unique time in human history where the human race is waking up. We are realizing our true potential as vast and infinite spiritual beings - undergoing a transformative process of becoming who we truly are. Dissolving illusions of separateness and limiting belief structures, rebuilding our world view, our relationships, and our connection with Nature.

DJ Makossa & Mc Sugar B present their legendary weekly saturday night radio dj mix show on Austrian nationwide radio station FM4 since 18.1.1992 (every sat 10 - 12 pm m.e.t. on air)
livestream: http://tinyurl.com/streamswoundsound
on demand: http://fm4.orf.at/radio/stories/fm4swoundsoundsystem

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