A live DJ set from camp Mindshark at Burning Man 2025. Recorded facing the Sunset on Esplanade, and facing the Man and inner playa. A deep, melodic, progressive set with vocals, featuring a number of my favorite vibey tunes from the season. Also featuring a few of my newly mastered unreleased tracks, "To Keep Me", "Dream Some More", and "Feel Further". 

Thursday Sunset on Esplanade @ Mindshark, Burning Man 2025

City of Gods 2025 . House of Yes . GlamCocks . Industry City . Halloween

1 - DJ Trotsky - 2024 - Holo-Strat-SLO-79
2 - DJ Trotsky - Speculative Voices
3 - Laurie Anderson - Walking and Falling (I wanted you..)
4 - Boozoo Bajou - Yma
5 - Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin'
6 - Da Iguana - Timerider
7 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - My Heart, My Life
8- Share The Light & Lunar Halo - Liquid
9 - The Bahama Soul Club - Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
10 - Veleyle - Desert Hippies
11 - Gobi Desert Collective - Noor
12 - Hraach, Armen Miran - Krunk (Original Mix)
13 - Kesha - JOYRIDE (Instrumental)
14 - Madonna - Vogue
15 - Heatwave - Groove Line
16 - Earth, Wind & Fire - Can't Hide Love
17 - Earth, Wind & Fire - Yearnin' Learnin' (Live)
18 - Noga Erez - SAD GENERATION, HAPPY PICTURES (feat. Flyana Boss)
19 - Acetone - Midnight Cowboy
20 - Vladimir Cosma - Promenade sentimentale (Diva Theme)
21 - Robyn - Indestructible [Acoustic Version]
22 - DJ Trotsky - Groove Garden - INST
23 - Hexstatic - Salvador (feat. Organic Audio)
24 - Deee-Lite - Groove Is In the Heart
25 - Pharrell Williams - Happy (From "Despicable Me 2")
26 - Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

LADC - Dec 6 - 2025 - Global Groove

Afro House Mix Inspired by Black Coffee, featuring tracks produced or supported by Francis Mercier, Ape Drums, Hugel, MoBlack, and more. Recorded on Pioneer DDJ-FLX4. DM for tracklist. 

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Black Coffee Opening Set 2025 | Inspired (Francis Mercier, Ape Drums, Hugel, MoBlack)

The Vision of Awakening

Not by faith
Nor by words alone
But by seeing the truth 
Within your own

You’ll know these truths 
In threefold way
To know 
To do 
To be 
Each day

I saw the Truth 
Of Suffering clear
I knew it must be 
Understood here

I saw the Truth 
Of Cause appear
I knew it must be 
Abandoned, dear

I saw the Truth 
Of Ending near
I knew it must 
Be realized, sheer

I saw the Truth 
Of Path sincere
I knew it must 
Be followed
No fear

Only when all 
Twelve lights aligned
Did I awaken 
Beyond space and time

Only then did I proclaim
The deathless is found 
The unbinding flame

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🔹 Meaning Behind “the Twelve Lights”

In Buddhist philosophy, twelve nidānas (links) describe how ignorance gives rise to suffering and rebirth.
The phrase “twelve lights aligned” symbolizes the illumination of these twelve causal links — seeing clearly how each arises and ceases.

They are:

1	Avijjā — Ignorance

2	Saṅkhāra — Mental formations

3 	Viññāṇa — Consciousness

4	Nāma-rūpa — Name and form

5	Saḷāyatana — Six sense bases

6	Phassa — Contact

7	Vedanā — Feeling

8	Taṇhā — Craving

9	Upādāna — Clinging

10	Bhava — Becoming

11	Jāti — Birth

12	Jarāmaraṇa — Aging and death

When the Buddha saw their dependent arising and cessation — the full turning of this wheel — he attained enlightenment.
So the “twelve lights” = twelve insights illuminated simultaneously.

The Vision of Awakening

Apollo Santo creates a high energy remix that blurs the lines of Psytrance.

Bass Ritual (feat. Mah Ze Tar) (Apollo Santo Remix)

Amazing remix by Cirqular that featured a spaced out sound with heavy bass with lots of ear candy.

Bass Ritual (feat. Mah Ze Tar) (Cirqular Remix)

EINKI produced an amazing remix with instruments around the world for an eclectic and tribal vibe.

Bass Ritual (feat. Mah Ze Tar) (EINKI Remix)

The Great Medicine Show produced and amazing Drum & Bass remix that jump out of you speakers!

Bass Ritual (feat. Mah Ze Tar) (The Great Medicine Show Remix)

Mystic Grizzly produced this amazing remix with vocals by SHEWXLF.  The remix features many world instruments and takes the listener on a journey.

Bass Ritual (feat. Mah Ze Tar & SHEWXLF) (Mystic Grizzly Remix)

Chris Mindel may very well be a Transformer, after all he does rock the Decepticon logo on his shoulder. As co-founder of the Disco Aliens, he has curated many unique musical personalities over the years, complete with different looks to fit the style. From his origins as DJ Mindizzy (Trance and Progressive), to his mainstay as Elektrolyte (various styles of House Music) and even experimenting with aliases such as Felix Mindelson (Deep House) and Mindel Monster (Techno), he certainly has mastered the art shape shifting. Whether you hear one of his original tunes, or are lucky enough to catch him live, one thing holds true. No matter what sound or style may seem to be present, the driving force behind it is and always has been, Chris Mindel.


Chris Mindel of the Disco Aliens
Booking info:
Email - chrismindelmusic@gmail.com

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http://www.davidstarfire.com
Named by BBC Radio as “One of the most brilliant world-fusion producers of our time”, David Starfire is known as the pioneer of the Global Bass genre and composer of music for meditation and psychedelic assisted therapy. Billboard summed it up best, “David Starfire brings a unique perspective to EDM.”

​David has performed at prominent festivals such as Winter Music Conference, Coachella, Outside Lands, Envision, Burning Man, Eclipse, and Lightning in a Bottle. He’s been direct support for the likes of Skrillex, CloZee, Tipper and collaborated with top artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, Sizzla, Alex Grey, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Ooah (The Glitch Mob), Sidecar Tommy (Beats Antique), William Close, and the Grammy Award-nominated vocalist Chaytanya. His Ascend album reached #7 on the iTunes World Music chart and he had two #1 remixes on the Hype Machine. He's traded remixes with CloZee, Desert Dwellers, iLL Gates, Beats Antique, and SOOHAN.

David's signature sound has led him to work with well-known companies such as Lucas films, Samsung, Sprint, Beats Audio, Google, Siemens, Nokia, HP, Symantec, Virgin Galactic, Roland, Digg, MacWorld, Best Buy, Flaunt Magazine, CAA, Red Bull, Warner Music, Atlantic Music, Industrial Light and Magic, Chobani Yogurt, Hotel W, City of San Francisco, Subpac, TRIPP VR, and many others. He's performed around the world in exotic places such as the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, India, Thailand, Norway, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia, and most major cities in Europe. 
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David has released 7 albums and 13 EPs in the last 15 years as well as various singles and remixes. David’s songs are featured on several TV, cable, movies, and video games. Some highlights include the movie Sold (Emma Thompson as exec producer), Lie to Me (FOX), Outsourced (NBC), Live with Kelly Ripa (ABC), ESPN2, Fox Sports, MTV, MTV2, Fuse, Showtime, HBO, EA sports, and a Right Guard commercial. His songs are featured on several music compilations including Sony, Lonely Planet, Red Bull, Craig’s List, and his song “Shout it Out” was in regular rotation at Starbucks. 

David has been producing music for meditation and psychedelic assisted therapy for many years. He's the music facilitator for high profile meditation retreats with the likes of Deepak Chopra, Robert Thurman, Richard Schwartz (IFS), Sunny Strasburg, Gita Vaid, and others. David worked with Phil Wolfson (MAPS researcher, The Ketamine Papers) on the K Dome virtual Burning Man Project. He helped to develop the TRIPP meditation phone app plus contributed music and was the main curator of the music content including well known names such as Moby, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Desert Dwellers, Dirtwire and others.. In 2023, David released a highly acclaimed album with meditations by Ram Dass. He's also the head of music and sound at TRIPP VR, the #1 meditation platform in virtual reality. In 2020, David co-founded PsyAssist with Sunny Strasburg, a VR and Phone app that features music and guided meditation for psychedelic therapy.

David started his musical journey playing guitar at 8, then playing in the jazz band and marching band in high school. In his 20’s he was signed to various bands and eventually fell in love with the fusion of world music with EDM. He comes from a musical family in New Orleans. His grandfather Oscar Rouzan, was a well known jazz musician and his cousin, Wanda Rouzan, known as the “The sweetheart of New Orleans music”.

DJ Times “a wealth of heavy bass and world music influences...” 

VIBE Magazine “L.A.-based music producer/DJ David Starfire is known best for his seamless fusion of signature bass styles with a diversity of music genres, including world and hip-hop.” 
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Huffington Post “His undeniable swagger of instrumentation between beats is exceptional.” 

Yahoo Voices “A driving force in the tightly knit underground music community stringing from LA to SF.”

DJ Joe D'Espinosa has had a passion for discovering and sharing music since a very early age. Even as a teenager he would bring his records and turntables to parties to play music for friends. His first residencies were in the gay nightclubs of Boston in the nineties. His style has evolved over the years as tastes have evolved, and he's had many different phases to his career including having been a regular at the Pavilion on Fire Island in its nineties heyday, The Saint at Large in New York, Magnitude and Real Bad in San Francisco and countless other major event weekends on the gay party circuit around the country. 

You can regularly catch Joe in Brooklyn at House of Yes, including their epic annual Halloween event, City of Gods. He still regularly spins in New York, on Fire Island and makes occasional guest appearances on SiriusXM's Studio 54 Friday night show. His style is crafted to elicit joy and community, merging disco grooves and funky house sounds for soulful, melodic and uplifting journeys on dancefloors and in podcasts.

https://djtrotsky.bandcamp.com/releases

“My spiritual practice is writing pop songs. They’re a way to communicate to the world with emotional authenticity, express feelings, and give musicians a voice,” says producer DJ Trotsky. 

DJ Trotsky is a Los Angeles, California-based producer and songwriter who works with pop artists and developing pop artists. He works in a variety of contexts, including turning in complete songs, collaborating from scratch, writing top-line, building tracks from beats up, and simply producing artists with already-written songs. Through these many guises, DJ Trotsky tailors his perspective to suit the situation. “Often the best approach in my work is just me disappearing and serving the song,” he explains. 

Signature to DJ Trotsky’s aesthetic are well-crafted songs brimming with infectious melodies, and often intimate and vulnerable lyrics. From this core, he crafts sleekly modern tracks informed from a lifetime of crate digging as a DJ, and playing organic instruments in rock bands, and his tireless desire to always seek fresh sounds. Along the way, DJ Trotsky has played in funk bands in San Francisco. He has experienced the renaissance of modern electro dance music in Ibiza, Spain. He has reveled in the rumblings of punk, early hip-hop, and dance music in those seismic and formative music moments in New York City at the Mudd Club and CBGBs. And he has DJ-ed exclusive parties in vibey venues in Bali, Thailand, Ibiza, and Estonia. 

DJ Trotsky is a global citizen born David Brownstein, and his chosen moniker is a playful shout out to the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his Jewish roots. He’s lived many lives, including being a Grammy-nominated music video producer and internationally-recognized career coach. DJ Trotsky has also released three albums as an artist of vibrantly varied electronic pop produced and recorded all over the world.

Select sample tracks that highlight the prismatic artistry of DJ Trotsky include “Across the Pond,” ”Strange Beautiful Dream,” and “What To Say To A Ghost.” The track “Across the Pond” has been described as “drum n bass n brass” and is a cross-genre symphony of acoustic guitar, be-bop trumpet, synth bass and electronic drum loops, showcasing DJ Trotsky’s songwriting smarts and his edgy production chops. This jam is paired with a warmly lo-fi, iPhone-shot video footage culled from visits to Bali, London, and Thailand that contrast the chaos and the calm of these tropical/urban paradises.

DJ Trotsky has enjoyed a wildly fishtailing music career and life journey, and what keeps him inspired is discovering that next sound, crafting jewels of authentically emotive pop, and connecting with artists as a producer. “I love working with new people, learning about their creative palate—where they’re coming from—and finding common ground,” he says. “The experience is different with every artist, but the process is always surprising and exciting.”					
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